Literary Record Details

Author: HOMERUS Epic.

Opus: Ilias
Reference: Hom.Il.3.316

Period: Archaic

Genre: poetry
Subgenre: epic
Object:
Gender: m
Context: military

Greek Text: κλήρους ἐν κυνέῃ χαλκήρεϊ πάλλον ἑλόντες, ὁππότερος δὴ πρόσθεν ἀφείη χάλκεον ἔγχος

English Text: and thereafter took the lots and shook them in the bronze-wrought helmet, to know which of the twain should first let fly his spear of bronze.

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Kleros 484, Hom.Il.3.316
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