# sentences

title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id86
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, they began talking about their poor comrades whom Scylla had snatched up and eaten; this set them weeping and they went on crying till they fell off into a sound sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id87
sentence:
"In the third watch of the night when the stars had shifted their places, Jove raised a great gale of wind that flew a hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id88
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea- nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id89
sentence:
"'My friends,' said I,' we have meat and drink in the ship, let us mind, therefore, and not touch the cattle, or we shall suffer for it; for these cattle and sheep belong to the mighty sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id91
sentence:
"For a whole month the wind blew steadily from the South, and there was no other wind, but only South and East.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id92
sentence:
As long as corn and wine held out the men did not touch the cattle when they were hungry; when, however, they had eaten all there was in the ship, they were forced to go further afield, with hook and line, catching birds, and taking whatever they could lay their hands on; for they were starving.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id93
sentence:
One day, therefore, I went up inland that I might pray heaven to show me some means of getting away.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id94
sentence:
When I had gone far enough to be clear of all my men, and had found a place that was well sheltered from the wind, I washed my hands and prayed to all the gods in Olympus till by and by they sent me off into a sweet sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id95
sentence:
"Meanwhile Eurylochus had been giving evil counsel to the men,' Listen to me,' said he,' my poor comrades.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id98
sentence:
If we ever get back to Ithaca, we can build a fine temple to the sun- god and enrich it with every kind of ornament; if, however, he is determined to sink our ship out of revenge for these homed cattle, and the other gods are of the same mind, I for one would rather drink salt water once for all and have done with it, than be starved to death by inches in such a desert island as this is.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id100
sentence:
Now the cattle, so fair and goodly, were feeding not far from the ship; the men, therefore, drove in the best of them, and they all stood round them saying their prayers, and using young oak- shoots instead of barley- meal, for there was no barley left.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id101
sentence:
When they had done praying they killed the cows and dressed their carcasses; they cut out the thigh bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on top of them.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id102
sentence:
They had no wine with which to make drink- offerings over the sacrifice while it was cooking, so they kept pouring on a little water from time to time while the inward meats were being grilled; then, when the thigh bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small and put the pieces upon the spits.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id105
sentence:
Father Jove,' I exclaimed,' and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss ,you have done me a cruel mischief by the sleep into which you have sent me; see what fine work these men of mine have been making in my absence.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id106
sentence:
"Meanwhile Lampetie went straight off to the sun and told him we had been killing his cows, whereon he flew into a great rage, and said to the immortals,' Father Jove, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Ulysses ' ship: they have had the insolence to kill my cows, which were the one thing I loved to look upon, whether I was going up heaven or down again.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id107
sentence:
If they do not square accounts with me about my cows, I will go down to Hades and shine there among the dead.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id109
sentence:
I will shiver their ship into little pieces with a bolt of white lightning as soon as they get out to sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id111
sentence:
"As soon as I got down to my ship and to the sea shore I rebuked each one of the men separately, but we could see no way out of it, for the cows were dead already.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id112
sentence:
And indeed the gods began at once to show signs and wonders among us, for the hides of the cattle crawled about, and the joints upon the spits began to low like cows, and the meat, whether cooked or raw, kept on making a noise just as cows do.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id113
sentence:
"For six days my men kept driving in the best cows and feasting upon them, but when Jove the son of Saturn had added a seventh day, the fury of the gale abated; we therefore went on board, raised our masts, spread sail, and put out to sea.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id114
sentence:
As soon as we were well away from the island, and could see nothing but sky and sea, the son of Saturn raised a black cloud over our ship, and the sea grew dark beneath it.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id115
sentence:
We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the forestays of the mast so that it fell aft, while all the ship 's gear tumbled about at the bottom of the vessel.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id116
sentence:
The mast fell upon the head of the helmsman in the ship 's stern, so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell overboard as though he were diving, with no more life left in him.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id117
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_12
idx: id118
sentence:
The men all fell 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_12
idx: id119
sentence:
"I stuck to the ship till the sea knocked her sides from her keel( which drifted about by itself) and struck the mast out of her in the direction of the keel; but there was a backstay of stout ox- thong still hanging about it, and with this I lashed the mast and keel together, and getting astride of them was carried wherever the winds chose to take me.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id120
sentence:
"[The gale from the West had now spent its force, and the wind got into the South again, which frightened me lest I should be taken back to the terrible whirlpool of Charybdis.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id121
sentence:
This indeed was what actually happened, for I was borne along by the waves all night, and by sunrise had reached the rock of Scylla, and the whirlpool.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id122
sentence:
She was then sucking down the salt sea water but I was carried aloft toward the fig tree, which I caught hold of and clung on to like a bat.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id123
sentence:
I could not plant my feet anywhere so as to stand securely, for the roots were a long way off and the boughs that overshadowed the whole pool were too high, too vast, and too far apart for me to reach them; so I hung patiently on, waiting till the pool should discharge my mast and raft again— and a very long while it seemed.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id124
sentence:
A jury- man is not more glad to get home to supper, after having been long detained in court by troublesome cases, than I was to see my raft beginning to work its way out of the whirlpool again.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id125
sentence:
At last I let go with my hands and feet, and fell heavily into the sea, hard by my raft on to which I then got, and began to row with my hands.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id126
sentence:
As for Scylla, the father of gods and men would not let her get further sight of me— otherwise I should have certainly been lost.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id127
sentence:
"Hence I was carried along for nine days till on the tenth night the gods stranded me on the Ogygian island, where dwells the great and powerful goddess Calypso.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id128
sentence:
She took me in and was kind to me, but I need say no more about this, for I told you and your noble wife all about it yesterday, and I hate saying the same thing over and over again."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id2
sentence:
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans in check longer.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id3
sentence:
They had built it to protect their ships, and had dug the trench all round it that it might safeguard both the ships and the rich spoils which they had taken, but they had not offered hecatombs to the gods.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id5
sentence:
So long as Hector lived and Achilles nursed his anger, and so long as the city of Priam remained untaken, the great wall of the Achaeans stood firm; but when the bravest of the Trojans were no more, and many also of the Argives, though some were yet left alive— when, moreover, the city was sacked in the tenth year, and the Argives had gone back with their ships to their own country— then Neptune and Apollo took counsel to destroy the wall, and they turned on to it the streams of all the rivers from Mount Ida into the sea, Rhesus, Heptaporus, Caresus, Rhodius, Grenicus, Aesopus, and goodly Scamander, with Simois, where many a shield and helm had fallen, and many a hero of the race of demigods had bitten the dust.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id6
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo turned the mouths of all these rivers together and made them flow for nine days against the wall, while Jove rained the whole time that he might wash it sooner into the sea.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id7
sentence:
Neptune himself, trident in hand, surveyed the work and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil; he made all level by the mighty stream of the Hellespont, and then when he had swept the wall away he spread a great beach of sand over the place where it had been.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id9
sentence:
This was what Neptune and Apollo were to do in after time; but as yet battle and turmoil were still raging round the wall till its timbers rang under the blows that rained upon them.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id10
sentence:
The Argives, cowed by the scourge of Jove, were hemmed in at their ships in fear of Hector the mighty minister of Rout, who as heretofore fought with the force and fury of a whirlwind.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id11
sentence:
As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form a solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him— his courage is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him; many a time does he charge at his pursuers to scatter them, and they fall back as often as he does so— even so did Hector go about among the host exhorting his men, and cheering them on to cross the trench.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id13
sentence:
They could neither jump it nor cross it, for it had overhanging banks all round upon either side, above which there were the sharp stakes that the sons of the Achaeans had planted so close and strong as a defence against all who would assail it; a horse, therefore, could not get into it and draw his chariot after him, but those who were on foot kept trying their very utmost.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id14
sentence:
Then Polydamas went up to Hector and said," Hector, and you other captains of the Trojans and allies, it is madness for us to try and drive our horses across the trench; it will be very hard to cross, for it is full of sharp stakes, and beyond these there is the wall.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id15
sentence:
Our horses therefore can not get down into it, and would be of no use if they did; moreover it is a narrow place and we should come to harm.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id16
sentence:
If, indeed, great Jove is minded to help the Trojans, and in his anger will utterly destroy the Achaeans, I would myself gladly see them perish now and here far from Argos; but if they should rally and we are driven back from the ships pell- mell into the trench there will be not so much as a man get back to the city to tell the tale.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id17
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let our squires hold our horses by the trench, but let us follow Hector in a body on foot, clad in full armour, and if the day of their doom is at hand the Achaeans will not be able to withstand us."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id18
sentence:
Thus spoke Polydamas and his saying pleased Hector, who sprang in full armour to the ground, and all the other Trojans, when they saw him do so, also left their chariots.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id19
sentence:
Each man then gave his horses over to his charioteer in charge to hold them ready for him at the trench.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id20
sentence:
Then they formed themselves into companies, made themselves ready, and in five bodies followed their leaders.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id21
sentence:
Those that went with Hector and Polydamas were the bravest and most in number, and the most determined to break through the wall and fight at the ships.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id22
sentence:
Cebriones was also joined with them as third in command, for Hector had left his chariot in charge of a less valiant soldier.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id23
sentence:
The next company was led by Paris, Alcathous, and Agenor; the third by Helenus and Deiphobus, two sons of Priam, and with them was the hero Asius— Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whose great black horses of the breed that comes from the river Selleis had brought him from Arisbe.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id24
sentence:
Aeneas, the valiant son of Anchises, led the fourth; he and the two sons of Antenor, Archelochus and Acamas, men well versed in all the arts of war.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id25
sentence:
Sarpedon was captain over the allies, and took with him Glaucus and Asteropaeus whom he deemed most valiant after himself— for he was far the best man of them all.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id26
sentence:
These helped to array one another in their ox- hide shields, and then charged straight at the Danaans, for they felt sure that they would not hold out longer and that they should themselves now fall upon the ships.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id27
sentence:
The rest of the Trojans and their allies now followed the counsel of Polydamas but Asius, son of Hyrtacus, would not leave his horses and his esquire behind him; in his foolhardiness he took them on with him towards the ships, nor did he fail to come by his end in consequence.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id28
sentence:
Nevermore was he to return to wind- beaten Ilius, exulting in his chariot and his horses; ere he could do so, death of ill- omened name had overshadowed him and he had fallen by the spear of Idomeneus the noble son of Deucalion.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id29
sentence:
He had driven towards the left wing of the ships, by which way the Achaeans used to return with their chariots and horses from the plain.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id30
sentence:
Hither he drove and found the gates with their doors opened wide, and the great bar down— for the gatemen kept them open so as to let those of their comrades enter who might be flying towards the ships.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id31
sentence:
Hither of set purpose did he direct his horses, and his men followed him with a loud cry, for they felt sure that the Achaeans would not hold out longer, and that they should now fall upon the ships.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id32
sentence:
Little did they know that at the gates they should find two of the bravest chieftains, proud sons of the fighting Lapithae— the one, Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, and the other Leonteus, peer of murderous Mars.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id33
sentence:
These stood before the gates like two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide- spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain— even so did these two men await the onset of great Asius confidently and without flinching.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id34
sentence:
The Trojans led by him and by Iamenus, Orestes, Adamas the son of Asius, Thoon and Oenomaus, raised a loud cry of battle and made straight for the wall, holding their shields of dry ox-


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id35
sentence:
hide above their heads; for a while the two defenders remained inside and cheered the Achaeans on to stand firm in the defence of their ships; when, however, they saw that the Trojans were attacking the wall, while the Danaans were crying out for help and being routed, they rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, and charging on either side break down the wood all round them tearing it up by the roots, and one can hear the clattering of their tusks, till some one hits them and makes an end of them— even so did the gleaming bronze rattle about their breasts, as the weapons fell upon them; for they fought with great fury, trusting to their own prowess and to those who were on the wall above them.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id37
sentence:
The stones fell thick as the flakes of snow which some fierce blast drives from the dark clouds and showers down in sheets upon the earth— even so fell the weapons from the hands alike of Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id38
sentence:
Helmet and shield rang out as the great stones rained upon them, and Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, in his dismay cried aloud and smote his two thighs. "


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id40
sentence:
I made sure the Argive heroes could not withstand us, whereas like slim- waisted wasps, or bees that have their nests in the rocks by the wayside— they leave not the holes wherein they have built undefended, but fight for their little ones against all who would take them— even so these men, though they be but two, will not be driven from the gates, but stand firm either to slay or be slain."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id42
sentence:
Meanwhile the rest of the Trojans were fighting about the other gates; I, however, am no god to be able to tell about all these things, for the battle raged everywhere about the stone wall as it were a fiery furnace.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id43
sentence:
The Argives, discomfited though they were, were forced to defend their ships, and all the gods who were defending the Achaeans were vexed in spirit; but the Lapithae kept on fighting with might and main.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id44
sentence:
Thereon Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous, hit Damasus with a spear upon his cheek- pierced helmet.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id45
sentence:
The helmet did not protect him, for the point of the spear went through it, and broke the bone, so that the brain inside was scattered about, and he died fighting.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id47
sentence:
Leonteus, of the race of Mars, killed Hippomachus the son of Antimachus by striking him with his spear upon the girdle.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id48
sentence:
He then drew his sword and sprang first upon Antiphates whom he killed in combat, and who fell face upwards on the earth.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id50
sentence:
While they were busy stripping the armour from these heroes, the youths who were led on by Polydamas and Hector( and these were the greater part and the most valiant of those that were trying to break through the wall and fire the ships) were still standing by the trench, uncertain what they should do; for they had seen a sign from heaven when they had essayed to cross it— a soaring eagle that flew skirting the left wing of their host, with a monstrous blood- red snake in its talons still alive and struggling to escape.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id51
sentence:
The snake was still bent on revenge, wriggling and twisting itself backwards till it struck the bird that held it, on the neck and breast; whereon the bird being in pain, let it fall, dropping it into the middle of the host, and then flew down the wind with a sharp cry.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id52
sentence:
The Trojans were struck with terror when they saw the snake, portent of aegis- bearing Jove, writhing in the midst of them, and Polydamas went up to Hector and said," Hector, at our councils of war you are ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well, forsooth, that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at the council board; you would have them support you always: nevertheless I will say what I think will be best; let us not now go on to fight the Danaans at their ships, for I know what will happen if this soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our host with a monstrous blood- red snake in its talons( the snake being still alive) was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id53
sentence:
The eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be— with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us ,still we shall not return in good order by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defence of their ships.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id54
sentence:
Thus would any seer who was expert in these matters, and was trusted by the people, read the portent."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id58
sentence:
You would have me pay no heed to the counsels of Jove, nor to the promises he made me— and he bowed his head in confirmation; you bid me be ruled rather by the flight of wild- fowl.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id59
sentence:
What care I whether they fly towards dawn or dark, and whether they be on my right hand or on my left?


