The Iliad of Homer: In English Hexameter VerseLongmans, Green, 1865 - 555 pages |
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Achilles Achilleus address'd Æneas Antilochus Apollo Argives armies armor arms Asius Atreus Atrides battle beautiful bosom brave bravest breast bright buckler chargers chief Diomèdes chieftain combat comrades corpse crest Cronïon Danaan Dardan dark death deep Deiphobus E'en eager earth Eurypylus fate father fell fierce fight foemen front galleys gleaming glittering Goddess godlike Gods hand hast heart Hector Hephæstus Hère hero host Idomeneus Immortals jav'lin King Agamemnon leader Lycian Menelaus Merion mighty Achilleus monarch mortal Nestor o'er Odysseus offspring Olympus Pallas Athène Patroclus Peleus Pelides perchance Polydamas Poseidon Priam prince prowess ramparts ranks redoubtable reply roll'd rush'd shield ships shouted side slain slaughter'd sons of Achaia sons of Troy soul spake speak spear stand steeds stood strife swift-footed Telamonian Ajax tent terrible Teucer thee thine thou art thro thyself Troad Trojans troops Troy's turn'd Tydeus Tydides unto wall war-steeds warrior weapon words wound wrath Zeus
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Page 132 - But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Page 497 - tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; th' immortal mind remains: The form subsists without the body's aid, Aerial semblance, and an empty shade...
Page 370 - ... retain'd it: While, on the dead man's foot, did Patroclus seize :—and, around them. Deepen'd the roar of fight; of the Trojan troops, and the Argives. As, with opposing blasts, when the fury of Eurus and Notus Falls upon some dense wood ; in a glen, deep down on a hill-side ; Beech, or tough-grain'd ash, or the long-leaved boughs of the cornel; And, as the blast drives over, the tall trees mingle their branches; Rasping, and grating together, or breaking, perchance, with a great crash ;—...
Page 31 - ... verse, and which can be faithfully rendered into hexameters. Another case of Homeric laughter, very unrefined, but to unrefined men very natural, is that at the punishment of Thersites (II. 255). Odysseus says to him : — " But let me tell thee this— and my threat shall be surely accomplish...
Page 370 - Heedless of reins and steeds, slept sound 'mid the storm of the battle. All such time as the sun stands high on his path 'mid the heavens, Falls on each army the storm of the darts, and slain are the people. But, when the sun stands low, and releases the labouring oxen, Then, despite of fate, has Achaia the best in the struggle.
Page 181 - ... bright aether above them Deepens, as star glimmers out upon star; — and the shepherd rejoices: Not less thick in the space "mid the fleet and the stream of the Xanthus Glimmer'd the watch-fire lights of the Trojans fronting the city. There were a thousand bales burning bright on the plain — and from each bale Flicker'd the light on the armor of combatants fifty around it. Champing the pulse and barley, in long rows waited the chargers, Tether'd beside their cars, and expected the Morn on...
Page 371 - All, in Patroclus' hand, does the huge spear shiver to splinters ; Stalwart, brass-headed beam, as it is ; — and, afar from his shoulders, Shield, of ample orb, to the earth comes down, with the shield-belt ; And, from his gallant breast, is the corslet loosed by Apollo. Mind and senses bewildered, his limbs unnerved by the buffet, Stupid, aghast he remain'd : — as he stood, he was struck by a Dardan, Right 'mid his shoulder-blades, with a spear from behind ; by Euphorbus, 1'anthus...
Page 372 - Fitted to ward off fate.—But thou shalt be prey to the vultures. Wretch ! all brave as he is, not a jot has avail'd thee, Achilleus. He but urged thee to death; for he charged thee, methinks, when departing, Thus: ' To the hollow ships do not come again, knightly Patroclus ! Seek not again this face, ere thou tear, from the bosom of Hector, 8 * j Corslet and blood-stain'd vest, and bear them as trophies before thee.
Page 371 - Apollo ; Far, with a clash, to the earth, far away, 'mid the hoofs of the war-steeds Rolls that crested helm ; those bright plumes waving above it Draggle in blood and dust. They have never been wont to be soil'd so, Never before have dust and that proud helm been acquainted, Used, as it is, to protect in the fight the high face of a hero, Even Achilleus
Page 271 - ... reach of men's eyes from the plains of Troy. I think that this testing of the poet's words by map and compass may have shaken a little of my faith in the completeness of his knowledge. Well, now I had come ; there to the south was Tenedos, and here at my side was Imbros, all right, and according to the map, but aloft over Imbros, — aloft in a far away heaven was Samothrace, the watchtower of Neptune...