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The essay “The Homeric Question Once More” that appeared in the The Dial, Volume 15, Number 169 (July 1, 1893) contains this sentence:
I was once talking with a well-known German Homerid about certain favorite passages in the closing books of the “Iliad,”—the lament of Briseis over the body of Patroclus, and the threnodies of Andromache and Helen for Hector.
From oxforddictionaries.com—Homerid:
Noun
- A Homeric poet or rhapsodist, specifically one of the Homeridae, an Ancient Greek guild of poets in Chios who claimed to be descended from Homer.
- A Homeric scholar.