# sentences

title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id1
sentence:
Achilles is reconciled with Agamemnon, puts on the armour which Vulcan had made him, and goes out to fight.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id2
sentence:
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armour that the god had given her.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id4
sentence:
Many also of his followers were weeping round him, but when the goddess came among them she clasped his hand in her own, saying," My son, grieve as we may we must let this man lie, for it is by heaven 's will that he has fallen; now, therefore, accept from Vulcan this rich and goodly armour, which no man has ever yet borne upon his shoulders."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id6
sentence:
The Myrmidons were struck with awe, and none dared look full at it, for they were afraid; but Achilles was roused to still greater fury, and his eyes gleamed with a fierce light, for he was glad when he handled the splendid present which the god had made him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id7
sentence:
Then, as soon as he had satisfied himself with looking at it, he said to his mother," Mother, the god has given me armour, meet handiwork for an immortal and such as no- one living could have fashioned; I will now arm, but I much fear that flies will settle upon the son of Menoetius and breed worms about his wounds, so that his body, now he is dead, will be disfigured and the flesh will rot."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id9
sentence:
I will find means to protect him from the swarms of noisome flies that prey on the bodies of men who have been killed in battle.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id11
sentence:
Call, therefore, the Achaean heroes in assembly; unsay your anger against Agamemnon; arm at once, and fight with might and main."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id12
sentence:
As she spoke she put strength and courage into his heart, and she then dropped ambrosia and red nectar into the wounds of Patroclus, that his body might suffer no change.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id14
sentence:
On this even those who as yet had stayed always at the ships, the pilots and helmsmen, and even the stewards who were about the ships and served out rations, all came to the place of assembly because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from fighting.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id15
sentence:
Two sons of Mars, Ulysses and the son of Tydeus, came limping, for their wounds still pained them; nevertheless they came, and took their seats in the front row of the assembly.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id16
sentence:
Last of all came Agamemnon, king of men, he too wounded, for Coon son of Antenor had struck him with a spear in battle.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id17
sentence:
When the Achaeans were got together Achilles rose and said," Son of Atreus, surely it would have been better alike for both you and me, when we two were in such high anger about Briseis, surely it would have been better, had Diana 's arrow slain her at the ships on the day when I took her after having sacked Lyrnessus.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id19
sentence:
It has been well for Hector and the Trojans, but the Achaeans will long indeed remember our quarrel.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id22
sentence:
I put it from me: I dare not nurse it for ever; therefore, bid the Achaeans arm forthwith that I may go out against the Trojans, and learn whether they will be in a mind to sleep by the ships or no.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id26
sentence:
Danaan heroes," said he," servants of Mars, it is well to listen when a man stands up to speak, and it is not seemly to interrupt him, or it will go hard even with a practised speaker.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id30
sentence:
Often have the Achaeans spoken to me of this matter and upbraided me, but it was not I that did it: Jove, and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had been awarded to him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id32
sentence:
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove 's daughters, shuts men 's eyes to their destruction.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id33
sentence:
She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id34
sentence:
"Time was when she fooled Jove himself, who they say is greatest whether of gods or men; for Juno, woman though she was, beguiled him on the day when Alcmena was to bring forth mighty Hercules in the fair city of Thebes.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id35
sentence:
He told it out among the gods saying,' Hear me, all gods and goddesses, that I may speak even as I am minded; this day shall an Ilithuia, helper of women who are in labour, bring a man child into the world who shall be lord over all that dwell about him who are of my blood and lineage.'


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id37
sentence:
Swear me, O Olympian, swear me a great oath, that he who shall this day fall between the feet of a woman, shall be lord over all that dwell about him who are of your blood and lineage.'


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id38
sentence:
"Thus she spoke, and Jove suspected her not, but swore the great oath, to his much ruing thereafter.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id39
sentence:
For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id40
sentence:
She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id41
sentence:
Then she went to tell Jove the son of Saturn, and said,' Father Jove, lord of the lightning— I have a word for your ear.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id42
sentence:
There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; it is well, therefore, that he should reign over the Argives.'


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id43
sentence:
"On this Jove was stung to the very quick, and in his rage he caught Folly by the hair, and swore a great oath that never should she again invade starry heaven and Olympus, for she was the bane of all.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id44
sentence:
Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven so that she fell on to the fields of mortal men; and he was ever angry with her when he saw his son groaning under the cruel labours that Eurystheus laid upon him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id45
sentence:
Even so did I grieve when mighty Hector was killing the Argives at their ships, and all the time I kept thinking of Folly who had so baned me.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id46
sentence:
I was blind, and Jove robbed me of my reason; I will now make atonement, and will add much treasure by way of amends.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id48
sentence:
I will give you all that Ulysses offered you yesterday in your tents: or if it so please you, wait, though you would fain fight at once, and my squires shall bring the gifts from my ship, that you may see whether what I give you is enough."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id49
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, you can give such gifts as you think proper, or you can withhold them: it is in your own hands.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id50
sentence:
Let us now set battle in array; it is not well to tarry talking about trifles, for there is a deed which is as yet to do.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id51
sentence:
Achilles shall again be seen fighting among the foremost, and laying low the ranks of the Trojans: bear this in mind each one of you when he is fighting."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id52
sentence:
Then Ulysses said," Achilles, godlike and brave, send not the Achaeans thus against Ilius to fight the Trojans fasting, for the battle will be no brief one, when it is once begun, and heaven has filled both sides with fury; bid them first take food both bread and wine by the ships, for in this there is strength and stay.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id53
sentence:
No man can do battle the livelong day to the going down of the sun if he is without food; however much he may want to fight his strength will fail him before he knows it; hunger and thirst will find him out, and his limbs will grow weary under him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id54
sentence:
But a man can fight all day if he is full fed with meat and wine; his heart beats high, and his strength will stay till he has routed all his foes; therefore, send the people away and bid them prepare their meal; King Agamemnon will bring out the gifts in presence of the assembly, that all may see them and you may be satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id55
sentence:
Moreover let him swear an oath before the Argives that he has never gone up into the couch of Briseis, nor been with her after the manner of men and women; and do you, too, show yourself of a gracious mind; let Agamemnon entertain you in his tents with a feast of reconciliation, that so you may have had your dues in full.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id56
sentence:
As for you, son of Atreus, treat people more righteously in future; it is no disgrace even to a king that he should make amends if he was wrong in the first instance."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id57
sentence:
And King Agamemnon answered," Son of Laertes, your words please me well, for throughout you have spoken wisely.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id58
sentence:
I will swear as you would have me do; I do so of my own free will, neither shall I take the name of heaven in vain.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id59
sentence:
Let, then, Achilles wait, though he would fain fight at once, and do you others wait also, till the gifts come from my tent and we ratify the oath with sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id60
sentence:
Thus, then, do I charge you: take some noble young Achaeans with you, and bring from my tents the gifts that I promised yesterday to Achilles, and bring the women also; furthermore let Talthybius find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Jove and to the sun."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id61
sentence:
Then said Achilles," Son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, see to these matters at some other season, when there is breathing time and when I am calmer.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id62
sentence:
Would you have men eat while the bodies of those whom Hector son of Priam slew are still lying mangled upon the plain?


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id63
sentence:
Let the sons of the Achaeans, say I, fight fasting and without food, till we have avenged them; afterwards at the going down of the sun let them eat their fill.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id64
sentence:
As for me, Patroclus is lying dead in my tent, all hacked and hewn, with his feet to the door, and his comrades are mourning round him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id65
sentence:
Therefore I can take thought of nothing save only slaughter and blood and the rattle in the throat of the dying."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id66
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Achilles, son of Peleus, mightiest of all the Achaeans, in battle you are better than I, and that more than a little, but in counsel I am much before you, for I am older and of greater knowledge.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id68
sentence:
Fighting is a thing of which men soon surfeit, and when Jove, who is war 's steward, weighs the upshot, it may well prove that the straw which our sickles have reaped is far heavier than the grain.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id69
sentence:
It may not be that the Achaeans should mourn the dead with their bellies; day by day men fall thick and threefold continually; when should we have respite from our sorrow?


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id70
sentence:
Let us mourn our dead for a day and bury them out of sight and mind, but let those of us who are left eat and drink that we may arm and fight our foes more fiercely.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id71
sentence:
In that hour let no man hold back, waiting for a second summons; such summons shall bode ill for him who is found lagging behind at our ships; let us rather sally as one man and loose the fury of war upon the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id72
sentence:
When he had thus spoken he took with him the sons of Nestor, with Meges son of Phyleus, Thoas, Meriones, Lycomedes son of Creontes, and Melanippus, and went to the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id73
sentence:
The word was not sooner said than the deed was done: they brought out the seven tripods which Agamemnon had promised, with the twenty metal cauldrons and the twelve horses; they also brought the women skilled in useful arts, seven in number, with Briseis, which made eight.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id74
sentence:
Ulysses weighed out the ten talents of gold and then led the way back, while the young Achaeans brought the rest of the gifts, and laid them in the middle of the assembly.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id76
sentence:
The son of Atreus drew the knife which he wore by the scabbard of his mighty sword, and began by cutting off some bristles from the boar, lifting up his hands in prayer as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id77
sentence:
The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying," I call Jove the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor otherwise, but that she has remained in my tents inviolate.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id78
sentence:
If I swear falsely may heaven visit me with all the penalties which it metes out to those who perjure themselves."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id79
sentence:
He cut the boar 's throat as he spoke, whereon Talthybius whirled it round his head, and flung it into the wide sea to feed the fishes.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id80
sentence:
Then Achilles also rose and said to the Argives," Father Jove, of a truth you blind men 's eyes and bane them.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id81
sentence:
The son of Atreus had not else stirred me to so fierce an anger, nor so stubbornly taken Briseis from me against my will.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id87
sentence:
Briseis, fair as Venus, when she saw the mangled body of Patroclus, flung herself upon it and cried aloud, tearing her breast, her neck, and her lovely face with both her hands.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id88
sentence:
Beautiful as a goddess she wept and said," Patroclus, dearest friend, when I went hence I left you living; I return, O prince, to find you dead; thus do fresh sorrows multiply upon me one after the other.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id89
sentence:
I saw him to whom my father and mother married me, cut down before our city, and my three own dear brothers perished with him on the self- same day; but you, Patroclus, even when Achilles slew my husband and sacked the city of noble Mynes, told me that I was not to weep, for you said you would make Achilles marry me, and take me back with him to Phthia, we should have a wedding feast among the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id91
sentence:
She wept as she spoke, and the women joined in her lament- making as though their tears were for Patroclus, but in truth each was weeping for her own sorrows.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id92
sentence:
The elders of the Achaeans gathered round Achilles and prayed him to take food, but he groaned and would not do so.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id93
sentence:
"I pray you," said he," if any comrade will hear me, bid me neither eat nor drink, for I am in great heaviness, and will stay fasting even to the going down of the sun."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id94
sentence:
On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus, and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to comfort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id95
sentence:
Then he said— "Hapless and dearest comrade, you it was who would get a good dinner ready for me at once and without delay when the Achaeans were hasting to fight the Trojans; now, therefore, though I have meat and drink in my tents, yet will I fast for sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id96
sentence:
Grief greater than this I could not know, not even though I were to hear of the death of my father, who is now in Phthia weeping for the loss of me his son, who am here fighting the Trojans in a strange land for the accursed sake of Helen, nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more— he who is being brought up in Scyros— if indeed Neoptolemus is still living.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id97
sentence:
Till now I made sure that I alone was to fall here at Troy away from Argos, while you were to return to Phthia, bring back my son with you in your own ship, and show him all my property, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house— for Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id98
sentence:
He wept as he spoke, and the elders sighed in concert as each thought on what he had left at home behind him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id99
sentence:
The son of Saturn looked down with pity upon them, and said presently to Minerva," My child, you have quite deserted your hero; is he then gone so clean out of your recollection?


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id100
sentence:
There he sits by the ships all desolate for the loss of his dear comrade, and though the others are gone to their dinner he will neither eat nor drink.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id104
sentence:
Meanwhile the Achaeans were arming throughout the host, and when Minerva had dropped nectar and ambrosia into Achilles so that no cruel hunger should cause his limbs to fail him, she went back to the house of her mighty father.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id105
sentence:
Thick as the chill snow- flakes shed from the hand of Jove and borne on the keen blasts of the north wind, even so thick did the gleaming helmets, the bossed shields, the strongly plated breastplates, and the ashen spears stream from the ships.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id106
sentence:
The sheen pierced the sky, the whole land was radiant with their flashing armour, and the sound of the tramp of their treading rose from under their feet.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id107
sentence:
In the midst of them all Achilles put on his armour; he gnashed his teeth, his eyes gleamed like fire, for his grief was greater than he could bear.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id108
sentence:
Thus, then, full of fury against the Trojans, did he don the gift of the god, the armour that Vulcan had made him.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id109
sentence:
First he put on the goodly greaves fitted with ancle- clasps, and next he did on the breastplate about his chest.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id110
sentence:
He slung the silver- studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then took up the shield so great and strong that shone afar with a splendour as of the moon.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id111
sentence:
As the light seen by sailors from out at sea, when men have lit a fire in their homestead high up among the mountains, but the sailors are carried out to sea by wind and storm far from the haven where they would be— even so did the gleam of Achilles ' wondrous shield strike up into the heavens.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id112
sentence:
He lifted the redoubtable helmet, and set it upon his head, from whence it shone like a star, and the golden plumes which Vulcan had set thick about the ridge of the helmet, waved all around it.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id113
sentence:
Then Achilles made trial of himself in his armour to see whether it fitted him, so that his limbs could play freely under it, and it seemed to buoy him up as though it had been wings.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id114
sentence:
He also drew his father 's spear out of the spear- stand, a spear so great and heavy and strong that none of the Achaeans save only Achilles had strength to wield it; this was the spear of Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mt. Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id115
sentence:
Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses; they made the bands fast about them, and put the bit in their mouths, drawing the reins back towards the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id116
sentence:
Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full armour, resplendent as the sun- god Hyperion.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id117
sentence:
Then with a loud voice he chided with his father 's horses saying," Xanthus and Balius, famed offspring of Podarge— this time when we have done fighting be sure and bring your driver safely back to the host of the Achaeans, and do not leave him dead on the plain as you did Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id118
sentence:
Then fleet Xanthus answered under the yoke— for white- armed Juno had endowed him with human speech— and he bowed his head till his mane touched the ground as it hung down from under the yoke- band."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id119
sentence:
Dread Achilles," said he," we will indeed save you now, but the day of your death is near, and the blame will not be ours, for it will be heaven and stern fate that will destroy you.


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id120
sentence:
Neither was it through any sloth or slackness on our part that the Trojans stripped Patroclus of his armour; it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector .


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id121
sentence:
We two can fly as swiftly as Zephyrus who they say is fleetest of all winds; nevertheless it is your doom to fall by the hand of a man and of a god."


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id122
sentence:
When he had thus said the Erinyes stayed his speech, and Achilles answered him in great sadness, saying," Why, O Xanthus, do you thus foretell my death?


title: homer-iliad_19
idx: id123
sentence:
You need not do so, for I well know that I am to fall here, far from my dear father and mother; none the more, however, shall I stay my hand till I have given the Trojans their fill of fighting."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id1
sentence:
The grief of Achilles over Patroclus—The visit of Thetis to Vulcan and the armour that he made for Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id3
sentence:
Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id4
sentence:
Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart," why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id5
sentence:
Heaven grant the gods be not now bringing that sorrow upon me of which my mother Thetis spoke, saying that while I was yet alive the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before the Trojans, and see the light of the sun no longer.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id6
sentence:
I fear the brave son of Menoetius has fallen through his own daring and yet I bade him return to the ships as soon as he had driven back those that were bringing fire against them, and not join battle with Hector."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id7
sentence:
As he was thus pondering, the son of Nestor came up to him and told his sad tale, weeping bitterly the while."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id11
sentence:
He filled both hands with dust from off the ground, and poured it over his head, disfiguring his comely face, and letting the refuse settle over his shirt so fair and new.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id13
sentence:
The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id14
sentence:
Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id15
sentence:
Then Achilles gave a loud cry and his mother heard him as she was sitting in the depths of the sea by the old man her father, whereon she screamed, and all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id16
sentence:
There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and dark- eyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous sea- nymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id17
sentence:
There were also Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia and Amatheia of the lovely locks, with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id18
sentence:
The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id21
sentence:
I bore him fair and strong, hero among heroes, and he shot up as a sapling; I tended him as a plant in a goodly garden, and sent him with his ships to Ilius to fight the Trojans, but never shall I welcome him back to the house of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id22
sentence:
So long as he lives to look upon the light of the sun he is in heaviness, and though I go to him I can not help him.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id23
sentence:
Nevertheless I will go, that I may see my dear son and learn what sorrow has befallen him though he is still holding aloof from battle."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id24
sentence:
She left the cave as she spoke, while the others followed weeping after, and the waves opened a path before them.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id25
sentence:
When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came up out of the sea in a long line on to the sands, at the place where the ships of the Myrmidons were drawn up in close order round the tents of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id26
sentence:
His mother went up to him as he lay groaning; she laid her hand upon his head and spoke piteously, saying," My son, why are you thus weeping?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id29
sentence:
Surely Jove has granted you the prayer you made him, when you lifted up your hands and besought him that the Achaeans might all of them be pent up at their ships, and rue it bitterly in that you were no longer with them."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id30
sentence:
Achilles groaned and answered," Mother, Olympian Jove has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfilment of my prayer, but what boots it to me, seeing that my dear comrade Patroclus has fallen— he whom I valued more than all others, and loved as dearly as my own life?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id31
sentence:
I have lost him; aye, and Hector when he had killed him stripped the wondrous armour, so glorious to behold, which the gods gave to Peleus when they laid you in the couch of a mortal man.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id32
sentence:
Would that you were still dwelling among the immortal sea- nymphs, and that Peleus had taken to himself some mortal bride.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id33
sentence:
For now you shall have grief infinite by reason of the death of that son whom you can never welcome home— nay, I will not live nor go about among mankind unless Hector fall by my spear, and thus pay me for having slain Patroclus son of Menoetius."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id34
sentence:
Thetis wept and answered," Then, my son, is your end near at hand— for your own death awaits you full soon after that of Hector."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id35
sentence:
Then said Achilles in his great grief," I would die here and now, in that I could not save my comrade.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id38
sentence:
Return to my own land I shall not, and I have brought no saving neither to Patroclus nor to my other comrades of whom so many have been slain by mighty Hector; I stay here by my ships a bootless burden upon the earth, I, who in fight have no peer among the Achaeans, though in council there are better than I. Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart— which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id40
sentence:
And yet— so be it, for it is over; I will force my soul into subjection as I needs must; I will go; I will pursue Hector who has slain him whom I loved so dearly, and will then abide my doom when it may please Jove and the other gods to send it.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id41
sentence:
Even Hercules, the best beloved of Jove— even he could not escape the hand of death, but fate and Juno 's fierce anger laid him low, as I too shall lie when I am dead if a like doom awaits me.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id42
sentence:
Till then I will win fame, and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow; thus shall they know that he who has held aloof so long will hold aloof no longer.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id45
sentence:
It is well to save your comrades from destruction, but your armour is in the hands of the Trojans; Hector bears it in triumph upon his own shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id46
sentence:
Full well I know that his vaunt shall not be lasting, for his end is close at hand ;go not, however, into the press of battle till you see me return hither; to- morrow at break of day I shall be here, and will bring you goodly armour from King Vulcan."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id47
sentence:
On this she left her brave son, and as she turned away she said to the sea- nymphs her sisters," Dive into the bosom of the sea and go to the house of the old sea-


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id49
sentence:
Tell him everything; as for me, I will go to the cunning workman Vulcan on high Olympus, and ask him to provide my son with a suit of splendid armour."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id50
sentence:
When she had so said, they dived forthwith beneath the waves, while silver- footed Thetis went her way that she might bring the armour for her son.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id51
sentence:
Thus, then, did her feet bear the goddess to Olympus, and meanwhile the Achaeans were flying with loud cries before murderous Hector till they reached the ships and the Hellespont, and they could not draw the body of Mars 's servant Patroclus out of reach of the weapons that were showered upon him, for Hector son of Priam with his host and horsemen had again caught up to him like the flame of a fiery furnace; thrice did brave Hector seize him by the feet, striving with might and main to draw him away and calling loudly on the Trojans, and thrice did the two Ajaxes, clothed in valour as with a garment, beat him from off the body; but all undaunted he would now charge into the thick of the fight, and now again he would stand still and cry aloud, but he would give no ground.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id52
sentence:
As upland shepherds that can not chase some famished lion from a carcase, even so could not the two Ajaxes scare Hector son of Priam from the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id53
sentence:
And now he would even have dragged it off and have won imperishable glory, had not Iris fleet as the wind, winged her way as messenger from Olympus to the son of Peleus and bidden him arm.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id54
sentence:
She came secretly without the knowledge of Jove and of the other gods, for Juno sent her, and when she had got close to him she said," Up, son of Peleus, mightiest of all mankind; rescue Patroclus about whom this fearful fight is now raging by the ships.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id55
sentence:
Men are killing one another, the Danaans in defence of the dead body, while the Trojans are trying to hale it away, and take it to windy Ilius: Hector is the most furious of them all; he is for cutting the head from the body and fixing it on the stakes of the wall.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id56
sentence:
Up, then, and bide here no longer; shrink from the thought that Patroclus may become meat for the dogs of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id59
sentence:
Iris answered," It was Juno the royal spouse of Jove, but the son of Saturn does not know of my coming, nor yet does any other of the immortals who dwell on the snowy summits of Olympus."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id62
sentence:
My mother forbade me to arm till I should see her come, for she promised to bring me goodly armour from Vulcan; I know no man whose arms I can put on, save only the shield of Ajax son of Telamon, and he surely must be fighting in the front rank and wielding his spear about the body of dead Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id63
sentence:
Iris said," We know that your armour has been taken, but go as you are; go to the deep trench and show yourself before the Trojans, that they may fear you and cease fighting.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id64
sentence:
Thus will the fainting sons of the Achaeans gain some brief breathing- time, which in battle may hardly be."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id66
sentence:
But Achilles dear to Jove arose, and Minerva flung her tasselled aegis round his strong shoulders; she crowned his head with a halo of golden cloud from which she kindled a glow of gleaming fire.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id67
sentence:
As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea— all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beacon- fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them— even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench, going beyond the wall— but he did not join the Achaeans for he heeded the charge which his mother laid upon him.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id70
sentence:
Ringing as the note of a trumpet that sounds alarm then the foe is at the gates of a city, even so brazen was the voice of the son of Aeacus, and when the Trojans heard its clarion tones they were dismayed; the horses turned back with their chariots for they boded mischief, and their drivers were awe- struck by the steady flame which the grey- eyed goddess had kindled above the head of the great son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id71
sentence:
Thrice did Achilles raise his loud cry as he stood by the trench, and thrice were the Trojans and their brave allies thrown into confusion; whereon twelve of their noblest champions fell beneath the wheels of their chariots and perished by their own spears.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id72
sentence:
The Achaeans to their great joy then drew Patroclus out of reach of the weapons, and laid him on a litter: his comrades stood mourning round him, and among them fleet Achilles who wept bitterly as he saw his true comrade lying dead upon his bier.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id74
sentence:
Then Juno sent the busy sun, loth though he was, into the waters of Oceanus; so he set, and the Achaeans had rest from the tug and turmoil of war.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id75
sentence:
Now the Trojans when they had come out of the fight, unyoked their horses and gathered in assembly before preparing their supper.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id76
sentence:
They kept their feet, nor would any dare to sit down, for fear had fallen upon them all because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from battle.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id77
sentence:
Polydamas son of Panthous was first to speak, a man of judgement, who alone among them could look both before and after.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id78
sentence:
He was comrade to Hector, and they had been born upon the same night; with all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:— "Look to it well, my friends; I would urge you to go back now to your city and not wait here by the ships till morning, for we are far from our walls.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id79
sentence:
So long as this man was at enmity with Agamemnon the Achaeans were easier to deal with, and I would have gladly camped by the ships in the hope of taking them; but now I go in great fear of the fleet son of Peleus; he is so daring that he will never bide here on the plain whereon the Trojans and Achaeans fight with equal valour, but he will try to storm our city and carry off our women.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id82
sentence:
The darkness of night will for a time stay the son of Peleus, but if he find us here in the morning when he sallies forth in full armour, we shall have knowledge of him in good earnest.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id83
sentence:
Glad indeed will he be who can escape and get back to Ilius, and many a Trojan will become meat for dogs and vultures


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id85
sentence:
If we do as I say, little though we may like it, we shall have strength in counsel during the night, and the great gates with the doors that close them will protect the city.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id86
sentence:
At dawn we can arm and take our stand on the walls; he will then rue it if he sallies from the ships to fight us.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id87
sentence:
He will go back when he has given his horses their fill of being driven all whithers under our walls, and will be in no mind to try and force his way into the city.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id90
sentence:
Hector looked fiercely at him and answered," Polydamas, your words are not to my liking in that you bid us go back and be pent within the city.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id92
sentence:
In the old- days the city of Priam was famous the whole world over for its wealth of gold and bronze, but our treasures are wasted out of our houses, and much goods have been sold away to Phrygia and fair Meonia, for the hand of Jove has been laid heavily upon us.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id93
sentence:
Now, therefore, that the son of scheming Saturn has vouchsafed me to win glory here and to hem the Achaeans in at their ships, prate no more in this fool 's wise among the people.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id94
sentence:
You will have no man with you; it shall not be; do all of you as I now say;—take your suppers in your companies throughout the host, and keep your watches and be wakeful every man of you.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id95
sentence:
If any Trojan is uneasy about his possessions, let him gather them and give them out among the people.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id97
sentence:
At daybreak we will arm and fight about the ships; granted that Achilles has again come forward to defend them, let it be as he will, but it shall go hard with him.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id100
sentence:
Thus spoke Hector; and the Trojans, fools that they were, shouted in applause, for Pallas Minerva had robbed them of their understanding.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id102
sentence:
They took their supper throughout the host, and meanwhile through the whole night the Achaeans mourned Patroclus, and the son of Peleus led them in their lament.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id103
sentence:
He laid his murderous hands upon the breast of his comrade, groaning again and again as a bearded lion when a man who was chasing deer has robbed him of his young in some dense forest; when the lion comes back he is furious, and searches dingle and dell to track the hunter if he can find him, for he is mad with rage— even so with many a sigh did Achilles speak among the Myrmidons saying," Alas!


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id104
sentence:
vain were the words with which I cheered the hero Menoetius in his own house; I said that I would bring his brave son back again to Opoeis after he had sacked Ilius and taken his share of the spoils— but Jove does not give all men their heart 's desire.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id105
sentence:
The same soil shall be reddened here at Troy by the blood of us both, for I too shall never be welcomed home by the old knight Peleus, nor by my mother Thetis, but even in this place shall the earth cover me.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id106
sentence:
Nevertheless, O Patroclus, now that I am left behind you, I will not bury you, till I have brought hither the head and armour of mighty Hector who has slain you.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id107
sentence:
Twelve noble sons of Trojans will I behead before your bier to avenge you; till I have done so you shall lie as you are by the ships, and fair women of Troy and Dardanus, whom we have taken with spear and strength of arm when we sacked men 's goodly cities, shall weep over you both night and day."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id108
sentence:
Then Achilles told his men to set a large tripod upon the fire that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id109
sentence:
Thereon they set a tripod full of bath water on to a clear fire: they threw sticks on to it to make it blaze, and the water became hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id110
sentence:
When the water in the cauldron was boiling they washed the body, anointed it with oil, and closed its wounds with ointment that had been kept nine years.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id111
sentence:
Then they laid it on a bier and covered it with a linen cloth from head to foot, and over this they laid a fair white robe.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id113
sentence:
Then Jove said to Juno his sister- wife," So, Queen Juno, you have gained your end, and have roused fleet Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id116
sentence:
May not a man though he be only mortal and knows less than we do, do what he can for another person?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id117
sentence:
And shall not I— foremost of all goddesses both by descent and as wife to you who reign in heaven— devise evil for the Trojans if I am angry with them?"


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id119
sentence:
Meanwhile Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable, star- bespangled, fairest of the abodes in heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god 's own hands.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id120
sentence:
She found him busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work, for he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by the wall of his house, and he set wheels of gold under them all that they might go of their own selves to the assemblies of the gods, and come back again— marvels indeed to see.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id121
sentence:
They were finished all but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was hammering at the rivets.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id123
sentence:
Charis, of graceful head- dress, wife to the far- famed lame god, came towards her as soon as she saw her, and took her hand in her own, saying," Why have you come to our house, Thetis, honoured and ever welcome— for you do not visit us often?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id125
sentence:
The goddess led the way as she spoke, and bade Thetis sit on a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver; there was a footstool also under her feet.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id126
sentence:
Then she called Vulcan and said," Vulcan, come here, Thetis wants you"; and the far- famed lame god answered," Then it is indeed an august and honoured goddess who has come here; she it was that took care of me when I was suffering from the heavy fall which I had through my cruel mother 's anger— for she would have got rid of me because I was lame.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id127
sentence:
It would have gone hardly with me had not Eurynome, daughter of the ever- encircling waters of Oceanus, and Thetis, taken me to their bosom.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id128
sentence:
Nine years did I stay with them, and many beautiful works in bronze, brooches, spiral armlets, cups, and chains, did I make for them in their cave, with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed ever past it; and no one knew, neither of gods nor men, save only Thetis and Eurynome who took care of me.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id129
sentence:
If, then, Thetis has come to my house I must make her due requital for having saved me; entertain her, therefore, with all hospitality, while I put by my bellows and all my tools."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id132
sentence:
Then he took a sponge and washed his face and hands, his shaggy chest and brawny neck; he donned his shirt, grasped his strong staff, and limped towards the door.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id133
sentence:
There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason, voice also and strength, and all the learning of the immortals; these busied themselves as the king bade them, while he drew near to Thetis, seated her upon a goodly seat, and took her hand in his own, saying," Why have you come to our house, Thetis honoured and ever welcome— for you do not visit us often?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id135
sentence:
Thetis wept and answered," Vulcan, is there another goddess in Olympus whom the son of Saturn has been pleased to try with so much affliction as he has me?


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id136
sentence:
Me alone of the marine goddesses did he make subject to a mortal husband, Peleus son of Aeacus, and sorely against my will did I submit to the embraces of one who was but mortal, and who now stays at home worn out with age.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id139
sentence:
I tended him as a plant in a goodly garden and sent him with his ships to Ilius to fight the Trojans, but never shall I welcome him back to the house of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id140
sentence:
So long as he lives to look upon the light of the sun, he is in heaviness, and though I go to him I can not help him; King Agamemnon has made him give up the maiden whom the sons of the Achaeans had awarded him, and he wastes with sorrow for her sake.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id141
sentence:
Then the Trojans hemmed the Achaeans in at their ships ' sterns and would not let them come forth; the elders, therefore, of the Argives besought Achilles and offered him great treasure, whereon he refused to bring deliverance to them himself, but put his own armour on Patroclus and sent him into the fight with much people after him.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id142
sentence:
All day long they fought by the Scaean gates and would have taken the city there and then, had not Apollo vouchsafed glory to Hector and slain the valiant son of Menoetius after he had done the Trojans much evil.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id143
sentence:
Therefore I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may be pleased to provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancle- clasps, and with a breastplate, for he lost his own when his true comrade fell at the hands of the Trojans, and he now lies stretched on earth in the bitterness of his soul."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id144
sentence:
And Vulcan answered," Take heart, and be no more disquieted about this matter; would that I could hide him from death 's sight when his hour is come, so surely as I can find him armour that shall amaze the eyes of all who behold it."


