Template:RQ:Cowper Homer

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Cowper Homer/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote William Cowper's work The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (1st edition, 1791, 2 volumes). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• Volume I (The Iliad).
• Volume II (The Odyssey).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |volume= – mandatory: the volume number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either |volume=I or |volume=II.
• |2= or |book= – mandatory: the book of the Iliad or Odyssey quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |3= or |page=; or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the part of the work quoted from, and to link to an online version of the work.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Cowper Homer|volume=I|book=XVII|lines=913–918|page=481|passage=They, as a cloud of ſtarlings or of davvs / Fly ſcreaming ſhrill, vvarn'd timely of the kite / Or havvk, devourers of the ſmaller kinds, / So they '''ſhrill'''—clamouring tovvard the fleet, / Haſted before Æneas and the might / Of Hector, nor the battle heeded more.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Cowper Homer|I|XVII|lines=913–918|481|They, as a cloud of ſtarlings or of davvs / Fly ſcreaming ſhrill, vvarn'd timely of the kite / Or havvk, devourers of the ſmaller kinds, / So they '''ſhrill'''—clamouring tovvard the fleet, / Haſted before Æneas and the might / Of Hector, nor the battle heeded more.}}
• Result:
  • 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XVII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume I, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 481, lines 913–918:

    They, as a cloud of ſtarlings or of davvs / Fly ſcreaming ſhrill, vvarn'd timely of the kite / Or havvk, devourers of the ſmaller kinds, / So they ſhrill—clamouring tovvard the fleet, / Haſted before Æneas and the might / Of Hector, nor the battle heeded more.