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117By these lines and by this passage[101] it is also most clearly shown that the "Cyprian Epic" was not written by Homer but by some other man: for in this it is said that on the third day after leaving Sparta Alexander came to Ilion bringing with him Helen, having had a "gently-blowing wind and a smooth sea," whereas in the Iliad it says that he wandered from his course when he brought her.
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Notes
[101] {kai tode to khorion}: probably {to khorion} ought to be struck out: "this also is evident."