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Webster 1913 Edition

Iliad

Il′i-ad

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Noun.
[L.
Ilias
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-adis
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK] (sc. [GREEK]), fr. [GREEK], [GREEK], Ilium, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, which is a poetical name of Troy.]
A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Iliad

IL'IAD

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Noun.
[from Ilium, Ilion, Troy.] An epic poem, composed by Homer, in twenty four books. The subject of this poem is the wrath of Achilles; in describing which,the poet exhibits the miserable effects of disunion and public dissensions. Hence the phrase, Ilias malorum, an Iliad of woes or calamities, a world of disasters.

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