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id63
sentence:
Though we be all of us slain at the ships of the Argives you are not likely to be killed yourself, for you are not steadfast nor courageous.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id64
sentence:
If you will not fight, or would talk others over from doing so, you shall fall forthwith before my spear."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id66
sentence:
Then Jove the lord of thunder sent the blast of a mighty wind from the mountains of Ida, that bore the dust down towards the ships; he thus lulled the Achaeans into security, and gave victory to Hector and to the Trojans, who, trusting to their own might and to the signs he had shown them, essayed to break through the great wall of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id67
sentence:
They tore down the breastworks from the walls, and overthrew the battlements; they upheaved the buttresses, which the Achaeans had set in front of the wall in order to support it; when they had pulled these down they made sure of breaking through the wall, but the Danaans still showed no sign of giving ground; they still fenced the battlements with their shields of ox- hide, and hurled their missiles down upon the foe as soon as any came below the wall.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id68
sentence:
The two Ajaxes went about everywhere on the walls cheering on the Achaeans, giving fair words to some while they spoke sharply to any one whom they saw to be remiss. "


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id69
sentence:
My friends," they cried," Argives one and all— good bad and indifferent, for there was never fight yet, in which all were of equal prowess— there is now work enough, as you very well know, for all of you.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id70
sentence:
See that you none of you turn in flight towards the ships, daunted by the shouting of the foe, but press forward and keep one another in heart, if it may so be that Olympian Jove the lord of lightning will vouchsafe us to repel our foes, and drive them back towards the city."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id72
sentence:
As the flakes that fall thick upon a winter 's day, when Jove is minded to snow and to display these his arrows to mankind— he lulls the wind to rest, and snows hour after hour till he has buried the tops of the high mountains, the headlands that jut into the sea, the grassy plains, and the tilled fields of men; the snow lies deep upon the forelands, and havens of the grey sea, but the waves as they come rolling in stay it that it can come no further, though all else is wrapped as with a mantle, so heavy are the heavens with snow— even thus thickly did the stones fall on one side and on the other, some thrown at the Trojans, and some by the Trojans at the Achaeans; and the whole wall was in an uproar.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id73
sentence:
Still the Trojans and brave Hector would not yet have broken down the gates and the great bar, had not Jove turned his son Sarpedon against the Argives as a lion against a herd of horned cattle.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id74
sentence:
Before him he held his shield of hammered bronze, that the smith had beaten so fair and round, and had lined with ox hides which he had made fast with rivets of gold all round the shield; this he held in front of him, and brandishing his two spears came on like some lion of the wilderness, who has been long famished for want of meat and will dare break even into a well- fenced homestead to try and get at the sheep.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id75
sentence:
He may find the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks with dogs and spears, but he is in no mind to be driven from the fold till he has had a try for it; he will either spring on a sheep and carry it off, or be hit by a spear from some strong hand— even so was Sarpedon fain to attack the wall and break down its battlements.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id76
sentence:
Then he said to Glaucus son of Hippolochus," Glaucus, why in Lycia do we receive especial honour as regards our place at table?


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id77
sentence:
Why are the choicest portions served us and our cups kept brimming, and why do men look up to us as though we were gods?


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id78
sentence:
Moreover we hold a large estate by the banks of the river Xanthus, fair with orchard lawns and wheat- growing land; it becomes us, therefore, to take our stand at the head of all the Lycians and bear the brunt of the fight, that one may say to another,' Our princes in Lycia eat the fat of the land and drink best of wine, but they are fine fellows; they fight well and are ever at the front in battle.'


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id79
sentence:
My good friend, if, when we were once out of this fight, we could escape old age and death thenceforward and forever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him; therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id81
sentence:
Menestheus son of Peteos was dismayed when he saw them, for it was against his part of the wall that they came— bringing destruction with them; he looked along the wall for some chieftain to support his comrades and saw the two Ajaxes, men ever eager for the fray, and Teucer, who had just come from his tent, standing near them; but he could not make his voice heard by shouting to them, so great an uproar was there from crashing shields and helmets and the battering of gates with a din which reached the skies.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id82
sentence:
For all the gates had been closed, and the Trojans were hammering at them to try and break their way through them.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id84
sentence:
Run, good Thootes," he said," and call Ajax, or better still bid both come, for it will be all over with us here directly; the leaders of the Lycians are upon us, men who have ever fought desperately heretofore.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id85
sentence:
But if they have too much on their hands to let them come, at any rate let Ajax son of Telamon do so, and let Teucer, the famous bowman, come with him."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id87
sentence:
When he reached the Ajaxes he said to them," Sirs, princes of the Argives, the son of noble Peteos bids you come to him for a while and help him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id88
sentence:
You had better both come if you can, or it will be all over with him directly; the leaders of the Lycians are upon him, men who have ever fought desperately heretofore; if you have too much on your hands to let both come, at any rate let Ajax, son of Telamon, do so, and let Teucer, the famous bowman, come with him."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id90
sentence:
Ajax," said he," do you two, yourself and brave Lycomedes, stay here and keep the Danaans in heart to fight their hardest.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id91
sentence:
I will go over yonder, and bear my part in the fray, but I will come back here at once as soon as I have given them the help they need."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id92
sentence:
With this, Ajax son of Telamon set off, and Teucer, his brother by the same father, went also, with Pandion to carry Teucer 's bow.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id93
sentence:
They went along inside the wall, and when they came to the tower where Menestheus was( and hard pressed indeed did they find him) the brave captains and leaders of the Lycians were storming the battlements as it were a thick dark cloud, fighting in close quarters, and raising the battle- cry aloud.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id94
sentence:
First, Ajax son of Telamon killed brave Epicles, a comrade of Sarpedon, hitting him with a jagged stone that lay by the battlements at the very top of the wall.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id95
sentence:
As men now are, even one who is in the bloom of youth could hardly lift it with his two hands, but Ajax raised it high aloft and flung it down, smashing Epicles ' four- crested helmet so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell from the high wall as though he were diving, with no more life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id98
sentence:
Thereon he sprang covertly down for fear some of the Achaeans might see that he was wounded and taunt him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id99
sentence:
Sarpedon was stung with grief when he saw Glaucus leave him, still he did not leave off fighting, but aimed his spear at Alcmaon the son of Thestor and hit him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id100
sentence:
He drew his spear back again and Alcmaon came down headlong after it with his bronzed armour rattling round him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id101
sentence:
Then Sarpedon seized the battlement in his strong hands, and tugged at it till it all gave way together, and a breach was made through which many might pass.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id103
sentence:
Teucer hit him with an arrow on the band that bore the shield which covered his body, but Jove saved his son from destruction that he might not fall by the ships ' sterns.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id104
sentence:
Meanwhile Ajax sprang on him and pierced his shield, but the spear did not go clean through, though it hustled him back that he could come on no further.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id105
sentence:
He therefore retired a little space from the battlement, yet without losing all his ground, for he still thought to cover himself with glory.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id109
sentence:
The Lycians, shamed by his rebuke, pressed closer round him who was their counsellor and their king.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id110
sentence:
The Argives on their part got their men in fighting order within the wall, and there was a deadly struggle between them.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id111
sentence:
The Lycians could not break through the wall and force their way to the ships, nor could the Danaans drive the Lycians from the wall now that they had once reached it.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id112
sentence:
As two men, measuring- rods in hand, quarrel about their boundaries in a field that they own in common, and stickle for their rights though they be but in a mere strip, even so did the battlements now serve as a bone of contention, and they beat one another 's round shields for their possession.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id113
sentence:
Many a man 's body was wounded with the pitiless bronze, as he turned round and bared his back to the foe, and many were struck clean through their shields; the wall and battlements were everywhere deluged with the blood alike of Trojans and of Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id114
sentence:
But even so the Trojans could not rout the Achaeans, who still held on; and as some honest hard- working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id115
sentence:
When he had done so, he cried aloud to the Trojans," Up, Trojans, break the wall of the Argives, and fling fire upon their ships."


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id116
sentence:
Thus did he hound them on, and in one body they rushed straight at the wall as he had bidden them, and scaled the battlements with sharp spears in their hands.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id117
sentence:
Hector laid hold of a stone that lay just outside the gates and was thick at one end but pointed at the other; two of the best men in a town, as men now are, could hardly raise it from the ground and put it on to a waggon, but Hector lifted it quite easily by himself, for the son of scheming Saturn made it light for him.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id118
sentence:
As a shepherd picks up a ram 's fleece with one hand and finds it no burden, so easily did Hector lift the great stone and drive it right at the doors that closed the gates so strong and so firmly set.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id119
sentence:
These doors were double and high, and were kept closed by two cross - bars to which there was but one key.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id120
sentence:
When he had got close up to them, Hector strode towards them that his blow might gain in force and struck them in the middle, leaning his whole weight against them.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id122
sentence:
The portals re - echoed with the sound, the bars held no longer, and the doors flew open, one one way, and the other the other, through the force of the blow.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id125
sentence:
None but a god could have withstood him as he flung himself into the gateway, and his eyes glared like fire.


title: homer-iliad_12
idx: id126
sentence:
Then he turned round towards the Trojans and called on them to scale the wall, and they did as he bade them— some of them at once climbing over the wall, while others passed through the gates.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id2
sentence:
So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Phaeacians— a people who used to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id3
sentence:
Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id4
sentence:
He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id6
sentence:
She went straight to the beautifully decorated bedroom in which there slept a girl who was as lovely as a goddess, Nausicaa, daughter to King Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id7
sentence:
Two maid servants were sleeping near her, both very pretty, one on either side of the doorway, which was closed with well made folding doors.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id8
sentence:
Minerva took the form of the famous sea captain Dymas 's daughter, who was a bosom friend of Nausicaa and just her own age; then, coming up to the girl 's bedside like a breath of wind, she hovered over her head and said: "Nausicaa, what can your mother have been about, to have such a lazy daughter?


