Saturday, March 23, 2019
Prayer to Repel Invaders
Homer, Iliad 8.526-527 (Hector speaking; tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):
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I pray in high hope to Zeus and the other gods to drive out from here these dogs borne by the fates...See Leonard Charles Muellner, The Meaning of Homeric ΕΥΧΟΜΑΙ through its Formulas (Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 1976), pp. 57-62.
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