The Iliad of Homer: Done Into English Prose (Classic Reprint) Review
The Iliad of Homer: Done Into English Prose (Classic Reprint) Feature
TilE execution of this version of the Iliad has been
entrusted to the three Translators in the following
th ree parts :-
Books
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I.-IX.
X.-XVI.
XVII.-XXIV.
,V. LEAF.
A. LA~G.
E. IvivERs.
Each Translator is therefore responsible for his
own portion; but the whole has been revised by
all three Transbi"o:s, z-:tc th~ reldcring of passages
or phrases recurrinff :n mere toan one portion has
been determined a~te~ c!di~er:iti(ln in common. Even
in these, however, a ccrta.ia ~last:citr has been deemed
desirable.
On a few doubtful points, though very rarely,
the opinion of two of the Translators has had to be
adopted to the suppression of that held DY the third.
Thus, for instance, the Translator of Books X.-XVI.
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