Homer, Iliad

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[1] Now Dawn rose from her couch from beside lordly Tithonus, to bring light to immortals and to mortal men; and Zeus sent forth Strife unto the swift ships of the Achaeans, dread Strife, bearing in her hands a portent of war. [5] And she took her hand by Odysseus' black ship, huge of hull, that was in the midst so that a shout could reach to either end, both to the huts of Aias, son of Telamon, and to those of Achilles; for these had drawn up their shapely ships at the furthermost ends, trusting in their valour and the strength of their hands. [10] There stood the goddess and uttered a great and terrible shout, a shrill cry of war, and in the heart of each man of the Achaeans she put great strength to war and to fight unceasingly. And to them forthwith war became sweeter than to return in their hollow ships to their dear native land. [15] But the son of Atreus shouted aloud, and bade the Argives array them for battle, and himself amid them did on the gleaming bronze. The greaves first he set about his legs; beautiful they were, and fitted with silver ankle-pieces; next he did on about his chest the corselet [20] that on a time Cinyras had given him for a guest-gift. For he heard afar in Cyprus the great rumour that the Achaeans were about to sail forth to Troy in their ships, wherefore he gave him the breastplate to do pleasure to the king. Thereon verily were ten bands of dark cyanus, [25] and twelve of gold, and twenty of tin; and serpents of cyanus writhed up toward the neck, three on either side, like rainbows that the son of Cronos hath set in the clouds, a portent for mortal men. And about his shoulders he flung his sword, whereon gleamed [30] studs of gold, while the scabbard about it was of silver, fitted with golden chains. And he took up his richly dight, valorous shield, that sheltered a man on both sides, a fair shield, and round about it were ten circles of bronze, and upon it twenty bosses of tin, [35] gleaming white, and in the midst of them was one of dark cyanus. And thereon was set as a crown¹ the Gorgon, grim of aspect, glaring terribly, and about her were Terror and Rout. From the shield was hung a baldric of silver, and thereon writhed a serpent of cyanus, that had [40] three heads turned this way and that, growing forth from one neck. And upon his head he set his helmet with two horns and with bosses four, with horsehair crest, and terribly did the plume nod from above. And he took two mighty spears, tipped with bronze; keen they were, and far from him into heaven shone the bronze; [45] and thereat Athene and Hera thundered, doing honour to the king of Mycenae, rich in gold.

¹ 483.2

Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
book 11, card 1 (general note)
book 11, card 1: polemoio teras
book 11, card 1: orthia
book 11, card 1: W
book 11, card 1: Wekastôi
book 11, card 1: embal
book 11, card 1: Kupronde
book 11, card 1: anapleusesthai
book 11, card 1: oimoi
book 11, card 1: kuanos
book 11, card 1: kassiteros
book 11, card 1: melanos
book 11, card 1: deka oimoi
book 11, card 1: deirên
book 11, card 1: irissin
book 11, card 1: anthrôpôn
book 11, card 1: hêloi
book 11, card 1: aortêr
book 11, card 1: thourin
book 11, card 1: amphibrotê
book 11, card 1: kukloi
book 11, card 1: omphalos
book 11, card 1: têi
book 11, card 1: leukoi
book 11, card 1: eên
book 11, card 1: kuanoio
book 11, card 1: blosurôpis
book 11, card 1: estephanôto
book 11, card 1: elelikto
book 11, card 1: amphistrephees
book 11, card 1: egdoupêsan

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
440 [4) Para, bei, und pros, vor.]

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):
5, 1 [Book 5 (e)]

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
5, 739 [Book 5 (E)]

This text is based on the following book(s):
Homer. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
OCLC: 38101377
ISBN: 0674991885, 0674991893

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