This text is part of:
Diaeresis is not so important as caesura in constituting a pause. The principal diaeresis, when it occurs, is commonly found between the fourth and fifth feet. This is known as the bucolic diaeresis, because it was a favorite with the bucolic poets, of whom the most famous was Theocritus (third century B. C.). How significant it is in Homer may be seen from the fact that the narrative sometimes comes to a complete stop at this point, and a new subject is introduced, as in A 348 and 430.
Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a medium level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
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.