Homer, Iliad

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So spake he; but not as yet would the son of Cronos grant him fulfillment; [420] nay, he accepted the sacrifice, but toil he made to wax unceasingly. Then, when they had prayed and had sprinkled the barley grains, they first drew back the victims' heads and cut their throats, and flayed them; and they cut out the thigh-pieces and covered them with a double layer of fat, and laid raw flesh thereon. [425] These they burned on billets of wood stripped of leaves, and the inner parts they pierced with spits, and held them over the flame of Hephaestus. But when the thigh-pieces were wholly burned and they had tasted of the inner parts, they cut up the rest and spitted it, and roasted it carefully, and drew all off the spits. [430] Then, when they had ceased from their labour and had made ready the meal, they feasted, nor did their hearts lack aught of the equal feast. But when they had put from them the desire of food and drink, among them the horseman, Nestor of Gerenia, was first to speak, saying:Most glorious son of Atreus, Agamemnon, king of men, [435] let us now not any more remain gathered here, nor any more put off the work which verily the god vouchsafeth us. Nay, come, let the heralds of the brazen-coated Achaeans make proclamation, and gather together the host throughout the ships, and let us go thus in a body through the broad camp of the Achaeans, [440] that we may with the more speed stir up sharp battle. So spake he, and the king of men, Agamemnon, failed not to hearken. Straightway he bade the clear-voiced heralds summon to battle the long-haired Achaeans. And they made summons, and the host gathered full quickly. [445] The kings, nurtured of Zeus, that were about Atreus' son, sped swiftly, marshalling the host, and in their midst was the flashing-eyed Athene, bearing the priceless aegis, that knoweth neither age nor death, wherefrom are hung an hundred tassels all of gold, all of them cunningly woven, and each one of the worth of an hundred oxen. [450] Therewith she sped dazzling throughout the host of the Achaeans, urging them to go forth; and in the heart of each man she roused strength to war and to battle without ceasing. And to them forthwith war became sweeter than to return in their hollow ships to their dear native land. [455] Even as a consuming fire maketh a boundless forest to blaze on the peaks of a mountain, and from afar is the glare thereof to be seen, even so from their innumerable bronze, as they marched forth, went the dazzling gleam up through the sky unto the heavens.

There are a total of 53 comments on and cross references to this page.

Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
book 2, card 419 (general note)
book 2, card 419: epekraaine
book 2, card 419: amegarton
book 2, card 419: Hêphaistoio
book 2, card 419: agêraon
book 2, card 419: athanatên
book 2, card 419: êerethontai
book 2, card 419: paiphassousa
book 2, card 419: otrunousa
book 2, card 419: aïdêlon
book 2, card 419: hekathen
book 2, card 419: de te

Further comments from Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III:
book 2, card 419 (general note)
book 2, card 419: epekraiaine
book 2, card 419: dekto
book 2, card 419: ophellen
book 2, card 419: Hêphaistoio
book 2, card 419: tois
book 2, card 419: mêde ti
book 2, card 419: amballômetha
book 2, card 419: dê
book 2, card 419: theos
book 2, card 419: engualizei
book 2, card 419: age
book 2, card 419: kêrukes
book 2, card 419: Achaiôn
book 2, card 419: hêmeis
book 2, card 419: hathrooi hôde
book 2, card 419: thasson
book 2, card 419: autika
book 2, card 419: hoi d amph Atreïôna
book 2, card 419: krinontes
book 2, card 419: meta de
book 2, card 419: Athênê
book 2, card 419: aigida
book 2, card 419: tês
book 2, card 419: euplekees
book 2, card 419: hekatomboios
book 2, card 419: paiphassousa
book 2, card 419: en ôrsen
book 2, card 419: kardiê
book 2, card 419: êute
book 2, card 419: aidêlon
book 2, card 419: aspeton
book 2, card 419: hekathen
book 2, card 419: tôn
book 2, card 419: erchomenôn
book 2, card 419: thespesioio
book 2, card 419: di aitheros

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 77, 4 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
5, 286 [Book 5 (e)]
11, 225 [Book 11 (l)]

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
5, 508 [Book 5 (E)]
6, 311 [Book 6 (Z)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
612 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]

Cross references from Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III:
3, 302 [Book 3 (G)]

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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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