Ĭl'i-ad, n.

n. [Lat. Iliās, genitive -ădis, Gr. Ἰλιάς, Ἰλιάδος (sc. ποίησις), from Ἴλιος, Ἴλιον, Lat. Ilium, Ilion, the city of Ilus, a son of Tros, founder of Ilium, a poetical name for Troy.] An epic poem, composed by Homer, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy; hence the phrase Ilias malorum, an Iliad of woes or calamities, a world of disasters.