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id9
sentence:
Here are your clothes all lying in disorder, yet you are going to be married almost immediately, and should not only be well dressed yourself, but should find good clothes for those who attend you.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id12
sentence:
I will come and help you so that you may have everything ready as soon as possible, for all the best young men among your own people are courting you, and you are not going to remain a maid much longer.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id13
sentence:
Ask your father, therefore, to have a waggon and mules ready for us at daybreak, to take the rugs, robes, and girdles, and you can ride, too, which will be much pleasanter for you than walking, for the washing- cisterns are some way from the town."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id14
sentence:
When she had said this Minerva went away to Olympus, which they say is the everlasting home of the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id15
sentence:
Here no wind beats roughly, and neither rain nor snow can fall; but it abides in everlasting sunshine and in a great peacefulness of light, wherein the blessed gods are illumined for ever and ever.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id17
sentence:
By and by morning came and woke Nausicaa, who began wondering about her dream; she therefore went to the other end of the house to tell her father and mother all about it, and found them in their own room.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id18
sentence:
Her mother was sitting by the fireside spinning her purple yarn with her maids around her, and she happened to catch her father just as he was going out to attend a meeting of the town council, which the Phaeacian aldermen had convened.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id21
sentence:
You are the chief man here, so it is only right that you should have a clean shirt when you attend meetings of the council.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id22
sentence:
Moreover, you have five sons at home, two of them married, while the other three are good looking bachelors; you know they always like to have clean linen when they go to a dance, and I have been thinking about all this."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id23
sentence:
She did not say a word about her own wedding, for she did not like to, but her father knew and said," You shall have the mules, my love, and whatever else you have a mind for.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id24
sentence:
Be off with you, and the men shall get you a good strong waggon with a body to it that will hold all your clothes."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id25
sentence:
On this he gave his orders to the servants, who got the waggon out, harnessed the mules, and put them to, while the girl brought the clothes down from the linen room and placed them on the waggon.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id26
sentence:
Her mother prepared her a basket of provisions with all sorts of good things, and a goat skin full of wine; the girl now got into the waggon, and her mother gave her also a golden cruse of oil, that she and her women might anoint themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id27
sentence:
Then she took the whip and reins and lashed the mules on, whereon they set off, and their hoofs clattered on the road.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id28
sentence:
They pulled without flagging, and carried not only Nausicaa and her wash of clothes, but the maids also who were with her.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id29
sentence:
When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns, through which there ran at all times enough pure water to wash any quantity of linen, no matter how dirty.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id30
sentence:
Here they unharnessed the mules and turned them out to feed on the sweet juicy herbage that grew by the water side.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id31
sentence:
They took the clothes out of the waggon, put them in the water, and vied with one another in treading them in the pits to get the dirt out.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id32
sentence:
After they had washed them and got them quite clean, they laid them out by the sea side, where the waves had raised a high beach of shingle, and set about washing themselves and anointing themselves with olive oil.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id33
sentence:
Then they got their dinner by the side of the stream, and waited for the sun to finish drying the clothes.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id34
sentence:
When they had done dinner they threw off the veils that covered their heads and began to play at ball, while Nausicaa sang for them.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id35
sentence:
As the huntress Diana goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood nymphs, daughters of Aegis- bearing Jove, take their sport along with her( then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id36
sentence:
When it was time for them to start home, and they were folding the clothes and putting them into the waggon, Minerva began to consider how Ulysses should wake up and see the handsome girl who was to conduct him to the city of the Phaeacians.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id38
sentence:
On this they all shouted, and the noise they made woke Ulysses, who sat up in his bed of leaves and began to wonder what it might all be.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id41
sentence:
I seem to hear the voices of young women, and they sound like those of the nymphs that haunt mountain tops, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id44
sentence:
As he said this he crept from under his bush, and broke off a bough covered with thick leaves to hide his nakedness.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id45
sentence:
He looked like some lion of the wilderness that stalks about exulting in his strength and defying both wind and rain; his eyes glare as he prowls in quest of oxen, sheep, or deer, for he is famished, and will dare break even into a well fenced homestead, trying to get at the sheep— even such did Ulysses seem to the young women, as he drew near to them all naked as he was, for he was in great want.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id46
sentence:
On seeing one so unkempt and so begrimed with salt water, the others scampered off along the spits that jutted out into the sea, but the daughter of Alcinous stood firm, for Minerva put courage into her heart and took away all fear from her.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id47
sentence:
She stood right in front of Ulysses, and he doubted whether he should go up to her, throw himself at her feet, and embrace her knees as a suppliant, or stay where he was and entreat her to give him some clothes and show him the way to the town.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id48
sentence:
In the end he deemed it best to entreat her from a distance in case the girl should take offence at his coming near enough to clasp her knees, so he addressed her in honeyed and persuasive language.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id50
sentence:
If you are a goddess and dwell in heaven, I can only conjecture that you are Jove 's daughter Diana, for your face and figure resemble none but hers; if on the other hand you are a mortal and live on earth, thrice happy are your father and mother— thrice happy, too, are your brothers and sisters; how proud and delighted they must feel when they see so fair a scion as yourself going out to a dance; most happy, however, of all will he be whose wedding gifts have been the richest, and who takes you to his own home.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id51
sentence:
I never yet saw any one so beautiful, neither man nor woman, and am lost in admiration as I behold you.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id52
sentence:
I can only compare you to a young palm tree which I saw when I was at Delos growing near the altar of Apollo— for I was there, too, with much people after me, when I was on that journey which has been the source of all my troubles.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id53
sentence:
Never yet did such a young plant shoot out of the ground as that was, and I admired and wondered at it exactly as I now admire and wonder at yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id54
sentence:
I dare not clasp your knees, but I am in great distress; yesterday made the twentieth day that I had been tossing about upon the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id55
sentence:
The winds and waves have taken me all the way from the Ogygian island and now fate has flung me upon this coast that I may endure still further suffering; for I do not think that I have yet come to the end of it, but rather that heaven has still much evil in store for me.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id56
sentence:
"And now, O queen, have pity upon me, for you are the first person I have met, and I know no one else in this country.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id57
sentence:
Show me the way to your town, and let me have anything that you may have brought hither to wrap your clothes in.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id58
sentence:
May heaven grant you in all things your heart 's desire— husband, house, and a happy, peaceful home; for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id59
sentence:
It discomfits their enemies, makes the hearts of their friends glad, and they themselves know more about it than any one."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id61
sentence:
There is no accounting for luck; Jove gives prosperity to rich and poor just as he chooses, so you must take what he has seen fit to send you, and make the best of it.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id62
sentence:
Now, however, that you have come to this our country, you shall not want for clothes nor for anything else that a foreigner in distress may reasonably look for.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id63
sentence:
I will show you the way to the town, and will tell you the name of our people; we are called Phaeacians, and I am daughter to Alcinous, in whom the whole power of the state is vested."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id67
sentence:
Neither he nor any one else can come here to do us Phaeacians any harm, for we are dear to the gods, and live apart on a land 's end that juts into the sounding sea, and have nothing to do with any other people.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id68
sentence:
This is only some poor man who has lost his way, and we must be kind to him, for strangers and foreigners in distress are under Jove 's protection, and will take what they can get and be thankful; so, girls, give the poor fellow something to eat and drink, and wash him in the stream at some place that is sheltered from the wind."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id70
sentence:
They made Ulysses sit down in the shelter as Nausicaa had told them, and brought him a shirt and cloak.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id72
sentence:
But Ulysses said," Young women, please to stand a little on one side that I may wash the brine from my shoulders and anoint myself with oil, for it is long enough since my skin has had a drop of oil upon it.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id75
sentence:
Then they stood on one side and went to tell the girl, while Ulysses washed himself in the stream and scrubbed the brine from his back and from his broad shoulders.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id76
sentence:
When he had thoroughly washed himself, and had got the brine out of his hair, he anointed himself with oil, and put on the clothes which the girl had given him; Minerva then made him look taller and stronger than before, she also made the hair grow thick on the top of his head, and flow down in curls like hyacinth blossoms; she glorified him about the head and shoulders as a skilful workman who has studied art of all kinds under Vulcan and Minerva enriches a piece of silver plate by gilding it— and his work is full of beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id77
sentence:
Then he went and sat down a little way off upon the beach, looking quite young and handsome, and the girl gazed on him with admiration; then she said to her maids: "Hush, my dears, for I want to say something.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id79
sentence:
When I first saw him I thought him plain, but now his appearance is like that of the gods who dwell in heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id80
sentence:
I should like my future husband to be just such another as he is, if he would only stay here and not want to go away.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id82
sentence:
They did as they were told, and set food before Ulysses, who ate and drank ravenously, for it was long since he had had food of any kind.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id84
sentence:
She got the linen folded and placed in the waggon, she then yoked the mules, and, as she took her seat, she called Ulysses: "Stranger," said she," rise and let us be going back to the town; I will introduce you at the house of my excellent father, where I can tell you that you will meet all the best people among the Phaeacians.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id86
sentence:
As long as we are going past the fields and farm lands, follow briskly behind the waggon along with the maids and I will lead the way myself.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id87
sentence:
Presently, however, we shall come to the town, where you will find a high wall running all round it, and a good harbour on either side with a narrow entrance into the city, and the ships will be drawn up by the road side, for every one has a place where his own ship can lie.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id88
sentence:
You will see the market place with a temple of Neptune in the middle of it, and paved with large stones bedded in the earth.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id89
sentence:
Here people deal in ship 's gear of all kinds, such as cables and sails, and here, too, are the places where oars are made, for the Phaeacians are not a nation of archers; they know nothing about bows and arrows, but are a sea- faring folk, and pride themselves on their masts, oars, and ships, with which they travel far over the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id90
sentence:
"I am afraid of the gossip and scandal that may be set on foot against me later on; for the people here are very ill- natured, and some low fellow, if he met us, might say,' Who is this fine- looking stranger that is going about with Nausicaa?


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id93
sentence:
Perhaps he is a vagabond sailor whom she has taken from some foreign vessel, for we have no neighbours; or some god has at last come down from heaven in answer to her prayers, and she is going to live with him all the rest of her life.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id94
sentence:
It would be a good thing if she would take herself off and find a husband somewhere else, for she will not look at one of the many excellent young Phaeacians who are in love with her.'


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id95
sentence:
This is the kind of disparaging remark that would be made about me, and I could not complain, for I should myself be scandalised at seeing any other girl do the like, and go about with men in spite of everybody, while her father and mother were still alive, and without having been married in the face of all the world.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id96
sentence:
"If, therefore, you want my father to give you an escort and to help you home, do as I bid you; you will see a beautiful grove of poplars by the road side dedicated to Minerva; it has a well in it and a meadow all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id97
sentence:
Here my father has a field of rich garden ground, about as far from the town as a man 's voice will carry.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id98
sentence:
Sit down there and wait for a while till the rest of us can get into the town and reach my father 's house.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id99
sentence:
Then, when you think we must have done this, come into the town and ask the way to the house of my father Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id100
sentence:
You will have no difficulty in finding it; any child will point it out to you, for no one else in the whole town has anything like such a fine house as he has.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id101
sentence:
When you have got past the gates and through the outer court, go right across the inner court till you come to my mother.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id103
sentence:
It is a fine sight to see her as she leans back against one of the bearing- posts with her maids all ranged behind her.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id105
sentence:
Never mind him, but go up to my mother, and lay your hands upon her knees if you would get home quickly.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id106
sentence:
If you can gain her over, you may hope to see your own country again, no matter how distant it may be."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id109
sentence:
She was careful not to go too fast for Ulysses and the maids who were following on foot along with the waggon, so she plied her whip with judgement.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id110
sentence:
As the sun was going down they came to the sacred grove of Minerva, and there Ulysses sat down and prayed to the mighty daughter of Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id111
sentence:
"Hear me," he cried," daughter of Aegis- bearing Jove, unweariable, hear me now, for you gave no heed to my prayers when Neptune was wrecking me.


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id112
sentence:
Now, therefore, have pity upon me and grant that I may find friends and be hospitably received by the Phaeacians."


title: homer-odyssey_06
idx: id113
sentence:
Thus did he pray, and Minerva heard his prayer, but she would not show herself to him openly, for she was afraid of her uncle Neptune, who was still furious in his endeavors to prevent Ulysses from getting home.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id2
sentence:
"Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id4
sentence:
Now, Aeolus has six daughters and six lusty sons, so he made the sons marry the daughters, and they all live with their dear father and mother, feasting and enjoying every conceivable kind of luxury.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id5
sentence:
All day long the atmosphere of the house is loaded with the savour of roasting meats till it groans again, yard and all; but by night they sleep on their well made bedsteads, each with his own wife between the blankets.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id7
sentence:
"Aeolus entertained me for a whole month asking me questions all the time about Troy, the Argive fleet, and the return of the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id8
sentence:
I told him exactly how everything had happened, and when I said I must go, and asked him to further me on my way, he made no sort of difficulty, but set about doing so at once.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id9
sentence:
Moreover, he flayed me a prime ox- hide to hold the ways of the roaring winds, which he shut up in the hide as in a sack— for Jove had made him captain over the winds, and he could stir or still each one of them according to his own pleasure.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id10
sentence:
He put the sack in the ship and bound the mouth so tightly with a silver thread that not even a breath of a side- wind could blow from any quarter.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id11
sentence:
The West wind which was fair for us did he alone let blow as it chose; but it all came to nothing, for we were lost through our own folly.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id13
sentence:
We got so close in that we could see the stubble fires burning, and I, being then dead beat, fell into a light sleep, for I had never let the rudder out of my own hands, that we might get home the faster.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id14
sentence:
On this the men fell to talking among themselves, and said I was bringing back gold and silver in the sack that Aeolus had given me.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id15
sentence:
Bless my heart,' would one turn to his neighbour, saying,' how this man gets honoured and makes friends to whatever city or country he may go.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id16
sentence:
See what fine prizes he is taking home from Troy, while we, who have travelled just as far as he has, come back with hands as empty as we set out with— and now Aeolus has given him ever so much more.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id19
sentence:
They loosed the sack, whereupon the wind flew howling forth and raised a storm that carried us weeping out to sea and away from our own country.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id20
sentence:
Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id22
sentence:
Immediately after dinner I took a herald and one of my men and went straight to the house of Aeolus, where I found him feasting with his wife and family; so we sat down as suppliants on the threshold.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id25
sentence:
We took great pains to further you on your way home to Ithaca, or wherever it was that you wanted to go to.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id26
sentence:
"Thus did they speak, but I answered sorrowfully,' My men have undone me; they, and cruel sleep, have ruined me.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id28
sentence:
"I spoke as movingly as I could, but they said nothing, till their father answered,' Vilest of mankind, get you gone at once out of the island; him whom heaven hates will I in no wise help.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id31
sentence:
"Thence we sailed sadly on till the men were worn out with long and fruitless rowing, for there was no longer any wind to help them.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id32
sentence:
Six days, night and day did we toil, and on the seventh day we reached the rocky stronghold of Lamus— Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians, where the shepherd who is driving in his sheep and goats[ to be milked] salutes him who is driving out his flock[ to feed] and this last answers the salute.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id33
sentence:
In that country a man who could do without sleep might earn double wages, one as a herdsman of cattle, and another as a shepherd, for they work much the same by night as they do by day.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id34
sentence:
"When we reached the harbour we found it land- locked under steep cliffs, with a narrow entrance between two headlands.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id35
sentence:
My captains took all their ships inside, and made them fast close to one another, for there was never so much as a breath of wind inside, but it was always dead calm.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id36
sentence:
I kept my own ship outside, and moored it to a rock at the very end of the point; then I climbed a high rock to reconnoitre, but could see no sign neither of man nor cattle, only some smoke rising from the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id38
sentence:
"The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id39
sentence:
She was going to the fountain Artacia from which the people bring in their water, and when my men had come close up to her, they asked her who the king of that country might be, and over what kind of people he ruled; so she directed them to her father 's house, but when they got there they found his wife to be a giantess as huge as a mountain, and they were horrified at the sight of her.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id40
sentence:
"She at once called her husband Antiphates from the place of assembly, and forthwith he set about killing my men.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id41
sentence:
He snatched up one of them, and began to make his dinner off him then and there, whereon the other two ran back to the ships as fast as ever they could.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id42
sentence:
But Antiphates raised a hue- and- cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter— ogres, not men.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id43
sentence:
They threw vast rocks at us from the cliffs as though they had been mere stones, and I heard the horrid sound of the ships crunching up against one another, and the death cries of my men, as the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id44
sentence:
While they were thus killing my men within the harbour I drew my sword, cut the cable of my own ship, and told my men to row with all their might if they too would not fare like the rest; so they laid out for their lives, and we were thankful enough when we got into open water out of reach of the rocks they hurled at us.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id46
sentence:
"Thence we sailed sadly on, glad to have escaped death, though we had lost our comrades, and came to the Aeaean island, where Circe lives— a great and cunning goddess who is own sister to the magician Aeetes— for they are both children of the sun by Perse, who is daughter to Oceanus.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id47
sentence:
We brought our ship into a safe harbour without a word, for some god guided us thither, and having landed we lay there for two days and two nights, worn out in body and mind.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id48
sentence:
When the morning of the third day came I took my spear and my sword, and went away from the ship to reconnoitre, and see if I could discover signs of human handiwork, or hear the sound of voices.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id49
sentence:
Climbing to the top of a high look- out I espied the smoke of Circe 's house rising upwards amid a dense forest of trees, and when I saw this I doubted whether, having seen the smoke, I would not go on at once and find out more, but in the end I deemed it best to go back to the ship, give the men their dinners, and send some of them instead of going myself.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id50
sentence:
"When I had nearly got back to the ship some god took pity upon my solitude, and sent a fine antlered stag right into the middle of my path.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id51
sentence:
He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed I struck him in the middle of the back; the bronze point of the spear went clean through him, and he lay groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id52
sentence:
Then I set my foot upon him, drew my spear from the wound, and laid it down; I also gathered rough grass and rushes and twisted them into a fathom or so of good stout rope, with which I bound the four feet of the noble creature together; having so done I hung him round my neck and walked back to the ship leaning upon my spear, for the stag was much too big for me to be able to carry him on my shoulder, steadying him with one hand.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id53
sentence:
As I threw him down in front of the ship, I called the men and spoke cheeringly man by man to each of them.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id54
sentence:
Look here my friends,' said I,' we are not going to die so much before our time after all, and at any rate we will not starve so long as we have got something to eat and drink on board.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id55
sentence:
On this they uncovered their heads upon the sea shore and admired the stag, for he was indeed a splendid fellow.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id56
sentence:
Then, when they had feasted their eyes upon him sufficiently, they washed their hands and began to cook him for dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id57
sentence:
"Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we stayed there eating and drinking our fill, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped upon the sea shore.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id58
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, I called a council and said,' My friends, we are in very great difficulties; listen therefore to me.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id61
sentence:
We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it lies low, but towards the middle I saw smoke rising from out of a thick forest of trees.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id62
sentence:
"Their hearts sank as they heard me, for they remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates, and by the savage ogre Polyphemus.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id63
sentence:
They wept bitterly in their dismay, but there was nothing to be got by crying, so I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each; I gave one company to Eurylochus, while I took command of the other myself.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id64
sentence:
Then we cast lots in a helmet, and the lot fell upon Eurylochus; so he set out with his twenty- two men, and they wept, as also did we who were left behind.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id65
sentence:
"When they reached Circe 's house they found it built of cut stones, on a site that could be seen from far, in the middle of the forest.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id66
sentence:
There were wild mountain wolves and lions prowling all round it— poor bewitched creatures whom she had tamed by her enchantments and drugged into subjection.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id67
sentence:
They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id68
sentence:
As hounds crowd round their master when they see him coming from dinner— for they know he will bring them something— even so did these wolves and lions with their great claws fawn upon my men, but the men were terribly frightened at seeing such strange creatures.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id69
sentence:
Presently they reached the gates of the goddess 's house, and as they stood there they could hear Circe within, singing most beautifully as she worked at her loom, making a web so fine, so soft, and of such dazzling colours as no one but a goddess could weave.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id70
sentence:
On this Polites, whom I valued and trusted more than any other of my men, said,' There is some one inside working at a loom and singing most beautifully; the whole place resounds with it, let us call her and see whether she is woman or goddess.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id72
sentence:
They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id73
sentence:
When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig- styes.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id74
sentence:
They were like pigs— head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id75
sentence:
"Thus then were they shut up squealing, and Circe threw them some acorns and beech masts such as pigs eat, but Eurylochus hurried back to tell me about the sad fate of our comrades.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id76
sentence:
He was so overcome with dismay that though he tried to speak he could find no words to do so; his eyes filled with tears and he could only sob and sigh, till at last we forced his story out of him, and he told us what had happened to the others.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id77
sentence:
"'We went,' said he,' as you told us, through the forest, and in the middle of it there was a fine house built with cut stones in a place that could be seen from far.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id78
sentence:
There we found a woman, or else she was a goddess, working at her loom and singing sweetly; so the men shouted to her and called her, whereon she at once came down, opened the door, and invited us in.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id79
sentence:
The others did not suspect any mischief so they followed her into the house, but I staid where I was, for I thought there might be some treachery.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id80
sentence:
From that moment I saw them no more, for not one of them ever came out, though I sat a long time watching for them.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id81
sentence:
"Then I took my sword of bronze and slung it over my shoulders; I also took my bow, and told Eurylochus to come back with me and shew me the way.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id82
sentence:
But he laid hold of me with both his hands and spoke piteously, saying,' Sir, do not force me to go with you, but let me stay here, for I know you will not bring one of them back with you, nor even return alive yourself; let us rather see if we can not escape at any rate with the few that are left us, for we may still save our lives.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id83
sentence:
"'Stay where you are, then,' answered I,' eating and drinking at the ship, but I must go, for I am most urgently bound to do so.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id85
sentence:
When I got through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the enchantress Circe, I met Mercury with his golden wand, disguised as a young man in the hey- day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id86
sentence:
He came up to me and took my hand within his own, saying,' My poor unhappy man, whither are you going over this mountain top, alone and without knowing the way?


