# sentences

title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id191
sentence:
When Eumaeus heard this he went straight to Ulysses and said," Father stranger, my mistress Penelope, mother of Telemachus, has sent for you; she is in great grief, but she wishes to hear anything you can tell her about her husband, and if she is satisfied that you are speaking the truth, she will give you a shirt and cloak, which are the very things that you are most in want of.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id192
sentence:
As for bread, you can get enough of that to fill your belly, by begging about the town, and letting those give that will."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id194
sentence:
I know all about her husband, and have been partner with him in affliction, but I am afraid of passing through this crowd of cruel suitors, for their pride and insolence reach heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id195
sentence:
Just now, moreover, as I was going about the house without doing any harm, a man gave me a blow that hurt me very much, but neither Telemachus nor any one else defended me.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id197
sentence:
Let her give me a seat close up to the fire, for my clothes are worn very thin— you know they are, for you have seen them ever since I first asked you to help me —she can then ask me about the return of her husband."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id198
sentence:
The swineherd went back when he heard this, and Penelope said as she saw him cross the threshold," Why do you not bring him here, Eumaeus?


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id203
sentence:
He asks you to wait till sundown, and it will be much better, madam, that you should have him all to yourself, when you can hear him and talk to him as you will."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id204
sentence:
"The man is no fool," answered Penelope," it would very likely be as he says, for there are no such abominable people in the whole world as these men are."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id206
sentence:
Then he went up to Telemachus and said in his ear so that none could overhear him," My dear sir, I will now go back to the pigs, to see after your property and my own business.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id207
sentence:
You will look to what is going on here, but above all be careful to keep out of danger, for there are many who bear you ill will.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id209
sentence:
"Very well," replied Telemachus," go home when you have had your dinner, and in the morning come here with the victims we are to sacrifice for the day.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id211
sentence:
On this Eumaeus took his seat again, and when he had finished his dinner he left the courts and the cloister with the men at table, and went back to his pigs.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id212
sentence:
As for the suitors, they presently began to amuse themselves with singing and dancing, for it was now getting on towards evening.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id2
sentence:
Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak, for they had sent the men out with the pigs.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id3
sentence:
When Telemachus came up, the dogs did not bark but fawned upon him ,so Ulysses, hearing the sound of feet and noticing that the dogs did not bark, said to Eumaeus: "Eumaeus, I hear footsteps; I suppose one of your men or some one of your acquaintance is coming here, for the dogs are fawning upon him and not barking."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id5
sentence:
Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id7
sentence:
A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years ' absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id8
sentence:
He embraced him, kissed him all over as though he had come back from the dead, and spoke fondly to him saying: "So you are come, Telemachus, light of my eyes that you are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id10
sentence:
Come in, my dear child, and sit down, that I may have a good look at you now you are home again; it is not very often you come into the country to see us herdsmen; you stick pretty close to the town generally.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id12
sentence:
"So be it, old friend," answered Telemachus," but I am come now because I want to see you, and to learn whether my mother is still at her old home or whether some one else has married her, so that the bed of Ulysses is without bedding and covered with cobwebs."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id13
sentence:
"She is still at the house," replied Eumaeus," grieving and breaking her heart, and doing nothing but weep, both night and day continually."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id15
sentence:
Ulysses rose from his seat to give him place as he entered, but Telemachus checked him;" Sit down, stranger," said he," I can easily find another seat, and there is one here who will lay it for me."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id16
sentence:
Ulysses went back to his own place, and Eumaeus strewed some green brushwood on the floor and threw a sheepskin on top of it for Telemachus to sit upon.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id17
sentence:
Then the swineherd brought them platters of cold meat, the remains from what they had eaten the day before, and he filled the bread baskets with bread as fast as he could.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id19
sentence:
Then they laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus said to Eumaeus," Old friend, where does this stranger come from?


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id20
sentence:
How did his crew bring him to Ithaca, and who were they?—for assuredly he did not come here by land."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id23
sentence:
At this moment he is running away from a Thesprotian ship, and has taken refuge at my station, so I will put him into your hands.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id28
sentence:
My mother can not make up her mind whether to stay where she is and look after the house out of respect for public opinion and the memory of her husband, or whether the time is now come for her to take the best man of those who are wooing her, and the one who will make her the most advantageous offer; still, as the stranger has come to your station I will find him a cloak and shirt of good wear, with a sword and sandals, and will send him wherever he wants to go.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id29
sentence:
Or if you like you can keep him here at the station, and I will send him clothes and food that he may be no burden on you and on your men; but I will not have him go near the suitors, for they are very insolent, and are sure to ill treat him in a way that would greatly grieve me; no matter how valiant a man may be he can do nothing against numbers, for they will be too strong for him."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id31
sentence:
I am much shocked about what you have said about the insolent way in which the suitors are behaving in despite of such a man as you are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id33
sentence:
May you not complain of your brothers— for it is to these that a man may look for support, however great his quarrel may be?


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id34
sentence:
I wish I were as young as you are and in my present mind; if I were son to Ulysses, or, indeed, Ulysses himself, I would rather some one came and cut my head off, but I would go to the house and be the bane of every one of these men.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id35
sentence:
If they were too many for me— I being single- handed— I would rather die fighting in my own house than see such disgraceful sights day after day, strangers grossly maltreated, and


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id36
sentence:
men dragging the women servants about the house in an unseemly way, wine drawn recklessly, and bread wasted all to no purpose for an end that shall never be accomplished."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id38
sentence:
There is no enmity between me and my people, nor can I complain of brothers, to whom a man may look for support however great his quarrel may be.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id41
sentence:
I am myself the only son of Ulysses who left me behind him when he went away, so that I have never been of any use to him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id42
sentence:
Hence it comes that my house is in the hands of numberless marauders; for the chiefs from all the neighbouring islands, Dulichium, Same, Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying court to my mother, who will neither say point blank that she will not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end, so they are making havoc of my estate, and before long will do so with myself into the bargain.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id44
sentence:
But do you, old friend Eumaeus, go at once and tell Penelope that I am safe and have returned from Pylos.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id45
sentence:
Tell it to herself alone, and then come back here without letting any one else know, for there are many who are plotting mischief against me."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id46
sentence:
"I understand and heed you," replied Eumaeus;" you need instruct me no further, only as I am going that way say whether I had not better let poor Laertes know that you are returned.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id47
sentence:
He used to superintend the work on his farm in spite of his bitter sorrow about Ulysses, and he would eat and drink at will along with his servants; but they tell me that from the day on which you set out for Pylos he has neither eaten nor drunk as he ought to do, nor does he look after his farm, but sits weeping and wasting the flesh from off his bones."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id48
sentence:
"More 's the pity," answered Telemachus," I am sorry for him, but we must leave him to himself just now.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id49
sentence:
If people could have everything their own way, the first thing I should choose would be the return of my father; but go, and give your message; then make haste back again, and do not turn out of your way to tell Laertes.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id50
sentence:
Tell my mother to send one of her women secretly with the news at once, and let him hear it from her."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id51
sentence:
Thus did he urge the swineherd; Eumaeus, therefore, took his sandals, bound them to his feet, and started for the town.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id52
sentence:
Minerva watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman— fair, stately, and wise.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id53
sentence:
She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id54
sentence:
Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id55
sentence:
She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id56
sentence:
Then she said to him: "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, it is now time for you to tell your son: do not keep him in the dark any longer, but lay your plans for the destruction of the suitors, and then make for the town.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id59
sentence:
First she threw a fair clean shirt and cloak about his shoulders; then she made him younger and of more imposing presence; she gave him back his colour, filled out his cheeks, and let his beard become dark again.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id61
sentence:
His son was astounded when he saw him, and turned his eyes away for fear he might be looking upon a god.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id69
sentence:
As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id70
sentence:
But Telemachus could not yet believe that it was his father, and said: "You are not my father, but some god is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter; no mortal man could of himself contrive to do as you have been doing, and make yourself old and young at a moment 's notice, unless a god were with him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id72
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Telemachus, you ought not to be so immeasurably astonished at my being really here.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id74
sentence:
Such as I am, it is I, who after long wandering and much hardship have got home in the twentieth year to my own country.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id75
sentence:
What you wonder at is the work of the redoubtable goddess Minerva, who does with me whatever she will, for she can do what she pleases.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id76
sentence:
At one moment she makes me like a beggar, and the next I am a young man with good clothes on my back; it is an easy matter for the gods who live in heaven to make any man look either rich or poor."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id78
sentence:
They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id79
sentence:
Thus piteously did they weep, and the sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Telemachus had not suddenly said," In what ship, my dear father, did your crew bring you to Ithaca?


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id84
sentence:
They took me over the sea while I was fast asleep, and landed me in Ithaca, after giving me many presents in bronze, gold, and raiment.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id85
sentence:
These things by heaven 's mercy are lying concealed in a cave, and I am now come here on the suggestion of Minerva that we may consult about killing our enemies.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id86
sentence:
First, therefore, give me a list of the suitors, with their number, that I may learn who, and how many, they are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id87
sentence:
I can then turn the matter over in my mind, and see whether we two can fight the whole body of them ourselves, or whether we must find others to help us."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id88
sentence:
To this Telemachus answered," Father, I have always heard of your renown both in the field and in council, but the task you talk of is a very great one: I am awed at the mere thought of it; two men can not stand against many and brave ones.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id89
sentence:
There are not ten suitors only, nor twice ten, but ten many times over; you shall learn their number at once.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id90
sentence:
There are fifty- two chosen youths from Dulichium, and they have six servants; from Same there are twenty- four; twenty young Achaeans from Zacynthus, and twelve from Ithaca itself, all of them well born.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id94
sentence:
"Listen to me," replied Ulysses," and think whether Minerva and her father Jove may seem sufficient, or whether I am to try and find some one else as well."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id95
sentence:
"Those whom you have named," answered Telemachus," are a couple of good allies, for though they dwell high up among the clouds they have power over both gods and men."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id96
sentence:
"These two," continued Ulysses," will not keep long out of the fray, when the suitors and we join fight in my house.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id99
sentence:
If you see them ill treating me, steel your heart against my sufferings; even though they drag me feet foremost out of the house, or throw things at me, look on and do nothing beyond gently trying to make them behave more reasonably; but they will not listen to you, for the day of their reckoning is at hand.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id100
sentence:
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart; when Minerva shall put it in my mind, I will nod my head to you, and on seeing me do this you must collect all the armour that is in the house and hide it in the strong store room.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id101
sentence:
Make some excuse when the suitors ask you why you are removing it ;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_16
idx: id102
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_16
idx: id103
sentence:
But leave a sword and a spear apiece for yourself and me, and a couple of oxhide shields so that we can snatch them up at any moment; Jove and Minerva will then soon quiet these people.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id104
sentence:
There is also another matter; if you are indeed my son and my blood runs in your veins, let no one know that Ulysses is within the house— neither Laertes, nor yet the swineherd, nor any of the servants, nor even Penelope herself.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id105
sentence:
Let you and me exploit the women alone, and let us also make trial of some other of the men servants, to see who is on our side and whose hand is against us."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id106
sentence:
"Father," replied Telemachus," you will come to know me by and by, and when you do you will find that I can keep your counsel.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id109
sentence:
It will take us a long time to go the round of the farms and exploit the men, and all the time the suitors will be wasting your estate with impunity and without compunction.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id110
sentence:
Prove the women by all means, to see who are disloyal and who guiltless, but I am not in favour of going round and trying the men.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id112
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and meanwhile the ship which had brought Telemachus and his crew from Pylos had reached the town of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id113
sentence:
When they had come inside the harbour they drew the ship on to the land; their servants came and took their armour from them, and they left all the presents at the house of Clytius.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id114
sentence:
Then they sent a servant to tell Penelope that Telemachus had gone into the country, but had sent the ship to the town to prevent her from being alarmed and made unhappy.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id115
sentence:
This servant and Eumaeus happened to meet when they were both on the same errand of going to tell Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id116
sentence:
When they reached the House, the servant stood up and said to the queen in the presence of the waiting women," Your son, Madam, is now returned from Pylos"; but Eumaeus went close up to Penelope, and said privately all that her son had bidden him tell her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id117
sentence:
When he had given his message he left the house with its outbuildings and went back to his pigs again.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id118
sentence:
The suitors were surprised and angry at what had happened, so they went outside the great wall that ran round the outer court, and held a council near the main entrance.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id120
sentence:
"My friends," said he," this voyage of Telemachus 's is a very serious matter; we had made sure that it would come to nothing.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id121
sentence:
Now, however, let us draw a ship into the water, and get a crew together to send after the others and tell them to come back as fast as they can."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id122
sentence:
He had hardly done speaking when Amphinomus turned in his place and saw the ship inside the harbour, with the crew lowering her sails, and putting by their oars; so he laughed, and said to the others," We need not send them any message, for they are here.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id125
sentence:
The crew then drew the ship on shore; their servants took their armour from them, and they went up in a body to the place of assembly, but they would not let any one old or young sit along with them, and Antinous, son of Eupeithes, spoke first.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id127
sentence:
We kept a succession of scouts upon the headlands all day long, and when the sun was down we never went on shore to sleep, but waited in the ship all night till morning in the hope of capturing and killing him; but some god has conveyed him home in spite of us.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id129
sentence:
He must not escape us; our affair is never likely to come off while he is alive, for he is very shrewd, and public feeling is by no means all on our side.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id130
sentence:
We must make haste before he can call the Achaeans in assembly; he will lose no time in doing so, for he will be furious with us, and will tell all the world how we plotted to kill him, but failed to take him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id131
sentence:
The people will not like this when they come to know of it; we must see that they do us no hurt, nor drive us from our own country into exile.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id133
sentence:
Then we can divide up his property amongst us, and let his mother and the man who marries her have the house.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id134
sentence:
If this does not please you, and you wish Telemachus to live on and hold his father 's property, then we must not gather here and eat up his goods in this way, but must make our offers to Penelope each from his own house, and she can marry the man who will give the most for her, and whose lot it is to win her."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id136
sentence:
He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors from the wheat- growing and well grassed island of Dulichium; his conversation, moreover, was more agreeable to Penelope than that of any of the other suitors, for he was a man of good natural disposition. "


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id137
sentence:
My friends," said he, speaking to them plainly and in all honestly," I am not in favour of killing Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id139
sentence:
Let us first take counsel of the gods, and if the oracles of Jove advise it, I will both help to kill him myself, and will urge everyone else to do so; but if they dissuade us, I would have you hold your hands."


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id140
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and his words pleased them well ,so they rose forthwith and went to the house of Ulysses, where they took their accustomed seats.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id142
sentence:
She knew of the plot against Telemachus, for the servant Medon had overheard their counsels and had told her; she went down therefore to the court attended by 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 rebuked Antinous saying: "Antinous, insolent and wicked schemer, they say you are the best speaker and counsellor of any man your own age in Ithaca, but you are nothing of the kind.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id143
sentence:
Madman, why should you try to compass the death of Telemachus, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is Jove himself?


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id145
sentence:
Do you not remember how your father fled to this house in fear of the people, who were enraged against him for having gone with some Taphian pirates and plundered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us?


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id146
sentence:
They wanted to tear him in pieces and eat up everything he had, but Ulysses stayed their hands although they were infuriated, and now you devour his property without paying for it, and break my heart by wooing his wife and trying to kill his son.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id148
sentence:
To this Eurymachus son of Polybus answered," Take heart, Queen Penelope daughter of Icarius, and do not trouble yourself about these matters.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id149
sentence:
The man is not yet born, nor never will be, who shall lay hands upon your son Telemachus, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id150
sentence:
I say— and it shall surely be— that my spear shall be reddened with his blood; for many a time has Ulysses taken me on his knees, held wine up to my lips to drink, and put pieces of meat into my hands.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id151
sentence:
Therefore Telemachus is much the dearest friend I have, and has nothing to fear from the hands of us suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id155
sentence:
In the evening Eumaeus got back to Ulysses and his son, who had just sacrificed a young pig of a year old and were helping one another to get supper ready; Minerva therefore came up to Ulysses, turned him into an old man with a stroke of her wand, and clad him in his old clothes again, for fear that the swineherd might recognise him and not keep the secret, but go and tell Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id162
sentence:
I met a man sent by those who had gone with you to Pylos, and he was the first to tell the news to your mother, but I can say what I saw with my own eyes; I had just got on to the crest of the hill of Mercury above the town when I saw a ship coming into harbour with a number of men in her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id165
sentence:
Then, when they had finished their work and the meal was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-odyssey_16
idx: id166
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, they laid down to rest and enjoyed the boon of sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id1
sentence:
ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA—SPEECHES OF TELEMACHUS AND OF THE SUITORS—TELEMACHUS MAKES HIS PREPARATIONS AND STARTS FOR PYLOS WITH MINERVA DISGUISED AS MENTOR.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id3
sentence:
He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id4
sentence:
He at once sent the criers round to call the people in assembly, so they called them and the people gathered thereon; then, when they were got together, he went to the place of assembly spear in hand— not alone, for his two hounds went with him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id5
sentence:
Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and when he took his place in his father 's seat even the oldest councillors made way for him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id7
sentence:
His son Antiphus had gone with Ulysses to Ilius, land of noble steeds, but the savage Cyclops had killed him when they were all shut up in the cave, and had cooked his last dinner for him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id8
sentence:
He had three sons left, of whom two still worked on their father 's land, while the third, Eurynomus, was one of the suitors; nevertheless their father could not get over the loss of Antiphus, and was still weeping for him when he began his speech.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id10
sentence:
From the day Ulysses left us there has been no meeting of our councillors until now; who then can it be, whether old or young, that finds it so necessary to convene us?


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id11
sentence:
Has he got wind of some host approaching, and does he wish to warn us, or would he speak upon some other matter of public moment?


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id13
sentence:
Telemachus took this speech as of good omen and rose at once, for he was bursting with what he had to say.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id15
sentence:
Then, turning to Aegyptius," Sir," said he," it is I, as you will shortly learn, who have convened you, for it is I who am the most aggrieved.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id16
sentence:
I have not got wind of any host approaching about which I would warn you, nor is there any matter of public moment on which I would speak.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id17
sentence:
My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id18
sentence:
The first of these is the loss of my excellent father, who was chief among all you here present, and was like a father to every one of you; the second is much more serious, and ere long will be the utter ruin of my estate.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id20
sentence:
They are afraid to go to her father Icarius, asking him to choose the one he likes best, and to provide marriage gifts for his daughter, but day by day they keep hanging about my father 's house, sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id21
sentence:
No estate can stand such recklessness; we have now no Ulysses to ward off harm from our doors, and I can not hold my own against them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id22
sentence:
I shall never all my days be as good a man as he was, still I would indeed defend myself if I had power to do so, for I can not stand such treatment any longer; my house is being disgraced and ruined.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id25
sentence:
I pray you by Jove and Themis, who is the beginning and the end of councils,[ do not] hold back, my friends, and leave me singlehanded— unless it be that my brave father Ulysses did some wrong to the Achaeans which you would now avenge on me, by aiding and abetting these suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id26
sentence:
Moreover, if I am to be eaten out of house and home at all, I had rather you did the eating yourselves, for I could then take action against you to some purpose, and serve you with notices from house to house till I got paid in full, whereas now I have no remedy."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id28
sentence:
Every one was very sorry for him, but they all sat still and no one ventured to make him an angry answer, save only Antinous, who spoke thus: "Telemachus, insolent braggart that you are, how dare you try to throw the blame upon us suitors?


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id30
sentence:
This three years past, and close on four, she had been driving us out of our minds, by encouraging each one of us, and sending him messages without meaning one word of what she says.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id32
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_02
idx: id33
sentence:
Sweet hearts,' said she,' Ulysses is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait— for I would not have skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have completed a pall for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id35
sentence:
"This was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id36
sentence:
She fooled us in this way for three years and we never found her out, but as time wore on and she was now in her fourth year, 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.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id37
sentence:
The suitors, therefore, make you this answer, that both you and the Achaeans may understand—'Send your mother away, and bid her marry the man of her own and of her father 's choice'; for I do not know what will happen if she goes on plaguing us much longer with the airs she gives herself on the score of the accomplishments Minerva has taught her, and because she is so clever.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id38
sentence:
We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id39
sentence:
It was not fair of her to treat us in that way, and as long as she continues in the mind with which heaven has now endowed her, so long shall we go on eating up your estate; and I do not see why she should change ,for she gets all the honour and glory, and it is you who pay for it, not she.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id40
sentence:
Understand, then, that we will not go back to our lands, neither here nor elsewhere, till she has made her choice and married some one or other of us."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id43
sentence:
It will be hard on me if I have to pay Icarius the large sum which I must give him if I insist on sending his daughter back to him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id44
sentence:
Not only will he deal rigorously with me, but heaven will also punish me; for my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her; besides, it would not be a creditable thing to do, and I will have nothing to say to it.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id45
sentence:
If you choose to take offence at this, leave the house and feast elsewhere at one another 's houses at your own cost turn and turn about.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id46
sentence:
If, on the other hand, you elect to persist in spunging upon one man, heaven help me, but Jove shall reckon with you in full, and when you fall in my father 's house there shall be no man to avenge you."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id47
sentence:
As he spoke Jove sent two eagles from the top of the mountain, and they flew on and on with the wind, sailing side by side in their own lordly flight.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id48
sentence:
When they were right over the middle of the assembly they wheeled and circled about, beating the air with their wings and glaring death into the eyes of them that were below; then, fighting fiercely and tearing at one another, they flew off towards the right over the town.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id49
sentence:
The people wondered as they saw them, and asked each other what all this might be; whereon Halitherses, who was the best prophet and reader of omens among them, spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying: "Hear me, men of Ithaca, and I speak more particularly to the suitors, for I see mischief brewing for them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id50
sentence:
Ulysses is not going to be away much longer; indeed he is close at hand to deal out death and destruction, not on them alone, but on many another of us who live in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id52
sentence:
Let the suitors do so of their own accord; it will be better for them, for I am not prophesying without due knowledge; everything has happened to Ulysses as I foretold when the Argives set out for Troy, and he with them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id53
sentence:
I said that after going through much hardship and losing all his men he should come home again in the twentieth year and that no one would know him; and now all this is coming true."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id54
sentence:
Eurymachus son of Polybus then said," Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id55
sentence:
I can read these omens myself much better than you can; birds are always flying about in the sunshine somewhere or other, but they seldom mean anything.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id56
sentence:
Ulysses has died in a far country, and it is a pity you are not dead along with him, instead of prating here about omens and adding fuel to the anger of Telemachus which is fierce enough as it is.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id57
sentence:
I suppose you think he will give you something for your family, but I tell you— and it shall surely be— when an old man like you, who should know better, talks a young one over till he becomes troublesome, in the first place his young friend will only fare so much the worse— he will take nothing by it, for the suitors will prevent this— and in the next, we will lay a heavier fine, sir, upon yourself than you will at all like paying, for it will bear hardly upon you.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id58
sentence:
As for Telemachus, I warn him in the presence of you all to send his mother back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts so dear a daughter may expect.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id59
sentence:
Till then we shall go on harassing him with our suit; for we fear no man, and care neither for him, with all his fine speeches, nor for any fortune- telling of yours.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id61
sentence:
We shall go back and continue to eat up Telemachus 's estate without paying him, till such time as his mother leaves off tormenting us by keeping us day after day on the tiptoe of expectation, each vying with the other in his suit for a prize of such rare perfection.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id62
sentence:
Besides we can not go after the other women whom we should marry in due course, but for the way in which she treats us."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id63
sentence:
Then Telemachus said," Eurymachus, and you other suitors, I shall say no more, and entreat you no further, for the gods and the people of Ithaca now know my story.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id64
sentence:
Give me, then, a ship and a crew of twenty men to take me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta and to Pylos in quest of my father who has so long been missing.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id65
sentence:
Some one may tell me something, or( and people often hear things in this way) some heaven- sent message may direct me.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id66
sentence:
If I can hear of him as alive and on his way home I will put up with the waste you suitors will make for yet another twelve months.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id67
sentence:
If on the other hand I hear of his death, I will return at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make my mother marry again."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id68
sentence:
With these words he sat down, and Mentor who had been a friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id69
sentence:
He, then, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: "Hear me, men of Ithaca, I hope that you may never have a kind and well- disposed ruler any more, nor one who will govern you equitably; I hope that all your chiefs henceforward may be cruel and unjust, for there is not one of you but has forgotten Ulysses, who ruled you as though he were your father.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id70
sentence:
I am not half so angry with the suitors, for if they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their hearts, and wager their heads that Ulysses will not return, they can take the high hand and eat up his estate, but as for you others I am shocked at the way in which you all sit still without even trying to stop such scandalous goings on— which you could do if you chose, for you are many and they are few."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id71
sentence:
Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying," Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us?


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id73
sentence:
Even though Ulysses himself were to set upon us while we are feasting in his house, and do his best to oust us, his wife, who wants him back so very badly, would have small cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon his own head if he fought against such great odds.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id75
sentence:
Now, therefore, do you people go about your business, and let his father 's old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all— which I do not think he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes and tells him something."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id76
sentence:
On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own abode, while the suitors returned to the house of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id77
sentence:
Then Telemachus went all alone by the sea side, washed his hands in the grey waves, and prayed to Minerva.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id78
sentence:
"Hear me," he cried," you god who visited me yesterday, and bade me sail the seas in search of my father who has so long been missing.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id79
sentence:
I would obey you, but the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked suitors, are hindering me that I can not do so."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id81
sentence:
Telemachus," said she," if you are made of the same stuff as your father you will be neither fool nor coward henceforward, for Ulysses never broke his word nor left his work half done.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id82
sentence:
If, then, you take after him, your voyage will not be fruitless, but unless you have the blood of Ulysses and of Penelope in your veins I see no likelihood of your succeeding.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id83
sentence:
Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better; still, as you are not going to be either fool or coward henceforward, and are not entirely without some share of your father 's wise discernment, I look with hope upon your undertaking.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id84
sentence:
But mind you never make common cause with any of those foolish suitors, for they have neither sense nor virtue, and give no thought to death and to the doom that will shortly fall on one and all of them, so that they shall perish on the same day.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id85
sentence:
As for your voyage, it shall not be long delayed; your father was such an old friend of mine that I will find you a ship, and will come with you myself.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id86
sentence:
Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id87
sentence:
There are many ships in Ithaca both old and new; I will run my eye over them for you and will choose the best; we will get her ready and will put out to sea without delay."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id90
sentence:
Antinous came up to him at once and laughed as he took his hand in his own, saying," Telemachus, my fine fire- eater, bear no more ill blood neither in word nor deed, but eat and drink with us as you used to do.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id91
sentence:
The Achaeans will find you in everything— a ship and a picked crew to boot— so that you can set sail for Pylos at once and get news of your noble father."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id92
sentence:
"Antinous," answered Telemachus," I can not eat in peace, nor take pleasure of any kind with such men as you are.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id94
sentence:
Now that I am older and know more about it, I am also stronger, and whether here among this people, or by going to Pylos, I will do you all the harm I can.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id95
sentence:
I shall go, and my going will not be in vain— though, thanks to you suitors ,I have neither ship nor crew of my own, and must be passenger not captain."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id97
sentence:
Meanwhile the others went on getting dinner ready about the buildings jeering at him tauntingly as they did so.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id98
sentence:
"Telemachus," said one youngster," means to be the death of us; I suppose he thinks he can bring friends to help him from Pylos, or again from Sparta, where he seems bent on going.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id100
sentence:
Another said," Perhaps if Telemachus goes on board ship, he will be like his father and perish far from his friends.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id101
sentence:
In this case we should have plenty to do, for we could then divide up his property amongst us: as for the house we can let his mother and the man who marries her have that."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id103
sentence:
But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store- room where his father 's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id104
sentence:
Here, too, there was a store of fragrant olive oil, while casks of old, well- ripened wine, unblended and fit for a god to drink, were ranged against the wall in case Ulysses should come home again after all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id105
sentence:
The room was closed with well- made doors opening in the middle; moreover the faithful old house- keeper Euryclea, daughter of Ops the son of Pisenor, was in charge of everything both night and day.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id106
sentence:
Telemachus called her to the store- room and said: "Nurse, draw me off some of the best wine you have, after what you are keeping for my father 's own drinking, in case, poor man, he should escape death, and find his way home again after all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id107
sentence:
Let me have twelve jars, and see that they all have lids; also fill me some well- sewn leathern bags with barley meal— about twenty measures in all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id110
sentence:
I am going to Sparta and to Pylos to see if I can hear anything about the return of my dear father."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id111
sentence:
When Euryclea heard this she began to cry, and spoke fondly to him, saying," My dear child, what ever can have put such notion as that into your head?


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id113
sentence:
Your poor father is dead and gone in some foreign country nobody knows where, and as soon as your back is turned these wicked ones here will be scheming to get you put out of the way, and will share all your possessions among themselves; stay where you are among your own people, and do not go wandering and worrying your life out on the barren ocean."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id114
sentence:
"Fear not, nurse," answered Telemachus," my scheme is not without heaven 's sanction; but swear that you will say nothing about all this to my mother, till I have been away some ten or twelve days, unless she hears of my having gone, and asks you; for I do not want her to spoil her beauty by crying."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id115
sentence:
The old woman swore most solemnly that she would not, and when she had completed her oath, she began drawing off the wine into jars, and getting the barley meal into the bags, while Telemachus went back to the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id117
sentence:
She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id118
sentence:
She went also to Noemon son of Phronius, and asked him to let her have a ship— which he was very ready to do.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id119
sentence:
When the sun had set and darkness was over all the land, she got the ship into the water, put all the tackle on board her that ships generally carry, and stationed her at the end of the harbour.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id122
sentence:
She caused their drink to fuddle them, and made them drop their cups from their hands, so that instead of sitting over their wine, they went back into the town to sleep, with their eyes heavy and full of drowsiness.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id124
sentence:
"Telemachus," said she," the men are on board and at their oars, waiting for you to give your orders, so make haste and let us be off."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id126
sentence:
When they got to the ship they found the crew waiting by the water side, and Telemachus said," Now my men, help me to get the stores on board; they are all put together in the cloister, and my mother does not know anything about it, nor any of the maid servants except one."


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id128
sentence:
When they had brought the things as he told them, Telemachus went on board, Minerva going before him and taking her seat in the stern of the vessel, while Telemachus sat beside her.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id130
sentence:
Minerva sent them a fair wind from the West that whistled over the deep blue waves whereon Telemachus told them to catch hold of the ropes and hoist sail, and they did as he told them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id131
sentence:
They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it, and made it fast with the forestays; then they hoisted their white sails aloft with ropes of twisted ox hide.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id132
sentence:
As the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.


title: homer-odyssey_02
idx: id133
sentence:
Then they made all fast throughout the ship, filled the mixing bowls to the brim, and made drink offerings to the immortal gods that are from everlasting, but more particularly to the grey- eyed daughter of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id1
sentence:
Jove sends a lying dream to Agamemnon, who thereon calls the chiefs in assembly, and proposes to sound the mind of his army—In the end they march to fight—Catalogue of the Achaean and Trojan forces.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id2
sentence:
Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id3
sentence:
In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it," Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id5
sentence:
There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id8
sentence:
It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said:— "You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id9
sentence:
Hear me at once, for I come as a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id11
sentence:
There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id14
sentence:
He thought that on that same day he was to take the city of Priam, but he little knew what was in the mind of Jove, who had many another hard- fought fight in store alike for Danaans and Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id15
sentence:
Then presently he woke, with the divine message still ringing in his ears; so he sat upright, and put on his soft shirt so fair and new, and over this his heavy cloak.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id16
sentence:
He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and slung his silver- studded sword about his shoulders; then he took the imperishable staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id17
sentence:
The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id18
sentence:
But first he summoned a meeting of the elders at the ship of Nestor king of Pylos, and when they were assembled he laid a cunning counsel before them.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id19
sentence:
"My friends," said he," I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor 's.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id20
sentence:
It hovered over my head and said,' You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id21
sentence:
Hear me at once, for I am a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id27
sentence:
But it will be well that I should first sound them, and to this end I will tell them to fly with their ships; but do you others go about among the host and prevent their doing so."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id28
sentence:
He then sat down, and Nestor the prince of Pylos with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:" My friends," said he," princes and councillors of the Argives, if any other man of the Achaeans had told us of this dream we should have declared it false, and would have had nothing to do with it.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id29
sentence:
But he who has seen it is the foremost man among us; we must therefore set about getting the people under arms."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id30
sentence:
With this he led the way from the assembly, and the other sceptred kings rose with him in obedience to the word of Agamemnon; but the people pressed forward to hear.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id31
sentence:
They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide- watered shore, while among them ran Wildfire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id32
sentence:
Thus they gathered in a pell- mell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id33
sentence:
Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id37
sentence:
King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty charioteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id38
sentence:
Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id41
sentence:
Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id42
sentence:
Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id43
sentence:
It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id44
sentence:
Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered— the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup- bearer.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id45
sentence:
But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id46
sentence:
Nine of Jove 's years are gone; the timbers of our ships have rotted; their tackling is sound no longer.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id47
sentence:
Our wives and little ones at home look anxiously for our coming, but the work that we came hither to do has not been done.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id48
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say: let us sail back to our own land, for we shall not take Troy."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id49
sentence:
With these words he moved the hearts of the multitude, so many of them as knew not the cunning counsel of Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id50
sentence:
They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven 's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id51
sentence:
They cheered each other on to draw the ships into the sea; they cleared the channels in front of them; they began taking away the stays from underneath them, and the welkin rang with their glad cries, so eager were they to return.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id53
sentence:
But Juno said to Minerva," Alas, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Argives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id54
sentence:
Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id56
sentence:
Down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, and in a moment she was at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id58
sentence:
He had not as yet laid a hand upon his ship, for he was grieved and sorry; so she went close up to him and said," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id59
sentence:
Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id62
sentence:
His servant Eurybates, a man of Ithaca, who waited on him, took charge of the cloak, whereon Ulysses went straight up to Agamemnon and received from him his ancestral, imperishable staff.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id67
sentence:
You do not yet know the full mind of Agamemnon; he was sounding us, and ere long will visit the Achaeans with his displeasure.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id68
sentence:
We were not all of us at the council to hear what he then said; see to it lest he be angry and do us a mischief; for the pride of kings is great, and the hand of Jove is with them."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id69
sentence:
But when he came across any common man who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying," Sirrah, hold your peace, and listen to better men than yourself.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id70
sentence:
You are a coward and no soldier; you are nobody either in fight or council; we can not all be kings; it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme— one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the sceptre of sovereignty over you all."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id71
sentence:
Thus masterfully did he go about among the host, and the people hurried back to the council from their tents and ships with a sound as the thunder of surf when it comes crashing down upon the shore, and all the sea is in an uproar.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id72
sentence:
The rest now took their seats and kept to their own several places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue— a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in authority, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in a laugh.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id73
sentence:
He was the ugliest man of all those that came before Troy— bandy- legged, lame of one foot, with his two shoulders rounded and hunched over his chest.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id75
sentence:
Achilles and Ulysses hated him worst of all, for it was with them that he was most wo nt to wrangle; now, however, with a shrill squeaky voice he began heaping his abuse on Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id76
sentence:
The Achaeans were angry and disgusted, yet none the less he kept on brawling and bawling at the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id78
sentence:
Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id79
sentence:
Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id82
sentence:
Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any service to him or no.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id83
sentence:
Achilles is a much better man than he is, and see how he has treated him— robbing him of his prize and keeping it himself.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id84
sentence:
Achilles takes it meekly and shows no fight; if he did, son of Atreus, you would never again insult him."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id91
sentence:
We do not yet know how things are going to be, nor whether the Achaeans are to return with good success or evil.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id93
sentence:
I tell you, therefore— and it shall surely be— that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assembly till you go blubbering back to the ships."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id94
sentence:
On this he beat him with his staff about the back and shoulders till he dropped and fell a- weeping.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id95
sentence:
The golden sceptre raised a bloody weal on his back, so he sat down frightened and in pain, looking foolish as he wiped the tears from his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id96
sentence:
The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour saying," Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow 's mouth from prating further.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id99
sentence:
Then Ulysses rose, sceptre in hand, and Minerva in the likeness of a herald bade the people be still, that those who were far off might hear him and consider his council.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id100
sentence:
He therefore with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:— "King Agamemnon, the Achaeans are for making you a by- word among all mankind.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id101
sentence:
They forget the promise they made you when they set out from Argos, that you should not return till you had sacked the town of Troy, and, like children or widowed women, they murmur and would set off homeward.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id103
sentence:
A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I can not, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay— therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id104
sentence:
"All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id105
sentence:
We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane- tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id106
sentence:
Then we saw a prodigy; for Jove sent a fearful serpent out of the ground, with blood- red stains upon its back, and it darted from under the altar on to the plane- tree.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id107
sentence:
Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id108
sentence:
The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about lamenting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id109
sentence:
Then, when he had eaten both the sparrow and her young, the god who had sent him made him become a sign; for the son of scheming Saturn turned him into stone, and we stood there wondering at that which had come to pass.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id110
sentence:
Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven.'


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id112
sentence:
Jove has sent us this sign, long in coming, and long ere it be fulfilled, though its fame shall last for ever.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id113
sentence:
As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id120
sentence:
Shall our counsels be flung into the fire, with our drink- offerings and the right hands of fellowship wherein we have put our trust?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id122
sentence:
Stand, therefore, son of Atreus, by your own steadfast purpose; lead the Argives on to battle, and leave this handful of men to rot, who scheme, and scheme in vain, to get back to Argos ere they have learned whether Jove be true or a liar.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id123
sentence:
For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id124
sentence:
He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id125
sentence:
Nevertheless, if any man is in such haste to be at home again, let him lay his hand to his ship that he may meet his doom in the sight of all.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id126
sentence:
But, O king, consider and give ear to my counsel, for the word that I say may not be neglected lightly.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id127
sentence:
Divide your men, Agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id128
sentence:
If you do this, and if the Achaeans obey you, you will find out who, both chiefs and peoples, are brave, and who are cowards; for they will vie against the other.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id129
sentence:
Thus you shall also learn whether it is through the counsel of heaven or the cowardice of man that you shall fail to take the town."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id131
sentence:
Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id133
sentence:
Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id135
sentence:
Whet well your spears; see well to the ordering of your shields; give good feeds to your horses, and look your chariots carefully over, that we may do battle the livelong day; for we shall have no rest, not for a moment, till night falls to part us.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id136
sentence:
The bands that bear your shields shall be wet with the sweat upon your shoulders, your hands shall weary upon your spears, your horses shall steam in front of your chariots, and if I see any man shirking the fight, or trying to keep out of it at the ships, there shall be no help for him, but he shall be a prey to dogs and vultures."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id138
sentence:
As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quarter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id139
sentence:
There they lighted their fires at their tents and got dinner, offering sacrifice every man to one or other of the gods, and praying each one of them that he might live to come out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id140
sentence:
Agamemnon, king of men, sacrificed a fat five- year- old bull to the mighty son of Saturn, and invited the princes and elders of his host.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id141
sentence:
First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Ulysses, peer of gods in counsel; but Menelaus came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id142
sentence:
They stood round the bull with the barley- meal in their hands, and Agamemnon prayed, saying," Jove, most glorious, supreme, that dwellest in heaven, and ridest upon the storm- cloud, grant that the sun may not go down, nor the night fall, till the palace of Priam is laid low, and its gates are consumed with fire.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id143
sentence:
Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id146
sentence:
When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley- meal upon the victim, they drew back its head, killed it, and then flayed it.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id147
sentence:
They cut out the thigh- bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set pieces of raw meat on the top of them.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id148
sentence:
These they burned upon the split logs of firewood, but they spitted the inward meats, and held them in the flames to cook.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id149
sentence:
When the thigh- bones were burned, and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id151
sentence:
King Agamemnon," said he," let us not stay talking here, nor be slack in the work that heaven has put into our hands.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id152
sentence:
Let the heralds summon the people to gather at their several ships; we will then go about among the host, that we may begin fighting at once."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id156
sentence:
The chiefs about the son of Atreus chose their men and marshalled them, while Minerva went among them holding her priceless aegis that knows neither age nor death.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id157
sentence:
From it there waved a hundred tassels of pure gold, all deftly woven, and each one of them worth a hundred oxen.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id158
sentence:
With this she darted furiously everywhere among the hosts of the Achaeans, urging them forward, and putting courage into the heart of each, so that he might fight and do battle without ceasing.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id160
sentence:
As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id161
sentence:
They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id162
sentence:
Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id164
sentence:
As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman 's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id165
sentence:
The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id166
sentence:
As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id167
sentence:
And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me— for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report— who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id168
sentence:
As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis- bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id171
sentence:
These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoenus, Scolus, and the highlands of Eteonus, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mycalessus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id172
sentence:
They also held Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae; and they had Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon; Ocalea and the strong fortress of Medeon; Copae, Eutresis, and Thisbe the haunt of doves; Coronea, and the pastures of Haliartus; Plataea and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon the sea.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id173
sentence:
From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id174
sentence:
Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars, led the people that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus the realm of Minyas.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id175
sentence:
Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus; for she had gone with Mars secretly into an upper chamber, and he had lain with her.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id178
sentence:
These were they that held Cyparissus, rocky Pytho, holy Crisa, Daulis, and Panopeus; they also that dwelt in Anemorea and Hyampolis, and about the waters of the river Cephissus, and Lilaea by the springs of the Cephissus; with their chieftains came forty ships, and they marshalled the forces of the Phoceans, which were stationed next to the Boeotians, on their left.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id181
sentence:
He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id182
sentence:
These dwelt in Cynus, Opous, Calliarus, Bessa, Scarphe, fair Augeae, Tarphe, and Thronium about the river Boagrius.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id184
sentence:
The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rock- perched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id185
sentence:
With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id187
sentence:
And they that held the strong city of Athens, the people of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove 's daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id194
sentence:
The men of Argos, again, and those who held the walls of Tiryns, with Hermione, and Asine upon the gulf; Troezene, Eionae, and the vineyard lands of Epidaurus; the Achaean youths, moreover, who came from Aegina and Mases; these were led by Diomed of the loud battle- cry, and Sthenelus son of famed Capaneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id195
sentence:
With them in command was Euryalus, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but Diomed was chief over them all.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id197
sentence:
Those who held the strong city of Mycenae, rich Corinth and Cleonae; Orneae, Araethyrea, and Licyon, where Adrastus reigned of old; Hyperesia, high Gonoessa, and Pellene; Aegium and all the coast- land round about Helice; these sent a hundred ships under the command of King Agamemnon, son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id198
sentence:
His force was far both finest and most numerous, and in their midst was the king himself, all glorious in his armour of gleaming bronze— foremost among the heroes, for he was the greatest king, and had most men under him.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id199
sentence:
And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battle- cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id200
sentence:
Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id201
sentence:
The men of Pylos and Arene, and Thryum where is the ford of the river Alpheus; strong Aipy, Cyparisseis, and Amphigenea; Pteleum, Helos, and Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id202
sentence:
He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daughters of aegis- bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id205
sentence:
And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id206
sentence:
Many Arcadians, good soldiers, came in each one of them, but Agamemnon found them the ships in which to cross the sea, for they were not a people that occupied their business upon the waters.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id207
sentence:
The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the sea- shore, the rock Olene and Alesium.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id209
sentence:
Their captains were Amphimachus and Thalpius— the one, son of Cteatus, and the other, of Eurytus— both of the race of Actor.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id211
sentence:
And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id213
sentence:
Ulysses led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id215
sentence:
Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians, who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon, for the great king Oeneus had now no sons living, and was himself dead, as was also golden- haired Meleager, who had been set over the Aetolians to be their king.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id217
sentence:
The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the well- walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of Phaestus and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id220
sentence:
Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, a man both brave and large of stature, brought nine ships of lordly warriors from Rhodes.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id221
sentence:
These dwelt in Rhodes which is divided among the three cities of Lindus, Ielysus, and Cameirus, that lies upon the chalk.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id222
sentence:
These were commanded by Tlepolemus, son of Hercules by Astyochea, whom he had carried off from Ephyra, on the river Selleis, after sacking many cities of valiant warriors.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id223
sentence:
When Tlepolemus grew up, he killed his father 's uncle Licymnius, who had been a famous warrior in his time, but was then grown old.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id224
sentence:
On this he built himself a fleet, gathered a great following, and fled beyond the sea, for he was menaced by the other sons and grandsons of Hercules.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id225
sentence:
After a voyage, during which he suffered great hardship, he came to Rhodes, where the people divided into three communities, according to their tribes, and were dearly loved by Jove, the lord of gods and men; wherefore the son of Saturn showered down great riches upon them.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id226
sentence:
And Nireus brought three ships from Syme— Nireus, who was the handsomest man that came up under Ilius of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus— but he was a man of no substance, and had but a small following.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id227
sentence:
And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id229
sentence:
Those again who held Pelasgic Argos, Alos, Alope, and Trachis; and those of Phthia and Hellas the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, Hellenes, and Achaeans; these had fifty ships, over which Achilles was in command.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id230
sentence:
But they now took no part in the war, inasmuch as there was no one to marshal them; for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessus at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessus and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epistrophus, sons of king Evenor, son of Selepus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id232
sentence:
And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id233
sentence:
Of these brave Protesilaus had been captain while he was yet alive, but he was now lying under the earth.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id234
sentence:
He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sorrow, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achaeans upon the soil of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id235
sentence:
Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were not without a leader, for Podarces, of the race of Mars, marshalled them; he was son of Iphiclus, rich in sheep, who was the son of Phylacus, and he was own brother to Protesilaus, only younger, Protesilaus being at once the elder and the more valiant.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id238
sentence:
And those that held Pherae by the Boebean lake, with Boebe, Glaphyrae, and the populous city of Iolcus, these with their eleven ships were led by Eumelus, son of Admetus, whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id239
sentence:
And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meliboea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oarsmen all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id241
sentence:
But his people, though they felt his loss were not leaderless, for Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id242
sentence:
Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome, and they that held Oechalia, the city of Oechalian Eurytus, these were commanded by the two sons of Aesculapius, skilled in the art of healing, Podalirius and Machaon.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id244
sentence:
The men, moreover, of Ormenius, and by the fountain of Hypereia, with those that held Asterius, and the white crests of Titanus, these were led by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon, and with them there came forty ships.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id245
sentence:
Those that held Argissa and Gyrtone, Orthe, Elone, and the white city of Oloosson, of these brave Polypoetes was leader.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id246
sentence:
He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself, for Hippodameia bore him to Pirithous on the day when he took his revenge on the shaggy mountain savages and drove them from Mt. Pelion to the Aithices.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id247
sentence:
But Polypoetes was not sole in command, for with him was Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id249
sentence:
Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona, and held the lands round the lovely river Titaresius, which sends its waters into the Peneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id250
sentence:
They do not mingle with the silver eddies of the Peneus, but flow on the top of them like oil; for the Titaresius is a branch of dread Orcus and of the river Styx.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id255
sentence:
Who, then, O Muse, was the foremost, whether man or horse, among those that followed after the sons of Atreus?


