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216 ordered sequences. English paraphrases, references, and textual uncertainties.

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Homeromanteion · Maltomini 1995
RollReferenceEnglish paraphrase
1–1–1Iliad 24.369
identified		Defend against someone who first acts with hostility.
1–1–2Iliad 5.124
identified		Diomedes, take courage now and fight the Trojans.
1–1–3Iliad 10.401
identified		Your heart was reaching for magnificent gifts.
1–1–4Iliad 8.176
identified		Victory and great glory for one side, suffering for the Danaans.
1–1–5Iliad 8.154
identified		The Trojans and Dardanians will not believe it.
1–1–6Iliad 1.524
identified		I will nod my head so that you can trust my promise.
1–2–1Iliad 8.414
identified		The son of Cronus does not permit aid to the Argives.
1–2–2Iliad 10.324
identified		I will be a reliable scout for you, worthy of your expectations.
1–2–3Iliad 10.159
identified		Wake, son of Tydeus; why sleep through the whole night?
1–2–4Odyssey 4.801
identified		May the weeping and tearful lamentation cease.
1–2–5Odyssey 1.216
identified		I do not know: no one knows their parentage for themselves.
1–2–6Iliad 24.92
identified		I will go; the word I speak will not be empty.

The oracle changes the Homeric wording to “whatever I say.”

1–3–1Iliad 21.111
identified		It will come at dawn, at evening, or at midday.
1–3–2Iliad 2.247
identified		Restrain yourself; do not contend alone with kings.
1–3–3Iliad 5.256
identified		I will face them; Pallas Athena will not let me retreat.
1–3–4Iliad 9.378
identified		His gifts are hateful to me; I value him at nothing.
1–3–5Iliad 9.482
identified		An only, cherished child, heir to abundant possessions.
1–3–6Odyssey 17.217
identified		Now one scoundrel leads another.
1–4–1Iliad 3.41
identified		I would wish for that; it would be far better.
1–4–2Odyssey 17.244
identified		He would scatter all your splendid display.
1–4–3Iliad 22.512
identified		I will burn all these things in a blazing fire.
1–4–4Iliad 9.386
identified		Even then Agamemnon would not persuade my heart.
1–4–5Odyssey 17.66
identified		They spoke kindly while planning harm within.
1–4–6Iliad 3.65
identified		The glorious gifts of the gods should not be rejected.
1–5–1Odyssey 18.406
identified		You are behaving madly and no longer concealing it.
1–5–2Odyssey 14.162
identified		As this month wanes and the next begins.
1–5–3No secure Homeric reference
uncertain		The surviving words suggest that something will not help you.

Fragmentary: Iliad 11.387 or 3.54; only the shared opening is paraphrased.

1–5–4Odyssey 18.416
identified		Do not mistreat the stranger or anyone else.
1–5–5Iliad 2.298
identified		It is shameful to stay so long and return empty-handed.
1–5–6Iliad 6.432
identified		Do not leave your child fatherless and your wife widowed.
1–6–1Iliad 21.223
identified		Scamander, it will be as you command.
1–6–2Iliad 3.51
identified		Joy for your enemies, humiliation for yourself.
1–6–3Odyssey 14.161
identified		Within this very year Odysseus will come here.
1–6–4Iliad 22.513
identified		They are no use to you, since you will not lie wrapped in them.
1–6–5Iliad 3.255
identified		The victor will take the woman and the possessions.
1–6–6Iliad 2.204
identified		Many competing rulers are no good; let there be one leader.
2–1–1Odyssey 20.355
identified		The entrance and the courtyard are filled with ghosts.
2–1–2Iliad 22.393
identified		We have won great glory: we have killed Hector.
2–1–3Odyssey 14.66
identified		The work I attend to continues to prosper.
2–1–4Iliad 9.385
identified		Not even gifts as countless as sand and dust.
2–1–5No secure Homeric reference
uncertain		No secure reading can be supplied.

