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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 Oileus Olympus Patroklos Peleus Polydamas Poseidon Priam renowned Sarpedon 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 Trojans Troy twain Tydeus unto valour verily wall warrior wilt winged words wise wounded wrath wroth Zeus
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Page 401 - ... pressing hard on the men he slew; and the black earth ran with blood. For even as when one yoketh wide-browed bulls to tread white barley in a stablished threshing-floor, and quickly is it trodden out beneath the feet of the loud-lowing bulls, thus beneath great-hearted Achilles his whole-hooved horses trampled corpses and shields together; and with blood all the axle-tree below was sprinkled and the rims that ran around the car, for blood-drops from the horses' hooves splashed them, and blood-drops...
Page 2 - Now when they had prayed and sprinkled the barley-meal they first drew back the bull's head and cut his throat and flayed him, and cut slices from the thighs and wrapped them in fat, making a double fold, and laid raw collops thereon. And these they burnt on cleft wood stript of leaves, and spitted the vitals and held them over Hephaistos
Page 430 - Thus saying he drew his sharp sword that by his flank hung great and strong, and gathered himself and swooped like a soaring eagle that darteth to the plain through the dark clouds to seize a tender lamb or crouching hare. So Hector swooped, brandishing his sharp sword. And Achilles made at him, for his heart was filled with wild fierceness, and before his breast he made a covering with his fair graven shield, and tossed his bright four-plated helm ; and round it waved fair golden plumes (that Hephaistos...
Page 15 - Now all the rest sat down and kept their place upon the benches, only Thersites still chattered on, the uncontrolled of speech, whose mind was full of words many and disorderly...
Page 14 - 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 In no wise can we Achaians all be kings here.
Page 41 - And Helen, fair among women, spake and answered him: "Reverend art thou to me and dread, dear father of my lord; would that sore death had been my pleasure when I followed thy son hither, and left my home and my kinsfolk and my daughter in her girlhood and the lovely company of mine age-fellows. But that was not so, wherefore I pine with weeping.
Page 370 - 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 102 - Hippolochos' glorious son made answer to him: "Great-hearted Tydeides, why enquirest thou of my generation? Even as are the generations of leaves such are those likewise of men; the leaves that be the wind scattereth on the earth, and the forest buddeth and putteth forth more again, when the season of spring is at hand; so of the generations of men one putteth forth and another ceaseth.
Page 486 - Then again spake the fleet noble Achilles unto him saying: "All this, O ancient Priam, shall be as thou biddest ; for I will hold back the battle even so long a time as thou tellest me." Thus speaking he clasped the old man's right hand at the wrist, lest he should be anywise afraid at heart. So they in the forepart of the house laid them down, Priam and the herald, with wise thoughts at their hearts, but Achilles slept in a recess of the firm-wrought hut, and beside him lay faircheeked Briseis.