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OF MEMORABLE THINGS AND WORDS IN HOMER'S
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Acamas, having killed the Boeotian, speaks insults even to the Greeks, page 166.49
Achilles, a most immense man 4.2
Achilles, that bravest of the Greeks, weeps, and reports the cause of his weeping to his little mother 7.40
Achilles says he holds Hector more inimical to himself than the gates of the underworld 99.53
Achilles boasts that Hector never dared to engage him 100.38
Achilles refuses all the gifts offered by Agamemnon 101.10
Achilles prefers to die with honor at Troy than to return home safe without glory 101.42
Achilles, proud 106.50
Achilles hopes the Greeks will fall to his knees so that he may be a help to them 129.22
Achilles makes Patroclus the master of his vow and prayer, furthermore he wishes him much success in battle 182.37
Achilles, now seeing the ships of the Greeks burning, urges Patroclus to prepare himself for battle as quickly as possible 184.2
Achilles arms the Myrmidons for war 184.33
Achilles, making a libation to Jove, prays that he may give great strength to his comrade Patroclus, and the power to repel the enemy from the ships 185.43
Achilles forbade Patroclus to join battle with Hector, having learned, of course, that he would not be equal to Hector 212.7
Achilles' huge grief for the death of Patroclus is described 212.15, 217.33
Achilles fears that flies will corrupt the body of Patroclus, Thetis pours ambrosia into it 223.27
Achilles calls an assembly of the Greeks, and reproaches Agamemnon for the injury he inflicted upon him: Agamemnon casts the blame for the error onto Jove and the Fury Ate 224.10
Achilles, while he mourns the death of Patroclus, remembers along with other kings his own miseries, and Minerva, so that he does not waste away, instills celestial ambrosia 229.16
Achilles should go to war fasting, she instills celestial ambrosia 229.16
Achilles desires Hector greatly, but Apollo stirs up Aeneas against him 232.36
Achilles urges the Greeks to battle, raging greatly: he tells the Trojans not to fear Hector against Achilles, for not everything will turn out according to his desire 237.38
Achilles begins to slaughter many men, whom see 238.12, 239.31
Achilles like a demon 240.14, 244.45
Achilles and the Myrmidons again mourn the death of Patroclus, and Thetis herself is the leader of the mourning 261.10
Achilles himself places Hector, well-cleansed and washed, onto the bier, and prays to Patroclus not to take this ill. For he received gifts for this, of which he would not want him to be deprived 288.33
Achilles offers Priam an unpalatable meal 288.25
Achilles, with prizes set in the middle, prepares various contests in honor of the deceased Patroclus 166.21
Achilles' oration to Agamemnon for the removal of the plague from the army of the Greeks 2.24
Achilles and Xanthus, his horse, conversation 230.33
Achilles' chariot all defiled with the blood of the slain, he was such a slaughterer of men according to Homer, but easy to praise among the Athenians 240.19
Achilles' cruelty toward Lycaon, son of Priam 241.17
Achilles' and the Greeks' cruelty toward the dead body of Hector 258.40
Adrestus is captured alive by Menelaus 65.40
Aeneas incites Pandarus to cast another javelin at Diomedes 51.7
Aeneas' sharp battle with Idomeneus 151.30
Aeneas is seriously struck by a stone from Diomedes, Venus snatches him away 53.30
Aeneas recovered from his wound, returning to battle, kills many of the Greeks 57.23
Aeneas is honored by the Trojans as a God 119.22
Aeneas is fortified by Apollo, rushes into the enemy, and immediately slaughters Lycophron 20.42
Aeneas attacks Achilles with a spear: Neptune snatches him from the hands of Achilles and warns him not to encounter him in war hereafter 236.1
Aeneas and Achilles' hostile conversation in battle, and genealogy 134.29
Aeriboea, stepmother of Mars 55.10
Aesymnus killed by Hector 123.47
Agamede, daughter of King Augeas 131.42
Agamemnon, avaricious 3.33
Agamemnon, drunk 5.26, has a stag's heart, Ibid. King, devourer of the people 5.32
Agamemnon is sent a pernicious dream by Jove 13.10
Agamemnon, deceived by the dream, urges the Greeks to sail back to their fatherland 15.6
Agamemnon calls the leaders of the Greeks to a banquet 20.23
Agamemnon urges the Greeks to flight to their fatherland 94.20
Agamemnon promises golden mountains to Achilles if he will help him again to fight against the Trojans 96.20
Agamemnon and Menelaus consult about the safety of the army 108.1
Agamemnon's armor 118.20
Agamemnon kills alone those who were not defending themselves with a savage spirit 120, throughout
Agamemnon is said to be cowardly by Neptune 144.40
Agamemnon is greatly anxious lest the threats of Hector truly happen to him, and