Part 29

THE END OF THE FOURTEENTH BOOK.

[1] This first verse (after the first four syllables) is to be read as one of our tens.

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS

THE ARGUMENT

Jove waking, and beholding Troy in flight, Chides Juno, and sends Iris to the fight To charge the Sea-god to forsake the field, And Phœbus to invade it, with his shield Recov’ring Hector’s bruis’d and eraséd pow’rs, To field he goes, and makes new conquerors, The Trojans giving now the Grecians chace Ev’n to their fleet. Then Ajax turns his face, And feeds, with many Trojan lives, his ire; Who then brought brands to set the fleet on fire.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

Jove sees in O his oversight, Chides Juno, Neptune calls from fight.