Template:RQ:Homer Butler Odyssey

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

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

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original (1st edition, 1900), a translation by Samuel Butler of Homer's work The Odyssey. It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – the name of a chapter other than the main part of the work, for example, |chapter=Preface.
• |1= or |book= – mandatory: the book number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, from |book=I to |book=XXIV.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting from the preface, specify the page number(s) in lowercase Roman numerals. 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=110–111 or |pages=x–xi.
  • 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).

You must specify this information to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
• |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:Homer Butler Odyssey|book=IV|page=41|passage=Look, ], man '''after my own heart''', see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver. Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove. I am lost in admiration.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Homer Butler Odyssey|IV|41|Look, ], man '''after my own heart''', see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver. Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove. I am lost in admiration.}}
• Result:
  • 1900, Homer, “Book IV”, in Samuel Butler, transl., The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original, London: A C. Fifield, →OCLC, page 41:

    Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver. Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove. I am lost in admiration.