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Achaians Achilles Agamemnon Aias Aineias Alexandros amid answered Antilochos Argives armour Athene Atreides Atreus bade battle beheld beneath beside breast bronze chariot comrades counsel Danaans dart daughter dead dear death Diomedes drave dread earth Eëtion Epeians Eurypylos fain fair father Zeus fell fight fleet gave glancing helm glorious goddess godlike gods goodly great-hearted hands hath hearken heaven Hector Hephaistos Hera hither hollow ships honour horses host Idomeneus Ilios immortal Kronos lest lord loud war-cry Lykians Menelaos Menoitios Meriones midst mighty Nestor noble Achilles Odysseus Olympus Patroklos Peleus Poseidon Priam renowned Sarpedon saying shield shoulders slain slay slew smitten smote sons sore sorrow soul spake spear steeds stood straightway swift swift ships sword Telamonian Aias Teukros thee thereof thine thou art throng thy heart took Trojans Troy twain Tydeus unto valour verily wall warrior wilt winged words wise wounded wrath wroth Zeus
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Page 103 - So now he smiled and gazed at his boy silently, and Andromache stood by his side weeping, and clasped her hand in his, and spake and called upon his name. ' Dear my lord, this thy hardihood will undo thee, neither hast thou any pity for thine infant boy, nor for me forlorn that soon shall be thy widow ; for soon will the Achaians all set upon thee and slay thee.
Page 152 - I bring from hence, and fair-girdled women and grey iron, all at least that were mine by lot; only my meed of honour hath he that gave it me taken back in his despitefulness, even lord Agamemnon son of Atreus. To him declare ye everything even as I charge you, openly, that all the Achaians likewise may have indignation, if haply he hopeth to beguile yet some other Danaan, for that he is ever clothed in shamelessness. Verily not in my face would he dare to look, though he have the front of a dog....
Page 378 - He said, and with a cry among the foremost held on his whole-hooved steeds. BOOK XX How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy. So by the beaked ships around thee, son of Peleus, hungry for war, the Achaians armed ; and over against them the men of Troy, upon the high ground of the plain. But Zeus bade Themis call the gods to council from manyfolded Olympus' brow; and she ranged all about and bade them to the house of Zeus.
Page 269 - Tell me now, ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon? It was Iphidamas, son of Antenor, a man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace, the mother of sheep. Cisses, his...
Page 7 - But whatever man of the people he saw and found him shouting, him he drave with his sceptre and chode him with loud words : " Good sir, sit still and hearken to the words of others that are thy betters ; but thou art no warrior, and a weakling, never reckoned whether in battle or in council.
Page 363 - Furthermore he set in the shield a soft fresh-ploughed field, rich tilth and wide, the third time ploughed; and many ploughers therein drave their yokes to and fro as they wheeled about. Whensoever they •came to the boundary of the field and turned, then would a man come to each and give into his hands a goblet of sweet wine, while others would be turning back along the furrows, fain to reach the boundary of the deep tilth. And die field grew black behind and seemed as it were a-ploughing, albeit...
Page 94 - I her the most gracious and greatest in her hall and far dearest unto herself, upon the knees of beauteous-haired Athene ; and vow to her to sacrifice in her temple twelve sleek kine, that have not felt the goad, if she will have mercy on the city and the Trojans