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id91
sentence:
Take this herb, which is one of great virtue, and keep it about you when you go to Circe 's house, it will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id93
sentence:
She will mix a mess for you to drink, and she will drug the meal with which she makes it, but she will not be able to charm you, for the virtue of the herb that I shall give you will prevent her spells from working.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id95
sentence:
When Circe strikes you with her wand, draw your sword and spring upon her as though you were going to kill her.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id96
sentence:
She will then be frightened, and will desire you to go to bed with her; on this you must not point blank refuse her, for you want her to set your companions free, and to take good care also of yourself, but you must make her swear solemnly by all the blessed gods that she will plot no further mischief against you, or else when she has got you naked she will unman you and make you fit for nothing.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id98
sentence:
The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk; the gods call it Moly, and mortal men can not uproot it, but the gods can do whatever they like.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id99
sentence:
"Then Mercury went back to high Olympus passing over the wooded island; but I fared onward to the house of Circe, and my heart was clouded with care as I walked along.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id100
sentence:
When I got to the gates I stood there and called the goddess, and as soon as she heard me she came down, opened the door, and asked me to come in; so I followed her— much troubled in my mind.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id101
sentence:
She set me on a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver, there was a footstool also under my feet, and she mixed a mess in a golden goblet for me to drink; but she drugged it, for she meant me mischief.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id104
sentence:
"But I rushed at her with my sword drawn as though I would kill her, whereon she fell with a loud scream, clasped my knees, and spoke piteously, saying,' Who and whence are you?


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id107
sentence:
Never yet was any man able to stand so much as a taste of the herb I gave you; you must be spell- proof; surely you can be none other than the bold hero Ulysses, who Mercury always said would come here some day with his ship while on his way home from Troy; so be it then; sheathe your sword and let us go to bed, that we may make friends and learn to trust each other.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id108
sentence:
"And I answered,' Circe, how can you expect me to be friendly with you when you have just been turning all my men into pigs?


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id109
sentence:
And now that you have got me here myself ,you mean me mischief when you ask me to go to bed with you, and will unman me and make me fit for nothing.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id110
sentence:
I shall certainly not consent to go to bed with you unless you will first take your solemn oath to plot no further harm against me.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id111
sentence:
"So she swore at once as I had told her, and when she had completed her oath then I went to bed with her.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id113
sentence:
They are the children of the groves and fountains, and of the holy waters that run down into the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id116
sentence:
A third mixed some sweet wine with water in a silver bowl and put golden cups upon the tables, while the fourth brought in water and set it to boil in a large cauldron over a good fire which she had lighted.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id117
sentence:
When the water in the cauldron was boiling she poured cold into it till it was just as I liked it, and then she set me in a bath and began washing me from the cauldron about the head and shoulders, to take the tire and stiffness out of my limbs.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id118
sentence:
As soon as she had done washing me and anointing me with oil, she arrayed me in a good cloak and shirt and led me to a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver; there was a footstool also under my feet.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id119
sentence:
A maid servant then brought me water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for me to wash my hands, and she drew a clean table beside me; an upper servant brought me bread and offered me many things of what there was in the house, and then Circe bade me eat, but I would not, and sat without heeding what was before me, still moody and suspicious.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id120
sentence:
"When Circe saw me sitting there without eating, and in great grief, she came to me and said,' Ulysses, why do you sit like that as though you were dumb, gnawing at your own heart, and refusing both meat and drink?


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id123
sentence:
"And I said,' Circe, no man with any sense of what is right can think of either eating or drinking in your house until you have set his friends free and let him see them.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id124
sentence:
If you want me to eat and drink, you must free my men and bring them to me that I may see them with my own eyes.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id125
sentence:
"When I had said this she went straight through the court with her wand in her hand and opened the pigstye doors.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id126
sentence:
My men came out like so many prime hogs and stood looking at her, but she went about among them and anointed each with a second drug, whereon the bristles that the bad drug had given them fell off, and they became men again, younger than they were before, and much taller and better looking.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id127
sentence:
They knew me at once, seized me each of them by the hand, and wept for joy till the whole house was filled with the sound of their halloa- ballooing, and Circe herself was so sorry for them that she came up to me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, go back at once to the sea where you have left your ship, and first draw it on to the land.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id129
sentence:
"I agreed to this, so I went back to the sea shore, and found the men at the ship weeping and wailing most piteously.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id130
sentence:
When they saw me the silly blubbering fellows began frisking round me as calves break out and gambol round their mothers, when they see them coming home to be milked after they have been feeding all day, and the homestead resounds with their lowing.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id131
sentence:
They seemed as glad to see me as though they had got back to their own rugged Ithaca, where they had been born and bred.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id132
sentence:
Sir,' said the affectionate creatures,' we are as glad to see you back as though we had got safe home to Ithaca; but tell us all about the fate of our comrades.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id133
sentence:
"I spoke comfortingly to them and said,' We must draw our ship on to the land, and hide the ship 's gear with all our property in some cave; then come with me all of you as fast as you can to Circe 's house, where you will find your comrades eating and drinking in the midst of great abundance.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id134
sentence:
"On this the men would have come with me at once, but Eurylochus tried to hold them back and said,' Alas, poor wretches that we are, what will become of us?


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id135
sentence:
Rush not on your ruin by going to the house of Circe, who will turn us all into pigs or wolves or lions, and we shall have to keep guard over her house.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id138
sentence:
"When I heard him I was in two minds whether or no to draw the keen blade that hung by my sturdy thigh and cut his head off in spite of his being a near relation of my own; but the men interceded for him and said,' Sir, if it may so be, let this fellow stay here and mind the ship, but take the rest of us with you to Circe 's house.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id139
sentence:
"On this we all went inland, and Eurylochus was not left behind after all, but came on too, for he was frightened by the severe reprimand that I had given him.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id140
sentence:
"Meanwhile Circe had been seeing that the men who had been left behind were washed and anointed with olive oil; she had also given them woollen cloaks and shirts, and when we came we found them all comfortably at dinner in her house.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id141
sentence:
As soon as the men saw each other face to face and knew one another, they wept for joy and cried aloud till the whole palace rang again.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id142
sentence:
Thereon Circe came up to me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, tell your men to leave off crying; I know how much you have all of you suffered at sea, and how ill you have fared among cruel savages on the mainland, but that is over now, so stay here, and eat and drink till you are once more as strong and hearty as you were when you left Ithaca; for at present you are weakened both in body and mind; you keep all the time thinking of the hardships you have suffered during your travels, so that you have no more cheerfulness left in you.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id144
sentence:
We stayed with Circe for a whole twelvemonth feasting upon an untold quantity both of meat and wine.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id145
sentence:
But when the year had passed in the waning of moons and the long days had come round, my men called me apart and said,' Sir, it is time you began to think about going home, if so be you are to be spared to see your house and native country at all.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id147
sentence:
Thereon through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we feasted our fill on meat and wine, but when the sun went down and it came on dark the men laid themselves down to sleep in the covered cloisters.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id148
sentence:
I, however, after I had got into bed with Circe, besought her by her knees, and the goddess listened to what I had got to say.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id151
sentence:
and so do my men, they are always pestering me with their complaints as soon as ever your back is turned.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id152
sentence:
"And the goddess answered,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id153
sentence:
You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id154
sentence:
To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id156
sentence:
I sat up in bed and wept, and would gladly have lived no longer to see the light of the sun, but presently when I was tired of weeping and tossing myself about, I said,' And who shall guide me upon this voyage— for the house of Hades is a port that no ship can reach.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id157
sentence:
"'You will want no guide,' she answered;' raise your mast, set your white sails, sit quite still, and the North Wind will blow you there of itself.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id158
sentence:
When your ship has traversed the waters of Oceanus, you will reach the fertile shore of Proserpine 's country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that shed their fruit untimely; here beach your ship upon the shore of Oceanus, and go straight on to the dark abode of Hades.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id159
sentence:
You will find it near the place where the rivers Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus( which is a branch of the river Styx) flow into Acheron, and you will see a rock near it, just where the two roaring rivers run into one another.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id160
sentence:
"'When you have reached this spot, as I now tell you, dig a trench a cubit or so in length, breadth, and depth, and pour into it as a drink- offering to all the dead, first, honey mixed with milk, then wine, and in the third place water— sprinkling white barley meal over the whole.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id161
sentence:
Moreover you must offer many prayers to the poor feeble ghosts, and promise them that when you get back to Ithaca you will sacrifice a barren heifer to them, the best you have, and will load the pyre with good things.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id162
sentence:
More particularly you must promise that Teiresias shall have a black sheep all to himself, the finest in all your flocks.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id163
sentence:
"'When you shall have thus besought the ghosts with your prayers, offer them a ram and a black ewe, bending their heads towards Erebus; but yourself turn away from them as though you would make towards the river.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id164
sentence:
On this, many dead men 's ghosts will come to you, and you must tell your men to skin the two sheep that you have just killed, and offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id165
sentence:
Then draw your sword and sit there, so as to prevent any other poor ghost from coming near the spilt blood before Teiresias shall have answered your questions.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id166
sentence:
The seer will presently come to you, and will tell you about your voyage— what stages you are to make, and how you are to sail the sea so as to reach your home.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id168
sentence:
As for herself she threw a beautiful light gossamer fabric over her shoulders, fastening it with a golden girdle round her waist, and she covered her head with a mantle.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id169
sentence:
Then I went about among the men everywhere all over the house, and spoke kindly to each of them man by man:' You must not lie sleeping here any longer,' said I to them,' we must be going, for Circe has told me all about it.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id172
sentence:
We had with us a certain youth named Elpenor, not very remarkable for sense or courage, who had got drunk and was lying on the house- top away from the rest of the men, to sleep off his liquor in the cool.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id173
sentence:
When he heard the noise of the men bustling about, he jumped up on a sudden and forgot all about coming down by the main staircase, so he tumbled right off the roof and broke his neck, and his soul went down to the house of Hades.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id174
sentence:
"When I had got the men together I said to them,' You think you are about to start home again, but Circe has explained to me that instead of this, we have got to go to the house of Hades and Proserpine to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias.'