Fragment survives but has not been identified with a Homeric verse in this edition.

2–1–6No secure Homeric reference
uncertain		Only a formula about speaking in prayer can be identified.

Formula shared by several verses; no unique Homeric reference can be assigned.

2–2–1Iliad 7.279
identified		Dear sons, stop fighting and making war on one another.
2–2–2No secure Homeric reference
uncertain		No secure reading can be supplied.

Fragment survives but has not been identified with a Homeric verse in this edition.

2–2–3No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–2–4No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–2–5No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–2–6No secure Homeric reference
uncertain		No secure reading can be supplied.

Only a fragment survives; no secure verse identification.

2–3–1Odyssey 1.302
identified		Be courageous, so later generations will speak well of you.
2–3–2Iliad 11.371
identified		Leaning against a human-made memorial on a burial mound.
2–3–3Iliad 9.43
identified		Go: the road is open and your ships are near the sea.
2–3–4Iliad 19.107
identified		You will prove false and fail to fulfill your word.
2–3–5Iliad 22.79
identified		His mother mourned on the other side, shedding tears.
2–3–6Odyssey 3.115
identified		Not even if you stayed for five or six years.
2–4–1Iliad 5.899
identified		He ordered Paeon to heal him.
2–4–2Odyssey 11.80
identified		Unfortunate one, I will do these things for you.
2–4–3Iliad 4.26
identified		Why would you make this labor fruitless and unfinished?
2–4–4Iliad 2.325
identified		Late to arrive and late to be fulfilled, but never forgotten.
2–4–5Odyssey 3.117
identified		Before then, you would grow weary and return home.
2–4–6Odyssey 2.329
identified		To go there and bring back deadly drugs.
2–5–1Iliad 24.725
identified		Husband, you died young and left me a widow.
2–5–2Iliad 9.310 (tentative)
uncertain		What I will bring about, and how it will be accomplished.

Tentative identification with Iliad 9.310; the opening differs from the usual Homeric text.

2–5–3Iliad 6.264
identified		Honored mother, do not offer me honey-sweet wine.
2–5–4No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–5–5No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–5–6No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–6–1No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–6–2No secure Homeric reference
missing		The verse is lost.

The verse at this position is lost in the edition used here. No replacement has been supplied.