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id259
sentence:
Apollo, of the silver bow, had bred them in Perea— both of them mares, and terrible as Mars in battle.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id260
sentence:
Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles ' anger lasted, for Achilles excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id262
sentence:
The chariots were housed under cover, but their owners, for lack of leadership, wandered hither and thither about the host and went not forth to fight.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id263
sentence:
Thus marched the host like a consuming fire, and the earth groaned beneath them when the lord of thunder is angry and lashes the land about Typhoeus among the Arimi, where they say Typhoeus lies.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id266
sentence:
They were gathered in assembly, old and young, at Priam 's gates, and Iris came close up to Priam, speaking with the voice of Priam 's son Polites, who, being fleet of foot, was stationed as watchman for the Trojans on the tomb of old Aesyetes, to look out for any sally of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id267
sentence:
In his likeness Iris spoke, saying," Old man, you talk idly, as in time of peace, while war is at hand.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id271
sentence:
There are many allies dispersed about the city of Priam from distant places and speaking divers tongues.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id272
sentence:
Therefore, let each chief give orders to his own people, setting them severally in array and leading them forth to battle."


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id274
sentence:
The men flew to arms; all the gates were opened, and the people thronged through them, horse and foot, with the tramp as of a great multitude.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id278
sentence:
Priam 's son, great Hector of the gleaming helmet, commanded the Trojans, and with him were arrayed by far the greater number and most valiant of those who were longing for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id279
sentence:
The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id280
sentence:
He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id281
sentence:
They that dwelt in Telea under the lowest spurs of Mt. Ida, men of substance, who drink the limpid waters of the Aesepus, and are of Trojan blood— these were led by Pandarus son of Lycaon, whom Apollo had taught to use the bow.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id282
sentence:
They that held Adresteia and the land of Apaesus, with Pityeia, and the high mountain of Tereia— these were led by Adrestus and Amphius, whose breastplate was of linen.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id284
sentence:
He told them not to take part in the war, but they gave him no heed, for fate lured them to destruction.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id285
sentence:
They that dwelt about Percote and Practius, with Sestos, Abydos, and Arisbe —these were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, a brave commander— Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whom his powerful dark bay steeds, of the breed that comes from the river Selleis, had brought from Arisbe.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id286
sentence:
Hippothous led the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa— Hippothous, and Pylaeus of the race of Mars, two sons of the Pelasgian Lethus, son of Teutamus.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id287
sentence:
Acamas and the warrior Peirous commanded the Thracians and those that came from beyond the mighty stream of the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id289
sentence:
Pyraechmes led the Paeonian archers from distant Amydon, by the broad waters of the river Axius, the fairest that flow upon the earth.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id290
sentence:
The Paphlagonians were commanded by stout- hearted Pylaemanes from Enetae, where the mules run wild in herds.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id291
sentence:
These were they that held Cytorus and the country round Sesamus, with the cities by the river Parthenius, Cromna, Aegialus, and lofty Erithini.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id292
sentence:
Odius and Epistrophus were captains over the Halizoni from distant Alybe, where there are mines of silver.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id293
sentence:
Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id294
sentence:
Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id298
sentence:
These held Miletus and the wooded mountain of Phthires, with the water of the river Maeander and the lofty crests of Mt. Mycale.


title: homer-iliad_02
idx: id300
sentence:
He came into the fight with gold about him, like a girl; fool that he was, his gold was of no avail to save him, for he fell in the river by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and Achilles bore away his gold.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id1
sentence:
Agamemnon proposes that the Achaeans should sail home, and is rebuked by Ulysses—Juno beguiles Jupiter—Hector is wounded.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id2
sentence:
Nestor was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did not escape him, and he said to the son of Aesculapius," What, noble Machaon, is the meaning of all this?


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id3
sentence:
The shouts of men fighting by our ships grow stronger and stronger; stay here, therefore, and sit over your wine, while fair Hecamede heats you a bath and washes the clotted blood from off you.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id5
sentence:
As he spoke he took up the shield of his son Thrasymedes that was lying in his tent, all gleaming with bronze, for Thrasymedes had taken his father 's shield; he grasped his redoubtable bronze- shod spear, and as soon as he was outside saw the disastrous rout of the Achaeans who, now that their wall was overthrown, were flying pell- mell before the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id6
sentence:
As when there is a heavy swell upon the sea, but the waves are dumb— they keep their eyes on the watch for the quarter whence the fierce winds may spring upon them, but they stay where they are and set neither this way nor that, till some particular wind sweeps down from heaven to determine them— even so did the old man ponder whether to make for the crowd of Danaans, or go in search of Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id7
sentence:
In the end he deemed it best to go to the son of Atreus; but meanwhile the hosts were fighting and killing one another, and the hard bronze rattled on their bodies, as they thrust at one another with their swords and spears.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id8
sentence:
The wounded kings, the son of Tydeus, Ulysses, and Agamemnon son of Atreus, fell in with Nestor as they were coming up from their ships— for theirs were drawn up some way from where the fighting was going on, being on the shore itself inasmuch as they had been beached first, while the wall had been built behind the hindermost.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id9
sentence:
The stretch of the shore, wide though it was, did not afford room for all the ships, and the host was cramped for space, therefore they had placed the ships in rows one behind the other, and had filled the whole opening of the bay between the two points that formed it.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id10
sentence:
The kings, leaning on their spears, were coming out to survey the fight, being in great anxiety, and when old Nestor met them they were filled with dismay.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id11
sentence:
Then King Agamemnon said to him," Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, why have you left the battle to come hither?


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id12
sentence:
I fear that what dread Hector said will come true, when he vaunted among the Trojans saying that he would not return to Ilius till he had fired our ships and killed us; this is what he said, and now it is all coming true.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id14
sentence:
others of the Achaeans, like Achilles, are in such anger with me that they refuse to fight by the sterns of our ships."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id15
sentence:
Then Nestor knight of Gerene, answered," It is indeed as you say; it is all coming true at this moment, and even Jove who thunders from on high can not prevent it.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id17
sentence:
The Trojans are fighting stubbornly and without ceasing at the ships; look where you may you can not see from what quarter the rout of the Achaeans is coming; they are being killed in a confused mass and the battle- cry ascends to heaven; let us think, if counsel can be of any use, what we had better do; but I do not advise our going into battle ourselves, for a man can not fight when he is wounded."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id18
sentence:
And King Agamemnon answered," Nestor, if the Trojans are indeed fighting at the rear of our ships, and neither the wall nor the trench has served us— over which the Danaans toiled so hard, and which they deemed would be an impregnable bulwark both for us and our fleet —I see it must be the will of Jove that the Achaeans should perish ingloriously here, far from Argos.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id19
sentence:
I knew when Jove was willing to defend us, and I know now that he is raising the Trojans to like honour with the gods, while us, on the other hand, he has bound hand and foot.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id20
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let us bring down the ships that are on the beach and draw them into the water; let us make them fast to their mooring- stones a little way out, against the fall of night— if even by night the Trojans will desist from fighting; we may then draw down the rest of the fleet.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id24
sentence:
Wretch, you should have commanded some other and baser army, and not been ruler over us to whom Jove has allotted a life of hard fighting from youth to old age, till we every one of us perish.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id26
sentence:
Hold your peace, lest some other of the Achaeans hear you say what no man who knows how to give good counsel, no king over so great a host as that of the Argives should ever have let fall from his lips.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id28
sentence:
Would you, then, have us draw down our ships into the water while the battle is raging, and thus play further into the hands of the conquering Trojans?


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id29
sentence:
It would be ruin; the Achaeans will not go on fighting when they see the ships being drawn into the water, but will cease attacking and keep turning their eyes towards them; your counsel, therefore, sir captain, would be our destruction."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id33
sentence:
Then said Diomed," Such an one is at hand; he is not far to seek, if you will listen to me and not resent my speaking though I am younger than any of you.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id35
sentence:
For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id37
sentence:
Oeneus remained in his own country, but my father( as Jove and the other gods ordained it) migrated to Argos.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id38
sentence:
He married into the family of Adrastus, and his house was one of great abundance, for he had large estates of rich corn- growing land, with much orchard ground as well, and he had many sheep; moreover he excelled all the Argives in the use of the spear.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id39
sentence:
You must yourselves have heard whether these things are true or no; therefore when I say well despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id41
sentence:
When there, we may keep out of the battle and beyond the range of the spears lest we get fresh wounds in addition to what we have already, but we can spur on others, who have been indulging their spleen and holding aloof from battle hitherto."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id42
sentence:
Thus did he speak; whereon they did even as he had said and set out, King Agamemnon leading the way.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id44
sentence:
He took Agamemnon 's right hand in his own and said," Son of Atreus, I take it Achilles is glad now that he sees the Achaeans routed and slain, for he is utterly without remorse— may he come to a bad end and heaven confound him.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id45
sentence:
As for yourself, the blessed gods are not yet so bitterly angry with you but that the princes and counsellors of the Trojans shall again raise the dust upon the plain, and you shall see them flying from the ships and tents towards their city."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id47
sentence:
The voice that came from his deep chest was as that of nine or ten thousand men when they are shouting in the thick of a fight, and it put fresh courage into the hearts of the Achaeans to wage war and do battle without ceasing.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id48
sentence:
Juno of the golden throne looked down as she stood upon a peak of Olympus and her heart was gladdened at the sight of him who was at once her brother and her brother- in- law, hurrying hither and thither amid the fighting.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id49
sentence:
Then she turned her eyes to Jove as he sat on the topmost crests of many- fountained Ida, and loathed him.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id50
sentence:
She set herself to think how she might hoodwink him, and in the end she deemed that it would be best for her to go to Ida and array herself in rich attire, in the hope that Jove might become enamoured of her, and wish to embrace her.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id51
sentence:
While he was thus engaged a sweet and careless sleep might be made to steal over his eyes and senses.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id52
sentence:
She went, therefore, to the room which her son Vulcan had made her, and the doors of which he had cunningly fastened by means of a secret key so that no other god could open them.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id54
sentence:
She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself— if it were so much as shaken in the bronze- floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id55
sentence:
With this she anointed her delicate skin, and then she plaited the fair ambrosial locks that flowed in a stream of golden tresses from her immortal head.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id56
sentence:
She put on the wondrous robe which Minerva had worked for her with consummate art, and had embroidered with manifold devices; she fastened it about her bosom with golden clasps, and she girded herself with a girdle that had a hundred tassels: then she fastened her earrings, three brilliant pendants that glistened most beautifully, through the pierced lobes of her ears, and threw a lovely new veil over her head.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id57
sentence:
She bound her sandals on to her feet, and when she had arrayed herself perfectly to her satisfaction, she left her room and called Venus to come aside and speak to her. "


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id58
sentence:
My dear child," said she," will you do what I am going to ask of you, or will you refuse me because you are angry at my being on the Danaan side, while you are on the Trojan?"


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id59
sentence:
Jove 's daughter Venus answered," Juno, august queen of goddesses, daughter of mighty Saturn, say what you want, and I will do it for you at once, if I can, and if it can be done at all."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id60
sentence:
Then Juno told her a lying tale and said," I want you to endow me with some of those fascinating charms, the spells of which bring all things mortal and immortal to your feet.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id61
sentence:
I am going to the world 's end to visit Oceanus( from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys: they received me in their house, took care of me, and brought me up, having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in the depths that are under earth and sea.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id62
sentence:
I must go and see them that I may make peace between them; they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long while; if I can bring them round and restore them to one another 's embraces, they will be grateful to me and love me for ever afterwards."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id63
sentence:
Thereon laughter- loving Venus said," I can not and must not refuse you, for you sleep in the arms of Jove who is our king."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id64
sentence:
As she spoke she loosed from her bosom the curiously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought— love, desire, and that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most prudent.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id65
sentence:
She gave the girdle to Juno and said," Take this girdle wherein all my charms reside and lay it in your bosom.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id69
sentence:
She passed over Pieria and fair Emathia, and went on and on till she came to the snowy ranges of the Thracian horsemen, over whose topmost crests she sped without ever setting foot to ground.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id70
sentence:
When she came to Athos she went on over the waves of the sea till she reached Lemnos, the city of noble Thoas.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id71
sentence:
There she met Sleep, own brother to Death, and caught him by the hand, saying," Sleep, you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals, if you ever did me a service in times past, do one for me now, and I shall be grateful to you ever after.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id72
sentence:
Close Jove 's keen eyes for me in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace, and I will give you a beautiful golden seat, that can never fall to pieces; my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id73
sentence:
Then Sleep answered," Juno, great queen of goddesses, daughter of mighty Saturn, I would lull any other of the gods to sleep without compunction, not even excepting the waters of Oceanus from whom all of them proceed, but I dare not go near Jove, nor send him to sleep unless he bids me.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id74
sentence:
I have had one lesson already through doing what you asked me, on the day when Jove 's mighty son Hercules set sail from Ilius after having sacked the city of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id75
sentence:
At your bidding I suffused my sweet self over the mind of aegis- bearing Jove, and laid him to rest; meanwhile you hatched a plot against Hercules, and set the blasts of the angry winds beating upon the sea, till you took him to the goodly city of Cos, away from all his friends.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id76
sentence:
Jove was furious when he awoke, and began hurling the gods about all over the house; he was looking more particularly for myself, and would have flung me down through space into the sea where I should never have been heard of any more, had not Night who cows both men and gods protected me.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id77
sentence:
I fled to her and Jove left off looking for me in spite of his being so angry, for he did not dare do anything to displease Night.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id81
sentence:
Come, I will marry you to one of the youngest of the Graces, and she shall be your own— Pasithea, whom you have always wanted to marry."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id82
sentence:
Sleep was pleased when he heard this, and answered," Then swear it to me by the dread waters of the river Styx; lay one hand on the bounteous earth, and the other on the sheen of the sea, so that all the gods who dwell down below with Saturn may be our witnesses, and see that you really do give me one of the youngest of the Graces— Pasithea, whom I have always wanted to marry."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id85
sentence:
When she had completed her oath, the two enshrouded themselves in a thick mist and sped lightly forward, leaving Lemnos and Imbrus behind them.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id86
sentence:
Presently they reached many- fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land, and the tops of the trees of the forest soughed under the going of their feet.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id87
sentence:
Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pine- tree— the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id88
sentence:
He hid himself behind the branches and sat there in the semblance of the sweet- singing bird that haunts the mountains and is called Chalcis by the gods, but men call it Cymindis.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id89
sentence:
Juno then went to Gargarus, the topmost peak of Ida, and Jove, driver of the clouds, set eyes upon her.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id90
sentence:
As soon as he did so he became inflamed with the same passionate desire for her that he had felt when they had first enjoyed each other 's embraces, and slept with one another without their dear parents knowing anything about it.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id91
sentence:
He went up to her and said," What do you want that you have come hither from Olympus— and that too with neither chariot nor horses to convey you?"


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id92
sentence:
Then Juno told him a lying tale and said," I am going to the world 's end, to visit Oceanus, from whom all we gods proceed, and mother Tethys; they received me into their house, took care of me, and brought me up.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id93
sentence:
I must go and see them that I may make peace between them: they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long time.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id94
sentence:
The horses that will take me over land and sea are stationed on the lowermost spurs of many- fountained Ida, and I have come here from Olympus on purpose to consult you.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id95
sentence:
I was afraid you might be angry with me later on, if I went to the house of Oceanus without letting you know."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id96
sentence:
And Jove said," Juno, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus— for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id97
sentence:
Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself— not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily- ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id98
sentence:
Then there was the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus: there was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion- hearted son Hercules, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id99
sentence:
There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself— but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id104
sentence:
It would be such a scandal that when I had risen from your embraces I could never show myself inside your house again; but if you are so minded, there is a room which your son Vulcan has made me, and he has given it good strong doors; if you would so have it, let us go thither and lie down."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id105
sentence:
And Jove answered," Juno, you need not be afraid that either god or man will see you, for I will enshroud both of us in such a dense golden cloud, that the very sun for all his bright piercing beams shall not see through it."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id106
sentence:
With this the son of Saturn caught his wife in his embrace; whereon the earth sprouted them a cushion of young grass, with dew- bespangled lotus, crocus, and hyacinth, so soft and thick that it raised them well above the ground.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id107
sentence:
Here they laid themselves down and overhead they were covered by a fair cloud of gold, from which there fell glittering dew- drops.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id108
sentence:
Thus, then, did the sire of all things repose peacefully on the crest of Ida, overcome at once by sleep and love, and he held his spouse in his arms.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id109
sentence:
Meanwhile Sleep made off to the ships of the Achaeans, to tell earth- encircling Neptune, lord of the earthquake.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id110
sentence:
When he had found him he said," Now, Neptune, you can help the Danaans with a will, and give them victory though it be only for a short time while Jove is still sleeping.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id112
sentence:
Sleep now departed and went his ways to and fro among mankind, leaving Neptune more eager than ever to help the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id113
sentence:
He darted forward among the first ranks and shouted saying," Argives, shall we let Hector son of Priam have the triumph of taking our ships and covering himself with glory?


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id114
sentence:
This is what he says that he shall now do, seeing that Achilles is still in dudgeon at his ship; we shall get on very well without him if we keep each other in heart and stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id116
sentence:
Let us each take the best and largest shield we can lay hold of, put on our helmets, and sally forth with our longest spears in our hands; I will lead you on, and Hector son of Priam, rage as he may, will not dare to hold out against us.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id117
sentence:
If any good staunch soldier has only a small shield, let him hand it over to a worse man, and take a larger one for himself."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id119
sentence:
The son of Tydeus, Ulysses, and Agamemnon, wounded though they were, set the others in array, and went about everywhere effecting the exchanges of armour; the most valiant took the best armour, and gave the worse to the worse man.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id121
sentence:
In his strong hand he grasped his terrible sword, keen of edge and flashing like lightning; woe to him who comes across it in the day of battle; all men quake for fear and keep away from it.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id123
sentence:
Thereon Neptune and Hector waged fierce war on one another— Hector on the Trojan and Neptune on the Argive side.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id124
sentence:
Mighty was the uproar as the two forces met; the sea came rolling in towards the ships and tents of the Achaeans, but waves do not thunder on the shore more loudly when driven before the blast of Boreas, nor do the flames of a forest fire roar more fiercely when it is well alight upon the mountains, nor does the wind bellow with ruder music as it tears on through the tops of when it is blowing its hardest, than the terrible shout which the Trojans and Achaeans raised as they sprang upon one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id126
sentence:
The spear struck him where two bands passed over his chest— the band of his shield and that of his silver- studded sword— and these protected his body.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id127
sentence:
Hector was angry that his spear should have been hurled in vain, and withdrew under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id128
sentence:
As he was thus retreating, Ajax son of Telamon, struck him with a stone, of which there were many lying about under the men 's feet as they fought— brought there to give support to the ships ' sides as they lay on the shore.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id129
sentence:
Ajax caught up one of them and struck Hector above the rim of his shield close to his neck; the blow made him spin round like a top and reel in all directions.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id130
sentence:
As an oak falls headlong when uprooted by the lightning flash of father Jove, and there is a terrible smell of brimstone— no man can help being dismayed if he is standing near it, for a thunderbolt is a very awful thing— even so did Hector fall to earth and bite the dust.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id131
sentence:
His spear fell from his hand, but his shield and helmet were made fast about his body, and his bronze armour rang about him.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id132
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans came running with a loud cry towards him, hoping to drag him away, and they showered their darts on the Trojans, but none of them could wound him before he was surrounded and covered by the princes Polydamas, Aeneas, Agenor, Sarpedon captain of the Lycians, and noble Glaucus.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id133
sentence:
Of the others, too, there was not one who was unmindful of him, and they held their round shields over him to cover him.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id134
sentence:
His comrades then lifted him off the ground and bore him away from the battle to the place where his horses stood waiting for him at the rear of the fight with their driver and the chariot; these then took him towards the city groaning and in great pain.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id135
sentence:
When they reached the ford of the fair stream of Xanthus, begotten of Immortal Jove, they took him from off his chariot and laid him down on the ground; they poured water over him, and as they did so he breathed again and opened his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id136
sentence:
Then kneeling on his knees he vomited blood, but soon fell back on to the ground, and his eyes were again closed in darkness for he was still stunned by the blow.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id137
sentence:
When the Argives saw Hector leaving the field, they took heart and set upon the Trojans yet more furiously.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id138
sentence:
Ajax fleet son of Oileus began by springing on Satnius son of Enops, and wounding him with his spear: a fair naiad nymph had borne him to Enops as he was herding cattle by the banks of the river Satnioeis.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id139
sentence:
The son of Oileus came up to him and struck him in the flank so that he fell, and a fierce fight between Trojans and Danaans raged round his body.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id140
sentence:
Polydamas son of Panthous drew near to avenge him, and wounded Prothoenor son of Areilycus on the right shoulder; the terrible spear went right through his shoulder, and he clutched the earth as he fell in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id141
sentence:
Polydamas vaunted loudly over him saying," Again I take it that the spear has not sped in vain from the strong hand of the son of Panthous; an Argive has caught it in his body, and it will serve him for a staff as he goes down into the house of Hades."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id143
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon was more angry than any, for the man had fallen close beside him; so he aimed at Polydamas as he was retreating, but Polydamas saved himself by swerving aside and the spear struck Archelochus son of Antenor, for heaven counselled his destruction; it struck him where the head springs from the neck at the top joint of the spine, and severed both the tendons at the back of the head.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id144
sentence:
His head, mouth, and nostrils reached the ground long before his legs and knees could do so, and Ajax shouted to Polydamas saying," Think, Polydamas, and tell me truly whether this man is not as well worth killing as Prothoenor was: he seems rich, and of rich family, a brother, it may be, or son of the knight Antenor, for he is very like him."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id146
sentence:
Acamas then bestrode his brother 's body and wounded Promachus the Boeotian with his spear, for he was trying to drag his brother 's body away.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id147
sentence:
Acamas vaunted loudly over him saying," Argive archers, braggarts that you are, toil and suffering shall not be for us only, but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id148
sentence:
See how Promachus now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother 's blood has not been long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house behind him to avenge his fall."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id150
sentence:
He sprang towards Acamas, but Acamas did not stand his ground, and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flock- master Phorbas, whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth than any other of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id151
sentence:
Ilioneus was his only son, and Peneleos now wounded him in the eye under his eyebrows, tearing the eye- ball from its socket: the spear went right through the eye into the nape of the neck, and he fell, stretching out both hands before him.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id152
sentence:
Peneleos then drew his sword and smote him on the neck, so that both head and helmet came tumbling down to the ground with the spear still sticking in the eye; he then held up the head, as though it had been a poppy- head, and showed it to the Trojans, vaunting over them as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id153
sentence:
"Trojans," he cried," bid the father and mother of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house, for the wife also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never be gladdened by the coming of her dear husband— when we Argives return with our ships from Troy."


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id154
sentence:
As he spoke fear fell upon them, and every man looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id155
sentence:
Tell me now, O Muses that dwell on Olympus, who was the first of the Argives to bear away blood- stained spoils after Neptune lord of the earthquake had turned the fortune of war.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id157
sentence:
Antilochus killed Phalces and Mermerus, while Meriones slew Morys and Hippotion, Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id158
sentence:
The son of Atreus then wounded Hyperenor shepherd of his people, in the flank, and the bronze point made his entrails gush out as it tore in among them; on this his life came hurrying out of him at the place where he had been wounded, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_14
idx: id159
sentence:
Ajax son of Oileus killed more than any other, for there was no man so fleet as he to pursue flying foes when Jove had spread panic among them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id2
sentence:
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id3
sentence:
Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun- god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id4
sentence:
Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id5
sentence:
So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id6
sentence:
But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id7
sentence:
Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world 's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id8
sentence:
He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id9
sentence:
At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus, who had been killed by Agamemnon 's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods: "See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id10
sentence:
Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon 's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id11
sentence:
Mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id12
sentence:
Then Minerva said," Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea- girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id13
sentence:
It is an island covered with forest, in the very middle of the sea, and a goddess lives there, daughter of the magician Atlas, who looks after the bottom of the ocean, and carries the great columns that keep heaven and earth asunder.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id14
sentence:
This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id15
sentence:
You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Ulysses was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacrifice?


