kreion

Updated: May 19, 2025

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