Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Onomacrĭtus

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Onomacrĭtus

（Ὀνομάκριτος). An Athenian, who lived at the court of Pisistratus and his sons (about B.C. 520-485). At the request of Pisistratus, he is said to have prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was an industrious collector, and also a forger of old oracles and poems. Those which go under the name of Orpheus are regarded as, for the most part, concocted by Onomacritus. He was detected in forging an oracle of Musaeus, and banished from Athens by the Pisistratidae; but he was afterwards reconciled to them, and in their interest induced Xerxes, by alleged oracular responses, to decide upon his war with Greece (Herod.vii. 6).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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