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id18
sentence:
How can I forget Ulysses than whom there is no more capable man on earth, nor more liberal in his offerings to the immortal gods that live in heaven?


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id19
sentence:
Bear in mind, however, that Neptune is still furious with Ulysses for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id20
sentence:
Polyphemus is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea- king Phorcys; therefore though he will not kill Ulysses outright, he torments him by preventing him from getting home.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id21
sentence:
Still, let us lay our heads together and see how we can help him to return; Neptune will then be pacified, for if we are all of a mind he can hardly stand out against us."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id22
sentence:
And Minerva said," Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Ulysses should get home, we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to return.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id23
sentence:
In the meantime I will go to Ithaca, to put heart into Ulysses ' son Telemachus; I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in assembly, and speak out to the suitors of his mother Penelope, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep and oxen; I will also conduct him to Sparta and to Pylos, to see if he can hear anything about the return of his dear father— for this will make people speak well of him."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id24
sentence:
So saying she bound on her glittering golden sandals, imperishable, with which she can fly like the wind over land or sea; she grasped the redoubtable bronze- shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, whereon forthwith she was in Ithaca, at the gateway of Ulysses ' house, disguised as a visitor, Mentes, chief of the Taphians, and she held a bronze spear in her hand.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id25
sentence:
There she found the lordly suitors seated on hides of the oxen which they had killed and eaten, and playing draughts in front of the house.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id26
sentence:
Men- servants and pages were bustling about to wait upon them, some mixing wine with water in the mixing- bowls, some cleaning down the tables with wet sponges and laying them out again, and some cutting up great quantities of meat.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id28
sentence:
He was sitting moodily among the suitors thinking about his brave father, and how he would send them flying out of the house, if he were to come to his own again and be honoured as in days gone by.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id29
sentence:
Thus brooding as he sat among them, he caught sight of Minerva and went straight to the gate, for he was vexed that a stranger should be kept waiting for admittance.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id31
sentence:
Welcome," said he," to our house, and when you have partaken of food you shall tell us what you have come for."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id33
sentence:
When they were within he took her spear and set it in the spear- stand against a strong bearing- post along with the many other spears of his unhappy father, and he conducted her to a richly decorated seat under which he threw a cloth of damask.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id34
sentence:
There was a footstool also for her feet and he set another seat near her for himself, away from the suitors, that she might not be annoyed while eating by their noise and insolence, and that he might ask her more freely about his father.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id35
sentence:
A maid servant then brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id36
sentence:
An upper servant brought them bread, and offered them many good things of what there was in the house, the carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set cups of gold by their side, and a manservant brought them wine and poured it out for them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id38
sentence:
Forthwith men servants poured water over their hands, maids went round with the bread- baskets, pages filled the mixing- bowls with wine and water, and they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id39
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embellishments of a banquet, so a servant brought a lyre to Phemius, whom they compelled perforce to sing to them.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id40
sentence:
As soon as he touched his lyre and began to sing Telemachus spoke low to Minerva, with his head close to hers that no man might hear.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id42
sentence:
Singing comes cheap to those who do not pay for it, and all this is done at the cost of one whose bones lie rotting in some wilderness or grinding to powder in the surf.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id43
sentence:
If these men were to see my father come back to Ithaca they would pray for longer legs rather than a longer purse, for money would not serve them; but he, alas, has fallen on an ill fate, and even when people do sometimes say that he is coming, we no longer heed them; we shall never see him again.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id45
sentence:
Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in, how your crew brought you to Ithaca, and of what nation they declared themselves to be— for you can not have come by land.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id46
sentence:
Tell me also truly, for I want to know, are you a stranger to this house, or have you been here in my father 's time?


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id50
sentence:
I have come here with my ship and crew, on a voyage to men of a foreign tongue being bound for Temesa with a cargo of iron, and I shall bring back copper.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id51
sentence:
As for my ship, it lies over yonder off the open country away from the town, in the harbour Rheithron under the wooded mountain Neritum.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id53
sentence:
They say, however, that he never comes to town now, and lives by himself in the country, faring hardly, with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him, when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id54
sentence:
They told me your father was at home again, and that was why I came, but it seems the gods are still keeping him back, for he is not dead yet not on the mainland.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id55
sentence:
It is more likely he is on some sea- girt island in mid ocean, or a prisoner among savages who are detaining him against his will.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id56
sentence:
I am no prophet, and know very little about omens, but I speak as it is borne in upon me from heaven, and assure you that he will not be away much longer; for he is a man of such resource that even though he were in chains of iron he would find some means of getting home again.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id58
sentence:
You are indeed wonderfully like him about the head and eyes, for we were close friends before he set sail for Troy where the flower of all the Argives went also.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id60
sentence:
"My mother," answered Telemachus," tells me I am son to Ulysses, but it is a wise child that knows his own father.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id61
sentence:
Would that I were son to one who had grown old upon his own estates, for, since you ask me, there is no more ill- starred man under heaven than he who they tell me is my father."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id62
sentence:
And Minerva said," There is no fear of your race dying out yet, while Penelope has such a fine son as you are.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id65
sentence:
Have you some banquet, or is there a wedding in the family— for no one seems to be bringing any provisions of his own?


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id66
sentence:
And the guests— how atrociously they are behaving; what riot they make over the whole house; it is enough to disgust any respectable person who comes near them."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id67
sentence:
"Sir," said Telemachus," as regards your question, so long as my father was here it was well with us and with the house, but the gods in their displeasure have willed it otherwise, and have hidden him away more closely than mortal man was ever yet hidden.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id68
sentence:
I could have borne it better even though he were dead, if he had fallen with his men before Troy, or had died with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes, and I should myself have been heir to his renown; but now the storm- winds have spirited him away we know not whither; he is gone without leaving so much as a trace behind him, and I inherit nothing but dismay.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id69
sentence:
Nor does the matter end simply with grief for the loss of my father; heaven has laid sorrows upon me of yet another kind; for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying their court to my mother, who will neither point blank say that she will not marry nor yet bring matters to an end ;so they are making havoc of my estate, and before long will do so also with myself."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id71
sentence:
Give him his helmet, shield, and a couple of lances, and if he is the man he was when I first knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he would soon lay his hands about these rascally suitors, were he to stand once more upon his own threshold.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id72
sentence:
He was then coming from Ephyra, where he had been to beg poison for his arrows from Ilus, son of Mermerus.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id73
sentence:
Ilus feared the ever- living gods and would not give him any, but my father let him have some, for he was very fond of him.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id76
sentence:
It rests with heaven to determine whether he is to return, and take his revenge in his own house or no; I would, however, urge you to set about trying to get rid of these suitors at once.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id77
sentence:
Take my advice, call the Achaean heroes in assembly to- morrow morning— lay your case before them, and call heaven to bear you witness.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id78
sentence:
Bid the suitors take themselves off, each to his own place, and if your mother 's mind is set on marrying again, let her go back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts that so dear a daughter may expect.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id79
sentence:
As for yourself, let me prevail upon you to take the best ship you can get, with a crew of twenty men, and go in quest of your father who has so long been missing.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id80
sentence:
Some one may tell you something, or( and people often hear things in this way) some heaven- sent message may direct you.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id81
sentence:
First go to Pylos and ask Nestor; thence go on to Sparta and visit Menelaus, for he got home last of all the Achaeans; if you hear that your father is alive and on his way home, you can put up with the waste these suitors will make for yet another twelve months.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id82
sentence:
If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id83
sentence:
Then, having done all this, think it well over in your mind how, by fair means or foul, you may kill these suitors in your own house.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id84
sentence:
You are too old to plead infancy any longer; have you not heard how people are singing Orestes ' praises for having killed his father 's murderer Aegisthus?


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id86
sentence:
Now, however, I must go back to my ship and to my crew, who will be impatient if I keep them waiting longer; think the matter over for yourself, and remember what I have said to you."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id87
sentence:
"Sir," answered Telemachus," it has been very kind of you to talk to me in this way, as though I were your own son, and I will do all you tell me; I know you want to be getting on with your voyage, but stay a little longer till you have taken a bath and refreshed yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id88
sentence:
I will then give you a present, and you shall go on your way rejoicing; I will give you one of great beauty and value— a keepsake such as only dear friends give to one another."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id90
sentence:
As for any present you may be disposed to make me, keep it till I come again, and I will take it home with me.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id92
sentence:
With these words she flew away like a bird into the air, but she had given Telemachus courage, and had made him think more than ever about his father.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id93
sentence:
He felt the change, wondered at it, and knew that the stranger had been a god, so he went straight to where the suitors were sitting.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id94
sentence:
Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id95
sentence:
Penelope, daughter of Icarius, heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id96
sentence:
When she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing posts that supported the roof of the cloisters with a staid maiden on either side of her.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id98
sentence:
"Phemius," she cried," you know many another feat of gods and heroes, such as poets love to celebrate.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id99
sentence:
Sing the suitors some one of these, and let them drink their wine in silence, but cease this sad tale, for it breaks my sorrowful heart, and reminds me of my lost husband whom I mourn ever without ceasing, and whose name was great over all Hellas and middle Argos."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id100
sentence:
"Mother," answered Telemachus," let the bard sing what he has a mind to; bards do not make the ills they sing of; it is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id101
sentence:
This fellow means no harm by singing the ill- fated return of the Danaans, for people always applaud the latest songs most warmly.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id102
sentence:
Make up your mind to it and bear it; Ulysses is not the only man who never came back from Troy, but many another went down as well as he.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id103
sentence:
Go, then, within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants; for speech is man 's matter, and mine above all others— for it is I who am master here."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id105
sentence:
Then, going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyes.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id106
sentence:
But the suitors were clamorous throughout the covered cloisters, and prayed each one that he might be her bed fellow.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id107
sentence:
Then Telemachus spoke," Shameless," he cried," and insolent suitors, let us feast at our pleasure now, and let there be no brawling, for it is a rare thing to hear a man with such a divine voice as Phemius has; but in the morning meet me in full assembly that I may give you formal notice to depart, and feast at one another 's houses, turn and turn about, at your own cost.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id108
sentence:
If on the other hand you choose to persist in spunging upon one man, heaven help me, but Jove shall reckon with you in full, and when you fall in my father 's house there shall be no man to avenge you."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id110
sentence:
Then, Antinous, son of Eupeithes, said," The gods seem to have given you lessons in bluster and tall talking; may Jove never grant you to be chief in Ithaca as your father was before you."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id111
sentence:
Telemachus answered," Antinous, do not chide with me, but, god willing, I will be chief too if I can.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id114
sentence:
Still, now that Ulysses is dead there are many great men in Ithaca both old and young, and some other may take the lead among them; nevertheless I will be chief in my own house, and will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id115
sentence:
Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered," It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id120
sentence:
He seemed a well to do man, but he hurried off so suddenly that he was gone in a moment before we could get to know him."


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id121
sentence:
"My father is dead and gone," answered Telemachus," and even if some rumour reaches me I put no more faith in it now.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id122
sentence:
My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id123
sentence:
As for the stranger, he was Mentes, son of Anchialus, chief of the Taphians, an old friend of my father 's. "But in his heart he knew that it had been the goddess.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id124
sentence:
The suitors then returned to their singing and dancing until the evening; but when night fell upon their pleasuring they went home to bed each in his own abode.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id125
sentence:
Telemachus 's room was high up in a tower that looked on to the outer court; hither, then, he hied, brooding and full of thought.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id126
sentence:
A good old woman, Euryclea, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id127
sentence:
Laertes had bought her with his own money when she was quite young; he gave the worth of twenty oxen for her, and shewed as much respect to her in his household as he did to his own wedded wife, but he did not take her to his bed for he feared his wife 's resentment.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id128
sentence:
She it was who now lighted Telemachus to his room, and she loved him better than any of the other women in the house did, for she had nursed him when he was a baby.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id129
sentence:
He opened the door of his bed room and sat down upon the bed; as he took off his shirt he gave it to the good old woman, who folded it tidily up, and hung it for him over a peg by his bed side, after which she went out, pulled the door to by a silver catch, and drew the bolt home by means of the strap.


title: homer-odyssey_01
idx: id130
sentence:
But Telemachus as he lay covered with a woollen fleece kept thinking all night through of his intended voyage and of the counsel that Minerva had given him.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id1
sentence:
MINERVA SUMMONS TELEMACHUS FROM LACEDAEMON—HE MEETS WITH THEOCLYMENUS AT PYLOS AND BRINGS HIM TO ITHACA—ON LANDING HE GOES TO THE HUT OF EUMAEUS.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id2
sentence:
But Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell Ulysses ' son that he was to return at once.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id3
sentence:
She found him and Pisistratus sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaus 's house; Pisistratus was fast asleep, but Telemachus could get no rest all night for thinking of his unhappy father, so Minerva went close up to him and said: "Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from home any longer, nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your house; they will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been on a fool 's errand.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id4
sentence:
Ask Menelaus to send you home at once if you wish to find your excellent mother still there when you get back.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id5
sentence:
Her father and brothers are already urging her to marry Eurymachus, who has given her more than any of the others, and has been greatly increasing his wedding presents.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id6
sentence:
I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are— they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id7
sentence:
Go home, therefore, and put everything in charge of the most respectable woman servant that you have, until it shall please heaven to send you a wife of your own.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id9
sentence:
The chief men among the suitors are lying in wait for you in the Strait between Ithaca and Samos, and they mean to kill you before you can reach home.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id10
sentence:
I do not much think they will succeed; it is more likely that some of those who are now eating up your property will find a grave themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id11
sentence:
Sail night and day, and keep your ship well away from the islands; the god who watches over you and protects you will send you a fair wind.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id12
sentence:
As soon as you get to Ithaca send your ship and men on to the town, but yourself go straight to the swineherd who has charge of your pigs; he is well disposed towards you, stay with him, therefore, for the night, and then send him to Penelope to tell her that you have got back safe from Pylos."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id13
sentence:
Then she went back to Olympus; but Telemachus stirred Pisistratus with his heel to rouse him, and said," Wake up Pisistratus, and yoke the horses to the chariot, for we must set off home."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id15
sentence:
It will be morning soon; wait till Menelaus has brought his presents and put them in the chariot for us; and let him say good bye to us in the usual way.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id17
sentence:
As he spoke day began to break, and Menelaus, who had already risen, leaving Helen in bed, came towards them.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id18
sentence:
When Telemachus saw him he put on his shirt as fast as he could, threw a great cloak over his shoulders, and went out to meet him. "


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id22
sentence:
Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id23
sentence:
One should treat a guest well as long as he is in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id24
sentence:
Wait, then, till I can get your beautiful presents into your chariot, and till you have yourself seen them.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id25
sentence:
I will tell the women to prepare a sufficient dinner for you of what there may be in the house; it will be at once more proper and cheaper for you to get your dinner before setting out on such a long journey.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id26
sentence:
If, moreover, you have a fancy for making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal cities.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id27
sentence:
No one will send us away empty handed; every one will give us something— a bronze tripod, a couple of mules, or a gold cup."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id28
sentence:
"Menelaus," replied Telemachus," I want to go home at once, for when I came away I left my property without protection, and fear that while looking for my father I shall come to ruin myself, or find that something valuable has been stolen during my absence."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id29
sentence:
When Menelaus heard this he immediately told his wife and servants to prepare a sufficient dinner from what there might be in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id30
sentence:
At this moment Eteoneus joined him, for he lived close by and had just got up; so Menelaus told him to light the fire and cook some meat, which he at once did.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id31
sentence:
Then Menelaus went down into his fragrant store room not alone, but Helen went too, with Megapenthes.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id32
sentence:
When he reached the place where the treasures of his house were kept, he selected a double cup, and told his son Megapenthes to bring also a silver mixing bowl.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id33
sentence:
Meanwhile Helen went to the chest where she kept the lovely dresses which she had made with her own hands, and took out one that was largest and most beautifully enriched with embroidery; it glittered like a star, and lay at the very bottom of the chest.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id34
sentence:
Then they all came back through the house again till they got to Telemachus, and Menelaus said," Telemachus, may Jove, the mighty husband of Juno, bring you safely home according to your desire.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id36
sentence:
It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id37
sentence:
Phaedimus king of the Sidonians made me a present of it in the course of a visit that I paid him while I was on my return home.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id39
sentence:
With these words he placed the double cup in the hands of Telemachus, while Megapenthes brought the beautiful mixing bowl and set it before him.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id41
sentence:
"I too, my son," said she," have something for you as a keepsake from the hand of Helen; it is for your bride to wear upon her wedding day.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id42
sentence:
Till then, get your dear mother to keep it for you; thus may you go back rejoicing to your own country and to your home."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id45
sentence:
Presently Menelaus took Telemachus and Pisistratus into the house, and they both of them sat down to table.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id46
sentence:
A maid servant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them; an upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id48
sentence:
Then they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, but as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus and Pisistratus yoked the horses, and took their places in the chariot.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id49
sentence:
They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court, and Menelaus came after them with a golden goblet of wine in his right hand that they might make a drink- offering before they set out.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id50
sentence:
He stood in front of the horses and pledged them, saying," Farewell to both of you; see that you tell Nestor how I have treated you, for he was as kind to me as any father could be while we Achaeans were fighting before Troy."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id52
sentence:
I wish I were as certain of finding Ulysses returned when I get back to Ithaca, that I might tell him of the very great kindness you have shown me and of the many beautiful presents I am taking with me."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id53
sentence:
As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand— an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard— and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id55
sentence:
When they saw it they were glad, and their hearts took comfort within them ,whereon Pisistratus said," Tell me, Menelaus, has heaven sent this omen for us or for you?"


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id56
sentence:
Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said," I will read this matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it will come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id57
sentence:
The eagle came from the mountain where it was bred and has its nest, and in like manner Ulysses, after having travelled far and suffered much, will return to take his revenge— if indeed he is not back already and hatching mischief for the suitors."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id58
sentence:
"May Jove so grant it," replied Telemachus," if it should prove to be so, I will make vows to you as though you were a god, even when I am at home."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id59
sentence:
As he spoke he lashed his horses and they started off at full speed through the town towards the open country.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id60
sentence:
They swayed the yoke upon their necks and travelled the whole day long till the sun set and darkness was over all the land.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id63
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and their places in the chariot.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id65
sentence:
Then Pisistratus lashed his horses on and they flew forward nothing loath; ere long they came to Pylos, and then Telemachus said: "Pisistratus, I hope you will promise to do what I am going to ask you.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id66
sentence:
You know our fathers were old friends before us; moreover, we are both of an age, and this journey has brought us together still more closely; do not, therefore, take me past my ship, but leave me there, for if I go to your father 's house he will try to keep me in the warmth of his good will towards me, and I must go home at once."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id67
sentence:
Pisistratus thought how he should do as he was asked, and in the end he deemed it best to turn his horses towards the ship, and put Menelaus 's beautiful presents of gold and raiment in the stern of the vessel.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id68
sentence:
Then he said," Go on board at once and tell your men to do so also before I can reach home to tell my father.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id69
sentence:
I know how obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id71
sentence:
With this he drove his goodly steeds back to the city of the Pylians and soon reached his home, but Telemachus called the men together and gave his orders.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id74
sentence:
But as Telemachus was thus busied, praying also and sacrificing to Minerva in the ship 's stern, there came to him a man from a distant country, a seer, who was flying from Argos because he had killed a man.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id75
sentence:
He was descended from Melampus, who used to live in Pylos, the land of sheep; he was rich and owned a great house, but he was driven into exile by the great and powerful king Neleus.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id76
sentence:
Neleus seized his goods and held them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the house of king Phylacus, and in much distress of mind both on account of the daughter of Neleus and because he was haunted by a great sorrow that dread Erinys had laid upon him.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id77
sentence:
In the end, however, he escaped with his life, drove the cattle from Phylace to Pylos, avenged the wrong that had been done him, and gave the daughter of Neleus to his brother.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id78
sentence:
Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it was ordained that he should reign over much people.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id80
sentence:
Antiphates became father of Oicleus, and Oicleus of Amphiaraus, who was dearly loved both by Jove and by Apollo, but he did not live to old age, for he was killed in Thebes by reason of a woman 's gifts.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id83
sentence:
Aurora, throned in gold, carried off Cleitus for his beauty 's sake, that he might dwell among the immortals, but Apollo made Polypheides the greatest seer in the whole world now that Amphiaraus was dead.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id84
sentence:
He quarrelled with his father and went to live in Hyperesia, where he remained and prophesied for all men.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id85
sentence:
His son, Theoclymenus, it was who now came up to Telemachus as he was making drink- offerings and praying in his ship. "


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id86
sentence:
Friend," said he," now that I find you sacrificing in this place, I beseech you by your sacrifices themselves, and by the god to whom you make them, I pray you also by your own head and by those of your followers tell me the truth and nothing but the truth.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id92
sentence:
Therefore I have taken this ship and got my crew together to see if I can hear any news of him, for he has been away a long time."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id95
sentence:
I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id96
sentence:
I am your suppliant; take me, therefore, on board your ship that they may not kill me, for I know they are in pursuit."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id100
sentence:
He went on board and sat in the stern, bidding Theoclymenus sit beside him; then the men let go the hawsers.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id102
sentence:
They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it and made it fast with the forestays, and they hoisted their white sails with sheets of twisted ox hide.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id103
sentence:
Minerva sent them a fair wind that blew fresh and strong to take the ship on her course as fast as possible.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id107
sentence:
Telemachus then headed her for the flying islands wondering within himself whether he should escape death or should be taken prisoner.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id108
sentence:
Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd were eating their supper in the hut, and the men supped with them.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id109
sentence:
As soon as they had had to eat and drink, Ulysses began trying to prove the swineherd and see whether he would continue to treat him kindly, and ask him to stay on at the station or pack him off to the city; so he said: "Eumaeus, and all of you, to- morrow I want to go away and begin begging about the town, so as to be no more trouble to you or to your men.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id111
sentence:
I will go the round of the city begging as I needs must, to see if any one will give me a drink and a piece of bread.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id113
sentence:
I could then go about among the suitors and see if out of all their abundance they will give me a dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id115
sentence:
Listen and believe when I tell you that by the blessing of Mercury who gives grace and good name to the works of all men, there is no one living who would make a more handy servant than I should— to put fresh wood on the fire, chop fuel, carve, cook, pour out wine, and do all those services that poor men have to do for their betters."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id118
sentence:
If you go near the suitors you will be undone to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very heavens.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id120
sentence:
Their servants are all young men, well dressed, wearing good cloaks and shirts, with well looking faces and their hair always tidy, the tables are kept quite clean and are loaded with bread, meat, and wine.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id121
sentence:
Stay where you are, then ;you are not in anybody 's way; I do not mind your being here, no more do any of the others, and when Telemachus comes home he will give you a shirt and cloak and will send you wherever you want to go."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id122
sentence:
Ulysses answered," I hope you may be as dear to the gods as you are to me, for having saved me from going about and getting into trouble; there is nothing worse than being always on the tramp; still, when men have once got low down in the world they will go through a great deal on behalf of their miserable bellies.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id123
sentence:
Since, however, you press me to stay here and await the return of Telemachus, tell me about Ulysses ' mother, and his father whom he left on the threshold of old age when he set out for Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id125
sentence:
"I will tell you all about them," replied Eumaeus," Laertes is still living and prays heaven to let him depart peacefully in his own house, for he is terribly distressed about the absence of his son, and also about the death of his wife, which grieved him greatly and aged him more than anything else did.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id126
sentence:
She came to an unhappy end through sorrow for her son: may no friend or neighbour who has dealt kindly by me come to such an end as she did.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id127
sentence:
As long as she was still living, though she was always grieving, I used to like seeing her and asking her how she did, for she brought me up along with her daughter Ctimene, the youngest of her children; we were boy and girl together, and she made little difference between us.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id129
sentence:
As for me, my mistress gave me a good shirt and cloak with a pair of sandals for my feet, and sent me off into the country, but she was just as fond of me as ever.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id132
sentence:
I have enough to eat and drink, and can find something for any respectable stranger who comes here; but there is no getting a kind word or deed out of my mistress, for the house has fallen into the hands of wicked people.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id133
sentence:
Servants want sometimes to see their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with them into the country.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id135
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Then you must have been a very little fellow, Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id136
sentence:
Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and sell you for whatever your master gave them?"


