A definitive interpretation of the hedgehog in Archilochos 103 would require
some serious research; the following is just a note of the little I know of
it.
The proverb is said by an ancient grammarian to come from some unspecified
Homeric poem; there is some reason to believe that it was the lost comic
epic Margites. Some scholars think the reference is to a fable; others that
Archilochos is using it as a metaphor for his own poetry, which is written
in just one meter but is pointedly effective.
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