Homer, Iliad

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Forthwith, then, I first bade propitiate the god, but thereafter anger seized the son of Atreus, and straightway he arose and spoke a threatening word, which now has come to pass. For the quick-glancing Achaeans are taking the maiden in a swift ship to Chryse, and are bearing gifts to the god; [390] while the other woman the heralds have just now taken from my tent and led away, the daughter of Briseus, whom the sons of the Achaeans gave me. But, you, if you are able, guard your own son; go to Olympus and make prayer to Zeus, if ever you have gladdened his heart by word or deed. [395] For often I have heard you glorying in the halls of my father, and declaring that you alone among the immortals warded off shameful ruin from the son of Cronos, lord of the dark clouds, on the day when the other Olympians wished to put him in bonds, even Hera and Poseidon and Pallas Athene. [400] But you came, goddess, and freed him from his bonds, when you had quickly called to high Olympus him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, but all men Aegaeon; for he is mightier than his father.¹ He sat down by the side of the son of Cronos, exulting in his glory, [405] and the blessed gods were seized with fear of him, and did not bind Zeus. Bring this now to his remembrance, and sit by his side, and clasp his knees, in hope that he might perhaps wish to succour the Trojans, and for those others, the Achaeans, to pen them in among the sterns of their ships and around the sea as they are slain, so that they may all have profit of their king, [410] and that the son of Atreus, wide-ruling Agamemnon may know his blindness in that he did no honour to the best of the Achaeans. Then Thetis answered him as she wept: Ah me, my child, why did I rear you, cursed in my child-bearing? Would that it had been your lot to remain by your ships without tears and without grief, [415] since your span of life is brief and endures no long time; but now you are doomed to a speedy death and are laden with sorrow above all men; therefore to an evil fate I bore you in our halls. Yet in order to tell this your word to Zeus who delights in the thunderbolt I will myself go to snowy Olympus, in hope that he may be persuaded. [420] But remain by your swift, sea-faring ships, and continue your wrath against the Achaeans, and refrain utterly from battle; for Zeus went yesterday to Oceanus, to the blameless Ethiopians for a feast, and all the gods followed with him; but on the twelfth day he will come back again to Olympus, [425] and then will I go to the house of Zeus with threshold of bronze, and will clasp his knees in prayer, and I think I shall win him.

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Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
book 1 (general note)
book 1, card 386 (general note)
book 1, card 386: heoio
book 1, card 386: seo
book 1, card 386: Pallas Athênê
book 1, card 386: aute
book 1, card 386: gaiôn
book 1, card 386: oude t' edêsan
book 1, card 386: amph' hala
book 1, card 386: kata
book 1, card 386: epaurôntai
book 1, card 386: ho t'
book 1, card 386: aina
book 1, card 386: kakêi aisêi
book 1, card 386: aisa
book 1, card 386: kata
book 1, card 386: heponto
book 1, card 386: dô

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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