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.).
In Plutarch’s Lives concerning Lycurgus, it was during his travels that he first encountered Homer's works, which had been inherited by Creophylus's descendants. Before Lycurgus, proportions were dispersed among individuals; however, he made them comprehensible.