The Iliad, rendered into Engl. blank verse, by Edward earl of Derby, Volume 11865 |
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... waste the crops ; for wide between us lay The shadowy mountains and the roaring sea . With thee , O void of shame ! with thee we sailed , For Meneläus and for thee , ingrate , Glory and fame on Trojan crests to win . 185 All this hast ...
... waste the crops ; for wide between us lay The shadowy mountains and the roaring sea . With thee , O void of shame ! with thee we sailed , For Meneläus and for thee , ingrate , Glory and fame on Trojan crests to win . 185 All this hast ...
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Acamas Achilles addressed ægis-bearing Jove Agamemnon Ajax amid anger Antilochus armour arms arrow Asius Atreus Atrides battle bear beneath beside bold bore brass-clad brave breast camp Capaneus chariot chief comrades counsel crowd dark-ribbed ships death doom dwelt Epeians Eurypylus fair fear fell fierce fight foot gates gave Gerenian Nestor glancing helm Goddess Gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand haste hath hear Heaven Hector honour horses host hurled Idomeneus Ilium's immortal Jove Juno King lofty long-haired Greeks Lord loud Lycians Mars Meneläus mighty monarch Agamemnon Neleus noble o'er Olympus Pallas Patroclus Peleus plain prayer Priam's Pylos ranks sage Sarpedon Saturn's shalt shield shouted sire slain slew sons of Greece soul spear spoils spoke steeds Sthenelus stood struck swift Telamon tent Teucer thee thine thou Thracian Tlepolemus toil Trojans Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant Diomed wall warlike Meneläus warriors well-greaved Greeks words wound wrath
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