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Three Puzzles in the Language 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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Abstract

It is an honor to be invited to contribute to a number of Language dedicated to Franklin Edgerton, and it is a pleasure for me to accept the invitation. For that purpose I have selected three notes dealing with the language of the Iliad, which are held together by the fact that all three end with problems of the sort that Edgerton has dealt with so successfully in his reconstruction of the Panchatantra and in his edition of the Sabhāparvan of the Mahābhārata—problems of textual criticism.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 29 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1953, pp. 293 - 296
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Copyright © 1953 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Cf. the opinions quoted above, and add Kretschmer, Gioita 3.331-3 (1912).

2 Cf. Class. phil. 47.89 (1952).

3 In Ψ, the is the arena, and the line had to be altered slightly: Ψ 814.

4 The shift of meaning is slight, because each is the representative of his army.

5 As a result of Chantraine's objection in a very kind review of my work, Rev. de phil. 26.56 (1952).

6 Lattimore translates: ‘Lest I encompass you in hard hate, caught between both sides, | Danaans and Trojans alike, and you wretchedly perish.‘ That may indicate an understanding at least better than his predecessors had.