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id145
sentence:
When he had so said he left her and went to his bellows, turning them towards the fire and bidding them do their office.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id146
sentence:
Twenty bellows blew upon the melting- pots, and they blew blasts of every kind, some fierce to help him when he had need of them, and others less strong as Vulcan willed it in the course of his work.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id147
sentence:
He threw tough copper into the fire, and tin, with silver and gold; he set his great anvil on its block, and with one hand grasped his mighty hammer while he took the tongs in the other.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id148
sentence:
First he shaped the shield so great and strong, adorning it all over and binding it round with a gleaming circuit in three layers; and the baldric was made of silver.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id150
sentence:
He wrought the earth, the heavens, and the sea; the moon also at her full and the untiring sun, with all the signs that glorify the face of heaven— the Pleiads, the Hyads, huge Orion, and the Bear, which men also call the Wain and which turns round ever in one place, facing Orion, and alone never dips into the stream of Oceanus.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id152
sentence:
In the one were weddings and wedding- feasts, and they were going about the city with brides whom they were escorting by torchlight from their chambers.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id153
sentence:
Loud rose the cry of Hymen, and the youths danced to the music of flute and lyre, while the women stood each at her house door to see them.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id154
sentence:
Meanwhile the people were gathered in assembly, for there was a quarrel, and two men were wrangling about the blood- money for a man who had been killed, the one saying before the people that he had paid damages in full, and the other that he had not been paid.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id155
sentence:
Each was trying to make his own case good, and the people took sides, each man backing the side that he had taken; but the heralds kept them back, and the elders sate on their seats of stone in a solemn circle, holding the staves which the heralds had put into their hands.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id156
sentence:
Then they rose and each in his turn gave judgement, and there were two talents laid down, to be given to him whose judgement should be deemed the fairest.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id157
sentence:
About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour, and they were divided whether to sack it, or to spare it and accept the half of what it contained.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id158
sentence:
But the men of the city would not yet consent, and armed themselves for a surprise; their wives and little children kept guard upon the walls, and with them were the men who were past fighting through age; but the others sallied forth with Mars and Pallas Minerva at their head— both of them wrought in gold and clad in golden raiment, great and fair with their armour as befitting gods, while they that followed were smaller.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id159
sentence:
When they reached the place where they would lay their ambush, it was on a riverbed to which live stock of all kinds would come from far and near to water; here, then, they lay concealed, clad in full armour.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id160
sentence:
Some way off them there were two scouts who were on the look- out for the coming of sheep or cattle, which presently came, followed by two shepherds who were playing on their pipes, and had not so much as a thought of danger.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id162
sentence:
Meanwhile the besiegers, when they heard much noise among the cattle as they sat in council, sprang to their horses, and made with all speed towards them; when they reached them they set battle in array by the banks of the river, and the hosts aimed their bronze- shod spears at one another.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id163
sentence:
With them were Strife and Riot, and fell Fate who was dragging three men after her, one with a fresh wound, and the other unwounded, while the third was dead, and she was dragging him along by his heel: and her robe was bedrabbled in men 's blood.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id164
sentence:
They went in and out with one another and fought as though they were living people haling away one another 's dead.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id167
sentence:
Each time that they turned on reaching the headland a man would come up to them and give them a cup of wine, and they would go back to their furrows looking forward to the time when they should again reach the headland.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id168
sentence:
The part that they had ploughed was dark behind them, so that the field, though it was of gold, still looked as if it were being ploughed— very curious to behold.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id169
sentence:
He wrought also a field of harvest corn, and the reapers were reaping with sharp sickles in their hands.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id170
sentence:
Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id171
sentence:
There were three binders, and behind them there were boys who gathered the cut corn in armfuls and kept on bringing them to be bound: among them all the owner of the land stood by in silence and was glad.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id172
sentence:
The servants were getting a meal ready under an oak, for they had sacrificed a great ox, and were busy cutting him up, while the women were making a porridge of much white barley for the labourers ' dinner.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id175
sentence:
He ran a ditch of dark metal all round it, and fenced it with a fence of tin; there was only one path to it, and by this the vintagers went when they would gather the vintage.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id176
sentence:
Youths and maidens all blithe and full of glee, carried the luscious fruit in plaited baskets; and with them there went a boy who made sweet music with his lyre, and sang the Linos- song with his clear boyish voice.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id178
sentence:
He made the cows of gold and tin, and they lowed as they came full speed out of the yards to go and feed among the waving reeds that grow by the banks of the river.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id179
sentence:
Along with the cattle there went four shepherds, all of them in gold, and their nine fleet dogs went with them.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id180
sentence:
Two terrible lions had fastened on a bellowing bull that was with the foremost cows, and bellow as he might they haled him, while the dogs and men gave chase: the lions tore through the bull 's thick hide and were gorging on his blood and bowels, but the herdsmen were afraid to do anything, and only hounded on their dogs; the dogs dared not fasten on the lions but stood by barking and keeping out of harm 's way.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id181
sentence:
The god wrought also a pasture in a fair mountain dell, and a large flock of sheep, with a homestead and huts, and sheltered sheepfolds.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id183
sentence:
Hereon there danced youths and maidens whom all would woo, with their hands on one another 's wrists.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id185
sentence:
The girls were crowned with garlands, while the young men had daggers of gold that hung by silver baldrics; sometimes they would dance deftly in a ring with merry twinkling feet, as it were a potter sitting at his work and making trial of his wheel to see whether it will run, and sometimes they would go all in line with one another, and much people was gathered joyously about the green.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id186
sentence:
There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id188
sentence:
Then when he had fashioned the shield so great and strong, he made a breastplate also that shone brighter than fire.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id189
sentence:
He made a helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it; and he made greaves also of beaten tin.


title: homer-iliad_18
idx: id190
sentence:
Lastly, when the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles; whereon she darted like a falcon from the snowy summits of Olympus and bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id1
sentence:
TELEMACHUS AND ULYSSES REMOVE THE ARMOUR—ULYSSES INTERVIEWS PENELOPE—EURYCLEA WASHES HIS FEET AND RECOGNISES THE SCAR ON HIS LEG—PENELOPE TELLS HER DREAM TO ULYSSES.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id2
sentence:
Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby with Minerva 's help he might be able to kill the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id3
sentence:
Presently he said to Telemachus," Telemachus, we must get the armour together and take it down inside.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id5
sentence:
Say that you have taken it to be out of the way of the smoke, inasmuch as it is no longer what it was when Ulysses went away, but has become soiled and begrimed with soot.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id6
sentence:
Add to this more particularly that you are afraid Jove may set them on to quarrel over their wine, and that they may do each other some harm which may disgrace both banquet and wooing, for the sight of arms sometimes tempts people to use them."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id7
sentence:
Telemachus approved of what his father had said, so he called nurse Euryclea and said," Nurse, shut the women up in their room, while I take the armour that my father left behind him down into the store room.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id8
sentence:
No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id10
sentence:
"I wish, child," answered Euryclea," that you would take the management of the house into your own hands altogether, and look after all the property yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id13
sentence:
"The stranger," said Telemachus," shall show me a light; when people eat my bread they must earn it, no matter where they come from."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id15
sentence:
Then Ulysses and his son made all haste to take the helmets, shields, and spears inside; and Minerva went before them with a gold lamp in her hand that shed a soft and brilliant radiance, whereon Telemachus said," Father, my eyes behold a great marvel: the walls, with the rafters, crossbeams, and the supports on which they rest are all aglow as with a flaming fire.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id17
sentence:
"Hush," answered Ulysses," hold your peace and ask no questions, for this is the manner of the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id20
sentence:
On this Telemachus went by torch- light to the other side of the inner court, to the room in which he always slept.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id21
sentence:
There he lay in his bed till morning, while Ulysses was left in the cloister pondering on the means whereby with Minerva 's help he might be able to kill the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id22
sentence:
Then Penelope came down from her room looking like Venus or Diana, and they set her a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver and ivory near the fire in her accustomed place.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id23
sentence:
It had been made by Icmalius and had a footstool all in one piece with the seat itself; and it was covered with a thick fleece: on this she now sat, and the maids came from the women 's room to join her.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id24
sentence:
They set about removing the tables at which the wicked suitors had been dining, and took away the bread that was left, with the cups from which they had drunk.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id25
sentence:
They emptied the embers out of the braziers, and heaped much wood upon them to give both light and heat; but Melantho began to rail at Ulysses a second time and said," Stranger, do you mean to plague us by hanging about the house all night and spying upon the women?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id26
sentence:
Be off, you wretch, outside, and eat your supper there, or you shall be driven out with a firebrand."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id28
sentence:
Is it because I am not clean, and my clothes are all in rags, and because I am obliged to go begging about after the manner of tramps and beggars generally?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id29
sentence:
I too was a rich man once, and had a fine house of my own; in those days I gave to many a tramp such as I now am, no matter who he might be nor what he wanted.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id30
sentence:
I had any number of servants, and all the other things which people have who live well and are accounted wealthy, but it pleased Jove to take all away from me; therefore, woman, beware lest you too come to lose that pride and place in which you now wanton above your fellows; have a care lest you get out of favour with your mistress, and lest Ulysses should come home, for there is still a chance that he may do so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id31
sentence:
Moreover, though he be dead as you think he is, yet by Apollo 's will he has left a son behind him, Telemachus, who will note anything done amiss by the maids in the house, for he is now no longer in his boyhood."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id32
sentence:
Penelope heard what he was saying and scolded the maid," Impudent baggage," said she," I see how abominably you are behaving, and you shall smart for it.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id33
sentence:
You knew perfectly well, for I told you myself, that I was going to see the stranger and ask him about my husband, for whose sake I am in such continual sorrow."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id34
sentence:
Then she said to her head waiting woman Eurynome," Bring a seat with a fleece upon it, for the stranger to sit upon while he tells his story, and listens to what I have to say.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id36
sentence:
Eurynome brought the seat at once and set a fleece upon it, and as soon as Ulysses had sat down Penelope began by saying," Stranger, I shall first ask you who and whence are you?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id39
sentence:
Your fame reaches the firmament of heaven itself; you are like some blameless king, who upholds righteousness, as the monarch over a great and valiant nation: the earth yields its wheat and barley, the trees are loaded with fruit, the ewes bring forth lambs, and the sea abounds with fish by reason of his virtues, and his people do good deeds under him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id40
sentence:
Nevertheless, as I sit here in your house, ask me some other question and do not seek to know my race and family, or you will recall memories that will yet more increase my sorrow.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id41
sentence:
I am full of heaviness, but I ought not to sit weeping and wailing in another person 's house, nor is it well to be thus grieving continually.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id42
sentence:
I shall have one of the servants or even yourself complaining of me, and saying that my eyes swim with tears because I am heavy with wine."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id43
sentence:
Then Penelope answered," Stranger, heaven robbed me of all beauty, whether of face or figure, when the Argives set sail for Troy and my dear husband with them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id44
sentence:
If he were to return and look after my affairs I should be both more respected and should show a better presence to the world.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id45
sentence:
As it is, I am oppressed with care, and with the afflictions which heaven has seen fit to heap upon me.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id46
sentence:
The chiefs from all our islands— Dulichium, Same, and Zacynthus, as also from Ithaca itself, are wooing me against my will and are wasting my estate.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id47
sentence:
I can therefore show no attention to strangers, nor suppliants, nor to people who say that they are skilled artisans, but am all the time broken- hearted about Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id49
sentence:
In the first place heaven put it in my mind to set up a great tambour- frame in my room, and to begin working upon an enormous piece of fine needlework.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id50
sentence:
Then I said to them,' Sweethearts, Ulysses is indeed dead, still, do not press me to marry again immediately ;wait— for I would not have my skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have finished making a pall for the hero Laertes, to be ready against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id52
sentence:
This was what I said, and they assented; whereon I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id53
sentence:
I fooled them in this way for three years without their finding it out, but as time wore on and I was now in my fourth year, in the waning of moons, and many days had been accomplished, those good for nothing hussies my maids betrayed me to the suitors, who broke in upon me and caught me; they were very angry with me, so I was forced to finish my work whether I would or no.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id55
sentence:
My parents are putting great pressure upon me, and my son chafes at the ravages the suitors are making upon his estate, for he is now old enough to understand all about it and is perfectly able to look after his own affairs, for heaven has blessed him with an excellent disposition.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id56
sentence:
Still, notwithstanding all this, tell me who you are and where you come from— for you must have had father and mother of some sort; you can not be the son of an oak or of a rock."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id57
sentence:
Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, since you persist in asking me about my family, I will answer, no matter what it costs me: people must expect to be pained when they have been exiles as long as I have, and suffered as much among as many peoples.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id59
sentence:
There is a fair and fruitful island in mid - ocean called Crete; it is thickly peopled and there are ninety cities in it: the people speak many different languages which overlap one another, for there are Achaeans, brave Eteocretans, Dorians of three- fold race, and noble Pelasgi.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id60
sentence:
There is a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned who every nine years had a conference with Jove himself.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id62
sentence:
Idomeneus sailed for Troy, and I, who am the younger, am called Aethon; my brother, however, was at once the older and the more valiant of the two; hence it was in Crete that I saw Ulysses and showed him hospitality, for the winds took him there as he was on his way to Troy, carrying him out of his course from cape Malea and leaving him in Amnisus off the cave of Ilithuia, where the harbours are difficult to enter and he could hardly find shelter from the winds that were then raging.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id63
sentence:
As soon as he got there he went into the town and asked for Idomeneus, claiming to be his old and valued friend, but Idomeneus had already set sail for Troy some ten or twelve days earlier, so I took him to my own house and showed him every kind of hospitality, for I had abundance of everything.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id64
sentence:
Moreover, I fed the men who were with him with barley meal from the public store, and got subscriptions of wine and oxen for them to sacrifice to their heart 's content.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id65
sentence:
They stayed with me twelve days, for there was a gale blowing from the North so strong that one could hardly keep one 's feet on land.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id66
sentence:
I suppose some unfriendly god had raised it for them, but on the thirteenth day the wind dropped, and they got away."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id67
sentence:
Many a plausible tale did Ulysses further tell her, and Penelope wept as she listened, for her heart was melted.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id68
sentence:
As the snow wastes upon the mountain tops when the winds from South East and West have breathed upon it and thawed it till the rivers run bank full with water, even so did her cheeks overflow with tears for the husband who was all the time sitting by her side.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id69
sentence:
Ulysses felt for her and was sorry for her, but he kept his eyes as hard as horn or iron without letting them so much as quiver, so cunningly did he restrain his tears.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id70
sentence:
Then, when she had relieved herself by weeping, she turned to him again and said:" Now, stranger, I shall put you to the test and see whether or no you really did entertain my husband and his men, as you say you did.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id71
sentence:
Tell me, then, how he was dressed, what kind of a man he was to look at, and so also with his companions."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id73
sentence:
Twenty years are come and gone since he left my home, and went elsewhither; but I will tell you as well as I can recollect.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id74
sentence:
Ulysses wore a mantle of purple wool, double lined, and it was fastened by a gold brooch with two catches for the pin.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id75
sentence:
On the face of this there was a device that shewed a dog holding a spotted fawn between his fore paws, and watching it as it lay panting upon the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id76
sentence:
Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id77
sentence:
As for the shirt that he wore next his skin, it was so soft that it fitted him like the skin of an onion, and glistened in the sunlight to the admiration of all the women who beheld it.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id78
sentence:
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart, that I do not know whether Ulysses wore these clothes when he left home, or whether one of his companions had given them to him while he was on his voyage; or possibly some one at whose house he was staying made him a present of them, for he was a man of many friends and had few equals among the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id79
sentence:
I myself gave him a sword of bronze and a beautiful purple mantle, double lined, with a shirt that went down to his feet, and I sent him on board his ship with every mark of honour.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id80
sentence:
He had a servant with him, a little older than himself, and I can tell you what he was like; his shoulders were hunched he was dark, and he had thick curly hair.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id81
sentence:
His name was Eurybates, and Ulysses treated him with greater familiarity than he did any of the others, as being the most like- minded with himself."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id82
sentence:
Penelope was moved still more deeply as she heard the indisputable proofs that Ulysses laid before her; and when she had again found relief in tears she said to him," Stranger, I was already disposed to pity you, but henceforth you shall be honoured and made welcome in my house.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id84
sentence:
I took them out of the store room and folded them up myself, and I gave him also the gold brooch to wear as an ornament.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id87
sentence:
It was by an ill fate that he ever set out for that detested city whose very name I can not bring myself even to mention."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id88
sentence:
Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, do not disfigure yourself further by grieving thus bitterly for your loss, though I can hardly blame you for doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id89
sentence:
A woman who has loved her husband and borne him children, would naturally be grieved at losing him, even though he were a worse man than Ulysses, who they say was like a god.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id91
sentence:
I will hide nothing from you, and can say with perfect truth that I have lately heard of Ulysses as being alive and on his way home; he is among the Thesprotians, and is bringing back much valuable treasure that he has begged from one and another of them; but his ship and all his crew were lost as they were leaving the Thrinacian island, for Jove and the sun- god were angry with him because his men had slaughtered the sun- god 's cattle, and they were all drowned to a man.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id92
sentence:
But Ulysses stuck to the keel of the ship and was drifted on to the land of the Phaeacians, who are near of kin to the immortals, and who treated him as though he had been a god, giving him many presents, and wishing to escort him home safe and sound.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id93
sentence:
In fact Ulysses would have been here long ago, had he not thought better to go from land to land gathering wealth; for there is no man living who is so wily as he is; there is no one can compare with him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id94
sentence:
Pheidon king of the Thesprotians told me all this, and he swore to me— making drink- offerings in his house as he did so— that the ship was by the water side and the crew found who would take Ulysses to his own country.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id95
sentence:
He sent me off first, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat- growing island of Dulichium, but he showed me all the treasure Ulysses had got together, and he had enough lying in the house of king Pheidon to keep his family for ten generations; but the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove 's mind from the high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id96
sentence:
So you may know he is safe and will be here shortly; he is close at hand and can not remain away from home much longer; nevertheless I will confirm my words with an oath, and call Jove who is the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, as also that hearth of Ulysses to which I have now come, that all I have spoken shall surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id97
sentence:
Ulysses will return in this self same year; with the end of this moon and the beginning of the next he will be here."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id98
sentence:
"May it be even so," answered Penelope;" if your words come true you shall have such gifts and such good will from me that all who see you shall congratulate you; but I know very well how it will be.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id99
sentence:
Ulysses will not return, neither will you get your escort hence, for so surely as that Ulysses ever was ,there are now no longer any such masters in the house as he was, to receive honourable strangers or to further them on their way home.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id100
sentence:
And now, you maids, wash his feet for him, and make him a bed on a couch with rugs and blankets, that he may be warm and quiet till morning.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id101
sentence:
Then, at day break wash him and anoint him again, that he may sit in the cloister and take his meals with Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id102
sentence:
It shall be the worse for any one of these hateful people who is uncivil to him; like it or not, he shall have no more to do in this house.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id103
sentence:
For how, sir, shall you be able to learn whether or no I am superior to others of my sex both in goodness of heart and understanding, if I let you dine in my cloisters squalid and ill clad?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id104
sentence:
Men live but for a little season; if they are hard, and deal hardly, people wish them ill so long as they are alive, and speak contemptuously of them when they are dead, but he that is righteous and deals righteously, the people tell of his praise among all lands, and many shall call him blessed."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id105
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Madam, I have foresworn rugs and blankets from the day that I left the snowy ranges of Crete to go on shipboard.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id108
sentence:
Nor, again, do I like having my feet washed; I shall not let any of the young hussies about your house touch my feet; but, if you have any old and respectable woman who has gone through as much trouble as I have, I will allow her to wash them."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id109
sentence:
To this Penelope said," My dear sir, of all the guests who ever yet came to my house there never was one who spoke in all things with such admirable propriety as you do.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id110
sentence:
There happens to be in the house a most respectable old woman— the same who received my poor dear husband in her arms the night he was born, and nursed him in infancy.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id112
sentence:
"Come here," said she," Euryclea, and wash your master 's age- mate; I suppose Ulysses ' hands and feet are very much the same now as his are, for trouble ages all of us dreadfully fast."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id113
sentence:
On these words the old woman covered her face with her hands; she began to weep and made lamentation saying," My dear child, I can not think whatever I am to do with you.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id115
sentence:
No one in the whole world ever burned him more thigh bones, nor gave him finer hecatombs when you prayed you might come to a green old age yourself and see your son grow up to take after you: yet see how he has prevented you alone from ever getting back to your own home.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id116
sentence:
I have no doubt the women in some foreign palace which Ulysses has got to are gibing at him as all these sluts here have been gibing at you.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id117
sentence:
I do not wonder at your not choosing to let them wash you after the manner in which they have insulted you; I will wash your feet myself gladly enough, as Penelope has said that I am to do so; I will wash them both for Penelope 's sake and for your own, for you have raised the most lively feelings of compassion in my mind; and let me say this moreover, which pray attend to; we have had all kinds of strangers in distress come here before now, but I make bold to say that no one ever yet came who was so like Ulysses in figure, voice, and feet as you are."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id118
sentence:
"Those who have seen us both," answered Ulysses," have always said we were wonderfully like each other, and now you have noticed it too."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id119
sentence:
Then the old woman took the cauldron in which she was going to wash his feet, and poured plenty of cold water into it, adding hot till the bath was warm enough.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id120
sentence:
Ulysses sat by the fire, but ere long he turned away from the light, for it occurred to him that when the old woman had hold of his leg she would recognise a certain scar which it bore, whereon the whole truth would come out.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id121
sentence:
And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mt. Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolycus— who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world— and with the sons of Autolycus.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id122
sentence:
Mercury himself had endowed him with this gift, for he used to burn the thigh bones of goats and kids to him, so he took pleasure in his companionship.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id123
sentence:
It happened once that Autolycus had gone to Ithaca and had found the child of his daughter just born.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id124
sentence:
As soon as he had done supper Euryclea set the infant upon his knees and said," Autolycus, you must find a name for your grandson; you greatly wished that you might have one."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id125
sentence:
"Son- in- law and daughter," replied Autolycus," call the child thus: I am highly displeased with a large number of people in one place and another, both men and women; so name the child' Ulysses,' or the child of anger.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id126
sentence:
When he grows up and comes to visit his mother 's family on Mt. Parnassus, where my possessions lie, I will make him a present and will send him on his way rejoicing."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id127
sentence:
Ulysses, therefore, went to Parnassus to get the presents from Autolycus, who with his sons shook hands with him and gave him welcome.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id128
sentence:
His grandmother Amphithea threw her arms about him, and kissed his head, and both his beautiful eyes, while Autolycus desired his sons to get dinner ready, and they did as he told them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id129
sentence:
They brought in a five year old bull, flayed it, made it ready and divided it into joints; these they then cut carefully up into smaller pieces and spitted them; they roasted them sufficiently and served the portions round.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id130
sentence:
Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied; but when the sun set and it came on dark, they went to bed and enjoyed the boon of sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id131
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, the sons of Autolycus went out with their hounds hunting, and Ulysses went too.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id132
sentence:
They climbed the wooded slopes of Parnassus and soon reached its breezy upland valleys; but as the sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh- risen from the slow still currents of Oceanus, they came to a mountain dell.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id133
sentence:
The dogs were in front searching for the tracks of the beast they were chasing, and after them came the sons of Autolycus, among whom was Ulysses, close behind the dogs, and he had a long spear in his hand.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id134
sentence:
Here was the lair of a huge boar among some thick brushwood, so dense that the wind and rain could not get through it, nor could the sun 's rays pierce it, and the ground underneath lay thick with fallen leaves.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id135
sentence:
The boar heard the noise of the men 's feet, and the hounds baying on every side as the huntsmen came up to him, so he rushed from his lair, raised the bristles on his neck, and stood at bay with fire flashing from his eyes.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id136
sentence:
Ulysses was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id137
sentence:
As for the boar, Ulysses hit him on the right shoulder, and the point of the spear went right through him, so that he fell groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id138
sentence:
The sons of Autolycus busied themselves with the carcass of the boar, and bound Ulysses ' wound; then, after saying a spell to stop the bleeding, they went home as fast as they could.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id139
sentence:
But when Autolycus and his sons had thoroughly healed Ulysses, they made him some splendid presents, and sent him back to Ithaca with much mutual good will.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id140
sentence:
When he got back, his father and mother were rejoiced to see him, and asked him all about it, and how he had hurt himself to get the scar; so he told them how the boar had ripped him when he was out hunting with Autolycus and his sons on Mt. Parnassus.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id141
sentence:
As soon as Euryclea had got the scarred limb in her hands and had well hold of it, she recognised it and dropped the foot at once.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id142
sentence:
The leg fell into the bath, which rang out and was overturned, so that all the water was spilt on the ground; Euryclea 's eyes between her joy and her grief filled with tears, and she could not speak, but she caught Ulysses by the beard and said," My dear child, I am sure you must be Ulysses himself, only I did not know you till I had actually touched and handled you."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id143
sentence:
As she spoke she looked towards Penelope, as though wanting to tell her that her dear husband was in the house, but Penelope was unable to look in that direction and observe what was going on, for Minerva had diverted her attention; so Ulysses caught Euryclea by the throat with his right hand and with his left drew her close to him, and said," Nurse, do you wish to be the ruin of me, you who nursed me at your own breast, now that after twenty years of wandering I am at last come to my own home again?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id144
sentence:
Since it has been borne in upon you by heaven to recognise me, hold your tongue, and do not say a word about it to any one else in the house, for if you do I tell you— and it shall surely be— that if heaven grants me to take the lives of these suitors, I will not spare you, though you are my own nurse, when I am killing the other women."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id147
sentence:
I will hold my tongue like a stone or a piece of iron; furthermore let me say, and lay my saying to your heart, when heaven has delivered the suitors into your hand, I will give you a list of the women in the house who have been ill- behaved, and of those who are guiltless."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id148
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," Nurse, you ought not to speak in that way; I am well able to form my own opinion about one and all of them; hold your tongue and leave everything to heaven."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id149
sentence:
As he said this Euryclea left the cloister to fetch some more water, for the first had been all spilt; and when she had washed him and anointed him with oil, Ulysses drew his seat nearer to the fire to warm himself, and hid the scar under his rags.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id150
sentence:
Then Penelope began talking to him and said: "Stranger, I should like to speak with you briefly about another matter.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id152
sentence:
As for myself, heaven has given me a life of such unmeasurable woe, that even by day when I am attending to my duties and looking after the servants, I am still weeping and lamenting during the whole time; then, when night comes, and we all of us go to bed, I lie awake thinking, and my heart becomes a prey to the most incessant and cruel tortures.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id153
sentence:
As the dun nightingale, daughter of Pandareus, sings in the early spring from her seat in shadiest covert hid, and with many a plaintive trill pours out the tale how by mishap she killed her own child Itylus, son of king Zethus, even so does my mind toss and turn in its uncertainty whether I ought to stay with my son here, and safeguard my substance, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house, out of regard to public opinion and the memory of my late husband, or whether it is not now time for me to go with the best of these suitors who are wooing me and making me such magnificent presents.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id154
sentence:
As long as my son was still young, and unable to understand, he would not hear of my leaving my husband 's house, but now that he is full grown he begs and prays me to do so, being incensed at the way in which the suitors are eating up his property.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id156
sentence:
I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough and of which I am exceedingly fond.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id157
sentence:
I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id158
sentence:
Presently he soared off into the sky, and left them lying dead about the yard; whereon I wept in my dream till all my maids gathered round me, so piteously was I grieving because the eagle had killed my geese.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id159
sentence:
Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.'


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id160
sentence:
Be of good courage,' he said,' daughter of Icarius; this is no dream, but a vision of good omen that shall surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id161
sentence:
The geese are the suitors, and I am no longer an eagle, but your own husband, who am come back to you, and who will bring these suitors to a disgraceful end.'


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id163
sentence:
"This dream, Madam," replied Ulysses," can admit but of one interpretation, for had not Ulysses himself told you how it shall be fulfilled?


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id165
sentence:
And Penelope answered," Stranger, dreams are very curious and unaccountable things, and they do not by any means invariably come true.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id166
sentence:
There are two gates through which these unsubstantial fancies proceed; the one is of horn, and the other ivory.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id167
sentence:
Those that come through the gate of ivory are fatuous, but those from the gate of horn mean something to those that see them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id168
sentence:
I do not think, however, that my own dream came through the gate of horn, though I and my son should be most thankful if it proves to have done so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id169
sentence:
Furthermore I say— and lay my saying to your heart— the coming dawn will usher in the ill- omened day that is to sever me from the house of Ulysses, for I am about to hold a tournament of axes.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id170
sentence:
My husband used to set up twelve axes in the court, one in front of the other, like the stays upon which a ship is built; he would then go back from them and shoot an arrow through the whole twelve.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id171
sentence:
I shall make the suitors try to do the same thing, and whichever of them can string the bow most easily, and send his arrow through all the twelve axes, him will I follow, and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly and so abounding in wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id173
sentence:
Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, you need not defer your tournament, for Ulysses will return ere ever they can string the bow, handle it how they will, and send their arrows through the iron."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id174
sentence:
To this Penelope said," As long, sir, as you will sit here and talk to me, I can have no desire to go to bed.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id175
sentence:
Still, people can not do permanently without sleep, and heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id176
sentence:
I will therefore go upstairs and recline upon that couch which I have never ceased to flood with my tears from the day Ulysses set out for the city with a hateful name."


title: homer-odyssey_19
idx: id177
sentence:
She then went upstairs to her own room, not alone, but attended by her maidens, and when there, she lamented her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyelids.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id1
sentence:
THE FIGHT WITH IRUS—ULYSSES WARNS AMPHINOMUS—PENELOPE GETS PRESENTS FROM THE SUITORS—THE BRAZIERS—ULYSSES REBUKES EURYMACHUS.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id2
sentence:
Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id3
sentence:
This man had no strength nor stay in him, but he was a great hulking fellow to look at; his real name, the one his mother gave him, was Arnaeus, but the young men of the place called him Irus because he used to run errands for any one who would send him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id6
sentence:
Do you not see that they are all giving me the wink, and wanting me to turn you out by force ,only I do not like to do so?


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id8
sentence:
Ulysses frowned on him and said," My friend, I do you no manner of harm; people give you a great deal, but I am not jealous.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id9
sentence:
There is room enough in this doorway for the pair of us, and you need not grudge me things that are not yours to give.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id10
sentence:
You seem to be just such another tramp as myself, but perhaps the gods will give us better luck by and by.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id11
sentence:
Do not, however, talk too much about fighting or you will incense me, and old though I am, I shall cover your mouth and chest with blood.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id14
sentence:
I have a good mind to lay both hands about you, and knock your teeth out of your head like so many boar 's tusks.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id17
sentence:
Thus roundly did they rate one another on the smooth pavement in front of the doorway and when Antinous saw what was going on he laughed heartily and said to the others," This is the finest sport that you ever saw; heaven never yet sent anything like it into this house.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id21
sentence:
Listen to me," said Antinous," there are some goats ' paunches down at the fire, which we have filled with blood and fat, and set aside for supper; he who is victorious and proves himself to be the better man shall have his pick of the lot; he shall be free of our table and we will not allow any other beggar about the house at all."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id22
sentence:
The others all agreed, but Ulysses, to throw them off the scent, said," Sirs, an old man like myself, worn out with suffering, can not hold his own against a young one; but my irrepressible belly urges me on, though I know it can only end in my getting a drubbing.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id23
sentence:
You must swear, however that none of you will give me a foul blow to favour Irus and secure him the victory."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id24
sentence:
They swore as he told them, and when they had completed their oath Telemachus put in a word and said," Stranger, if you have a mind to settle with this fellow, you need not be afraid of any one here.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id26
sentence:
I am host, and the other chiefs, Antinous and Eurymachus, both of them men of understanding, are of the same mind as I am."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id27
sentence:
Every one assented, and Ulysses girded his old rags about his loins, thus baring his stalwart thighs, his broad chest and shoulders, and his mighty arms; but Minerva came up to him and made his limbs even stronger still.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id28
sentence:
The suitors were beyond measure astonished, and one would turn towards his neighbour saying," The stranger has brought such a thigh out of his old rags that there will soon be nothing left of Irus."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id29
sentence:
Irus began to be very uneasy as he heard them, but the servants girded him by force, and brought him[ into the open part of the court] in such a fright that his limbs were all of a tremble.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id30
sentence:
Antinous scolded him and said," You swaggering bully, you ought never to have been born at all if you are afraid of such an old broken down creature as this tramp is.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id31
sentence:
I say, therefore— and it shall surely be— if he beats you and proves himself the better man, I shall pack you off on board ship to the mainland and send you to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id33
sentence:
This frightened Irus still more, but they brought him into the middle of the court, and the two men raised their hands to fight.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id34
sentence:
Then Ulysses considered whether he should let drive so hard at him as to make an end of him then and there, or whether he should give him a lighter blow that should only knock him down; in the end he deemed it best to give the lighter blow for fear the Achaeans should begin to suspect who he was.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id35
sentence:
Then they began to fight, and Irus hit Ulysses on the right shoulder; but Ulysses gave Irus a blow on the neck under the ear that broke in the bones of his skull, and the blood came gushing out of his mouth; he fell groaning in the dust, gnashing his teeth and kicking on the ground, but the suitors threw up their hands and nearly died of laughter, as Ulysses caught hold of him by the foot and dragged him into the outer court as far as the gate- house.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id37
sentence:
Sit here," said he," and keep the dogs and pigs off; you are a pitiful creature, and if you try to make yourself king of the beggars any more you shall fare still worse."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id38
sentence:
Then he threw his dirty old wallet, all tattered and torn over his shoulder with the cord by which it hung, and went back to sit down upon the threshold; but the suitors went within the cloisters, laughing and saluting him," May Jove, and all the other gods," said they," grant you whatever you want for having put an end to the importunity of this insatiable tramp.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id39
sentence:
We will take him over to the mainland presently, to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id40
sentence:
Ulysses hailed this as of good omen, and Antinous set a great goat 's paunch before him filled with blood and fat.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id41
sentence:
Amphinomus took two loaves out of the bread- basket and brought them to him, pledging him as he did so in a golden goblet of wine. "


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id42
sentence:
Good luck to you," he said," father stranger, you are very badly off at present, but I hope you will have better times by and by."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id43
sentence:
To this Ulysses answered," Amphinomus, you seem to be a man of good understanding, as indeed you may well be, seeing whose son you are.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id45
sentence:
They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id47
sentence:
As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id48
sentence:
I know all about it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in the stubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father and my brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in all things always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to send him without vain glory.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id49
sentence:
Consider the infamy of what these suitors are doing; see how they are wasting the estate, and doing dishonour to the wife, of one who is certain to return some day, and that, too, not long hence.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id50
sentence:
Nay, he will be here soon; may heaven send you home quietly first that you may not meet with him in the day of his coming, for once he is here the suitors and he will not part bloodlessly."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id51
sentence:
With these words he made a drink- offering, and when he had drunk he put the gold cup again into the hands of Amphinomus, who walked away serious and bowing his head, for he foreboded evil.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id52
sentence:
But even so he did not escape destruction, for Minerva had doomed him to fall by the hand of Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id54
sentence:
Then Minerva put it into the mind of Penelope to show herself to the suitors, that she might make them still more enamoured of her, and win still further honour from her son and husband.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id55
sentence:
So she feigned a mocking laugh and said," Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id58
sentence:
"My dear child," answered Eurynome," all that you have said is true, go and tell your son about it, but first wash yourself and anoint your face.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id59
sentence:
Do not go about with your cheeks all covered with tears; it is not right that you should grieve so incessantly; for Telemachus, whom you always prayed that you might live to see with a beard, is already grown up."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id60
sentence:
"I know, Eurynome," replied Penelope," that you mean well, but do not try and persuade me to wash and to anoint myself, for heaven robbed me of all my beauty on the day my husband sailed; nevertheless, tell Autonoe and Hippodamia that I want them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id61
sentence:
They must be with me when I am in the cloister; I am not going among the men alone; it would not be proper for me to do so."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id63
sentence:
In the meantime Minerva bethought her of another matter, and sent Penelope off into a sweet slumber; so she lay down on her couch and her limbs became heavy with sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id65
sentence:
She washed her face with the ambrosial loveliness that Venus wears when she goes dancing with the Graces; she made her taller and of a more commanding figure, while as for her complexion it was whiter than sawn ivory.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id66
sentence:
When Minerva had done all this she went away, whereon the maids came in from the women 's room and woke Penelope with the sound of their talking.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id67
sentence:
"What an exquisitely delicious sleep I have been having," said she, as she passed her hands over her face," in spite of all my misery.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id68
sentence:
I wish Diana would let me die so sweetly now at this very moment, that I might no longer waste in despair for the loss of my dear husband, who possessed every kind of good quality and was the most distinguished man among the Achaeans."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id69
sentence:
With these words she came down from her upper room, not alone but attended by two of her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing- posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a staid maid servant on either side of her.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id70
sentence:
As they beheld her the suitors were so overpowered and became so desperately enamoured of her, that each one prayed he might win her for his own bed fellow.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id71
sentence:
"Telemachus," said she, addressing her son," I fear you are no longer so discreet and well conducted as you used to be.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id72
sentence:
When you were younger you had a greater sense of propriety; now, however, that you are grown up, though a stranger to look at you would take you for the son of a well to do father as far as size and good looks go ,your conduct is by no means what it should be.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id73
sentence:
What is all this disturbance that has been going on, and how came you to allow a stranger to be so disgracefully ill- treated?


