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    Homer, Iliad

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    Thus did the blessed gods urge on the two hosts to [55] clash in battle, and amid them made grievous strife to burst forth. Then terribly thundered the father of gods and men from on high; and from beneath did Poseidon cause the vast earth to quake, and the steep crests of the mountains. All the roots of many-fountained Ida were shaken, [60] and all her peaks, and the city of the Trojans, and the ships of the Achaeans. And seized with fear in the world below was Aidoneus, lord of the shades, and in fear leapt he from his throne and cried aloud, lest above him the earth be cloven by Poseidon, the Shaker of Earth, and his abode be made plain to view for mortals and immortals- [65] the dread and dank abode, wherefor the very gods have loathing: so great was the din that arose when the gods clashed in strife. For against king Poseidon stood Phoebus Apollo with his winged arrows, and against Enyalius the goddess, flashing-eyed Athene; [70] against Hera stood forth the huntress of the golden arrows, and the echoing chase, even the archer Artemis, sister of the god that smiteth afar; against Leto stood forth the strong helper, Hermes, and against Hephaestus the great, deep-eddying river, that god called Xanthus, and men Scamander. [75] Thus gods went forth to meet with gods. But Achilles was fain to meet with Hector, Priam's son, above all others in the throng, for with his blood as with that of none other did his spirit bid him glut Ares, the warrior with tough shield of hide. Howbeit Aeneas did Apollo, rouser of hosts, make to go forth [80] to face the son of Peleus, and he put into him great might: and he likened his own voice to that of Lycaon, son of Priam. In his likeness spake unto Aeneas the son of Zeus, Apollo:Aeneas, counsellor of the Trojans, where be now thy threats, wherewith thou wast wont to declare unto the princes of the Trojans over thy wine, [85] that thou wouldst do battle man to man against Achilles, son of Peleus?


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    Further comments from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    book 20, card 54 (general note)
    book 20, card 54: sumbalon
    book 20, card 54: en d' autois
    book 20, card 54: rhêgnuto
    book 20, card 54: eurôenta
    book 20, card 54: enanta
    book 20, card 54: ia
    book 20, card 54: anaktos
    book 20, card 54: sôkos
    book 20, card 54: Ermês
    book 20, card 54: he
    book 20, card 54: talaurinos
    book 20, card 54: polemixein

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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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