ILIA D

OF

HOMER;

TRANSLATED

BY ALEXANDER POPE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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FOR J. SHARPE, OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY; W. SUTTABY, STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET; AND TAYLOR AND HESSEY, FLEET STREET.

THE

SIXTH BOOK

OF THE

ILIAD.

THE ARGUMENT.

THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.

THE gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight. The battle relaxing during the absence of Hector, Glaucus and Diomed have an interview between the two armies; where, coming to the knowledge of the friendship and hospitality passed between their ancestors, they make exchange of their arms. Hector having performed the orders of Helenus, prevailed upon Paris to return to the battle, and taken a tender leave of his wife Andromache, hastens again to the field.

The scene is first in the field of battle, between the river Simoïs and Scamander, and then changes to Troy.