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xvi During his residence in Phocæa, at the house of Thestorides, he composed the Little Iliad, of which the two first verses are as follows:

"I sing of Ilium and Dardania, abounding in excellent horses, and the ills the Greeks, servants of Mars, endured in their plains."

He next composed the Phocæid, as the Phocæans say.