Homer, Iliad

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Him then the goddess, bright-eyed Athene, answered: I have come from heaven to stay your anger, if you will obey, The goddess white-armed Hera sent me forth, for in her heart she loves and cares for both of you. But come, cease from strife, and do not grasp the sword with your hand. [210] With words indeed taunt him, telling him how it shall be.¹ For thus will I speak, and this thing shall truly be brought to pass. Hereafter three times as many glorious gifts shall be yours on account of this arrogance. But refrain, and obey us. In answer to her spoke swift-footed Achilles: [215] It is necessary, goddess, to observe the words of you two, however angered a man be in his heart, for is it better so. Whoever obeys the gods, to him do they gladly give ear. He spoke, and stayed his heavy hand on the silver hilt, and back into its sheath thrust the great sword, and did not disobey [220] the word of Athene. She returned to Olympus to the palace of aegis-bearing Zeus, to join the company of the other gods. But the son of Peleus again addressed with violent words the son of Atreus, and in no way ceased from his wrath: Heavy with wine, with the face of a dog but the heart of a deer, [225] never have you had courage to arm for battle along with your people, or go forth to an ambush with the chiefs of the Achaeans. That seems to you even as death. Indeed it is far better throughout the wide camp of the Achaeans to deprive of his prize whoever speaks contrary to you. [230] People-devouring king, since you rule over nobodies; else, son of Atreus, this would be your last piece of insolence. But I will speak out to you, and will swear thereto a mighty oath: by this staff, that shall never more put forth leaves or shoots since first it left its stump among the mountains, [235] nor shall it again grow green, for the bronze has stripped it on all sides of leaves and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans carry it in their hands when they act as judges, those who guard the ordinances that come from Zeus; and this shall be for you a mighty oath. Surely some day a longing for Achilles will come upon the sons of the Achaeans [240] one and all, and on that day you will not be able to help them at all, for all your grief, when many shall fall dying before man-slaying Hector. But you will gnaw the heart within you, in anger that you did no honour to the best of the Achaeans.

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There are a total of 92 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 206 (general note)
book 1, card 206: glaukôpis
book 1, card 206: hôs esetai per
book 1, card 206: paressetai
book 1, card 206: tris tossa
book 1, card 206: sphôïteron
book 1, card 206: eirussasthai
book 1, card 206: t'
book 1, card 206: autou
book 1, card 206: schethe
book 1, card 206: ê kai
book 1, card 206: bebêkei
book 1, card 206: atartêrois
book 1, card 206: kêr
book 1, card 206: apoaireisthai
book 1, card 206: dêmoboros
book 1, card 206: outidanoisi
book 1, card 206: lôbêsaio
book 1, card 206: skêptron
book 1, card 206: prôta
book 1, card 206: dikaspolos
book 1, card 206: themistas eiruatai
book 1, card 206: pros Dios
book 1, card 206: horkos
book 1, card 206: hupo
book 1, card 206: ho t'

Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, card 206 (general note)
book 1, card 206: aute
book 1, card 206: pausousa
book 1, card 206: to son menos
book 1, card 206: pithêai
book 1, card 206: mêde ... helkeo
book 1, card 206: ê toi
book 1, card 206: oneidison
book 1, card 206: hôs esetai per
book 1, card 206: esetai
book 1, card 206: hubrios
book 1, card 206: ischeo, peitheo
book 1, card 206: eirussasthai
book 1, card 206: kai ... per
book 1, card 206: thumôi
book 1, card 206: kecholômenon
book 1, card 206: hos ke ... epipeithêtai
book 1, card 206: ekluon
book 1, card 206: ê
book 1, card 206: schethe
book 1, card 206: ôse
book 1, card 206: bebêkei
book 1, card 206: es
book 1, card 206: epeessin
book 1, card 206: kunos ommat' echôn
book 1, card 206: kradiên
book 1, card 206: polemon
book 1, card 206: thôrêchthênai
book 1, card 206: lochond'
book 1, card 206: e
book 1, card 206: aristêessi
book 1, card 206: tetlêkas
book 1, card 206: to de toi
book 1, card 206: kêr
book 1, card 206: lôion
book 1, card 206: dôr' apoaireisthai
book 1, card 206: lôbêsaio
book 1, card 206: epi
book 1, card 206: nai ma
book 1, card 206: to
book 1, card 206: epei dê prôta
book 1, card 206: oressi
book 1, card 206: leloipen
book 1, card 206: he
book 1, card 206: min
book 1, card 206: palamais
book 1, card 206: dikaspoloi
book 1, card 206: hoi te
book 1, card 206: pros Dios
book 1, card 206: eiruatai
book 1, card 206: ê pote
book 1, card 206: Achillêos
book 1, card 206: uias
book 1, card 206: dunêseai
book 1, card 206: eut' an
book 1, card 206: thnêiskontes
book 1, card 206: piptôsi
book 1, card 206: endothi
book 1, card 206: chôomenos
book 1, card 206: ho t'
book 1, card 206: ouden

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
3, 144 [Book 3 (G)]
20, 172 [Introduction]

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

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.]

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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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