Citations:ῥοδοδάκτυλος
Ancient Greek citations of ῥοδοδάκτυλος (rhododáktulos)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.109–110:
- μυρομένοισι δὲ τοῖσι φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠὼς
ἀμφὶ νέκυν ἐλεεινόν.- muroménoisi dè toîsi phánē rhododáktulos Ēṑs
amphì nékun eleeinón. - and rosy-fingered Dawn appeared to them as they wept
around the forlorn body.
- muroménoisi dè toîsi phánē rhododáktulos Ēṑs
- μυρομένοισι δὲ τοῖσι φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠὼς
The line ἦμος δ' ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς ("When rosy-fingered Dawn appeared early-born") appears twice in the Iliad and 20 times in the Odyssey: Iliad 1.477 24.788; Odyssey 2.1, 3.404, 3.491, 4.306, 4.431, 4.576, 5.228, 8.1, 9.152, 9.170, 9.307, 9.437, 9.560, 10.187, 12.8, 12.316, 13.18, 15.189, 17.1, 19.428.