HOMER'S ILIAD COMPLETE

Rhapsody 4

Literally Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Theodore Alois Buckley

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Page 4

Thus then did some one of the Greeks and Trojans say; but she like a hero entered the host of the Trojans, the brave warrior Laodocus, son of Antenor, seeking godlike Pandarus, if anywhere she might find him. She found the blameless and valiant son of Lycaon standing, and around him the brave ranks of shielded warriors, who had followed him from the streams of AEsepus; and standing near, she thus to him spoke winged words:

"Wouldst thou now hearken to me in anything, O warlike son of Lycaon? Thou wouldst venture then to aim a swift arrow at Menelaus. Doubtless thou wouldst bear away both thanks and glory from all the Trojans, but of all, chiefly from the prince Alexander, from whom, indeed, first of all, thou wouldst receive splendid gifts, if he should see martial Menelaus, the son of Atreus, subdued by this weapon, ascending the sad pile. But come, aim an arrow at renowned Menelaus; and vow to Lycian-born[173] Apollo, the renowned archer, that thou wilt sacrifice a splendid hecatomb of firstling lambs, having returned home to the city of sacred Zeleia."

[Footnote 173: This is probably the true interpretation, and is given by the Scholiast, Hesychius, and others. But Heraclides, Alleg. Sec. 6, says that Apollo is so called [Greek: epeide tou kata ten orthrion oran lykaugous estin aitioi, e oti likazania genna, toutesti tono eniauton]. Cf. Macrob. Sat. i. 17; Serv. on AEn. iv. 377.]

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