The Iliad of Homer Rendered Into English Blank Verse, Volume 1C. Scribner & Company, 1866 |
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Acamas Achilles address'd ægis-bearing Jove Æneas Agamemnon Ajax amid answer'd armour arms Asius Atreus Atrides battle beneath beside blue-ey'd bore brass-clad brave breast call'd camp Capaneus chariot chief Chryses comrades counsel dark-ribb'd ships death Diomed dwelt Epeians Eurypylus ev'n ev'ry fair fair-hair'd fear fell fierce fight gates Gerenian Nestor glancing helm glitt'ring Goddess godlike Gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand haste hath Heav'n heav'nly Hector honour horses host hurl'd Idomeneus Ilium's immortal Jove Juno King lofty loud Lycians Mars mighty monarch Agamemnon mov'd Neleus noble o'er Olympus Pallas Paris pass'd Patroclus Peleus plac'd plain pond'rous pour'd pow'r pray'r press'd Priam's Pylos ranks reach'd rush'd sage Sarpedon Saturn's shield sire slain slew sons of Greece soul spear spoke steeds Sthenelus stood struck Telamon tent Teucer thee thine thou Thracian Tlepolemus tow'rs Trojans Troy turn'd Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant Diomed wall warlike Meneläus warriors words wound wrath
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Page 339 - Diomed undertakes this hazardous enterprise, and makes choice of Ulysses for his companion. In their passage, they surprise Dolon, whom Hector had sent on a like design to the camp of the Grecians. From him they are informed of the situation of the Trojan and auxiliary forces, and particularly of Rhesus, and the Thracians who were lately arrived. They pass on with success ; kill Rhesus, with several of his officers, and seize the famous horses of that prince, with which they return in triumph to...
Page 41 - Troy without his assistance, but fears the army was discouraged by his absence, and the late plague, as well as by the length of time, contrives to make trial of their disposition by a stratagem. He first communicates his design to the princes in council, that he would propose a return to the soldiers, and that they should put a stop to them if the proposal was embraced.
Page 236 - Dearest, wring not thus my heart ! For till my day of destiny is come, No man may take my life ; and when it comes, Nor brave nor coward can escape that day. But go thou home, and ply thy household cares, The loom and distaff, and appoint thy maids Their sev'ral tasks ; and leave to men of Troy And, chief of all to me, the toils of war.
Page 299 - IX. <H/be argument. THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES. Agamemnon, after the last day's defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and return to their country. Diomed opposes this, and Nestor seconds him, praising his wisdom and resolution. He orders the guard to be strengthened, and a council summoned to deliberate what measures are to be followed in this emergency. Agamemnon pursues this advice, and Nestor further prevails upon him to send ambassadors to Achilles, in order to move him to a reconciliation.
Page 119 - THE gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war: they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break the truce. She persuades Pandarus to aim an arrow at Menelaus, who is wounded, but cured by Machaon.
Page 239 - ... towers, and defended by a ditch and palisades. Neptune testifies his jealousy at this work, but is pacified by a promise from Jupiter. Both armies pass the night in feasting but Jupiter disheartens the Trojans with thunder, and other signs of his wrath. The three and twentieth day ends with the duel of Hector and Ajax, the...
Page 267 - Jupiter assembles a council of the deities, and threatens them with the pains of Tartarus if they assist either side : Minerva only obtains of him that she may direct the Greeks by her counsels. The armies join battle : Jupiter on Mount Ida weighs in bis balances the fates of both, and affrights the Greeks with his thunders and lightnings.
Page 235 - I know, The day must come when this our sacred Troy, And Priam's race, and Priam's royal self, Shall in one common ruin be o'erthrown. But not the thoughts of Troy's impending fate, Nor Hecuba's nor royal Priam's woes, Nor loss of brethren, numerous and brave, By hostile hands laid prostrate in the dust, So deeply wring my heart as thoughts of thee, Thy days of freedom lost, and led away A weeping captive by some brass-clad Greek ; Haply in Argos, at a mistress' beck, Condemn'd to ply the loom, or...
Page 235 - Then they who see thy tears perchance may say, " Lo ! this was Hector's wife, who, when they fought On plains of Troy, was Ilium's bravest chief." Thus may they speak ; and thus thy grief renew For loss of him, who might have been thy shield To rescue thee from slav'ry's bitter hour.
Page 267 - Teucer, who is at length wonnded by Hector and carried off. Juno and Minerva prepare to aid the Grecians, but are restrained by Iris, sent from Jupiter. The night puts an end to the battle. Hector continues in the field (the Greeks being driven to their fortification before the ships), and gives orders to keep the watch all night in the camp, to prevent the enemy from reembarking and escaping by flight.