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id76
sentence:
"I am not surprised, my dear mother, at your displeasure," replied Telemachus," I understand all about it and know when things are not as they should be, which I could not do when I was younger; I can not, however, behave with perfect propriety at all times.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id77
sentence:
First one and then another of these wicked people here keeps driving me out of my mind, and I have no one to stand by me.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id78
sentence:
After all, however, this fight between Irus and the stranger did not turn out as the suitors meant it to do, for the stranger got the best of it.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id79
sentence:
I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers of yours, some inside the house and some out; and I wish they might all be as limp as Irus is over yonder in the gate of the outer court.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id80
sentence:
See how he nods his head like a drunken man; he has had such a thrashing that he can not stand on his feet nor get back to his home, wherever that may be, for he has no strength left in him."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id82
sentence:
Eurymachus then came up and said," Queen Penelope, daughter of Icarius, if all the Achaeans in Iasian Argos could see you at this moment, you would have still more suitors in your house by tomorrow morning, for you are the most admirable woman in the whole world both as regards personal beauty and strength of understanding."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id83
sentence:
To this Penelope replied," Eurymachus, heaven robbed me of all my beauty whether of face or figure when the Argives set sail for Troy and my dear husband with them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id84
sentence:
If he were to return and look after my affairs, I should both be more respected and show a better presence to the world.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id86
sentence:
My husband foresaw it all, and when he was leaving home he took my right wrist in his hand—'Wife,' he said,' we shall not all of us come safe home from Troy, for the Trojans fight well both with bow and spear.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id87
sentence:
They are excellent also at fighting from chariots, and nothing decides the issue of a fight sooner than this.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id88
sentence:
I know not, therefore, whether heaven will send me back to you, or whether I may not fall over there at Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id90
sentence:
Take care of my father and mother as at present, and even more so during my absence, but when you see our son growing a beard, then marry whom you will, and leave this your present home.'


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id92
sentence:
A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Jove has taken from me all hope of happiness.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id95
sentence:
When men are courting a woman who they think will be a good wife to them and who is of noble birth, and when they are each trying to win her for himself, they usually bring oxen and sheep to feast the friends of the lady, and they make her magnificent presents, instead of eating up other people 's property without paying for it."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id96
sentence:
This was what she said, and Ulysses was glad when he heard her trying to get presents out of the suitors, and flattering them with fair words which he knew she did not mean.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id97
sentence:
Then Antinous said," Queen Penelope, daughter of Icarius, take as many presents as you please from any one who will give them to you; it is not well to refuse a present; but we will not go about our business nor stir from where we are, till you have married the best man among us whoever he may be."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id101
sentence:
Eurymachus immediately brought her a magnificent chain of gold and amber beads that gleamed like sunlight.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id102
sentence:
Eurydamas 's two men returned with some earrings fashioned into three brilliant pendants which glistened most beautifully; while king Pisander son of Polyctor gave her a necklace of the rarest workmanship, and every one else brought her a beautiful present of some kind.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id105
sentence:
They danced and sang till it grew dark; they then brought in three braziers to give light, and piled them up with chopped firewood very old and dry, and they lit torches from them, which the maids held up turn and turn about.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id106
sentence:
Then Ulysses said: "Maids, servants of Ulysses who has so long been absent, go to the queen inside the house; sit with her and amuse her, or spin, and pick wool.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id109
sentence:
The maids looked at one another and laughed, while pretty Melantho began to gibe at him contemptuously.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id110
sentence:
She was daughter to Dolius, but had been brought up by Penelope, who used to give her toys to play with, and looked after her when she was a child; but in spite of all this she showed no consideration for the sorrows of her mistress, and used to misconduct herself with Eurymachus, with whom she was in love.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id115
sentence:
You seem to have lost your wits because you beat the tramp Irus; take care that a better man than he does not come and cudgel you about the head till he pack you bleeding out of the house."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id116
sentence:
"Vixen," replied Ulysses, scowling at her," I will go and tell Telemachus what you have been saying, and he will have you torn limb from limb."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id119
sentence:
But Ulysses took his stand near the burning braziers, holding up torches and looking at the people— brooding the while on things that should surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id120
sentence:
But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id123
sentence:
It is not for nothing that this man has come to the house of Ulysses; I believe the light has not been coming from the torches, but from his own head— for his hair is all gone, every bit of it."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id124
sentence:
Then turning to Ulysses he said," Stranger, will you work as a servant, if I send you to the wolds and see that you are well paid?


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id128
sentence:
Not you; for you have got into bad ways, and do not want to work; you had rather fill your belly by going round the country begging."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id129
sentence:
"Eurymachus," answered Ulysses," if you and I were to work one against the other in early summer when the days are at their longest— give me a good scythe, and take another yourself, and let us see which will last the longer or mow the stronger, from dawn till dark when the mowing grass is about.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id130
sentence:
Or if you will plough against me, let us each take a yoke of tawny oxen, well- mated and of great strength and endurance :turn me into a four acre field, and see whether you or I can drive the straighter furrow.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id131
sentence:
If, again, war were to break out this day, give me a shield, a couple of spears and a helmet fitting well upon my temples— you would find me foremost in the fray, and would cease your gibes about my belly.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id132
sentence:
You are insolent and cruel, and think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id133
sentence:
If Ulysses comes to his own again, the doors of his house are wide, but you will find them narrow when you try to fly through them."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id135
sentence:
He scowled at him and cried," You wretch, I will soon pay you out for daring to say such things to me, and in public too.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id138
sentence:
With this he caught hold of a footstool, but Ulysses sought protection at the knees of Amphinomus of Dulichium, for he was afraid.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id139
sentence:
The stool hit the cupbearer on his right hand and knocked him down: the man fell with a cry flat on his back, and his wine- jug fell ringing to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id140
sentence:
The suitors in the covered cloister were now in an uproar, and one would turn towards his neighbour, saying," I wish the stranger had gone somewhere else, bad luck to him, for all the trouble he gives us.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id141
sentence:
We can not permit such disturbance about a beggar; if such ill counsels are to prevail we shall have no more pleasure at our banquet."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id145
sentence:
I do not wish to drive any of you away, but you have had your suppers, and the sooner you all go home to bed the better."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id146
sentence:
The suitors bit their lips and marvelled at the boldness of his speech; but Amphinomus the son of Nisus, who was son to Aretias, said," Do not let us take offence; it is reasonable, so let us make no answer.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id148
sentence:
Let the cupbearer go round with the drink- offerings, that we may make them and go home to our rest.


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id149
sentence:
As for the stranger, let us leave Telemachus to deal with him, for it is to his house that he has come."


title: homer-odyssey_18
idx: id150
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and his saying pleased them well, so Mulius of Dulichium, servant to Amphinomus, mixed them a bowl of wine and water and handed it round to each of them man by man, whereon they made their drink- offerings to the blessed gods: Then, when they had made their drink- offerings and had drunk each one as he was minded, they took their several ways each of them to his own abode.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id2
sentence:
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements, while the Achaeans with their shields laid upon their shoulders drew close up to the walls.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id4
sentence:
Then Phoebus Apollo spoke to the son of Peleus saying," Why, son of Peleus, do you, who are but man, give chase to me who am immortal?


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id6
sentence:
You did not harass the Trojans whom you had routed, and now they are within their walls, while you have been decoyed hither away from them.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id9
sentence:
Darter, most malicious of all gods, and have drawn me away from the wall, where many another man would have bitten the dust


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id10
sentence:
ere he got within Ilius; you have robbed me of great glory and have saved the Trojans at no risk to yourself, for you have nothing to fear, but I would indeed have my revenge if it were in my power to do so."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id11
sentence:
On this, with fell intent he made towards the city, and as the winning horse in a chariot race strains every nerve when he is flying over the plain, even so fast and furiously did the limbs of Achilles bear him onwards.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id12
sentence:
King Priam was first to note him as he scoured the plain, all radiant as the star which men call Orion 's Hound, and whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night; brightest of them all though he be, he yet bodes ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fever in his train— even so did Achilles ' armour gleam on his breast as he sped onwards.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id13
sentence:
Priam raised a cry and beat his head with his hands as he lifted them up and shouted out to his dear son, imploring him to return; but Hector still stayed before the gates, for his heart was set upon doing battle with Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id15
sentence:
Hector," he cried," my son, stay not to face this man alone and unsupported, or you will meet death at the hands of the son of Peleus, for he is mightier than you.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id16
sentence:
Monster that he is; would indeed that the gods loved him no better than I do, for so, dogs and vultures would soon devour him as he lay stretched on earth, and a load of grief would be lifted from my heart, for many a brave son


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id17
sentence:
has he reft from me, either by killing them or selling them away in the islands that are beyond the sea: even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id18
sentence:
Should they be still alive and in the hands of the Achaeans, we will ransom them with gold and bronze, of which we have store, for the old man Altes endowed his daughter richly; but if they are already dead and in the house of Hades, sorrow will it be to us two who were their parents; albeit the grief of others will be more short- lived unless you too perish at the hands of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id19
sentence:
Come, then, my son, within the city, to be the guardian of Trojan men and Trojan women, or you will both lose your own life and afford a mighty triumph to the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id20
sentence:
Have pity also on your unhappy father while life yet remains to him— on me, whom the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the threshold of old age, after I have seen my sons slain and my daughters haled away as captives, my bridal chambers pillaged, little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, and my sons ' wives dragged away by the cruel hands of the Achaeans; in the end fierce hounds will tear me in pieces at my own gates after some one has beaten the life out of my body with sword or spear- hounds that I myself reared and fed at my own table to guard my gates, but who will yet lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id21
sentence:
When a young man falls by the sword in battle, he may lie where he is and there is nothing unseemly; let what will be seen, all is honourable in death, but when an old man is slain there is nothing in this world more pitiable than that dogs should defile his grey hair and beard and all that men hide for shame."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id23
sentence:
His mother hard by wept and moaned aloud as she bared her bosom and pointed to the breast which had suckled him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id25
sentence:
Hector," she cried, weeping bitterly the while," Hector, my son, spurn not this breast, but have pity upon me too: if I have ever given you comfort from my own bosom, think on it now, dear son, and come within the wall to protect us from this man ;stand not without to meet him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id26
sentence:
Should the wretch kill you, neither I nor your richly dowered wife shall ever weep, dear offshoot of myself, over the bed on which you lie, for dogs will devour you at the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id27
sentence:
Thus did the two with many tears implore their son, but they moved not the heart of Hector, and he stood his ground awaiting huge Achilles as he drew nearer towards him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id28
sentence:
As a serpent in its den upon the mountains, full fed with deadly poisons, waits for the approach of man— he is filled with fury and his eyes glare terribly as he goes writhing round his den —even so Hector leaned his shield against a tower that jutted out from the wall and stood where he was, undaunted.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id29
sentence:
"Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart," if I go within the gates, Polydamas will be the first to heap reproach upon me, for it was he that urged me to lead the Trojans back to the city on that awful night when Achilles again came forth against us.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id31
sentence:
Now that my folly has destroyed the host, I dare not look Trojan men and Trojan women in the face, lest a worse man should say,' Hector has ruined us by his self- confidence.'


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id32
sentence:
Surely it would be better for me to return after having fought Achilles and slain him, or to die gloriously here before the city.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id33
sentence:
What, again, if I were to lay down my shield and helmet, lean my spear against the wall and go straight up to noble Achilles?


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id34
sentence:
What if I were to promise to give up Helen, who was the fountainhead of all this war, and all the treasure that Alexandrus brought with him in his ships to Troy, aye, and to let the Achaeans divide the half of everything that the city contains among themselves?


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id35
sentence:
I might make the Trojans, by the mouths of their princes, take a solemn oath that they would hide nothing, but would divide into two shares all that is within the city— but why argue with myself in this way?


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id36
sentence:
Were I to go up to him he would show me no kind of mercy; he would kill me then and there as easily as though I were a woman, when I had off my armour.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id37
sentence:
There is no parleying with him from some rock or oak tree as young men and maidens prattle with one another.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id39
sentence:
Thus did he stand and ponder, but Achilles came up to him as it were Mars himself, plumed lord of battle.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id40
sentence:
From his right shoulder he brandished his terrible spear of Pelian ash, and the bronze gleamed around him like flashing fire or the rays of the rising sun.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id41
sentence:
Fear fell upon Hector as he beheld him, and he dared not stay longer where he was but fled in dismay from before the gates, while Achilles darted after him at his utmost speed.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id42
sentence:
As a mountain falcon, swiftest of all birds, swoops down upon some cowering dove— the dove flies before him but the falcon with a shrill scream follows close after, resolved to have her— even so did Achilles make straight for Hector with all his might, while Hector fled under the Trojan wall as fast as his limbs could take him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id43
sentence:
On they flew along the waggon- road that ran hard by under the wall, past the lookout station, and past the weather- beaten wild fig- tree, till they came to two fair springs which feed the river Scamander.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id44
sentence:
One of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from it as smoke from a burning fire, but the other even in summer is as cold as hail or snow, or the ice that forms on water.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id45
sentence:
Here, hard by the springs, are the goodly washing- troughs of stone, where in the time of peace before the coming of the Achaeans the wives and fair daughters of the Trojans used to wash their clothes.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id46
sentence:
Past these did they fly, the one in front and the other giving chase behind him: good was the man that fled, but better far was he that followed after, and swiftly indeed did they run, for the prize was no mere beast for sacrifice or bullock 's hide, as it might be for a common foot- race, but they ran for the life of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id47
sentence:
As horses in a chariot race speed round the turning- posts when they are running for some great prize— a tripod or woman— at the games in honour of some dead hero, so did these two run full speed three times round the city of Priam.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id49
sentence:
"Alas," said he," my eyes behold a man who is dear to me being pursued round the walls of Troy; my heart is full of pity for Hector, who has burned the thigh- bones of many a heifer in my honour, one while on the crests of many- valleyed Ida, and again on the citadel of Troy; and now I see noble Achilles in full pursuit of him round the city of Priam.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id51
sentence:
Consider among yourselves and decide whether we shall now save him or let him fall, valiant though he be, before Achilles, son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id58
sentence:
Thus did he urge Minerva who was already eager, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id59
sentence:
Achilles was still in full pursuit of Hector, as a hound chasing a fawn which he has started from its covert on the mountains, and hunts through glade and thicket.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id60
sentence:
The fawn may try to elude him by crouching under cover of a bush, but he will scent her out and follow her up until he gets her— even so there was no escape for Hector from the fleet son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id61
sentence:
Whenever he made a set to get near the Dardanian gates and under the walls, that his people might help him by showering down weapons from above, Achilles would gain on him and head him back towards the plain, keeping himself always on the city side.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id62
sentence:
As a man in a dream who fails to lay hands upon another whom he is pursuing— the one can not escape nor the other overtake— even so neither could Achilles come up with Hector, nor Hector break away from Achilles; nevertheless he might even yet have escaped death had not the time come when Apollo, who thus far had sustained his strength and nerved his running, was now no longer to stay by him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id63
sentence:
Achilles made signs to the Achaean host, and shook his head to show that no man was to aim a dart at Hector, lest another might win the glory of having hit him and he might himself come in second.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id64
sentence:
Then, at last, as they were nearing the fountains for the fourth time, the father of all balanced his golden scales and placed a doom in each of them, one for Achilles and the other for Hector.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id65
sentence:
As he held the scales by the middle, the doom of Hector fell down deep into the house of Hades— and then Phoebus Apollo left him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id66
sentence:
Thereon Minerva went close up to the son of Peleus and said," Noble Achilles, favoured of heaven, we two shall surely take back to the ships a triumph for the Achaeans by slaying Hector, for all his lust of battle.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id67
sentence:
Do what Apollo may as he lies grovelling before his father, aegis- bearing Jove, Hector can not escape us longer.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id70
sentence:
Achilles obeyed her gladly, and stood still, leaning on his bronze- pointed ashen spear, while Minerva left him and went after Hector in the form and with the voice of Deiphobus.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id71
sentence:
She came close up to him and said," Dear brother, I see you are hard pressed by Achilles who is chasing you at full speed round the city of Priam, let us await his onset and stand on our defence."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id72
sentence:
And Hector answered," Deiphobus, you have always been dearest to me of all my brothers, children of Hecuba and Priam, but henceforth I shall rate you yet more highly, inasmuch as you have ventured outside the wall for my sake when all the others remain inside."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id73
sentence:
Then Minerva said," Dear brother, my father and mother went down on their knees and implored me, as did all my comrades, to remain inside, so great a fear has fallen upon them all; but I was in an agony of grief when I beheld you; now, therefore, let us two make a stand and fight, and let there be no keeping our spears in reserve, that we may learn whether Achilles shall kill us and bear off our spoils to the ships, or whether he shall fall before you."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id74
sentence:
Thus did Minerva inveigle him by her cunning, and when the two were now close to one another great Hector was first to speak.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id76
sentence:
Three times have I fled round the mighty city of Priam, without daring to withstand you, but now, let me either slay or be slain, for I am in the mind to face you.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id77
sentence:
Let us, then, give pledges to one another by our gods, who are the fittest witnesses and guardians of all covenants; let it be agreed between us that if Jove vouchsafes me the longer stay and I take your life, I am not to treat your dead body in any unseemly fashion, but when I have stripped you of your armour, I am to give up your body to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id80
sentence:
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out all through.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id81
sentence:
Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall and glut grim Mars with his life 's blood.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id82
sentence:
Put forth all your strength; you have need now to prove yourself indeed a bold soldier and man of war.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id83
sentence:
You have no more chance, and Pallas Minerva will forthwith vanquish you by my spear: you shall now pay me in full for the grief you have caused me on account of my comrades whom you have killed in battle."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id85
sentence:
Hector saw it coming and avoided it; he watched it and crouched down so that it flew over his head and stuck in the ground beyond; Minerva then snatched it up and gave it back to Achilles without Hector 's seeing her; Hector thereon said to the son of Peleus," You have missed your aim, Achilles, peer of the gods, and Jove has not yet revealed to you the hour of my doom, though you made sure that he had done so.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id87
sentence:
You shall not drive your spear into the back of a runaway— drive it, should heaven so grant you power, drive it into me as I make straight towards you; and now for your own part avoid my spear if you can— would that you might receive the whole of it into your body; if you were once dead the Trojans would find the war an easier matter, for it is you who have harmed them most."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id89
sentence:
His aim was true for he hit the middle of Achilles ' shield, but the spear rebounded from it, and did not pierce it.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id90
sentence:
Hector was angry when he saw that the weapon had sped from his hand in vain, and stood there in dismay for he had no second spear.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id91
sentence:
With a loud cry he called Deiphobus and asked him for one, but there was no man; then he saw the truth and said to himself," Alas!


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id93
sentence:
I deemed that the hero Deiphobus was by my side, but he is within the wall, and Minerva has inveigled me; death is now indeed exceedingly near at hand and there is no way out of it— for so Jove and his son Apollo the far- darter have willed it, though heretofore they have been ever ready to protect me.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id94
sentence:
My doom has come upon me; let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id95
sentence:
As he spoke he drew the keen blade that hung so great and strong by his side, and gathering himself together be sprang on Achilles like a soaring eagle which swoops down from the clouds on to some lamb or timid hare— even so did Hector brandish his sword and spring upon Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id96
sentence:
Achilles mad with rage darted towards him, with his wondrous shield before his breast, and his gleaming helmet, made with four layers of metal, nodding fiercely forward.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id97
sentence:
The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id98
sentence:
He eyed his fair flesh over and over to see where he could best wound it, but all was protected by the goodly armour of which Hector had spoiled Patroclus after he had slain him, save only the throat where the collar- bones divide the neck from the shoulders, and this is a most deadly place: here then did Achilles strike him as he was coming on towards him, and the point of his spear went right through the fleshy part of the neck, but it did not sever his windpipe so that he could still speak.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id99
sentence:
Hector fell headlong, and Achilles vaunted over him saying," Hector, you deemed that you should come off scatheless when you were spoiling Patroclus, and recked not of myself who was not with him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id100
sentence:
Fool that you were: for I, his comrade, mightier far than he, was still left behind him at the ships, and now I have laid you low.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id101
sentence:
The Achaeans shall give him all due funeral rites, while dogs and vultures shall work their will upon yourself."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id102
sentence:
Then Hector said, as the life ebbed out of him," I pray you by your life and knees, and by your parents, let not dogs devour me at the ships of the Achaeans, but accept the rich treasure of gold and bronze which my father and mother will offer you, and send my body home, that the Trojans and their wives may give me my dues of fire when I am dead."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id103
sentence:
Achilles glared at him and answered," Dog, talk not to me neither of knees nor parents; would that I could be as sure of being able to cut your flesh into pieces and eat it raw, for the ill you have done me, as I am that nothing shall save you from the dogs— it shall not be, though they bring ten or twenty - fold ransom and weigh it out for me on the spot, with promise of yet more hereafter.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id104
sentence:
Though Priam son of Dardanus should bid them offer me your weight in gold, even so your mother shall never lay you out and make lament over the son she bore, but dogs and vultures shall eat you utterly up."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id105
sentence:
Hector with his dying breath then said," I know you what you are, and was sure that I should not move you, for your heart is hard as iron; look to it that I bring not heaven 's anger upon you on the day when Paris and Phoebus Apollo, valiant though you be, shall slay you at the Scaean gates."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id106
sentence:
When he had thus said the shrouds of death enfolded him, whereon his soul went out of him and flew down to the house of Hades, lamenting its sad fate that it should enjoy youth and strength no longer.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id107
sentence:
But Achilles said, speaking to the dead body," Die; for my part I will accept my fate whensoever Jove and the other gods see fit to send it."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id108
sentence:
As he spoke he drew his spear from the body and set it on one side; then he stripped the blood- stained armour from Hector 's shoulders while the other Achaeans came running up to view his wondrous strength and beauty; and no one came near him without giving him a fresh wound.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id109
sentence:
Then would one turn to his neighbour and say," 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.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id110
sentence:
When Achilles had done spoiling Hector of his armour, he stood among the Argives and said," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, now that heaven has vouchsafed us to overcome this man, who has done us more hurt than all the others together, consider whether we should not attack the city in force, and discover in what mind the Trojans may be.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id111
sentence:
We should thus learn whether they will desert their city now that Hector has fallen, or will still hold out even though he is no longer living.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id112
sentence:
But why argue with myself in this way, while Patroclus is still lying at the ships unburied, and unmourned— he whom I can never forget so long as I am alive and my strength fails not?


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id113
sentence:
Though men forget their dead when once they are within the house of Hades, yet not even there will I forget the comrade whom I have lost.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id114
sentence:
Now, therefore, Achaean youths, let us raise the song of victory and go back to the ships taking this man along with us; for we have achieved a mighty triumph and have slain noble Hector to whom the Trojans prayed throughout their city as though he were a god."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id115
sentence:
On this he treated the body of Hector with contumely: he pierced the sinews at the back of both his feet from heel to ancle and passed thongs of ox- hide through the slits he had made: thus he made the body fast to his chariot, letting the head trail upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id116
sentence:
Then when he had put the goodly armour on the chariot and had himself mounted, he lashed his horses on and they flew forward nothing loth.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id117
sentence:
The dust rose from Hector as he was being dragged along, his dark hair flew all abroad, and his head once so comely was laid low on earth, for Jove had now delivered him into the hands of his foes to do him outrage in his own land.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id124
sentence:
Let be, my friends," he cried," and for all your sorrow, suffer me to go single- handed to the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id125
sentence:
Let me beseech this cruel and terrible man, if maybe he will respect the feeling of his fellow- men, and have compassion on my old age.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id126
sentence:
His own father is even such another as myself— Peleus, who bred him and reared him to be the bane of us Trojans, and of myself more than of all others.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id127
sentence:
Many a son of mine has he slain in the flower of his youth, and yet, grieve for these as I may, I do so for one— Hector— more than for them all, and the bitterness of my sorrow will bring me down to the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id128
sentence:
Would that he had died in my arms, for so both his ill- starred mother who bore him, and myself, should have had the comfort of weeping and mourning over him."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id132
sentence:
Night and day did I glory in you throughout the city, for you were a tower of strength to all in Troy, and both men and women alike hailed you as a god.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id134
sentence:
Hector 's wife had as yet heard nothing, for no one had come to tell her that her husband had remained without the gates.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id135
sentence:
She was at her loom in an inner part of the house, weaving a double purple web, and embroidering it with many flowers.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id136
sentence:
She told her maids to set a large tripod on the fire, so as to have a warm bath ready for Hector when he came out of battle; poor woman, she knew not that he was now beyond the reach of baths, and that Minerva had laid him low by the hands of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id137
sentence:
She heard the cry coming as from the wall, and trembled in every limb; the shuttle fell from her hands, and again she spoke to her waiting- women."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id138
sentence:
Two of you," she said," come with me that I may learn what it is that has befallen; I heard the voice of my husband 's honoured mother; my own heart beats as though it would come into my mouth and my limbs refuse to carry me; some great misfortune for Priam 's children must be at hand.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id139
sentence:
May I never live to hear it, but I greatly fear that Achilles has cut off the retreat of brave Hector and has chased him on to the plain where he was singlehanded; I fear he may have put an end to the reckless daring which possessed my husband, who would never remain with the body of his men, but would dash on far in front, foremost of them all in valour."


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id140
sentence:
Her heart beat fast, and as she spoke she flew from the house like a maniac, with her waiting- women following after.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id141
sentence:
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.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id143
sentence:
She tore the attiring from her head and flung it from her, the frontlet and net with its plaited band, and the veil which golden Venus had given her on the day when Hector took her with him from the house of Eetion, after having given countless gifts of wooing for her sake.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id144
sentence:
Her husband 's sisters and the wives of his brothers crowded round her and supported her, for she was fain to die in her distraction; when she again presently breathed and came to herself, she sobbed and made lament among the Trojans saying," Woe is me, O Hector; woe, indeed, that to share a common lot we were born, you at Troy in the house of Priam, and I at Thebes under the wooded mountain of Placus in the house of Eetion who brought me up when I was a child— ill- starred sire of an ill- starred daughter— would that he had never begotten me.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id145
sentence:
You are now going into the house of Hades under the secret places of the earth, and you leave me a sorrowing widow in your house.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id148
sentence:
Even though he escape the horrors of this woeful war with the Achaeans, yet shall his life henceforth be one of labour and sorrow, for others will seize his lands.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id149
sentence:
The day that robs a child of his parents severs him from his own kind; his head is bowed, his cheeks are wet with tears, and he will go about destitute among the friends of his father, plucking one by the cloak and another by the shirt.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id150
sentence:
Some one or other of these may so far pity him as to hold the cup for a moment towards him and let him moisten his lips, but he must not drink enough to wet the roof of his mouth; then one whose parents are alive will drive him from the table with blows and angry words.'


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id151
sentence:
Out with you,' he will say,' you have no father here,' and the child will go crying back to his widowed mother— he, Astyanax, who erewhile would sit upon his father 's knees, and have none but the daintiest and choicest morsels set before him.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id152
sentence:
When he had played till he was tired and went to sleep, he would lie in a bed, in the arms of his nurse, on a soft couch, knowing neither want nor care, whereas now that he has lost his father his lot will be full of hardship— he, whom the Trojans name Astyanax, because you, O Hector, were the only defence of their gates and battlements.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id153
sentence:
The wriggling writhing worms will now eat you at the ships, far from your parents, when the dogs have glutted themselves upon you.


title: homer-iliad_22
idx: id155
sentence:
This will I now burn; it is of no use to you, for you can never again wear it, and thus you will have respect shown you by the Trojans both men and women."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id1
sentence:
THE GHOSTS OF THE SUITORS IN HADES—ULYSSES AND HIS MEN GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES—THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA COME OUT TO ATTACK ULYSSES, BUT MINERVA CONCLUDES A PEACE.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id2
sentence:
Then Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men 's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases; with this he roused the ghosts and led them, while they followed whining and gibbering behind him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id3
sentence:
As bats fly squealing in the hollow of some great cave, when one of them has fallen out of the cluster in which they hang, even so did the ghosts whine and squeal as Mercury the healer of sorrow led them down into the dark abode of death.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id4
sentence:
When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id5
sentence:
Here they found the ghost of Achilles son of Peleus, with those of Patroclus, Antilochus, and Ajax, who was the finest and handsomest man of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus himself.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id6
sentence:
They gathered round the ghost of the son of Peleus, and the ghost of Agamemnon joined them, sorrowing bitterly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id7
sentence:
Round him were gathered also the ghosts of those who had perished with him in the house of Aegisthus; and the ghost of Achilles spoke first.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id8
sentence:
"Son of Atreus," it said," we used to say that Jove had loved you better from first to last than any other hero, for you were captain over many and brave men, when we were all fighting together before Troy; yet the hand of death, which no mortal can escape, was laid upon you all too early.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id9
sentence:
Better for you had you fallen at Troy in the hey- day of your renown, for the Achaeans would have built a mound over your ashes, and your son would have been heir to your good name, whereas it has now been your lot to come to a most miserable end."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id10
sentence:
"Happy son of Peleus," answered the ghost of Agamemnon," for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id12
sentence:
We fought the whole of the livelong day, nor should we ever have left off if Jove had not sent a hurricane to stay us.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id13
sentence:
Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id15
sentence:
Your mother, when she heard, came with her immortal nymphs from out of the sea, and the sound of a great wailing went forth over the waters so that the Achaeans quaked for fear.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id16
sentence:
They would have fled panic- stricken to their ships had not wise old Nestor whose counsel was ever truest checked them saying,' Hold, Argives, fly not sons of the Achaeans, this is his mother coming from the sea with her immortal nymphs to view the body of her son.'


