 ... 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.  The Odyssey of Homer - Page 339by Homer - 1879 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1871 - 744 pages
...And the vestibule is full, and the court is full, of ghosts descending into the darkness of Erebus, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist is spread abroad.' 4 And there are many such passages in the Iliad also; as for example in the description... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 662 pages
...And the vestibule is full, and the court is full, of ghosts descending into the darkness of Erebus, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist is spread abroad." 8 And there are many such passages in the Iliad also ; as for example in the description... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pages
...pillars are sprinkled with blood 17. And the porch is full, and full is the court, of ghosts that hasten hellwards beneath the gloom, and the sun has perished...beside himself. Quick, ye young men, and convey him forth out of doors, that he may go to the place of the gathering, since here he finds it dark as night.'... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - Epic poetry, Greek - 1883 - 472 pages
...pillars are sprinkled with blood I7. And the porch is full, and full is the court, of ghosts that hasten hellwards beneath the gloom, and the sun has perished...beside himself. Quick, ye young men, and convey him forth out of doors, that he may go to the place of the gathering, since here he finds it dark as night.'... | |
 | S. H. Butcher, A. Lang - 1883 - 470 pages
...pillars are sprinkled with blood ". And the porch is full, and full is the court, of ghosts that hasten hellwards beneath the gloom, and the sun has perished...to speak to them, saying: ' The guest that is newly ccme from a strange land is beside himself. Quick, ye young men, and convey him forth out of doors,... | |
 | William Ross Hardie - Classical literature - 1903 - 368 pages
...are wet with tears, and the walls and the fair spaces between the pillars are sprinkled with blood. And the porch is full of phantoms and full is the...heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world.' l The vision is seen by the seer alone : he reads to the suitors their impending fate, but they mock... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 490 pages
...porch is full of shadows, and full is the courtyard, of ghosts that hasten hellward below the darkness, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist sweeps up over all." So much for Homer. The first attempt at metrical translation here given is meant... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 472 pages
...porch is full of shadows, and full is the courtyard, of ghosts that hasten hellward below the darkness, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist sweeps up over all." So much for Homer. The first attempt at metrical translation here given is meant... | |
 | John Knight Fotheringham - Astronomy, Ancient - 1921 - 46 pages
...ghosts is the porch and full the court, of ghosts that hasten down to Erebus beneath the darkness, and the Sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist hovers over all.' ' The Sun has perished out of heaven ' ought to mean a total eclipse of the Sun,... | |
 | Samuel Alfred Mitchell - Solar eclipses - 1923 - 574 pages
...ghosts is the porch and full the court, of ghosts that hasten down to Erebus beneath the darkness, and the Sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist hovers over all." According to Fotheringham (loc. cit.), the words, " The Sun has perished out of heaven,"... | |
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