Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer

accent adjectives Adverbs Aeolic aorist apocope asyndeton Attic augment Bucolic diaeresis caesura clause collateral forms consonant contracted dactyl dative declension diaeresis dialect diphthong elision ending English epithets feminine fourth foot frequently genitive hiatus Homer Iliad Latin lengthened long vowel metre metrical mute neuter noun Odyssey optative Parataxis participle Patronymics pause plural poems poet preposition pronoun proper names quantity reduplication second aorist sentence short syllable short vowel singular sometimes spondee stem subjunctive suffix synizesis third foot uncontracted verbs verse vowel words ἀλλ ἀνδρῶν ἀπὸ ἄρ Αχαιών γὰρ δὲ δὴ ἐγὼ εἰ ἐκ Εκτωρ ἐν ἐπ ἐπὶ ἐς Ζεύς ἦμαρ καὶ κτλ μὲν μιν μοι νῦν οἱ ὃς οὔ οὐδ περὶ τὰ τε τε καὶ τὴν ὡς