ἀμφὶ δέ μιν γαλόῳ τε καὶ εἰνατέρες ἅλις ἔσταν,

αἵ ἑ μετὰ σφίσιν εἶχον ἀτυζομένην ἀπολέσθαι.

ἣ δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἔμπνυτο καὶ ἐς φρένα θυμὸς ἀγέρθη475

ἀμβλήδην γοόωσα μετὰ Τρῳῇσιν ἔειπεν:

Ἕκτορ ἐγὼ δύστηνος: ἰῇ ἄρα γεινόμεθ᾽ αἴσῃ

ἀμφότεροι, σὺ μὲν ἐν Τροίῃ Πριάμου κατὰ δῶμα,

αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ Θήβῃσιν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ

ἐν δόμῳ Ἠετίωνος, ὅ μ᾽ ἔτρεφε τυτθὸν ἐοῦσαν480

δύσμορος αἰνόμορον: ὡς μὴ ὤφελλε τεκέσθαι.

νῦν δὲ σὺ μὲν Ἀΐδαο δόμους ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης

ἔρχεαι, αὐτὰρ ἐμὲ στυγερῷ ἐνὶ πένθεϊ λείπεις

χήρην ἐν μεγάροισι: πάϊς δ᾽ ἔτι νήπιος αὔτως,

ὃν τέκομεν σύ τ᾽ ἐγώ τε δυσάμμοροι: οὔτε σὺ τούτῳ485

ἔσσεαι Ἕκτορ ὄνειαρ ἐπεὶ θάνες, οὔτε σοὶ οὗτος.

ἤν περ γὰρ πόλεμόν γε φύγῃ πολύδακρυν Ἀχαιῶν,

αἰεί τοι τούτῳ γε πόνος καὶ κήδε᾽ ὀπίσσω

ἔσσοντ᾽: ἄλλοι γάρ οἱ ἀπουρίσσουσιν ἀρούρας.

ἦμαρ δ᾽ ὀρφανικὸν παναφήλικα παῖδα τίθησι:490

πάντα δ᾽ ὑπεμνήμυκε, δεδάκρυνται δὲ παρειαί,

δευόμενος δέ τ᾽ ἄνεισι πάϊς ἐς πατρὸς ἑταίρους,

ἄλλον μὲν χλαίνης ἐρύων, ἄλλον δὲ χιτῶνος:

τῶν δ᾽ ἐλεησάντων κοτύλην τις τυτθὸν ἐπέσχε:

χείλεα μέν τ᾽ ἐδίην᾽, ὑπερῴην δ᾽ οὐκ ἐδίηνε.495

τὸν δὲ καὶ ἀμφιθαλὴς ἐκ δαιτύος ἐστυφέλιξε

χερσὶν πεπλήγων καὶ ὀνειδείοισιν ἐνίσσων:

ἔρρ᾽ οὕτως: οὐ σός γε πατὴρ μεταδαίνυται ἡμῖν.

δακρυόεις δέ τ᾽ ἄνεισι πάϊς ἐς μητέρα χήρην

Ἀστυάναξ, ὃς πρὶν μὲν ἑοῦ ἐπὶ γούνασι πατρὸς500

μυελὸν οἶον ἔδεσκε καὶ οἰῶν πίονα δημόν:

αὐτὰρ ὅθ᾽ ὕπνος ἕλοι, παύσαιτό τε νηπιαχεύων,

εὕδεσκ᾽ ἐν λέκτροισιν ἐν ἀγκαλίδεσσι τιθήνης

εὐνῇ ἔνι μαλακῇ θαλέων ἐμπλησάμενος κῆρ:

νῦν δ᾽ ἂν πολλὰ πάθῃσι φίλου ἀπὸ πατρὸς ἁμαρτὼν505

Ἀστυάναξ, ὃν Τρῶες ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν:

οἶος γάρ σφιν ἔρυσο πύλας καὶ τείχεα μακρά.

νῦν δὲ σὲ μὲν παρὰ νηυσὶ κορωνίσι νόσφι τοκήων

αἰόλαι εὐλαὶ ἔδονται, ἐπεί κε κύνες κορέσωνται

γυμνόν: ἀτάρ τοι εἵματ᾽ ἐνὶ μεγάροισι κέονται510

λεπτά τε καὶ χαρίεντα τετυγμένα χερσὶ γυναικῶν.

ἀλλ᾽ ἤτοι τάδε πάντα καταφλέξω πυρὶ κηλέῳ

οὐδὲν σοί γ᾽ ὄφελος, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐγκείσεαι αὐτοῖς,

ἀλλὰ πρὸς Τρώων καὶ Τρωϊάδων κλέος εἶναι.

515

ὣς ἔφατο κλαίουσ᾽, ἐπὶ δὲ στενάχοντο γυναῖκες.

    Andromache laments the death of her husband, speaking especially of the wretched fate that awaits their son Astyanax as an orphan.

    Andromache’s lament for Hector brings Book 22 to a close. As so often, the poet uses traditional forms to create a vividly individual portrait. There are over a dozen laments in the Iliad, with recurring elements throughout: praise of the dead, the contrast between past and present, the wish that the one mourning had died too, the common fate of the mourner and the dead.

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    Andromache expresses all these thoughts, but her words also constantly recall moments from her meeting with Hector in Book 6, where they opened their hearts to each other, sharing their hopes and fears. As she did there, Andromache portrays their marriage as one between kindred souls (477–78, see 6.429–30). Verbal and thematic echoes bounce back and forth, from her childhood to her son’s, from the deadly yet relatively honorable Achilles of the past to the present revenge-crazed enemy. Her son has lost his father and protector, as did she when she was a little child. Eetion as a young father was δύσμορος; she and Hector were δυσάμμοροι when they bore Astyanax. Achilles has killed two generations of Hector’s family and orphaned two generations of Andromache’s. Her bleak vision of the future, she a powerless widow, her son begging for food, confirms the fears she expressed in Book 6 (408–14). It is fitting that the centerpiece of her lament is the dismal portrait of Astyanax, helpless without his protector. He is the embodiment of his parents’ love, but also represents the future of Troy and its great civilization, what is sacrificed in the Iliad to the relentless masculine drive for preeminence, for a place at the forefront.

    Book 22 completes Homer’s portrait of Hector. Because we are given glimpses of his innermost feelings, of shame, anger, and love, he embodies in a particularly vivid way the limits and contradictions of the heroic life as it appears in the Iliad. Achilles is the principal hero of the poem. His actions form the backbone of the plot. But while his semi-divine nature and outsized appetites can inspire awe and fascination, these qualities also often make him inaccessible to us. His journey back and forth across the boundaries that define human experience offers us the chance to think about big issues, about the fundamental shape of human life, and about the role of mortality in the formation of meaning. But the Iliad would not be the rich, emotionally engaging story that it is without the figure of Hector, who models for us how a mature, courageous, and fully human person navigates the perils of a mortal existence.

    Likewise, we would not understand Hector if we had not witnessed his encounters with those who love and depend on him, Paris and Helen, Priam and Hecuba, and most of all, Andromache. Though Book 22 presents a carefully structured, aesthetically unified narrative, the emotional arc of the story it tells begins in Book 6, especially in the last meeting of Hector and Andromache. Those poignant scenes resurface again and again in Hector’s last hours, adding to their tragic power. Finally, though he dies in Book 22, Hector’s story does not end there. His body remains beside Achilles through the last torturous stages of the latter’s return to a fully human existence in Book 24, and then travels with Priam back to Troy and the poem’s hauntingly serene conclusion, an avatar of human experience in all its complexities.

    Further Reading

    Edwards, M. 1987. Homer: Poet of the Iliad, 317–323. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

    Muich, R. 2010–2011. “Focalization and Embedded Speech in Andromache's Iliadic Laments.” Illinois Classical Studies 35–36: 1–24.

    Tsagalis, C. 2004. Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad, 129–132. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

    Van Nortwick, T. 1992. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Second Self and the Hero’s Journey in Ancient Epic, 75–88. New York: Oxford University Press.

    ———2008. Imagining Men: Ideals of Masculinity in Ancient Greek Culture, 62–67. Westport, CT: Praeger.

    473: ἔσταν: root aor. > ἵστημι.

    474: αἵ: “who,” relative. : = αὐτήν,  Andromache. μετὰ σφίσιν εἶχον: “were holding (her) between them.” σφίσιν: dat. pl. 3rd pers. pronoun > σφεῖς (Monro 102). ἀτυζομένην ἀπολέσθαι: “shocked almost to death,” a loosely attached, blended infinitive of purpose/result (de Jong; see Goodell 565).

    475: ἔμπνυτο: “she began to breath in,” “she revived,” inceptive aor. mid. with no difference from the active (Goodell 464). ἐς φρένα θυμὸς ἀγέρθη: when a person faints, the thumos is weakened, but does not leave the body. Upon regaining consciousness, the thumos is collected again (de Jong). ἀγέρθη: 3rd sg. aor. pass. > ἀγείρω.

    477: δύστηνος: predicate, supply εἰμί. ἄρα γεινόμεθ᾽: “it turns out, we were born,” ἄρα + impf. indicates that the predestination of an event is realized ex post facto (de Jong on line 356). ἰῇαἴσῃ: “for one and the same lot,” “for a single fate,” dat. of accompanying circumstance (de Jong). ἰῇ: fem. dat. sg. of εἷς, μία, ἕν.

    478: σὺ μὲναὐτὰρ ἐγὼ: “you … but I.”

    479: Θήβῃσιν: “in Thebe,” dat. place where without preposition. Thebe is attested in both singular and plural. Thebe, modern Edremit, (not to be confused with either Egyptian or Boeotian Thebes), was a city in the so-called Plain of Thebe, south of Troy. See 6.397.

    480: : “who,” demonstrative pronoun as relative, masc. sg.

    481: ὡς μὴ ὤφελλε τεκέσθαι: “how I wish he had never begotten me,” impossible past wish introduced by ὡς + aor. > ὀφέλλω (Att. ὀφείλω), with aor. mid. inf. > τίκτω (see LSJ s.v. ὀφείλω II.3)

    482: νῦν δὲ: “but as it is,” “but now," commonly follows past potential and contrary-to-fact conditions to return the reader to what is, in fact, true. δόμους: acc. place to which without preposition (Goodell 533). ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης: “down in the recesses of the earth,” best taken as an apposition to δόμους.

    483: ἔρχεαι: = ἔρχε(σ)αι, 2nd sg. pres. > ἔρχομαι. στυγερῷ ἐνὶ πένθεϊ: “wrapped in hateful mourning,” the otherwise rare use of the preposition + dat. πένθεϊ here makes the picture more graphic (de Jong).

    484: χήρην: “as a widow,” predicative of ἐμέ. νήπιος αὔτως: “just an infant,” see 6.400.

    485: ὃν: “whom.” τέκομεν: aor. > τίκτω. τ’… τε: “both … and.”

    485–486: τούτῳ, οὗτος: i.e. Astyanax, the πάϊς δ’ ἔτι νήπιος of line 484, dat. of interest (Goodell 523).

    486: ἔσσεαι: = ἔσσεσαι, 2nd sg. dep. mid fut. > εἰμί. ὄνειαρ: neut. sg. nom. predicate. ἐπεὶ: “since.” θάνες: unaugmented 2nd sg. aor. > θνήσκω.

    487–489: ἤν περ: “even if,” περ introduces a concessive condition. ἤν περφύγῃἔσσοντ᾽: “even if he escapes at least from the war with the Greeks, he will,” ἤν (= ἐάν) + aor. subj. > φεύγω introducing a future-more-vivid condition (εἰ κε/ἄν + subj., fut. ind. > εἰμί).

    488: τοι: “to be sure, you know,” particle.

    489: ἔσσοντ᾽: = ἔσσονται, “(there) will be.” οἰἀρούρας: “his fields,” possessive dat. sg. personal pronoun.

    490: τίθησι: “makes (x) (y),” pres. > τίθημι + double acc. (Goodell 534).

    491: πάντα δ’ ὑπεμνήμυκε: “he is downcast utterly.” πάντα is adverbial acc., ὑπεμνήμυκε is most likely pf. with reduplication > ὑπ-ημύω, though this compound occurs only here (de Jong). δεδάκρυνται: “are covered in tears,” pf. pass.

    492: δευόμενος: “lacking (food and drink),” the verb is often used in connection with food (de Jong). ἄνεισι: 3rd sg. fut. > ἄν-ειμι.

    493: ἄλλονἄλλον: “one … another.” χλαίνης, χιτῶνος: genitives after verb of touching or grabbing, ἐρύω (Monro 151.a).

    494: τῶν δ᾽ ἐλεησάντων: “(one of) these, taking pity.” τῶν, the demonstrative pronoun, is a partitive genitive with τις, modified by aor. ptc. ἐλεησάντων.

    495: ἐδίην(ε) … ἐδίηνε: aorists > διαίνω, the repetition intensifies the picture of the boy only wetting his lips but not really quenching his thirst (de Jong).

    496: τὸν δὲ: “this one,” Astyanax. καὶ: “even,” adverbial. ἀμφιθαλὴς: “(someone) with both parents,” the only occurrence of this term in Homer.