2–6–3Odyssey 4.685
identified		May this be the last meal they eat here.
2–6–4Iliad 2.24
identified		A person entrusted with counsel should not sleep all night.
2–6–5Iliad 6.326
identified		Why have you taken this anger into your heart?
2–6–6Odyssey 3.216
identified		Who knows whether he will return and punish their violence?
3–1–1Odyssey 21.214
identified		I will provide both of you with wives and possessions.
3–1–2Odyssey 21.180
identified		Let us try the bow and complete the contest.
3–1–3Iliad 14.80
identified		There is no shame in escaping danger, even by night.
3–1–4Iliad 22.268
identified		Recall every kind of courage; now you need it.
3–1–5Iliad 22.484
identified		A widow in the house, with a child still very young.
3–1–6Iliad 18.134
identified		Do not enter the turmoil of battle.
3–2–1Odyssey 19.360
identified		Misfortune makes mortals age quickly.
3–2–2Odyssey 6.201
identified		No such mortal lives or will ever be born.
3–2–3Iliad 18.128
identified		Yes, my child, there is truly nothing wrong with that.
3–2–4Iliad 22.219
identified		Now he can no longer escape us.
3–2–5Iliad 22.50
identified		We can buy freedom with bronze and gold stored within.
3–2–6Odyssey 21.310
identified		Drink, and do not compete with younger men.
3–3–1Iliad 8.94
identified		Where are you fleeing, turning your back in the crowd?
3–3–2Odyssey 6.244
identified		If only such a man could be called my husband.
3–3–3Iliad 4.443
identified		Her head reaches heaven while her feet walk the earth.
3–3–4Iliad 18.328
identified		Zeus does not fulfill every human intention.
3–3–5Iliad 8.246
identified		He assented that the people should survive rather than perish.
3–3–6Iliad 9.698
identified		You should not have pleaded with the noble son of Peleus.
3–4–1Odyssey 21.293
identified		Sweet wine is overcoming you, as it does others.
3–4–2Iliad 22.185
identified		Act as your mind inclines; hold back no longer.
3–4–3Iliad 18.329
identified		Both are destined to redden the same earth.
3–4–4Iliad 8.282
identified		Keep shooting like that; you may become a light for the Danaans.
3–4–5Iliad 22.348
identified		No one could keep the dogs from your head.
3–4–6Iliad 22.13
identified		You will not kill me; death by your hand is not my destiny.
3–5–1Odyssey 5.208
identified		Stay here with me and watch over this house.
3–5–2Odyssey 18.10
identified		Leave the doorway, old man, or you may be dragged away.
3–5–3Iliad 14.81
identified		It is better to escape danger than be caught.
3–5–4Odyssey 13.308
identified		Reveal it to no one, man or woman.
3–5–5Iliad 11.69
identified		Wheat or barley: the sheaves fall thickly.
3–5–6Iliad 20.250
identified		The kind of words you speak will be the kind you hear.
3–6–1Iliad 11.125
identified		He would not allow Helen to be given back to Menelaus.
3–6–2Iliad 15.203
identified		Will you reconsider? Good minds can change.
3–6–3Odyssey 13.339
identified		I never doubted it in my heart.
3–6–4Odyssey 21.257
identified		Eurymachus, it will not happen that way; you know it yourself.
3–6–5Odyssey 21.288
identified		Unhappy stranger, you have scarcely any sense.
3–6–6Iliad 16.250
identified		The father granted one request and refused the other.
4–1–1Iliad 6.490
identified		Return home and attend to your own work.
4–1–2Odyssey 8.548 (tentative)
uncertain		Do not tell these things to your wife.

Possible combination of Odyssey 8.548 and 11.224, rather than one unchanged Homeric verse.

4–1–3Iliad 3.57
identified		You would wear a garment of stone for the wrongs you have done.
4–1–4Odyssey 18.176
identified		You prayed to see him grow a beard, by the immortals.
4–1–5Iliad 4.101
identified		Pray to Apollo, famed for his bow.
4–1–6Iliad 22.263
identified		Wolves and lambs do not share a common purpose.
4–2–1Iliad 4.62
identified		Let us yield to each other in these matters.
4–2–2Iliad 18.535
identified		Strife, tumult, and destructive fate moved among them.
4–2–3Odyssey 11.366
identified		Inventing falsehoods about things no one could witness.
4–2–4Iliad 14.62
identified		Consider what thought can accomplish; I do not urge battle.
4–2–5Odyssey 12.120
identified		There is no defense; fleeing her is best.
4–2–6Iliad 21.474
identified		Foolish one, why hold your bow to no purpose?
4–3–1Iliad 24.602
identified		Even Niobe remembered to eat.
4–3–2Odyssey 5.38
identified		Giving abundant bronze, gold, and clothing.
4–3–3Odyssey 2.273
identified		Your journey will not be empty or unfulfilled.
4–3–4Iliad 12.243
identified		The best omen is to defend one's homeland.
4–3–5Iliad 10.294
identified		I will sacrifice her to you with gold poured around her horns.
4–3–6Iliad 4.95
identified		You would win favor and glory among all the Trojans.
4–4–1Odyssey 11.456
identified		Bring your ship in secretly; the speaker distrusts women.

The distrust voiced here belongs to a character in the poem; it is not guidance about women.

