Ilion

Italian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Ilion m

1. (Dantesque) Alternative form of Ilio (“Ilium, Troy”)
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd 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.

     A Poet was I, and I sang that just
     son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy,
     after that Ilion the superb was burned.⁠