    497: πεπλήγως: nom. sg. reduplicated aor. ptc. > πλήσσω. ὀνειδείοισιν: "with reproachful (words)," "with insults."

    498: ἔρρ’ οὕτως: “get lost,” lit. “go as you are,” = ἔρρε, pres. imper. > ἔρρω, according to the scholia, this expression is coarse and colloquial. σός γε πατὴρ: “your father,” emphatic. ἡμῖν: “among us,” dat. governed by μετα- of μεταδαίνυται.

    499: ἄνεισι: see line 492.

    500: πρὶν: “previously,” adverbial.

    501: οἶον: “only,” modifies μυελὸν. ἔδεσκε: “would/used to eat,” -σκ- indicates iterative impf. and customary action (Monro 48–49). οἰῶν: “of sheep,” accent may be on penult or ultima, gen. pl. either οἴων or οἰῶν. δημόν: “fat,” (not δῆμον, “people”).

    502: ὅθ᾽: = ὅτε, “whenever,” ὅτε + aor. opt. ἕλοι > αἱρέω, in a general temporal clause in secondary sequence (Monro 308.1d). ἕλοι: supply Astyanax as missing direct object. παύσαιτό: aor. opt. in same general temporal clause, governing a supplementary ptc.

    503: εὕδεσκ᾽: = εὕδεσκε “would/used to sleep,” another iterative impf., here > εὕδω.

    504: εὐνῇ ἔνι: = ἐν εὐνῇ, anastrophe. θαλέων: > θάλεα, “good cheer, happy thoughts,” gen. with ἐμπλησάμενος. κῆρ: “heart,” not to be confused with κήρ, “death.”

    505: ἂνπάθῃσι: “he will suffer,” anticipatory subj. (an independent equivalent to a future-less-vivid condition), thematic aor. subjunctive with athematic ending > πάσχω, see lines130, 244, 246 (Monro 292.b). ἀπὸἁμαρτὼν: > ἀφαμαρτάνω, “lose, be deprived of,”  tmesis, nom. sg. 2nd aor. ptc.

    507: σφιν: dat. of interest. οἶος γάρ ἔρυσο: “for you alone protected,” 2nd aor. mid. > ῥύομαι.

    509: ἐπεί κε κορέσωνται: “when(ever) the dogs have their fill.” ἐπεί κε = ἐπειδάν, the subjunctive is future in sense (Monro 296).

    510: γυμνόν: warriors lacking armor are called “naked.” τοι: = σοι, possessive dat. sg. personal pronoun. κέονται: pres. 3rd pl. > κεῖμαι.

    511: τετυγμένα: pf. pass. ptc. > τεύχω. χερσὶ: dat. pl. of means > χείρ.

    512: πυρὶ κηλέῳ: “in blazing fire,” dat. of means or place where.

    513–514: “(an act which is) no benefit to you (apposition), since you will not lie in them, but in order for there to be kleos (for you) on the part of the Trojan men and women (final-consecutive infinitive)” (de Jong; see Smyth 2011).

    513: οὐδὲνὄφελος: neut. sg. acc. in apposition to line 512, i.e., the ritual burning will serve no benefit to Hector, who will remain without a funeral pyre. ἐπεὶ: “since.” ἐγκείσεαι: 2nd sg. fut. > ἔγ-κειμαι. αὐτοῖς: the clothing, dat. governed by ἐν- of ἔγ-κειμαι.

    514: κλέος εἶναι: “to be glory,” i.e. “that there be glory (for you),” loosely attached infinitive of purpose/result, describing the intent behind the burning of the clothing. πρὸς: “in the eyes of/before…” + gen., expresses the point of view of a person (Monro 208).

    515: ἔφατο: impf. mid. > φημί, mid. with no difference from the active. κλαίουσ᾽: = κλαίουσα, pres. ptc. ἐπὶ δὲ: “and in addition,” adverbial (see 22.429), “joined her in lament.”

    μιν: him, her, it

     

    γάλοως, dat. sing. and nom. pl. γαλόῳ: a husband's sister, sister-in-law

     

    εἰνάτερες: a husband's brothers' wives

     

    ἅλις: in heaps, crowds, swarms, in abundance, in plenty

     

    οἱ (enclitic, dat. 3rd pers. pron.): (to) him, (to) her

     

    σφεῖς, σφείων gen., σφίσι(ν) or σφί(ν) dat., σφέας acc.: (pl. 3rd pers. pron.) them

     

    ἀτύζω: to be distraught from fear, mazed, bewildered

     

    ἐμπνέω: to breathe, draw breath475

     

    φρήν φρενός ἡ: heart, mind

     

    ἀγείρω ἤγειρα ἀγήγερμαι ἠγέρθην: to bring together, gather together

     

    ἀμβλήδην: adv. with sudden bursts

     

    γοάω: to wail, groan, weep

     

    Τρώϊος: Trojan

     

    Ἕκτωρ: Hector, the most distinguished warrior of the Trojans, son of Priam and Hecabe, and husband of Andromache.

