---
title: Life of Eustathius
title_greek: Βίος Εὐσταθίου
author: Homer Life-anonymous
eul_wid: jho-aa
eul_aid: jho
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/homer-eustathius-life-jho-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Mixed Dialects
domain: Biography
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Life of Eustathius

*Βίος Εὐσταθίου*

**Author:** Homer Life-anonymous

**eul_wid:** `jho-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/homer-eustathius-life-jho-aa)

## Text

### 1

Ὁμήρου δὲ γένος οὐδ’ αὐτὸ περιεργασόμεθα. εἴρηται γὰρ πολλοῖς ἑτέροις ὡς οὐκ ἂν ἡμεῖς κρειττόνως εἴπωμεν. εἰ μὴ ἄρα τοῦτο καὶ μόνον ῥητέον κατὰ τὸ ἐπιτρέχον, ὅτι ἐπικρύψας ἑαυτὸν ὁ ποιητὴς καὶ σιγήσας ὅστις ποτὲ καὶ ὅθεν ἦν, περιμάχητος μᾶλλον ἐγένετο καὶ πολύπατρις. ἔστι γὰρ κατὰ τὴν τῶν ποθούντων ἔφεσιν καὶ Ἰήτης καὶ Σμυρναῖος καὶ Ἀθηναῖος καὶ Αἰγύπτιος, ἤδη δὲ καὶ Ἰταλός. ἀμφισβητοῦσι δ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ Χῖοι μαρτύριον προχειριζόμενοι τοὺς καλουμένους Ὁμηρίδας ὧν καὶ Πίνδαρος μέμνηται. καὶ ἕτεροι δὲ πολλοὶ Ὁμήρου μεταποιοῦνται σφετεριζόμενοι καὶ ἁβρυνόμενοι αὐτὸν ἔχειν πολίτην ἢ ἑτέροις ἀγαθοῖς σεμνύνεσθαι.

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