[189] Ἀμαζόνες: these were thought to live on the east of Phrygia. They carried on a war for booty against the Phrygians to whose assistance Priam went. cf. 2.814. Bellerophon was sent to overcome the Amazons, as his third task, Z 186.
ἀντιάνειραι: cf. bellatrix! audetque viris concurrere virgo Verg. Aen. i.493.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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