The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... shore and ship , They found their comrades waiting there for them : The voice divine in that young chief then spoke : " Come with me , friends , to fetch the victuals down , 435 440 For now they're all collected in the house , But ...
... shore and ship , They found their comrades waiting there for them : The voice divine in that young chief then spoke : " Come with me , friends , to fetch the victuals down , 435 440 For now they're all collected in the house , But ...
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... shore , 5 Oxen jet black , to Neptune the sea god : Nine sets there were ; five hundred sat in each ; Nine oxen they present in each of them : The entrails tasting , burning thighs to gods ; Those landed straight , and furl'd the ship's ...
... shore , 5 Oxen jet black , to Neptune the sea god : Nine sets there were ; five hundred sat in each ; Nine oxen they present in each of them : The entrails tasting , burning thighs to gods ; Those landed straight , and furl'd the ship's ...
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... shore , By Thrasymedes , and his aged sire . He gave them parts of entrails then , and pour'd 40 Forth wine in golden cups , and spake unto Minerva , child of Ægis , bearing Jove : " Make vows , O Stranger , to King Neptune now ; For ...
... shore , By Thrasymedes , and his aged sire . He gave them parts of entrails then , and pour'd 40 Forth wine in golden cups , and spake unto Minerva , child of Ægis , bearing Jove : " Make vows , O Stranger , to King Neptune now ; For ...
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... shore ; We pray'd the god to show us then a sign , He shew'd us one and bade us cut mid sea ; Towards Eubæa ; danger quick to shun ; A gale sprung up : the ships then very fast 175 Cours'd o'er the fish fraught waves , and came at night ...
... shore ; We pray'd the god to show us then a sign , He shew'd us one and bade us cut mid sea ; Towards Eubæa ; danger quick to shun ; A gale sprung up : the ships then very fast 175 Cours'd o'er the fish fraught waves , and came at night ...
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... shores , I reach'd th ' Eresbi , th ' Æthiopians , and Sidonians ; and the plains of Lybia , where The lambs have horns to sprout soon after birth , The pregnant ewes thrice in the year bring forth , 85 Nor prince nor herdsman ever ...
... shores , I reach'd th ' Eresbi , th ' Æthiopians , and Sidonians ; and the plains of Lybia , where The lambs have horns to sprout soon after birth , The pregnant ewes thrice in the year bring forth , 85 Nor prince nor herdsman ever ...
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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...