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Scio’s Blind Old Bard

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Homer. Scio is the modern name of Chios, in the Ægeʹan Sea.

“Smyrna, Chios, Colophonʹ, Salamisʹ, Rhodos, Argos, Atheʹnæ,

Your just right to call Homer your son you must settle between ye.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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