It has been hypothesized that his name was back-extracted from the name of a society of poets called the Homeridae, which literally means "sons of hostages", i.e., descendants of prisoners of war.
Hai unha teoría que sostén que o seu nome provén dunha sociedade de poetas chamados os Homēridai, que literalmente significa ‘fillos de reféns’, é dicir, descendentes de prisioneiros de guerra.