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id18
sentence:
The daughters of the old man of the sea stood round you weeping bitterly, and clothed you in immortal raiment.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id19
sentence:
The nine muses also came and lifted up their sweet voices in lament— calling and answering one another; there was not an Argive but wept for pity of the dirge they chaunted.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id20
sentence:
Days and nights seven and ten we mourned you, mortals and immortals, but on the eighteenth day we gave you to the flames, and many a fat sheep with many an ox did we slay in sacrifice around you.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id21
sentence:
You were burnt in raiment of the gods, with rich resins and with honey, while heroes, horse and foot, clashed their armour round the pile as you were burning, with the tramp as of a great multitude.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id22
sentence:
But when the flames of heaven had done their work, we gathered your white bones at daybreak and laid them in ointments and in pure wine.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id23
sentence:
Your mother brought us a golden vase to hold them— gift of Bacchus, and work of Vulcan himself; in this we mingled your bleached bones with those of Patroclus who had gone before you, and separate we enclosed also those of Antilochus, who had been closer to you than any other of your comrades now that Patroclus was no more.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id24
sentence:
"Over these the host of the Argives built a noble tomb, on a point jutting out over the open Hellespont, that it might be seen from far out upon the sea by those now living and by them that shall be born hereafter.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id25
sentence:
Your mother begged prizes from the gods, and offered them to be contended for by the noblest of the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id26
sentence:
You must have been present at the funeral of many a hero, when the young men gird themselves and make ready to contend for prizes on the death of some great chieftain, but you never saw such prizes as silver- footed Thetis offered in your honour; for the gods loved you well.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id27
sentence:
Thus even in death your fame, Achilles, has not been lost, and your name lives evermore among all mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id29
sentence:
For Jove willed my destruction on my return, by the hands of Aegisthus and those of my wicked wife."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id30
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and presently Mercury came up to them with the ghosts of the suitors who had been killed by Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id32
sentence:
The ghost of Agamemnon recognised Amphimedon son of Melaneus, who lived in Ithaca and had been his host, so it began to talk to him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id33
sentence:
"Amphimedon," it said," what has happened to all you fine young men— all of an age too— that you are come down here under the ground?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id35
sentence:
Did Neptune raise his winds and waves against you when you were at sea, or did your enemies make an end of you on the mainland when you were cattle- lifting or sheep- stealing, or while fighting in defence of their wives and city?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id37
sentence:
Do you not remember how I came to your house with Menelaus, to persuade Ulysses to join us with his ships against Troy?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id40
sentence:
And the ghost of Amphimedon answered," Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king of men, I remember everything that you have said, and will tell you fully and accurately about the way in which our end was brought about.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id41
sentence:
Ulysses had been long gone, and we were courting his wife, who did not say point blank that she would not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end, for she meant to compass our destruction: this, then, was the trick she played us.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id42
sentence:
She set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.'


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id43
sentence:
Sweethearts,' said she,' Ulysses is indeed dead, still, do not press me to marry again immediately ;wait— for I would not have my skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have completed a pall for the hero Laertes, against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id45
sentence:
This is what she said, and we assented; whereupon we could see her working upon her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id46
sentence:
She fooled us in this way for three years without our finding it out, but as time wore on and she was now in her fourth year, in the waning of moons and many days had been accomplished, one of her maids who knew what she was doing told us, and we caught her in the act of undoing her work, so she had to finish it whether she would or no; and when she showed us the robe she had made, after she had had it washed its splendour was as that of the sun or moon.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id48
sentence:
Thither presently came also his son, returning from a voyage to Pylos, and the two came to the town when they had hatched their plot for our destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id49
sentence:
Telemachus came first, and then after him, accompanied by the swineherd, came Ulysses, clad in rags and leaning on a staff as though he were some miserable old beggar.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id50
sentence:
He came so unexpectedly that none of us knew him, not even the older ones among us, and we reviled him and threw things at him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id51
sentence:
He endured both being struck and insulted without a word, though he was in his own house; but when the will of Aegis- bearing Jove inspired him, he and Telemachus took the armour and hid it in an inner chamber, bolting the doors behind them.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id52
sentence:
Then he cunningly made his wife offer his bow and a quantity of iron to be contended for by us ill- fated suitors; and this was the beginning of our end, for not one of us could string the bow— nor nearly do so.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id53
sentence:
When it was about to reach the hands of Ulysses, we all of us shouted out that it should not be given him, no matter what he might say, but Telemachus insisted on his having it.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id55
sentence:
Then he stood on the floor of the cloister and poured his arrows on the ground, glaring fiercely about him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id56
sentence:
First he killed Antinous, and then, aiming straight before him, he let fly his deadly darts and they fell thick on one another.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id57
sentence:
It was plain that some one of the gods was helping them, for they fell upon us with might and main throughout the cloisters, and there was a hideous sound of groaning as our brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with our blood.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id58
sentence:
This, Agamemnon, is how we came by our end, and our bodies are lying still uncared for in the house of Ulysses, for our friends at home do not yet know what has happened, so that they can not lay us out and wash the black blood from our wounds, making moan over us according to the offices due to the departed."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id59
sentence:
"Happy Ulysses, son of Laertes," replied the ghost of Agamemnon," you are indeed blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord as Penelope the daughter of Icarius.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id60
sentence:
The fame, therefore, of her virtue shall never die, and the immortals shall compose a song that shall be welcome to all mankind in honour of the constancy of Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id61
sentence:
How far otherwise was the wickedness of the daughter of Tyndareus who killed her lawful husband; her song shall be hateful among men, for she has brought disgrace on all womankind even on the good ones."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id63
sentence:
Meanwhile Ulysses and the others passed out of the town and soon reached the fair and well- tilled farm of Laertes, which he had reclaimed with infinite labour.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id64
sentence:
Here was his house, with a lean- to running all round it, where the slaves who worked for him slept and sat and ate, while inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his country- farm.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id65
sentence:
When Ulysses got there, he said to his son and to the other two: "Go to the house, and kill the best pig that you can find for dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id66
sentence:
Meanwhile I want to see whether my father will know me, or fail to recognise me after so long an absence."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id67
sentence:
He then took off his armour and gave it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who went straight on to the house, while he turned off into the vineyard to make trial of his father.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id68
sentence:
As he went down into the great orchard, he did not see Dolius, nor any of his sons nor of the other bondsmen, for they were all gathering thorns to make a fence for the vineyard, at the place where the old man had told them; he therefore found his father alone, hoeing a vine.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id69
sentence:
He had on a dirty old shirt, patched and very shabby; his legs were bound round with thongs of oxhide to save him from the brambles, and he also wore sleeves of leather; he had a goat skin cap on his head, and was looking very woe- begone.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id70
sentence:
When Ulysses saw him so worn, so old and full of sorrow, he stood still under a tall pear tree and began to weep.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id71
sentence:
He doubted whether to embrace him, kiss him, and tell him all about his having come home, or whether he should first question him and see what he would say.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id72
sentence:
In the end he deemed it best to be crafty with him, so in this mind he went up to his father, who was bending down and digging about a plant.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id73
sentence:
"I see, sir," said Ulysses," that you are an excellent gardener— what pains you take with it, to be sure.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id74
sentence:
There is not a single plant, not a fig tree, vine, olive, pear, nor flower bed, but bears the trace of your attention.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id75
sentence:
I trust, however, that you will not be offended if I say that you take better care of your garden than of yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id77
sentence:
It can not be because you are idle that your master takes such poor care of you, indeed your face and figure have nothing of the slave about them, and proclaim you of noble birth.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id78
sentence:
I should have said that you were one of those who should wash well, eat well, and lie soft at night as old men have a right to do; but tell me, and tell me true, whose bondman are you, and in whose garden are you working?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id81
sentence:
I met a man just now who said so, but he was a dull fellow, and had not the patience to hear my story out when I was asking him about an old friend of mine, whether he was still living, or was already dead and in the house of Hades.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id82
sentence:
Believe me when I tell you that this man came to my house once when I was in my own country and never yet did any stranger come to me whom I liked better.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id84
sentence:
I received him hospitably, making him welcome to all the abundance of my house, and when he went away I gave him all customary presents.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id86
sentence:
I gave him twelve light cloaks, and as many pieces of tapestry; I also gave him twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id87
sentence:
To all this I added four good looking women skilled in all useful arts, and I let him take his choice."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id88
sentence:
His father shed tears and answered," Sir, you have indeed come to the country that you have named, but it is fallen into the hands of wicked people.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id90
sentence:
If you could have found your friend here alive in Ithaca, he would have entertained you hospitably and would have requited your presents amply when you left him— as would have been only right considering what you had already given him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id91
sentence:
But tell me, and tell me true, how many years is it since you entertained this guest— my unhappy son, as ever was?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id93
sentence:
He has perished far from his own country; the fishes of the sea have eaten him, or he has fallen a prey to the birds and wild beasts of some continent.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id94
sentence:
Neither his mother, nor I his father, who were his parents, could throw our arms about him and wrap him in his shroud, nor could his excellent and richly dowered wife Penelope bewail her husband as was natural upon his death bed, and close his eyes according to the offices due to the departed.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id98
sentence:
Or were you a passenger on some other man 's ship, and those who brought you here have gone on their way and left you?"


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id102
sentence:
My own name is Eperitus; heaven drove me off my course as I was leaving Sicania, and I have been carried here against my will.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id103
sentence:
As for my ship it is lying over yonder, off the open country outside the town, and this is the fifth year since Ulysses left my country.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id105
sentence:
The birds all flew on our right hands, and both he and I rejoiced to see them as we parted, for we had every hope that we should have another friendly meeting and exchange presents."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id107
sentence:
He filled both hands with the dust from off the ground and poured it over his grey head, groaning heavily as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id108
sentence:
The heart of Ulysses was touched, and his nostrils quivered as he looked upon his father; then he sprang towards him, flung his arms about him and kissed him, saying," I am he, father, about whom you are asking— I have returned after having been away for twenty years.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id109
sentence:
But cease your sighing and lamentation— we have no time to lose, for I should tell you that I have been killing the suitors in my house, to punish them for their insolence and crimes."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id110
sentence:
"If you really are my son Ulysses," replied Laertes," and have come back again, you must give me such manifest proof of your identity as shall convince me."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id111
sentence:
"First observe this scar," answered Ulysses," which I got from a boar 's tusk when I was hunting on Mt. Parnassus.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id112
sentence:
You and my mother had sent me to Autolycus, my mother 's father, to receive the presents which when he was over here he had promised to give me.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id113
sentence:
Furthermore I will point out to you the trees in the vineyard which you gave me, and I asked you all about them as I followed you round the garden.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id115
sentence:
You gave me thirteen pear trees, ten apple trees, and forty fig trees; you also said you would give me fifty rows of vines; there was corn planted between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the heat of heaven has been laid heavy upon them."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id117
sentence:
He threw his arms about him, and Ulysses had to support him, or he would have gone off into a swoon; but as soon as he came to, and was beginning to recover his senses, he said," O father Jove, then you gods are still in Olympus after all, if the suitors have really been punished for their insolence and folly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id118
sentence:
Nevertheless, I am much afraid that I shall have all the townspeople of Ithaca up here directly, and they will be sending messengers everywhere throughout the cities of the Cephallenians."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id119
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Take heart and do not trouble yourself about that, but let us go into the house hard by your garden.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id120
sentence:
I have already told Telemachus, Philoetius, and Eumaeus to go on there and get dinner ready as soon as possible."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id122
sentence:
When they got there they found Telemachus with the stockman and the swineherd cutting up meat and mixing wine with water.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id124
sentence:
She put him on a good cloak, and Minerva came up to him and gave him a more imposing presence, making him taller and stouter than before.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id125
sentence:
When he came back his son was surprised to see him looking so like an immortal, and said to him," My dear father, some one of the gods has been making you much taller and better- looking."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id126
sentence:
Laertes answered," Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I were the man I was when I ruled among the Cephallenians, and took Nericum, that strong fortress on the foreland.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id127
sentence:
If I were still what I then was and had been in our house yesterday with my armour on, I should have been able to stand by you and help you against the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id129
sentence:
Thus did they converse; but the others, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, left off working, and took each his proper place on the benches and seats.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id130
sentence:
Then they began eating; by and by old Dolius and his sons left their work and came up, for their mother, the Sicel woman who looked after Laertes now that he was growing old, had been to fetch them.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id131
sentence:
When they saw Ulysses and were certain it was he, they stood there lost in astonishment; but Ulysses scolded them good naturedly and said," Sit down to your dinner, old man, and never mind about your surprise; we have been wanting to begin for some time and have been waiting for you."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id133
sentence:
Sir," said he, seizing his master 's hand and kissing it at the wrist," we have long been wishing you home: and now heaven has restored you to us after we had given up hoping.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id137
sentence:
"On this he took his seat, and the sons of Dolius gathered round Ulysses to give him greeting and embrace him one after the other; then they took their seats in due order near Dolius their father.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id138
sentence:
While they were thus busy getting their dinner ready, Rumour went round the town, and noised abroad the terrible fate that had befallen the suitors; as soon, therefore, as the people heard of it they gathered from every quarter, groaning and hooting before the house of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id139
sentence:
They took the dead away, buried every man his own, and put the bodies of those who came from elsewhere on board the fishing vessels, for the fishermen to take each of them to his own place.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id140
sentence:
They then met angrily in the place of assembly, and when they were got together Eupeithes rose to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id141
sentence:
He was overwhelmed with grief for the death of his son Antinous, who had been the first man killed by Ulysses, so he said, weeping bitterly," My friends, this man has done the Achaeans great wrong.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id142
sentence:
He took many of our best men away with him in his fleet, and he has lost both ships and men; now, moreover, on his return he has been killing all the foremost men among the Cephallenians.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id143
sentence:
Let us be up and doing before he can get away to Pylos or to Elis where the Epeans rule, or we shall be ashamed of ourselves for ever afterwards.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id149
sentence:
Every one was astonished at seeing them, but they stood in the middle of the assembly, and Medon said," Hear me, men of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id152
sentence:
This god appeared, now in front of him encouraging him, and now going furiously about the court and attacking the suitors whereon they fell thick on one another."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id153
sentence:
On this pale fear laid hold of them, and old Halitherses, son of Mastor, rose to speak, for he was the only man among them who knew both past and future; so he spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying, "Men of Ithaca, it is all your own fault that things have turned out as they have; you would not listen to me, nor yet to Mentor, when we bade you check the folly of your sons who were doing much wrong in the wantonness of their hearts— wasting the substance and dishonouring the wife of a chieftain who they thought would not return.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id155
sentence:
Do not go out against Ulysses, or you may find that you have been drawing down evil on your own heads."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id157
sentence:
But the rest stayed where they were, for the speech of Halitherses displeased them, and they sided with Eupeithes; they therefore hurried off for their armour, and when they had armed themselves, they met together in front of the city, and Eupeithes led them on in their folly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id158
sentence:
He thought he was going to avenge the murder of his son, whereas in truth he was never to return, but was himself to perish in his attempt.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id159
sentence:
Then Minerva said to Jove," Father, son of Saturn, king of kings, answer me this question— What do you propose to do?


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id164
sentence:
Now that Ulysses is revenged, let them swear to a solemn covenant, in virtue of which he shall continue to rule, while we cause the others to forgive and forget the massacre of their sons and brothers.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id166
sentence:
This was what Minerva was already eager to bring about, so down she darted from off the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id167
sentence:
Now when Laertes and the others had done dinner, Ulysses began by saying," Some of you go out and see if they are not getting close up to us."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id169
sentence:
Standing on the threshold he could see them all quite near, and said to Ulysses," Here they are, let us put on our armour at once."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id170
sentence:
They put on their armour as fast as they could— that is to say Ulysses, his three men, and the six sons of Dolius.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id172
sentence:
When they had all put on their armour, they opened the gate and sallied forth, Ulysses leading the way.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id174
sentence:
Ulysses was glad when he saw her, and said to his son Telemachus," Telemachus, now that you are about to fight in an engagement, which will show every man 's mettle, be sure not to disgrace your ancestors, who were eminent for their strength and courage all the world over."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id175
sentence:
"You say truly, my dear father," answered Telemachus," and you shall see, if you will, that I am in no mind to disgrace your family."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id179
sentence:
On this Minerva came close up to him and said," Son of Arceisius—-best friend I have in the world— pray to the blue- eyed damsel, and to Jove her father; then poise your spear and hurl it."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id180
sentence:
As she spoke she infused fresh vigour into him, and when he had prayed to her he poised his spear and hurled it.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id181
sentence:
He hit Eupeithes ' helmet, and the spear went right through it, for the helmet stayed it not, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id182
sentence:
Meantime Ulysses and his son fell upon the front line of the foe and smote them with their swords and spears; indeed, they would have killed every one of them, and prevented them from ever getting home again, only Minerva raised her voice aloud, and made every one pause."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id183
sentence:
Men of Ithaca," she cried," cease this dreadful war, and settle the matter at once without further bloodshed."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id184
sentence:
On this pale fear seized every one; they were so frightened that their arms dropped from their hands and fell upon the ground at the sound of the goddess ' voice, and they fled back to the city for their lives.


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id186
sentence:
Then the son of Saturn sent a thunderbolt of fire that fell just in front of Minerva, so she said to Ulysses," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you."


title: homer-odyssey_24
idx: id188
sentence:
Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id1
sentence:
THE KILLING OF THE SUITORS—THE MAIDS WHO HAVE MISCONDUCTED THEMSELVES ARE MADE TO CLEANSE THE CLOISTERS AND ARE THEN HANGED.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id2
sentence:
Then Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id4
sentence:
I will now see whether Apollo will vouchsafe it to me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id5
sentence:
On this he aimed a deadly arrow at Antinous, who was about to take up a two- handled gold cup to drink his wine and already had it in his hands.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id6
sentence:
He had no thought of death— who amongst all the revellers would think that one man, however brave, would stand alone among so many and kill him?


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id7
sentence:
The arrow struck Antinous in the throat, and the point went clean through his neck, so that he fell over and the cup dropped from his hand, while a thick stream of blood gushed from his nostrils.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id8
sentence:
He kicked the table from him and upset the things on it, so that the bread and roasted meats were all soiled as they fell over on to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id9
sentence:
The suitors were in an uproar when they saw that a man had been hit; they sprang in dismay one and all of them from their seats and looked everywhere towards the walls, but there was neither shield nor spear, and they rebuked Ulysses very angrily. "


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id10
sentence:
Stranger," said they," you shall pay for shooting people in this way: you shall see no other contest; you are a doomed man; he whom you have slain was the foremost youth in Ithaca, and the vultures shall devour you for having killed him."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id11
sentence:
Thus they spoke, for they thought that he had killed Antinous by mistake, and did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id13
sentence:
You have wasted my substance have forced my women servants to lie with you, and have wooed my wife while I was still living.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id15
sentence:
They turned pale with fear as he spoke, and every man looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety, but Eurymachus alone spoke.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id20
sentence:
It was not that he wanted to marry Penelope; he did not so much care about that; what he wanted was something quite different, and Jove has not vouchsafed it to him; he wanted to kill your son and to be chief man in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id22
sentence:
We will make everything good among ourselves, and pay you in full for all that we have eaten and drunk.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id23
sentence:
Each one of us shall pay you a fine worth twenty oxen, and we will keep on giving you gold and bronze till your heart is softened.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id25
sentence:
Ulysses again glared at him and said," Though you should give me all that you have in the world both now and all that you ever shall have, I will not stay my hand till I have paid all of you in full.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id27
sentence:
Their hearts sank as they heard him, but Eurymachus again spoke saying: "My friends, this man will give us no quarter.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id30
sentence:
Let us have at him with a rush, to drive him from the pavement and doorway: we can then get through into the town, and raise such an alarm as shall soon stay his shooting."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id31
sentence:
As he spoke he drew his keen blade of bronze, sharpened on both sides, and with a loud cry sprang towards Ulysses, but Ulysses instantly shot an arrow into his breast that caught him by the nipple and fixed itself in his liver.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id33
sentence:
The cup and all the meats went over on to the ground as he smote the earth with his forehead in the agonies of death, and he kicked the stool with his feet until his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id34
sentence:
Then Amphinomus drew his sword and made straight at Ulysses to try and get him away from the door; but Telemachus was too quick for him, and struck him from behind; the spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell heavily to the ground and struck the earth with his forehead.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id35
sentence:
Then Telemachus sprang away from him, leaving his spear still in the body, for he feared that if he stayed to draw it out, some one of the Achaeans might come up and hack at him with his sword, or knock him down, so he set off at a run, and immediately was at his father 's side.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id37
sentence:
I will arm myself as well, and will bring other armour for the swineherd and the stockman, for we had better be armed."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id38
sentence:
"Run and fetch them," answered Ulysses," while my arrows hold out, or when I am alone they may get me away from the door."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id41
sentence:
He brought them with all speed to his father, and armed himself first, while the stockman and the swineherd also put on their armour, and took their places near Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id42
sentence:
Meanwhile Ulysses, as long as his arrows lasted, had been shooting the suitors one by one, and they fell thick on one another :when his arrows gave out, he set the bow to stand against the end wall of the house by the door post, and hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders; on his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought with a crest of horse- hair that nodded menacingly above it and he grasped two redoubtable bronze- shod spears.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id43
sentence:
Now there was a trap door on the wall, while at one end of the pavement there was an exit leading to a narrow passage, and this exit was closed by a well- made door.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id44
sentence:
Ulysses told Philoetius to stand by this door and guard it, for only one person could attack it at a time.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id45
sentence:
But Agelaus shouted out," Can not some one go up to the trap door and tell the people what is going on?


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id47
sentence:
"This may not be, Agelaus," answered Melanthius," the mouth of the narrow passage is dangerously near the entrance to the outer court.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id49
sentence:
But I know what I will do, I will bring you arms from the store- room, for I am sure it is there that Ulysses and his son have put them."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id51
sentence:
There he chose twelve shields, with as many helmets and spears, and brought them back as fast as he could to give them to the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id52
sentence:
Ulysses ' heart began to fail him when he saw the suitors putting on their armour and brandishing their spears.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id53
sentence:
He saw the greatness of the danger, and said to Telemachus," Some one of the women inside is helping the suitors against us, or it may be Melanthius."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id54
sentence:
Telemachus answered," The fault, father, is mine, and mine only; I left the store room door open, and they have kept a sharper look out than I have.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id55
sentence:
Go, Eumaeus, put the door to, and see whether it is one of the women who is doing this, or whether, as I suspect, it is Melanthius the son of Dolius."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id57
sentence:
Meanwhile Melanthius was again going to the store room to fetch more armour, but the swineherd saw him and said to Ulysses who was beside him," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes ,it is that scoundrel Melanthius, just as we suspected, who is going to the store room.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id58
sentence:
Say, shall I kill him, if I can get the better of him, or shall I bring him here that you may take your own revenge for all the many wrongs that he has done in your house?"


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id59
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Telemachus and I will hold these suitors in check, no matter what they do; go back both of you and bind Melanthius ' hands and feet behind him.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id60
sentence:
Throw him into the store room and make the door fast behind you; then fasten a noose about his body, and string him close up to the rafters from a high bearing- post that he may linger on in an agony."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id61
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said; they went to the store room, which they entered before Melanthius saw them, for he was busy searching for arms in the innermost part of the room, so the two took their stand on either side of the door and waited.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id62
sentence:
By and by Melanthius came out with a helmet in one hand, and an old dry- rotted shield in the other, which had been borne by Laertes when he was young, but which had been long since thrown aside, and the straps had become unsewn; on this the two seized him, dragged him back by the hair, and threw him struggling to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id63
sentence:
They bent his hands and feet well behind his back, and bound them tight with a painful bond as Ulysses had told them; then they fastened a noose about his body and strung him up from a high pillar till he was close up to the rafters, and over him did you then vaunt, O swineherd Eumaeus saying," Melanthius, you will pass the night on a soft bed as you deserve.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id64
sentence:
You will know very well when morning comes from the streams of Oceanus, and it is time for you to be driving in your goats for the suitors to feast on."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id65
sentence:
There, then, they left him in very cruel bondage, and having put on their armour they closed the door behind them and went back to take their places by the side of Ulysses; whereon the four men stood in the cloister, fierce and full of fury; nevertheless, those who were in the body of the court were still both brave and many.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id67
sentence:
Ulysses was glad when he saw her and said," Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old comrade, nor the many good turns he has done you.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id69
sentence:
But all the time he felt sure it was Minerva, and the suitors from the other side raised an uproar when they saw her.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id73
sentence:
You shall pay for it with your head, and when we have killed you, we will take all you have, in doors or out, and bring it into hotch- pot with Ulysses ' property; we will not let your sons live in your house, nor your daughters, nor shall your widow continue to live in the city of Ithaca."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id75
sentence:
Ulysses," said she," your strength and prowess are no longer what they were when you fought for nine long years among the Trojans about the noble lady Helen.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id76
sentence:
You killed many a man in those days, and it was through your stratagem that Priam 's city was taken.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id77
sentence:
How comes it that you are so lamentably less valiant now that you are on your own ground, face to face with the suitors in your own house?


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id78
sentence:
Come on, my good fellow, stand by my side and see how Mentor, son of Alcimus shall fight your foes and requite your kindnesses conferred upon him."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id79
sentence:
But she would not give him full victory as yet, for she wished still further to prove his own prowess and that of his brave son, so she flew up to one of the rafters in the roof of the cloister and sat upon it in the form of a swallow.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id80
sentence:
Meanwhile Agelaus son of Damastor, Eurynomus, Amphimedon, Demoptolemus, Pisander, and Polybus son of Polyctor bore the brunt of the fight upon the suitors ' side; of all those who were still fighting for their lives they were by far the most valiant, for the others had already fallen under the arrows of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id81
sentence:
Agelaus shouted to them and said," My friends, he will soon have to leave off, for Mentor has gone away after having done nothing for him but brag.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id83
sentence:
Do not aim at him all at once, but six of you throw your spears first, and see if you can not cover yourselves with glory by killing him.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id86
sentence:
One hit the door post; another went against the door; the pointed shaft of another struck the wall; and as soon as they had avoided all the spears of the suitors Ulysses said to his own men," My friends, I should say we too had better let drive into the middle of them, or they will crown all the harm they have done us by killing us outright."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id88
sentence:
Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumaeus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id89
sentence:
These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id90
sentence:
The suitors now aimed a second time, but again Minerva made their weapons for the most part without effect.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id91
sentence:
One hit a bearing- post of the cloister; another went against the door; while the pointed shaft of another struck the wall.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id92
sentence:
Still, Amphimedon just took a piece of the top skin from off Telemachus 's wrist, and Ctesippus managed to graze Eumaeus 's shoulder above his shield; but the spear went on and fell to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id95
sentence:
After this the stockman hit Ctesippus in the breast, and taunted him saying," Foul- mouthed son of Polytherses, do not be so foolish as to talk wickedly another time, but let heaven direct your speech, for the gods are far stronger than men.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id96
sentence:
I make you a present of this advice to repay you for the foot which you gave Ulysses when he was begging about in his own house."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id97
sentence:
Thus spoke the stockman, and Ulysses struck the son of Damastor with a spear in close fight, while Telemachus hit Leocritus son of Evenor in the belly, and the dart went clean through him, so that he fell forward full on his face upon the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id98
sentence:
Then Minerva from her seat on the rafter held up her deadly aegis, and the hearts of the suitors quailed.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id99
sentence:
They fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer when the days are at their longest.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id100
sentence:
As eagle- beaked, crook- taloned vultures from the mountains swoop down on the smaller birds that cower in flocks upon the ground, and kill them, for they can not either fight or fly, and lookers on enjoy the sport— even so did Ulysses and his men fall upon the suitors and smite them on every side.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id101
sentence:
They made a horrible groaning as their brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with their blood.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id102
sentence:
Leiodes then caught the knees of Ulysses and said," Ulysses I beseech you have mercy upon me and spare me.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id103
sentence:
I never wronged any of the women in your house either in word or deed, and I tried to stop the others.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id105
sentence:
I was their sacrificing priest; if you kill me, I shall die without having done anything to deserve it, and shall have got no thanks for all the good that I did."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id106
sentence:
Ulysses looked sternly at him and answered," If you were their sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many a time that it might be long before I got home again, and that you might marry my wife and have children by her.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id108
sentence:
With these words he picked up the sword that Agelaus had dropped when he was being killed, and which was lying upon the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id109
sentence:
Then he struck Leiodes on the back of his neck, so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id110
sentence:
The minstrel Phemius son of Terpes— he who had been forced by the suitors to sing to them— now tried to save his life.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id112
sentence:
He did not know whether to fly out of the cloister and sit down by the altar of Jove that was in the outer court, and on which both Laertes and Ulysses had offered up the thigh bones of many an ox, or whether to go straight up to Ulysses and embrace his knees, but in the end he deemed it best to embrace Ulysses ' knees.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id113
sentence:
So he laid his lyre on the ground between the mixing bowl and the silver- studded seat; then going up to Ulysses he caught hold of his knees and said," Ulysses, I beseech you have mercy on me and spare me.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id116
sentence:
I would sing to you as though you were a god, do not therefore be in such a hurry to cut my head off.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id117
sentence:
Your own son Telemachus will tell you that I did not want to frequent your house and sing to the suitors after their meals, but they were too many and too strong for me, so they made me."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id120
sentence:
he cried," the man is guiltless, do him no hurt; and we will spare Medon too, who was always good to me when I was a boy, unless Philoetius or Eumaeus has already killed him, or he has fallen in your way when you were raging about the court."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id121
sentence:
Medon caught these words of Telemachus, for he was crouching under a seat beneath which he had hidden by covering himself up with a freshly flayed heifer 's hide, so he threw off the hide, went up to Telemachus, and laid hold of his knees.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id122
sentence:
"Here I am, my dear sir," said he," stay your hand therefore, and tell your father, or he will kill me in his rage against the suitors for having wasted his substance and been so foolishly disrespectful to yourself."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id123
sentence:
Ulysses smiled at him and answered," Fear not; Telemachus has saved your life, that you may know in future, and tell other people, how greatly better good deeds prosper than evil ones.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id124
sentence:
Go, therefore, outside the cloisters into the outer court, and be out of the way of the slaughter— you and the bard— while I finish my work here inside."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id125
sentence:
The pair went into the outer court as fast as they could, and sat down by Jove 's great altar, looking fearfully round, and still expecting that they would be killed.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id126
sentence:
Then Ulysses searched the whole court carefully over, to see if anyone had managed to hide himself and was still living, but he found them all lying in the dust and weltering in their blood.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id127
sentence:
They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id133
sentence:
When Euryclea heard this she unfastened the door of the women 's room and came out, following Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id134
sentence:
She found Ulysses among the corpses bespattered with blood and filth like a lion that has just been devouring an ox, and his breast and both his cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight; even so was Ulysses besmirched from head to foot with gore.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id135
sentence:
When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her," Old woman," said he," rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id136
sentence:
Heaven 's doom and their own evil deeds have brought these men to destruction, for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end as a punishment for their wickedness and folly.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id137
sentence:
Now, however, tell me which of the women in the house have misconducted themselves, and who are innocent."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id139
sentence:
"There are fifty women in the house whom we teach to do things, such as carding wool, and all kinds of household work.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id140
sentence:
Of these, twelve in all have misbehaved, and have been wanting in respect to me, and also to Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id141
sentence:
They showed no disrespect to Telemachus, for he has only lately grown and his mother never permitted him to give orders to the female servants; but let me go upstairs and tell your wife all that has happened, for some god has been sending her to sleep."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id142
sentence:
"Do not wake her yet," answered Ulysses," but tell the women who have misconducted themselves to come to me."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id143
sentence:
Euryclea left the cloister to tell the women, and make them come to Ulysses; in the meantime he called Telemachus, the stockman, and the swineherd.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id146
sentence:
When you have thoroughly cleansed the whole cloisters, take the women into the space between the domed room and the wall of the outer court, and run them through with your swords till they are quite dead, and have forgotten all about love and the way in which they used to lie in secret with the suitors."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id149
sentence:
Ulysses ordered them about and made them do their work quickly, so they had to carry the bodies out.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id150
sentence:
When they had done this, they cleaned all the tables and seats with sponges and water, while Telemachus and the two others shovelled up the blood and dirt from the ground, and the women carried it all away and put it out of doors.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id151
sentence:
Then when they had made the whole place quite clean and orderly, they took the women out and hemmed them in the narrow space between the wall of the domed room and that of the yard, so that they could not get away: and Telemachus said to the other two," I shall not let these women die a clean death, for they were insolent to me and my mother, and used to sleep with the suitors."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id152
sentence:
So saying he made a ship 's cable fast to one of the bearing- posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women 's feet should touch the ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id155
sentence:
There they cut off his nose and his ears; they drew out his vitals and gave them to the dogs raw, and then in their fury they cut off his hands and his feet.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id156
sentence:
When they had done this they washed their hands and feet and went back into the house, for all was now over; and Ulysses said to the dear old nurse Euryclea," Bring me sulphur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire also that I may burn it, and purify the cloisters.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id157
sentence:
Go, moreover, and tell Penelope to come here with her attendants, and also all the maidservants that are in the house."


