 Homer is mentioned at 13.778-797, where Silius has Scipio meet his shade in the underworld.Silius' sybil praises Homer as the preeminent, universal, and divine poet who made Troy, (i.e.Rome) famous in song, saying "his [Homer's] poetry embraced the earth, sea, stars, and shades and he rivaled the Muses in song and Phoebus in glory," to which Scipio replies, "If Fate would allow this poet to sing of Roman deeds, for all the world to hear, how much deeper an impression the same deeds would make upon posterity if Homer sang of them."