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... head do I long for in constant memory , namely , that man whose fame is noised abroad from Hellas to mid Argos . ' Then wise Telemachus answered her , and said : ' O my mother , why then dost thou grudge the sweet minstrel to gladden us ...
... head do I long for in constant memory , namely , that man whose fame is noised abroad from Hellas to mid Argos . ' Then wise Telemachus answered her , and said : ' O my mother , why then dost thou grudge the sweet minstrel to gladden us ...
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... of the 1st pers . pl . like our royal plural , cf. B. xvi . 44 , Il . vii . 190 . + Or , lest they bring your evil deeds in wrath on your own heads . She gives hope to all , and sends them messages 18 ODYSSEY II , 58-87 .
... of the 1st pers . pl . like our royal plural , cf. B. xvi . 44 , Il . vii . 190 . + Or , lest they bring your evil deeds in wrath on your own heads . She gives hope to all , and sends them messages 18 ODYSSEY II , 58-87 .
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... heads of all , and destruction was in their gaze . Then tore they with their talons each the other's cheeks and neck on every side , and so sped to the right across the dwellings and the city of the people . And the men marvelled at the ...
... heads of all , and destruction was in their gaze . Then tore they with their talons each the other's cheeks and neck on every side , and so sped to the right across the dwellings and the city of the people . And the men marvelled at the ...
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... heads they violently devour the household of Odysseus , and say of him that he will come no more again . But I am indeed wroth with the rest of the people , to see how ye all sit thus speechless , and do not cry shame upon the wooers ...
... heads they violently devour the household of Odysseus , and say of him that he will come no more again . But I am indeed wroth with the rest of the people , to see how ye all sit thus speechless , and do not cry shame upon the wooers ...
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... head of the victim . Now when they had prayed and tossed the sprinkled grain , straightway the son of Nestor , gallant Thrasymedes , stood by and struck the blow ; and the axe severed the ten- dons of the neck and loosened the might of ...
... head of the victim . Now when they had prayed and tossed the sprinkled grain , straightway the son of Nestor , gallant Thrasymedes , stood by and struck the blow ; and the axe severed the ten- dons of the neck and loosened the might of ...
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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...