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    Homer, Iliad

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    490

    en de duô poiêse poleis meropôn anthrôpôn
    kalas*. en têi men rha gamoi** t' esan eilapinai* te,
    numphas* d' ek thalamôn** daïdôn hupo* lampomenaôn
    êgineon* ana astu, polus d' humenaios orôrei:
    kouroi d' orchêstêres edineon, en d' ara toisin*
    495
    auloi phorminges te boên echon**: hai de gunaikes
    histamenai thaumazon* epi prothuroisin hekastê.
    laoi* d' ein agorêi esan athrooi: entha de neikos
    ôrôrei, duo d' andres eneikeon heineka poinês*
    andros apophthimenou: ho men eucheto* pant' apodounai
    500
    dêmôi piphauskôn, ho d' anaineto mêden helesthai:
    amphô d' hiesthên* epi istori* peirar*** helesthai.
    laoi d' amphoteroisin epêpuon amphis arôgoi**:
    kêrukes d' ara laon erêtuon: hoi de gerontes*
    heiat' epi xestoisi lithois hierôi eni kuklôi,
    505
    skêptra de kêrukôn* en chers' echon êerophônôn*:
    toisin epeit' êïsson, amoibêdis de dikazon.
    keito d' ar' en messoisi duô chrusoio talanta*,
    tôi domen hos meta toisi*** dikên ithuntata eipoi.

    tên d' heterên polin amphi duô stratoi hêato laôn*
    510
    teuchesi lampomenoi: dicha*** de sphisin* hêndane boulê,
    êe diapratheein ê andicha panta dasasthai**
    ktêsin hosên ptoliethron epêraton entos eergen*:
    hoi d'* ou pô peithonto*, lochôi* d' hupethôrêssonto.
    teichos men rh' alochoi te philai kai nêpia tekna
    515
    rhuat'* ephestaotes**, meta d' aneres hous eche gêras:
    hoi d' isan*: êrche d' ara sphin Arês kai Pallas Athênê
    amphô chruseiô, chruseia de heimata hesthên*,
    kalô kai megalô sun teuchesin, hôs te theô per
    amphis* arizêlô: laoi d' hupolizones êsan.
    520
    hoi d' hote dê rh' hikanon hothi sphisin eike** lochêsai
    en potamôi, hothi t' ardmos eên pantessi botoisin,
    enth' ara toi g' hizont' eilumenoi aithopi chalkôi.
    toisi d'* epeit' apaneuthe* duô skopoi heiato laôn*
    degmenoi hoppote* mêla idoiato kai helikas bous.
    525
    hoi de tacha progenonto, duô d' ham' heponto nomêes
    terpomenoi surinxi: dolon d' ou ti pronoêsan*.

    There are a total of 52 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    book 18, card 490 (general note)
    book 18, card 490: polus
    book 18, card 490: apoktamenou
    book 18, card 490: piphauxkôn
    book 18, card 490: mêden
    book 18, card 490: epi
    book 18, card 490: epêpuon
    book 18, card 490: hoi de
    book 18, card 490: hierôi kuklôi
    book 18, card 490: skêptra
    book 18, card 490: Êïsson
    book 18, card 490: hoi de
    book 18, card 490: hupethôrêssonto
    book 18, card 490: lochôi
    book 18, card 490: hoi de
    book 18, card 490: Êrche
    book 18, card 490: amphis
    book 18, card 490: hup' olizones
    book 18, card 490: hoi men
    book 18, card 490: hoi de
    book 18, card 490: suringes
    book 18, card 490: terpomenô

    Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
    book 18, card 490 (general note)
    book 18, card 490: êgineun
    book 18, card 490: polus
    book 18, card 490: ein agorai
    book 18, card 490: e
    book 18, card 490: o
    book 18, card 490: amphis
    book 18, card 490: o
    book 18, card 490: e
    book 18, card 490: hoi de

    Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
    hesiod [Hesiod]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    7, 91 [Book 7 (ê)]

    Cross references from Charles Simmons, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII and XIV:
    13, 294
    13, 692

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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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