Fifty-one days in the tenth year of the siege of Troy, beginning with a quarrel over a captive woman and ending with the burial of Hector. Nothing in it is about the wooden horse or the fall of the city; those are other poems.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Iliad shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
Thus he spoke and Mercury, guide and guardian, slayer of Argus, did as he was told. Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and se…Book 24 and Book 5
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Samuel Butler, 1898. Source: Gutenberg 2199.
The text here is Samuel Butler’s prose translation, 1898, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 2199, set unaltered.
Butler translated into prose on purpose, holding that a verse translation of Homer into English could only be a poem about Homer. This is that prose.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.