Homeric Apocrypha
ΚΕΡΚΩΠΕΣ
Testimonia
Ps.-Herod. Vita Homeri 24
καὶ τοὺς Κέρκωπας καὶ Βατραχομαχίαν . . . καὶ τἄλλα πάντα ὅσα παίγνιά ἐστιν Ὁμήρου ἐνταῦθα ἐποίησε παρὰ τῶι Χίωι ἐν Βολισσῶι.
Proclus, Vita Homeri 9
οἱ μέντοι γε ἀρχαῖοι καὶ τὸν Κύκλον ἀναφέρουσιν εἰς αὐτόν· προστιθέασι δέ τινες αὐτῶι καὶ παίγνιά τινα· Μαργίτην. . . Κέρκωπας, κτλ.
Fragmentum
Harpocr. K 42
ἐν τοῖς εἰς Ὅμηρον ἀναφερομένοις Κέρκωψιν δηλοῦται ὡς ἐξαπατητῆρές τε ἦσαν καὶ ψεῦσται οἱ Κέρκωπες.
Epikichlides
Cercopes
testimonia
Pseudo-Herodotus, Life of Homer
And the Cercopes, the Battle of Frogs, . . . and the rest of Homer’s fun poems, he composed there in the Chian’s house at Bolissos.
Proclus, Life of Homer
But the ancients also ascribe the Cycle to him, and some people add certain fun poems too: the Margites . . . the Cercopes, etc.
Fragment
Harpocration, Lexicon to the Orators
In the Cercopes attributed to Homer it is stated that the Cercopes were “deceivers” and “liars.”