Onomacritus

Onomacritus, a religious poet of ancient Greece, lived at Athens in the time of the Pisistratidae. He exercised great influence on the development of the Orphic mysteries, and collected the prophecies or oracles of Musæus (q.v.), but was banished by Hipparchus for falsifying them. He followed the Pisistratidae into Persia, and was by them induced to repeat to Xerxes all the ancient sayings that seemed to favour his invasion of Greece. He helped to arrange the Homeric poems, and is suspected of having introduced interpolations into the text of them.