That Latin on Guss Sign in Lonesome Dove?

I found the passage by using the Amazon search function This is what it gave me. “… EIATO IIENTHKONTA EEAAI IIYPOE AIOOMENOIO. IIIIIOI AE KPI AEYKON EPEIITOMENOI KAI OAYPAE。

I should say that Homeric Greek is earlier and different from the Classical Greek that I’ve studied but by looking at the above， but it appears to be garbled beyond recognition. ， for instance， EYOPONON HO MIMNON. It was Homer enough for one day， that would contain five iotas in a row as “IIIIIOI” does above. Is the character supposed to be addled or delirious during this bit? I think that’s what the passage is conveying. There’s some remembered knowledge of Greek (and maybe Homer) in the scribbling， Scull felt. He had put the words of a Greek on the face of a cliff …” First， EETAOTEE IIAP OXEEOIN， it appears to be gibberish. It’s just random jumbles of Greek letters. It may be a garbled rendering of some actual passage from Homer but it contains a lot of nonsensical spellings and meaningless runs of letters. There is no Greek word，。