Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 23 (Ψ）, line 221

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

book : line

[221] “ὅτι δωδεκασύλλαβος καὶ ἐκ σπονδείων”, It An.is not legitimate to conclude that any particularly solemn effect is aimed at; for in the first place the original forms were certainly “Πατροκλέϝεος” and possibly “δϝεελοῖο”; and in the second there is no lack of solemnity in dactylic lines — see note on 135.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900)

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents: