A name given to the cup or vessel from which Christ drank the wine at the Last Supper. It was fabled to have been preserved by Joseph of Arimathæa. The 'quest of the graal' is the most fertile source of adventures to the Knights of the Round Table. See also under [Arthur].
HOMER. b. c. 850 B.C. Greek Epic poet.
TEN BOOKS OF HOMER'S ILIADES, translated out of French, by A. Hall, 1581.
SEAVEN BOOKES OF THE ILIADES OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETES, translated according to the Greeke Judgement of his best Commentaries. By Geo. Chapman, 1598.
THE STRANGE, WONDERFULL AND BLOODY BATTEL BETWEEN FROGS AND MICE.... Paraphrastically done into English Heroycall Verse by W. F(owldes), 1603.
HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS. Translated according to the Greeke in twelve Bookes of his Iliads by Geo. Chapman. [1610.]
THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS, IN HIS ILIADES AND ODYSSES. Translated by Geo. Chapman. [1612.]
After the Bible, the works of Homer have had perhaps the most lasting influence upon our literature.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS). b. 65, d. 8 B.C. Latin lyric and satiric poet.
ALL THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Translated into English Verse by H. Rider, etc., 1638.