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... mighty sire . Then from the heights of Olympus she came glancing down , and she stood in the land of Ithaca , at the entry of the gate of Odysseus , on the threshold of the court- yard , holding in her hand the spear of bronze , in the ...
... mighty sire . Then from the heights of Olympus she came glancing down , and she stood in the land of Ithaca , at the entry of the gate of Odysseus , on the threshold of the court- yard , holding in her hand the spear of bronze , in the ...
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... mighty a man as when first I marked him in our house drinking and making merry what time he came up out of Ephyra from Ilus son of Mermerus ! For even thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seek a deadly drug , that he might ...
... mighty a man as when first I marked him in our house drinking and making merry what time he came up out of Ephyra from Ilus son of Mermerus ! For even thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seek a deadly drug , that he might ...
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... mighty man her father , and her kinsfolk will furnish a wedding feast , and array the gifts of wooing exceeding many , all that should go back with a daughter dearly be- loved 5. And to thyself I will give a word of wise counsel , if so ...
... mighty man her father , and her kinsfolk will furnish a wedding feast , and array the gifts of wooing exceeding many , all that should go back with a daughter dearly be- loved 5. And to thyself I will give a word of wise counsel , if so ...
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... mighty web , fine of woof and very wide , whereat she would weave , and anon she spake among us : " Ye princely youths , my wooers , now that the goodly Odysseus is dead , do ye abide patiently , how eager soever to speed on this ...
... mighty web , fine of woof and very wide , whereat she would weave , and anon she spake among us : " Ye princely youths , my wooers , now that the goodly Odysseus is dead , do ye abide patiently , how eager soever to speed on this ...
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... mighty woe is rolling upon . them . For Odysseus shall not long be away from his friends , nay , even now , it may be , he is sowing the seeds of death and fate for these men , every one ; and he will be a bane to many another likewise ...
... mighty woe is rolling upon . them . For Odysseus shall not long be away from his friends , nay , even now , it may be , he is sowing the seeds of death and fate for these men , every one ; and he will be a bane to many another likewise ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous anon Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship cast chamber Circe daughter of Zeus dear death deathless gods decked ship deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts give goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Howbeit Icarius Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh patient goodly Odysseus Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned rich in counsel saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit stood straightway stranger sweet swift ship swine swineherd Teiresias tell thee thereof Therewith thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself took twain verily voice wandering Wherefore wife wind wine winged words wise Penelope wise Telemachus answered wooers Zeus
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Page 184 - ... aforetime in his supple limbs. "At the sight of him I wept and was moved with compassion, and uttering my voice, spake to him winged words: 'Most renowned son of Atreus, Agamemnon, king of men, say what doom overcame thee of death that lays men at their length? Did Poseidon smite thee in thy ships...
Page 339 - ... ye suffer? Shrouded in night are your heads and your faces and your knees, and kindled is the voice of wailing, and all cheeks are wet with tears, and the walls and the fair main-beams of the roof are sprinkled with blood.
Page 190 - Moreover I beheld Tantalus in grievous torment, standing in a mere and the water came nigh unto his chin. And he stood straining as one athirst, but he might not attain to the water to drink of it. For often as that old man stooped down in his eagerness to drink, so often the water was swallowed up and it vanished away, and the black earth still showed at his feet, for some god parched it evermore.
Page 66 - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
Page 316 - There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair land and a rich, begirt with water, and therein are many men innumerable, and ninety cities.
Page 91 - So he crept beneath twin bushes that grew from one stem, both olive trees, one of them wild olive. Through these the force of the wet winds blew never, neither did the bright sun light on it with his rays, nor could the rain pierce through, so close were they twined either to other; and thereunder crept Odysseus...
Page 237 - Calypso, the fair goddess, spake first and said : ' Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, so it is indeed thy wish to get thee home to thine own dear country even in this hour?
Page 50 - And they stretched forth their hands upon the good cheer set before them. Now when they had put from them the desire of meat and drink...
Page 2 - Lo you now, how vainly mortal men do blame the gods! For of us they say comes evil, whereas they even of themselves, through the blindness of their own hearts, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
Page 88 - ... vaulted from the crest, and therewith smote him. And as when a great tempestuous wind tosseth a heap of parched husks, and scatters them this way and that, even so did the wave scatter the long beams of the raft. But Odysseus bestrode a single beam, as one rideth on a courser, and stript him of the garments which fair Calypso gave him. And presently he wound the veil beneath his breast, and fell prone into the sea, outstretching his hands as one eager to swim. And the lord, the shaker of the...