In Plutarch's Lives in the biography of Lycurgus, Lycurgus in his travels "…had the first sight of Homer's works, in the hands, we may suppose, of the posterity of Creophylus… scattered proportions, as chance conveyed them, were in the hands of individuals; but Lycurgus first made them really known." (John Dryden transl.).
According to Plutarch’s Lives in the biography of Lycurgus, it was during his travels that Lycurgus first encountered Homer's works, which had been passed down through Creophylus's descendants. Prior to this, proportions were scattered among individuals; however, Lycurgus brought them into focus.