Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 6 (Ζ）, line 162

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

[162] ἀγαθὰ φρονέοντα, for he was noble-hearted. The phrase recalls the use of “γενναῖον” in 5.253; the quality of the high-born, of the man who has the sense of honour due to race, is the foundation of “ἀγαθός” throughout later Greek, and in this case the word approaches nearly to our ‘good,’ with its connotation of an absolute standard of moral virtue, in phrases like ‘a good man,’ ‘a good deed.’

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: