The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... sheep's down 440 Thought on the journey Pallas pointed out . 21 Tretois may signify that the bedstead is formed with planks at intervals , that the air may preserve it from rotting , as opposed to a solid bedstead . Book íí . The ...
... sheep's down 440 Thought on the journey Pallas pointed out . 21 Tretois may signify that the bedstead is formed with planks at intervals , that the air may preserve it from rotting , as opposed to a solid bedstead . Book íí . The ...
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... sheep , fatted goats , Do gaily 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 ...
... sheep , fatted goats , Do gaily 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 ...
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... sheep , and oxen with trail feet : The suitors of my mother , -full of pride : I come then to thy knees , if thou may'st deign To tell me of his fate , if thou hast chanc'd To witness it , or heard from one the tale— Some traveller ; he ...
... sheep , and oxen with trail feet : The suitors of my mother , -full of pride : I come then to thy knees , if thou may'st deign To tell me of his fate , if thou hast chanc'd To witness it , or heard from one the tale— Some traveller ; he ...
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... Sheep were then brought in , with the generous wine ; Their beauteous wives then sent in bread to them , About their supper these were then engaged . The suitors meanwhile in Ulysses ' house 640 Amus'd themselves with javelins and ...
... Sheep were then brought in , with the generous wine ; Their beauteous wives then sent in bread to them , About their supper these were then engaged . The suitors meanwhile in Ulysses ' house 640 Amus'd themselves with javelins and ...
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Homerus. PLOT AGAINST TELEMACHUS . 71 Fat thighs of oxen or of sheep to thee , 785 Now think of these and save my darling son ! But drive those suitors far , so bad , so proud ! " Thus having pray'd , she shouted loud : her prayer The ...
Homerus. PLOT AGAINST TELEMACHUS . 71 Fat thighs of oxen or of sheep to thee , 785 Now think of these and save my darling son ! But drive those suitors far , so bad , so proud ! " Thus having pray'd , she shouted loud : her prayer The ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Alcinous answer unto answer'd appear'd bade bear beauteous brave bright call'd Calypso cave chief Cicones Circe Circe's comrades Cyclops dark daughter dear death deeds drink e'en Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father feast friends gave gifts goddess gods Greeks grief griev'd guest Hades hands hast hath hear heard heart herald Hermes Icarius immortal isle Ithaca Jove Jove's king Laërtes Laodamas lofty maids meat Menelaus midst mind Minerva minstrel native land Nausicaa ne'er Neleus Neptune Nestor nymph o'er oars oxen palace Pallas perish'd Phæacian Pisistratus plac'd pour'd pray'd Pylos reach'd replied robe rock round sail sail'd sailors Scylla sheep ship shore sire sitting sleep slew spake spoke stood stranger suitors sweet swift swift ship sword tears Telemachus tell thee therein things thou thou'rt thro Tiresias Troy Ulysses vers'd vex'd wash'd waves wife wind wine words
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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...