THE LITTLE ILIAD
6.
"About the spear-shaft was a hoop of flashing gold, and a point was fitted to it at either end."
7.
"...The vine which the son of Cronos gave him as a recompense for his son. It bloomed richly with soft leaves of gold and grape clusters; Hephaestus wrought it and gave it to his father Zeus: and he bestowed it on Laomedon as a price for Ganymedes."
8.
The writer of the epic Little Iliad says that Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.
9.
"He disguised himself, and made himself like another person, a beggar, the like of whom was not by the ships of the Achaeans."
The Cyclic poet uses "beggar" as a substantive, and so means to say that when Odysseus had changed his clothes and put on rags, there was no one so good for nothing at the ships as Odysseus.
10.[1]
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."
- ↑ This fragment comes from a version of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod widely different from that now extant. The words "as Lesches gives them (says)" seem to indicate that the verse and a half assigned to Homer came from the Little Iliad. It is possible they may have introduced some unusually striking incident, such as the actual Fall of Troy.