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id158
sentence:
"All that you have said is true," answered Euryclea," but let me bring you some clean clothes— a shirt and cloak.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id162
sentence:
She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.


title: homer-odyssey_22
idx: id163
sentence:
Then she went inside to call the women and tell them what had happened; whereon they came from their apartment with torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id2
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a bard with such a divine voice as this man has.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id3
sentence:
There is nothing better or more delightful than when a whole people make merry together, with the guests sitting orderly to listen, while the table is loaded with bread and meats, and the cup- bearer draws wine and fills his cup for every man.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id5
sentence:
Now, however, since you are inclined to ask the story of my sorrows, and rekindle my own sad memories in respect of them, I do not know how to begin, nor yet how to continue and conclude my tale, for the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id6
sentence:
"Firstly, then, I will tell you my name that you too may know it, and one day, if I outlive this time of sorrow, may become my guests though I live so far away from all of you.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id7
sentence:
I am Ulysses son of Laertes, renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety, so that my fame ascends to heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id8
sentence:
I live in Ithaca, where there is a high mountain called Neritum, covered with forests; and not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one another— Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island of Zacynthus.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id9
sentence:
It lies squat on the horizon, all highest up in the sea towards the sunset, while the others lie away from it towards dawn.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id10
sentence:
It is a rugged island, but it breeds brave men, and my eyes know none that they better love to look upon.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id11
sentence:
The goddess Calypso kept me with her in her cave, and wanted me to marry her, as did also the cunning Aeaean goddess Circe; but they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id12
sentence:
Now, however, I will tell you of the many hazardous adventures which by Jove 's will I met with on my return from Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id15
sentence:
We took their wives and also much booty, which we divided equitably amongst us, so that none might have reason to complain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id16
sentence:
I then said that we had better make off at once, but my men very foolishly would not obey me, so they staid there drinking much wine and killing great numbers of sheep and oxen on the sea shore.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id18
sentence:
These were more in number, and stronger, and they were more skilled in the art of war, for they could fight, either from chariots or on foot as the occasion served; in the morning, therefore, they came as thick as leaves and bloom in summer, and the hand of heaven was against us, so that we were hard pressed.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id19
sentence:
They set the battle in array near the ships, and the hosts aimed their bronze- shod spears at one another.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id20
sentence:
So long as the day waxed and it was still morning, we held our own against them, though they were more in number than we; but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Cicons got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had; so we got away with those that were left.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id21
sentence:
"Thence we sailed onward with sorrow in our hearts, but glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades, nor did we leave till we had thrice invoked each one of the poor fellows who had perished by the hands of the Cicons.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id22
sentence:
Then Jove raised the North wind against us till it blew a hurricane, so that land and sky were hidden in thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id23
sentence:
We let the ships run before the gale, but the force of the wind tore our sails to tatters, so we took them down for fear of shipwreck, and rowed our hardest towards the land.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id24
sentence:
There we lay two days and two nights suffering much alike from toil and distress of mind, but on the morning of the third day we again raised our masts, set sail, and took our places, letting the wind and steersmen direct our ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id25
sentence:
I should have got home at that time unharmed had not the North wind and the currents been against me as I was doubling Cape Malea, and set me off my course hard by the island of Cythera.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id26
sentence:
"I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus- eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id27
sentence:
Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid - day meal on the shore near the ships.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id28
sentence:
When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id29
sentence:
They started at once, and went about among the Lotus- eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus- eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id30
sentence:
Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id31
sentence:
"We sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id32
sentence:
Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id33
sentence:
They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbours.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id34
sentence:
"Now off their harbour there lies a wooded and fertile island not quite close to the land of the Cyclopes, but still not far.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id35
sentence:
It is over- run with wild goats, that breed there in great numbers and are never disturbed by foot of man; for sportsmen— who as a rule will suffer so much hardship in forest or among mountain precipices— do not go there, nor yet again is it ever ploughed or fed down, but it lies a wilderness untilled and unsown from year to year, and has no living thing upon it but only goats.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id36
sentence:
For the Cyclopes have no ships, nor yet shipwrights who could make ships for them; they can not therefore go from city to city, or sail over the sea to one another 's country as people who have ships can do; if they had had these they would have colonised the island for it is a very good one, and would yield everything in due season.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id37
sentence:
There are meadows that in some places come right down to the sea shore, well watered and full of luscious grass; grapes would do there excellently; there is level land for ploughing, and it would always yield heavily at harvest time, for the soil is deep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id38
sentence:
There is a good harbour where no cables are wanted, nor yet anchors, nor need a ship be moored, but all one has to do is to beach one 's vessel and stay there till the wind becomes fair for putting out to sea again.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id39
sentence:
At the head of the harbour there is a spring of clear water coming out of a cave, and there are poplars growing all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id40
sentence:
"Here we entered, but so dark was the night that some god must have brought us in, for there was nothing whatever to be seen.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id41
sentence:
A thick mist hung all round our ships; the moon was hidden behind a mass of clouds so that no one could have seen the island if he had looked for it, nor were there any breakers to tell us we were close in shore before we found ourselves upon the land itself; when, however, we had beached the ships, we took down the sails, went ashore and camped upon the beach till daybreak.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id42
sentence:
"When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, we admired the island and wandered all over it, while the nymphs Jove 's daughters roused the wild goats that we might get some meat for our dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id43
sentence:
On this we fetched our spears and bows and arrows from the ships, and dividing ourselves into three bands began to shoot the goats.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id44
sentence:
Heaven sent us excellent sport; I had twelve ships with me, and each ship got nine goats, while my own ship had ten; thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we ate and drank our fill, and we had plenty of wine left, for each one of us had taken many jars full when we sacked the city of the Cicons, and this had not yet run out.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id45
sentence:
While we were feasting we kept turning our eyes towards the land of the Cyclopes, which was hard by, and saw the smoke of their stubble fires.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id46
sentence:
We could almost fancy we heard their voices and the bleating of their sheep and goats, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped down upon the beach, and next morning I called a council.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id47
sentence:
"'Stay here, my brave fellows,' said I,' all the rest of you, while I go with my ship and exploit these people myself: I want to see if they are uncivilised savages, or a hospitable and humane race.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id48
sentence:
"I went on board, bidding my men to do so also and loose the hawsers; so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id49
sentence:
When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id50
sentence:
It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id53
sentence:
He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id54
sentence:
"I told my men to draw the ship ashore, and stay where they were, all but the twelve best among them, who were to go along with myself.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id55
sentence:
I also took a goatskin of sweet black wine which had been given me by Maron, son of Euanthes, who was priest of Apollo the patron god of Ismarus, and lived within the wooded precincts of the temple.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id56
sentence:
When we were sacking the city we respected him, and spared his life, as also his wife and child; so he made me some presents of great value— seven talents of fine gold, and a bowl of silver, with twelve jars of sweet wine, unblended, and of the most exquisite flavour.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id57
sentence:
Not a man nor maid in the house knew about it, but only himself, his wife, and one housekeeper: when he drank it he mixed twenty parts of water to one of wine, and yet the fragrance from the mixing- bowl was so exquisite that it was impossible to refrain from drinking.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id58
sentence:
I filled a large skin with this wine, and took a wallet full of provisions with me, for my mind misgave me that I might have to deal with some savage who would be of great strength, and would respect neither right nor law.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id59
sentence:
"We soon reached his cave, but he was out shepherding, so we went inside and took stock of all that we could see.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id60
sentence:
His cheese- racks were loaded with cheeses, and he had more lambs and kids than his pens could hold.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id61
sentence:
They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another; as for his dairy, all the vessels, bowls, and milk pails into which he milked, were swimming with whey.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id62
sentence:
When they saw all this, my men begged me to let them first steal some cheeses, and make off with them to the ship; they would then return, drive down the lambs and kids, put them on board and sail away with them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id63
sentence:
It would have been indeed better if we had done so but I would not listen to them, for I wanted to see the owner himself, in the hope that he might give me a present.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id65
sentence:
"We lit a fire, offered some of the cheeses in sacrifice, ate others of them, and then sat waiting till the Cyclops should come in with his sheep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id66
sentence:
When he came, he brought in with him a huge load of dry firewood to light the fire for his supper, and this he flung with such a noise on to the floor of his cave that we hid ourselves for fear at the far end of the cavern.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id67
sentence:
Meanwhile he drove all the ewes inside, as well as the she- goats that he was going to milk, leaving the males, both rams and he- goats, outside in the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id68
sentence:
Then he rolled a huge stone to the mouth of the cave— so huge that two and twenty strong four- wheeled waggons would not be enough to draw it from its place against the doorway.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id69
sentence:
When he had so done he sat down and milked his ewes and goats, all in due course, and then let each of them have her own young.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id70
sentence:
He curdled half the milk and set it aside in wicker strainers, but the other half he poured into bowls that he might drink it for his supper.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id71
sentence:
When he had got through with all his work, he lit the fire, and then caught sight of us, whereon he said: "'Strangers, who are you?


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id73
sentence:
Are you traders, or do you sail the sea as rovers, with your hands against every man, and every man 's hand against you?'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id74
sentence:
"We were frightened out of our senses by his loud voice and monstrous form, but I managed to say,' We are Achaeans on our way home from Troy, but by the will of Jove, and stress of weather, we have been driven far out of our course.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id75
sentence:
We are the people of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, who has won infinite renown throughout the whole world, by sacking so great a city and killing so many people.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id76
sentence:
We therefore humbly pray you to show us some hospitality, and otherwise make us such presents as visitors may reasonably expect.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id77
sentence:
May your excellency fear the wrath of heaven, for we are your suppliants, and Jove takes all respectable travellers under his protection, for he is the avenger of all suppliants and foreigners in distress.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id78
sentence:
"To this he gave me but a pitiless answer,' Stranger,' said he,' you are a fool, or else you know nothing of this country.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id80
sentence:
We Cyclopes do not care about Jove or any of your blessed gods, for we are ever so much stronger than they.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id81
sentence:
I shall not spare either yourself or your companions out of any regard for Jove, unless I am in the humour for doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id84
sentence:
"He said this to draw me out, but I was too cunning to be caught in that way, so I answered with a lie;' Neptune,' said I,' sent my ship on to the rocks at the far end of your country, and wrecked it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id85
sentence:
We were driven on to them from the open sea, but I and those who are with me escaped the jaws of death.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id86
sentence:
"The cruel wretch vouchsafed me not one word of answer, but with a sudden clutch he gripped up two of my men at once and dashed them down upon the ground as though they had been puppies.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id89
sentence:
He gobbled them up like a lion in the wilderness, flesh, bones, marrow, and entrails, without leaving anything uneaten.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id90
sentence:
As for us, we wept and lifted up our hands to heaven on seeing such a horrid sight, for we did not know what else to do; but when the Cyclops had filled his huge paunch, and had washed down his meal of human flesh with a drink of neat milk, he stretched himself full length upon the ground among his sheep, and went to sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id91
sentence:
I was at first inclined to seize my sword, draw it, and drive it into his vitals, but I reflected that if I did we should all certainly be lost, for we should never be able to shift the stone which the monster had put in front of the door.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id93
sentence:
"When the child of morning, rosy- fingered dawn, appeared, he again lit his fire, milked his goats and ewes, all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; as soon as he had got through with all his work, he clutched up two more of my men, and began eating them for his morning 's meal.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id94
sentence:
Presently, with the utmost ease, he rolled the stone away from the door and drove out his sheep, but he at once put it back again— as easily as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id95
sentence:
As soon as he had done so he shouted, and cried' Shoo, shoo,' after his sheep to drive them on to the mountain; so I was left to scheme some way of taking my revenge and covering myself with glory.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id96
sentence:
"In the end I deemed it would be the best plan to do as follows: The Cyclops had a great club which was lying near one of the sheep pens; it was of green olive wood, and he had cut it intending to use it for a staff as soon as it should be dry.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id97
sentence:
It was so huge that we could only compare it to the mast of a twenty- oared merchant vessel of large burden, and able to venture out into open sea.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id98
sentence:
I went up to this club and cut off about six feet of it; I then gave this piece to the men and told them to fine it evenly off at one end, which they proceeded to do, and lastly I brought it to a point myself, charring the end in the fire to make it harder.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id99
sentence:
When I had done this I hid it under dung, which was lying about all over the cave, and told the men to cast lots which of them should venture along with myself to lift it and bore it into the monster 's eye while he was asleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id101
sentence:
In the evening the wretch came back from shepherding, and drove his flocks into the cave— this time driving them all inside, and not leaving any in the yards; I suppose some fancy must have taken him, or a god must have prompted him to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id102
sentence:
As soon as he had put the stone back to its place against the door, he sat down, milked his ewes and his goats all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; when he had got through with all this work, he gripped up two more of my men, and made his supper off them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id103
sentence:
So I went up to him with an ivy- wood bowl of black wine in my hands: "'Look here, Cyclops,' said I, you have been eating a great deal of man 's flesh, so take this and drink some wine, that you may see what kind of liquor we had on board my ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id104
sentence:
I was bringing it to you as a drink- offering, in the hope that you would take compassion upon me and further me on my way home, whereas all you do is to go on ramping and raving most intolerably.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id105
sentence:
You ought to be ashamed of yourself; how can you expect people to come see you any more if you treat them in this way?'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id110
sentence:
We have wine even in this country, for our soil grows grapes and the sun ripens them, but this drinks like Nectar and Ambrosia all in one.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id111
sentence:
"I then gave him some more; three times did I fill the bowl for him, and three times did he drain it without thought or heed; then, when I saw that the wine had got into his head, I said to him as plausibly as I could:' Cyclops, you ask my name and I will tell it you; give me, therefore, the present you promised me; my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id112
sentence:
"But the cruel wretch said,' Then I will eat all Noman 's comrades before Noman himself, and will keep Noman for the last.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id116
sentence:
Presently he turned sick, and threw up both wine and the gobbets of human flesh on which he had been gorging, for he was very drunk.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id117
sentence:
Then I thrust the beam of wood far into the embers to heat it, and encouraged my men lest any of them should turn faint- hearted.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id118
sentence:
When the wood, green though it was, was about to blaze, I drew it out of the fire glowing with heat, and my men gathered round me, for heaven had filled their hearts with courage.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id119
sentence:
We drove the sharp end of the beam into the monster 's eye, and bearing upon it with all my weight I kept turning it round and round as though I were boring a hole in a ship 's plank with an auger, which two men with a wheel and strap can keep on turning as long as they choose.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id120
sentence:
Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as we worked it round and round, so that the steam from the burning eyeball scalded his eyelids and eyebrows, and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id121
sentence:
As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it— for it is this that gives strength to the iron— and it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops ' eye hiss round the beam of olive wood, and his hideous yells made the cave ring again.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id122
sentence:
We ran away in a fright, but he plucked the beam all besmirched with gore from his eye, and hurled it from him in a frenzy of rage and pain, shouting as he did so to the other Cyclopes who lived on the bleak headlands near him; so they gathered from all quarters round his cave when they heard him crying, and asked what was the matter with him.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id123
sentence:
"'What ails you, Polyphemus,' said they,' that you make such a noise, breaking the stillness of the night, and preventing us from being able to sleep?


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id126
sentence:
"But Polyphemus shouted to them from inside the cave,' Noman is killing me by fraud; no man is killing me by force.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id127
sentence:
"'Then,' said they,' if no man is attacking you, you must be ill; when Jove makes people ill, there is no help for it, and you had better pray to your father Neptune.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id128
sentence:
"Then they went away, and I laughed inwardly at the success of my clever stratagem, but the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain, felt about with his hands till he found the stone and took it from the door; then he sat in the doorway and stretched his hands in front of it to catch anyone going out with the sheep, for he thought I might be foolish enough to attempt this.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id129
sentence:
"As for myself I kept on puzzling to think how I could best save my own life and those of my companions; I schemed and schemed, as one who knows that his life depends upon it, for the danger was very great.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id130
sentence:
In the end I deemed that this plan would be the best; the male sheep were well grown, and carried a heavy black fleece, so I bound them noiselessly in threes together, with some of the withies on which the wicked monster used to sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id131
sentence:
There was to be a man under the middle sheep, and the two on either side were to cover him, so that there were three sheep to each man.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id132
sentence:
As for myself there was a ram finer than any of the others, so I caught hold of him by the back, esconced myself in the thick wool under his belly, and hung on patiently to his fleece, face upwards, keeping a firm hold on it all the time.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id133
sentence:
"Thus, then, did we wait in great fear of mind till morning came, but when the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, the male sheep hurried out to feed, while the ewes remained bleating about the pens waiting to be milked, for their udders were full to bursting; but their master in spite of all his pain felt the backs of all the sheep as they stood upright, without being sharp enough to find out that the men were underneath their bellies.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id134
sentence:
As the ram was going out, last of all, heavy with its fleece and with the weight of my crafty self, Polyphemus laid hold of it and said: "'My good ram, what is it that makes you the last to leave my cave this morning?


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id135
sentence:
You are not wo nt to let the ewes go before you, but lead the mob with a run whether to flowery mead or bubbling fountain, and are the first to come home again at night; but now you lag last of all.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id136
sentence:
Is it because you know your master has lost his eye, and are sorry because that wicked Noman and his horrid crew has got him down in his drink and blinded him?


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id138
sentence:
If you could understand and talk, you would tell me where the wretch is hiding, and I would dash his brains upon the ground till they flew all over the cave.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id141
sentence:
"As he spoke he drove the ram outside, but when we were a little way out from the cave and yards, I first got from under the ram 's belly, and then freed my comrades; as for the sheep, which were very fat, by constantly heading them in the right direction we managed to drive them down to the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id142
sentence:
The crew rejoiced greatly at seeing those of us who had escaped death, but wept for the others whom the Cyclops had killed.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id143
sentence:
However, I made signs to them by nodding and frowning that they were to hush their crying, and told them to get all the sheep on board at once and put out to sea; so they went aboard, took their places, and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id145
sentence:
"'Cyclops,' said I,' you should have taken better measure of your man before eating up his comrades in your cave.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id147
sentence:
You might have known that your sin would find you out, and now Jove and the other gods have punished you.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id148
sentence:
"He got more and more furious as he heard me, so he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id149
sentence:
The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised carried us back towards the mainland, and forced us towards the shore.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id150
sentence:
But I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off, making signs to my men by nodding my head, that they must row for their lives, whereon they laid out with a will.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id151
sentence:
When we had got twice as far as we were before, I was for jeering at the Cyclops again, but the men begged and prayed of me to hold my tongue.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id152
sentence:
"'Do not,' they exclaimed,' be mad enough to provoke this savage creature further; he has thrown one rock at us already which drove us back again to the mainland, and we made sure it had been the death of us; if he had then heard any further sound of voices he would have pounded our heads and our ship 's timbers into a jelly with the rugged rocks he would have heaved at us, for he can throw them a long way.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id153
sentence:
"But I would not listen to them, and shouted out to him in my rage,' Cyclops, if any one asks you who it was that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty, say it was the valiant warrior Ulysses, son of Laertes, who lives in Ithaca.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id155
sentence:
There was a prophet here, at one time, a man both brave and of great stature, Telemus son of Eurymus, who was an excellent seer, and did all the prophesying for the Cyclopes till he grew old; he told me that all this would happen to me some day, and said I should lose my sight by the hand of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id156
sentence:
I have been all along expecting some one of imposing presence and superhuman strength, whereas he turns out to be a little insignificant weakling, who has managed to blind my eye by taking advantage of me in my drink; come here, then, Ulysses, that I may make you presents to show my hospitality, and urge Neptune to help you forward on your journey— for Neptune and I are father and son.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id158
sentence:
"Then I said,' I wish I could be as sure of killing you outright and sending you down to the house of Hades, as I am that it will take more than Neptune to cure that eye of yours.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id159
sentence:
"On this he lifted up his hands to the firmament of heaven and prayed, saying,' Hear me, great Neptune; if I am indeed your own true begotten son, grant that Ulysses may never reach his home alive; or if he must get back to his friends at last, let him do so late and in sore plight after losing all his men[ let him reach his home in another man 's ship and find trouble in his house.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id161
sentence:
Then he picked up a rock much larger than the first, swung it aloft and hurled it with prodigious force.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id163
sentence:
The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised drove us onwards on our way towards the shore of the island.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id164
sentence:
"When at last we got to the island where we had left the rest of our ships, we found our comrades lamenting us, and anxiously awaiting our return.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id165
sentence:
We ran our vessel upon the sands and got out of her on to the sea shore; we also landed the Cyclops ' sheep, and divided them equitably amongst us so that none might have reason to complain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id166
sentence:
As for the ram, my companions agreed that I should have it as an extra share; so I sacrificed it on the sea shore, and burned its thigh bones to Jove, who is the lord of all.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id167
sentence:
But he heeded not my sacrifice, and only thought how he might destroy both my ships and my comrades.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id168
sentence:
"Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we feasted our fill on meat and drink, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped upon the beach.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id169
sentence:
When the child of morning rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, I bade my men on board and loose the hawsers.


title: homer-odyssey_09
idx: id170
sentence:
Then they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars; so we sailed on with sorrow in our hearts, but glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id1
sentence:
PENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND—EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS, AND PHILOETIUS LEAVE THE TOWN.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id3
sentence:
Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. "


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id4
sentence:
Wake up Penelope, my dear child," she exclaimed," and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id5
sentence:
Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id7
sentence:
The gods sometimes send some very sensible people out of their minds, and make foolish people become sensible.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id9
sentence:
Why should you thus mock me when I have trouble enough already— talking such nonsense, and waking me up out of a sweet sleep that had taken possession of my eyes and closed them?


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id10
sentence:
I have never slept so soundly from the day my poor husband went to that city with the ill- omened name.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id11
sentence:
Go back again into the women 's room; if it had been any one else who had woke me up to bring me such absurd news I should have sent her away with a severe scolding.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id16
sentence:
Telemachus knew all the time that he was come back, but kept his father 's secret that he might have his revenge on all these wicked people."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id18
sentence:
"But my dear nurse," said she," explain this to me; if he has really come home as you say, how did he manage to overcome the wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always were?"


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id19
sentence:
"I was not there," answered Euryclea," and do not know; I only heard them groaning while they were being killed.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id20
sentence:
We sat crouching and huddled up in a corner of the women 's room with the doors closed, till your son came to fetch me because his father sent him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id21
sentence:
Then I found Ulysses standing over the corpses that were lying on the ground all round him, one on top of the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id22
sentence:
You would have enjoyed it if you could have seen him standing there all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id23
sentence:
But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id24
sentence:
He has sent me to call you, so come with me that you may both be happy together after all; for now at last the desire of your heart has been fulfilled; your husband is come home to find both wife and son alive and well, and to take his revenge in his own house on the suitors who behaved so badly to him."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id26
sentence:
You know how delighted every one would be to see Ulysses come home— more particularly myself, and the son who has been born to both of us; but what you tell me can not be really true.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id27
sentence:
It is some god who is angry with the suitors for their great wickedness, and has made an end of them; for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end in consequence of their iniquity; Ulysses is dead far away from the Achaean land; he will never return home again."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id29
sentence:
but you were all hard of belief and have made up your mind that your husband is never coming, although he is in the house and by his own fire side at this very moment.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id30
sentence:
Besides I can give you another proof; when I was washing him I perceived the scar which the wild boar gave him, and I wanted to tell you about it, but in his wisdom he would not let me, and clapped his hands over my mouth; so come with me and I will make this bargain with you —if I am deceiving you, you may have me killed by the most cruel death you can think of."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id31
sentence:
"My dear nurse," said Penelope," however wise you may be you can hardly fathom the counsels of the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id32
sentence:
Nevertheless, we will go in search of my son, that I may see the corpses of the suitors, and the man who has killed them."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id33
sentence:
On this she came down from her upper room, and while doing so she considered whether she should keep at a distance from her husband and question him, or whether she should at once go up to him and embrace him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id34
sentence:
When, however, she had crossed the stone floor of the cloister, she sat down opposite Ulysses by the fire, against the wall at right angles[ to that by which she had entered], while Ulysses sat near one of the bearing- posts, looking upon the ground, and waiting to see what his brave wife would say to him when she saw him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id36
sentence:
At one moment she looked him full in the face, but then again directly, she was misled by his shabby clothes and failed to recognise him till Telemachus began to reproach her and said: "Mother— but you are so hard that I can not call you by such a name —why do you keep away from my father in this way?


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id38
sentence:
No other woman could bear to keep away from her husband when he had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much; but your heart always was as hard as a stone."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id39
sentence:
Penelope answered," My son, I am so lost in astonishment that I can find no words in which either to ask questions or to answer them.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id41
sentence:
Still, if he really is Ulysses come back to his own home again, we shall get to understand one another better by and by, for there are tokens with which we two are alone acquainted, and which are hidden from all others."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id42
sentence:
Ulysses smiled at this, and said to Telemachus," Let your mother put me to any proof she likes; she will make up her mind about it presently.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id43
sentence:
She rejects me for the moment and believes me to be somebody else, because I am covered with dirt and have such bad clothes on; let us, however, consider what we had better do next.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id44
sentence:
When one man has killed another— even though he was not one who would leave many friends to take up his quarrel— the man who has killed him must still say good bye to his friends and fly the country; whereas we have been killing the stay of a whole town, and all the picked youth of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id46
sentence:
"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus," for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id47
sentence:
We will follow you with right good will, nor shall you find us fail you in so far as our strength holds out."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id49
sentence:
First wash and put your shirts on; tell the maids also to go to their own room and dress; Phemius shall then strike up a dance tune on his lyre, so that if people outside hear, or any of the neighbours, or some one going along the street happens to notice it, they may think there is a wedding in the house, and no rumours about the death of the suitors will get about in the town, before we can escape to the woods upon my own land.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id54
sentence:
The house re - echoed with the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said," I suppose the queen has been getting married at last.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id55
sentence:
She ought to be ashamed of herself for not continuing to protect her husband 's property until he comes home."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id57
sentence:
The upper servant Eurynome washed and anointed Ulysses in his own house and gave him a shirt and cloak, while Minerva made him look taller and stronger than before; she also made the hair grow thick on the top of his head, and flow down in curls like hyacinth blossoms; she glorified him about the head and shoulders just as a skilful workman who has studied art of all kinds under Vulcan or Minerva— and his work is full of beauty— enriches a piece of silver plate by gilding it.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id58
sentence:
He came from the bath looking like one of the immortals, and sat down opposite his wife on the seat he had left.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id61
sentence:
No other woman could bear to keep away from her husband when he had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id62
sentence:
But come, nurse, get a bed ready for me; I will sleep alone, for this woman has a heart as hard as iron."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id63
sentence:
"My dear," answered Penelope," I have no wish to set myself up, nor to depreciate you; but I am not struck by your appearance, for I very well remember what kind of a man you were when you set sail from Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id65
sentence:
Bring the bed outside this room, and put bedding upon it with fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id66
sentence:
She said this to try him, but Ulysses was very angry and said," Wife, I am much displeased at what you have just been saying.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id68
sentence:
He must have found it a hard task, no matter how skilled a workman he was, unless some god came and helped him to shift it.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id69
sentence:
There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id70
sentence:
There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing- post.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id71
sentence:
I built my room round this with strong walls of stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and well- fitting.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id73
sentence:
This I dressed roughly from the root upwards and then worked with carpenter 's tools well and skilfully, straightening my work by drawing a line on the wood, and making it into a bed- prop.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id74
sentence:
I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centre- post of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id75
sentence:
So you see I know all about it, and I desire to learn whether it is still there, or whether any one has been removing it by cutting down the olive tree at its roots."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id80
sentence:
Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth, and of growing old, together; do not then be aggrieved or take it amiss that I did not embrace you thus as soon as I saw you.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id81
sentence:
I have been shuddering all the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying story; for there are many very wicked people going about.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id82
sentence:
Jove 's daughter Helen would never have yielded herself to a man from a foreign country, if she had known that the sons of Achaeans would come after her and bring her back.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id83
sentence:
Heaven put it in her heart to do wrong, and she gave no thought to that sin, which has been the source of all our sorrows.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id84
sentence:
Now, however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about our bed( which no human being has ever seen but you and I and a single maidservant, the daughter of Actor, who was given me by my father on my marriage, and who keeps the doors of our room) hard of belief though I have been I can mistrust no longer."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id86
sentence:
As the sight of land is welcome to men who are swimming towards the shore, when Neptune has wrecked their ship with the fury of his winds and waves; a few alone reach the land, and these, covered with brine, are thankful when they find themselves on firm ground and out of danger— even so was her husband welcome to her as she looked upon him, and she could not tear her two fair arms from about his neck.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id87
sentence:
Indeed they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosy- fingered morn appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west, while she would not suffer Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id90
sentence:
It is long and difficult, but I must go through with it, for thus the shade of Teiresias prophesied concerning me, on the day when I went down into Hades to ask about my return and that of my companions.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id92
sentence:
"You shall go to bed as soon as you please," replied Penelope," now that the gods have sent you home to your own good house and to your country.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id97
sentence:
I do not like it myself, for Teiresias bade me travel far and wide, carrying an oar, till I came to a country where the people have never heard of the sea, and do not even mix salt with their food.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id100
sentence:
He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id101
sentence:
On this, I was to fix my oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Neptune; after which I was to go home and offer hecatombs to all the gods in heaven, one after the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id102
sentence:
As for myself, he said that death should come to me from the sea, and that my life should ebb away very gently when I was full of years and peace of mind, and my people should bless me.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id104
sentence:
And Penelope said," If the gods are going to vouchsafe you a happier time in your old age, you may hope then to have some respite from misfortune."