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id137
sentence:
"Stranger," replied Eumaeus," as regards your question: sit still, make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id138
sentence:
The nights are now at their longest; there is plenty of time both for sleeping and sitting up talking together; you ought not to go to bed till bed time, too much sleep is as bad as too little ;if any one of the others wishes to go to bed let him leave us and do so; he can then take my master 's pigs out when he has done breakfast in the morning.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id139
sentence:
We too will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone by.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id140
sentence:
As regards your question, then, my tale is as follows: "You may have heard of an island called Syra that lies over above Ortygia where the land begins to turn round and look in another direction.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id141
sentence:
It is not very thickly peopled, but the soil is good, with much pasture fit for cattle and sheep, and it abounds with wine and wheat.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id142
sentence:
Dearth never comes there, nor are the people plagued by any sickness, but when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id145
sentence:
"Now to this place there came some cunning traders from Phoenicia( for the Phoenicians are great mariners) in a ship which they had freighted with gewgaws of all kinds.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id146
sentence:
There happened to be a Phoenician woman in my father 's house, very tall and comely, and an excellent servant; these scoundrels got hold of her one day when she was washing near their ship, seduced her, and cajoled her in ways that no woman can resist, no matter how good she may be by nature.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id147
sentence:
The man who had seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on this she told him her father 's name.'


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id149
sentence:
One day as I was coming into the town from the country, some Taphian pirates seized me and took me here over the sea, where they sold me to the man who owns this house, and he gave them their price for me.'


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id150
sentence:
"The man who had seduced her then said,' Would you like to come along with us to see the house of your parents and your parents themselves?


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id152
sentence:
"'I will do so gladly,' answered she,' if you men will first swear me a solemn oath that you will do me no harm by the way.'


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id153
sentence:
"They all swore as she told them, and when they had completed their oath the woman said,' Hush; and if any of your men meets me in the street or at the well, do not let him speak to me, for fear some one should go and tell my master, in which case he would suspect something.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id154
sentence:
He would put me in prison, and would have all of you murdered; keep your own counsel therefore; buy your merchandise as fast as you can, and send me word when you have done loading.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id155
sentence:
I will bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something else also that I can do towards paying my fare.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id157
sentence:
I will carry him off in your ship, and you will get a great deal of money for him if you take him and sell him in foreign parts.'


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id159
sentence:
The Phoenicians stayed a whole year till they had loaded their ship with much precious merchandise, and then, when they had got freight enough, they sent to tell the woman.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id160
sentence:
Their messenger, a very cunning fellow, came to my father 's house bringing a necklace of gold with amber beads strung among it; and while my mother and the servants had it in their hands admiring it and bargaining about it, he made a sign quietly to the woman and then went back to the ship, whereon she took me by the hand and led me out of the house.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id161
sentence:
In the fore part of the house she saw the tables set with the cups of guests who had been feasting with my father, as being in attendance on him; these were now all gone to a meeting of the public assembly, so she snatched up three cups and carried them off in the bosom of her dress, while I followed her, for I knew no better.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id162
sentence:
The sun was now set, and darkness was over all the land, so we hurried on as fast as we could till we reached the harbour, where the Phoenician ship was lying.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id163
sentence:
When they had got on board they sailed their ways over the sea, taking us with them, and Jove sent then a fair wind; six days did we sail both night and day, but on the seventh day Diana struck the woman and she fell heavily down into the ship 's hold as though she were a sea gull alighting on the water; so they threw her overboard to the seals and fishes, and I was left all sorrowful and alone.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id164
sentence:
Presently the winds and waves took the ship to Ithaca, where Laertes gave sundry of his chattels for me, and thus it was that ever I came to set eyes upon this country."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id165
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Eumaeus, I have heard the story of your misfortunes with the most lively interest and pity, but Jove has given you good as well as evil, for in spite of everything you have a good master, who sees that you always have enough to eat and drink; and you lead a good life, whereas I am still going about begging my way from city to city."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id166
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and they had only a very little time left for sleep, for it was soon daybreak.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id167
sentence:
In the mean time Telemachus and his crew were nearing land, so they loosed the sails, took down the mast, and rowed the ship into the harbour.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id168
sentence:
They cast out their mooring stones and made fast the hawsers; they then got out upon the sea shore, mixed their wine, and got dinner ready.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id169
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus said," Take the ship on to the town, but leave me here, for I want to look after the herdsmen on one of my farms.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id170
sentence:
In the evening, when I have seen all I want, I will come down to the city, and to- morrow morning in return for your trouble I will give you all a good dinner with meat and wine."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id174
sentence:
"At any other time," replied Telemachus," I should have bidden you go to my own house, for you would find no want of hospitality; at the present moment, however, you would not be comfortable there, for I shall be away, and my mother will not see you; she does not often show herself even to the suitors, but sits at her loom weaving in an upper chamber, out of their way; but I can tell you a man whose house you can go to— I mean Eurymachus the son of Polybus, who is held in the highest estimation by every one in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id175
sentence:
He is much the best man and the most persistent wooer, of all those who are paying court to my mother and trying to take Ulysses ' place.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id176
sentence:
Jove, however, in heaven alone knows whether or no they will come to a bad end before the marriage takes place."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id178
sentence:
It held a dove in its talons, and the feathers, as it tore them off fell to the ground midway between Telemachus and the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id180
sentence:
Telemachus," said he," that bird did not fly on your right hand without having been sent there by some god.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id182
sentence:
I knew it was an omen; it means that you will remain powerful and that there will be no house in Ithaca more royal than your own."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id184
sentence:
"If it does, I will show you so much good will and give you so many presents that all who meet you will congratulate you."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id185
sentence:
Then he said to his friend Piraeus," Piraeus, son of Clytius, you have throughout shown yourself the most willing to serve me of all those who have accompanied me to Pylos; I wish you would take this stranger to your own house and entertain him hospitably till I can come for him."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id186
sentence:
And Piraeus answered," Telemachus, you may stay away as long as you please, but I will look after him for you, and he shall find no lack of hospitality."


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id187
sentence:
As he spoke he went on board, and bade the others do so also and loose the hawsers, so they took their places in the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id188
sentence:
But Telemachus bound on his sandals, and took a long and doughty spear with a head of sharpened bronze from the deck of the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_15
idx: id189
sentence:
Then they loosed the hawsers, thrust the ship off from land, and made on towards the city as they had been told to do, while Telemachus strode on as fast as he could, till he reached the homestead where his countless herds of swine were feeding, and where dwelt the excellent swineherd, who was so devoted a servant to his master.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id2
sentence:
Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain till he reached the place where Minerva had said that he would find the swineherd, who was the most thrifty servant he had.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id3
sentence:
He found him sitting in front of his hut, which was by the yards that he had built on a site which could be seen from far.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id4
sentence:
He had made them spacious and fair to see, with a free run for the pigs all round them; he had built them during his master 's absence, of stones which he had gathered out of the ground, without saying anything to Penelope or Laertes, and he had fenced them on top with thorn bushes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id5
sentence:
Outside the yard he had run a strong fence of oaken posts, split, and set pretty close together, while inside he had built twelve styes near one another for the sows to lie in.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id6
sentence:
There were fifty pigs wallowing in each stye, all of them breeding sows; but the boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had to send them the best he had continually.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id7
sentence:
There were three hundred and sixty boar pigs, and the herdsman 's four hounds, which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id9
sentence:
Three of his men were out herding the pigs in one place or another, and he had sent the fourth to town with a boar that he had been forced to send the suitors that they might sacrifice it and have their fill of meat.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id10
sentence:
When the hounds saw Ulysses they set up a furious barking and flew at him, but Ulysses was cunning enough to sit down and loose his hold of the stick that he had in his hand: still, he would have been torn by them in his own homestead had not the swineherd dropped his ox hide, rushed full speed through the gate of the yard and driven the dogs off by shouting and throwing stones at them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id11
sentence:
Then he said to Ulysses," Old man, the dogs were likely to have made short work of you, and then you would have got me into trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id12
sentence:
The gods have given me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost the best of masters, and am in continual grief on his account.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id13
sentence:
I have to attend swine for other people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id14
sentence:
But come inside, and when you have had your fill of bread and wine, tell me where you come from, and all about your misfortunes."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id16
sentence:
He strewed a good thick bed of rushes upon the floor, and on the top of this he threw the shaggy chamois skin— a great thick one— on which he used to sleep by night.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id17
sentence:
Ulysses was pleased at being made thus welcome, and said" May Jove, sir, and the rest of the gods grant you your heart 's desire in return for the kind way in which you have received me."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id18
sentence:
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id19
sentence:
You must take what you can get and be thankful, for servants live in fear when they have young lords for their masters; and this is my misfortune now, for heaven has hindered the return of him who would have been always good to me and given me something of my own— a house, a piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else that a liberal master allows a servant who has worked hard for him, and whose labour the gods have prospered as they have mine in the situation which I hold.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id20
sentence:
If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen 's whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id21
sentence:
It was this matter that took my master to Ilius, the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans in the cause of king Agamemnon."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id22
sentence:
As he spoke he bound his girdle round him and went to the styes where the young sucking pigs were penned.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id24
sentence:
He singed them, cut them up, and spitted them; when the meat was cooked he brought it all in and set it before Ulysses, hot and still on the spit, whereon Ulysses sprinkled it over with white barley meal.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id25
sentence:
The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy- wood, and taking a seat opposite Ulysses told him to begin.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id27
sentence:
The fat pigs have to go to the suitors, who eat them up without shame or scruple; but the blessed gods love not such shameful doings, and respect those who do what is lawful and right.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id28
sentence:
Even the fierce freebooters who go raiding on other people 's land, and Jove gives them their spoil— even they, when they have filled their ships and got home again live conscience- stricken, and look fearfully for judgement; but some god seems to have told these people that Ulysses is dead and gone; they will not, therefore, go back to their own homes and make their offers of marriage in the usual way, but waste his estate by force, without fear or stint.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id29
sentence:
Not a day or night comes out of heaven, but they sacrifice not one victim nor two only, and they take the run of his wine, for he was exceedingly rich.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id30
sentence:
No other great man either in Ithaca or on the mainland is as rich as he was; he had as much as twenty men put together.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id32
sentence:
There are twelve herds of cattle upon the main land, and as many flocks of sheep, there are also twelve droves of pigs, while his own men and hired strangers feed him twelve widely spreading herds of goats.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id33
sentence:
Here in Ithaca he runs even large flocks of goats on the far end of the island, and they are in the charge of excellent goat herds.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id35
sentence:
As for myself, I am in charge of the pigs that you see here, and I have to keep picking out the best I have and sending it to them."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id36
sentence:
This was his story, but Ulysses went on eating and drinking ravenously without a word, brooding his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id37
sentence:
When he had eaten enough and was satisfied, the swineherd took the bowl from which he usually drank, filled it with wine, and gave it to Ulysses, who was pleased, and said as he took it in his hands," My friend, who was this master of yours that bought you and paid for you, so rich and so powerful as you tell me?


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id38
sentence:
You say he perished in the cause of King Agamemnon; tell me who he was, in case I may have met with such a person.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id39
sentence:
Jove and the other gods know, but I may be able to give you news of him, for I have travelled much."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id40
sentence:
Eumaeus answered," Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses ' wife and son to believe his story.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id41
sentence:
Nevertheless, tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their mouths full of lies, and not a word of truth; every one who finds his way to Ithaca goes to my mistress and tells her falsehoods, whereon she takes them in, makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions, crying all the time as women will when they have lost their husbands.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id43
sentence:
But the wolves and birds of prey have long since torn Ulysses to pieces, or the fishes of the sea have eaten him, and his bones are lying buried deep in sand upon some foreign shore; he is dead and gone, and a bad business it is for all his friends— for me especially; go where I may I shall never find so good a master, not even if I were to go home to my mother and father where I was bred and born.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id44
sentence:
I do not so much care, however, about my parents now, though I should dearly like to see them again in my own country; it is the loss of Ulysses that grieves me most; I can not speak of him without reverence though he is here no longer, for he was very fond of me, and took such care of me that wherever he may be I shall always honour his memory."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id45
sentence:
"My friend," replied Ulysses," you are very positive, and very hard of belief about your master 's coming home again, nevertheless I will not merely say, but will swear, that he is coming.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id46
sentence:
Do not give me anything for my news till he has actually come, you may then give me a shirt and cloak of good wear if you will.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id47
sentence:
I am in great want, but I will not take anything at all till then, for I hate a man, even as I hate hell fire, who lets his poverty tempt him into lying.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id48
sentence:
I swear by king Jove, by the rites of hospitality, and by that hearth of Ulysses to which I have now come, that all will surely happen as I have said it will.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id49
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 to do vengeance on all those who are ill treating his wife and son."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id50
sentence:
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id51
sentence:
Do not keep on reminding me of all this; it always pains me when any one speaks about my honoured master.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id52
sentence:
As for your oath we will let it alone, but I only wish he may come, as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id53
sentence:
I am terribly unhappy too about this same boy of his; he was running up fast into manhood, and bade fare to be no worse man, face and figure, than his father, but some one, either god or man, has been unsettling his mind, so he has gone off to Pylos to try and get news of his father, and the suitors are lying in wait for him as he is coming home, in the hope of leaving the house of Arceisius without a name in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id54
sentence:
But let us say no more about him, and leave him to be taken, or else to escape if the son of Saturn holds his hand over him to protect him.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id55
sentence:
And now, old man, tell me your own story; tell me also, for I want to know, who you are and where you come from.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id56
sentence:
Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in, how crew brought you to Ithaca, and from what country they professed to come— for you can not have come by land."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id58
sentence:
If there were meat and wine enough, and we could stay here in the hut with nothing to do but to eat and drink while the others go to their work, I could easily talk on for a whole twelve months without ever finishing the story of the sorrows with which it has pleased heaven to visit me.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id59
sentence:
"I am by birth a Cretan; my father was a well to do man, who had many sons born in marriage, whereas I was the son of a slave whom he had purchased for a concubine; nevertheless, my father Castor son of Hylax( whose lineage I claim, and who was held in the highest honour among the Cretans for his wealth, prosperity, and the valour of his sons) put me on the same level with my brothers who had been born in wedlock.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id60
sentence:
When, however, death took him to the house of Hades, his sons divided his estate and cast lots for their shares, but to me they gave a holding and little else; nevertheless, my valour enabled me to marry into a rich family, for I was not given to bragging, or shirking on the field of battle.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id61
sentence:
It is all over now; still, if you look at the straw you can see what the ear was, for I have had trouble enough and to spare.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id62
sentence:
Mars and Minerva made me doughty in war; when I had picked my men to surprise the enemy with an ambuscade I never gave death so much as a thought, but was the first to leap forward and spear all whom I could overtake.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id63
sentence:
Such was I in battle, but I did not care about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those who would bring up children.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id64
sentence:
My delight was in ships, fighting, javelins, and arrows— things that most men shudder to think of; but one man likes one thing and another another, and this was what I was most naturally inclined to.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id65
sentence:
Before the Achaeans went to Troy, nine times was I in command of men and ships on foreign service, and I amassed much wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id68
sentence:
and I became a great man among the Cretans, but when Jove counselled that terrible expedition, in which so many perished, the people required me and Idomeneus to lead their ships to Troy, and there was no way out of it, for they insisted on our doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id69
sentence:
There we fought for nine whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city of Priam and sailed home again as heaven dispersed us.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id71
sentence:
I spent but one month happily with my children, wife, and property, and then I conceived the idea of making a descent on Egypt, so I fitted out a fine fleet and manned it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id73
sentence:
For six days I and my men made feast, and I found them many victims both for sacrifice to the gods and for themselves, but on the seventh day we went on board and set sail from Crete with a fair North wind behind us though we were going down a river.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id74
sentence:
Nothing went ill with any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board, but sat where we were and let the ships go as the wind and steersmen took them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id75
sentence:
On the fifth day we reached the river Aegyptus; there I stationed my ships in the river, bidding my men stay by them and keep guard over them while I sent out scouts to reconnoitre from every point of vantage.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id76
sentence:
"But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id77
sentence:
The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war cry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam of armour.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id80
sentence:
Jove, however, put it in my mind to do thus— and I wish I had died then and there in Egypt instead, for there was much sorrow in store for me— I took off my helmet and shield and dropped my spear from my hand; then I went straight up to the king 's chariot, clasped his knees and kissed them, whereon he spared my life, bade me get into his chariot, and took me weeping to his own home.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id81
sentence:
Many made at me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me in their fury, but the king protected me, for he feared the wrath of Jove the protector of strangers, who punishes those who do evil.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id82
sentence:
"I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me something; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id83
sentence:
I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretence that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id85
sentence:
"The ship ran before a fresh North wind till we had reached the sea that lies between Crete and Libya; there, however, Jove counselled their destruction, for as soon as we were well out from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky, he raised a black cloud over our ship and the sea grew dark beneath it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id86
sentence:
Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts and the ship went round and round and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id87
sentence:
The men fell all into the sea; they were carried about in the water round the ship looking like so many sea- gulls, but the god presently deprived them of all chance of getting home again.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id89
sentence:
Jove, however, sent the ship 's mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id90
sentence:
Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id91
sentence:
There Pheidon king of the Thesprotians entertained me hospitably without charging me anything at all— for his son found me when I was nearly dead with cold and fatigue, whereon he raised me by the hand, took me to his father 's house and gave me clothes to wear.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id92
sentence:
"There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id94
sentence:
There was enough to keep his family for ten generations, so much had he left in the house of king Pheidon.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id95
sentence:
But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove 's mind from the god 's high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id96
sentence:
Moreover the king swore in my presence, making drink- offerings in his own house as he did so, that the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id97
sentence:
He sent me off however before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat- growing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to King Acastus.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id98
sentence:
"These men hatched a plot against me that would have reduced me to the very extreme of misery, for when the ship had got some way out from land they resolved on selling me as a slave.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id99
sentence:
They stripped me of the shirt and cloak that I was wearing, and gave me instead the tattered old clouts in which you now see me; then, towards nightfall, they reached the tilled lands of Ithaca, and there they bound me with a strong rope fast in the ship, while they went on shore to get supper by the sea side.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id100
sentence:
But the gods soon undid my bonds for me, and having drawn my rags over my head I slid down the rudder into the sea, where I struck out and swam till I was well clear of them, and came ashore near a thick wood in which I lay concealed.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id101
sentence:
They were very angry at my having escaped and went searching about for me, till at last they thought it was no further use and went back to their ship.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id102
sentence:
The gods, having hidden me thus easily, then took me to a good man 's door— for it seems that I am not to die yet awhile."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id103
sentence:
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Poor unhappy stranger, I have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting, but that part about Ulysses is not right; and you will never get me to believe it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id106
sentence:
The gods one and all of them detest him, or they would have taken him before Troy, or let him die with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes and his son would have been heir to his renown, but now the storm winds have spirited him away we know not whither.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id107
sentence:
"As for me I live out of the way here with the pigs, and never go to the town unless when Penelope sends for me on the arrival of some news about Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id108
sentence:
Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king 's absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id109
sentence:
For my own part I have never cared about asking anyone else since the time when I was taken in by an Aetolian, who had killed a man and come a long way till at last he reached my station, and I was very kind to him.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id110
sentence:
He said he had seen Ulysses with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id111
sentence:
He said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id112
sentence:
And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has brought you to my door, do not try to flatter me in this way with vain hopes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id113
sentence:
It is not for any such reason that I shall treat you kindly, but only out of respect for Jove the god of hospitality, as fearing him and pitying you."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id114
sentence:
Ulysses answered," I see that you are of an unbelieving mind; I have given you my oath, and yet you will not credit me ;let us then make a bargain, and call all the gods in heaven to witness it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id115
sentence:
If your master comes home, give me a cloak and shirt of good wear, and send me to Dulichium where I want to go; but if he does not come as I say he will, set your men on to me, and tell them to throw me from yonder precipice, as a warning to tramps not to go about the country telling lies."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id116
sentence:
"And a pretty figure I should cut then," replied Eumaeus," both now and hereafter, if I were to kill you after receiving you into my hut and showing you hospitality.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id119
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and presently the swineherds came up with the pigs, which were then shut up for the night in their styes, and a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven into them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id120
sentence:
But Eumaeus called to his men and said," Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id122
sentence:
On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought in a fine fat five year old boar pig, and set it at the altar.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id123
sentence:
Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig 's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id124
sentence:
Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id125
sentence:
Then they cut it up, and Eumaeus began by putting raw pieces from each joint on to some of the fat; these he sprinkled with barley meal, and laid upon the embers; they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces upon the spits and roasted them till they were done; when they had taken them off the spits they threw them on to the dresser in a heap.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id127
sentence:
He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id128
sentence:
He gave Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a mark of especial honour, and Ulysses was much pleased.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id129
sentence:
"I hope, Eumaeus," said he," that Jove will be as well disposed towards you as I am, for the respect you are showing to an outcast like myself."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id130
sentence:
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Eat, my good fellow, and enjoy your supper, such as it is.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id132
sentence:
As he spoke he cut off the first piece and offered it as a burnt sacrifice to the immortal gods; then he made them a drink- offering, put the cup in the hands of Ulysses, and sat down to his own portion.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id133
sentence:
Mesaulius brought them their bread; the swineherd had brought this man on his own account from among the Taphians during his master 's absence, and had paid for him with his own money without saying anything either to his mistress or Laertes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id134
sentence:
They then laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, and when they had had enough to eat and drink, Mesaulius took away what was left of the bread, and they all went to bed after having made a hearty supper.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id136
sentence:
It poured without ceasing, and the wind blew strong from the West, which is a wet quarter ,so Ulysses thought he would see whether Eumaeus, in the excellent care he took of him, would take off his own cloak and give it him, or make one of his men give him one."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id137
sentence:
Listen to me," said he," Eumaeus and the rest of you; when I have said a prayer I will tell you something.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id138
sentence:
It is the wine that makes me talk in this way; wine will make even a wise man fall to singing; it will make him chuckle and dance and say many a word that he had better leave unspoken; still, as I have begun, I will go on.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id140
sentence:
Menelaus and Ulysses were the leaders, but I was in command also, for the other two would have it so.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id141
sentence:
When we had come up to the wall of the city we crouched down beneath our armour and lay there under cover of the reeds and thick brushwood that grew about the swamp.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id142
sentence:
It came on to freeze with a North wind blowing; the snow fell small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were coated thick with rime.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id143
sentence:
The others had all got cloaks and shirts, and slept comfortably enough with their shields about their shoulders, but I had carelessly left my cloak behind me, not thinking that I should be too cold, and had gone off in nothing but my shirt and shield.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id144
sentence:
When the night was two- thirds through and the stars had shifted their places, I nudged Ulysses who was close to me with my elbow, and he at once gave me his ear.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id145
sentence:
"'Ulysses,' said I,' this cold will be the death of me, for I have no cloak; some god fooled me into setting off with nothing on but my shirt, and I do not know what to do.'


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id146
sentence:
"Ulysses, who was as crafty as he was valiant, hit upon the following plan: "'Keep still,' said he in a low voice,' or the others will hear you.'