     

    δύστηνος: wretched, unhappy, unfortunate

     

    ἄρα, ῥά (enclit.), ἄρ, ῥ᾿: so, then, as you know, you know, it seems. Very often it marks an action as natural, or reminds of something recently said. It also marks transitions.

     

    γείνομαι, aor. ἐγείναο: to be born; (aor.) begot, bore

     

    αἶσα: share, lot, allotted portion, term of life; κατὰ αἶσαν, as is due

     

    Τροία or Τροίη: Troy

     

    Πρίαμος: Priam, son of Laomedon. King of Troy.

     

    δῶμα –ατος τό: a house

     

    ἀτάρ: but, yet

     

    Θηβη: Theba, a Cilician town in the Troad (at the foot of Mt. Placus, an eastern spur of Mt. Ida), under the rule of Andromache's father Eetion; it was sacked by Achilles.

     

    Πλάκος: a mountain above the city of Thebe

     

    ὑλήεις -ήεσσα -ῆεν: woody, wooded

     

    δόμος -ου, ὁ: a house, home480

     

    Ἠετίων, -ωνος: Eetion, king of Hypoplacian Theba near Troy, father of Hector's wife Andromache; slain by Achilles on the capture of Theba.

     

    τυτθός: little, small

     

    δύσμορος: unfortunate, unhappy

     

    αἰνόμορος: ill-starred

     

    ὀφείλω, aor. ὄφελ(λ)ον or ὤφελ(λ)ον: should have, ought to have. With αἴθε and ὡς it is used to express a wish which cannot be realized: αἴθ᾿ ὄφελες ἄγαμος ἀπολέσθαι: if only you had died unmarried.

     

    ᾍδης, gen. Ἀίδεω and Ἄϊδος, dat. Ἄϊδι, Ἀϊδωνῆι: Hades, god of the unseen lower world. His realm is the home of the dead, and in the Iliad it is beneath the earth, while in the Odyssey Odysseus sails to it, across Oceanus, and finds in it a faint, ghostly imitation of life on earth.

     

    κεῦθος –εος τό: the depths

     

    γαῖα –ας ἡ: a land, country

     

    στυγερός: hated, abominated, loathed

     

    πένθος –εος τό: grief, sadness, sorrow

     

    χήρα: bereft of a husband, a widow

     

    μέγαρον –ου τό: large room, main hall (in the center) of the house; pl. dwelling, house, palace.

     

    νήπιος -α -ον: infant, childish

     

    αὔτως: in this very manner, even so, just so, as it is, merely; νήπιον αὔτως 'merely a child'

     

    δυσάμμορος: most miserable485

     

    ὄνειαρ –ατος τό: help, support, profit

     

    πολύδακρυς: tearful

     

    Ἀχαιός: Achaian

     

    τοι: let me tell you, surely

     

    κῆδος –εος τό: grief, sorrow, woe

     

    ὀπίσω or ὀπίσσω: backwards, in the future

     

    ἀπουρίζω: will mark off

     

    ἄρουρα: cultivated land, plowed field, wheat field

     

    ἦμαρ –ατος τό: day

     

    ὀρφανικός: orphaned, fatherless490

     

    παναφῆλιξ –ικος: bereft of companions

     

    ὑπεμνήμυκε: bows his head down, is cast down

     

    δακρύω, aor. partic. δακρύσας, perf. mid. δεδάκρυσαι, δεδάκρυνται: to weep, shed tears; to be in tears, be bathed in tears

     

    παρειά: the cheek

     

    ἄνειμι, pres. partic. ἀνιόντα: to come back, return

     

    ἑταῖρος –ου ὁ: a comrade, companion, mate

     

    χλαῖνα -ης ἡ: chlaena, cloak, mantle

     

    ἐρύω: to drag, pull, tear; draw up, raise, balance

     

    χιτών –ῶνος ὁ: chiton, tunic

     

    ἐλεέω, aor. ἐλέησε: to pity, take pity

     

