THE
ILIAD OF HOMER

PREFATORY NOTE.

The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to thethree Translators in the following three parts:

Books I.—IX. . . . . W. LEAF.
Books X.—XVI. . . . . A. LANG.
Books XVII.—XXIV. . . . . E. MYERS.

Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole hasbeen revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrasesrecurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation incommon. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable.

On a few doubtful points, though very rarely, the opinion of two of thetranslators has had to be adopted to the suppression of that held by the third.Thus, for instance, the Translator of Books X.—XVI. Would have preferred “c”and “us” to “k” and “os” in the spelling of all proper names.

The text followed has been that of La Roche (Leipzig, 1873), except where theadoption of a different reading has been specified in a footnote. Where thebalance of evidence, external and internal, has seemed to the Translator to beagainst the genuineness of the passage, such passage has been enclosed inbrackets [].

The Translator of Books X.—XVI. has to thank Mr. R.W. RAPE