[lojban] Re: Iliad -- Belated

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> The anger is a song you sing, Oh Goddess, the anger of the son of
> Peleus, Achilles, which destroyed and put the pain of many thousand
> Axaio? and soon sent to hades the ghosts of many knights? but became one
> himself from the treasure of the dog and all bird meat?.  

You're ignoring the imperative.  

prenraxai,o = Akhaiwoi/Akhaians/Achaeans/Greeks.

> A song you sing really begins with the first seperation and argument of
> Atreus' son, king of all men, and Achilles, who is like a god.

Again you missed the imperative.

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