Ilion

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴ̄λιον (Í̄lion, “Ilium, Troy”).

Proper noun

Ilion m

  1. (Dantesque) alternative form of Ilio (“Ilium, Troy”)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto / figliuol d’Anchise che venne di Troia, / poi che ’l superbo Ilïón fu combusto.
      I was a poet, and I sang of that just son of Anchises, who came from Troy after haughty Ilium was burned.⁠
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