Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: Books I Vi; With an Introduction and Notes In the judgment of the editor, the thorough acquisition by the pupil of all the introductory matter just referred to Intro duction, Essay on Scanning, Sketch of Dialect (excepting perhaps the latter sections) should be insisted upon. The Table of Contents furnishes a full summary of this matter, and may suggest questions for examination upon it. The text is substantially that of La Roche, 1877. The only important variations are that the forms of the article 6, f), oi, ai, are printed as in prose, (instead of 5, 17, oi, and that the dat. Sing. 1-43, therefore, ' is printed with a subscript 0. (instead of 1 A fuller punctuation than that of La Roche, and a more frequent use of the diaeresis, will also be noticed, especially in Books I. And II., where Sidgwick's edition is followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.