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Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus.

The "Colophonian Poet" is—"not to put too fine a point upon it"—Homer, who, according to some, was born at Colophos, in Asia Minor.

But Nicander the Colophonian, in the second part of his Dictionary, says that the lettuce is called βρένθις by the Cyprians.

And Theopompus the Colophonian likewise mentions it, the Epic poet, I mean, in his poem entitled the Chariot— Shaking the large and lyre-toned scindapsus, Made of young tamarisk, in his skilful hand.

And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.