apameibomenos

Updated: May 18, 2025

This being premised, and that every one of the audience, though pretending to no Greek, yet, from his school-boy remembrances, was as well acquainted with these formule as with the scriptural formula of Verily, verily, I say unto you, &c., Sheridan, without needing to break its force by explanations, solemnly opened thus: "Ton d' apameibomenos prosephe Sheridanios heros."

Thomas De Quincey - Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1

Here let the reader understand that, throughout the "Iliad," all speeches or commands, questions or answers, are introduced by Homer under some peculiar formula. For instance, replies are usually introduced thus: "But him answering thus addressed the sovereign Agamemnon;" or; in sonorous Greek: "Ton d' apameibomenos prosephe kreion Agamemnon;"

Thomas De Quincey - Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1