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id106
sentence:
Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft coverlets; as soon as they had laid them, the nurse went back into the house to go to her rest, leaving the bed chamber woman Eurynome to show Ulysses and Penelope to bed by torch light.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id107
sentence:
When she had conducted them to their room she went back, and they then came joyfully to the rites of their own old bed.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id111
sentence:
She told him how much she had had to bear in seeing the house filled with a crowd of wicked suitors who had killed so many sheep and oxen on her account, and had drunk so many casks of wine.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id112
sentence:
Ulysses in his turn told her what he had suffered, and how much trouble he had himself given to other people.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id113
sentence:
He told her everything, and she was so delighted to listen that she never went to sleep till he had ended his whole story.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id114
sentence:
He began with his victory over the Cicons, and how he thence reached the fertile land of the Lotus- eaters.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id115
sentence:
He told her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly eaten his brave comrades; how he then went on to Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygonian city Telepylos, where the people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship only.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id116
sentence:
Then he told of cunning Circe and her craft, and how he sailed to the chill house of Hades, to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias, and how he saw his old comrades in arms, and his mother who bore him and brought him up when he was a child; how he then heard the wondrous singing of the Sirens, and went on to the wandering rocks and terrible Charybdis and to Scylla, whom no man had ever yet passed in safety; how his men then ate the cattle of the sun- god, and how Jove therefore struck the ship with his thunderbolts, so that all his men perished together, himself alone being left alive; how at last he reached the Ogygian island and the nymph Calypso, who kept him there in a cave, and fed him, and wanted him to marry her, in which case she intended making him immortal so that he should never grow old, but she could not persuade him to let her do so; and how after much suffering he had found his way to the Phaeacians, who had treated him as though he had been a god, and sent him back in a ship to his own country after having given him gold, bronze, and raiment in great abundance.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id117
sentence:
This was the last thing about which he told her, for here a deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id119
sentence:
When she deemed that Ulysses had had both of his wife and of repose, she bade gold- enthroned Dawn rise out of Oceanus that she might shed light upon mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id120
sentence:
On this, Ulysses rose from his comfortable bed and said to Penelope," Wife, we have both of us had our full share of troubles, you, here, in lamenting my absence, and I in being prevented from getting home though I was longing all the time to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id122
sentence:
As for the sheep and goats which the wicked suitors have eaten, I will take many myself by force from other people, and will compel the Achaeans to make good the rest till they shall have filled all my yards.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id123
sentence:
I am now going to the wooded lands out in the country to see my father who has so long been grieved on my account, and to yourself I will give these instructions, though you have little need of them.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id124
sentence:
At sunrise it will at once get abroad that I have been killing the suitors; go upstairs, therefore and stay there with your women.


title: homer-odyssey_23
idx: id130
sentence:
It was now daylight, but Minerva nevertheless concealed them in darkness and led them quickly out of the town.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id3
sentence:
There they made ready their supper, and then bethought them of the blessed boon of sleep; but Achilles still wept for thinking of his dear comrade, and sleep, before whom all things bow, could take no hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id4
sentence:
This way and that did he turn as he yearned after the might and manfulness of Patroclus; he thought of all they had done together, and all they had gone through both on the field of battle and on the waves of the weary sea.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id5
sentence:
As he dwelt on these things he wept bitterly and lay now on his side, now on his back, and now face downwards, till at last he rose and went out as one distraught to wander upon the seashore.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id6
sentence:
Then, when he saw dawn breaking over beach and sea, he yoked his horses to his chariot, and bound the body of Hector behind it that he might drag it about.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id7
sentence:
Thrice did he drag it round the tomb of the son of Menoetius, and then went back into his tent, leaving the body on the ground full length and with its face downwards.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id8
sentence:
But Apollo would not suffer it to be disfigured, for he pitied the man, dead though he now was; therefore he shielded him with his golden aegis continually, that he might take no hurt while Achilles was dragging him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id9
sentence:
Thus shamefully did Achilles in his fury dishonour Hector; but the blessed gods looked down in pity from heaven, and urged Mercury, slayer of Argus, to steal the body.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id10
sentence:
All were of this mind save only Juno, Neptune, and Jove 's grey- eyed daughter, who persisted in the hate which they had ever borne towards Ilius with Priam and his people; for they forgave not the wrong done them by Alexandrus in disdaining the goddesses who came to him when he was in his sheepyards, and preferring her who had offered him a wanton to his ruin.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id11
sentence:
When, therefore, the morning of the twelfth day had now come, Phoebus Apollo spoke among the immortals saying," You gods ought to be ashamed of yourselves; you are cruel and hard- hearted.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id13
sentence:
And now dare you not rescue even his dead body, for his wife to look upon, with his mother and child, his father Priam, and his people, who would forthwith commit him to the flames, and give him his due funeral rites?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id15
sentence:
He is like some savage lion that in the pride of his great strength and daring springs upon men 's flocks and gorges on them.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id16
sentence:
Even so has Achilles flung aside all pity, and all that conscience which at once so greatly banes yet greatly boons him that will heed it.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id17
sentence:
A man may lose one far dearer than Achilles has lost— a son, it may be, or a brother born from his own mother 's womb; yet when he has mourned him and wept over him he will let him bide, for it takes much sorrow to kill a man; whereas Achilles, now that he has slain noble Hector, drags him behind his chariot round the tomb of his comrade.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id18
sentence:
It were better of him, and for him, that he should not do so, for brave though he be we gods may take it ill that he should vent his fury upon dead clay."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id20
sentence:
This were well," she cried," O lord of the silver bow, if you would give like honour to Hector and to Achilles; but Hector was mortal and suckled at a woman 's breast, whereas Achilles is the offspring of a goddess whom I myself reared and brought up.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id21
sentence:
I married her to Peleus, who is above measure dear to the immortals; you gods came all of you to her wedding; you feasted along with them yourself and brought your lyre— false, and fond of low company, that you have ever been."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id23
sentence:
Their honour shall not be equal, but of all that dwell in Ilius, Hector was dearest to the gods, as also to myself, for his offerings never failed me.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id24
sentence:
Never was my altar stinted of its dues, nor of the drink- offerings and savour of sacrifice which we claim of right.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id25
sentence:
I shall therefore permit the body of mighty Hector to be stolen; and yet this may hardly be without Achilles coming to know it, for his mother keeps night and day beside him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id26
sentence:
Let some one of you, therefore, send Thetis to me, and I will impart my counsel to her, namely that Achilles is to accept a ransom from Priam, and give up the body."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id28
sentence:
Down she plunged into the dark sea midway between Samos and rocky Imbrus; the waters hissed as they closed over her, and she sank into the bottom as the lead at the end of an ox- horn, that is sped to carry death to fishes.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id29
sentence:
She found Thetis sitting in a great cave with the other sea- goddesses gathered round her; there she sat in the midst of them weeping for her noble son who was to fall far from his own land, on the rich plains of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id34
sentence:
The goddess took her dark veil, than which there can be no robe more sombre, and went forth with fleet Iris leading the way before her.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id35
sentence:
The waves of the sea opened them a path, and when they reached the shore they flew up into the heavens, where they found the all- seeing son of Saturn with the blessed gods that live for ever assembled near him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id37
sentence:
Juno then placed a fair golden cup in her hand, and spoke to her in words of comfort, whereon Thetis drank and gave her back the cup; and the sire of gods and men was the first to speak.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id38
sentence:
"So, goddess," said he," for all your sorrow, and the grief that I well know reigns ever in your heart, you have come hither to Olympus, and I will tell you why I have sent for you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id39
sentence:
This nine days past the immortals have been quarrelling about Achilles waster of cities and the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id40
sentence:
The gods would have Mercury slayer of Argus steal the body, but in furtherance of our peace and amity henceforward, I will concede such honour to your son as I will now tell you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id41
sentence:
Go, then, to the host and lay these commands upon him; say that the gods are angry with him, and that I am myself more angry than them all, in that he keeps Hector at the ships and will not give him up.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id43
sentence:
At the same time I will send Iris to great Priam to bid him go to the ships of the Achaeans, and ransom his son, taking with him such gifts for Achilles as may give him satisfaction."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id44
sentence:
Silver- footed Thetis did as the god had told her, and forthwith down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id45
sentence:
She went to her son 's tents where she found him grieving bitterly, while his trusty comrades round him were busy preparing their morning meal, for which they had killed a great woolly sheep.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id46
sentence:
His mother sat down beside him and caressed him with her hand saying," My son, how long will you keep on thus grieving and making moan?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id47
sentence:
You are gnawing at your own heart, and think neither of food nor of woman 's embraces; and yet these too were well, for you have no long time to live, and death with the strong hand of fate are already close beside you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id48
sentence:
Now, therefore, heed what I say, for I come as a messenger from Jove; he says that the gods are angry with you, and himself more angry than them all, in that you keep Hector at the ships and will not give him up.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id51
sentence:
If Olympian Jove of his own motion thus commands me, let him that brings the ransom bear the body away."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id54
sentence:
"Go," said he," fleet Iris, from the mansions of Olympus, and tell King Priam in Ilius, that he is to go to the ships of the Achaeans and free the body of his dear son.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id55
sentence:
He is to take such gifts with him as shall give satisfaction to Achilles, and he is to go alone, with no other Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive his mules and waggon, and bring back the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id56
sentence:
Let him have no thought nor fear of death in his heart, for we will send the slayer of Argus to escort him, and bring him within the tent of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id57
sentence:
Achilles will not kill him nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id60
sentence:
His sons were seated round their father in the outer courtyard, and their raiment was wet with tears: the old man sat in the midst of them with his mantle wrapped close about his body, and his head and neck all covered with the filth which he had clutched as he lay grovelling in the mire.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id61
sentence:
His daughters and his sons ' wives went wailing about the house, as they thought of the many and brave men who lay dead, slain by the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id62
sentence:
The messenger of Jove stood by Priam and spoke softly to him, but fear fell upon him as she did so. "


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id66
sentence:
The lord of Olympus bids you go and ransom noble Hector, and take with you such gifts as shall give satisfaction to Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id67
sentence:
You are to go alone, with no Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive your mules and waggon, and bring back to the city the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id68
sentence:
You are to have no thought, nor fear of death, for Jove will send the slayer of Argus to escort you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id69
sentence:
When he has brought you within Achilles ' tent, Achilles will not kill you nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id70
sentence:
Iris went her way when she had thus spoken, and Priam told his sons to get a mule- waggon ready, and to make the body of the waggon fast upon the top of its bed.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id71
sentence:
Then he went down into his fragrant store- room, high- vaulted, and made of cedar- wood, where his many treasures were kept, and he called Hecuba his wife. "


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id72
sentence:
Wife," said he," a messenger has come to me from Olympus, and has told me to go to the ships of the Achaeans to ransom my dear son, taking with me such gifts as shall give satisfaction to Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id74
sentence:
for my own part I am greatly moved to pass through the camps of the Achaeans and go to their ships."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id75
sentence:
His wife cried aloud as she heard him, and said," Alas, what has become of that judgement for which you have been ever famous both among strangers and your own people?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id76
sentence:
How can you venture alone to the ships of the Achaeans, and look into the face of him who has slain so many of your brave sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id77
sentence:
You must have iron courage, for if the cruel savage sees you and lays hold on you, he will know neither respect nor pity.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id78
sentence:
Let us then weep Hector from afar here in our own house, for when I gave him birth the threads of overruling fate were spun for him that dogs should eat his flesh far from his parents, in the house of that terrible man on whose liver I would fain fasten and devour it.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id79
sentence:
Thus would I avenge my son, who showed no cowardice when Achilles slew him, and thought neither of flight nor of avoiding battle as he stood in defence of Trojan men and Trojan women."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id80
sentence:
Then Priam said," I would go, do not therefore stay me nor be as a bird of ill omen in my house, for you will not move me.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id81
sentence:
Had it been some mortal man who had sent me some prophet or priest who divines from sacrifice —I should have deemed him false and have given him no heed; but now I have heard the goddess and seen her face to face, therefore I will go and her saying shall not be in vain.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id82
sentence:
If it be my fate to die at the ships of the Achaeans even so would I have it; let Achilles slay me, if I may but first have taken my son in my arms and mourned him to my heart 's comforting."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id84
sentence:
He took also twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id85
sentence:
He weighed out ten talents of gold, and brought moreover two burnished tripods, four cauldrons, and a very beautiful cup which the Thracians had given him when he had gone to them on an embassy; it was very precious, but he grudged not even this, so eager was he to ransom the body of his son.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id89
sentence:
Is it a small thing, think you, that the son of Saturn has sent this sorrow upon me, to lose the bravest of my sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id90
sentence:
Nay, you shall prove it in person, for now he is gone the Achaeans will have easier work in killing you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id91
sentence:
As for me, let me go down within the house of Hades, ere mine eyes behold the sacking and wasting of the city."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id93
sentence:
Then he called to his sons, upbraiding Helenus, Paris, noble Agathon, Pammon, Antiphonus, Polites of the loud battle- cry, Deiphobus, Hippothous, and Dius.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id95
sentence:
Come to me at once," he cried," worthless sons who do me shame; would that you had all been killed at the ships rather than Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id96
sentence:
Miserable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy— noble Nestor, Troilus the dauntless charioteer, and Hector who was a god among men, so that one would have thought he was son to an immortal— yet there is not one of them left.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id98
sentence:
Liars, and light of foot, heroes of the dance, robbers of lambs and kids from your own people, why do you not get a waggon ready for me at once, and put all these things upon it that I may set out on my way?"


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id101
sentence:
They took the mule- yoke from the peg on which it hung, a yoke of boxwood with a knob on the top of it and rings for the reins to go through.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id102
sentence:
Then they brought a yoke- band eleven cubits long, to bind the yoke to the pole; they bound it on at the far end of the pole, and put the ring over the upright pin making it fast with three turns of the band on either side the knob, and bending the thong of the yoke beneath it.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id103
sentence:
This done, they brought from the store- chamber the rich ransom that was to purchase the body of Hector, and they set it all orderly on the waggon; then they yoked the strong harness- mules which the Mysians had on a time given as a goodly present to Priam; but for Priam himself they yoked horses which the old king had bred, and kept for his own use.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id105
sentence:
Then Hecuba came to them all sorrowful, with a golden goblet of wine in her right hand, that they might make a drink- offering before they set out.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id106
sentence:
She stood in front of the horses and said," Take this, make a drink- offering to father Jove, and since you are minded to go to the ships in spite of me, pray that you may come safely back from the hands of your enemies.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id107
sentence:
Pray to the son of Saturn lord of the whirlwind, who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy, pray him to send his swift messenger on your right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to him of all birds, that you may see it with your own eyes and trust it as you go forth to the ships of the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id108
sentence:
If all- seeing Jove will not send you this messenger, however set upon it you may be ,I would not have you go to the ships of the Argives."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id109
sentence:
And Priam answered," Wife, I will do as you desire me; it is well to lift hands in prayer to Jove, if so be he may have mercy upon me."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id110
sentence:
With this the old man bade the serving- woman pour pure water over his hands, and the woman came, bearing the water in a bowl.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id111
sentence:
He washed his hands and took the cup from his wife; then he made the drink- offering and prayed, standing in the middle of the courtyard and turning his eyes to heaven."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id112
sentence:
Father Jove," he said," that rulest from Ida, most glorious and most great, grant that I may be received kindly and compassionately in the tents of Achilles; and send your swift messenger upon my right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to you of all birds, that I may see it with my own eyes and trust it as I go forth to the ships of the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id114
sentence:
Forthwith he sent an eagle, the most unerring portent of all birds that fly, the dusky hunter that men also call the Black Eagle.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id115
sentence:
His wings were spread abroad on either side as wide as the well- made and well- bolted door of a rich man 's chamber.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id116
sentence:
He came to them flying over the city upon their right hands, and when they saw him they were glad and their hearts took comfort within them.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id117
sentence:
The old man made haste to mount his chariot, and drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id118
sentence:
Before him went the mules drawing the four- wheeled waggon, and driven by wise Idaeus; behind these were the horses, which the old man lashed with his whip and drove swiftly through the city, while his friends followed after, wailing and lamenting for him as though he were on his road to death.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id119
sentence:
As soon as they had come down from the city and had reached the plain, his sons and sons- in- law who had followed him went back to Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id120
sentence:
But Priam and Idaeus as they showed out upon the plain did not escape the ken of all- seeing Jove, who looked down upon the old man and pitied him; then he spoke to his son Mercury and said," Mercury, for it is you who are the most disposed to escort men on their way, and to hear those whom you will hear, go, and so conduct Priam to the ships of the Achaeans that no other of the Danaans shall see him nor take note of him until he reach the son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id122
sentence:
Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea; he took the wand with which he seals men 's eyes in sleep, or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id123
sentence:
To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the hey- day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id124
sentence:
Now when Priam and Idaeus had driven past the great tomb of Ilius, they stayed their mules and horses that they might drink in the river, for the shades of night were falling, when, therefore, Idaeus saw Mercury standing near them he said to Priam," Take heed, descendant of Dardanus; here is matter which demands consideration.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id125
sentence:
I see a man who I think will presently fall upon us; let us fly with our horses, or at least embrace his knees and implore him to take compassion upon us?"


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id126
sentence:
When he heard this the old man 's heart failed him, and he was in great fear; he stayed where he was as one dazed, and the hair stood on end over his whole body; but the bringer of good luck came up to him and took him by the hand, saying," Whither, father, are you thus driving your mules and horses in the dead of night when other men are asleep?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id128
sentence:
Should some one of them see you bearing so much treasure through the darkness of the flying night, what would not your state then be?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id129
sentence:
You are no longer young, and he who is with you is too old to protect you from those who would attack you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id130
sentence:
For myself, I will do you no harm, and I will defend you from any one else, for you remind me of my own father."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id131
sentence:
And Priam answered," It is indeed as you say, my dear son; nevertheless some god has held his hand over me, in that he has sent such a wayfarer as yourself to meet me so opportunely; you are so comely in mien and figure, and your judgement is so excellent that you must come of blessed parents."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id132
sentence:
Then said the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," Sir, all that you have said is right; but tell me and tell me true, are you taking this rich treasure to send it to a foreign people where it may be safe, or are you all leaving strong Ilius in dismay now that your son has fallen who was the bravest man among you and was never lacking in battle with the Achaeans?"


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id133
sentence:
And Priam said," Who are you, my friend, and who are your parents, that you speak so truly about the fate of my unhappy son?"


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id134
sentence:
The slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, answered him," Sir, you would prove me, that you question me about noble Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id135
sentence:
Many a time have I set eyes upon him in battle when he was driving the Argives to their ships and putting them to the sword.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id136
sentence:
We stood still and marvelled, for Achilles in his anger with the son of Atreus suffered us not to fight.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id138
sentence:
I am a Myrmidon, and my father 's name is Polyctor: he is a rich man and about as old as you are; he has six sons besides myself, and I am the seventh.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id140
sentence:
I am now come from the ships on to the plain, for with daybreak the Achaeans will set battle in array about the city.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id142
sentence:
Then answered Priam," If you are indeed the squire of Achilles son of Peleus, tell me now the whole truth.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id143
sentence:
Is my son still at the ships, or has Achilles hewn him limb from limb, and given him to his hounds?"


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id144
sentence:
"Sir," replied the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," neither hounds nor vultures have yet devoured him; he is still just lying at the tents by the ship of Achilles, and though it is now twelve days that he has lain there, his flesh is not wasted nor have the worms eaten him although they feed on warriors.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id145
sentence:
At daybreak Achilles drags him cruelly round the sepulchre of his dear comrade, but it does him no hurt.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id146
sentence:
You should come yourself and see how he lies fresh as dew, with the blood all washed away, and his wounds every one of them closed though many pierced him with their spears.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id147
sentence:
Such care have the blessed gods taken of your brave son, for he was dear to them beyond all measure."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id148
sentence:
The old man was comforted as he heard him and said," My son, see what a good thing it is to have made due offerings to the immortals; for as sure as that he was born my son never forgot the gods that hold Olympus, and now they requite it to him even in death.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id149
sentence:
Accept therefore at my hands this goodly chalice; guard me and with heaven 's help guide me till I come to the tent of the son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id150
sentence:
Then answered the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," Sir, you are tempting me and playing upon my youth, but you shall not move me, for you are offering me presents without the knowledge of Achilles whom I fear and hold it great guilt to defraud, lest some evil presently befall me; but as your guide I would go with you even to Argos itself, and would guard you so carefully whether by sea or land, that no one should attack you through making light of him who was with you."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id151
sentence:
The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id152
sentence:
When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships, those who were on guard had just been getting their suppers, and the slayer of Argus threw them all into a deep sleep.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id153
sentence:
Then he drew back the bolts to open the gates, and took Priam inside with the treasure he had upon his waggon.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id154
sentence:
Ere long they came to the lofty dwelling of the son of Peleus for which the Myrmidons had cut pine and which they had built for their king; when they had built it they thatched it with coarse tussock- grass which they had mown out on the plain, and all round it they made a large courtyard, which was fenced with stakes set close together.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id155
sentence:
The gate was barred with a single bolt of pine which it took three men to force into its place, and three to draw back so as to open the gate, but Achilles could draw it by himself.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id156
sentence:
Mercury opened the gate for the old man, and brought in the treasure that he was taking with him for the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id157
sentence:
Then he sprang from the chariot on to the ground and said," Sir, it is I, immortal Mercury, that am come with you, for my father sent me to escort you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id158
sentence:
I will now leave you, and will not enter into the presence of Achilles, for it might anger him that a god should befriend mortal men thus openly.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id159
sentence:
Go you within, and embrace the knees of the son of Peleus: beseech him by his father, his lovely mother, and his son; thus you may move him."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id161
sentence:
Priam sprang from his chariot to the ground, leaving Idaeus where he was, in charge of the mules and horses.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id163
sentence:
There he found him with his men seated at a distance from him: only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person, for he had but just done eating and drinking, and the table was still there.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id164
sentence:
King Priam entered without their seeing him, and going right up to Achilles he clasped his knees and kissed the dread murderous hands that had slain so many of his sons.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id165
sentence:
As when some cruel spite has befallen a man that he should have killed some one in his own country, and must fly to a great man 's protection in a land of strangers, and all marvel who see him, even so did Achilles marvel as he beheld Priam.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id166
sentence:
The others looked one to another and marvelled also, but Priam besought Achilles saying," Think of your father, O Achilles like unto the gods, who is such even as I am, on the sad threshold of old age.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id167
sentence:
It may be that those who dwell near him harass him, and there is none to keep war and ruin from him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id168
sentence:
Yet when he hears of you being still alive, he is glad, and his days are full of hope that he shall see his dear son come home to him from Troy; but I, wretched man that I am, had the bravest in all Troy for my sons, and there is not one of them left.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id169
sentence:
I had fifty sons when the Achaeans came here; nineteen of them were from a single womb, and the others were borne to me by the women of my household.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id171
sentence:
Hector, him who was alone left, him who was the guardian of the city and ourselves, him have you lately slain; therefore I am now come to the ships of the Achaeans to ransom his body from you with a great ransom.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id172
sentence:
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable, for I have steeled myself as no man yet has ever steeled himself before me, and have raised to my lips the hand of him who slew my son."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id175
sentence:
The two wept bitterly— Priam, as he lay at Achilles ' feet, weeping for Hector, and Achilles now for his father and now for Patroclus, till the house was filled with their lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id176
sentence:
But when Achilles was now sated with grief and had unburthened the bitterness of his sorrow, he left his seat and raised the old man by the hand, in pity for his white hair and beard; then he said," Unhappy man, you have indeed been greatly daring; how could you venture to come alone to the ships of the Achaeans, and enter the presence of him who has slain so many of your brave sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id177
sentence:
You must have iron courage: sit now upon this seat, and for all our grief we will hide our sorrows in our hearts, for weeping will not avail us.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id178
sentence:
The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow; on the floor of Jove 's palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id179
sentence:
He for whom Jove the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id180
sentence:
Even so did it befall Peleus; the gods endowed him with all good things from his birth upwards, for he reigned over the Myrmidons excelling all men in prosperity and wealth, and mortal though he was they gave him a goddess for his bride.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id181
sentence:
But even on him too did heaven send misfortune, for there is no race of royal children born to him in his house, save one son who is doomed to die all untimely; nor may I take care of him now that he is growing old, for I must stay here at Troy to be the bane of you and your children.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id183
sentence:
They say that in wealth and plenitude of offspring you surpassed all that is in Lesbos, the realm of Makar to the northward, Phrygia that is more inland, and those that dwell upon the great Hellespont; but from the day when the dwellers in heaven sent this evil upon you, war and slaughter have been about your city continually.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id187
sentence:
And Priam answered," O king, bid me not be seated, while Hector is still lying uncared for in your tents, but accept the great ransom which I have brought you, and give him to me at once that I may look upon him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id188
sentence:
May you prosper with the ransom and reach your own land in safety, seeing that you have suffered me to live and to look upon the light of the sun."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id189
sentence:
Achilles looked at him sternly and said," Vex me, sir, no longer; I am of myself minded to give up the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id191
sentence:
Moreover I know well, O Priam, and you can not hide it, that some god has brought you to the ships of the Achaeans, for else, no man however strong and in his prime would dare to come to our host; he could neither pass our guard unseen, nor draw the bolt of my gates thus easily; therefore, provoke me no further, lest I sin against the word of Jove, and suffer you not, suppliant though you are, within my tents."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id193
sentence:
Then the son of Peleus sprang like a lion through the door of his house, not alone, but with him went his two squires Automedon and Alcimus who were closer to him than any others of his comrades now that Patroclus was no more.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id194
sentence:
These unyoked the horses and mules, and bade Priam 's herald and attendant be seated within the house.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id195
sentence:
They lifted the ransom for Hector 's body from the waggon, but they left two mantles and a goodly shirt, that Achilles might wrap the body in them when he gave it to be taken home.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id196
sentence:
Then he called to his servants and ordered them to wash the body and anoint it, but he first took it to a place where Priam should not see it, lest if he did so, he should break out in the bitterness of his grief, and enrage Achilles, who might then kill him and sin against the word of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id197
sentence:
When the servants had washed the body and anointed it, and had wrapped it in a fair shirt and mantle, Achilles himself lifted it on to a bier, and he and his men then laid it on the waggon.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id198
sentence:
He cried aloud as he did so and called on the name of his dear comrade," Be not angry with me, Patroclus," he said," if you hear even in the house of Hades that I have given Hector to his father for a ransom.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id200
sentence:
Achilles then went back into the tent and took his place on the richly inlaid seat from which he had risen, by the wall that was at right angles to the one against which Priam was sitting. "


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id201
sentence:
Sir," he said," your son is now laid upon his bier and is ransomed according to desire; you shall look upon him when you take him away at daybreak; for the present let us prepare our supper.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id202
sentence:
Even lovely Niobe had to think about eating, though her twelve children— six daughters and six lusty sons— had been all slain in her house.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id203
sentence:
Apollo killed the sons with arrows from his silver bow, to punish Niobe, and Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto; she said Leto had borne two children only, whereas she had herself borne many— whereon the two killed the many.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id204
sentence:
Nine days did they lie weltering, and there was none to bury them, for the son of Saturn turned the people into stone; but on the tenth day the gods in heaven themselves buried them, and Niobe then took food, being worn out with weeping.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id205
sentence:
They say that somewhere among the rocks on the mountain pastures of Sipylus, where the nymphs live that haunt the river Achelous, there, they say, she lives in stone and still nurses the sorrows sent upon her by the hand of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id206
sentence:
Therefore, noble sir, let us two now take food; you can weep for your dear son hereafter as you are bearing him back to Ilius— and many a tear will he cost you."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id207
sentence:
With this Achilles sprang from his seat and killed a sheep of silvery whiteness, which his followers skinned and made ready all in due order.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id208
sentence:
They cut the meat carefully up into smaller pieces, spitted them, and drew them off again when they were well roasted.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id209
sentence:
Automedon brought bread in fair baskets and served it round the table, while Achilles dealt out the meat, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id210
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Priam, descendant of Dardanus, marvelled at the strength and beauty of Achilles for he was as a god to see, and Achilles marvelled at Priam as he listened to him and looked upon his noble presence.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id212
sentence:
And now, O king," he said," take me to my couch that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of sleep.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id213
sentence:
Never once have my eyes been closed from the day your hands took the life of my son; I have grovelled without ceasing in the mire of my stable- yard, making moan and brooding over my countless sorrows.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id215
sentence:
As he spoke Achilles told his men and the women- servants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Priam and Idaeus to wear.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id217
sentence:
Then Achilles said laughingly to Priam," Dear sir, you shall lie outside, lest some counsellor of those who in due course keep coming to advise with me should see you here in the darkness of the flying night, and tell it to Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id219
sentence:
And now tell me and tell me true, for how many days would you celebrate the funeral rites of noble Hector?


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id221
sentence:
And Priam answered," Since, then, you suffer me to bury my noble son with all due rites, do thus, Achilles, and I shall be grateful.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id222
sentence:
You know how we are pent up within our city; it is far for us to fetch wood from the mountain, and the people live in fear.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id223
sentence:
Nine days, therefore, will we mourn Hector in my house; on the tenth day we will bury him and there shall be a public feast in his honour; on the eleventh we will build a mound over his ashes, and on the twelfth, if there be need, we will fight."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id226
sentence:
As he spoke he laid his hand on the old man 's right wrist, in token that he should have no fear; thus then did Priam and his attendant sleep there in the forecourt, full of thought, while Achilles lay in an inner room of the house, with fair Briseis by his side.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id227
sentence:
And now both gods and mortals were fast asleep through the livelong night, but upon Mercury alone, the bringer of good luck, sleep could take no hold for he was thinking all the time how to get King Priam away from the ships without his being seen by the strong force of sentinels.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id228
sentence:
He hovered therefore over Priam 's head and said," Sir, now that Achilles has spared your life, you seem to have no fear about sleeping in the thick of your foes.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id229
sentence:
You have paid a great ransom, and have received the body of your son; were you still alive and a prisoner the sons whom you have left at home would have to give three times as much to free you; and so it would be if Agamemnon and the other Achaeans were to know of your being here."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id231
sentence:
Mercury then yoked their horses and mules, and drove them quickly through the host so that no man perceived them.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id232
sentence:
When they came to the ford of eddying Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, Mercury went back to high Olympus, and dawn in robe of saffron began to break over all the land.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id233
sentence:
Priam and Idaeus then drove on toward the city lamenting and making moan, and the mules drew the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id234
sentence:
No one neither man nor woman saw them, till Cassandra, fair as golden Venus standing on Pergamus, caught sight of her dear father in his chariot, and his servant that was the city 's herald with him.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id235
sentence:
Then she saw him that was lying upon the bier, drawn by the mules, and with a loud cry she went about the city saying," Come hither Trojans, men and women, and look on Hector; if ever you rejoiced to see him coming from battle when he was alive, look now on him that was the glory of our city and all our people."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id238
sentence:
Hector 's wife and his mother were the first to mourn him: they flew towards the waggon and laid their hands upon his head, while the crowd stood weeping round them.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id239
sentence:
They would have stayed before the gates, weeping and lamenting the livelong day to the going down of the sun, had not Priam spoken to them from the chariot and said," Make way for the mules to pass you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id242
sentence:
When they had borne the body within the house they laid it upon a bed and seated minstrels round it to lead the dirge, whereon the women joined in the sad music of their lament.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id243
sentence:
Foremost among them all Andromache led their wailing as she clasped the head of mighty Hector in her embrace. "


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id244
sentence:
Husband," she cried," you have died young, and leave me in your house a widow; he of whom we are the ill- starred parents is still a mere child, and I fear he may not reach manhood.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id245
sentence:
Ere he can do so our city will be razed and overthrown, for you who watched over it are no more— you who were its saviour, the guardian of our wives and children.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id246
sentence:
Our women will be carried away captives to the ships, and I among them; while you, my child, who will be with me will be put to some unseemly tasks, working for a cruel master.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id247
sentence:
Or, may be, some Achaean will hurl you( O miserable death) from our walls, to avenge some brother, son, or father whom Hector slew; many of them have indeed bitten the dust at his hands, for your father 's hand in battle was no light one.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id249
sentence:
You have left, O Hector, sorrow unutterable to your parents, and my own grief is greatest of all, for you did not stretch forth your arms and embrace me as you lay dying, nor say to me any words that might have lived with me in my tears night and day for evermore."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id254
sentence:
So long as you were alive the gods loved you well, and even in death they have not been utterly unmindful of you; for when Achilles took any other of my sons, he would sell him beyond the seas, to Samos Imbrus or rugged Lemnos; and when he had slain you too with his sword, many a time did he drag you round the sepulchre of his comrade— though this could not give him life— yet here you lie all fresh as dew, and comely as one whom Apollo has slain with his painless shafts."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id255
sentence:
Thus did she too speak through her tears with bitter moan, and then Helen for a third time took up the strain of lamentation. "


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id256
sentence:
Hector," said she," dearest of all my brothers- in- law— for I am wife to Alexandrus who brought me hither to Troy— would that I had died ere he did so —twenty years are come and gone since I left my home and came from over the sea, but I have never heard one word of insult or unkindness from you.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id257
sentence:
When another would chide with me, as it might be one of your brothers or sisters or of your brothers ' wives, or my mother- in- law— for Priam was as kind to me as though he were my own father— you would rebuke and check them with words of gentleness and goodwill.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id258
sentence:
Therefore my tears flow both for you and for my unhappy self, for there is no one else in Troy who is kind to me, but all shrink and shudder as they go by me."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id260
sentence:
Then King Priam spoke to them saying," Bring wood, O Trojans, to the city, and fear no cunning ambush of the Argives, for Achilles when he dismissed me from the ships gave me his word that they should not attack us until the morning of the twelfth day."


