[175] ἐν Τροίῃ: in the Troad. The Greeks who fell before Troy were, naturally, buried at once. Only 7.334 f. (doubtless interpolated) is mention made of the possibility of taking the bones back to Greece.
ἀτελευτήτῳ κτλ.: “with our end unachieved.”This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books IV-VI. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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