Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 10 (Κ）, line 249

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

book : line

[249] μήτέ τι νείκει is superfluous according to our ideas; we can express it by saying ‘there is no more need of praise than of blame.’ It is really an instance of the tendency which we find in Latin as well as in Greek to emphasize a word by means of its contrary; as in phrases like fas nefasque, etc., where the second member is often superfluous.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900)

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents: