Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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Page 103
... honour had a long contest : but she no sooner yielded to adultery , but she assisted in the murder of her husband ; from whence we may draw another moral , that one vice betrays us into another , and when once the fences of honour are ...
... honour had a long contest : but she no sooner yielded to adultery , but she assisted in the murder of her husband ; from whence we may draw another moral , that one vice betrays us into another , and when once the fences of honour are ...
Page 290
... honour that could be paid to Demodocus . The greatest Heroes in the Iliad are thus rewarded after victory , and it was esteem'd an equivalent for all dangers . So that what Ulysses here offers to the Poet , is offer'd out of a ...
... honour that could be paid to Demodocus . The greatest Heroes in the Iliad are thus rewarded after victory , and it was esteem'd an equivalent for all dangers . So that what Ulysses here offers to the Poet , is offer'd out of a ...
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... honour with so brave a life ! With him the strength of war , the soldiers pride , Our second hope to great Achilles dy'd ! Touch'd at the sight from tears I scarce refrain , And tender sorrow thrills in ev'ry vein ; 675 669 . Tho ' to ...
... honour with so brave a life ! With him the strength of war , the soldiers pride , Our second hope to great Achilles dy'd ! Touch'd at the sight from tears I scarce refrain , And tender sorrow thrills in ev'ry vein ; 675 669 . Tho ' to ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
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Achilles action Ægyptus Æneas Agamemnon Alcinous Ancients appears arms ask'd Atrides beauty call'd Calypso character Circe coast companions crown'd Cyclops Dacier Dæmon death Deity Demodocus descends describ'd dire divine dreadful Epic Epic Poetry Eurylochus Eurymachus Eustathius observes Ev'n ev'ry eyes fable fame fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Grecian Greeks heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove Jupiter King Laestrygones Laodamas Leucothea Menelaus Minerva moral nature Nausicaa Neptune Nestor night nymph o'er Odyssey Palace Pallas passage passion Penelope person Phæacians Plutarch Poem Poet Poetry Pope's pow'r Prince Pylos Queen relation rock royal sacred sails says Eustathius Scaliger Scylla shade shews ship shore sire skies soul speaks Spondanus storms story Strabo stranger Suitors swift tears Telemachus thee thou thro toils Troy Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage waves whole winds wine wisdom wise woes words youth καὶ