4–4–2Iliad 14.212
identified		I cannot, and ought not, refuse your request.
4–4–3Iliad 15.52
identified		He would quickly change his mind to accord with ours.
4–4–4Iliad 11.789
identified		Give him advice; he will listen if it is for the good.
4–4–5Iliad 5.654
identified		Glory for me, and a soul for Hades.
4–4–6Iliad 9.137
identified		To load a ship with plentiful gold and bronze.
4–5–1Odyssey 11.443
identified		Tell part of it, and keep part concealed.
4–5–2Iliad 10.71
identified		Zeus laid heavy suffering on us at birth.
4–5–3Odyssey 10.495
identified		He alone has understanding; the others flit about as shadows.
4–5–4Iliad 9.598
identified		He yielded to his own heart, but the gifts were no longer given.
4–5–5Iliad 19.185
identified		Son of Laertes, I am glad to hear your words.
4–5–6Iliad 20.242
identified		Zeus increases and diminishes human prowess.
4–6–1Iliad 11.654
identified		A formidable man: he might blame even the innocent.
4–6–2Iliad 2.66
identified		With all your forces: now you could take the broad-streeted city.
4–6–3Odyssey 20.18
identified		Endure, my heart; you have endured worse before.
4–6–4Iliad 2.200
identified		Sit quietly and listen to what others say.
4–6–5Iliad 16.282
identified		Put aside anger and choose friendship.
4–6–6Odyssey 3.196
identified		It is good to leave a child behind after death.
5–1–1Odyssey 5.346
identified		Stretch this veil beneath your chest.
5–1–2Odyssey 22.412
identified		It is impious to boast over the dead.
5–1–3Iliad 24.363
identified		Through the divine night, while other mortals sleep.
5–1–4Iliad 10.243
identified		How could I forget godlike Odysseus?
5–1–5Iliad 5.83
identified		Dark death and powerful fate took hold of him.
5–1–6Odyssey 11.427
identified		The speaker declares that nothing is more terrible or shameless than a woman.

This hostile generalization belongs to a character in the poem; it is not endorsed as guidance.

5–2–1Iliad 12.216
identified		Let us not go to fight the Danaans beside their ships.
5–2–2Iliad 24.369
identified		Defend against someone who first acts with hostility.
5–2–3Iliad 5.408
identified		His children will not call him father at his knees.
5–2–4Odyssey 21.207
identified		Here I am, inside the house, after much suffering.
5–2–5Iliad 5.218
identified		Do not speak that way; it will not be otherwise until then.
5–2–6Iliad 19.189
identified		Let him wait here for a while, however eager for battle.
5–3–1Iliad 16.91
identified		Do not become carried away by warfare and destruction.
5–3–2Iliad 9.133
identified		Never to have entered her bed or lain with her.
5–3–3Iliad 22.495
identified		He moistened the lips, but not the palate.
5–3–4Iliad 18.463
identified		Take courage; do not let these things trouble your mind.
5–3–5Iliad 8.299
identified		I cannot strike this raging dog.
5–3–6Iliad 4.412
identified		Friend, sit silently and listen to my words.
5–4–1Odyssey 8.329
identified		Wrongdoing does not prosper; the slow can catch the swift.
5–4–2Odyssey 21.236
identified		They shut the firmly fitted doors of the hall.
5–4–3Iliad 17.201
identified		Unhappy man, death is not even in your thoughts.
5–4–4Odyssey 23.7
identified		Odysseus has returned home, though he was long delayed.
5–4–5Iliad 4.161
identified		He brings it to fulfillment even late, and exacts a heavy payment.
5–4–6Iliad 5.740
identified		Strife, strength, and chilling pursuit were there.
5–5–1Odyssey 12.342
identified		To die miserably of pestilence and meet one's fate.

The oracle reads pestilence; the usual Odyssey text reads hunger.

5–5–2Iliad 18.121
identified		I will lie still when dead; now let me win worthy glory.
5–5–3Iliad 4.264
identified		Rise to battle and be the person you claim to be.
5–5–4Odyssey 23.26 (tentative)
uncertain		Dear child, I am not mocking or deceiving you.

The opening resembles Odyssey 23.26; the restored ending is not standard Homeric wording.

