Horace here recalls and adapts a passage from Homer's Odyssey, in which Odysseus opens the tale of his travels to the Phaeacian court (Od. 9.39-40):'IliÒyen me f°rvn ênemow KikÒnessi p°lassen, 'Ismãrƒ. 40From Ilium the wind blew me to the land of the Ciconians, Ismaros.Horace's vocalization as Odysseus introduces the poet, our narrator, as the ultimate picaro in all his roguish glory, but more telling is Horace's change