Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 4 O monarch Better far had been the fate Of thee, of me, of all the Grecian (late, If (ere the day when by mad pallion fway'd, Rafh we contended for the black ey'd maid) Preventing Dian had difpatch'd her dart, And {hot the {hining mifchief to the heart About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.