Lesches

The words ‘as Lesches gives them (says)’ seem to indicate that the verse and a half assigned to Homer came from the “Little Iliad”.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Or Proclus may have thought it unnecessary to give the accounts by Lesches and Arctinus of the same incident.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Lesches the Pyrrhaean also has the same account in his

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Lesches or Lescheos (as Pausanias calls him) of Pyrrha or

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

And Homer put forward the following verses as Lesches gives them: ‘Muse, tell me of those things which neither happened before nor shall be hereafter.’

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Thus Lesches writes: — ‘It was midnight, and the clear moon was rising.’

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Now, because the writings of those poets were set to verse and so made the argument more knotty and the decision more arduous, and the great names of the antagonists, Homer and Hesiod, whose excellence was so well known, made the umpires timorous and shy to determine; they therefore betook themselves to these sorts of questions, and Homer, says Lesches, propounded this riddle: —

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Nor shall we, with the severer critics, darkly hint of works which had gone before, but of which the substance long ago has perished -- of the Cyclic poem of Arctinus, said to have been of all others the nearest in point of energy to the Iliad, or of the songs of Lesches and

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Thus Lesches writes: -- 'It was midnight, and the clear moon was rising.'

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Fragment #10 -- [3102] Plutarch, Moralia, p. 153 F: And Homer put forward the following verses as Lesches gives them: 'Muse, tell me of those things which neither happened before nor shall be hereafter.'

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod