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In answer to Xenophanes of Colophon, who had said that he could hardly maintain two servants, Hiero said, ‘But Homer, whom you disparage, maintains more than ten thousand, although he is dead.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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