5–5–5Iliad 19.119
identified		She stopped Alcmene's labor and held back the birth-goddesses.
5–5–6Iliad 4.362
identified		Go on; afterward we can set right whatever is wrong now.
5–6–1Iliad 8.413
identified		Where are you two rushing? What madness stirs your hearts?
5–6–2Odyssey 13.421
identified		Do not let him weigh too heavily on your mind.
5–6–3Iliad 4.320
identified		The gods have not given mortals everything at once.
5–6–4Iliad 5.218
identified		Do not speak that way; it will not be otherwise until then.
5–6–5Iliad 12.173
identified		He spoke, but his words did not persuade Zeus.
5–6–6Odyssey 21.129
identified		Odysseus signaled refusal and checked his eagerness.
6–1–1Iliad 24.203
identified		How can you wish to go alone to the Achaeans' ships?
6–1–2Odyssey 7.65
identified		A bridegroom who left an only daughter in the house.
6–1–3Iliad 5.127
identified		I have removed the mist that previously covered your eyes.
6–1–4Odyssey 21.180
identified		Let us try the bow and complete the contest.
6–1–5Odyssey 21.209
identified		I know that I have come to people who longed for me.
6–1–6Odyssey 16.79
identified		I will clothe him in a fine cloak and tunic.
6–2–1Odyssey 11.278
identified		Fastening a high-hung noose from the roof-beam.

A fragment of a tragic narrative, not an instruction or prediction.

6–2–2Odyssey 8.244
identified		Remembering our skill and what we are like.
6–2–3Odyssey 7.35
identified		They cross the great sea, with power granted by Poseidon.
6–2–4Odyssey 21.369
identified		Carry the bow forward; you will not please everyone by obeying them.
6–2–5Iliad 19.139
identified		Rise to battle and rouse the other people too.
6–2–6Iliad 18.117
identified		Even mighty Heracles did not escape death.
6–3–1Iliad 9.120
identified		I wish to make amends and give abundant compensation.
6–3–2Iliad 19.175
identified		Let him stand among the Argives and swear an oath to you.
6–3–3Iliad 14.110
identified		The man is nearby; we need not search long, if you agree.
6–3–4Odyssey 21.196
identified		Not even if a god himself should bring him unexpectedly.
6–3–5Iliad 14.53
identified		These things are already prepared; it cannot be otherwise.
6–3–6Iliad 12.412
identified		Come along together; work is better with more hands.
6–4–1Iliad 7.360
identified		The gods themselves have surely ruined your judgment.
6–4–2Iliad 10.383
identified		Take courage; do not dwell on death.
6–4–3Iliad 5.413
identified		Waking the household from sleep with lamentation.
6–4–4Odyssey 7.30
identified		Go in silence like this; I will lead the way.
6–4–5Iliad 15.129
identified		You have ears to hear, but understanding and restraint are gone.
6–4–6Iliad 17.197
identified		He grew old, but the son did not grow old in his father's armor.
6–5–1Odyssey 3.233
identified		To come home and see the day of return.
6–5–2Odyssey 7.64
identified		Apollo of the silver bow struck him before he had a son.
6–5–3Odyssey 7.76
identified		Then there is hope of reaching and seeing your loved ones.
6–5–4Odyssey 21.212
identified		I will tell you both truthfully how things will be.
6–5–5Iliad 1.212
identified		I will say this, and it will be brought to pass.
6–5–6Odyssey 16.81
identified		I will send him wherever his heart directs.
6–6–1Odyssey 21.363
identified		Wanderer, the swift dogs may soon devour you among the pigs.
6–6–2Odyssey 20.237
identified		You would learn the strength and service of my hands.
6–6–3Odyssey 21.322
identified		I do not think he will take you away with him, nor would it be fitting.
6–6–4Odyssey 21.156
identified		We gather here, waiting day after day.
6–6–5Iliad 1.542
identified		Making decisions with secret thoughts, without telling me.
6–6–6Iliad 10.447
identified		Dolon, do not put thoughts of escape into my mind.

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