Homer, Iliad

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mênin^* aeide^* thea Pêlêïadeô^* Achilêos^*^*
oulomenên^*^*^*, hê muri'^* Achaiois^* alge'^* ethêke,
pollas d' iphthimous^*^* psuchas Aïdi^*^*^* proïapsen
hêrôôn^*, autous de helôria^* teuche^*^* kunessin^*^*

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oiônoisi^* te pasi^*, Dios d' eteleieto^*^* boulê^*^*,
ex hou^*^*^* dê ta prôta diastêtên^* erisante^*
Atreïdês te anax^* andrôn^* kai dios^* Achilleus^*.

tis t' ar^* sphôe^*^* theôn^* eridi^* xuneêke^*^* machesthai^*^*;
Lêtous^*^* kai Dios huios^*: ho gar basilêi^*^*+ cholôtheis

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nouson^* ana^*^* straton orse kakên^*, olekonto^* de laoi^*^*,
houneka^* ton Chrusên^* êtimasen^*^* arêtêra^*^*^*
Atreïdês: ho gar êlthe thoas epi^* nêas^*^* Achaiôn
lusomenos te thugatra^* pherôn^* t' apereisi' apoina^*^*^*,
stemmat' echôn^* en chersin hekêbolou^*^* Apollônos^*^*^*

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chruseôi^*^* ana skêptrôi^*, kai lisseto^* pantas^* Achaious,
Atreïda de malista duô^*, kosmêtore^*^* laôn:
Atreïdai te kai alloi eüknêmides Achaioi,
humin men theoi doien^* Olumpia dômat' echontes
ekpersai Priamoio^* polin^*^*, eu d' oikad' hikesthai:

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paida^* d' emoi lusaite^* philên, ta d'^* apoina dechesthai,
hazomenoi^* Dios huion hekêbolon Apollôna.

enth' alloi men pantes epeuphêmêsan^*^* Achaioi
aideisthai^*^* th' hierêa^* kai aglaa dechthai^*^* apoina:
all' ouk Atreïdêi Agamemnoni hêndane^*^* thumôi^*^*,

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alla kakôs^* aphiei^*, krateron d' epi muthon^*^*^* etelle:
mê se geron koilêisin^* egô para nêusi kicheiô^*^*^*^*
ê nun dêthunont' ê husteron autis ionta^*,
mê nu toi ou chraismêi^* skêptron kai stemma^* theoio:
tên d' egô ou lusô: prin^*^* min kai gêras epeisin^*

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hêmeterôi^*^* eni oikôi^* en Argeï^*^* têlothi patrês^*
histon epoichomenên^*^* kai emon lechos^*^* antioôsan^*:
all' ithi^* mê m' erethize^* saôteros^*^* hôs ke neêai^*.

There are a total of 95 comments on and cross references to this page.

Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
book 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1: thea
book 1, card 1: muria
book 1, card 1: iphthimos
book 1, card 1: proïapse
book 1, card 1: autous
book 1, card 1: tar
book 1, card 1: lusomenos
book 1, card 1: thumôi
book 1, card 1: chraismêi

Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1: thea
book 1, card 1: Pêlêiadeô
book 1, card 1: ethêken
book 1, card 1: Aidi
book 1, card 1: autous
book 1, card 1: Dios
book 1, card 1: d'
book 1, card 1: e
book 1, card 1: Atreïdês
book 1, card 1: xun-eêke
book 1, card 1: ho
book 1, card 1: ton
book 1, card 1: lusomenos
book 1, card 1: Atreïda
book 1, card 1: euknêmides
book 1, card 1: theoi
book 1, card 1: eu
book 1, card 1: lusai ... dechesthai
book 1, card 1: ta
book 1, card 1: ep-eu-phêmêsan
book 1, card 1: th'
book 1, card 1: epi ... etellen
book 1, card 1: nêusi
book 1, card 1: nu
book 1, card 1: toi
book 1, card 1: tên
book 1, card 1: min
book 1, card 1: eni
book 1, card 1: ke

Further comments from Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1 (general note)
book 1, card 1: thea
book 1, card 1: Pêlêiadeô
book 1, card 1: muria
book 1, card 1: algea
book 1, card 1: ethêken
book 1, card 1: pollas
book 1, card 1: autous
book 1, card 1: daita
book 1, card 1: ta
book 1, card 1: Atreïdês
book 1, card 1: tis t ar
book 1, card 1: ho
book 1, card 1: cholôtheis
book 1, card 1: thoas
book 1, card 1: lusomenos
book 1, card 1: Atreïda duô
book 1, card 1: euknêmides
book 1, card 1: theoi
book 1, card 1: oikade
book 1, card 1: lusai
book 1, card 1: aglaa
book 1, card 1: krateron
book 1, card 1: epi
book 1, card 1: hôs

Cross references from Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. W. D. Ross):
3, 14, 6

Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
* [HYMN TO APHRODITE]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
1, 50 [Book 1 (a)]

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
hecatoncheires [Hecatoncheires]
pigres [Pigres]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
488 [Apodosis contained in the Protasis.]
669 [Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and Optative after hoti and hôs, and in Indirect Questions.]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
3, 2, 20 [Omission of ô.]

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Homer. Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
OCLC: 29448041