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... Nestor the divine , To Sparta thence , where Menelaüs dwells ; 285 For he return'd the last of brass - mail'd Greeks : Shouldst thou hear that he lives and may return , Then bear with them , though harass'd , one year more ! But should ...
... Nestor the divine , To Sparta thence , where Menelaüs dwells ; 285 For he return'd the last of brass - mail'd Greeks : Shouldst thou hear that he lives and may return , Then bear with them , though harass'd , one year more ! But should ...
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... Nestor go ; Let's see what counsel lies hid in his breast , Take care to beg of him to tell the truth ; But he will not speak false ; he's very wise ! Telemachus spake these words unto her : " " " O Mentor , how shall I draw near ; and ...
... Nestor go ; Let's see what counsel lies hid in his breast , Take care to beg of him to tell the truth ; But he will not speak false ; he's very wise ! Telemachus spake these words unto her : " " " O Mentor , how shall I draw near ; and ...
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... Nestor sat then with his sons : around 30 His followers meat spitted for the roast ; But in a body came , the strangers seen : And took their hands , and bade them all sit down : 35 First Nestor's son Pisistratus came near , And to the ...
... Nestor sat then with his sons : around 30 His followers meat spitted for the roast ; But in a body came , the strangers seen : And took their hands , and bade them all sit down : 35 First Nestor's son Pisistratus came near , And to the ...
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Homerus. NESTOR AND TELEMACHUS . 33 She straight to Neptune prayed for many things ; " O Neptune ! hear my prayer , and don't refuse To grant these things to us thy suppliants ; Great glory give to Nestor and his sons , And to the rest a ...
Homerus. NESTOR AND TELEMACHUS . 33 She straight to Neptune prayed for many things ; " O Neptune ! hear my prayer , and don't refuse To grant these things to us thy suppliants ; Great glory give to Nestor and his sons , And to the rest a ...
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... Nestor thus replied to him ; 100 " Dear friend , since thou recall'st the sad mishaps , We Grecia's sons amidst that ... NESTOR'S NARRATIVE . 35 Skill'd in all arts ; thy 34 BOOK III . THE ODYSSEY .
... Nestor thus replied to him ; 100 " Dear friend , since thou recall'st the sad mishaps , We Grecia's sons amidst that ... NESTOR'S NARRATIVE . 35 Skill'd in all arts ; thy 34 BOOK III . THE ODYSSEY .
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Page 135 - These berries are much esteemed by the natives, who convert them into a sort of bread, by exposing them for some days to the sun, and afterwards pounding them gently in a wooden mortar, until the farinaceous part of the berry is separated from the stone. This meal is then mixed with a little water, and formed into cakes, which, when dried in the sun, resemble in colour and flavour the sweetest gingerbread. The stones...
Page 210 - ... advanced their claims ; the former depending on his pre-eminence in arms ; the latter, on the services which his inventive genius had rendered : the assembled princes awarded the splendid prize to Ulysses. Ajax was so much mortified at this, that he went mad, and in his fury attacked the herds and flocks of the camp, mistaking them for the Grecian leaders, by whom he thought himself so deeply injured. On recovering his senses, and seeing to what excesses he had been transported, he slew himself...
Page 168 - A measure employed by the ancients, equal to the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.
Page 62 - His notoriety is chiefly derived from events subsequent to the close of the Iliad. At the sack of Troy he offered violence to Cassandra in the temple of Pallas. Indignant at the profanation, the goddess raised a tempest, which wrecked his vessel on its voyage home, and many others of the Grecian fleet. Ajax escaped to a rock, and might have been preserved, but that he blasphe...