Definition for IL'I-AD

IL'I-AD, n. [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. Cicero.

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