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id149
sentence:
We are a long way from the ships; I wish some one would go down and tell Agamemnon to send us up more men at once.'


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id150
sentence:
"On this Thoas son of Andraemon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id151
sentence:
Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now people look down upon me because my clothes are shabby."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id152
sentence:
And Eumaeus answered," Old man, you have told us an excellent story, and have said nothing so far but what is quite satisfactory; for the present, therefore, you shall want neither clothing nor anything else that a stranger in distress may reasonably expect, but to- morrow morning you have to shake your own old rags about your body again, for we have not many spare cloaks nor shirts up here, but every man has only one.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id153
sentence:
When Ulysses ' son comes home again he will give you both cloak and shirt, and send you wherever you may want to go."


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id154
sentence:
With this he got up and made a bed for Ulysses by throwing some goatskins and sheepskins on the ground in front of the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id155
sentence:
Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id157
sentence:
But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs, so he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was glad to see that he looked after his property during his master 's absence.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id159
sentence:
He also took the skin of a large and well fed goat, and a javelin in case of attack from men or dogs.


title: homer-odyssey_14
idx: id160
sentence:
Thus equipped he went to his rest where the pigs were camping under an overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the North wind.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id1
sentence:
The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles—Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans—Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id2
sentence:
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id3
sentence:
Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id5
sentence:
It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id6
sentence:
Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant 's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id7
sentence:
"Sons of Atreus," he cried," and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id8
sentence:
On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. "


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id12
sentence:
She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id14
sentence:
Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id15
sentence:
"Hear me," he cried," O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id17
sentence:
If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh- bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id19
sentence:
He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id20
sentence:
He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id21
sentence:
First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id22
sentence:
For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly— moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death- throes and had compassion upon zthem.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id24
sentence:
"Son of Atreus," said he," I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id25
sentence:
Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams( for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id26
sentence:
With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id27
sentence:
He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilius, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id28
sentence:
With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus:— "Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in subjection.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id29
sentence:
A plain man can not stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id31
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Danaan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth— no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id33
sentence:
The god," he said," is angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest 's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id34
sentence:
He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id37
sentence:
His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said," Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id38
sentence:
You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id39
sentence:
I have set my heart on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id40
sentence:
Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id42
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize?


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id44
sentence:
Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we can not disallow the awards that have been made already.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id45
sentence:
Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id48
sentence:
Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id49
sentence:
Let the Achaeans find me a prize in fair exchange to my liking, or I will come and take your own, or that of Ajax or of Ulysses; and he to whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id50
sentence:
But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the anger of the god."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id55
sentence:
They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id57
sentence:
for your pleasure, not ours— to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id58
sentence:
You forget this, and threaten to rob me of the prize for which I have toiled, and which the sons of the Achaeans have given me.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id59
sentence:
Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id60
sentence:
When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id61
sentence:
Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id68
sentence:
I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id69
sentence:
The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id70
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scabbard, Minerva came down from heaven( for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id71
sentence:
Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id77
sentence:
Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you— and it shall surely be— that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id81
sentence:
He stayed his hand on the silver hilt of his sword, and thrust it back into the scabbard as Minerva bade him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id84
sentence:
Wine- bibber," he cried," with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our chosen men in ambuscade.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id87
sentence:
You devour your people, for you are king over a feeble folk; otherwise, son of Atreus, henceforward you would insult no man.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id88
sentence:
Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath— nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains— for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven— so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id89
sentence:
In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id90
sentence:
With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold- bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id91
sentence:
Then uprose smooth- tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id92
sentence:
Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id93
sentence:
With all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:— "Of a truth," he said," a great sorrow has befallen the Achaean land.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id94
sentence:
Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id96
sentence:
Moreover I have been the familiar friend of men even greater than you are, and they did not disregard my counsels.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id97
sentence:
Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id98
sentence:
These were the mightiest men ever born upon this earth: mightiest were they, and when they fought the fiercest tribes of mountain savages they utterly overthrew them.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id99
sentence:
I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id102
sentence:
Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id103
sentence:
You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id104
sentence:
Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id105
sentence:
And Agamemnon answered," Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and master: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id106
sentence:
Granted that the gods have made him a great warrior, have they also given him the right to speak with railing?"


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id110
sentence:
Furthermore I say— and lay my saying to your heart— I shall fight neither you nor any man about this girl, for those that take were those also that gave.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id113
sentence:
When they had quarrelled thus angrily, they rose, and broke up the assembly at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id114
sentence:
The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id118
sentence:
But the son of Atreus bade the people purify themselves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id119
sentence:
Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea- shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id121
sentence:
But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates. "


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id122
sentence:
Go," said he," to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus; take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither; if he will not give her I shall come with others and take her— which will press him harder."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id123
sentence:
He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id125
sentence:
They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said," Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id126
sentence:
Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon 's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id127
sentence:
Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achaeans may fight by their ships in safety."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id129
sentence:
He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans— and the woman was loth to go.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id130
sentence:
Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id131
sentence:
He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother," Mother ,"he cried," you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id134
sentence:
As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id135
sentence:
Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said," My son, why are you weeping?


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id140
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant 's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id141
sentence:
"On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id143
sentence:
Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id144
sentence:
At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id146
sentence:
The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id149
sentence:
Ofttimes in my father 's house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Saturn from ruin, when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id150
sentence:
It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred- handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all- glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id152
sentence:
Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea- shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blindness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id154
sentence:
Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id155
sentence:
For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id156
sentence:
He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id159
sentence:
When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship 's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring- stones and made fast the hawsers.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id160
sentence:
They then got out upon the sea- shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father. "


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id161
sentence:
Chryses," said he," King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id162
sentence:
So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id163
sentence:
They washed their hands and took up the barley- meal to sprinkle over the victims, while Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id164
sentence:
Hear me," he cried," O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id165
sentence:
Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id167
sentence:
When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley- meal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id168
sentence:
They cut out the thigh- bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five- pronged spits in their hands.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id169
sentence:
When the thigh- bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id170
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing- bowl with wine and water and handed it round, after giving every man his drink- offering.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id171
sentence:
Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id173
sentence:
As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id174
sentence:
When they reached the wide- stretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id176
sentence:
He went not to the honourable assembly, and sallied not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the war- cry.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id178
sentence:
Thetis was not unmindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id179
sentence:
She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying:— "Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id181
sentence:
Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id182
sentence:
Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time. "


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id183
sentence:
Incline your head," said she," and promise me surely, or else deny me— for you have nothing to fear— that I may learn how greatly you disdain me."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id184
sentence:
At this Jove was much troubled and answered," I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is always railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id190
sentence:
As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id191
sentence:
When the pair had thus laid their plans, they parted— Jove to his house, while the goddess quitted the splendour of Olympus, and plunged into the depths of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id195
sentence:
But Juno, when she saw him, knew that he and the old merman 's daughter, silver- footed Thetis, had been hatching mischief, so she at once began to upbraid him."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id197
sentence:
You are always settling matters in secret behind my back, and have never yet told me, if you could help it, one word of your intentions."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id200
sentence:
When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id206
sentence:
Still, I have a strong misgiving that the old merman 's daughter Thetis has been talking you over, for she was with you and had hold of your knees this self- same morning.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id207
sentence:
I believe, therefore, that you have been promising her to give glory to Achilles, and to kill much people at the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id210
sentence:
Granted that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id212
sentence:
But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id213
sentence:
"It will be intolerable," said he," if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id215
sentence:
Let me then advise my mother— and she must herself know that it will be better— to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id216
sentence:
If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id219
sentence:
I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id220
sentence:
Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id221
sentence:
All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me."


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id223
sentence:
Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing- bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id224
sentence:
Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every one had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id225
sentence:
Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id226
sentence:
But when the sun 's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them.


title: homer-iliad_01
idx: id227
sentence:
So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id2
sentence:
But when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set stakes, and many had fallen by the hands of the Danaans, the Trojans made a halt on reaching their chariots, routed and pale with fear.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id3
sentence:
Jove now woke on the crests of Ida, where he was lying with golden- throned Juno by his side, and starting to his feet he saw the Trojans and Achaeans, the one thrown into confusion, and the others driving them pell- mell before them with King Neptune in their midst.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id4
sentence:
He saw Hector lying on the ground with his comrades gathered round him, gasping for breath, wandering in mind and vomiting blood, for it was not the feeblest of the Achaeans who struck him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id6
sentence:
"I see, Juno," said he," you mischief- making trickster, that your cunning has stayed Hector from fighting and has caused the rout of his host.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id7
sentence:
I am in half a mind to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the fruits of your scurvy knavery.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id9
sentence:
I fastened two anvils on to your feet, and bound your hands in a chain of gold which none might break, and you hung in mid - air among the clouds.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id10
sentence:
All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold till he came fainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests; but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id11
sentence:
I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id12
sentence:
Juno trembled as he spoke, and said," May heaven above and earth below be my witnesses, with the waters of the river Styx— and this is the most solemn oath that a blessed god can take— nay, I swear also by your own almighty head and by our bridal bed— things over which I could never possibly perjure myself— that Neptune is not punishing Hector and the Trojans and helping the Achaeans through any doing of mine; it is all of his own mere motion because he was sorry to see the Achaeans hard pressed at their ships: if I were advising him, I should tell him to do as you bid him."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id13
sentence:
The sire of gods and men smiled and answered," If you, Juno, were always to support me when we sit in council of the gods, Neptune, like it or no, would soon come round to your and my way of thinking.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id14
sentence:
If, then, you are speaking the truth and mean what you say, go among the rank and file of the gods, and tell Iris and Apollo lord of the bow, that I want them— Iris, that she may go to the Achaean host and tell Neptune to leave off fighting and go home, and Apollo, that he may send Hector again into battle and give him fresh strength; he will thus forget his present sufferings, and drive the Achaeans back in confusion till they fall among the ships of Achilles son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id15
sentence:
Achilles will then send his comrade Patroclus into battle, and Hector will kill him in front of Ilius after he has slain many warriors, and among them my own noble son Sarpedon.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id16
sentence:
Achilles will kill Hector to avenge Patroclus, and from that time I will bring it about that the Achaeans shall persistently drive the Trojans back till they fulfil the counsels of Minerva and take Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id17
sentence:
But I will not stay my anger, nor permit any god to help the Danaans till I have accomplished the desire of the son of Peleus, according to the promise I made by bowing my head on the day when Thetis touched my knees and besought me to give him honour."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id19
sentence:
Swift as the thought of one whose fancy carries him over vast continents, and he says to himself," Now I will be here, or there," and he would have all manner of things— even so swiftly did Juno wing her way till she came to high Olympus and went in among the gods who were gathered in the house of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id20
sentence:
When they saw her they all of them came up to her, and held out their cups to her by way of greeting.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id21
sentence:
She let the others be, but took the cup offered her by lovely Themis, who was first to come running up to her. "


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id26
sentence:
Lead the gods to table, where you and all the immortals can hear the wicked designs which he has avowed.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id27
sentence:
Many a one, mortal and immortal, will be angered by them, however peaceably he may be feasting now."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id30
sentence:
"Fools that we are," she cried," to be thus madly angry with Jove; we keep on wanting to go up to him and stay him by force or by persuasion, but he sits aloof and cares for nobody, for he knows that he is much stronger than any other of the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id31
sentence:
Make the best, therefore, of whatever ills he may choose to send each one of you; Mars, I take it, has had a taste of them already, for his son Ascalaphus has fallen in battle— the man whom of all others he loved most dearly and whose father he owns himself to be."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id32
sentence:
When he heard this Mars smote his two sturdy thighs with the flat of his hands, and said in anger," Do not blame me, you gods that dwell in heaven, if I go to the ships of the Achaeans and avenge the death of my son, even though it end in my being struck by Jove 's lightning and lying in blood and dust among the corpses."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id34
sentence:
On this, Jove would have been roused to still more fierce and implacable enmity against the other immortals, had not Minerva, alarmed for the safety of the gods, sprung from her seat and hurried outside.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id35
sentence:
She tore the helmet from his head and the shield from his shoulders, and she took the bronze spear from his strong hand and set it on one side; then she said to Mars," Madman, you are undone; you have ears that hear not, or you have lost all judgement and understanding; have you not heard what Juno has said on coming straight from the presence of Olympian Jove?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id36
sentence:
Do you wish to go through all kinds of suffering before you are brought back sick and sorry to Olympus, after having caused infinite mischief to all us others?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id37
sentence:
Jove would instantly leave the Trojans and Achaeans to themselves; he would come to Olympus to punish us, and would grip us up one after another, guilty or not guilty.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id38
sentence:
Therefore lay aside your anger for the death of your son; better men than he have either been killed already or will fall hereafter, and one can not protect every one 's whole family."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id41
sentence:
"Jove," she said to them," desires you to go to him at once on Mt. Ida; when you have seen him you are to do as he may then bid you."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id42
sentence:
Thereon Juno left them and resumed her seat inside, while Iris and Apollo made all haste on their way.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id43
sentence:
When they reached many- fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, they found Jove seated on topmost Gargarus with a fragrant cloud encircling his head as with a diadem.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id44
sentence:
They stood before his presence, and he was pleased with them for having been so quick in obeying the orders his wife had given them.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id48
sentence:
If he takes no heed and disobeys me, let him consider well whether he is strong enough to hold his own against me if I attack him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id49
sentence:
I am older and much stronger than he is; yet he is not afraid to set himself up as on a level with myself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id50
sentence:
Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas, even so did she wing her way till she came close up to the great shaker of the earth.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id51
sentence:
Then she said," I have come, O dark- haired king that holds the world in his embrace, to bring you a message from Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id52
sentence:
He bids you leave off fighting, and either join the company of the gods or go down into the sea; if, however, you take no heed and disobey him, he says he will come down here and fight you.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id53
sentence:
He would have you keep out of his reach, for he is older and much stronger than you are, and yet you are not afraid to set yourself up as on a level with himself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id55
sentence:
strong as Jove may be, he has said more than he can do if he has threatened violence against me, who am of like honour with himself.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id58
sentence:
When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Jove; but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id60
sentence:
For all his strength, let him keep to his own third share and be contented without threatening to lay hands upon me as though I were nobody.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id62
sentence:
Iris fleet as the wind then answered," Am I really, Neptune, to take this daring and unyielding message to Jove, or will you reconsider your answer?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id63
sentence:
Sensible people are open to argument, and you know that the Erinyes always range themselves on the side of the older person."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id66
sentence:
Nevertheless it cuts me to the very heart that any one should rebuke so angrily another who is his own peer, and of like empire with himself.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id67
sentence:
Now, however, I will give way in spite of my displeasure; furthermore let me tell you, and I mean what I say— if contrary to the desire of myself, Minerva driver of the spoil, Juno, Mercury, and King Vulcan, Jove spares steep Ilius, and will not let the Achaeans have the great triumph of sacking it, let him understand that he will incur our implacable resentment."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id69
sentence:
Then Jove said to Apollo," Go, dear Phoebus, to Hector, for Neptune who holds the earth in his embrace has now gone down under the sea to avoid the severity of my displeasure.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id70
sentence:
Had he not done so those gods who are below with Saturn would have come to hear of the fight between us.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id71
sentence:
It is better for both of us that he should have curbed his anger and kept out of my reach, for I should have had much trouble with him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id72
sentence:
Take, then, your tasselled aegis, and shake it furiously, so as to set the Achaean heroes in a panic; take, moreover, brave Hector, O Far-


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id73
sentence:
Darter, into your own care, and rouse him to deeds of daring, till the Achaeans are sent flying back to their ships and to the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id74
sentence:
From that point I will think it well over, how the Achaeans may have a respite from their troubles."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id75
sentence:
Apollo obeyed his father 's saying, and left the crests of Ida, flying like a falcon, bane of doves and swiftest of all birds.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id76
sentence:
He found Hector no longer lying upon the ground, but sitting up, for he had just come to himself again.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id77
sentence:
He knew those who were about him, and the sweat and hard breathing had left him from the moment when the will of aegis- bearing Jove had revived him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id78
sentence:
Apollo stood beside him and said," Hector son of Priam, why are you so faint, and why are you here away from the others?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id81
sentence:
Do you not know that Ajax struck me on the chest with a stone as I was killing his comrades at the ships of the Achaeans, and compelled me to leave off fighting?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id83
sentence:
Then King Apollo said to him," Take heart; the son of Saturn has sent you a mighty helper from Ida to stand by you and defend you, even me, Phoebus Apollo of the golden sword, who have been guardian hitherto not only of yourself but of your city.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id87
sentence:
And as a horse, stabled and full- fed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to the place where he is wo nt to take his bath in the river— he tosses his head, and his mane streams over his shoulders as in all the pride of his strength he flies full speed to the pastures where the mares are feeding— even so Hector, when he heard what the god said, urged his horsemen on, and sped forward as fast as his limbs could take him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id88
sentence:
As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat— he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they can not find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase— even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id89
sentence:
Then spoke Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Aetolians, a man who could throw a good throw, and who was staunch also in close fight, while few could surpass him in debate when opinions were divided.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id90
sentence:
He then with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:" What, in heaven 's name, do I now see?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id92
sentence:
Every one made sure he had been killed by Ajax son of Telamon, but it seems that one of the gods has again rescued him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id93
sentence:
He has killed many of us Danaans already, and I take it will yet do so, for the hand of Jove must be with him or he would never dare show himself so masterful in the forefront of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id94
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let us order the main body of our forces to fall back upon the ships, but let those of us who profess to be the flower of the army stand firm, and see whether we can not hold Hector back at the point of our spears as soon as he comes near us; I conceive that he will then think better of it before he tries to charge into the press of the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id96
sentence:
Those who were about Ajax and King Idomeneus, the followers moreover of Teucer, Meriones, and Meges peer of Mars called all their best men about them and sustained the fight against Hector and the Trojans, but the main body fell back upon the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id99
sentence:
He bore aloft the terrible aegis with its shaggy fringe, which Vulcan the smith had given Jove to strike terror into the hearts of men.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id103
sentence:
Many a spear sped from strong hands and fastened in the bodies of many a valiant warrior, while others fell to earth midway, before they could taste of man 's fair flesh and glut themselves with blood.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id104
sentence:
So long as Phoebus Apollo held his aegis quietly and without shaking it, the weapons on either side took effect and the people fell, but when he shook it straight in the face of the Danaans and raised his mighty battle- cry their hearts fainted within them and they forgot their former prowess.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id105
sentence:
As when two wild beasts spring in the dead of night on a herd of cattle or a large flock of sheep when the herdsman is not there— even so were the Danaans struck helpless, for Apollo filled them with panic and gave victory to Hector and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id107
sentence:
Hector killed Stichius and Arcesilaus, the one, leader of the Boeotians, and the other, friend and comrade of Menestheus.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id109
sentence:
The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country, for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id111
sentence:
Polydamas killed Mecisteus, and Polites Echius, in the front of the battle, while Agenor slew Clonius.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id112
sentence:
Paris struck Deiochus from behind in the lower part of the shoulder, as he was flying among the foremost, and the point of the spear went clean through him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id113
sentence:
While they were spoiling these heroes of their armour, the Achaeans were flying pell- mell to the trench and the set stakes, and were forced back within their wall.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id115
sentence:
If I see any man keeping back on the other side the wall away from the ships I will have him killed: his kinsmen and kinswomen shall not give him his dues of fire, but dogs shall tear him in pieces in front of our city."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id116
sentence:
As he spoke he laid his whip about his horses ' shoulders and called to the Trojans throughout their ranks; the Trojans shouted with a cry that rent the air, and kept their horses neck and neck with his own.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id117
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id119
sentence:
He kicked down the wall of the Achaeans as easily as a child who playing on the sea- shore has built a house of sand and then kicks it down again and destroys it— even so did you, O Apollo, shed toil and trouble upon the Argives, filling them with panic and confusion.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id120
sentence:
Thus then were the Achaeans hemmed in at their ships, calling out to one another and raising their hands with loud cries every man to heaven.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id121
sentence:
Nestor of Gerene, tower of strength to the Achaeans, lifted up his hands to the starry firmament of heaven, and prayed more fervently than any of them."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id122
sentence:
Father Jove," said he," if ever any one in wheat- growing Argos burned you fat thigh- bones of sheep or heifer and prayed that he might return safely home, whereon you bowed your head to him in assent, bear it in mind now, and suffer not the Trojans to triumph thus over the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id125
sentence:
As a wave breaking over the bulwarks of a ship when the sea runs high before a gale— for it is the force of the wind that makes the waves so great— even so did the Trojans spring over the wall with a shout, and drive their chariots onwards.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id127
sentence:
the Trojans from their chariots, and the Achaeans climbing up into their ships and wielding the long pikes that were lying on the decks ready for use in a sea- fight, jointed and shod with bronze.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id128
sentence:
Now Patroclus, so long as the Achaeans and Trojans were fighting about the wall, but were not yet within it and at the ships, remained sitting in the tent of good Eurypylus, entertaining him with his conversation and spreading herbs over his wound to ease his pain.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id129
sentence:
When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id131
sentence:
Eurypylus," said he in his dismay," I know you want me badly, but I can not stay with you any longer, for there is hard fighting going on; a servant shall take care of you now, for I must make all speed to Achilles, and induce him to fight if I can; who knows but with heaven 's help I may persuade him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id134
sentence:
The Achaeans stood firm and resisted the attack of the Trojans, yet though these were fewer in number, they could not drive them back from the ships, neither could the Trojans break the Achaean ranks and make their way in among the tents and ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id135
sentence:
As a carpenter 's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship 's timber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts— even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id137
sentence:
Hector could not force Ajax back and fire the ship, nor yet could Ajax drive Hector from the spot to which heaven had brought him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id138
sentence:
Then Ajax struck Caletor son of Clytius in the chest with a spear as he was bringing fire towards the ship.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id140
sentence:
When Hector saw his cousin fallen in front of the ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a jot, but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of his armour now that he has fallen."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id141
sentence:
He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lycophron a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera, but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id142
sentence:
Hector 's spear struck him on the head below the ear, and he fell headlong from the ship 's prow on to the ground with no life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id143
sentence:
Ajax shook with rage and said to his brother," Teucer, my good fellow, our trusty comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to live with us from Cythera and whom we honoured as much as our own parents.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id144
sentence:
Hector has just killed him; fetch your deadly arrows at once and the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id146
sentence:
Forthwith he showered his arrows on the Trojans, and hit Cleitus the son of Pisenor, comrade of Polydamas the noble son of Panthous, with the reins in his hands as he was attending to his horses; he was in the middle of the very thickest part of the fight, doing good service to Hector and the Trojans, but evil had now come upon him, and not one of those who were fain to do so could avert it, for the arrow struck him on the back of the neck.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id148
sentence:
King Polydamas saw what had happened, and was the first to come up to the horses; he gave them in charge to Astynous son of Protiaon, and ordered him to look on, and to keep the horses near at hand.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id150
sentence:
Teucer then aimed another arrow at Hector, and there would have been no more fighting at the ships if he had hit him and killed him then and there: Jove, however, who kept watch over Hector, had his eyes on Teucer, and deprived him of his triumph, by breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim; on this the arrow went astray and the bow fell from his hands.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id151
sentence:
Teucer shook with anger and said to his brother," Alas, see how heaven thwarts us in all we do; it has broken my bowstring and snatched the bow from my hand, though I strung it this selfsame morning that it might serve me for many an arrow."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id152
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon answered," My good fellow, let your bow and your arrows be, for Jove has made them useless in order to spite the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id153
sentence:
Take your spear, lay your shield upon your shoulder, and both fight the Trojans yourself and urge others to do so.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id154
sentence:
They may be successful for the moment but if we fight as we ought they will find it a hard matter to take the ships."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id156
sentence:
He hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders, and on his comely head he set his helmet well wrought with a crest of horse- hair that nodded menacingly above it; he grasped his redoubtable bronze- shod spear, and forthwith he was by the side of Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id157
sentence:
When Hector saw that Teucer 's bow was of no more use to him, he shouted out to the Trojans and Lycians," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, be men, my friends, and show your mettle here at the ships, for I see the weapon of one of their chieftains made useless by the hand of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id158
sentence:
It is easy to see when Jove is helping people and means to help them still further, or again when he is bringing them down and will do nothing for them; he is now on our side, and is going against the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id160
sentence:
If any of you is struck by spear or sword and loses his life, let him die; he dies with honour who dies fighting for his country; and he will leave his wife and children safe behind him, with his house and allotment unplundered if only the Achaeans can be driven back to their own land, they and their ships."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id162
sentence:
Ajax on the other side exhorted his comrades saying," Shame on you Argives, we are now utterly undone, unless we can save ourselves by driving the enemy from our ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id164
sentence:
Can you not hear him cheering on his whole host to fire our fleet, and bidding them remember that they are not at a dance but in battle?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id165
sentence:
Our only course is to fight them with might and main; we had better chance it, life or death, once for all, than fight long and without issue hemmed in at our ships by worse men than ourselves."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id167
sentence:
Hector then killed Schedius son of Perimedes, leader of the Phoceans, and Ajax killed Laodamas captain of foot soldiers and son to Antenor.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id169
sentence:
When Meges saw this he sprang upon him, but Polydamas crouched down, and he missed him, for Apollo would not suffer the son of Panthous to fall in battle; but the spear hit Croesmus in the middle of his chest, whereon he fell heavily to the ground, and Meges stripped him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id170
sentence:
At that moment the valiant soldier Dolops son of Lampus sprang upon Lampus was son of Laomedon and noted for his valour, while his son Dolops was versed in all the ways of war.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id171
sentence:
He then struck the middle of the son of Phyleus ' shield with his spear, setting on him at close quarters, but his good corslet made with plates of metal saved him; Phyleus had brought it from Ephyra and the river Selleis, where his host, King Euphetes, had given it him to wear in battle and protect him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id173
sentence:
Then Meges struck the topmost crest of Dolops 's bronze helmet with his spear and tore away its plume of horse- hair, so that all newly dyed with scarlet as it was it tumbled down into the dust.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id174
sentence:
While he was still fighting and confident of victory, Menelaus came up to help Meges, and got by the side of Dolops unperceived; he then speared him in the shoulder, from behind, and the point, driven so furiously, went through into his chest, whereon he fell headlong.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id175
sentence:
The two then made towards him to strip him of his armour, but Hector called on all his brothers for help, and he especially upbraided brave Melanippus son of Hiketaon, who erewhile used to pasture his herds of cattle in Percote before the war broke out; but when the ships of the Danaans came, he went back to Ilius, where he was eminent among the Trojans, and lived near Priam who treated him as one of his own sons.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id177
sentence:
do you take no note of the death of your kinsman, and do you not see how they are trying to take Dolops 's armour?