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id175
sentence:
"The men were broken- hearted as they heard me, and threw themselves on the ground groaning and tearing their hair, but they did not mend matters by crying.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id176
sentence:
When we reached the sea shore, weeping and lamenting our fate, Circe brought the ram and the ewe, and we made them fast hard by the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_10
idx: id177
sentence:
She passed through the midst of us without our knowing it, for who can see the comings and goings of a god, if the god does not wish to be seen?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id1
sentence:
THE VISIT TO KING MENELAUS, WHO TELLS HIS STORY—MEANWHILE THE SUITORS IN ITHACA PLOT AGAINST TELEMACHUS.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id2
sentence:
they reached the low lying city of Lacedaemon, where they drove straight to the abode of Menelaus[ and found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honour of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was marrying to the son of that valiant warrior Achilles.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id3
sentence:
He had given his consent and promised her to him while he was still at Troy, and now the gods were bringing the marriage about; so he was sending her with chariots and horses to the city of the Myrmidons over whom Achilles ' son was reigning.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id5
sentence:
This son, Megapenthes, was born to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed Helen no more children after she had borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Venus herself.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id8
sentence:
Telemachus and the son of Nestor stayed their horses at the gate, whereon Eteoneus servant to Menelaus came out, and as soon as he saw them ran hurrying back into the house to tell his Master.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id9
sentence:
He went close up to him and said," Menelaus, there are some strangers come here, two men, who look like sons of Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id12
sentence:
Menelaus was very angry and said," Eteoneus, son of Boethous, you never used to be a fool, but now you talk like a simpleton.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id13
sentence:
Take their horses out, of course, and show the strangers in that they may have supper; you and I have staid often enough at other people 's houses before we got back here, where heaven grant that we may rest in peace henceforward."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id15
sentence:
They took their sweating steeds from under the yoke, made them fast to the mangers, and gave them a feed of oats and barley mixed.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id17
sentence:
Telemachus and Pisistratus were astonished when they saw it, for its splendour was as that of the sun and moon; then, when they had admired everything to their heart 's content, they went into the bath room and washed themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id18
sentence:
When the servants had washed them and anointed them with oil, they brought them woollen cloaks and shirts, and the two took their seats by the side of Menelaus.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id19
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.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id20
sentence:
An upper servant brought them bread, and offered them many good things of what there was in the house, while the carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set cups of gold by their side.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id21
sentence:
Menelaus then greeted them saying," Fall to, and welcome; when you have done supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you can not have been lost.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id22
sentence:
You must be descended from a line of sceptre- bearing kings, for poor people do not have such sons as you are."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id23
sentence:
On this he handed them a piece of fat roast loin, which had been set near him as being a prime part, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them; as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Telemachus said to the son of Nestor, with his head so close that no one might hear," Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold— of amber ivory, and silver.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id26
sentence:
Menelaus overheard him and said," No one, my sons, can hold his own with Jove, for his house and everything about him is immortal; but among mortal men— well, there may be another who has as much wealth as I have, or there may not; but at all events I have travelled much and have undergone much hardship, for it was nearly eight years before I could get home with my fleet.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id27
sentence:
I went to Cyprus, Phoenicia and the Egyptians; I went also to the Ethiopians, the Sidonians, and the Erembians, and to Libya where the lambs have horns as soon as they are born, and the sheep lamb down three times a year.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id28
sentence:
Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id29
sentence:
But while I was travelling and getting great riches among these people, my brother was secretly and shockingly murdered through the perfidy of his wicked wife, so that I have no pleasure in being lord of all this wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id30
sentence:
Whoever your parents may be they must have told you about all this, and of my heavy loss in the ruin of a stately mansion fully and magnificently furnished.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id31
sentence:
Would that I had only a third of what I now have so that I had stayed at home, and all those were living who perished on the plain of Troy, far from Argos.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id33
sentence:
At times I cry aloud for sorrow, but presently I leave off again, for crying is cold comfort and one soon tires of it.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id35
sentence:
I can not even think of him without loathing both food and sleep, so miserable does he make me, for no one of all the Achaeans worked so hard or risked so much as he did.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id36
sentence:
He took nothing by it, and has left a legacy of sorrow to myself, for he has been gone a long time, and we know not whether he is alive or dead.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id37
sentence:
His old father, his long- suffering wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus, whom he left behind him an infant in arms, are plunged in grief on his account."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id39
sentence:
Tears fell from his eyes as he heard him thus mentioned, so that he held his cloak before his face with both hands.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id40
sentence:
When Menelaus saw this he doubted whether to let him choose his own time for speaking, or to ask him at once and find what it was all about.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id41
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds Helen came down from her high vaulted and perfumed room, looking as lovely as Diana herself.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id42
sentence:
Adraste brought her a seat, Alcippe a soft woollen rug while Phylo fetched her the silver work- box which Alcandra wife of Polybus had given her.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id43
sentence:
Polybus lived in Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world; he gave Menelaus two baths, both of pure silver, two tripods, and ten talents of gold; besides all this, his wife gave Helen some beautiful presents, to wit, a golden distaff, and a silver work box that ran on wheels, with a gold band round the top of it.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id44
sentence:
Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id49
sentence:
Never yet have I seen either man or woman so like somebody else( indeed when I look at him I hardly know what to think) as this young man is like Telemachus, whom Ulysses left as a baby behind him, when you Achaeans went to Troy with battle in your hearts, on account of my most shameless self."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id51
sentence:
His hands and feet are just like Ulysses; so is his hair, with the shape of his head and the expression of his eyes.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id52
sentence:
Moreover, when I was talking about Ulysses, and saying how much he had suffered on my account, tears fell from his eyes, and he hid his face in his mantle."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id53
sentence:
Then Pisistratus said," Menelaus, son of Atreus, you are right in thinking that this young man is Telemachus, but he is very modest, and is ashamed to come here and begin opening up discourse with one whose conversation is so divinely interesting as your own.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id54
sentence:
My father, Nestor, sent me to escort him hither, for he wanted to know whether you could give him any counsel or suggestion.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id55
sentence:
A son has always trouble at home when his father has gone away leaving him without supporters; and this is how Telemachus is now placed, for his father is absent, and there is no one among his own people to stand by him."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id56
sentence:
"Bless my heart," replied Menelaus," then I am receiving a visit from the son of a very dear friend, who suffered much hardship for my sake.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id57
sentence:
I had always hoped to entertain him with most marked distinction when heaven had granted us a safe return from beyond the seas.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id59
sentence:
I should have made him leave Ithaca with his goods, his son, and all his people, and should have sacked for them some one of the neighbouring cities that are subject to me.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id60
sentence:
We should thus have seen one another continually, and nothing but death could have interrupted so close and happy an intercourse.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id61
sentence:
I suppose, however, that heaven grudged us such great good fortune, for it has prevented the poor fellow from ever getting home at all."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id63
sentence:
Helen wept, Telemachus wept, and so did Menelaus, nor could Pisistratus keep his eyes from filling, when he remembered his dear brother Antilochus whom the son of bright Dawn had killed.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id64
sentence:
Thereon he said to Menelaus, "Sir, my father Nestor, when we used to talk about you at home, told me you were a person of rare and excellent understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id67
sentence:
Morning will come in due course, and in the forenoon I care not how much I cry for those that are dead and gone.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id70
sentence:
I had a brother who died at Troy; he was by no means the worst man there; you are sure to have known him— his name was Antilochus; I never set eyes upon him myself, but they say that he was singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id73
sentence:
One can soon see when a man is son to one whom heaven has blessed both as regards wife and offspring— and it has blessed Nestor from first to last all his days, giving him a green old age in his own house, with sons about him who are both well disposed and valiant.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id77
sentence:
On this Asphalion, one of the servants, poured water over their hands and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id80
sentence:
Whoever drinks wine thus drugged can not shed a single tear all the rest of the day, not even though his father and mother both of them drop down dead, or he sees a brother or a son hewn in pieces before his very eyes.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id81
sentence:
This drug, of such sovereign power and virtue, had been given to Helen by Polydamna wife of Thon, a woman of Egypt, where there grow all sorts of herbs, some good to put into the mixing bowl and others poisonous.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id82
sentence:
Moreover, every one in the whole country is a skilled physician, for they are of the race of Paeeon.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id83
sentence:
When Helen had put this drug in the bowl, and had told the servants to serve the wine round, she said: "Menelaus, son of Atreus, and you my good friends, sons of honourable men( which is as Jove wills, for he is the giver both of good and evil, and can do what he chooses), feast here as you will, and listen while I tell you a tale in season.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id84
sentence:
I can not indeed name every single one of the exploits of Ulysses, but I can say what he did when he was before Troy, and you Achaeans were in all sorts of difficulties.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id85
sentence:
He covered himself with wounds and bruises, dressed himself all in rags, and entered the enemy 's city looking like a menial or a beggar, and quite different from what he did when he was among his own people.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id88
sentence:
When, however, I had washed and anointed him and had given him clothes, and after I had sworn a solemn oath not to betray him to the Trojans till he had got safely back to his own camp and to the ships, he told me all that the Achaeans meant to do.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id89
sentence:
He killed many Trojans and got much information before he reached the Argive camp, for all which things the Trojan women made lamentation, but for my own part I was glad, for my heart was beginning to yearn after my home, and I was unhappy about the wrong that Venus had done me in taking me over there, away from my country, my girl, and my lawful wedded husband, who is indeed by no means deficient either in person or understanding."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id91
sentence:
I have travelled much, and have had much to do with heroes, but I have never seen such another man as Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id92
sentence:
What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id93
sentence:
At that moment you came up to us; some god who wished well to the Trojans must have set you on to it and you had Deiphobus with you.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id94
sentence:
Three times did you go all round our hiding place and pat it; you called our chiefs each by his own name, and mimicked all our wives— Diomed, Ulysses, and I from our seats inside heard what a noise you made.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id96
sentence:
and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held us all in check, so we sat quite still, all except Anticlus, who was beginning to answer you, when Ulysses clapped his two brawny hands over his mouth, and kept them there.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id98
sentence:
"How sad," exclaimed Telemachus," that all this was of no avail to save him, nor yet his own iron courage.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id99
sentence:
But now, sir, be pleased to send us all to bed, that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of sleep."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id100
sentence:
On this Helen told the maid servants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and to make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for the guests to wear.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id101
sentence:
So the maids went out, carrying a torch, and made the beds, to which a man- servant presently conducted the strangers.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id102
sentence:
Thus, then, did Telemachus and Pisistratus sleep there in the forecourt, while the son of Atreus lay in an inner room with lovely Helen by his side.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id104
sentence:
He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id105
sentence:
Then, taking a seat near Telemachus he said: "And what, Telemachus, has led you to take this long sea voyage to Lacedaemon?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id109
sentence:
I am being eaten out of house and home; my fair estate is being wasted, and my house is full of miscreants who keep killing great numbers of my sheep and oxen, on the pretence of paying their addresses to my mother.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id110
sentence:
Therefore, I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may tell me about my father 's melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller; for he was a man born to trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id112
sentence:
If my brave father Ulysses ever did you loyal service either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed by the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favour and tell me truly all."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id115
sentence:
A hind might as well lay her new born young in the lair of a lion, and then go off to feed in the forest or in some grassy dell: the lion when he comes back to his lair will make short work with the pair of them— and so will Ulysses with these suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id116
sentence:
By father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, if Ulysses is still the man that he was when he wrestled with Philomeleides in Lesbos, and threw him so heavily that all the Achaeans cheered him— if he is still such and were to come near these suitors, they would have a short shrift and a sorry wedding.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id117
sentence:
As regards your questions, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but will tell you without concealment all that the old man of the sea told me.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id118
sentence:
"I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id119
sentence:
Now off Egypt, about as far as a ship can sail in a day with a good stiff breeze behind her, there is an island called Pharos— it has a good harbour from which vessels can get out into open sea when they have taken in water— and here the gods becalmed me twenty days without so much as a breath of fair wind to help me forward.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id120
sentence:
We should have run clean out of provisions and my men would have starved, if a goddess had not taken pity upon me and saved me in the person of Idothea, daughter to Proteus, the old man of the sea, for she had taken a great fancy to me.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id121
sentence:
"She came to me one day when I was by myself, as I often was, for the men used to go with their barbed hooks, all over the island in the hope of catching a fish or two to save them from the pangs of hunger.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id122
sentence:
Stranger,' said she,' it seems to me that you like starving in this way— at any rate it does not greatly trouble you, for you stick here day after day, without even trying to get away though your men are dying by inches.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id123
sentence:
"'Let me tell you,' said I,' whichever of the goddesses you may happen to be, that I am not staying here of my own accord, but must have offended the gods that live in heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id124
sentence:
Tell me, therefore, for the gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me in this way, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id127
sentence:
He is an Egyptian, and people say he is my father; he is Neptune 's head man and knows every inch of ground all over the bottom of the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id128
sentence:
If you can snare him and hold him tight, he will tell you about your voyage, what courses you are to take, and how you are to sail the sea so as to reach your home.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id129
sentence:
He will also tell you, if you so will, all that has been going on at your house both good and bad, while you have been away on your long and dangerous journey.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id130
sentence:
"'Can you show me,' said I,' some stratagem by means of which I may catch this old god without his suspecting it and finding me out?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id133
sentence:
About the time when the sun shall have reached mid heaven, the old man of the sea comes up from under the waves, heralded by the West wind that furs the water over his head.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id134
sentence:
As soon as he has come up he lies down, and goes to sleep in a great sea cave, where the seals— Halosydne 's chickens as they call them— come up also from the grey sea, and go to sleep in shoals all round him; and a very strong and fish- like smell do they bring with them.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id136
sentence:
Pick out, therefore, the three best men you have in your fleet, and I will tell you all the tricks that the old man will play you.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id137
sentence:
"'First he will look over all his seals, and count them; then, when he has seen them and tallied them on his five fingers, he will go to sleep among them, as a shepherd among his sheep.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id138
sentence:
The moment you see that he is asleep seize him; put forth all your strength and hold him fast, for he will do his very utmost to get away from you.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id139
sentence:
He will turn himself into every kind of creature that goes upon the earth, and will become also both fire and water; but you must hold him fast and grip him tighter and tighter, till he begins to talk to you and comes back to what he was when you saw him go to sleep; then you may slacken your hold and let him go; and you can ask him which of the gods it is that is angry with you, and what you must do to reach your home over the seas.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id140
sentence:
"Having so said she dived under the waves, whereon I turned back to the place where my ships were ranged upon the shore; and my heart was clouded with care as I went along.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id142
sentence:
"When the child of morning rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, I took the three men on whose prowess of all kinds I could most rely, and went along by the sea- side, praying heartily to heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id143
sentence:
Meanwhile the goddess fetched me up four seal skins from the bottom of the sea, all of them just skinned, for she meant playing a trick upon her father.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id145
sentence:
When we were close to her, she made us lie down in the pits one after the other, and threw a seal skin over each of us.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id146
sentence:
Our ambuscade would have been intolerable, for the stench of the fishy seals was most distressing— who would go to bed with a sea monster if he could help it?—but here, too, the goddess helped us, and thought of something that gave us great relief, for she put some ambrosia under each man 's nostrils, which was so fragrant that it killed the smell of the seals.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id147
sentence:
"We waited the whole morning and made the best of it, watching the seals come up in hundreds to bask upon the sea shore, till at noon the old man of the sea came up too, and when he had found his fat seals he went over them and counted them.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id148
sentence:
We were among the first he counted, and he never suspected any guile, but laid himself down to sleep as soon as he had done counting.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id149
sentence:
Then we rushed upon him with a shout and seized him; on which he began at once with his old tricks, and changed himself first into a lion with a great mane; then all of a sudden he became a dragon, a leopard, a wild boar; the next moment he was running water, and then again directly he was a tree, but we stuck to him and never lost hold, till at last the cunning old creature became distressed, and said,' Which of the gods was it, Son of Atreus, that hatched this plot with you for snaring me and seizing me against my will?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id152
sentence:
It is because I have been kept so long in this island, and see no sign of my being able to get away.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id153
sentence:
I am losing all heart; tell me, then, for you gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home?'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id154
sentence:
"Then,' he said,' if you would finish your voyage and get home quickly, you must offer sacrifices to Jove and to the rest of the gods before embarking; for it is decreed that you shall not get back to your friends, and to your own house, till you have returned to the heaven- fed stream of Egypt, and offered holy hecatombs to the immortal gods that reign in heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id156
sentence:
"I was broken hearted when I heard that I must go back all that long and terrible voyage to Egypt; nevertheless, I answered,' I will do all, old man, that you have laid upon me; but now tell me, and tell me true, whether all the Achaeans whom Nestor and I left behind us when we set sail from Troy have got home safely, or whether any one of them came to a bad end either on board his own ship or among his friends when the days of his fighting were done.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id158
sentence:
You had better not know what I can tell you, for your eyes will surely fill when you have heard my story.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id159
sentence:
Many of those about whom you ask are dead and gone, but many still remain, and only two of the chief men among the Achaeans perished during their return home.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id162
sentence:
Ajax was wrecked, for Neptune drove him on to the great rocks of Gyrae; nevertheless, he let him get safe out of the water, and in spite of all Minerva 's hatred he would have escaped death, if he had not ruined himself by boasting.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id163
sentence:
He said the gods could not drown him even though they had tried to do so, and when Neptune heard this large talk, he seized his trident in his two brawny hands, and split the rock of Gyrae in two pieces.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id164
sentence:
The base remained where it was, but the part on which Ajax was sitting fell headlong into the sea and carried Ajax with it; so he drank salt water and was drowned.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id165
sentence:
"'Your brother and his ships escaped, for Juno protected him, but when he was just about to reach the high promontory of Malea, he was caught by a heavy gale which carried him out to sea again sorely against his will, and drove him to the foreland where Thyestes used to dwell, but where Aegisthus was then living.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id166
sentence:
By and by, however, it seemed as though he was to return safely after all, for the gods backed the wind into its old quarter and they reached home; whereon Agamemnon kissed his native soil, and shed tears of joy at finding himself in his own country.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id167
sentence:
"'Now there was a watchman whom Aegisthus kept always on the watch, and to whom he had promised two talents of gold.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id168
sentence:
This man had been looking out for a whole year to make sure that Agamemnon did not give him the slip and prepare war; when, therefore, this man saw Agamemnon go by, he went and told Aegisthus, who at once began to lay a plot for him.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id169
sentence:
He picked twenty of his bravest warriors and placed them in ambuscade on one side the cloister, while on the opposite side he prepared a banquet.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id170
sentence:
Then he sent his chariots and horsemen to Agamemnon, and invited him to the feast, but he meant foul play.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id171
sentence:
He got him there, all unsuspicious of the doom that was awaiting him, and killed him when the banquet was over as though he were butchering an ox in the shambles; not one of Agamemnon 's followers was left alive, nor yet one of Aegisthus ', but they were all killed there in the cloisters.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id173
sentence:
I sat down upon the sands and wept; I felt as though I could no longer bear to live nor look upon the light of the sun.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id174
sentence:
Presently, when I had had my fill of weeping and writhing upon the ground, the old man of the sea said,' Son of Atreus, do not waste any more time in crying so bitterly; it can do no manner of good; find your way home as fast as ever you can, for Aegisthus may be still alive, and even though Orestes has been beforehand with you in killing him, you may yet come in for his funeral.'


