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... feast regal'd he : while the rest Collected were in Jove's Olympic halls : The sire of gods and men discours'd to them , Of ' faultless shap'd Ægysthus ' thought he , whom Orestes , Agamemnon's son , had slain , Him mindful of , he to ...
... feast regal'd he : while the rest Collected were in Jove's Olympic halls : The sire of gods and men discours'd to them , Of ' faultless shap'd Ægysthus ' thought he , whom Orestes , Agamemnon's son , had slain , Him mindful of , he to ...
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... feast ; The young men crown'd the goblets with the wine . When they had satisfied their appetites For meat and drink , they car'd for other things ; The song , the dance , adornments of the feast : A beauteous harp the herald then did ...
... feast ; The young men crown'd the goblets with the wine . When they had satisfied their appetites For meat and drink , they car'd for other things ; The song , the dance , adornments of the feast : A beauteous harp the herald then did ...
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... " : the " ' gamoi , " the marriage feasts , and eilapinai were feasts provided by a single person ; we may read in the text " for this no club feast is . " 66 " " MINERVA TO TELEMACHUS . 9 And to his son he 8 BOOK I. THE ODYSSEY .
... " : the " ' gamoi , " the marriage feasts , and eilapinai were feasts provided by a single person ; we may read in the text " for this no club feast is . " 66 " " MINERVA TO TELEMACHUS . 9 And to his son he 8 BOOK I. THE ODYSSEY .
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... feast , but let loud noise Be absent , for ' tis meet we listen to A Minstrel such as this , with voice divine : But ... feasts , Eating your own , in turn from house to house : But if this thing more fitting seem to you , 13 370 375 To ...
... feast , but let loud noise Be absent , for ' tis meet we listen to A Minstrel such as this , with voice divine : But ... feasts , Eating your own , in turn from house to house : But if this thing more fitting seem to you , 13 370 375 To ...
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... feast , and drink the purple wine ; Most rashly , wasting much ! that man's not here Such as Ulysses was , to drive them off . But we're not such as shall achieve this thing , [ And truly we most feeble shall be found , ] I would repell ...
... feast , and drink the purple wine ; Most rashly , wasting much ! that man's not here Such as Ulysses was , to drive them off . But we're not such as shall achieve this thing , [ And truly we most feeble shall be found , ] I would repell ...
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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...