Monday, July 01, 2024
Fighting Men
Homer, Odyssey 18.261-264 (tr. A.T. Murray):
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For the Trojans, men say, are men of war,Deborah Steiner ad loc.:
hurlers of the spear, and drawers of the bow,
and drivers of swift horses, such as most quickly
decide the great strife of equal war.
καὶ γὰρ Τρῶάς φασι μαχητὰς ἔμμεναι ἄνδρας,
ἠμὲν ἀκοντιστὰς ἠδὲ ῥυτῆρας ὀϊστῶν
ἵππων τ᾽ ὠκυπόδων ἐπιβήτορας, οἵ κε τάχιστα
ἔκριναν μέγα νεῖκος ὁμοιΐου πολέμοιο.
263 κε codd.: τε Monro