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id178
sentence:
Follow me; there must be no fighting the Argives from a distance now, but we must do so in close combat till either we kill them or they take the high wall of Ilius and slay her people."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id181
sentence:
My friends," he cried," be men, and fear dishonour; quit yourselves in battle so as to win respect from one another.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id182
sentence:
Men who respect each other 's good opinion are less likely to be killed than those who do not, but in flight there is neither gain nor glory."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id184
sentence:
They laid his words to heart and hedged the ships as with a wall of bronze, while Jove urged on the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id186
sentence:
"Antilochus," said he," you are young and there is none of the Achaeans more fleet of foot or more valiant than you are.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id188
sentence:
He hurried away when he had thus spurred Antilochus, who at once darted out from the front ranks and aimed a spear, after looking carefully round him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id189
sentence:
The Trojans fell back as he threw, and the dart did not speed from his hand without effect, for it struck Melanippus the proud son of Hiketaon in the breast by the nipple as he was coming forward, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id190
sentence:
Antilochus sprang upon him as a dog springs on a fawn which a hunter has hit as it was breaking away from its covert, and killed it.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id191
sentence:
Even so, O Melanippus, did stalwart Antilochus spring upon you to strip you of your armour; but noble Hector marked him, and came running up to him through the thick of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id192
sentence:
Antilochus, brave soldier though he was, would not stay to face him, but fled like some savage creature which knows it has done wrong, and flies, when it has killed a dog or a man who is herding his cattle, before a body of men can be gathered to attack it.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id193
sentence:
Even so did the son of Nestor fly, and the Trojans and Hector with a cry that rent the air showered their weapons after him; nor did he turn round and stay his flight till he had reached his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id194
sentence:
The Trojans, fierce as lions, were still rushing on towards the ships in fulfilment of the behests of Jove who kept spurring them on to new deeds of daring, while he deadened the courage of the Argives and defeated them by encouraging the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id195
sentence:
For he meant giving glory to Hector son of Priam, and letting him throw fire upon the ships, till he had fulfilled the unrighteous prayer that Thetis had made him; Jove, therefore, bided his time till he should see the glare of a blazing ship.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id196
sentence:
From that hour he was about so to order that the Trojans should be driven back from the ships and to vouchsafe glory to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id197
sentence:
With this purpose he inspired Hector son of Priam, who was eager enough already, to assail the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id198
sentence:
His fury was as that of Mars, or as when a fire is raging in the glades of some dense forest upon the mountains; he foamed at the mouth, his eyes glared under his terrible eye- brows, and his helmet quivered on his temples by reason of the fury with which he fought.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id199
sentence:
Jove from heaven was with him, and though he was but one against many, vouchsafed him victory and glory; for he was doomed to an early death, and already Pallas Minerva was hurrying on the hour of his destruction at the hands of the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id200
sentence:
Now, however, he kept trying to break the ranks of the enemy wherever he could see them thickest, and in the goodliest armour; but do what he might he could not break through them, for they stood as a tower foursquare, or as some high cliff rising from the grey sea that braves the anger of the gale, and of the waves that thunder up against it.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id202
sentence:
As when a wave, raised mountain high by wind and storm, breaks over a ship and covers it deep in foam, the fierce winds roar against the mast, the hearts of the sailors fail them for fear, and they are saved but by a very little from destruction— even so were the hearts of the Achaeans fainting within them.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id203
sentence:
Or as a savage lion attacking a herd of cows while they are feeding by thousands in the low- lying meadows by some wide- watered shore— the herdsman is at his wit 's end how to protect his herd and keeps going about now in the van and now in the rear of his cattle, while the lion springs into the thick of them and fastens on a cow so that they all tremble for fear— even so were the Achaeans utterly panic- stricken by Hector and father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id204
sentence:
Nevertheless Hector only killed Periphetes of Mycenae; he was son of Copreus who was wo nt to take the orders of King Eurystheus to mighty Hercules, but the son was a far better man than the father in every way; he was fleet of foot, a valiant warrior, and in understanding ranked among the foremost men of Mycenae.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id205
sentence:
He it was who then afforded Hector a triumph, for as he was turning back he stumbled against the rim of his shield which reached his feet, and served to keep the javelins off him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id206
sentence:
He tripped against this and fell face upward, his helmet ringing loudly about his head as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id207
sentence:
Hector saw him fall and ran up to him; he then thrust a spear into his chest, and killed him close to his own comrades.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id209
sentence:
They had now reached the ships and the prows of those that had been drawn up first were on every side of them, but the Trojans came pouring after them.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id210
sentence:
The Argives were driven back from the first row of ships, but they made a stand by their tents without being broken up and scattered; shame and fear restrained them.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id211
sentence:
They kept shouting incessantly to one another, and Nestor of Gerene, tower of strength to the Achaeans, was loudest in imploring every man by his parents, and beseeching him to stand firm.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id213
sentence:
Think, all of you, on your children, your wives, your property, and your parents whether these be alive or dead.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id216
sentence:
Minerva lifted the thick veil of darkness from their eyes, and much light fell upon them, alike on the side of the ships and on that where the fight was raging.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id217
sentence:
They could see Hector and all his men, both those in the rear who were taking no part in the battle, and those who were fighting by the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id218
sentence:
Ajax could not bring himself to retreat along with the rest, but strode from deck to deck with a great sea- pike in his hands twelve cubits long and jointed with rings.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id219
sentence:
As a man skilled in feats of horsemanship couples four horses together and comes tearing full speed along the public way from the country into some large town— many both men and women marvel as they see him for he keeps all the time changing his horse, springing from one to another without ever missing his feet while the horses are at a gallop— even so did Ajax go striding from one ship 's deck to another, and his voice went up into the heavens.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id220
sentence:
He kept on shouting his orders to the Danaans and exhorting them to defend their ships and tents; neither did Hector remain within the main body of the Trojan warriors, but as a dun eagle swoops down upon a flock of wild- fowl feeding near a river— geese, it may be, or cranes, or long- necked swans— even so did Hector make straight for a dark- prowed ship, rushing right towards it; for Jove with his mighty hand impelled him forward, and roused his people to follow him.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id222
sentence:
You would have thought the men were coming on fresh and unwearied, so fiercely did they fight; and this was the mind in which they were —the Achaeans did not believe they should escape destruction but thought themselves doomed, while there was not a Trojan but his heart beat high with the hope of firing the ships and putting the Achaean heroes to the sword.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id224
sentence:
Then Hector seized the stern of the good ship that had brought Protesilaus to Troy, but never bore him back to his native land.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id226
sentence:
They did not fight at a distance with bows and javelins, but with one mind hacked at one another in close combat with their mighty swords and spears pointed at both ends; they fought moreover with keen battle- axes and with hatchets.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id227
sentence:
Many a good stout blade hilted and scabbarded with iron, fell from hand or shoulder as they fought, and the earth ran red with blood.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id228
sentence:
Hector, when he had seized the ship, would not loose his hold but held on to its curved stern and shouted to the Trojans," Bring fire, and raise the battle- cry all of you with a single voice.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id229
sentence:
Now has Jove vouchsafed us a day that will pay us for all the rest; this day we shall take the ships which came hither against heaven 's will, and which have caused us such infinite suffering through the cowardice of our councillors, who when I would have done battle at the ships held me back and forbade the host to follow me; if Jove did then indeed warp our judgements, himself now commands me and cheers me on."


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id230
sentence:
As he spoke thus the Trojans sprang yet more fiercely on the Achaeans, and Ajax no longer held his ground, for he was overcome by the darts that were flung at him, and made sure that he was doomed.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id231
sentence:
Therefore he left the raised deck at the stern, and stepped back on to the seven- foot bench of the oarsmen.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id232
sentence:
Here he stood on the look- out, and with his spear held back any Trojan whom he saw bringing fire to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id234
sentence:
My friends," he cried," Danaan heroes, servants of Mars, be men my friends, and fight with might and with main.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id236
sentence:
There is no strong city within reach, whence we may draw fresh forces to turn the scales in our favour.


title: homer-iliad_15
idx: id239
sentence:
As he spoke he wielded his spear with still greater fury, and when any Trojan made towards the ships with fire at Hector 's bidding, he would be on the look- out for him, and drive at him with his long spear.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id1
sentence:
Fire being now thrown on the ship of Protesilaus, Patroclus fights in the armour of Achilles—He drives the Trojans back, but is in the end killed by Euphorbus and Hector.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id3
sentence:
Then Patroclus drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls over the ledges of a high precipice.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id4
sentence:
When Achilles saw him thus weeping he was sorry for him and said," Why, Patroclus, do you stand there weeping like some silly child that comes running to her mother, and begs to be taken up and carried— she catches hold of her mother 's dress to stay her though she is in a hurry, and looks tearfully up until her mother carries her— even such tears, Patroclus, are you now shedding.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id7
sentence:
They tell me Menoetius son of Actor is still alive, as also Peleus son of Aeacus, among the Myrmidons— men whose loss we two should bitterly deplore; or are you grieving about the Argives and the way in which they are being killed at the ships, through their own high- handed doings?


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id9
sentence:
Then, O knight Patroclus, with a deep sigh you answered," Achilles, son of Peleus, foremost champion of the Achaeans, do not be angry, but I weep for the disaster that has now befallen the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id11
sentence:
Brave Diomed son of Tydeus has been hit with a spear, while famed Ulysses and Agamemnon have received sword- wounds; Eurypylus again has been struck with an arrow in the thigh; skilled apothecaries are attending to these heroes, and healing them of their wounds; are you still, O Achilles, so inexorable?


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id12
sentence:
May it never be my lot to nurse such a passion as you have done, to the baning of your own good name.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id14
sentence:
You know no pity; knight Peleus was not your father nor Thetis your mother, but the grey sea bore you and the sheer cliffs begot you, so cruel and remorseless are you.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id15
sentence:
If however you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or if your mother Thetis has told you something from the mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Myrmidons with me, if I may bring deliverance to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id16
sentence:
Let me moreover wear your armour; the Trojans may thus mistake me for you and quit the field, so that the hard- pressed sons of the Achaeans may have breathing time— which while they are fighting may hardly be.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id20
sentence:
I know no prophesyings which I am heeding, nor has my mother told me anything from the mouth of Jove, but I am cut to the very heart that one of my own rank should dare to rob me because he is more powerful than I am.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id22
sentence:
The girl whom the sons of the Achaeans chose for me, whom I won as the fruit of my spear on having sacked a city— her has King Agamemnon taken from me as though I were some common vagrant.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id23
sentence:
Still, let bygones be bygones: no man may keep his anger for ever; I said I would not relent till battle and the cry of war had reached my own ships; nevertheless, now gird my armour about your shoulders, and lead the Myrmidons to battle, for the dark cloud of Trojans has burst furiously over our fleet; the Argives are driven back on to the beach, cooped within a narrow space, and the whole people of Troy has taken heart to sally out against them, because they see not the visor of my helmet gleaming near them.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id24
sentence:
Had they seen this, there would not have been a creek nor grip that had not been filled with their dead as they fled back again.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id27
sentence:
Diomed son of Tydeus no longer wields his spear to defend the Danaans, neither have I heard the voice of the son of Atreus coming from his hated head, whereas that of murderous Hector rings in my cars as he gives orders to the Trojans, who triumph over the Achaeans and fill the whole plain with their cry of battle.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id28
sentence:
But even so, Patroclus, fall upon them and save the fleet, lest the Trojans fire it and prevent us from being able to return.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id29
sentence:
Do, however, as I now bid you, that you may win me great honour from all the Danaans, and that they may restore the girl to me again and give me rich gifts into the bargain.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id31
sentence:
Though Juno 's thundering husband should put triumph within your reach, do not fight the Trojans further in my absence, or you will rob me of glory that should be mine.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id32
sentence:
And do not for lust of battle go on killing the Trojans nor lead the Achaeans on to Ilius, lest one of the ever- living gods from Olympus attack you— for Phoebus Apollo loves them well :return when you have freed the ships from peril, and let others wage war upon the plain.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id33
sentence:
Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that not a single man of all the Trojans might be left alive, nor yet of the Argives, but that we two might be alone left to tear aside the mantle that veils the brow of Troy."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id35
sentence:
But Ajax could no longer hold his ground for the shower of darts that rained upon him; the will of Jove and the javelins of the Trojans were too much for him; the helmet that gleamed about his temples rang with the continuous clatter of the missiles that kept pouring on to it and on to the cheek- pieces that protected his face.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id36
sentence:
Moreover his left shoulder was tired with having held his shield so long, yet for all this, let fly at him as they would, they could not make him give ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id37
sentence:
He could hardly draw his breath, the sweat rained from every pore of his body, he had not a moment 's respite, and on all sides he was beset by danger upon danger.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id38
sentence:
And now, tell me, O Muses that hold your mansions on Olympus, how fire was thrown upon the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id41
sentence:
Ajax, therefore, had now nothing but a headless spear, while the bronze point flew some way off and came ringing down on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id42
sentence:
Ajax knew the hand of heaven in this, and was dismayed at seeing that Jove had now left him utterly defenceless and was willing victory for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id43
sentence:
Therefore he drew back, and the Trojans flung fire upon the ship which was at once wrapped in flame.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id44
sentence:
The fire was now flaring about the ship 's stern, whereon Achilles smote his two thighs and said to Patroclus," Up, noble knight, for I see the glare of hostile fire at our fleet; up, lest they destroy our ships, and there be no way by which we may retreat.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id47
sentence:
First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancle- clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of the son of Aeacus, richly inlaid and studded.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id49
sentence:
On his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought, with a crest of horse- hair that nodded menacingly above it.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id50
sentence:
He grasped two redoubtable spears that suited his hands, but he did not take the spear of noble Achilles, so stout and strong, for none other of the Achaeans could wield it, though Achilles could do so easily.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id51
sentence:
This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus, wherewith to deal out death among heroes.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id52
sentence:
He bade Automedon yoke his horses with all speed ,for he was the man whom he held in honour next after Achilles, and on whose support in battle he could rely most firmly.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id53
sentence:
Automedon therefore yoked the fleet horses Xanthus and Balius, steeds that could fly like the wind: these were they whom the harpy Podarge bore to the west wind, as she was grazing in a meadow by the waters of the river Oceanus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id54
sentence:
In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked the city of Eetion, and who, mortal steed though he was, could take his place along with those that were immortal.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id55
sentence:
Meanwhile Achilles went about everywhere among the tents, and bade his Myrmidons put on their armour.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id56
sentence:
Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a homed stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood— they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter ;they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them— even so did the leaders and counsellors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id59
sentence:
Menesthius of the gleaming corslet, son to the river Spercheius that streams from heaven, was captain of the first company.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id60
sentence:
Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus bore him to ever- flowing Spercheius— a woman mated with a god— but he was called son of Borus son of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id62
sentence:
Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore— Mercury, giver of all good— went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id63
sentence:
When Ilithuia goddess of the pains of child- birth brought him to the light of day, and he saw the face of the sun, mighty Echecles son of Actor took the mother to wife, and gave great wealth to gain her, but her father Phylas brought the child up, and took care of him, doting as fondly upon him as though he were his own son.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id64
sentence:
The third company was led by Pisander son of Maemalus, the finest spearman among all the Myrmidons next to Achilles ' own comrade Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id65
sentence:
The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id66
sentence:
When Achilles had chosen his men and had stationed them all with their captains, he charged them straitly saying," Myrmidons, remember your threats against the Trojans while you were at the ships in the time of my anger, and you were all complaining of me.'


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id67
sentence:
Cruel son of Peleus,' you would say,' your mother must have suckled you on gall, so ruthless are you.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id68
sentence:
You keep us here at the ships against our will; if you are so relentless it were better we went home over the sea.'


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id70
sentence:
The hour is now come for those high feats of arms that you have so long been pining for, therefore keep high hearts each one of you to do battle with the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id71
sentence:
With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and they serried their companies yet more closely when they heard the words of their king.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id72
sentence:
As the stones which a builder sets in the wall of some high house which is to give shelter from the winds— even so closely were the helmets and bossed shields set against one another.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id73
sentence:
Shield pressed on shield, helm on helm, and man on man; so close were they that the horse- hair plumes on the gleaming ridges of their helmets touched each other as they bent their heads.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id74
sentence:
In front of them all two men put on their armour— Patroclus and Automedon— two men, with but one mind to lead the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id75
sentence:
Then Achilles went inside his tent and opened the lid of the strong chest which silver- footed Thetis had given him to take on board ship, and which she had filled with shirts, cloaks to keep out the cold, and good thick rugs.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id76
sentence:
In this chest he had a cup of rare workmanship, from which no man but himself might drink, nor would he make offering from it to any other god save only to father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id77
sentence:
He took the cup from the chest and cleansed it with sulphur; this done he rinsed it clean water, and after he had washed his hands he drew wine.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id78
sentence:
Then he stood in the middle of the court and prayed, looking towards heaven, and making his drink- offering of wine; nor was he unseen of Jove whose joy is in thunder."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id79
sentence:
King Jove," he cried," lord of Dodona, god of the Pelasgi, who dwellest afar, you who hold wintry Dodona in your sway, where your prophets the Selli dwell around you with their feet unwashed and their couches made upon the ground— if you heard me when I prayed to you aforetime, and did me honour while you sent disaster on the Achaeans, vouchsafe me now the fulfilment of yet this further prayer.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id80
sentence:
I shall stay here where my ships are lying, but I shall send my comrade into battle at the head of many Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id81
sentence:
Grant, O all- seeing Jove, that victory may go with him; put your courage into his heart that Hector may learn whether my squire is man enough to fight alone, or whether his might is only then so indomitable when I myself enter the turmoil of war.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id82
sentence:
Afterwards when he has chased the fight and the cry of battle from the ships, grant that he may return unharmed, with his armour and his comrades, fighters in close combat."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id85
sentence:
He granted that Patroclus should thrust back war and battle from the ships, but refused to let him come safely out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id86
sentence:
When he had made his drink- offering and had thus prayed, Achilles went inside his tent and put back the cup into his chest.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id87
sentence:
Then he again came out, for he still loved to look upon the fierce fight that raged between the Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id88
sentence:
Meanwhile the armed band that was about Patroclus marched on till they sprang high in hope upon the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id89
sentence:
They came swarming out like wasps whose nests are by the roadside, and whom silly children love to tease, whereon any one who happens to be passing may get stung— or again, if a wayfarer going along the road vexes them by accident, every wasp will come flying out in a fury to defend his little ones— even with such rage and courage did the Myrmidons swarm from their ships, and their cry of battle rose heavenwards.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id90
sentence:
Patroclus called out to his men at the top of his voice," Myrmidons, followers of Achilles son of Peleus, be men my friends, fight with might and with main, that we may win glory for the son of Peleus, who is far the foremost man at the ships of the Argives— he, and his close fighting followers.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id91
sentence:
The son of Atreus King Agamemnon will thus learn his folly in showing no respect to the bravest of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id93
sentence:
The ships rang again with the cry which the Achaeans raised, and when the Trojans saw the brave son of Menoetius and his squire all gleaming in their armour, they were daunted and their battalions were thrown into confusion, for they thought the fleet son of Peleus must now have put aside his anger, and have been reconciled to Agamemnon; every one, therefore, looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id94
sentence:
Patroclus first aimed a spear into the middle of the press where men were packed most closely, by the stern of the ship of Protesilaus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id95
sentence:
He hit Pyraechmes who had led his Paeonian horsemen from the Amydon and the broad waters of the river Axius; the spear struck him on the right shoulder, and with a groan he fell backwards in the dust; on this his men were thrown into confusion, for by killing their leader, who was the finest soldier among them, Patroclus struck panic into them all.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id96
sentence:
He thus drove them from the ship and quenched the fire that was then blazing— leaving the half- burnt ship to lie where it was.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id97
sentence:
The Trojans were now driven back with a shout that rent the skies, while the Danaans poured after them from their ships, shouting also without ceasing.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id98
sentence:
As when Jove, gatherer of the thunder- cloud, spreads a dense canopy on the top of some lofty mountain, and all the peaks, the jutting headlands, and forest glades show out in the great light that flashes from the bursting heavens, even so when the Danaans had now driven back the fire from their ships, they took breath for a little while; but the fury of the fight was not yet over, for the Trojans were not driven back in utter rout, but still gave battle, and were ousted from their ground only by sheer fighting.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id99
sentence:
The fight then became more scattered, and the chieftains killed one another when and how they could.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id100
sentence:
The valiant son of Menoetius first drove his spear into the thigh of Areilycus just as he was turning round; the point went clean through, and broke the bone so that he fell forward.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id101
sentence:
Meanwhile Menelaus struck Thoas in the chest, where it was exposed near the rim of his shield, and he fell dead.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id102
sentence:
The son of Phyleus saw Amphiclus about to attack him, and ere he could do so took aim at the upper part of his thigh, where the muscles are thicker than in any other part; the spear tore through all the sinews of the leg, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id103
sentence:
Of the sons of Nestor one, Antilochus, speared Atymnius, driving the point of the spear through his throat, and down he fell.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id104
sentence:
Maris then sprang on Antilochus in hand- to- hand fight to avenge his brother, and bestrode the body spear in hand; but valiant Thrasymedes was too quick for him, and in a moment had struck him in the shoulder