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id262
sentence:
Nine days long did they bring in great heaps of wood, and on the morning of the tenth day with many tears they took brave Hector forth, laid his dead body upon the summit of the pile, and set the fire thereto.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id263
sentence:
Then when the child of morning, rosy- fingered dawn, appeared on the eleventh day, the people again assembled, round the pyre of mighty Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id264
sentence:
When they were got together, they first quenched the fire with wine wherever it was burning, and then his brothers and comrades with many a bitter tear gathered his white bones, wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id265
sentence:
Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it keeping guard on every side lest the Achaeans should attack them before they had finished.


title: homer-iliad_24
idx: id266
sentence:
When they had heaped up the barrow they went back again into the city, and being well assembled they held high feast in the house of Priam their king.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id1
sentence:
The fight between Achilles and the river Scamander—The gods fight among themselves—Achilles drives the Trojans within their gates.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id2
sentence:
Now when they came to the ford of the full- flowing river Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, Achilles cut their forces in two: one half he chased over the plain towards the city by the same way that the Achaeans had taken when flying panic- stricken on the preceding day with Hector in full triumph; this way did they fly pell- mell, and Juno sent down a thick mist in front of them to stay them.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id3
sentence:
The other half were hemmed in by the deep silver- eddying stream, and fell into it with a great uproar.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id4
sentence:
The waters resounded, and the banks rang again, as they swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirling eddies.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id5
sentence:
As locusts flying to a river before the blast of a grass fire— the flame comes on and on till at last it overtakes them and they huddle into the water— even so was the eddying stream of Xanthus filled with the uproar of men and horses, all struggling in confusion before Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id6
sentence:
Forthwith the hero left his spear upon the bank, leaning it against a tamarisk bush, and plunged into the river like a god, armed with his sword only.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id9
sentence:
As when fish fly scared before a huge dolphin, and fill every nook and corner of some fair haven— for he is sure to eat all he can catch— even so did the Trojans cower under the banks of the mighty river, and when Achilles ' arms grew weary with killing them, he drew twelve youths alive out of the water, to sacrifice in revenge for Patroclus son of Menoetius.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id10
sentence:
He drew them out like dazed fawns, bound their hands behind them with the girdles of their own shirts, and gave them over to his men to take back to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id12
sentence:
There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus, as he was escaping out of the water; he it was whom he had once taken prisoner when he was in his father 's vineyard, having set upon him by night, as he was cutting young shoots from a wild fig- tree to make the wicker sides of a chariot.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id13
sentence:
Achilles then caught him to his sorrow unawares, and sent him by sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id14
sentence:
But a guest- friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped and returned to his father 's house.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id15
sentence:
He had spent eleven days happily with his friends after he had come from Lemnos, but on the twelfth heaven again delivered him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send him to the house of Hades sorely against his will.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id16
sentence:
He was unarmed when Achilles caught sight of him, and had neither helmet nor shield; nor yet had he any spear, for he had thrown all his armour from him on to the bank, and was sweating with his struggles to get out of the river, so that his strength was now failing him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id18
sentence:
If this man can come back alive after having been sold over into Lemnos, I shall have the Trojans also whom I have slain rising from the world below.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id19
sentence:
Could not even the waters of the grey sea imprison him, as they do many another whether he will or no?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id20
sentence:
This time let him taste my spear, that I may know for certain whether mother earth who can keep even a strong man down, will be able to hold him, or whether thence too he will return."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id22
sentence:
But Lycaon came up to him dazed and trying hard to embrace his knees, for he would fain live, not die.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id23
sentence:
Achilles thrust at him with his spear, meaning to kill him, but Lycaon ran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby the spear passed over his back, and stuck in the ground, hungering though it was for blood.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id24
sentence:
With one hand he caught Achilles ' knees as he besought him, and with the other he clutched the spear and would not let it go.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id26
sentence:
It was in your tents that I first broke bread on the day when you took me prisoner in the vineyard; after which you sold me away to Lemnos far from my father and my friends, and I brought you the price of a hundred oxen.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id27
sentence:
I have paid three times as much to gain my freedom; it is but twelve days that I have come to Ilius after much suffering, and now cruel fate has again thrown me into your hands.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id29
sentence:
Short of life indeed did my mother Laothoe bear me, daughter of aged Altes— of Altes who reigns over the warlike Lelegae and holds steep Pedasus on the river Satnioeis.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id30
sentence:
Priam married his daughter along with many other women and two sons were born of her, both of whom you will have slain.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id31
sentence:
Your spear slew noble Polydorus as he was fighting in the front ranks, and now evil will here befall me, for I fear that I shall not escape you since heaven has delivered me over to you.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id32
sentence:
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart, spare me, for I am not of the same womb as Hector who slew your brave and noble comrade."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id33
sentence:
With such words did the princely son of Priam beseech Achilles; but Achilles answered him sternly. "


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id35
sentence:
Until Patroclus fell I preferred to give the Trojans quarter, and sold beyond the sea many of those whom I had taken alive; but now not a man shall live of those whom heaven delivers into my hands before the city of Ilius— and of all Trojans it shall fare hardest with the sons of Priam.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id40
sentence:
I am son to a noble father, and have a goddess for my mother, but the hands of doom and death overshadow me all as surely.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id41
sentence:
The day will come, either at dawn or dark, or at the noontide, when one shall take my life also in battle, either with his spear, or with an arrow sped from his bow."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id43
sentence:
He loosed his hold of the spear, and held out both hands before him; but Achilles drew his keen blade, and struck him by the collar- bone on his neck; he plunged his two- edged sword into him to the very hilt, whereon he lay at full length on the ground, with the dark blood welling from him till the earth was soaked.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id44
sentence:
Then Achilles caught him by the foot and flung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him the while, and saying," Lie there among the fishes, who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay you on any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id45
sentence:
There shall the fishes feed on the fat of Lycaon as they dart under the dark ripple of the waters— so perish all of you till we reach the citadel of strong Ilius— you in flight, and I following after to destroy you.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id46
sentence:
The river with its broad silver stream shall serve you in no stead, for all the bulls you offered him and all the horses that you flung living into his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id47
sentence:
None the less miserably shall you perish till there is not a man of you but has paid in full for the death of Patroclus and the havoc you wrought among the Achaeans whom you have slain while I held aloof from battle."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id48
sentence:
So spoke Achilles, but the river grew more and more angry, and pondered within himself how he should stay the hand of Achilles and save the Trojans from disaster.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id50
sentence:
He was son to the broad river Axius and Periboea eldest daughter of Acessamenus; for the river had lain with her.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id51
sentence:
Asteropaeus stood up out of the water to face him with a spear in either hand, and Xanthus filled him with courage, being angry for the death of the youths whom Achilles was slaying ruthlessly within his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id56
sentence:
I am from the fertile land of far Paeonia, captain of the Paeonians, and it is now eleven days that I am at Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id61
sentence:
Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles ' shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point; with the other spear he grazed the elbow of Achilles ' right arm drawing dark blood, but the spear itself went by him and fixed itself in the ground, foiled of its bloody banquet.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id62
sentence:
Then Achilles, fain to kill him, hurled his spear at Asteropaeus, but failed to hit him and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id64
sentence:
Asteropaeus vainly tried to draw Achilles ' spear out of the bank by main force; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw it out, and thrice he had to leave off trying; the fourth time he tried to bend and break it, but ere he could do so Achilles smote him with his sword and killed him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id65
sentence:
He struck him in the belly near the navel, so that all his bowels came gushing out on to the ground, and the darkness of death came over him as he lay gasping.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id66
sentence:
Then Achilles set his foot on his chest and spoiled him of his armour, vaunting over him and saying," Lie there— begotten of a river though you be, it is hard for you to strive with the offspring of Saturn 's son.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id69
sentence:
Therefore as Jove is mightier than any river that flows into the sea, so are his children stronger than those of any river whatsoever.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id70
sentence:
Moreover you have a great river hard by if he can be of any use to you, but there is no fighting against Jove the son of Saturn, with whom not even King Achelous can compare, nor the mighty stream of deep- flowing Oceanus, from whom all rivers and seas with all springs and deep wells proceed; even Oceanus fears the lightnings of great Jove, and his thunder that comes crashing out of heaven."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id71
sentence:
With this he drew his bronze spear out of the bank, and now that he had killed Asteropaeus, he let him lie where he was on the sand, with the dark water flowing over him and the eels and fishes busy nibbling and gnawing the fat that was about his kidneys.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id72
sentence:
Then he went in chase of the Paeonians, who were flying along the bank of the river in panic when they saw their leader slain by the hands of the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id73
sentence:
Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slain yet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken to him from out the deep waters saying," Achilles, if you excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with you to protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to you to destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream, and do your grim work on land.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id74
sentence:
My fair waters are now filled with corpses, nor can I find any channel by which I may pour myself into the sea for I am choked with dead, and yet you go on mercilessly slaying.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id76
sentence:
Achilles answered," So be it, Scamander, Jove- descended; but I will never cease dealing out death among the Trojans, till I have pent them up in their city, and made trial of Hector face to face, that I may learn whether he is to vanquish me, or I him."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id78
sentence:
But the river said to Apollo," Surely, son of Jove, lord of the silver bow, you are not obeying the commands of Jove who charged you straitly that you should stand by the Trojans and defend them, till twilight fades, and darkness is over the earth."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id79
sentence:
Meanwhile Achilles sprang from the bank into mid - stream, whereon the river raised a high wave and attacked him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id80
sentence:
He swelled his stream into a torrent, and swept away the many dead whom Achilles had slain and left within his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id81
sentence:
These he cast out on to the land, bellowing like a bull the while, but the living he saved alive, hiding them in his mighty eddies.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id82
sentence:
The great and terrible wave gathered about Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, so that he could not keep his feet; he caught hold of a great elm- tree, but it came up by the roots, and tore away the bank, damming the stream with its thick branches and bridging it all across; whereby Achilles struggled out of the stream, and fled full speed over the plain, for he was afraid.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id83
sentence:
But the mighty god ceased not in his pursuit, and sprang upon him with a dark- crested wave, to stay his hands and save the Trojans from destruction.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id84
sentence:
The son of Peleus darted away a spear 's throw from him; swift as the swoop of a black hunter- eagle which is the strongest and fleetest of all birds, even so did he spring forward, and the armour rang loudly about his breast.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id86
sentence:
As one who would water his garden leads a stream from some fountain over his plants, and all his ground— spade in hand he clears away the dams to free the channels, and the little stones run rolling round and round with the water as it goes merrily down the bank faster than the man can follow— even so did the river keep catching up with Achilles albeit he was a fleet runner, for the gods are stronger than men.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id87
sentence:
As often as he would strive to stand his ground, and see whether or no all the gods in heaven were in league against him, so often would the mighty wave come beating down upon his shoulders, and he would have to keep flying on and on in great dismay; for the angry flood was tiring him out as it flowed past him and ate the ground from under his feet.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id88
sentence:
Then the son of Peleus lifted up his voice to heaven saying," Father Jove, is there none of the gods who will take pity upon me, and save me from the river?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id90
sentence:
I blame none of the other dwellers on Olympus so severely as I do my dear mother, who has beguiled and tricked me.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id91
sentence:
She told me I was to fall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo; would that Hector, the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me; then should I fall a hero by the hand of a hero; whereas now it seems that I shall come to a most pitiable end, trapped in this river as though I were some swineherd 's boy, who gets carried down a torrent while trying to cross it during a storm."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id92
sentence:
As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men, and took him by the hand to reassure him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id94
sentence:
"Son of Peleus," said he," be not so exceeding fearful; we are two gods, come with Jove 's sanction to assist you, I, and Pallas Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id95
sentence:
It is not your fate to perish in this river; he will abate presently as you will see; moreover we strongly advise you, if you will be guided by us, not to stay your hand from fighting till you have pent the Trojan host within the famed walls of Ilius— as many of them as may escape.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id97
sentence:
When they had so said they went back to the other immortals, but Achilles strove onward over the plain, encouraged by the charge the gods had laid upon him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id98
sentence:
All was now covered with the flood of waters, and much goodly armour of the youths that had been slain was rifting about, as also many corpses, but he forced his way against the stream, speeding right onwards, nor could the broad waters stay him, for Minerva had endowed him with great strength.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id99
sentence:
Nevertheless Scamander did not slacken in his pursuit, but was still more furious with the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id100
sentence:
He lifted his waters into a high crest and cried aloud to Simois saying," Dear brother, let the two of us unite to save this man, or he will sack the mighty city of King Priam, and the Trojans will not hold out against him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id101
sentence:
Help me at once; fill your streams with water from their sources, rouse all your torrents to a fury; raise your wave on high, and let snags and stones come thundering down you that we may make an end of this savage creature who is now lording it as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id102
sentence:
Nothing shall serve him longer, not strength nor comeliness, nor his fine armour, which forsooth shall soon be lying low in the deep waters covered over with mud.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id103
sentence:
I will wrap him in sand, and pour tons of shingle round him, so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather his bones for the silt in which I shall have hidden him, and when they celebrate his funeral they need build no barrow."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id104
sentence:
On this he upraised his tumultuous flood high against Achilles, seething as it was with foam and blood and the bodies of the dead.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id105
sentence:
The dark waters of the river stood upright and would have overwhelmed the son of Peleus, but Juno, trembling lest Achilles should be swept away in the mighty torrent, lifted her voice on high and called out to Vulcan her son. "


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id106
sentence:
Crook- foot," she cried," my child, be up and doing, for I deem it is with you that Xanthus is fain to fight; help us at once, kindle a fierce fire; I will then bring up the west and the white south wind in a mighty hurricane from the sea, that shall bear the flames against the heads and armour of the Trojans and consume them, while you go along the banks of Xanthus burning his trees and wrapping him round with fire.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id107
sentence:
Let him not turn you back neither by fair words nor foul, and slacken not till I shout and tell you.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id109
sentence:
On this Vulcan kindled a fierce fire, which broke out first upon the plain and burned the many dead whom Achilles had killed and whose bodies were lying about in great numbers; by this means the plain was dried and the flood stayed.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id110
sentence:
As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad— even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id112
sentence:
He burned the elms the willows and the tamarisks, the lotus also, with the rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks of the river.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id113
sentence:
The eels and fishes that go darting about everywhere in the water, these, too, were sorely harassed by the flames that cunning Vulcan had kindled, and the river himself was scalded, so that he spoke saying," Vulcan, there is no god can hold his own against you.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id118
sentence:
As a cauldron upon a large fire boils when it is melting the lard of some fatted hog, and the lard keeps bubbling up all over when the dry faggots blaze under it— even so were the goodly waters of Xanthus heated with the fire till they were boiling.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id119
sentence:
He could flow no longer but stayed his stream, so afflicted was he by the blasts of fire which cunning Vulcan had raised.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id120
sentence:
Then he prayed to Juno and besought her saying," Juno, why should your son vex my stream with such especial fury?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id123
sentence:
Furthermore I swear never again will I do anything to save the Trojans from destruction, not even when all Troy is burning in the flames which the Achaeans will kindle."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id124
sentence:
As soon as Juno heard this she said to her son Vulcan," Son Vulcan, hold now your flames; we ought not to use such violence against a god for the sake of mortals."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id125
sentence:
When she had thus spoken Vulcan quenched his flames, and the river went back once more into his own fair bed.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id126
sentence:
Xanthus was now beaten, so these two left off fighting, for Juno stayed them though she was still angry; but a furious quarrel broke out among the other gods, for they were of divided counsels.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id127
sentence:
They fell on one another with a mighty uproar— earth groaned, and the spacious firmament rang out as with a blare of trumpets.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id128
sentence:
Jove heard as he was sitting on Olympus, and laughed for joy when he saw the gods coming to blows among themselves.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id131
sentence:
Why, vixen," said he," have you again set the gods by the ears in the pride and haughtiness of your heart?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id132
sentence:
Have you forgotten how you set Diomed son of Tydeus on to wound me, and yourself took visible spear and drove it into me to the hurt of my fair body?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id134
sentence:
As he spoke he struck her on the terrible tasselled aegis— so terrible that not even can Jove 's lightning pierce it.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id136
sentence:
She drew back and with her strong hand seized a stone that was lying on the plain— great and rugged and black— which men of old had set for the boundary of a field.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id138
sentence:
Nine roods did he cover in his fall, and his hair was all soiled in the dust, while his armour rang rattling round him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id139
sentence:
But Minerva laughed and vaunted over him saying," Idiot, have you not learned how far stronger I am than you, but you must still match yourself against me?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id140
sentence:
Thus do your mother 's curses now roost upon you, for she is angry and would do you mischief because you have deserted the Achaeans and are helping the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id141
sentence:
She then turned her two piercing eyes elsewhere, whereon Jove 's daughter Venus took Mars by the hand and led him away groaning all the time, for it was only with great difficulty that he had come to himself again.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id142
sentence:
When Queen Juno saw her, she said to Minerva," Look, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, unweariable, that vixen Venus is again taking Mars through the crowd out of the battle; go after her at once."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id144
sentence:
Minerva sped after Venus with a will, and made at her, striking her on the bosom with her strong hand so that she fell fainting to the ground, and there they both lay stretched at full length.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id145
sentence:
Then Minerva vaunted over her saying," May all who help the Trojans against the Argives prove just as redoubtable and stalwart as Venus did when she came across me while she was helping Mars.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id148
sentence:
Meanwhile King Neptune turned to Apollo saying," Phoebus, why should we keep each other at arm 's length?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id149
sentence:
it is not well, now that the others have begun fighting; it will be disgraceful to us if we return to Jove 's bronze- floored mansion on Olympus without having fought each other; therefore come on, you are the younger of the two, and I ought not to attack you, for I am older and have had more experience.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id150
sentence:
Idiot, you have no sense, and forget how we two alone of all the gods fared hardly round about Ilius when we came from Jove 's house and worked for Laomedon a whole year at a stated wage and he gave us his orders.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id151
sentence:
I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable, while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id152
sentence:
When, however, the glad hours brought round the time of payment, mighty Laomedon robbed us of all our hire and sent us off with nothing but abuse.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id154
sentence:
He tried, moreover, to cut off the ears of both of us, so we went away in a rage, furious about the payment he had promised us, and yet withheld; in spite of all this, you are now showing favour to his people, and will not join us in compassing the utter ruin of the proud Trojans with their wives and children."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id155
sentence:
And King Apollo answered," Lord of the earthquake, you would have no respect for me if I were to fight you about a pack of miserable mortals, who come out like leaves in summer and eat the fruit of the field, and presently fall lifeless to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id158
sentence:
But his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him and said," So you would fly, Far- Darter, and hand victory over to Neptune with a cheap vaunt to boot.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id160
sentence:
Never let me again hear you bragging in my father 's house, as you have often done in the presence of the immortals, that you would stand up and fight with Neptune."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id165
sentence:
You will find it better to chase wild beasts and deer upon the mountains than to fight those who are stronger than you are.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id166
sentence:
If you would try war, do so, and find out by pitting yourself against me, how far stronger I am than you are."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id167
sentence:
She caught both Diana 's wrists with her left hand as she spoke, and with her right she took the bow from her shoulders, and laughed as she beat her with it about the ears while Diana wriggled and writhed under her blows.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id168
sentence:
Her swift arrows were shed upon the ground, and she fled weeping from under Juno 's hand as a dove that flies before a falcon to the cleft of some hollow rock, when it is her good fortune to escape.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id170
sentence:
Then the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, said to Leto," Leto, I shall not fight you; it is ill to come to blows with any of Jove 's wives.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id172
sentence:
Leto then gathered up Diana 's bow and arrows that had fallen about amid the whirling dust, and when she had got them she made all haste after her daughter.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id173
sentence:
Diana had now reached Jove 's bronze- floored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father, while her ambrosial raiment was quivering all about her.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id174
sentence:
The son of Saturn drew her towards him, and laughing pleasantly the while began to question her saying," Which of the heavenly beings, my dear child, has been treating you in this cruel manner, as though you had been misconducting yourself in the face of everybody?"


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id175
sentence:
and the fair- crowned goddess of the chase answered," It was your wife Juno, father, who has been beating me; it is always her doing when there is any quarrelling among the immortals."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id176
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and meanwhile Phoebus Apollo entered the strong city of Ilius, for he was uneasy lest the wall should not hold out and the Danaans should take the city then and there, before its hour had come; but the rest of the ever- living gods went back, some angry and some triumphant to Olympus, where they took their seats beside Jove lord of the storm cloud, while Achilles still kept on dealing out death alike on the Trojans and on their horses.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id177
sentence:
As when the smoke from some burning city ascends to heaven when the anger of the gods has kindled it— there is then toil for all, and sorrow for not a few— even so did Achilles bring toil and sorrow on the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id178
sentence:
Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panic- stricken before him, and there was none to help them.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id179
sentence:
Presently he came down from off the tower and with many a groan went along the wall to give orders to the brave warders of the gate.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id180
sentence:
"Keep the gates," said he," wide open till the people come flying into the city, for Achilles is hard by and is driving them in rout before him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id182
sentence:
As soon as our people are inside and in safety, close the strong gates for I fear lest that terrible man should come bounding inside along with the others."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id183
sentence:
As he spoke they drew back the bolts and opened the gates, and when these were opened there was a haven of refuge for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id185
sentence:
Right for the city and the high wall, parched with thirst and grimy with dust, still they fied on, with Achilles wielding his spear furiously behind them.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id187
sentence:
Then had the sons of the Achaeans taken the lofty gates of Troy if Apollo had not spurred on Agenor, valiant and noble son to Antenor.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id188
sentence:
He put courage into his heart, and stood by his side to guard him, leaning against a beech tree and shrouded in thick darkness.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id190
sentence:
Alas," said he to himself in his dismay," if I fly before mighty Achilles, and go where all the others are being driven in rout, he will none the less catch me and kill me for a coward.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id191
sentence:
How would it be were I to let Achilles drive the others before him, and then fly from the wall to the plain that is behind Ilius till I reach the spurs of Ida and can hide in the underwood that is thereon?


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id194
sentence:
Like enough he would see me as I am hurrying from the city over the plain, and would speed after me till he had caught me— I should stand no chance against him, for he is mightiest of all mankind.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id197
sentence:
Life is the same in one and all, and men say that he is but mortal despite the triumph that Jove son of Saturn vouchsafes him."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id199
sentence:
As a leopardess that bounds from out a thick covert to attack a hunter— she knows no fear and is not dismayed by the baying of the hounds; even though the man be too quick for her and wound her either with thrust or spear, still, though the spear has pierced her she will not give in till she has either caught him in her grip or been killed outright— even so did noble Agenor son of Antenor refuse to fly till he had made trial of Achilles, and took aim at him with his spear, holding his round shield before him and crying with a loud voice."


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id200
sentence:
Of a truth," said he," noble Achilles, you deem that you shall this day sack the city of the proud Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id201
sentence:
Fool, there will be trouble enough yet before it, for there is many a brave man of us still inside who will stand in front of our dear parents with our wives and children, to defend Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id203
sentence:
As he spoke his strong hand hurled his javelin from him, and the spear struck Achilles on the leg beneath the knee; the greave of newly wrought tin rang loudly, but the spear recoiled from the body of him whom it had struck, and did not pierce it, for the god 's gift stayed it.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id204
sentence:
Achilles in his turn attacked noble Agenor, but Apollo would not vouchsafe him glory, for he snatched Agenor away and hid him in a thick mist, sending him out of the battle unmolested.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id205
sentence:
Then he craftily drew the son of Peleus away from going after the host, for he put on the semblance of Agenor and stood in front of Achilles, who ran towards him to give him chase and pursued him over the corn lands of the plain, turning him towards the deep waters of the river Scamander.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id206
sentence:
Apollo ran but a little way before him and beguiled Achilles by making him think all the time that he was on the point of overtaking him.


title: homer-iliad_21
idx: id207
sentence:
Meanwhile the rabble of routed Trojans was thankful to crowd within the city till their numbers thronged it; no longer did they dare wait for one another outside the city walls, to learn who had escaped and who were fallen in fight, but all whose feet and knees could still carry them poured pell- mell into the town.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id1
sentence:
THE TRIAL OF THE AXES, DURING WHICH ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS Minerva now put it in Penelope 's mind to make the suitors try their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among themselves, as a means of bringing about their destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id2
sentence:
She went upstairs and got the store- room key, which was made of bronze and had a handle of ivory; she then went with her maidens into the store- room at the end of the house, where her husband 's treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were kept, and where was also his bow, and the quiver full of deadly arrows that had been given him by a friend whom he had met in Lacedaemon— Iphitus the son of Eurytus.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id3
sentence:
The two fell in with one another in Messene at the house of Ortilochus, where Ulysses was staying in order to recover a debt that was owing from the whole people; for the Messenians had carried off three hundred sheep from Ithaca, and had sailed away with them and with their shepherds.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id4
sentence:
In quest of these Ulysses took a long journey while still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on a mission to recover them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id5
sentence:
Iphitus had gone there also to try and get back twelve brood mares that he had lost, and the mule foals that were running with them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id6
sentence:
These mares were the death of him in the end, for when he went to the house of Jove 's son, mighty Hercules, who performed such prodigies of valour, Hercules to his shame killed him, though he was his guest, for he feared not heaven 's vengeance, nor yet respected his own table which he had set before Iphitus, but killed him in spite of everything, and kept the mares himself.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id7
sentence:
It was when claiming these that Iphitus met Ulysses, and gave him the bow which mighty Eurytus had been used to carry, and which on his death had been left by him to his son.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id8
sentence:
Ulysses gave him in return a sword and a spear, and this was the beginning of a fast friendship, although they never visited at one another 's houses, for Jove 's son Hercules killed Iphitus ere they could do so.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id9
sentence:
This bow, then, given him by Iphitus, had not been taken with him by Ulysses when he sailed for Troy; he had used it so long as he had been at home, but had left it behind as having been a keepsake from a valued friend.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id10
sentence:
Penelope presently reached the oak threshold of the store- room; the carpenter had planed this duly, and had drawn a line on it so as to get it quite straight; he had then set the door posts into it and hung the doors.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id11
sentence:
She loosed the strap from the handle of the door, put in the key, and drove it straight home to shoot back the bolts that held the doors; these flew open with a noise like a bull bellowing in a meadow, and Penelope stepped upon the raised platform, where the chests stood in which the fair linen and clothes were laid by along with fragrant herbs: reaching thence, she took down the bow with its bow case from the peg on which it hung.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id12
sentence:
She sat down with it on her knees, weeping bitterly as she took the bow out of its case, and when her tears had relieved her, she went to the cloister where the suitors were, carrying the bow and the quiver, with the many deadly arrows that were inside it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id13
sentence:
Along with her came her maidens, bearing a chest that contained much iron and bronze which her husband had won as prizes.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id14
sentence:
When she reached the suitors, she stood by one of the bearing- posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a maid on either side of her.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id15
sentence:
Then she said: "Listen to me you suitors, who persist in abusing the hospitality of this house because its owner has been long absent, and without other pretext than that you want to marry me; this, then, being the prize that you are contending for, I will bring out the mighty bow of Ulysses, and whomsoever of you shall string it most easily and send his arrow through each one of twelve axes, him will I follow and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly, and so abounding in wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id17
sentence:
As she spoke, she told Eumaeus to set the bow and the pieces of iron before the suitors, and Eumaeus wept as he took them to do as she had bidden him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id19
sentence:
"You country louts," said he," silly simpletons; why should you add to the sorrows of your mistress by crying in this way?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id20
sentence:
She has enough to grieve her in the loss of her husband; sit still, therefore, and eat your dinners in silence, or go outside if you want to cry, and leave the bow behind you.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id21
sentence:
We suitors shall have to contend for it with might and main, for we shall find it no light matter to string such a bow as this is.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id22
sentence:
There is not a man of us all who is such another as Ulysses; for I have seen him and remember him, though I was then only a child."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id23
sentence:
This was what he said, but all the time he was expecting to be able to string the bow and shoot through the iron, whereas in fact he was to be the first that should taste of the arrows from the hands of Ulysses, whom he was dishonouring in his own house— egging the others on to do so also.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id27
sentence:
Here is my dear and excellent mother saying she will quit this house and marry again, yet I am laughing and enjoying myself as though there were nothing happening.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id29
sentence:
It is for a woman whose peer is not to be found in Pylos, Argos, or Mycene, nor yet in Ithaca nor on the mainland.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id32
sentence:
I too will make trial of it, for if I can string it and shoot through the iron, I shall not suffer my mother to quit this house with a stranger, not if I can win the prizes which my father won before me."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id33
sentence:
As he spoke he sprang from his seat, threw his crimson cloak from him, and took his sword from his shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id34
sentence:
First he set the axes in a row, in a long groove which he had dug for them, and had made straight by line.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id35
sentence:
Then he stamped the earth tight round them, and everyone was surprised when they saw him set them up so orderly, though he had never seen anything of the kind before.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id36
sentence:
This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id37
sentence:
He was trying for the fourth time, and would have strung it had not Ulysses made a sign to check him in spite of all his eagerness.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id39
sentence:
I shall either be always feeble and of no prowess, or I am too young, and have not yet reached my full strength so as to be able to hold my own if any one attacks me.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id40
sentence:
You others, therefore, who are stronger than I, make trial of the bow and get this contest settled."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id41
sentence:
On this he put the bow down, letting it lean against the door[ that led into the house] with the arrow standing against the top of the bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id42
sentence:
Then he sat down on the seat from which he had risen, and Antinous said: "Come on each of you in his turn, going towards the right from the place at which the cupbearer begins when he is handing round the wine."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id46
sentence:
He was now the first to take the bow and arrow, so he went on to the pavement to make his trial, but he could not string the bow, for his hands were weak and unused to hard work, they therefore soon grew tired, and he said to the suitors," My friends, I can not string it; let another have it, this bow shall take the life and soul out of many a chief among us, for it is better to die than to live after having missed the prize that we have so long striven for, and which has brought us so long together.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id47
sentence:
Some one of us is even now hoping and praying that he may marry Penelope, but when he has seen this bow and tried it, let him woo and make bridal offerings to some other woman, and let Penelope marry whoever makes her the best offer and whose lot it is to win her."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id48
sentence:
On this he put the bow down, letting it lean against the door with the arrow standing against the tip of the bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id49
sentence:
Then he took his seat again on the seat from which he had risen; and Antinous rebuked him saying: "Leiodes, what are you talking about?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id51
sentence:
Shall, then, this bow take the life of many a chief among us, merely because you can not bend it yourself?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id53
sentence:
Then he said to Melanthius the goatherd," Look sharp, light a fire in the court, and set a seat hard by with a sheep skin on it; bring us also a large ball of lard, from what they have in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id54
sentence:
Let us warm the bow and grease it— we will then make trial of it again, and bring the contest to an end."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id56
sentence:
He also brought a great ball of lard from what they had in the house, and the suitors warmed the bow and again made trial of it, but they were none of them nearly strong enough to string it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id57
sentence:
Nevertheless there still remained Antinous and Eurymachus, who were the ringleaders among the suitors and much the foremost among them all.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id59
sentence:
When they had got outside the gates and the outer yard, Ulysses said to them quietly: "Stockman, and you swineherd, I have something in my mind which I am in doubt whether to say or no; but I think I will say it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id60
sentence:
What manner of men would you be to stand by Ulysses, if some god should bring him back here all of a sudden?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id63
sentence:
If some god were but to bring Ulysses back, you should see with what might and main I would fight for him."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id64
sentence:
In like words Eumaeus prayed to all the gods that Ulysses might return; when, therefore, he saw for certain what mind they were of, Ulysses said," It is I, Ulysses, who am here.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id66
sentence:
I find that you two alone of all my servants are glad that I should do so, for I have not heard any of the others praying for my return.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id68
sentence:
If heaven shall deliver the suitors into my hands, I will find wives for both of you, will give you house and holding close to my own, and you shall be to me as though you were brothers and friends of Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id70
sentence:
See, here is the scar from the boar 's tooth that ripped me when I was out hunting on Mt. Parnassus with the sons of Autolycus."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id71
sentence:
As he spoke he drew his rags aside from the great scar, and when they had examined it thoroughly, they both of them wept about Ulysses, threw their arms round him, and kissed his head and shoulders, while Ulysses kissed their hands and faces in return.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id72
sentence:
The sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Ulysses had not checked them and said: "Cease your weeping, lest some one should come outside and see us, and tell those who are within.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id73
sentence:
When you go in, do so separately, not both together; I will go first, and do you follow afterwards; let this moreover be the token between us; the suitors will all of them try to prevent me from getting hold of the bow and quiver; do you, therefore, Eumaeus, place it in my hands when you are carrying it about, and tell the women to close the doors of their apartment.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id74
sentence:
If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they must not come out; they must keep quiet, and stay where they are at their work.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id75
sentence:
And I charge you, Philoetius, to make fast the doors of the outer court, and to bind them securely at once."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id78
sentence:
At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id79
sentence:
He heaved a deep sigh and said," I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we can not string his bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id83
sentence:
Put it on one side— as for the axes they can stay where they are, for no one is likely to come to the house and take them away: let the cupbearer go round with his cups, that we may make our drink- offerings and drop this matter of the bow; we will tell Melanthius to bring us in some goats tomorrow— the best he has; we can then offer thigh bones to Apollo the mighty archer, and again make trial of the bow, so as to bring the contest to an end."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id84
sentence:
The rest approved his words, and thereon men servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing- bowls with wine and water and handed it round after giving every man his drink- offering.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id85
sentence:
Then, when they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he desired, Ulysses craftily said:— "Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id87
sentence:
Cease shooting for the present and leave the matter to the gods, but in the morning let heaven give victory to whom it will.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id88
sentence:
For the moment, however, give me the bow that I may prove the power of my hands among you all, and see whether I still have as much strength as I used to have, or whether travel and neglect have made an end of it."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id89
sentence:
This made them all very angry, for they feared he might string the bow, Antinous therefore rebuked him fiercely saying," Wretched creature, you have not so much as a grain of sense in your whole body; you ought to think yourself lucky in being allowed to dine unharmed among your betters, without having any smaller portion served you than we others have had, and in being allowed to hear our conversation.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id90
sentence:
No other beggar or stranger has been allowed to hear what we say among ourselves; the wine must have been doing you a mischief, as it does with all those who drink immoderately.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id91
sentence:
It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithous among the Lapithae.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id92
sentence:
When the wine had got into his head, he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id93
sentence:
Henceforth, therefore, there was war between mankind and the centaurs, but he brought it upon himself through his own drunkenness.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id94
sentence:
In like manner I can tell you that it will go hardly with you if you string the bow: you will find no mercy from any one here, for we shall at once ship you off to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him: you will never get away alive, so drink and keep quiet without getting into a quarrel with men younger than yourself."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id96
sentence:
Antinous," said she," it is not right that you should ill- treat any guest of Telemachus who comes to this house.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id97
sentence:
If the stranger should prove strong enough to string the mighty bow of Ulysses, can you suppose that he would take me home with him and make me his wife?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id98
sentence:
Even the man himself can have no such idea in his mind: none of you need let that disturb his feasting; it would be out of all reason."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id99
sentence:
"Queen Penelope," answered Eurymachus," we do not suppose that this man will take you away with him; it is impossible; but we are afraid lest some of the baser sort, men or women among the Achaeans, should go gossiping about and say,' These suitors are a feeble folk; they are paying court to the wife of a brave man whose bow not one of them was able to string, and yet a beggarly tramp who came to the house strung it at once and sent an arrow through the iron.'


