Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... swift of foot , and terrible in fight , In whom stern courage with soft virtue join'd , A faultless body , and a blameless mind : Antilochus - what more can I relate ? How trace the tedious series of our fate ? 140 Not added years on ...
... swift of foot , and terrible in fight , In whom stern courage with soft virtue join'd , A faultless body , and a blameless mind : Antilochus - what more can I relate ? How trace the tedious series of our fate ? 140 Not added years on ...
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... Swift vengeance waits : and Art subdues the strong ! Dwells there a God on all th ' Olympian brow More swift than Mars , and more than Vulcan slow ? Yet Vulcan conquers , and the God of arms 370 Homer in this as in many other places ...
... Swift vengeance waits : and Art subdues the strong ! Dwells there a God on all th ' Olympian brow More swift than Mars , and more than Vulcan slow ? Yet Vulcan conquers , and the God of arms 370 Homer in this as in many other places ...
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... Swift thro ' the gloom a Giant - hunter flies . ] The diversion of this infernal hunter may seem extraordinary in pursuing the shades of beasts ; but it was the opinion of the Ancients , that the same passions to which men were subject ...
... Swift thro ' the gloom a Giant - hunter flies . ] The diversion of this infernal hunter may seem extraordinary in pursuing the shades of beasts ; but it was the opinion of the Ancients , that the same passions to which men were subject ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
Copyright | |
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Achilles Action Alcinous Ancients appears arms attend bear beauty beginning calls Calypso cause character chief consequently Dacier death deep descends divine Eustathius expression eyes Fable fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Greeks ground hand happy heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove kind King land manner mean Menelaus mind Minerva nature necessary Nestor never night o'er objection observes Odyssey opinion passage Penelope person Poem Poet Poetry pow'r Prince probable Queen race Reader reason relation remarkable rest rise royal says shade shews shore soul speaks story sufferings Suitors tears Telemachus tells thee thing thou thought thro train Troy true truth Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage whole winds wine wisdom wise woes youth