This text is part of:
The partitive genitive may denote the part touched or taken hold of. E. g. A 197, “ξανθῆς δὲ κόμης ἕλε Πηλείωνα”, ‘and she caught the son of Peleus by his yellow hair.’ So A 323, “χειρός. Π” 762, “κεφαλῆφιν”.
Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a medium level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.