    κοτύλη: a cup

     

    ἐπέχω, 2nd aor. ἐπέσχον, ἐπέσχε, aor. partic. ἐπισχών: to hold to (a person or to his lips)

     

    χεῖλος –εος τό: lip495

     

    διαίνω, aor. ἐδίηνε(ν): to wet, moisten

     

    ὑπερῴη: palate

     

    ἀμφιθαλής: blooming on both sides, i.e with both parents living

     

    δαιτύς –ύος ἡ: a feast

     

    στυφελίζω, aor. ἐστυφέλιξε(ν), aor. inf. στυφελίξαι: to strike, smite, thrust, drive away

     

    πλήσσω, aor. πλῆξε(ν), 2nd aor. inf. πεπληγέμεν, 2nd perf. partic. πεπληγώς: to strike, smite

     

    ὀνείδειος:reproachful, ὀνειδείοις ἐπέεσσι with words of reproach, with insulting words

     

    ἐνίσσω: to scold, reproach

     

    ἔρρω, imperat. ἔρρε, ἐρρέτω, partic. ἔρρων: to go or move with difficulty; ἔρρε, off with you!

     

    μεταδαίνυμαι: to feast with, dine with (+dat)

     

    δακρυόεις: tearful, weeping

     

    Ἀστυάναξ -ακτος: Astyanax, Hector's son, also known as Scamandrius500

     

    ἑός ἑή ἑόν: his, her own

     

    γόνυ, gen. γόνατος or γούνατος: knee

     

    μυελός: marrow

     

    ἔδω: to eat

     

    ὄις ὄιος: sheep

     

    πίων πίονος: fat, rich, fertile

     

    δημός ὁ: fat

     

    ὕπνος –ου ὁ: sleep, slumber

     

    νηπιαχεύω: to be childish, play like a child

     

    εὕδω, impf. εὗδε, εὗδον, iterat. εὕδεσκε: to sleep, rest

     

    λέκτρον: a couch, bed

     

    ἀγκαλίς –ίδος ἡ: arm

     

    τιθήνη: a nurse

     

    εὐνή: a bed, couch

     

    μαλακός: soft, gentle

     

    θάλεα –ων τά: good cheer, happy thoughts

     

    ἐμπίμπλημι ἐμπλήσω ἐνέπλησα ἐμπέπληκα ἐμπέπλησμαι ἐωεπλήθην: fill quite full

     

    κῆρ κῆρος τό: the heart

     

    φίλος –η –ον: friend; loved, beloved, dear505

     

    Τρῶες: Trojans

     

    ἐπίκλησις: a name

     

    οἷος –α –ον: of what sort, what kind of, what, such as, as

     

    πύλη –ης ἡ: one wing of a pair of double gates; (pl.) gate

     

    κορωνίς: curved

     

    νόσφι: apart, separate, far from (+gen)

     

    τοκεύς –ῆος ὁ: a parent

     

    αἰόλος: quick-moving, swift, squirming

     

    εὐλή: a worm, maggot

     

    κύων κυνός ὁ or ἡ: a dog

     

    κορέννυμι, aor. opt. κορέσειεν, aor. mid. κορεσσάμεθα, aor. mid. subj. κορέσωνται, perf. κεκόρησθε: to sate, satiate, satisfy; mid. to have one's fill

     

    γυμνός –ή –όν: naked, unclad, unmarried510

     

    εἷμα –ατος τό: a garment, clothing

     

    λεπτός: fine, delicate

     

    χαρίεις –ίεσσα –ίεν: graceful, beautiful, pleasing; superl. χαριέστατος

     

    τεύχω τεύξω ἔτευξα τέτευχα τέτυγμαι ἐτύχθην: to make ready, make, build, work

     

    ἤτοι: now surely, truly, = μέν

     

    καταφλέγω: to burn down, consume

     

    κήλεος: burning, blazing

     

    ὄφελος –εος τό: advantage, use

     

    ἔγκειμαι: to lie in

     

    κλέος –έος τό: glory

     

    κλαίω, opt. κλαίοισθα, impf. κλαῖε, fut. κλαύσομαι, κλαύονται: to weep, lament, wail515

     

    στενάχω, impf. mid. στενάχοντο: to sigh, groan

     

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    Thomas Van Nortwick and Geoffrey Steadman, Homer: Iliad 6 and 22. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Dickinson College Commentaries, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-947822-11-5.https://dcc.dickinson.edu/homer-iliad/homer-iliad-xxii-473-515