Possible Clues:

• Catching great narrative, incorporating the same in Latin
• Prevailing sea current written about in The Odyssey, say
• Prevalent and rapidly spreading
• Widespread outbreak of a disease
• Outbreak of 9, perhaps
• Lot of a bout of this about
• Sickening traveller Moore in 'Odyssey', perhaps
• Widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
• Widespread occurrence of disease
• With bits of pie - half a hundred of them - its bound to get around