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The Personal Pronouns of the Iliad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

George Melville Bolling
George Melville Bolling*
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Ohio State University
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Language , Volume 22 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1946, pp. 341 - 343
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Copyright © 1946 by the Linguistic Society of America

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1 Cf. Robert A. Hall Jr., Italica 23.32 (1946).

2 Consequently to a distinction of sex, so far as sex is implied in gender.

3 Cf. Wackernagel, Syntax 2.6, for the history of the terminology.

4 Cf. Bloomfield, Language 247-51.

5 Examples of horses: T 408-15; σύ T 420; σϕι, P 444-51, Ψ 403-12; 188. The others need no listing.

6 Examples: Ψ 337; σϕω∊ Θ 504, K 546, II 470, P 437, Ψ 281, 283, 447.

7 An aversion to war has been adduced as an explanation of the choice of peaceful topics for their similes. In line with that is their refusal to personalize weapons.

8 In this connection I gratefully acknowledge clerical and research assistance provided by a Minor Grant of the American Council of Learned Societies.