The Odyssey of Homer: With the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and MiceHenry G. Bohn, 1853 - 432 pages |
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... Neptune ; but he was unceasingly angry with godlike Ulysses , before he arrived in his own land . But he [ Neptune ] had gone to the Æthiopians who dwell afar off , ( the Ethiopians who are divided into two parts , the most distant of ...
... Neptune ; but he was unceasingly angry with godlike Ulysses , before he arrived in his own land . But he [ Neptune ] had gone to the Æthiopians who dwell afar off , ( the Ethiopians who are divided into two parts , the most distant of ...
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... Neptune is for ever immovably angry on account of the Cy- clops , 18 whose eye he blinded , the godlike Polyphemus , whose power is greatest amongst all the Cyclops : him the nymph Thöosa brought forth , the daughter of Phorcys , ruler ...
... Neptune is for ever immovably angry on account of the Cy- clops , 18 whose eye he blinded , the godlike Polyphemus , whose power is greatest amongst all the Cyclops : him the nymph Thöosa brought forth , the daughter of Phorcys , ruler ...
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... Neptune not kill Ulysses , but causes him to wander from his native land . But come , let all of us contrive his return , in what way he may come , and Neptune remit his anger ; for he will not in- deed be able against the will of all ...
... Neptune not kill Ulysses , but causes him to wander from his native land . But come , let all of us contrive his return , in what way he may come , and Neptune remit his anger ; for he will not in- deed be able against the will of all ...
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... Neptune . At the conclusion of the ceremony , Telemachus states the object of his voyage , and Nestor in reply relates what had happened to himself , and the circumstances of their sailing from Troy ; but having no tidings of Ulysses ...
... Neptune . At the conclusion of the ceremony , Telemachus states the object of his voyage , and Nestor in reply relates what had happened to himself , and the circumstances of their sailing from Troy ; but having no tidings of Ulysses ...
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... Neptune . 66 Hear , thou earth - containing Neptune , nor envy us be- seeching thee to accomplish these works . To Nestor first and to his sons give glory ; but afterwards to others grant a grate- ful recompence , to all the Pylians ...
... Neptune . 66 Hear , thou earth - containing Neptune , nor envy us be- seeching thee to accomplish these works . To Nestor first and to his sons give glory ; but afterwards to others grant a grate- ful recompence , to all the Pylians ...
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