Homer, Iliad

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To him then spake in answer the king of men, Agamemnon: [115] Old sir, in no false wise hast thou recounted the tale of my blind folly. Blind I was, myself I deny it not. Of the worth of many hosts is the man whom Zeus loveth in his heart, even as now he honoureth this man and destroyeth the host of the Achaeans. Yet seeing I was blind, and yielded to my miserable passion, [120] I am minded to make amends and to give requital past counting. In the midst of you all let me name the glorious gifts; seven tripods that the fire hath not touched, and ten talents of gold and twenty gleaming cauldrons, and twelve strong horses, winners in the race, that have won prizes by their fleetness. [125] Not without booty were a man, nor unpossessed of precious gold, whoso had wealth as great as the prizes my single-hooved steeds have won me. And I will give seven women skilled in goodly handiwork, women of Lesbos, whom on the day when himself took well-built Lesbos I chose me from out the spoil, [130] and that in beauty surpass all women folk. These will I give him, and amid them shall be she that then I took away, the daughter of Briseus; and I will furthermore swear a great oath that never went I up into her bed neither had dalliance with her as is the appointed way of mankind, even of men and women. [135] All these things shall be ready to his hand forthwith; and if hereafter it so be the gods grant us to lay waste the great city of Priam, let him then enter in, what time we Achaeans be dividing the spoil, and heap up his ship with store of gold and bronze, and himself choose twenty Trojan women [140] that be fairest after Argive Helen. And if we return to Achaean Argos, the richest of lands, he shall be my son, and I will honour him even as Orestes that is reared in all abundance, my son well-beloved. Three daughters have I in my well-builded hall, [145] Chrysothemis, and Laodice, and Iphianassa; of these let him lead to the house of Peleus which one he will, without gifts of wooing, and I will furthermore give a dower full rich, such as no man ever yet gave with his daughter. And seven well-peopled cities will I give him, [150] Cardamyle Enope, and grassy Hire, and sacred Pherae and Antheia with deep meadows, and fair Aepeia and vine-clad Pedasus. All are nigh to the sea, on the uttermost border of sandy Pylos, and in them dwell men rich in flocks and rich in kine, [155] men that shall honour him with gifts as though he were a god, and beneath his sceptre shall bring his ordinances to prosperous fulfillment. All this will I bring to pass for him, if he but cease from his wrath. Let him yield--Hades, I ween, is not to be soothed, neither overcome, wherefore he is most hated by mortals of all gods. [160] And let him submit himself unto me, seeing I am more kingly, and avow me his elder in years.

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

Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
book 9, card 114 (general note)
book 9, card 114: pseudos
book 9, card 114: anti nu pollôn andrôn
book 9, card 114: philêsêi
book 9, card 114: onomênô
book 9, card 114: apurous
book 9, card 114: talanton
book 9, card 114: aronto
book 9, card 114: genoito
book 9, card 114: tossa
book 9, card 114: êneikanto
book 9, card 114: autos
book 9, card 114: enikôn phula gunaikôn
book 9, card 114: meta
book 9, card 114: apêurôn
book 9, card 114: epi
book 9, card 114: tês
book 9, card 114: eiselthôn
book 9, card 114: ei ken
book 9, card 114: Argos ... Achaiikon
book 9, card 114: outhar arourês
book 9, card 114: taôn
book 9, card 114: epi
book 9, card 114: neatai
book 9, card 114: Pulou
book 9, card 114: theon hôs
book 9, card 114: timêsousin
book 9, card 114: ke
book 9, card 114: teleousi
book 9, card 114: metallêxanti
book 9, card 114: dmêthêtô

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
11, 832 [Book 11 (L)]

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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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