Excerpt from A Complete Greek and English Lexicon for the Poems of Homer and the Homeridae Illustrating the Domestic, Religious, Political, and Military Condition of the Heroic Age and Explaining the Most Difficult Passages Norwrrnsrmmxo the great number of excellent helps which have been published, for a series of years past, in illustration of the Homeric poems, there has still, so far as my acquaintance extends, appeared no complete Lexicon, presenting within a moderate compass, to the numerous readers, and especially to the young readers of these poems, every thing necessary for understanding them. In my apprehension, a Lexicon of a particular author, although designed only for schools, should not contain simply an alphabetic series of words with their definitions, but should also particularly notice peculiarities of expres sion, and those passages which in point of construction or the siguinon tion of words, are difficult to be understood, or admit of different interpretations; it should also embrace, in connexion with the words, and especially with the proper names, the requisite explanations from mythology, geography, antiquities, and other auxiliary sciences, and thus form, as it were, a repertory of every thing needful for under standing the author. To what extent I have attempted to attain this object, will be seen by noticing the contents of this Lexicon. First, then, it contains all the words found in the Iliad and Odyssey, in the hymns, and other small poems. Secondly, especial attention is paid to the explanation of diflieult passages; and, as far as space permitted, differing views, when existing, have been noticed. Thirdly, it contains all the proper names, accompanied by the necessary mythological and geographical explanations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.