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    Homer, Iliad

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    tôn** d' hôs t' ornithôn peteênôn ethnea* polla
    460
    chênôn* ê geranôn ê kuknôn* doulichodeirôn*
    Asiô* en leimôni* Kaüstriou amphi* rheethra
    entha kai entha potôntai* agallomena* pterugessi
    klangêdon prokathizontôn***, smaragei* de* te leimôn*,
    hôs tôn ethnea polla neôn apo kai klisiaôn
    465
    es pedion* procheonto** Skamandrion*: autar hupo chthôn
    smerdaleon konabize podôn autôn* te kai hippôn.
    estan* d' en leimôni Skamandriôi anthemoenti
    murioi, hossa te phulla kai anthea gignetai hôrêi*.

    êüte muiaôn* hadinaôn* ethnea* polla
    470
    hai te* kata stathmon poimnêïon êlaskousin*
    hôrêi en eiarinêi hote te* glagos angea deuei*,
    tossoi epi Trôessi* karê komoôntes Achaioi
    en pediôi histanto* diarraisai* memaôtes.

    tous d' hôs t' aipolia plate' aigôn aipoloi andres*
    475
    rheia* diakrinôsin* epei ke nomôi* migeôsin*,
    hôs tous hêgemones diekosmeon* entha kai entha
    husminên d' ienai*, meta de kreiôn Agamemnôn
    ommata kai kephalên ikelos Dii terpikeraunôi*,
    Areï de zônên***, sternon de Poseidaôni.
    480
    êüte bous*** agelêphi** meg' exochos epleto*** pantôn
    tauros*: ho gar te* boessi metaprepei agromenêisi:
    toion* ar' Atreïdên thêke Zeus êmati keinôi
    ekprepe' en polloisi* kai exochon* hêrôessin**.

    espete* nun* moi *mousai* Olumpia dômat' echousai:
    485
    humeis gar theai este pareste* te iste te panta,
    hêmeis* de kleos* oion akouomen* oude ti idmen:
    hoi tines hêgemones Danaôn kai koiranoi êsan:
    plêthun d' ouk an egô muthêsomai* oud' onomênô,
    oud' ei moi deka men glôssai, deka de stomat' eien,
    490
    phônê d' arrêktos, chalkeon* de moi êtor** eneiê,
    ei mê Olumpiades* Mousai Dios aigiochoio
    thugateres mnêsaiath' hosoi hupo Ilion* êlthon:
    archous au* nêôn ereô nêas te propasas**.

    Boiôtôn men Pêneleôs kai Lêïtos êrchon
    495
    Arkesilaos te Prothoênôr te Klonios te,
    hoi th' Huriên* enemonto* kai Aulida* petrêessan
    Schoinon te Skôlon te poluknêmon t' Eteônon,
    Thespeian* Graian te kai euruchoron* Mukalêsson*,
    hoi t' amph' Harm' enemonto kai Eilesion kai Eruthras,
    500
    hoi t' Eleôn' eichon êd' Hulên* kai Peteôna,
    Ôkaleên Medeôna t' eüktimenon ptoliethron,
    Kôpas* Eutrêsin te polutrêrôna* te Thisbên*,
    hoi te* Korôneian kai poiêenth' Haliarton,
    hoi te Plataian echon êd' hoi Glisant' enemonto,
    505
    hoi th' Hupothêbas** eichon eüktimenon ptoliethron,
    Onchêston* th' hieron Posidêïon aglaon alsos*,
    hoi te polustaphulon Arnên* echon, hoi te Mideian
    Nisan te zatheên Anthêdona* t' eschatoôsan**:
    tôn men pentêkonta nees kion*, en de hekastêi*
    510
    kouroi Boiôtôn hekaton kai eikosi bainon**.

    There are a total of 84 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    book 2, card 459 (general note)
    book 2, card 459: hupo
    book 2, card 459: adinaôn
    book 2, card 459: en
    book 2, card 459: platea
    book 2, card 459: an
    book 2, card 459: mnêsaiato

    Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
    book 2, card 459 (general note)
    book 2, card 459: te
    book 2, card 459: tous

    Further comments from Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III:
    book 2, card 459 (general note)
    book 2, card 459: Asiôi
    book 2, card 459: hupo
    book 2, card 459: te
    book 2, card 459: platea
    book 2, card 459: meta
    book 2, card 459: mega
    book 2, card 459: ekprepea
    book 2, card 459: plêthun
    book 2, card 459: oud ei
    book 2, card 459: men
    book 2, card 459: Graian
    book 2, card 459: Harma
    book 2, card 459: poitenta
    book 2, card 459: te
    book 2, card 459: Glisanta

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    359 [Lehre von der Kongruenz der Form.]

    Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
    2, 77, 4 [Commentary on Book 2]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    5, 286 [Book 5 (e)]
    11, 225 [Book 11 (l)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    15, 691 [Book 15 (O)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    612 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]

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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


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