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mēnin, it's wrath, anger.
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the first word in the Iliad is the accusative noun
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I am singing about the wrath,the anger Achilles
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which brought so many men to their doom,
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is what Homer says.
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The first thing is the emotion of an individual man.
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The Odyssey begins even more strikingly
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with the word andra,
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the accusative of anar,the accusative case of a man,
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and he says,sing to me goddess about that man,
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that man of many devices,that clever man Odysseus.
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The Aeneid of Virgil based,