The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English proseJ. Cape, 1925 |
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Achaeans Achilles Aeacus Aeneas Ajax Alexandrus anger angry answered Antilochus Argives armour arrow Atreus bade battle blood body brave bronze chariot comrade counsel cried Danaans darkness daughter dead death Deiphobus Diomed drew earth Eurypylus father Jove fear fell fierce fight fire fleet gates give goddess gods goodly hand head heart heaven Hector helmet heroes honour horses host house of Hades Idomeneus ILIAD Ilius immortals Jove Jove's Juno killed King Agamemnon laid Lycians Mars Menelaus Menoetius Meriones mighty Minerva mother Myrmidons Neptune Nestor noble Olympus Panthous Patroclus Peleus Phoebus Apollo plain Polydamas prayed Priam river round Sarpedon Saturn saying shield ships shoulders shouted slain son of Saturn sons sorrow spear spoke sprang stand stay stood struck sword Telamon tent Teucer Thetis took Trojans Trojans and Achaeans Troy Tydeus Ulysses valiant vouchsafe Vulcan wall whereon wounded
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Página 328 - Mulius and struck him on the ear with a spear, and the bronze spear-head came right out at the other ear. He also struck Echeclus son of Agenor on the head with his sword, which became warm with the blood, while death and stern fate closed the eyes of Echeclus. Next in order the bronze point of his spear wounded Deucalion in the fore-arm where the sinews of the elbow are united, whereon he waited Achilles' onset with his arm hanging down and death staring him in the face. Achilles cut his head off...
Página 21 - Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way? Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes? Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea.
Página 360 - Her heart beat fast, and as she spoke she flew from the house like a maniac, with her waiting-women following after. When she reached the battlements and the crowd of people, she stood looking out upon the wall, and saw Hector being borne away in front of the city— the horses dragging him without heed or care over the ground towards the ships of the Achaeans. Her eyes were then shrouded as with the darkness of night and she fell fainting backwards. She tore the...
Página 133 - Ormenus, who was furious with me in the matter of his concubine, of whom he was enamoured to the wronging of his wife my mother. My mother, therefore, prayed me without ceasing to lie with the woman myself, that so she might hate my father, and in the course of time I yielded. But my father soon came to know, and cursed me bitterly, calling the dread Erinyes to witness.
Página 110 - Hang me a golden chain from heaven, and lay hold of it all of you, gods and goddesses together— tug as you will, you will not drag Jove the supreme counsellor from heaven to earth; but were I to pull at it myself I should draw you up with earth and sea into the bargain, then would I bind the chain about some pinnacle of Olympus and leave you all dangling in the mid firmament. So far am I above all others either of gods or men.
Página xviii - Achaians' fleet ships to win his daughter's freedom, and brought a ransom beyond telling ; and bare in his hands the fillet of Apollo the Far-darter upon a golden staff; and made his prayer unto all the Achaians, and most of all to the two sons of Atreus, orderers of the host...
Página 357 - It is easier to handle Hector now than when he was flinging fire on to our ships " — and as he spoke he would thrust his spear into him anew. When Achilles had done spoiling Hector of his armour...
Página 149 - let no thought of death be in your mind; but tell me, and tell me true, why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships, while other men are sleeping? Is it to plunder the bodies of the slain, or did Hector send you to spy out what was going on at the ships? Or did you come here of your own mere notion?
Página 19 - I have had a dream from heaven in my sleep. We are a long way from the ships; I wish some one would go down and tell Agamemnon to send us up more men at once.
Página 382 - ... son of Oileus took the lead at once, with Ulysses as close behind him as the shuttle is to a woman's bosom when she throws the woof across the warp and holds it close up to her; even so close behind him was Ulysses- treading in his footprints before the dust could settle there, and Ajax could feel his breath on the back of his head as he ran swiftly on. The Achaeans all shouted applause as they saw him straining his utmost, and cheered him as he shot past them; but when they were now nearing...