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id101
sentence:
"Eurymachus," Penelope answered," people who persist in eating up the estate of a great chieftain and dishonouring his house must not expect others to think well of them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id105
sentence:
I say— and it shall surely be— that if Apollo vouchsafes him the glory of stringing it, I will give him a cloak and shirt of good wear, with a javelin to keep off dogs and robbers, and a sharp sword.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id107
sentence:
Then Telemachus said," Mother, I am the only man either in Ithaca or in the islands that are over against Elis who has the right to let any one have the bow or to refuse it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id108
sentence:
No one shall force me one way or the other, not even though I choose to make the stranger a present of the bow outright, and let him take it away with him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id109
sentence:
Go, then, within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id112
sentence:
Then going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva sent sweet sleep over her eyelids.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id113
sentence:
The swineherd now took up the bow and was for taking it to Ulysses, but the suitors clamoured at him from all parts of the cloisters, and one of them said," You idiot, where are you taking the bow to?


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id115
sentence:
If Apollo and the other gods will grant our prayer, your own boarhounds shall get you into some quiet little place, and worry you to death."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id116
sentence:
Eumaeus was frightened at the outcry they all raised, so he put the bow down then and there, but Telemachus shouted out at him from the other side of the cloisters, and threatened him saying," Father Eumaeus, bring the bow on in spite of them, or young as I am I will pelt you with stones back to the country, for I am the better man of the two.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id117
sentence:
I wish I was as much stronger than all the other suitors in the house as I am than you ,I would soon send some of them off sick and sorry, for they mean mischief."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id118
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and they all of them laughed heartily, which put them in a better humour with Telemachus; so Eumaeus brought the bow on and placed it in the hands of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id119
sentence:
When he had done this, he called Euryclea apart and said to her," Euryclea, Telemachus says you are to close the doors of the women 's apartments.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id120
sentence:
If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they are not to come out, but are to keep quiet and stay where they are at their work."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id123
sentence:
There was a ship 's cable of byblus fibre lying in the gatehouse, so he made the gates fast with it and then came in again, resuming the seat that he had left, and keeping an eye on Ulysses, who had now got the bow in his hands, and was turning it every way about, and proving it all over to see whether the worms had been eating into its two horns during his absence.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id124
sentence:
Then would one turn towards his neighbour saying," This is some tricky old bow- fancier; either he has got one like it at home, or he wants to make one, in such workmanlike style does the old vagabond handle it."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id125
sentence:
Another said," I hope he may be no more successful in other things than he is likely to be in stringing this bow."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id126
sentence:
But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id127
sentence:
Then he took it in his right hand to prove the string, and it sang sweetly under his touch like the twittering of a swallow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id128
sentence:
The suitors were dismayed, and turned colour as they heard it; at that moment, moreover, Jove thundered loudly as a sign, and the heart of Ulysses rejoiced as he heard the omen that the son of scheming Saturn had sent him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id129
sentence:
He took an arrow that was lying upon the table— for those which the Achaeans were so shortly about to taste were all inside the quiver— he laid it on the centre- piece of the bow, and drew the notch of the arrow and the string toward him, still seated on his seat.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id130
sentence:
When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handle- holes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard.


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id134
sentence:
Now, however, it is time for the Achaeans to prepare supper while there is still daylight, and then otherwise to disport themselves with song and dance which are the crowning ornaments of a banquet."


title: homer-odyssey_21
idx: id135
sentence:
As he spoke he made a sign with his eyebrows, and Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped his spear, and stood armed beside his father 's seat.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id2
sentence:
Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id3
sentence:
But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying," Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, forsooth, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot draw near to the body and mourn Patroclus, in due honour to the dead.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id4
sentence:
When we have had full comfort of lamentation we will unyoke our horses and take supper all of us here."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id6
sentence:
Thrice did they drive their chariots all sorrowing round the body, and Thetis stirred within them a still deeper yearning.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id7
sentence:
The sands of the seashore and the men 's armour were wet with their weeping, so great a minister of fear was he whom they had lost.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id8
sentence:
Chief in all their mourning was the son of Peleus: he laid his bloodstained hand on the breast of his friend."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id10
sentence:
I will now do all that I erewhile promised you; I will drag Hector hither and let dogs devour him raw; twelve noble sons of Trojans will I also slay before your pyre to avenge you."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id11
sentence:
As he spoke he treated the body of noble Hector with contumely, laying it at full length in the dust beside the bier of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id12
sentence:
The others then put off every man his armour, took the horses from their chariots, and seated themselves in great multitude by the ship of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, who thereon feasted them with an abundant funeral banquet.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id13
sentence:
Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well- fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id14
sentence:
Then the princes of the Achaeans took the son of Peleus to Agamemnon, but hardly could they persuade him to come with them, so wroth was he for the death of his comrade.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id15
sentence:
As soon as they reached Agamemnon 's tent they told the serving- men to set a large tripod over the fire in case they might persuade the son of Peleus to wash the clotted gore from this body, but he denied them sternly, and swore it with a solemn oath, saying," Nay, by King Jove, first and mightiest of all gods, it is not meet that water should touch my body, till I have laid Patroclus on the flames, have built him a barrow, and shaved my head— for so long as I live no such second sorrow shall ever draw nigh me.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id16
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us do all that this sad festival demands, but at break of day, King Agamemnon, bid your men bring wood, and provide all else that the dead may duly take into the realm of darkness; the fire shall thus burn him out of our sight the sooner, and the people shall turn again to their own labours."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id18
sentence:
They made haste to prepare the meal, they ate, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id19
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, the others went to their rest each in his own tent, but the son of Peleus lay grieving among his Myrmidons by the shore of the sounding sea, in an open place where the waves came surging in one after another.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id20
sentence:
Here a very deep slumber took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows, for his limbs were weary with chasing Hector round windy Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id21
sentence:
Presently the sad spirit of Patroclus drew near him, like what he had been in stature, voice, and the light of his beaming eyes, clad, too, as he had been clad in life.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id22
sentence:
The spirit hovered over his head and said— "You sleep, Achilles, and have forgotten me; you loved me living, but now that I am dead you think for me no further.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id23
sentence:
Bury me with all speed that I may pass the gates of Hades; the ghosts, vain shadows of men that can labour no more, drive me away from them; they will not yet suffer me to join those that are beyond the river, and I wander all desolate by the wide gates of the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id24
sentence:
Give me now your hand I pray you, for when you have once given me my dues of fire, never shall I again come forth out of the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id25
sentence:
Nevermore shall we sit apart and take sweet counsel among the living; the cruel fate which was my birth- right has yawned its wide jaws around me— nay, you too Achilles, peer of gods, are doomed to die beneath the wall of the noble Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id26
sentence:
"One prayer more will I make you, if you will grant it; let not my bones be laid apart from yours, Achilles, but with them; even as we were brought up together in your own home, what time Menoetius brought me to you as a child from Opoeis because by a sad spite I had killed the son of Amphidamas— not of set purpose, but in childish quarrel over the dice.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id27
sentence:
The knight Peleus took me into his house, entreated me kindly, and named me to be your squire; therefore let our bones lie in but a single urn, the two- handled golden vase given to you by your mother."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id30
sentence:
Draw closer to me, let us once more throw our arms around one another, and find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id31
sentence:
He opened his arms towards him as he spoke and would have clasped him in them, but there was nothing, and the spirit vanished as a vapour, gibbering and whining into the earth.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id32
sentence:
Achilles sprang to his feet, smote his two hands, and made lamentation saying," Of a truth even in the house of Hades there are ghosts and phantoms that have no life in them; all night long the sad spirit of Patroclus has hovered over head making piteous moan, telling me what I am to do for him, and looking wondrously like himself."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id33
sentence:
Thus did he speak and his words set them all weeping and mourning about the poor dumb dead, till rosy- fingered morn appeared.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id34
sentence:
Then King Agamemnon sent men and mules from all parts of the camp, to bring wood, and Meriones, squire to Idomeneus, was in charge over them.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id36
sentence:
Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of many- fountained Ida, they laid their axes to the roots of many a tall branching oak that came thundering down as they felled it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id37
sentence:
They split the trees and bound them behind the mules, which then wended their way as they best could through the thick brushwood on to the plain.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id38
sentence:
All who had been cutting wood bore logs, for so Meriones squire to Idomeneus had bidden them, and they threw them down in a line upon the seashore at the place where Achilles would make a mighty monument for Patroclus and for himself.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id39
sentence:
When they had thrown down their great logs of wood over the whole ground, they stayed all of them where they were, but Achilles ordered his brave Myrmidons to gird on their armour, and to yoke each man his horses; they therefore rose, girded on their armour and mounted each his chariot— they and their charioteers with them.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id40
sentence:
The chariots went before, and they that were on foot followed as a cloud in their tens of thousands after.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id41
sentence:
In the midst of them his comrades bore Patroclus and covered him with the locks of their hair which they cut off and threw upon his body.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id42
sentence:
Last came Achilles with his head bowed for sorrow, so noble a comrade was he taking to the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id43
sentence:
When they came to the place of which Achilles had told them they laid the body down and built up the wood.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id45
sentence:
He went a space away from the pyre, and cut off the yellow lock which he had let grow for the river Spercheius.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id46
sentence:
He looked all sorrowfully out upon the dark sea, and said," Spercheius, in vain did my father Peleus vow to you that when I returned home to my loved native land I should cut off this lock and offer you a holy hecatomb; fifty she- goats was I to sacrifice to you there at your springs, where is your grove and your altar fragrant with burnt- offerings.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id47
sentence:
Thus did my father vow, but you have not fulfilled his prayer; now, therefore, that I shall see my home no more ,I give this lock as a keepsake to the hero Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id48
sentence:
As he spoke he placed the lock in the hands of his dear comrade, and all who stood by were filled with yearning and lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id49
sentence:
The sun would have gone down upon their mourning had not Achilles presently said to Agamemnon," Son of Atreus, for it is to you that the people will give ear, there is a time to mourn and a time to cease from mourning; bid the people now leave the pyre and set about getting their dinners: we, to whom the dead is dearest, will see to what is wanted here, and let the other princes also stay by me."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id50
sentence:
When King Agamemnon heard this he dismissed the people to their ships, but those who were about the dead heaped up wood and built a pyre a hundred feet this way and that; then they laid the dead all sorrowfully upon the top of it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id51
sentence:
They flayed and dressed many fat sheep and oxen before the pyre, and Achilles took fat from all of them and wrapped the body therein from head to foot, heaping the flayed carcases all round it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id52
sentence:
Against the bier he leaned two- handled jars of honey and unguents; four proud horses did he then cast upon the pyre, groaning the while he did so.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id53
sentence:
The dead hero had had house- dogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre; he also put twelve brave sons of noble Trojans to the sword and laid them with the rest, for he was full of bitterness and fury.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id54
sentence:
Then he committed all to the resistless and devouring might of the fire; he groaned aloud and called on his dead comrade by name."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id55
sentence:
Fare well ,"he cried," Patroclus, even in the house of Hades; I am now doing all that I have promised you.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id56
sentence:
Twelve brave sons of noble Trojans shall the flames consume along with yourself, but dogs, not fire, shall devour the flesh of Hector son of Priam."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id57
sentence:
Thus did he vaunt, but the dogs came not about the body of Hector, for Jove 's daughter Venus kept them off him night and day, and anointed him with ambrosial oil of roses that his flesh might not be torn when Achilles was dragging him about.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id58
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo moreover sent a dark cloud from heaven to earth, which gave shade to the whole place where Hector lay, that the heat of the sun might not parch his body.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id60
sentence:
Achilles therefore bethought him of another matter; he went apart and prayed to the two winds Boreas and Zephyrus vowing them goodly offerings.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id61
sentence:
He made them many drink- offerings from the golden cup and besought them to come and help him that the wood might make haste to kindle and the dead bodies be consumed.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id63
sentence:
They were holding high feast in the house of boisterous Zephyrus when Iris came running up to the stone threshold of the house and stood there, but as soon as they set eyes on her they all came towards her and each of them called her to him, but Iris would not sit down.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id64
sentence:
"I can not stay," she said," I must go back to the streams of Oceanus and the land of the Ethiopians who are offering hecatombs to the immortals, and I would have my share; but


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id65
sentence:
Achilles prays that Boreas and shrill Zephyrus will come to him, and he vows them goodly offerings; he would have you blow upon the pyre of Patroclus for whom all the Achaeans are lamenting."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id66
sentence:
With this she left them, and the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id67
sentence:
They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre till the mighty flames roared under the blast that they blew.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id68
sentence:
All night long did they blow hard and beat upon the fire, and all night long did Achilles grasp his double cup, drawing wine from a mixing- bowl of gold, and calling upon the spirit of dead Patroclus as he poured it upon the ground until the earth was drenched.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id69
sentence:
As a father mourns when he is burning the bones of his bridegroom son whose death has wrung the hearts of his parents, even so did Achilles mourn while burning the body of his comrade, pacing round the bier with piteous groaning and lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id70
sentence:
At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron- mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id72
sentence:
The son of Peleus now turned away from the pyre and lay down, overcome with toil, till he fell into a sweet slumber.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id73
sentence:
Presently they who were about the son of Atreus drew near in a body, and roused him with the noise and tramp of their coming.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id74
sentence:
He sat upright and said," Son of Atreus, and all other princes of the Achaeans, first pour red wine everywhere upon the fire and quench it; let us then gather the bones of Patroclus son of Menoetius, singling them out with care; they are easily found, for they lie in the middle of the pyre, while all else, both men and horses, has been thrown in a heap and burned at the outer edge.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id75
sentence:
We will lay the bones in a golden urn, in two layers of fat, against the time when I shall myself go down into the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id77
sentence:
Afterwards, let those Achaeans who may be left at the ships when I am gone, build it both broad and high."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id80
sentence:
With many tears they singled out the whitened bones of their loved comrade and laid them within a golden urn in two layers of fat: they then covered the urn with a linen cloth and took it inside the tent.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id81
sentence:
They marked off the circle where the barrow should be, made a foundation for it about the pyre, and forthwith heaped up the earth.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id82
sentence:
When they had thus raised a mound they were going away, but Achilles stayed the people and made them sit in assembly.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id83
sentence:
He brought prizes from the ships— cauldrons, tripods, horses and mules, noble oxen, women with fair girdles, and swart iron.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id84
sentence:
The first prize he offered was for the chariot races— a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a three- legged cauldron that had ears for handles, and would hold twenty- two measures.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id86
sentence:
For the second there was a six- year old mare, unbroken, and in foal to a he- ass; the third was to have a goodly cauldron that had never yet been on the fire; it was still bright as when it left the maker, and would hold four measures.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id87
sentence:
The fourth prize was two talents of gold, and the fifth a two- handled urn as yet unsoiled by smoke.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id88
sentence:
Then he stood up and spoke among the Argives saying— "Son of Atreus, and all other Achaeans, these are the prizes that lie waiting the winners of the chariot races.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id89
sentence:
At any other time I should carry off the first prize and take it to my own tent; you know how far my steeds excel all others— for they are immortal; Neptune gave them to my father Peleus, who in his turn gave them to myself; but I shall hold aloof, I and my steeds that have lost their brave and kind driver, who many a time has washed them in clear water and anointed their manes with oil.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id90
sentence:
See how they stand weeping here, with their manes trailing on the ground in the extremity of their sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id91
sentence:
But do you others set yourselves in order throughout the host, whosoever has confidence in his horses and in the strength of his chariot."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id94
sentence:
Next to him rose mighty Diomed son of Tydeus; he yoked the Trojan horses which he had taken from Aeneas, when Apollo bore him out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id95
sentence:
Next to him, yellow- haired Menelaus son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon 's mare Aethe, and his own horse Podargus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id96
sentence:
The mare had been given to Agamemnon by Echepolus son of Anchises, that he might not have to follow him to Ilius, but might stay at home and take his ease; for Jove had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id99
sentence:
These were bred in Pylos, and his father came up to him to give him good advice of which, however, he stood in but little need. "


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id100
sentence:
Antilochus," said Nestor," you are young, but Jove and Neptune have loved you well, and have made you an excellent horseman.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id102
sentence:
You are skilful at wheeling your horses round the post, but the horses themselves are very slow, and it is this that will, I fear, mar your chances.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id103
sentence:
The other drivers know less than you do, but their horses are fleeter; therefore, my dear son, see if you can not hit upon some artifice whereby you may insure that the prize shall not slip through your fingers.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id104
sentence:
The woodman does more by skill than by brute force; by skill the pilot guides his storm- tossed barque over the sea, and so by skill one driver can beat another.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id105
sentence:
If a man go wide in rounding this way and that, whereas a man who knows what he is doing may have worse horses, but he will keep them well in hand when he sees the doubling- post; he knows the precise moment at which to pull the rein, and keeps his eye well on the man in front of him.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id107
sentence:
There is a stump of a dead tree— oak or pine as it may be— some six feet above the ground, and not yet rotted away by rain; it stands at the fork of the road; it has two white stones set one on each side, and there is a clear course all round it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id108
sentence:
It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doubling- post in days gone by; now, however, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your right- hand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the left- hand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id109
sentence:
Therefore, my dear son, mind well what you are about, for if you can be first to round the post there is no chance of any one giving you the go- by later, not even though you had Adrestus 's horse Arion behind you— a horse which is of divine race— or those of Laomedon, which are the noblest in this country."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id110
sentence:
When Nestor had made an end of counselling his son he sat down in his place, and fifth in order Meriones got ready his horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id112
sentence:
Achilles shook the helmet, and the lot of Antilochus son of Nestor fell out first; next came that of King Eumelus, and after his, those of Menelaus son of Atreus and of Meriones.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id114
sentence:
They took their places in line; Achilles showed them the doubling- post round which they were to turn, some way off upon the plain; here he stationed his father 's follower Phoenix as umpire, to note the running, and report truly.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id115
sentence:
At the same instant they all of them lashed their horses, struck them with the reins, and shouted at them with all their might.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id116
sentence:
They flew full speed over the plain away from the ships, the dust rose from under them as it were a cloud or whirlwind, and their manes were all flying in the wind.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id117
sentence:
At one moment the chariots seemed to touch the ground, and then again they bounded into the air; the drivers stood erect, and their hearts beat fast and furious in their lust of victory.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id118
sentence:
Each kept calling on his horses, and the horses scoured the plain amid the clouds of dust that they raised.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id119
sentence:
It was when they were doing the last part of the course on their way back towards the sea that their pace was strained to the utmost and it was seen what each could do.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id120
sentence:
The horses of the descendant of Pheres now took the lead, and close behind them came the Trojan stallions of Diomed.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id121
sentence:
They seemed as if about to mount Eumelus 's chariot, and he could feel their warm breath on his back and on his broad shoulders, for their heads were close to him as they flew over the course.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id122
sentence:
Diomed would have now passed him, or there would have been a dead heat, but Phoebus Apollo to spite him made him drop his whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id123
sentence:
Tears of anger fell from his eyes as he saw the mares going on faster than ever, while his own horses lost ground through his having no whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id124
sentence:
Minerva saw the trick which Apollo had played the son of Tydeus, so she brought him his whip and put spirit into his horses; moreover she went after the son of Admetus in a rage and broke his yoke for him; the mares went one to one side of the course, and the other to the other, and the pole was broken against the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id125
sentence:
Eumelus was thrown from his chariot close to the wheel; his elbows, mouth, and nostrils were all torn, and his forehead was bruised above his eyebrows; his eyes filled with tears and he could find no utterance.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id126
sentence:
But the son of Tydeus turned his horses aside and shot far ahead, for Minerva put fresh strength into them and covered Diomed himself with glory.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id129
sentence:
I do not bid you try to beat the steeds of the son of Tydeus, for Minerva has put running into them, and has covered Diomed with glory; but you must overtake the horses of the son of Atreus and not be left behind, or Aethe who is so fleet will taunt you.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id131
sentence:
I tell you, and it shall surely be— Nestor will keep neither of you, but will put both of you to the sword, if we win any the worse a prize through your carelessness.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id132
sentence:
Fly after them at your utmost speed; I will hit on a plan for passing them in a narrow part of the way, and it shall not fail me."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id135
sentence:
The ground was broken, for the winter 's rain had gathered and had worn the road so that the whole place was deepened.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id136
sentence:
Menelaus was making towards it so as to get there first, for fear of a foul, but Antilochus turned his horses out of the way, and followed him a little on one side.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id137
sentence:
The son of Atreus was afraid and shouted out," Antilochus, you are driving recklessly; rein in your horses; the road is too narrow here, it will be wider soon, and you can pass me then; if you foul my chariot you may bring both of us to a mischief."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id139
sentence:
They went side by side for about as far as a young man can hurl a disc from his shoulder when he is trying his strength, and then Menelaus 's mares drew behind, for he left off driving for fear the horses should foul one another and upset the chariots; thus, while pressing on in quest of victory, they might both come headlong to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id140
sentence:
Menelaus then upbraided Antilochus and said," There is no greater trickster living than you are; go, and bad luck go with you; the Achaeans say not well that you have understanding, and come what may you shall not bear away the prize without sworn protest on my part."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id141
sentence:
Then he called on his horses and said to them," Keep your pace, and slacken not; the limbs of the other horses will weary sooner than yours ,for they are neither of them young."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id142
sentence:
The horses feared the rebuke of their master, and went faster, so that they were soon nearly up with the others.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id143
sentence:
Meanwhile the Achaeans from their seats were watching how the horses went, as they scoured the plain amid clouds of their own dust.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id144
sentence:
Idomeneus captain of the Cretans was first to make out the running, for he was not in the thick of the crowd, but stood on the most commanding part of the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id145
sentence:
The driver was a long way off, but Idomeneus could hear him shouting, and could see the foremost horse quite plainly— a chestnut with a round white star, like the moon, on its forehead.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id146
sentence:
He stood up and said among the Argives," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, can you see the running as well as I can?


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id147
sentence:
There seems to be another pair in front now, and another driver; those that led off at the start must have been disabled out on the plain.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id148
sentence:
I saw them at first making their way round the doubling- post, but now, though I search the plain of Troy, I can not find them.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id149
sentence:
Perhaps the reins fell from the driver 's hand so that he lost command of his horses at the doubling- post, and could not turn it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id150
sentence:
I suppose he must have been thrown out there, and broken his chariot, while his mares have left the course and gone off wildly in a panic.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id151
sentence:
Come up and see for yourselves, I can not make out for certain, but the driver seems an Aetolian by descent, ruler over the Argives, brave Diomed the son of Tydeus."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id152
sentence:
Ajax the son of Oileus took him up rudely and said," Idomeneus, why should you be in such a hurry to tell us all about it, when the mares are still so far out upon the plain?


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id153
sentence:
You are none of the youngest, nor your eyes none of the sharpest, but you are always laying down the law.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id155
sentence:
Eumelus 's horses are in front now, as they always have been, and he is on the chariot holding the reins."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id156
sentence:
The captain of the Cretans was angry, and answered," Ajax you are an excellent railer, but you have no judgement, and are wanting in much else as well, for you have a vile temper.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id157
sentence:
I will wager you a tripod or cauldron, and Agamemnon son of Atreus shall decide whose horses are first.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id159
sentence:
Ajax son of Oileus was for making him an angry answer, and there would have been yet further brawling between them, had not Achilles risen in his place and said," Cease your railing, Ajax and Idomeneus; it is not seemly; you would be scandalised if you saw any one else do the like: sit down and keep your eyes on the horses; they are speeding towards the winning- post and will be here directly.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id161
sentence:
As he was speaking, the son of Tydeus came driving in, plying his whip lustily from his shoulder, and his horses stepping high as they flew over the course.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id162
sentence:
The sand and grit rained thick on the driver, and the chariot inlaid with gold and tin ran close behind his fleet horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id163
sentence:
There was little trace of wheel- marks in the fine dust, and the horses came flying in at their utmost speed.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id164
sentence:
Diomed stayed them in the middle of the crowd, and the sweat from their manes and chests fell in streams on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id165
sentence:
Forthwith he sprang from his goodly chariot, and leaned his whip against his horses ' yoke; brave Sthenelus now lost no time, but at once brought on the prize, and gave the woman and the ear- handled cauldron to his comrades to take away.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id167
sentence:
Next after him came in Antilochus of the race of Neleus, who had passed Menelaus by a trick and not by the fleetness of his horses; but even so Menelaus came in as close behind him as the wheel is to the horse that draws both the chariot and its master.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id168
sentence:
The end hairs of a horse 's tail touch the tyre of the wheel, and there is never much space between wheel and horse when the chariot is going; Menelaus was no further than this behind Antilochus, though at first he had been a full disc 's throw behind him.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id169
sentence:
He had soon caught him up again, for Agamemnon 's mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id173
sentence:
When Achilles saw him he was sorry, and stood up among the Argives saying," The best man is coming in last.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id176
sentence:
Thus did he speak and the others all of them applauded his saying, and were for doing as he had said, but Nestor 's son Antilochus stood up and claimed his rights from the son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id177
sentence:
Achilles," said he," I shall take it much amiss if you do this thing; you would rob me of my prize, because you think Eumelus 's chariot and horses were thrown out, and himself too, good man that he is.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id179
sentence:
If you are sorry for him and so choose, you have much gold in your tents, with bronze, sheep, cattle and horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id180
sentence:
Take something from this store if you would have the Achaeans speak well of you, and give him a better prize even than that which you have now offered; but I will not give up the mare, and he that will fight me for her, let him come on."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id181
sentence:
Achilles smiled as he heard this, and was pleased with Antilochus, who was one of his dearest comrades.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id182
sentence:
So he said— "Antilochus, if you would have me find Eumelus another prize, I will give him the bronze breastplate with a rim of tin running all round it which I took from Asteropaeus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id187
sentence:
An attendant placed his staff in his hands and bade the Argives keep silence: the hero then addressed them. "


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id189
sentence:
You have made me cut a poor figure and baulked my horses by flinging your own in front of them, though yours are much worse than mine are; therefore, O princes and counsellors of the Argives, judge between us and show no favour, lest one of the Achaeans say,' Menelaus has got the mare through lying and corruption; his horses were far inferior to Antilochus 's, but he has greater weight and influence.'


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id191
sentence:
Come here, Antilochus, and stand, as our custom is, whip in hand before your chariot and horses; lay your hand on your steeds, and swear by earth- encircling Neptune that you did not purposely and guilefully get in the way of my horses."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id192
sentence:
And Antilochus answered," Forgive me; I am much younger, King Menelaus, than you are; you stand higher than I do and are the better man of the two; you know how easily young men are betrayed into indiscretion; their tempers are more hasty and they have less judgement; make due allowances therefore, and bear with me; I will of my own accord give up the mare that I have won, and if you claim any further chattel from my own possessions, I would rather yield it to you, at once, than fall from your good graces henceforth, and do wrong in the sight of heaven."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id193
sentence:
The son of Nestor then took the mare and gave her over to Menelaus, whose anger was thus appeased; as when dew falls upon a field of ripening corn, and the lands are bristling with the harvest— even so, O Menelaus, was your heart made glad within you.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id194
sentence:
He turned to Antilochus and said," Now, Antilochus, angry though I have been, I can give way to you of my own free will; you have never been headstrong nor ill- disposed hitherto, but this time your youth has got the better of your judgement; be careful how you outwit your betters in future; no one else could have brought me round so easily, but your good father, your brother, and yourself have all of you had infinite trouble on my behalf; I therefore yield to your entreaty, and will give up the mare to you, mine though it indeed be; the people will thus see that I am neither harsh nor vindictive."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id196
sentence:
Meriones, who had come in fourth, carried off the two talents of gold, and the fifth prize, the two- handled urn, being unawarded, Achilles gave it to Nestor, going up to him among the assembled Argives and saying," Take this, my good old friend, as an heirloom and memorial of the funeral of Patroclus— for you shall see him no more among the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id197
sentence:
I give you this prize though you can not win one; you can now neither wrestle nor fight, and can not enter for the javelin- match nor foot- races ,for the hand of age has been laid heavily upon you."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id198
sentence:
So saying he gave the urn over to Nestor, who received it gladly and answered," My son, all that you have said is true; there is no strength now in my legs and feet, nor can I hit out with my hands from either shoulder.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id199
sentence:
Would that I were still young and strong as when the Epeans were burying King Amarynceus in Buprasium, and his sons offered prizes in his honour.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id200
sentence:
There was then none that could vie with me neither of the Epeans nor the Pylians themselves nor the Aetolians.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id201
sentence:
In boxing I overcame Clytomedes son of Enops, and in wrestling, Ancaeus of Pleuron who had come forward against me.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id202
sentence:
Iphiclus was a good runner, but I beat him, and threw farther with my spear than either Phyleus or Polydorus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id203
sentence:
In chariot- racing alone did the two sons of Actor surpass me by crowding their horses in front of me, for they were angry at the way victory had gone, and at the greater part of the prizes remaining in the place in which they had been offered.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id204
sentence:
They were twins, and the one kept on holding the reins, and holding the reins, while the other plied the whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id205
sentence:
Such was I then, but now I must leave these matters to younger men; I must bow before the weight of years, but in those days I was eminent among heroes.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id206
sentence:
And now, sir, go on with the funeral contests in honour of your comrade: gladly do I accept this urn, and my heart rejoices that you do not forget me but are ever mindful of my goodwill towards you, and of the respect due to me from the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id208
sentence:
Thereon the son of Peleus, when he had listened to all the thanks of Nestor, went about among the concourse of the Achaeans, and presently offered prizes for skill in the painful art of boxing.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id209
sentence:
He brought out a strong mule, and made it fast in the middle of the crowd— a she- mule never yet broken, but six years old— when it is hardest of all to break them: this was for the victor, and for the vanquished he offered a double cup.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id210
sentence:
Then he stood up and said among the Argives," Son of Atreus, and all other Achaeans, I invite our two champion boxers to lay about them lustily and compete for these prizes.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id211
sentence:
He to whom Apollo vouchsafes the greater endurance, and whom the Achaeans acknowledge as victor, shall take the mule back with him to his own tent, while he that is vanquished shall have the double cup."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id212
sentence:
As he spoke there stood up a champion both brave and of great stature, a skilful boxer, Epeus, son of Panopeus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id213
sentence:
He laid his hand on the mule and said," Let the man who is to have the cup come hither, for none but myself will take the mule.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id217
sentence:
I tell you plainly, and it shall come true; if any man will box with me I will bruise his body and break his bones; therefore let his friends stay here in a body and be at hand to take him away when I have done with him."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id219
sentence:
Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of Cadmus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id222
sentence:
and then he gave him some well- cut thongs of ox- hide; the two men being now girt went into the middle of the ring, and immediately fell to; heavily indeed did they punish one another and lay about them with their brawny fists.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id224
sentence:
Presently Epeus came on and gave Euryalus a blow on the jaw as he was looking round; Euryalus could not keep his legs; they gave way under him in a moment and he sprang up with a bound, as a fish leaps into the air near some shore that is all bestrewn with sea- wrack, when Boreas furs the top of the waves, and then falls back into deep water.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id225
sentence:
But noble Epeus caught hold of him and raised him up; his comrades also came round him and led him from the ring, unsteady in his gait, his head hanging on one side, and spitting great clots of gore.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id229
sentence:
For the winner there was a great tripod ready for setting upon the fire, and the Achaeans valued it among themselves at twelve oxen.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id230
sentence:
For the loser he brought out a woman skilled in all manner of arts, and they valued her at four oxen.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id234
sentence:
They gripped each other in their strong hands like the rafters which some master- builder frames for the roof of a high house to keep the wind out.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id235
sentence:
Their backbones cracked as they tugged at one another with their mighty arms— and sweat rained from them in torrents.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id236
sentence:
Many a bloody weal sprang up on their sides and shoulders, but they kept on striving with might and main for victory and to win the tripod.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id237
sentence:
Ulysses could not throw Ajax, nor Ajax him; Ulysses was too strong for him; but when the Achaeans began to tire of watching them, Ajax said to Ulysses," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Jove settle it between us."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id239
sentence:
He hit Ajax in the hollow at back of his knee, so that he could not keep his feet, but fell on his back with Ulysses lying upon his chest, and all who saw it marvelled.


