[65] It was a natural result of the estimation in which he was held that he should sometimes have been regarded as being not only inspired, but divine: the passages which refer to this are collected in G. Cuper, _Apotheosis vel consecratio Homeri_ (in vol. ii. of Polenus’s Supplement to Gronovius’s Thesaurus), which is primarily a commentary on the bas-relief by Archelaus of Priene, now in the British Museum (figured, e.g. in Overbeck, _Geschichte der griechischen Plastik_, ii. 333). The idea has existed in much more recent times, not indeed that he was divine, but that so much truth and wisdom could not have existed outside Judæa. There is, for example, a treatise by G. Croesus, entitled, ομηρος εβραιος _sive historia Hebræorum ab Homero Hebraicis nominibus ac sententiis conscripta in Odyssea et Iliade_, Dordraci, 1704, which endeavours to prove both that the name Homer is a Hebrew word, that the Iliad is an account of the conquest of Canaan, and that the Odyssey is a narrative of the wanderings of the children of Israel up to the death of Moses. [66] Plat. _Protag._ 72, p. 339 _a_. [67] _Ibid._ 22, p. 317 _b_: ὁμολογῶ τε σοφιστὴς εἶναι καὶ παιδεύειν ἀνθρώπους. For detailed information as to the relation between the early sophists and Homer, reference may be made to a dissertation by W. O. Friedel, _de sophistarum studiis Homericis_, printed in the _Dissertationes philologicæ Halenses_, Halis, 1873. [68] Cf. H. Schrader, _über die porphyrianischen Ilias Scholien_, Hamburg, 1872. [69] Strab, 1. 2. 8. [70] Id. 1. 2. 3. [71] Dio Chrys. _Orat._ 2, vol. i. pp. 19, 20. [72] Dio Chrys. _Orat._ 1, vol. i. p. 3. [73] Plat. _Theæt._ 9, p. 152 _d_, quoting Hom. _Il._ 14. 201-302. In later times, the same verse was quoted as having suggested and supported the theory of Thales, Irenæus, 2.14; Theodoret, _Græc. Affect. Cur._ 2. 9. [74] Celsus in Origen, _c. Cels._ 6. 42, referring to Hom. _Il._ 15. 18 sqq. [75] Cic. _N. D._ 1. 15: “ut etiam veterrimi pœtæ, qui hæc ne quidem suspicati sint, Stoici fuisse videantur.” [76] Xen. _Sympos._ 4. 6; 3. 5. [77] Ps-Plutarch, _de vita et poesi Homeri_, vol. v. pp. 1056 sqq., chapters 148, 164, 182, 192, 216. [78] The earliest expression of this feeling is that of Xenophanes, which is twice quoted by Sextus Empiricus, _adv. Gramm._ 1. 288, _adv. Phys._ 9. 193: πάντα θεοῖς ἀνέθηκαν Ὅμηρος θ’ Ἡσίοδός τε ὅσσα παρ’ ἀνθρώποισιν ὀνείδεα καὶ ψόγος ἐστί. [79] Plutarch, _de aud. poet._ c. 4, pp. 24, 25. [80] Lucian, _Jupit. confut._ 2.