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id105
sentence:
ere he could deal his blow; his aim was true, and the spear severed all the muscles at the root of his arm, and tore them right down to the bone, so he fell heavily to the ground and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id106
sentence:
Thus did these two noble comrades of Sarpedon go down to Erebus slain by the two sons of Nestor; they were the warrior sons of Amisodorus, who had reared the invincible Chimaera, to the bane of many.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id107
sentence:
Ajax son of Oileus sprang on Cleobulus and took him alive as he was entangled in the crush; but he killed him then and there by a sword- blow on the neck.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id108
sentence:
The sword reeked with his blood, while dark death and the strong hand of fate gripped him and closed his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id111
sentence:
Lycon struck the plumed crest of Peneleos ' helmet but his sword broke at the hilt, while Peneleos smote Lycon on the neck under the ear.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id112
sentence:
The blade sank so deep that the head was held on by nothing but the skin, and there was no more life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id113
sentence:
Meriones gave chase to Acamas on foot and caught him up just as he was about to mount his chariot; he drove a spear through his right shoulder so that he fell headlong from the car, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id114
sentence:
Idomeneus speared Erymas in the mouth; the bronze point of the spear went clean through it beneath the brain, crashing in among the white bones and smashing them up.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id115
sentence:
His teeth were all of them knocked out and the blood came gushing in a stream from both his eyes; it also came gurgling up from his mouth and nostrils, and the darkness of death enfolded him round about.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id117
sentence:
As ravening wolves seize on kids or lambs, fastening on them when they are alone on the hillsides and have strayed from the main flock through the carelessness of the shepherd— and when the wolves see this they pounce upon them at once because they can not defend themselves— even so did the Danaans now fall on the Trojans, who fled with ill- omened cries in their panic and had no more fight left in them.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id118
sentence:
Meanwhile great Ajax kept on trying to drive a spear into Hector, but Hector was so skilful that he held his broad shoulders well under cover of his ox- hide shield, ever on the look- out for the whizzing of the arrows and the heavy thud of the spears.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id119
sentence:
He well knew that the fortunes of the day had changed, but still stood his ground and tried to protect his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id120
sentence:
As when a cloud goes up into heaven from Olympus, rising out of a clear sky when Jove is brewing a gale— even with such panic stricken rout did the Trojans now fly, and there was no order in their going.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id121
sentence:
Hector 's fleet horses bore him and his armour out of the fight, and he left the Trojan host penned in by the deep trench against their will.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id122
sentence:
Many a yoke of horses snapped the pole of their chariots in the trench and left their master 's car behind them.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id123
sentence:
Patroclus gave chase, calling impetuously on the Danaans and full of fury against the Trojans, who, being now no longer in a body, filled all the ways with their cries of panic and rout; the air was darkened with the clouds of dust they raised, and the horses strained every nerve in their flight from the tents and ships towards the city.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id124
sentence:
Patroclus kept on heading his horses wherever he saw most men flying in confusion, cheering on his men the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id125
sentence:
Chariots were being smashed in all directions, and many a man came tumbling down from his own car to fall beneath the wheels of that of Patroclus, whose immortal steeds, given by the gods to Peleus, sprang over the trench at a bound as they sped onward.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id126
sentence:
He was intent on trying to get near Hector, for he had set his heart on spearing him, but Hector 's horses were now hurrying him away.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id127
sentence:
As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and driving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven— all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men— even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id129
sentence:
They were doing their best to reach the city, but he would not let them, and bore down on them between the river and the ships and wall.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id131
sentence:
First he hit Pronous with a spear on the chest where it was exposed near the rim of his shield, and he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id132
sentence:
Next he sprang on Thestor son of Enops, who was sitting all huddled up in his chariot, for he had lost his head and the reins had been torn out of his hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id133
sentence:
Patroclus went up to him and drove a spear into his right jaw; he thus hooked him by the teeth and the spear pulled him over the rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line— even so with his spear did he pull Thestor all gaping from his chariot; he then threw him down on his face and he died while falling.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id134
sentence:
On this, as Erylaus was on coming to attack him, he struck him full on the head with a stone, and his brains were all battered inside his helmet, whereon he fell headlong to the ground and the pangs of death took hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id135
sentence:
Then he laid low, one after the other, Erymas, Amphoterus, Epaltes, Tlepolemus, Echius son of Damastor, Pyris, Ipheus, Euippus and Polymelus son of Argeas.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id136
sentence:
Now when Sarpedon saw his comrades, men who wore ungirdled tunics, being overcome by Patroclus son of Menoetius, he rebuked the Lycians saying.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id138
sentence:
Show your mettle; I will myself meet this man in fight and learn who it is that is so masterful; he has done us much hurt, and has stretched many a brave man upon the ground."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id139
sentence:
He sprang from his chariot as he spoke, and Patroclus, when he saw this, leaped on to the ground also.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id140
sentence:
The two then rushed at one another with loud cries like eagle- beaked crook- taloned vultures that scream and tear at one another in some high mountain fastness.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id141
sentence:
The son of scheming Saturn looked down upon them in pity and said to Juno who was his wife and sister," Alas, that it should be the lot of Sarpedon whom I love so dearly to perish by the hand of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id142
sentence:
I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia, or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Menoetius."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id146
sentence:
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, that if you send Sarpedon safely to his own home, some other of the gods will be also wanting to escort his son out of battle, for there are many sons of gods fighting round the city of Troy, and you will make every one jealous.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id147
sentence:
If, however, you are fond of him and pity him, let him indeed fall by the hand of Patroclus, but as soon as the life is gone out of him, send Death and sweet Sleep to bear him off the field and take him to the broad lands of Lycia, where his brothers and his kinsmen will bury him with mound and pillar, in due honour to the dead."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id148
sentence:
The sire of gods and men assented, but he shed a rain of blood upon the earth in honour of his son whom Patroclus was about to kill on the rich plain of Troy far from his home.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id149
sentence:
When they were now come close to one another Patroclus struck Thrasydemus, the brave squire of Sarpedon, in the lower part of the belly, and killed him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id150
sentence:
Sarpedon then aimed a spear at Patroclus and missed him, but he struck the horse Pedasus in the right shoulder, and it screamed aloud as it lay, groaning in the dust until the life went out of it.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id151
sentence:
The other two horses began to plunge; the pole of the chariot cracked and they got entangled in the reins through the fall of the horse that was yoked along with them; but Automedon knew what to do; without the loss of a moment he drew the keen blade that hung by his sturdy thigh and cut the third horse adrift; whereon the other two righted themselves, and pulling hard at the reins again went together into battle.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id152
sentence:
Sarpedon now took a second aim at Patroclus, and again missed him, the point of the spear passed over his left shoulder without hitting him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id153
sentence:
Patroclus then aimed in his turn, and the spear sped not from his hand in vain, for he hit Sarpedon just where the midriff surrounds the ever- beating heart.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id154
sentence:
He fell like some oak or silver poplar or tall pine to which woodmen have laid their axes upon the mountains to make timber for ship- building— even so did he lie stretched at full length in front of his chariot and horses, moaning and clutching at the blood- stained dust.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id155
sentence:
As when a lion springs with a bound upon a herd of cattle and fastens on a great black bull which dies bellowing in its clutches— even so did the leader of the Lycian warriors struggle in death as he fell by the hand of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id156
sentence:
He called on his trusty comrade and said," Glaucus, my brother, hero among heroes, put forth all your strength, fight with might and main, now if ever quit yourself like a valiant soldier.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id157
sentence:
First go about among the Lycian captains and bid them fight for Sarpedon; then yourself also do battle to save my armour from being taken.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id158
sentence:
My name will haunt you henceforth and for ever if the Achaeans rob me of my armour now that I have fallen at their ships.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id161
sentence:
Patroclus planted his heel on his breast and drew the spear from his body, whereon his senses came out along with it, and he drew out both spear- point and Sarpedon 's soul at the same time.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id162
sentence:
Hard by the Myrmidons held his snorting steeds, who were wild with panic at finding themselves deserted by their lords.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id164
sentence:
He had to support his arm with his other hand, being in great pain through the wound which Teucer 's arrow had given him when Teucer was defending the wall as he, Glaucus, was assailing it.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id165
sentence:
Therefore he prayed to far- darting Apollo saying," Hear me O king from your seat, may be in the rich land of Lycia, or may be in Troy, for in all places you can hear the prayer of one who is in distress, as I now am.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id166
sentence:
I have a grievous wound; my hand is aching with pain, there is no staunching the blood, and my whole arm drags by reason of my hurt, so that I can not grasp my sword nor go among my foes and fight them, though our prince, Jove 's son Sarpedon, is slain.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id167
sentence:
Jove defended not his son, do you, therefore, O king, heal me of my wound, ease my pain and grant me strength both to cheer on the Lycians and to fight along with them round the body of him who has fallen."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id170
sentence:
Glaucus perceived this, and was thankful that the mighty god had answered his prayer; forthwith, therefore, he went among the Lycian captains, and bade them come to fight about the body of Sarpedon.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id171
sentence:
From these he strode on among the Trojans to Polydamas son of Panthous and Agenor; he then went in search of Aeneas and Hector, and when he had found them he said," Hector, you have utterly forgotten your allies, who languish here for your sake far from friends and home while you do nothing to support them.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id172
sentence:
Sarpedon leader of the Lycian warriors has fallen— he who was at once the right and might of Lycia; Mars has laid him low by the spear of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id173
sentence:
Stand by him, my friends, and suffer not the Myrmidons to strip him of his armour, nor to treat his body with contumely in revenge for all the Danaans whom we have speared at the ships."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id174
sentence:
As he spoke the Trojans were plunged in extreme and ungovernable grief; for Sarpedon, alien though he was, had been one of the main stays of their city, both as having much people with him, and himself the foremost among them all.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id175
sentence:
Led by Hector, who was infuriated by the fall of Sarpedon, they made instantly for the Danaans with all their might, while the undaunted spirit of Patroclus son of Menoetius cheered on the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id177
sentence:
Ajaxes," said he," may it now please you to show yourselves the men you have always been, or even better— Sarpedon is fallen— he who was first to overleap the wall of the Achaeans; let us take the body and outrage it ;let us strip the armour from his shoulders, and kill his comrades if they try to rescue his body."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id178
sentence:
He spoke to men who of themselves were full eager; both sides, therefore, the Trojans and Lycians on the one hand, and the Myrmidons and Achaeans on the other, strengthened their battalions, and fought desperately about the body of Sarpedon, shouting fiercely the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id179
sentence:
Mighty was the din of their armour as they came together, and Jove shed a thick darkness over the fight, to increase the toil of the battle over the body of his son.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id180
sentence:
At first the Trojans made some headway against the Achaeans, for one of the best men among the Myrmidons was killed, Epeigeus, son of noble Agacles who had erewhile been king in the good city of Budeum; but presently, having killed a valiant kinsman of his own, he took refuge with Peleus and Thetis, who sent him to Ilius the land of noble steeds to fight the Trojans under Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id181
sentence:
Hector now struck him on the head with a stone just as he had caught hold of the body, and his brains inside his helmet were all battered in, so that he fell face foremost upon the body of Sarpedon, and there died.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id182
sentence:
Patroclus was enraged by the death of his comrade, and sped through the front ranks as swiftly as a hawk that swoops down on a flock of daws or starlings.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id183
sentence:
Even so swiftly, O noble knight Patroclus, did you make straight for the Lycians and Trojans to avenge your comrade.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id184
sentence:
Forthwith he struck Sthenelaus the son of Ithaemenes on the neck with a stone, and broke the tendons that join it to the head and spine.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id186
sentence:
As far as a man can throw a javelin when competing for some prize, or even in battle— so far did the Trojans now retreat before the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id187
sentence:
Glaucus, captain of the Lycians, was the first to rally them, by killing Bathycles son of Chalcon who lived in Hellas and was the richest man among the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id188
sentence:
Glaucus turned round suddenly, just as Bathycles who was pursuing him was about to lay hold of him, and drove his spear right into the middle of his chest, whereon he fell heavily to the ground, and the fall of so good a man filled the Achaeans with dismay, while the Trojans were exultant, and came up in a body round the corpse.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id190
sentence:
Meriones then killed a helmed warrior of the Trojans, Laogonus son of Onetor, who was priest of Jove of Mt. Ida, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id191
sentence:
Meriones struck him under the jaw and ear, so that life went out of him and the darkness of death laid hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id192
sentence:
Aeneas then aimed a spear at Meriones, hoping to hit him under the shield as he was advancing, but Meriones saw it coming and stooped forward to avoid it, whereon the spear flew past him and the point stuck in the ground, while the butt- end went on quivering till Mars robbed it of its force.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id194
sentence:
Aeneas was angry and said," Meriones, you are a good dancer, but if I had hit you my spear would soon have made an end of you."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id195
sentence:
And Meriones answered," Aeneas, for all your bravery, you will not be able to make an end of every one who comes against you.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id196
sentence:
You are only a mortal like myself, and if I were to hit you in the middle of your shield with my spear, however strong and self- confident you may be, I should soon vanquish you, and you would yield your life to Hades of the noble steeds."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id197
sentence:
On this the son of Menoetius rebuked him and said," Meriones, hero though you be, you should not speak thus; taunting speeches, my good friend, will not make the Trojans draw away from the dead body; some of them must go under ground first; blows for battle, and words for council; fight, therefore, and say nothing."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id199
sentence:
As the sound of woodcutters in some forest glade upon the mountains— and the thud of their axes is heard afar— even such a din now rose from earth- clash of bronze armour and of good ox- hide shields, as men smote each other with their swords and spears pointed at both ends.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id200
sentence:
A man had need of good eyesight now to know Sarpedon, so covered was he from head to foot with spears and blood and dust.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id201
sentence:
Men swarmed about the body, as flies that buzz round the full milk- pails in spring when they are brimming with milk— even so did they gather round Sarpedon; nor did Jove turn his keen eyes away for one moment from the fight, but kept looking at it all the time, for he was settling how best to kill Patroclus, and considering whether Hector should be allowed to end him now in the fight round the body of Sarpedon, and strip him of his armour, or whether he should let him give yet further trouble to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id202
sentence:
In the end, he deemed it best that the brave squire of Achilles son of Peleus should drive Hector and the Trojans back towards the city and take the lives of many.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id203
sentence:
First, therefore, he made Hector turn fainthearted, whereon he mounted his chariot and fled, bidding the other Trojans fly also, for he saw that the scales of Jove had turned against him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id204
sentence:
Neither would the brave Lycians stand firm; they were dismayed when they saw their king lying struck to the heart amid a heap of corpses— for when the son of Saturn made the fight wax hot many had fallen above him.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id205
sentence:
The Achaeans, therefore stripped the gleaming armour from his shoulders and the brave son of Menoetius gave it to his men to take to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id206
sentence:
Then Jove lord of the storm- cloud said to Apollo," Dear Phoebus, go, I pray you, and take Sarpedon out of range of the weapons; cleanse the black blood from off him, and then bear him a long way off where you may wash him in the river, anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him in immortal raiment; this done, commit him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who will carry him straightway to the rich land of Lycia, where his brothers and kinsmen will inter him, and will raise both mound and pillar to his memory, in due honour to the dead."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id208
sentence:
Apollo obeyed his father 's saying, and came down from the heights of Ida into the thick of the fight; forthwith he took Sarpedon out of range of the weapons, and then bore him a long way off, where he washed him in the river, anointed him with ambrosia and clothed him in immortal raiment; this done, he committed him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id209
sentence:
Meanwhile Patroclus, with many a shout to his horses and to Automedon, pursued the Trojans and Lycians in the pride and foolishness of his heart.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id210
sentence:
Had he but obeyed the bidding of the son of Peleus, he would have escaped death and have been scatheless; but the counsels of Jove pass man 's understanding; he will put even a brave man to flight and snatch victory from his grasp, or again he will set him on to fight, as he now did when he put a high spirit into the heart of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id211
sentence:
Who then first, and who last, was slain by you, O Patroclus, when the gods had now called you to meet your doom?


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id212
sentence:
First Adrestus, Autonous, Echeclus, Perimus the son of Megas, Epistor and Melanippus; after these he killed Elasus, Mulius, and Pylartes.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id214
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans would now have taken Troy by the hands of Patroclus, for his spear flew in all directions, had not Phoebus Apollo taken his stand upon the wall to defeat his purpose and to aid the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id215
sentence:
Thrice did Patroclus charge at an angle of the high wall, and thrice did Apollo beat him back, striking his shield with his own immortal hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id216
sentence:
When Patroclus was coming on like a god for yet a fourth time, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said," Draw back, noble Patroclus, it is not your lot to sack the city of the Trojan chieftains, nor yet will it be that of Achilles who is a far better man than you are."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id218
sentence:
Meanwhile Hector was waiting with his horses inside the Scaean gates, in doubt whether to drive out again and go on fighting, or to call the army inside the gates.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id219
sentence:
As he was thus doubting Phoebus Apollo drew near him in the likeness of a young and lusty warrior Asius, who was Hector 's uncle, being own brother to Hecuba, and son of Dymas who lived in Phrygia by the waters of the river Sangarius; in his likeness Jove 's son Apollo now spoke to Hector saying," Hector, why have you left off fighting?


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id222
sentence:
Drive straight towards Patroclus, if so be that Apollo may grant you a triumph over him, and you may rule him."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id223
sentence:
With this the god went back into the hurly- burly, and Hector bade Cebriones drive again into the fight.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id224
sentence:
Apollo passed in among them, and struck panic into the Argives, while he gave triumph to Hector and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id226
sentence:
Patroclus then sprang from his chariot to the ground, with a spear in his left hand, and in his right a jagged stone as large as his hand could hold.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id227
sentence:
He stood still and threw it, nor did it go far without hitting some one; the cast was not in vain, for the stone struck Cebriones, Hector 's charioteer, a bastard son of Priam, as he held the reins in his hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id228
sentence:
The stone hit him on the forehead and drove his brows into his head for the bone was smashed, and his eyes fell to the ground at his feet.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id230
sentence:
Over him did you then vaunt, O knight Patroclus, saying," Bless my heart, how active he is, and how well he dives.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id231
sentence:
If we had been at sea this fellow would have dived from the ship 's side and brought up as many oysters as the whole crew could stomach, even in rough water, for he has dived beautifully off his chariot on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id233
sentence:
As he spoke he flung himself on Cebriones with the spring, as it were, of a lion that while attacking a stockyard is himself struck in the chest, and his courage is his own bane— even so furiously, O Patroclus, did you then spring upon Cebriones.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id236
sentence:
As two lions fight fiercely on some high mountain over the body of a stag that they have killed, even so did these two mighty warriors, Patroclus son of Menoetius and brave Hector, hack and hew at one another over the corpse of Cebriones.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id237
sentence:
Hector would not let him go when he had once got him by the head, while Patroclus kept fast hold of his feet, and a fierce fight raged between the other Danaans and Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id238
sentence:
As the east and south wind buffet one another when they beat upon some dense forest on the mountains— there is beech and ash and spreading cornel; the top of the trees roar as they beat on one another, and one can hear the boughs cracking and breaking— even so did the Trojans and Achaeans spring upon one another and lay about each other, and neither side would give way.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id239
sentence:
Many a pointed spear fell to ground and many a winged arrow sped from its bow- string about the body of Cebriones; many a great stone, moreover, beat on many a shield as they fought around his body, but there he lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless of his driving now.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id240
sentence:
So long as the sun was still high in mid - heaven the weapons of either side were alike deadly, and the people fell; but when he went down towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Achaeans proved to be beyond all forecast stronger, so that they drew Cebriones out of range of the darts and tumult of the Trojans, and stripped the armour from his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id241
sentence:
Then Patroclus sprang like Mars with fierce intent and a terrific shout upon the Trojans, and thrice did he kill nine men; but as he was coming on like a god for a time, then, O Patroclus, was the hour of your end approaching, for Phoebus fought you in fell earnest.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id242
sentence:
Patroclus did not see him as he moved about in the crush, for he was enshrouded in thick darkness, and the god struck him from behind on his back and his broad shoulders with the flat of his hand, so that his eyes turned dizzy.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id243
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo beat the helmet from off his head, and it rolled rattling off under the horses ' feet, where its horse- hair plumes were all begrimed with dust and blood.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id244
sentence:
Never indeed had that helmet fared so before, for it had served to protect the head and comely forehead of the godlike hero Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id247
sentence:
The bronze- shod spear, so great and so strong, was broken in the hand of Patroclus, while his shield that covered him from head to foot fell to the ground as did also the band that held it, and Apollo undid the fastenings of his corslet.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id248
sentence:
On this his mind became clouded; his limbs failed him, and he stood as one dazed; whereon Euphorbus son of Panthous a Dardanian, the best spearman of his time, as also the finest horseman and fleetest runner, came behind him and struck him in the back with a spear, midway between the shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id249
sentence:
This man as soon as ever he had come up with his chariot had dismounted twenty men, so proficient was he in all the arts of war— he it was, O knight Patroclus, that first drove a weapon into you, but he did not quite overpower you.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id250
sentence:
Euphorbus then ran back into the crowd, after drawing his ashen spear out of the wound; he would not stand firm and wait for Patroclus, unarmed though he now was, to attack him; but Patroclus unnerved, alike by the blow the god had given him and by the spear- wound, drew back under cover of his men in fear for his life.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id251
sentence:
Hector on this, seeing him to be wounded and giving ground, forced his way through the ranks, and when close up with him struck him in the lower part of the belly with a spear, driving the bronze point right through it, so that he fell heavily to the ground to the great grief of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id252
sentence:
As when a lion has fought some fierce wild- boar and worsted him— the two fight furiously upon the mountains over some little fountain at which they would both drink, and the lion has beaten the boar till he can hardly breathe— even so did Hector son of Priam take the life of the brave son of Menoetius who had killed so many, striking him from close at hand, and vaunting over him the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id253
sentence:
" Patroclus," said he," you deemed that you should sack our city, rob our Trojan women of their freedom, and carry them off in your ships to your own country.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id255
sentence:
I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id256
sentence:
Poor wretch, Achilles with all his bravery availed you nothing; and yet I ween when you left him he charged you straitly saying,' Come not back to the ships, knight Patroclus, till you have rent the bloodstained shirt of murderous Hector about his body.'


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id258
sentence:
Then, as the life ebbed out of you, you answered, O knight Patroclus:" Hector, vaunt as you will, for Jove the son of Saturn and Apollo have vouchsafed you victory; it is they who have vanquished me so easily, and they who have stripped the armour from my shoulders; had twenty such men as you attacked me, all of them would have fallen before my spear.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id259
sentence:
Fate and the son of Leto have overpowered me, and among mortal men Euphorbus; you are yourself third only in the killing of me.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id260
sentence:
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aeacus."


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id261
sentence:
When he had thus spoken his eyes were closed in death, his soul left his body and flitted down to the house of Hades, mourning its sad fate and bidding farewell to the youth and vigor of its manhood.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id262
sentence:
Dead though he was, Hector still spoke to him saying," Patroclus, why should you thus foretell my doom?


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id264
sentence:
As he spoke he drew the bronze spear from the wound, planting his foot upon the body, which he thrust off and let lie on its back.


title: homer-iliad_16
idx: id265
sentence:
He then went spear in hand after Automedon, squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, for he longed to lay him low, but the immortal steeds which the gods had given as a rich gift to Peleus bore him swiftly from the field.