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id175
sentence:
"On this I took comfort in spite of all my sorrow, and said,' I know, then, about these two; tell me, therefore, about the third man of whom you spoke; is he still alive, but at sea, and unable to get home?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id179
sentence:
I can see him in an island sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso, who is keeping him prisoner, and he can not reach his home for he has no ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id180
sentence:
As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die in Argos, but the gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id181
sentence:
There fair- haired Rhadamanthus reigns, and men lead an easier life than any where else in the world, for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow, but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id183
sentence:
"As he spoke he dived under the waves, whereon I turned back to the ships with my companions, and my heart was clouded with care as I went along.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id184
sentence:
When we reached the ships we got supper ready, for night was falling, and camped down upon the beach.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id185
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, we drew our ships into the water, and put our masts and sails within them; then we went on board ourselves, took our seats on the benches, and smote the grey sea with our oars.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id186
sentence:
I again stationed my ships in the heaven- fed stream of Egypt, and offered hecatombs that were full and sufficient.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id187
sentence:
When I had thus appeased heaven 's anger, I raised a barrow to the memory of Agamemnon that his name might live for ever, after which I had a quick passage home, for the gods sent me a fair wind.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id188
sentence:
"And now for yourself— stay here some ten or twelve days longer, and I will then speed you on your way.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id190
sentence:
I will also give you a beautiful chalice that so long as you live you may think of me whenever you make a drink- offering to the immortal gods."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id191
sentence:
"Son of Atreus," replied Telemachus," do not press me to stay longer; I should be contented to remain with you for another twelve months; I find your conversation so delightful that I should never once wish myself at home with my parents; but my crew whom I have left at Pylos are already impatient, and you are detaining me from them.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id193
sentence:
I will take no horses back with me to Ithaca, but will leave them to adorn your own stables, for you have much flat ground in your kingdom where lotus thrives, as also meadow- sweet and wheat and barley, and oats with their white and spreading ears; whereas in Ithaca we have neither open fields nor racecourses, and the country is more fit for goats than horses, and I like it the better for that.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id197
sentence:
I both can, and will, make this exchange for you, by giving you the finest and most precious piece of plate in all my house.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id198
sentence:
It is a mixing bowl by Vulcan 's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id199
sentence:
Phaedimus, king of the Sidonians, gave it me in the course of a visit which I paid him when I returned thither on my homeward journey.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id202
sentence:
They brought sheep and wine, while their wives had put up bread for them to take with them; so they were busy cooking their dinners in the courts].


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id203
sentence:
Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark on the levelled ground in front of Ulysses ' house, and were behaving with all their old insolence.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id204
sentence:
Antinous and Eurymachus, who were their ringleaders and much the foremost among them all, were sitting together when Noemon son of Phronius came up and said to Antinous, "Have we any idea, Antinous, on what day Telemachus returns from Pylos?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id205
sentence:
He has a ship of mine, and I want it, to cross over to Elis: I have twelve brood mares there with yearling mule foals by their side not yet broken in, and I want to bring one of them over here and break him."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id206
sentence:
They were astounded when they heard this, for they had made sure that Telemachus had not gone to the city of Neleus.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id207
sentence:
They thought he was only away somewhere on the farms, and was with the sheep, or with the swineherd; so Antinous said," When did he go?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id210
sentence:
Tell me also, did you let him have the ship of your own free will because he asked you, or did he take it without your leave?"


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id211
sentence:
"I lent it him," answered Noemon," what else could I do when a man of his position said he was in a difficulty, and asked me to oblige him?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id213
sentence:
As for those who went with him they were the best young men we have, and I saw Mentor go on board as captain— or some god who was exactly like him.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id214
sentence:
I can not understand it, for I saw Mentor here myself yesterday morning, and yet he was then setting out for Pylos."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id218
sentence:
His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he said: "Good heavens, this voyage of Telemachus is a very serious matter; we had made sure that it would come to nothing, but the young fellow has got away in spite of us, and with a picked crew too.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id220
sentence:
Find me a ship, therefore, with a crew of twenty men, and I will lie in wait for him in the straits between Ithaca and Samos; he will then rue the day that he set out to try and get news of his father."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id221
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and the others applauded his saying; they then all of them went inside the buildings.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id223
sentence:
Penelope came to know what the suitors were plotting; for a man servant, Medon, overheard them from outside the outer court as they were laying their schemes within, and went to tell his mistress.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id224
sentence:
As he crossed the threshold of her room Penelope said:" Medon, what have the suitors sent you here for?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id226
sentence:
I wish they may neither woo nor dine henceforward, neither here nor anywhere else, but let this be the very last time, for the waste you all make of my son 's estate.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id227
sentence:
Did not your fathers tell you when you were children, how good Ulysses had been to them— never doing anything high- handed, nor speaking harshly to anybody?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id228
sentence:
Kings may say things sometimes, and they may take a fancy to one man and dislike another, but Ulysses never did an unjust thing by anybody— which shows what bad hearts you have, and that there is no such thing as gratitude left in this world."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id229
sentence:
Then Medon said," I wish, Madam, that this were all; but they are plotting something much more dreadful now— may heaven frustrate their design.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id230
sentence:
They are going to try and murder Telemachus as he is coming home from Pylos and Lacedaemon, where he has been to get news of his father."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id231
sentence:
Then Penelope 's heart sank within her, and for a long time she was speechless; her eyes filled with tears, and she could find no utterance.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id233
sentence:
What business had he to go sailing off in ships that make long voyages over the ocean like sea- horses?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id235
sentence:
"I do not know," answered Medon," whether some god set him on to it, or whether he went on his own impulse to see if he could find out if his father was dead, or alive and on his way home."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id237
sentence:
There were plenty of seats in the house, but she had no heart for sitting on any one of them; she could only fling herself on the floor of her own room and cry; whereon all the maids in the house, both old and young, gathered round her and began to cry too, till at last in a transport of sorrow she exclaimed, "My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id238
sentence:
First I lost my brave and lion- hearted husband, who had every good quality under heaven, and whose name was great over all Hellas and middle Argos, and now my darling son is at the mercy of the winds and waves, without my having heard one word about his leaving home.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id239
sentence:
You hussies ,there was not one of you would so much as think of giving me a call out of my bed, though you all of you very well knew when he was starting.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id240
sentence:
If I had known he meant taking this voyage, he would have had to give it up, no matter how much he was bent upon it, or leave me a corpse behind him— one or other.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id241
sentence:
Now, however, go some of you and call old Dolius, who was given me by my father on my marriage, and who is my gardener.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id242
sentence:
Bid him go at once and tell everything to Laertes, who may be able to hit on some plan for enlisting public sympathy on our side, as against those who are trying to exterminate his own race and that of Ulysses."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id243
sentence:
Then the dear old nurse Euryclea said," You may kill me, Madam, or let me live on in your house, whichever you please, but I will tell you the real truth.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id244
sentence:
I knew all about it, and gave him everything he wanted in the way of bread and wine, but he made me take my solemn oath that I would not tell you anything for some ten or twelve days, unless you asked or happened to hear of his having gone, for he did not want you to spoil your beauty by crying.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id245
sentence:
And now, Madam, wash your face, change your dress, and go upstairs with your maids to offer prayers to Minerva, daughter of Aegis- bearing Jove, for she can save him even though he be in the jaws of death.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id247
sentence:
Besides, I can not think that the gods hate the race of the son of Arceisius so much, but there will be a son left to come up after him, and inherit both the house and the fair fields that lie far all round it."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id252
sentence:
If ever Ulysses while he was here burned you fat thigh bones of sheep or heifer, bear it in mind now as in my favour, and save my darling son from the villainy of the suitors."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id253
sentence:
She cried aloud as she spoke, and the goddess heard her prayer; meanwhile the suitors were clamorous throughout the covered cloister, and one of them said: "The queen is preparing for her marriage with one or other of us.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id258
sentence:
He then chose twenty men, and they went down to their ship and to the sea side; they drew the vessel into the water and got her mast and sails inside her; they bound the oars to the thole- pins with twisted thongs of leather, all in due course, and spread the white sails aloft, while their fine servants brought them their armour.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id259
sentence:
Then they made the ship fast a little way out, came on shore again, got their suppers, and waited till night should fall.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id260
sentence:
But Penelope lay in her own room upstairs unable to eat or drink, and wondering whether her brave son would escape, or be overpowered by the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id261
sentence:
Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id262
sentence:
Then Minerva bethought her of another matter, and made a vision in the likeness of Penelope 's sister Iphthime daughter of Icarius who had married Eumelus and lived in Pherae.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id263
sentence:
She told the vision to go to the house of Ulysses, and to make Penelope leave off crying, so it came into her room by the hole through which the thong went for pulling the door to, and hovered over her head saying, "You are asleep, Penelope: the gods who live at ease will not suffer you to weep and be so sad.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id265
sentence:
Penelope, who was sleeping sweetly at the gates of dreamland, answered," Sister, why have you come here?


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id268
sentence:
I, who have lost my brave and lion- hearted husband, who had every good quality under heaven, and whose name was great over all Hellas and middle Argos; and now my darling son has gone off on board of a ship— a foolish fellow who has never been used to roughing it, nor to going about among gatherings of men.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id269
sentence:
I am even more anxious about him than about my husband; I am all in a tremble when I think of him, lest something should happen to him, either from the people among whom he has gone, or by sea, for he has many enemies who are plotting against him, and are bent on killing him before he can return home."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id271
sentence:
There is one gone with him whom many a man would be glad enough to have stand by his side, I mean Minerva; it is she who has compassion upon you, and who has sent me to bear you this message."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id272
sentence:
"Then," said Penelope," if you are a god or have been sent here by divine commission, tell me also about that other unhappy one— is he still alive, or is he already dead and in the house of Hades?"


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id273
sentence:
And the vision said," I shall not tell you for certain whether he is alive or dead, and there is no use in idle conversation."


