...ship, lightly passing us by : who may behold a god against his will, whether going to or fro?' BOOK XI. Odysseus, his descent into hell, and discourses with...came to the place which Circe had declared to us. 4 There Perimedes and Eurylochus held the victims, but I drew my sharp sword from my thigh, and dug...

...sun look down on them with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when he again turns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night...and ran the ship ashore and took out the sheep ; but as for us we held on our way along the stream of Oceanus, till we came to the place which Circe had...

...wake of our dark-prowed ship she sent a favouring wind that filled the sails, a kindly escort,—even Circe of the braided tresses, a dread goddess of human...the place which Circe had declared to us. ' There Perimecles and Eurylochus held the victims, but I drew my sharp sword from my thigh, and dug a pit,...

...in the likeness of the shrill bird that on the mountains the gods call chalkis, but men kymindis."* "She came to the limits of the world, to the deep-flowing...deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals. "f *' Iliad ' (LANG, LEAP, and MYERS* translation), 14 : 234-291. f Odyssey ' (BUTCHER and LANG'S translation),...

...Cimmerians, swathed in mist and in cloud ; and the shining sun never looks down on them with his beams, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when again he turns from the heaven earthward : but over miserable mortals is spread out fatal night.' 1. 1 2. yclept,...

...described in the Odyssey, among other memories of a barbaric past, as the land where the Cimmerians dwell " shrouded in mist and cloud, and never does the shining...deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals." it Yet the Greeks were moderns as compared with their Eastern neighbours. When, in the sixth century...

...sun look down on them with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when he again turns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals'." The same conception is expressed in a modified form, though still only approximating to the reality,...

...sun look down on them with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when he again turns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals1." The same conception is expressed in a modified form, though still only approximating to...

...sun never looks down with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heaven nor when he returns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals " ? l By six o'clock next morning (Aug. 16), we were entering Horn Sound, not for the purpose of retrieving...

...epithet for rocks ; cf. Isaiah ii. 21, TG of V. i. 2. 121, etc. 1 10. Cimmerian desert. " She [the ship] came to the limits of the world, to the deep-flowing...deadly night is outspread over miserable mortals." — Odvssey xi. 13-19 (Butcher and Lang). They were " known afterwards as a historical people, figuring...