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... Icarius , wise Penelope , caught the glorious strain , and she went down the high stairs from her chamber , not alone , for two of her handmaids bare her com- pany . Now when the fair lady had come unto the wooers , she stood by the ...
... Icarius , wise Penelope , caught the glorious strain , and she went down the high stairs from her chamber , not alone , for two of her handmaids bare her com- pany . Now when the fair lady had come unto the wooers , she stood by the ...
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... Icarius , that he may himself set the bride- price 5 for his daughter , and bestow her on whom he will , even on him who finds favour in his sight . But they resorting to our house day by day sacrifice oxen and sheep and fat goats , and ...
... Icarius , that he may himself set the bride- price 5 for his daughter , and bestow her on whom he will , even on him who finds favour in his sight . But they resorting to our house day by day sacrifice oxen and sheep and fat goats , and ...
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... Icarius , as needs I must , if of mine own will I send my mother away . For I shall have evil at his hand , at the hand of her father , and some god will give me more be- sides , for my mother will call down the dire Avengers as she ...
... Icarius , as needs I must , if of mine own will I send my mother away . For I shall have evil at his hand , at the hand of her father , and some god will give me more be- sides , for my mother will call down the dire Avengers as she ...
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... Icarius , whom Eumelus wedded , whose dwelling was in Pherae . And she sent it to the house of divine Odysseus to bid Penelope , amid her sorrow and lamenting , to cease from her weeping and tearful lamentation . So the phantom . passed ...
... Icarius , whom Eumelus wedded , whose dwelling was in Pherae . And she sent it to the house of divine Odysseus to bid Penelope , amid her sorrow and lamenting , to cease from her weeping and tearful lamentation . So the phantom . passed ...
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... Icarius started up from sleep , and her heart . was cheered , so clear was the vision that sped toward her in the dead of the night . Meanwhile the wooers had taken ship and were sailing over the wet ways , pondering in their hearts ...
... Icarius started up from sleep , and her heart . was cheered , so clear was the vision that sped toward her in the dead of the night . Meanwhile the wooers had taken ship and were sailing over the wet ways , pondering in their hearts ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship Calypso cast chamber Circe counsels answered dear death deathless gods decked ships deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slain slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit steadfast goodly Odysseus 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 iii - As one that for a weary space has lain Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine In gardens near the pale of Proserpine, Where that ^Easan isle forgets the main, And only the low lutes of love complain, And only shadows of wan lovers pine, As such an one were glad to know the brine Salt on his lips, and the large air again...
Page 1 - TELL me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy, and many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt...
Page 339 - Erebus, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist is spread abroad.
Page 217 - Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, an evil doom of some god was my bane and wine out of measure. When I laid me down on the house-top of Circe I minded me not to descend again by the way of the tall ladder, but fell right down from the roof, and my neck was broken off from the bones of the...
Page 172 - Cimmerians, shrouded in mist and cloud, and never does the shining sun look down on them with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when again he turns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals.
Page 235 - 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 173 - I took the sheep and cut their throats over the trench, and the dark blood flowed forth, and lo, the spirits of the dead that be departed gathered them from out of Erebus. Brides and youths unwed, and old men of many and evil days, and tender maidens with grief yet fresh at heart; and many there were, wounded with bronze-shod spears, men slain in fight with their bloody mail about them.
Page 314 - 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 66 - Therewith she dived beneath the heaving sea, but I betook me to the ships where they stood in the sand, and my heart was darkly troubled as I went. But after I had come down to the ship and to the sea, and we had made ready our supper and immortal night had come on, then did we lay us to rest upon the sea-beach. So soon as early Dawn shone forth, the rosy-fingered...
Page 92 - Athene, devising a return for the great-hearted Odysseus. She betook her to the rich-wrought bower, wherein was sleeping a maiden like to the gods in form and comeliness, Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, high of heart. Beside her on either hand of the pillars of the door were two handmaids, dowered with beauty from the Graces, and the shining doors were shut. But the goddess, fleet as...