The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... chief at home , Conscious of ruin ; we foretold it him , For Hermes sent we , " Argiphontes call'd , To bid him not to slay him , nor to wed : For vengeance from Orestes sure would come , When , reaching puberty , " he sought his home ...
... chief at home , Conscious of ruin ; we foretold it him , For Hermes sent we , " Argiphontes call'd , To bid him not to slay him , nor to wed : For vengeance from Orestes sure would come , When , reaching puberty , " he sought his home ...
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... chief plung'd in grief : And coaxes him with soft and cunning words , To seek not Ithaca . But still that chief 3 55 Wishing to see but smoke ascending from His native isle , would die then : art thou not Turn'd towards him now , great ...
... chief plung'd in grief : And coaxes him with soft and cunning words , To seek not Ithaca . But still that chief 3 55 Wishing to see but smoke ascending from His native isle , would die then : art thou not Turn'd towards him now , great ...
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... chief's return : departing straight Myself will visit Ithaca meanwhile , To stir his son and courage breathe in him . That all the Greeks to council having call'd , He may forbid the suitors his sire's house , Who slaughter still his ...
... chief's return : departing straight Myself will visit Ithaca meanwhile , To stir his son and courage breathe in him . That all the Greeks to council having call'd , He may forbid the suitors his sire's house , Who slaughter still his ...
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... chief Laërtes , who no more comes to The town , say they , but grieves in fields far off , With one old woman who sets meats for him , Oft as fatigue takes hold upon his limbs , Crawling o'er surface of his vine clad land ; I've come ...
... chief Laërtes , who no more comes to The town , say they , but grieves in fields far off , With one old woman who sets meats for him , Oft as fatigue takes hold upon his limbs , Crawling o'er surface of his vine clad land ; I've come ...
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... chiefs who in these isles bear sway , Zacynthus , Samus , and Doulichium , And those who rule in rugged Ithaca , 245 Woo now my mother and destroy our house . But she neither denies those hateful men , nor can She make an end : but they ...
... chiefs who in these isles bear sway , Zacynthus , Samus , and Doulichium , And those who rule in rugged Ithaca , 245 Woo now my mother and destroy our house . But she neither denies those hateful men , nor can She make an end : but they ...
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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...