Perseus · Tufts
All Greek and Roman Materials
Collections: Classics · Papyri · Renaissance · London · California · Upper Midwest · Chesapeake · Boyle · Tufts History
Configure display · Help · Tools · Copyright · FAQ · Publications · Collaborations · Support Perseus
Classics:
Classics collection contents
About the Classics collection
Greek Hist. Overview
Art & Arch. Catalogs

Other Tools & Lexica
Plot:
  • sites on this page
  • sites in this book
  • sites in this document
    Display text chunked by:
    book
    card (default)
    Contents:
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • Book 4
  • Book 5
  • Book 6
  • Book 7
  • Book 8
  • Book 9
  • Book 10
  • Book 11
  • Book 12
  • Book 13
  • Book 14
  • Book 15
  • Book 16
  • Book 17
  • Book 18
  • Book 19
  • Book 20
  • Book 21
  • Book 22
  • Book 23
  • Book 24
    		•

    Homer, Iliad

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
    Your current position in the text is marked in red. Click anywhere on the line to jump to another position.
    book=1:card=92 book=1:card=245 book=1:card=386 book=1:card=493 book=2:card=35 book=2:card=188 book=2:card=301 book=2:card=459 book=2:card=581 book=2:card=734 book=3:card=1 book=3:card=111 book=3:card=264 book=3:card=381 book=4:card=85 book=4:card=223 book=4:card=350 book=4:card=517 book=5:card=84 book=5:card=239 book=5:card=363 book=5:card=493 book=5:card=668 book=5:card=792 book=6:card=1 book=6:card=156 book=6:card=297 book=6:card=414 book=7:card=43 book=7:card=175 book=7:card=313 book=7:card=442 book=8:card=112 book=8:card=245 book=8:card=381 book=8:card=512 book=9:card=89 book=9:card=244 book=9:card=374 book=9:card=492 book=9:card=669 book=10:card=86 book=10:card=218 book=10:card=372 book=10:card=503 book=11:card=47 book=11:card=210 book=11:card=336 book=11:card=489 book=11:card=616 book=11:card=780 book=12:card=34 book=12:card=195 book=12:card=329 book=13:card=1 book=13:card=125 book=13:card=266 book=13:card=402 book=13:card=526 book=13:card=673 book=13:card=821 book=14:card=103 book=14:card=242 book=14:card=378 book=15 book=15:card=113 book=15:card=253 book=15:card=379 book=15:card=514 book=15:card=653 book=16:card=46 book=16:card=200 book=16:card=306 book=16:card=477 book=16:card=619 book=16:card=750 book=17:card=1 book=17:card=140 book=17:card=274 book=17:card=423 book=17:card=543 book=17:card=694 book=18:card=22 book=18:card=181 book=18:card=324 book=18:card=462 book=18:card=590 book=19:card=114 book=19:card=238 book=19:card=387 book=20:card=86 book=20:card=199 book=20:card=340 book=20:card=490 book=21:card=97 book=21:card=233 book=21:card=361 book=21:card=502 book=22:card=38 book=22:card=131 book=22:card=289 book=22:card=437 book=23:card=54 book=23:card=192 book=23:card=319 book=23:card=473 book=23:card=586 book=23:card=740 book=23:card=859 book=24:card=120 book=24:card=228 book=24:card=372 book=24:card=507 book=24:card=643

    Table of ContentsGo to Previous Next

    For not in the hands of Diomedes, son of Tydeus, [75] doth the spear rage, to ward off ruin from the Danaans, neither as yet have I heard the voice of the son of Atreus, shouting from his hated head; nay, it is the voice of man-slaying Hector that breaketh about me, as he calleth to the Trojans, and they with their din possess all the plain, and vanquish the Achaeans in battle. [80] Yet even so, Patroclus, in warding destruction from the ships fall thou upon them mightily, lest verily they burn the ships with blazing fire and rob the Greeks of their desired return. Howbeit do thou hearken, that I may put in thy mind the sum of my counsel, to the end that thou mayest win me great recompense and glory [85] at the hands of all the Danaans, and that they send back that beauteous girl, and therewithal give glorious gifts. When thou hast driven them from the ships, come back, and if the loud-thundering lord of Hera grant thee to win glory, be not thou fain apart from me to war [90] against the war-loving Trojans: thou wilt lessen mine honour. Nor yet do thou, as thou exultest in war and conflict, and slayest the Trojans, lead on unto Ilios, lest one of the gods that are for ever shall come down from Olympus and enter the fray; right dearly doth Apollo, that worketh afar, love them. [95] Nay, return thou back, when once thou hast set a light of deliverance amid the ships, and suffer the rest to battle over the plain. For I would, O father Zeus, and Athene, and Apollo, that no man of the Trojans might escape death, of all that there are, neither any of the Argives, but that we twain might escape destruction, [100] that alone we might loose the sacred diadem of Troy. On this wise spake they one to the other, but Aias no longer abode, for he was sore beset with darts; the will of Zeus was overmastering him, and the lordly Trojans with their missiles; and terribly did the bright helm about his temples [105] ring continually, as it was smitten, for smitten it ever was upon the well-wrought cheek-pieces, and his left shoulder grew weary as he ever firmly held his flashing shield; nor might they beat it back about him, for all they pressed him hard with darts. And evermore was he distressed by laboured breathing, [110] and down from his limbs on every side abundant sweat kept streaming, nor had he any wise respite to get his breath withal, but every way evil was heaped upon evil.


    There are a total of 35 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    book 16, card 74 (general note)
    book 16, card 74: mainetai
    book 16, card 74: Danaôn
    book 16, card 74: kephalês
    book 16, card 74: periagnutai
    book 16, card 74: muthou telos
    book 16, card 74: en phresi theiô
    book 16, card 74: aponassôsin
    book 16, card 74: atimoteron de me thêseis
    book 16, card 74: embêêi
    book 16, card 74: tous de t' ean
    book 16, card 74: krêdemna
    book 16, card 74: Zênos noos
    book 16, card 74: phaeinê
    book 16, card 74: kanachên eche
    book 16, card 74: kap
    book 16, card 74: balleto d' aiei
    book 16, card 74: phalara
    book 16, card 74: amph' autôi
    book 16, card 74: kakon kakôi estêrikto

    Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
    book 16, card 74 (general note)
    book 16, card 74: amunai
    book 16, card 74: kephalês
    book 16, card 74: Hektoros
    book 16, card 74: alalêtôi
    book 16, card 74: puros
    book 16, card 74: muthou telos
    book 16, card 74: theiô
    book 16, card 74: hôs an
    book 16, card 74: poti d'
    book 16, card 74: e
    book 16, card 74: thêseis
    book 16, card 74: embêêi
    book 16, card 74: tous de
    book 16, card 74: nôin
    book 16, card 74: ekduimen
    book 16, card 74: krêdemna luômen
    book 16, card 74: eche
    book 16, card 74: kap
    book 16, card 74: pelemixai
    book 16, card 74: echet'
    book 16, card 74: o
    book 16, card 74: kad
    book 16, card 74: am-pneusai
    book 16, card 74: pantêi

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    12, 251 [Book 12 (m)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    8, 111 [Book 8 (Th)]

    Preferred URL for linking to this page: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hom.+Il.+16.74

    The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

    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

    Buy a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com: vol. 1; vol. 2

    Previous Next