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... friends so call'd : the gods all pitied him ; Neptune except , who never ceas'd to rage : 20 1 The circumstance of their eating the oxen of Apollo , or the Sun , in the Island of Trinacria , is described in Book 12 . 2 Or " from any ...
... friends so call'd : the gods all pitied him ; Neptune except , who never ceas'd to rage : 20 1 The circumstance of their eating the oxen of Apollo , or the Sun , in the Island of Trinacria , is described in Book 12 . 2 Or " from any ...
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... friends ; On sea - girt isle , where ocean's centre is ; 25 30 336 35 40 45 50 50 4 With the epithet , " faultless , " in the text ; this must mean as to beauty of form he was morally bad . From slaying the giant Argus . He was hidden ...
... friends ; On sea - girt isle , where ocean's centre is ; 25 30 336 35 40 45 50 50 4 With the epithet , " faultless , " in the text ; this must mean as to beauty of form he was morally bad . From slaying the giant Argus . He was hidden ...
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... friends arms : Then all the Greeks had built a mound for him : 10 So the vulgar say , " He is a wise son that knows his own Father . " 11 The " eranos " was a club dinner where every man paid his portion , except poets , singers , & c ...
... friends arms : Then all the Greeks had built a mound for him : 10 So the vulgar say , " He is a wise son that knows his own Father . " 11 The " eranos " was a club dinner where every man paid his portion , except poets , singers , & c ...
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... friend , for thou'rt of stature good , Be strong ! that thou earn fame in after times : But I will now descend unto my ship , 13 Her father Icarius . PENELOPE AND THE MINSTREL . 11 And sailors , who 10 BOOK I. THE ODYSSEY .
... friend , for thou'rt of stature good , Be strong ! that thou earn fame in after times : But I will now descend unto my ship , 13 Her father Icarius . PENELOPE AND THE MINSTREL . 11 And sailors , who 10 BOOK I. THE ODYSSEY .
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... friends , and leave me to be worn With sad grief down , nnless my father hath At all done mischief to the well greav'd Greeks ; Which they requiting , inflict ills on me , Inciting these ; ' twould better be for me That devour you my ...
... friends , and leave me to be worn With sad grief down , nnless my father hath At all done mischief to the well greav'd Greeks ; Which they requiting , inflict ills on me , Inciting these ; ' twould better be for me That devour you my ...
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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...