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... ship of Noëmon , famous son of Phronius , and right gladly he promised it . Now the sun sank and all the ways were darkened . Then at length she let drag the swift ship to the sea and stored within it all such tackling as decked ships ...
... ship of Noëmon , famous son of Phronius , and right gladly he promised it . Now the sun sank and all the ways were darkened . Then at length she let drag the swift ship to the sea and stored within it all such tackling as decked ships ...
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... decked ship , according to the word of the dear son of Odysseus . Then Telemachus climbed the ship , and Athene went before him , and behold , she sat her down in the stern , and near her sat Telemachus . And the men loosed the hawsers ...
... decked ship , according to the word of the dear son of Odysseus . Then Telemachus climbed the ship , and Athene went before him , and behold , she sat her down in the stern , and near her sat Telemachus . And the men loosed the hawsers ...
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... decked ships and sailed away , while those others , the fellowship of renowned Odysseus , were now seated in the assembly - place of the Trojans , all hidden in the horse , for the Trojans themselves had dragged him to the citadel . So ...
... decked ships and sailed away , while those others , the fellowship of renowned Odysseus , were now seated in the assembly - place of the Trojans , all hidden in the horse , for the Trojans themselves had dragged him to the citadel . So ...
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... ships , nor did the moon show her light from heaven , but was shut in with clouds . No man then beheld that island , neither saw we the long waves rolling to the beach , till we had run our decked ships ashore . And when our ships were ...
... ships , nor did the moon show her light from heaven , but was shut in with clouds . No man then beheld that island , neither saw we the long waves rolling to the beach , till we had run our decked ships ashore . And when our ships were ...
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... ship , and all but struck the end of the rud- der . And the sea heaved beneath the fall of the rock , but the wave bare on the ship and drave it to the further shore . ' But when we had now reached that island , where all our other decked ...
... ship , and all but struck the end of the rud- der . And the sea heaved beneath the fall of the rock , but the wave bare on the ship and drave it to the further shore . ' But when we had now reached that island , where all our other decked ...
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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...