Excerpt from The Wrath of Achilleus: Translated From the Iliad Into Quantitative Hexameters There have been many attempts to write Englisi verse in quantity but none to my knowledge has achieved popular success or diminished the reju dice which is naturally felt against any tampering with the estab 'shed metrical system. Such attempts seem to imply disparagement of a prosody which contented the great octs of the ast. I therefore feel it due both to my reader and to myself that I shou d define my own position in this matter, point out the exact object at which I aim and explain the method by which I endeavour to reach it. 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.