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Sing the Rage

Homer · Iliad 1.1–7

Ancient Greek · Level 4 · ~1 min · dactylic hexameter

Sing the Rage

Homer, Iliad 1.1–7

Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί’ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε’ ἔθηκε,
πολλὰς δ’ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βουλή,
ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε
Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς.

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Homer, Iliad 1.1–7. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit; edition: D. B. Monro & T. W. Allen, Oxford 1920. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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