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Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ, Siderei certant vatis de patriâ Homeri: Grotiadæ certant de religione, Socinus, Arrius, Arminius, Calvinus, Roma, Lutherus. Grotius's Project of Religious Pacification. A wish for religious peace among Christians grew with the growth and strengthened with the strength of Grotius.
As Grotius's religion was a problem to many, Menage wrote an Epigram on this occasion, the sense of which is, that as many different sects claimed his religion, as there were towns which contended for the birth of Homer: Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Argos, Athenæ, Siderei certant vatis de patriâ Homeri: Grotiadæ certant de religione Socinus, Arrius, Arminius, Calvinus, Roma, Lutherus.
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