Excerpt from Irving's Catechism of Classical Biography: Containing an Account of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters Among the Ancient Greeks and Romans
A. The place of his birth is uncertain; but by some writers he is said to have been born at Smyrna. Little is known of his parentage, or the circumstances of his life: it is generally agreed that he was a wandering poet, and IS said to have been blind m his old age.
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