[62] ἄγε: has become a mere interjection, and is used with the pl., as “Β 331, Γ” 441; but “ἄγετε” also is used, as 2.72, 83.
μάντιν: a soothsayer, augur, who foretold the future chiefly from the flight of birds. ἔρειομεν: let us ask; 2d aor. subjv., as if from “ἔρημι” (§ 34 d). ἱερῆα: a priest of a definite divinity and sanctuary who predicted from the observation of sacrifices, cf. “θυοσκόος χ” 318. Here some Trojan priest seems to be meant, since a priest could not desert the sanctuary of which he had charge, and so there were no priests in the Greek camp before Troy. The kings performed the sacrifices and offered prayers for the army; cf. 2.411 ff., 3.275 ff.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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