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id274
sentence:
Then it vanished through the thong- hole of the door and was dissipated into thin air; but Penelope rose from her sleep refreshed and comforted, so vivid had been her dream.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id275
sentence:
Meantime the suitors went on board and sailed their ways over the sea, intent on murdering Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_04
idx: id276
sentence:
Now there is a rocky islet called Asteris, of no great size, in mid channel between Ithaca and Samos, and there is a harbour on either side of it where a ship can lie.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id2
sentence:
The fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their bronze- shod spears at one another between the streams of Simois and Xanthus.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id3
sentence:
First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to the Achaeans, broke a phalanx of the Trojans, and came to the assistance of his comrades by killing Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the Thracians, being both brave and of great stature.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id4
sentence:
The spear struck the projecting peak of his helmet: its bronze point then went through his forehead into the brain, and darkness veiled his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id5
sentence:
Then Diomed killed Axylus son of Teuthranus, a rich man who lived in the strong city of Arisbe, and was beloved by all men; for he had a house by the roadside, and entertained every one who passed; howbeit not one of his guests stood before him to save his life, and Diomed killed both him and his squire Calesius, who was then his charioteer— so the pair passed beneath the earth.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id6
sentence:
Euryalus killed Dresus and Opheltius, and then went in pursuit of Aesepus and Pedasus, whom the naiad nymph Abarbarea had borne to noble Bucolion.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id8
sentence:
While tending his sheep he had converse with the nymph, and she conceived twin sons; these the son of Mecisteus now slew, and he stripped the armour from their shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id10
sentence:
Ablerus fell by the spear of Nestor 's son Antilochus, and Agamemnon, king of men, killed Elatus who dwelt in Pedasus by the banks of the river Satnioeis.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id12
sentence:
Then Menelaus of the loud war- cry took Adrestus alive, for his horses ran into a tamarisk bush, as they were flying wildly over the plain, and broke the pole from the car; they went on towards the city along with the others in full flight, but Adrestus rolled out, and fell in the dust flat on his face by the wheel of his chariot; Menelaus came up to him spear in hand, but Adrestus caught him by the knees begging for his life. "


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id13
sentence:
Take me alive," he cried," son of Atreus, and you shall have a full ransom for me: my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id14
sentence:
From this store he will give you a large ransom should he hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id15
sentence:
Thus did he plead, and Menelaus was for yielding and giving him to a squire to take to the ships of the Achaeans, but Agamemnon came running up to him and rebuked him. "


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id18
sentence:
Let us not spare a single one of them— not even the child unborn and in its mother 's womb; let not a man of them be left alive, but let all in Ilius perish, unheeded and forgotten."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id20
sentence:
Menelaus, therefore, thrust Adrestus from him, whereon King Agamemnon struck him in the flank, and he fell: then the son of Atreus planted his foot upon his breast to draw his spear from the body.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id21
sentence:
Meanwhile Nestor shouted to the Argives, saying," My friends, Danaan warriors, servants of Mars, let no man lag that he may spoil the dead, and bring back much booty to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id22
sentence:
Let us kill as many as we can; the bodies will lie upon the plain, and you can despoil them later at your leisure."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id24
sentence:
And now the Trojans would have been routed and driven back into Ilius, had not Priam 's son Helenus, wisest of augurs, said to Hector and Aeneas," Hector and Aeneas, you two are the mainstays of the Trojans and Lycians, for you are foremost at all times, alike in fight and counsel; hold your ground here, and go about among the host to rally them in front of the gates, or they will fling themselves into the arms of their wives, to the great joy of our foes.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id25
sentence:
Then, when you have put heart into all our companies, we will stand firm here and fight the Danaans however hard they press us, for there is nothing else to be done.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id27
sentence:
Tell her to bid the matrons gather at the temple of Minerva in the acropolis ;let her then take her key and open the doors of the sacred building; there, upon the knees of Minerva, let her lay the largest, fairest robe she has in her house— the one she sets most store by; let her, moreover, promise to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess, if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from falling on the goodly city of Ilius; for he fights with fury and fills men 's souls with panic.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id28
sentence:
I hold him mightiest of them all; we did not fear even their great champion Achilles, son of a goddess though he be, as we do this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there is none can vie with him in prowess."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id30
sentence:
He sprang from his chariot, and went about everywhere among the host, brandishing his spears, urging the men on to fight, and raising the dread cry of battle.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id31
sentence:
Thereon they rallied and again faced the Achaeans, who gave ground and ceased their murderous onset, for they deemed that some one of the immortals had come down from starry heaven to help the Trojans, so strangely had they rallied.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id32
sentence:
And Hector shouted to the Trojans," Trojans and allies, be men, my friends, and fight with might and main, while I go to Ilius and tell the old men of our council and our wives to pray to the gods and vow hecatombs in their honour."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id33
sentence:
With this he went his way, and the black rim of hide that went round his shield beat against his neck and his ancles.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id34
sentence:
Then Glaucus son of Hippolochus, and the son of Tydeus went into the open space between the hosts to fight in single combat.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id37
sentence:
I have never seen you in battle until now, but you are daring beyond all others if you abide my onset.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id39
sentence:
If, however, you are one of the immortals and have come down from heaven, I will not fight you; for even valiant Lycurgus, son of Dryas, did not live long when he took to fighting with the gods.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id40
sentence:
He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id41
sentence:
Bacchus himself plunged terror- stricken into the sea, and Thetis took him to her bosom to comfort him, for he was scared by the fury with which the man reviled him.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id42
sentence:
Thereon the gods who live at ease were angry with Lycurgus and the son of Saturn struck him blind, nor did he live much longer after he had become hateful to the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id43
sentence:
Therefore I will not fight with the blessed gods; but if you are of them that eat the fruit of the ground, draw near and meet your doom."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id46
sentence:
Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id49
sentence:
There is a city in the heart of Argos, pasture land of horses, called Ephyra, where Sisyphus lived, who was the craftiest of all mankind.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id50
sentence:
He was the son of Aeolus, and had a son named Glaucus, who was father to Bellerophon, whom heaven endowed with the most surpassing comeliness and beauty.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id51
sentence:
But Proetus devised his ruin, and being stronger than he, drove him from the land of the Argives, over which Jove had made him ruler.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id52
sentence:
For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honourable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proteus.'


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id53
sentence:
Proetus,' said she,' kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.'


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id54
sentence:
The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduction, written on a folded tablet, and containing much ill against the bearer.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id55
sentence:
He bade Bellerophon show these letters to his father- in- law, to the end that he might thus perish; Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id56
sentence:
"When he reached the river Xanthus, which is in Lycia, the king received him with all goodwill, feasted him nine days, and killed nine heifers in his honour, but when rosy- fingered morning appeared upon the tenth day, he questioned him and desired to see the letter from his son- in- law Proetus.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id57
sentence:
When he had received the wicked letter he first commanded Bellerophon to kill that savage monster, the Chimaera, who was not a human being, but a goddess, for she had the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent, while her body was that of a goat, and she breathed forth flames of fire; but Bellerophon slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id59
sentence:
Thirdly, he killed the Amazons, women who were the peers of men, and as he was returning thence the king devised yet another plan for his destruction; he picked the bravest warriors in all Lycia, and placed them in ambuscade, but not a man ever came back, for Bellerophon killed every one of them.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id60
sentence:
Then the king knew that he must be the valiant offspring of a god, so he kept him in Lycia, gave him his daughter in marriage, and made him of equal honour in the kingdom with himself; and the Lycians gave him a piece of land, the best in all the country, fair with vineyards and tilled fields, to have and to hold.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id62
sentence:
Jove, the lord of counsel, lay with Laodameia, and she bore him noble Sarpedon; but when Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnawing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id63
sentence:
Mars, insatiate of battle, killed his son Isander while he was fighting the Solymi; his daughter was killed by Diana of the golden reins, for she was angered with her; but Hippolochus was father to myself, and when he sent me to Troy he urged me again and again to fight ever among the foremost and outvie my peers, so as not to shame the blood of my fathers who were the noblest in Ephyra and in all Lycia.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id69
sentence:
Oeneus gave a belt rich with purple, and Bellerophon a double cup, which I left at home when I set out for Troy.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id70
sentence:
I do not remember Tydeus, for he was taken from us while I was yet a child, when the army of the Achaeans was cut to pieces before Thebes.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id71
sentence:
Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another 's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and allies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id72
sentence:
With these words they sprang from their chariots, grasped one another 's hands, and plighted friendship.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id73
sentence:
But the son of Saturn made Glaucus take leave of his wits, for he exchanged golden armour for bronze, the worth of a hundred head of cattle for the worth of nine.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id74
sentence:
Now when Hector reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, the wives and daughters of the Trojans came running towards him to ask after their sons, brothers, kinsmen, and husbands: he told them to set about praying to the gods, and many were made sorrowful as they heard him.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id76
sentence:
In it there were fifty bedchambers— all of hewn stone— built near one another, where the sons of Priam slept, each with his wedded wife.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id77
sentence:
Opposite these, on the other side the courtyard, there were twelve upper rooms also of hewn stone for Priam 's daughters, built near one another, where his sons- in- law slept with their wives.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id80
sentence:
Are the Achaeans, woe betide them, pressing you hard about the city that you have thought fit to come and uplift your hands to Jove from the citadel?


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id81
sentence:
Wait till I can bring you wine that you may make offering to Jove and to the other immortals, and may then drink and be refreshed.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id82
sentence:
Wine gives a man fresh strength when he is wearied, as you now are with fighting on behalf of your kinsmen."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id84
sentence:
I dare not make a drink- offering to Jove with unwashed hands; one who is bespattered with blood and filth may not pray to the son of Saturn.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id85
sentence:
Get the matrons together, and go with offerings to the temple of Minerva driver of the spoil; there, upon the knees of Minerva, lay the largest and fairest robe you have in your house— the one you set most store by; promise, moreover, to sacrifice twelve yearling heifers that have never yet felt the goad, in the temple of the goddess if she will take pity on the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans, and keep the son of Tydeus from off the goodly city of Ilius, for he fights with fury, and fills men 's souls with panic.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id87
sentence:
Would that the earth might open her jaws and swallow him, for Jove bred him to be the bane of the Trojans, and of Priam and Priam 's sons.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id90
sentence:
His mother went into the house and called her waiting- women who gathered the matrons throughout the city.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id91
sentence:
She then went down into her fragrant store- room, where her embroidered robes were kept, the work of Sidonian women, whom Alexandrus had brought over from Sidon when he sailed the seas upon that voyage during which he carried off Helen.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id92
sentence:
Hecuba took out the largest robe, and the one that was most beautifully enriched with embroidery, as an offering to Minerva: it glittered like a star, and lay at the very bottom of the chest.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id94
sentence:
When they reached the temple of Minerva, lovely Theano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors, for the Trojans had made her priestess of Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id95
sentence:
The women lifted up their hands to the goddess with a loud cry, and Theano took the robe to lay it upon the knees of Minerva, praying the while to the daughter of great Jove."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id96
sentence:
Holy Minerva," she cried," protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of Diomed and lay him low before the Scaean gates.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id97
sentence:
Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id99
sentence:
While they were thus praying to the daughter of great Jove, Hector went to the fair house of Alexandrus, which he had built for him by the foremost builders in the land.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id100
sentence:
They had built him his house, storehouse, and courtyard near those of Priam and Hector on the acropolis.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id101
sentence:
Here Hector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id102
sentence:
He found Alexandrus within the house, busied about his armour, his shield and cuirass, and handling his curved bow; there, too, sat Argive Helen with her women, setting them their several tasks; and as Hector saw him he rebuked him with words of scorn. "


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id103
sentence:
Sir," said he," you do ill to nurse this rancour; the people perish fighting round this our town; you would yourself chide one whom you saw shirking his part in the combat.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id105
sentence:
And Alexandrus answered," Hector, your rebuke is just; listen therefore, and believe me when I tell you that I am not here so much through rancour or ill- will towards the Trojans, as from a desire to indulge my grief.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id106
sentence:
My wife was even now gently urging me to battle, and I hold it better that I should go, for victory is ever fickle.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id110
sentence:
Brother," said she," to my abhorred and sinful self, would that a whirlwind had caught me up on the day my mother brought me forth, and had borne me to some mountain or to the waves of the roaring sea that should have swept me away


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id112
sentence:
But, since the gods have devised these evils, would, at any rate, that I had been wife to a better man— to one who could smart under dishonour and men 's evil speeches.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id113
sentence:
This fellow was never yet to be depended upon, nor never will be, and he will surely reap what he has sown.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id114
sentence:
Still, brother, come in and rest upon this seat, for it is you who bear the brunt of that toil that has been caused by my hateful self and by the sin of Alexandrus— both of whom Jove has doomed to be a theme of song among those that shall be born hereafter."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id117
sentence:
I am in haste to help the Trojans, who miss me greatly when I am not among them; but urge your husband, and of his own self also let him make haste to overtake me before I am out of the city.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id118
sentence:
I must go home to see my household, my wife and my little son, for I know not whether I shall ever again return to them, or whether the gods will cause me to fill by the hands of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id120
sentence:
He did not find Andromache, for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id121
sentence:
Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women 's rooms and said," Women, tell me, and tell me true, where did Andromache go when she left the house?


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id124
sentence:
His good housekeeper answered," Hector, since you bid me tell you truly, she did not go to your sisters nor to your brothers ' wives, nor yet to the temple of Minerva, where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess, but she is on the high wall of Ilius, for she had heard the Trojans were being hard pressed, and that the Achaeans were in great force :she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id125
sentence:
Hector hurried from the house when she had done speaking, and went down the streets by the same way that he had come.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id126
sentence:
When he had gone through the city and had reached the Scaean gates through which he would go out on to the plain, his wife came running towards him, Andromache, daughter of great Eetion who ruled in Thebe under the wooded slopes of Mt. Placus, and was king of the Cilicians.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id127
sentence:
His daughter had married Hector, and now came to meet him with a nurse who carried his little child in her bosom— a mere babe.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id129
sentence:
Hector had named him Scamandrius, but the people called him Astyanax, for his father stood alone as chief guardian of Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id130
sentence:
Hector smiled as he looked upon the boy, but he did not speak, and Andromache stood by him weeping and taking his hand in her own. "


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id131
sentence:
Dear husband," said she," your valour will bring you to destruction; think on your infant son, and on my hapless self who ere long shall be your widow— for the Achaeans will set upon you in a body and kill you.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id132
sentence:
It would be better for me, should I lose you, to lie dead and buried, for I shall have nothing left to comfort me when you are gone, save only sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id135
sentence:
He slew him, but did not for very shame despoil him; when he had burned him in his wondrous armour, he raised a barrow over his ashes and the mountain nymphs, daughters of aegis- bearing Jove, planted a grove of elms about his tomb.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id136
sentence:
I had seven brothers in my father 's house, but on the same day they all went within the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id138
sentence:
My mother— her who had been queen of all the land under Mt. Placus— he brought hither with the spoil, and freed her for a great sum, but the archer- queen Diana took her in the house of your father.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id139
sentence:
Nay— Hector— you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband— have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig- tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id140
sentence:
Thrice have the bravest of them come thither and assailed it, under the two Ajaxes, Idomeneus, the sons of Atreus, and the brave son of Tydeus, either of their own bidding, or because some soothsayer had told them."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id141
sentence:
And Hector answered," Wife, I too have thought upon all this, but with what face should I look upon the Trojans, men or women, if I shirked battle like a coward?


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id142
sentence:
I can not do so :I know nothing save to fight bravely in the forefront of the Trojan host and win renown alike for my father and myself.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id143
sentence:
Well do I know that the day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be destroyed with Priam and Priam 's people, but I grieve for none of these— not even for Hecuba, nor King Priam, nor for my brothers many and brave who may fall in the dust before their foes— for none of these do I grieve as for yourself when the day shall come on which some one of the Achaeans shall rob you for ever of your freedom, and bear you weeping away.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id144
sentence:
It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated brutally by some cruel task- master; then will one say who sees you weeping,' She was wife to Hector, the bravest warrior among the Trojans during the war before Ilius.'


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id145
sentence:
On this your tears will break forth anew for him who would have put away the day of captivity from you.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id148
sentence:
He stretched his arms towards his child, but the boy cried and nestled in his nurse 's bosom, scared at the sight of his father 's armour, and at the horse- hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id149
sentence:
His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id150
sentence:
Then he took his darling child, kissed him, and dandled him in his arms, praying over him the while to Jove and to all the gods.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id151
sentence:
"Jove," he cried," grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id153
sentence:
May he bring back the blood- stained spoils of him whom he has laid low, and let his mother 's heart be glad."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id154
sentence:
With this he laid the child again in the arms of his wife, who took him to her own soft bosom, smiling through her tears.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id155
sentence:
As her husband watched her his heart yearned towards her and he caressed her fondly, saying," My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id156
sentence:
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man 's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward ,there is no escape for him when he has once been born.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id157
sentence:
Go, then, within the house, and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants; for war is man 's matter, and mine above all others of them that have been born in Ilius."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id158
sentence:
He took his plumed helmet from the ground, and his wife went back again to her house, weeping bitterly and often looking back towards him.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id159
sentence:
When she reached her home she found her maidens within, and bade them all join in her lament; so they mourned Hector in his own house though he was yet alive, for they deemed that they should never see him return safe from battle, and from the furious hands of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id161
sentence:
He donned his goodly armour overlaid with bronze, and hasted through the city as fast as his feet could take him.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id162
sentence:
As a horse, stabled and fed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to the place where he is wo nt to bathe in the fair- flowing river— he holds his head high, and his mane streams upon his shoulders as he exults in his strength and flies like the wind to the haunts and feeding ground of the mares— even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming like sunlight in his armour, and he laughed aloud as he sped swiftly on his way.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id163
sentence:
Forthwith he came upon his brother Hector, who was then turning away from the place where he had held converse with his wife, and he was himself the first to speak. "


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id164
sentence:
Sir," said he," I fear that I have kept you waiting when you are in haste, and have not come as quickly as you bade me."


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id165
sentence:
"My good brother," answered Hector," you fight bravely, and no man with any justice can make light of your doings in battle.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id167
sentence:
It grieves me to the heart to hear the ill that the Trojans speak about you, for they have suffered much on your account.


title: homer-iliad_06
idx: id168
sentence:
Let us be going, and we will make things right hereafter, should Jove vouchsafe us to set the cup of our deliverance before ever- living gods of heaven in our own homes, when we have chased the Achaeans from Troy."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id1
sentence:
Hector and Ajax fight—Hector is getting worsted when night comes on and parts them—They exchange presents—The burial of the dead, and the building of a wall round their ships by the Achaeans—The Achaeans buy their wine of Agamemnon and Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id2
sentence:
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother Alexandrus with him, both eager for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id3
sentence:
As when heaven sends a breeze to sailors who have long looked for one in vain, and have laboured at their oars till they are faint with toil, even so welcome was the sight of these two heroes to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id4
sentence:
Thereon Alexandrus killed Menesthius the son of Areithous; he lived in Arne, and was son of Areithous the Mace- man, and of Phylomedusa.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id5
sentence:
Hector threw a spear at Eioneus and struck him dead with a wound in the neck under the bronze rim of his helmet.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id6
sentence:
Glaucus, moreover, son of Hippolochus, captain of the Lycians, in hard hand- to- hand fight smote Iphinous son of Dexius on the shoulder, as he was springing on to his chariot behind his fleet mares; so he fell to earth from the car, and there was no life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id7
sentence:
When, therefore, Minerva saw these men making havoc of the Argives, she darted down to Ilius from the summits of Olympus, and Apollo, who was looking on from Pergamus, went out to meet her; for he wanted the Trojans to be victorious.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id9
sentence:
"What would you have," said he," daughter of great Jove, that your proud spirit has sent you hither from Olympus?


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id10
sentence:
Have you no pity upon the Trojans, and would you incline the scales of victory in favour of the Danaans?


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id11
sentence:
Let me persuade you— for it will be better thus— stay the combat for to- day, but let them renew the fight hereafter till they compass the doom of Ilius, since you goddesses have made up your minds to destroy the city."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id15
sentence:
Apollo, son of Jove, replied," Let us incite great Hector to challenge some one of the Danaans in single combat; on this the Achaeans will be shamed into finding a man who will fight him."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id16
sentence:
Minerva assented, and Helenus son of Priam divined the counsel of the gods; he therefore went up to Hector and said," Hector son of Priam, peer of gods in counsel, I am your brother, let me then persuade you.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id17
sentence:
Bid the other Trojans and Achaeans all of them take their seats, and challenge the best man among the Achaeans to meet you in single combat.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id19
sentence:
Hector was glad when he heard this saying, and went in among the Trojans, grasping his spear by the middle to hold them back, and they all sat down.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id21
sentence:
But Minerva and Apollo, in the likeness of vultures, perched on father Jove 's high oak tree, proud of their men; and the ranks sat close ranged together, bristling with shield and helmet and spear.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id22
sentence:
As when the rising west wind furs the face of the sea and the waters grow dark beneath it, so sat the companies of Trojans and Achaeans upon the plain.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id23
sentence:
And Hector spoke thus:— "Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, that I may speak even as I am minded; Jove on his high throne has brought our oaths and covenants to nothing, and foreshadows ill for both of us, till you either take the towers of Troy, or are yourselves vanquished at your ships.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id24
sentence:
The princes of the Achaeans are here present in the midst of you; let him, then, that will fight me stand forward as your champion against Hector.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id26
sentence:
If your champion slay me, let him strip me of my armour and take it to your ships, but let him send my body home that the Trojans and their wives may give me my dues of fire when I am dead.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id27
sentence:
In like manner, if Apollo vouchsafe me glory and I slay your champion, I will strip him of his armour and take it to the city of Ilius, where I will hang it in the temple of Apollo, but I will give up his body, that the Achaeans may bury him at their ships, and the build him a mound by the wide waters of the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id28
sentence:
Then will one say hereafter as he sails his ship over the sea,' This is the monument of one who died long since a champion who was slain by mighty Hector.'


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id30
sentence:
Thus did he speak, but they all held their peace, ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it, till at last Menelaus rose and rebuked them, for he was angry."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id31
sentence:
Alas," he cried," vain braggarts, women forsooth not men, double- dyed indeed will be the stain upon us if no man of the Danaans will now face Hector.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id32
sentence:
May you be turned every man of you into earth and water as you sit spiritless and inglorious in your places.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id33
sentence:
I will myself go out against this man, but the upshot of the fight will be from on high in the hands of the immortal gods."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id34
sentence:
With these words he put on his armour; and then, O Menelaus, your life would have come to an end at the hands of hands of Hector, for he was far better the man, had not the princes of the Achaeans sprung upon you and checked you.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id35
sentence:
King Agamemnon caught him by the right hand and said," Menelaus, you are mad; a truce to this folly.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id36
sentence:
Be patient in spite of passion, do not think of fighting a man so much stronger than yourself as Hector son of Priam, who is feared by many another as well as you.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id38
sentence:
Sit down your own people, and the Achaeans will send some other champion to fight Hector; fearless and fond of battle though he be, I ween his knees will bend gladly under him if he comes out alive from the hurly- burly of this fight."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id39
sentence:
With these words of reasonable counsel he persuaded his brother, whereon his squires gladly stripped the armour from off his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id41
sentence:
The old knight Peleus, counsellor and orator among the Myrmidons, loved when I was in his house to question me concerning the race and lineage of all the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id43
sentence:
Many a time would he lift his hands in prayer that his soul might leave his body and go down within the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id44
sentence:
Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I were still young and strong as when the Pylians and Arcadians were gathered in fight by the rapid river Celadon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanus.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id45
sentence:
The godlike hero Ereuthalion stood forward as their champion, with the armour of King Areithous upon his shoulders— Areithous whom men and women had surnamed' the Mace- man,' because he fought neither with bow nor spear, but broke the battalions of the foe with his iron mace.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id46
sentence:
Lycurgus killed him, not in fair fight, but by entrapping him in a narrow way where his mace served him in no stead; for Lycurgus was too quick for him and speared him through the middle, so he fell to earth on his back.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id47
sentence:
Lycurgus then spoiled him of the armour which Mars had given him, and bore it in battle thenceforward; but when he grew old and stayed at home, he gave it to his faithful squire Ereuthalion, who in this same armour challenged the foremost men among us.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id48
sentence:
The others quaked and quailed, but my high spirit bade me fight him though none other would venture; I was the youngest man of them all; but when I fought him Minerva vouchsafed me victory.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id49
sentence:
He was the biggest and strongest man that ever I killed, and covered much ground as he lay sprawling upon the earth.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id50
sentence:
Would that I were still young and strong as I then was, for the son of Priam would then soon find one who would face him.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id51
sentence:
But you, foremost among the whole host though you be, have none of you any stomach for fighting Hector."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id54
sentence:
Next were the two Ajaxes, men clothed in valour as with a garment, and then Idomeneus, and Meriones his brother in arms.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id57
sentence:
If he come alive out of this fight he will have done good service alike to his own soul and to the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id58
sentence:
Thus he spoke, and when each of them had marked his lot, and had thrown it into the helmet of Agamemnon son of Atreus, the people lifted their hands in prayer, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven," Father Jove, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon the king of rich Mycene himself."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id59
sentence:
As they were speaking, Nestor knight of Gerene shook the helmet, and from it there fell the very lot which they wanted— the lot of Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id60
sentence:
The herald bore it about and showed it to all the chieftains of the Achaeans, going from left to right; but they none of them owned it.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id61
sentence:
When, however, in due course he reached the man who had written upon it and had put it into the helmet, brave Ajax held out his hand, and the herald gave him the lot.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id62
sentence:
When Ajax saw his mark he knew it and was glad; he threw it to the ground and said," My friends, the lot is mine, and I rejoice, for I shall vanquish Hector.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id63
sentence:
I will put on my armour; meanwhile, pray to King Jove in silence among yourselves that the Trojans may not hear you— or aloud if you will, for we fear no man.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id64
sentence:
None shall overcome me, neither by force nor cunning, for I was born and bred in Salamis, and can hold my own in all things."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id65
sentence:
With this they fell praying to King Jove the son of Saturn, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven," Father Jove that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, vouchsafe victory to Ajax, and let him win great glory: but if you wish well to Hector also and would protect him, grant to each of them equal fame and prowess."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id67
sentence:
When he was in full array he sprang forward as monstrous Mars when he takes part among men whom Jove has set fighting with one another— even so did huge Ajax, bulwark of the Achaeans, spring forward with a grim smile on his face as he brandished his long spear and strode onward.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id68
sentence:
The Argives were elated as they beheld him, but the Trojans trembled in every limb, and the heart even of Hector beat quickly, but he could not now retreat and withdraw into the ranks behind him, for he had been the challenger.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id69
sentence:
Ajax came up bearing his shield in front of him like a wall— a shield of bronze with seven folds of oxhide— the work of Tychius, who lived in Hyle and was by far the best worker in leather.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id70
sentence:
He had made it with the hides of seven full- fed bulls, and over these he had set an eighth layer of bronze.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id71
sentence:
Holding this shield before him, Ajax son of Telamon came close up to Hector, and menaced him saying," Hector, you shall now learn, man to man, what kind of champions the Danaans have among them even besides lion- hearted Achilles cleaver of the ranks of men.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id72
sentence:
He now abides at the ships in anger with Agamemnon shepherd of his people, but there are many of us who are well able to face you; therefore begin the fight."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id73
sentence:
And Hector answered," Noble Ajax, son of Telamon, captain of the host, treat me not as though I were some puny boy or woman that can not fight.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id75
sentence:
I am quick to turn my leathern shield either to right or left, for this I deem the main thing in battle.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id76
sentence:
I can charge among the chariots and horsemen, and in hand to hand fighting can delight the heart of Mars; howbeit I would not take such a man as you are off his guard— but I will smite you openly if I can."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id78
sentence:
It struck the sevenfold shield in its outermost layer— the eighth, which was of bronze— and went through six of the layers but in the seventh hide it stayed.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id80
sentence:
The terrible spear went through his gleaming shield, and pressed onward through his cuirass of cunning workmanship; it pierced the shirt against his side, but he swerved and thus saved his life.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id81
sentence:
They then each of them drew out the spear from his shield, and fell on one another like savage lions or wild boars of great strength and endurance: the son of Priam struck the middle of Ajax 's shield, but the bronze did not break, and the point of his dart was turned.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id82
sentence:
Ajax then sprang forward and pierced the shield of Hector; the spear went through it and staggered him as he was springing forward to attack; it gashed his neck and the blood came pouring from the wound, but even so Hector did not cease fighting; he gave ground, and with his brawny hand seized a stone, rugged and huge, that was lying upon the plain; with this he struck the shield of Ajax on the boss that was in its middle, so that the bronze rang again.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id84
sentence:
This millstone of a rock broke Hector 's shield inwards and threw him down on his back with the shield crushing him under it, but Apollo raised him at once.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id85
sentence:
Thereon they would have hacked at one another in close combat with their swords, had not heralds, messengers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans— Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men; these parted them with their staves, and the good herald Idaeus said," My sons, fight no longer, you are both of you valiant, and both are dear to Jove; we know this; but night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id86
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon answered," Idaeus, bid Hector say so, for it was he that challenged our princes.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id88
sentence:
Then Hector said," Ajax, heaven has vouchsafed you stature and strength, and judgement; and in wielding the spear you excel all others of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id89
sentence:
Let us for this day cease fighting; hereafter we will fight anew till heaven decide between us, and give victory to one or to the other; night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id90
sentence:
Gladden, then, the hearts of the Achaeans at your ships, and more especially those of your own followers and clansmen, while I, in the great city of King Priam, bring comfort to the Trojans and their women, who vie with one another in their prayers on my behalf.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id91
sentence:
Let us, moreover, exchange presents that it may be said among the Achaeans and Trojans,' They fought with might and main, but were reconciled and parted in friendship.'"


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id92
sentence:
On this he gave Ajax a silver- studded sword with its sheath and leathern baldric, and in return Ajax gave him a girdle dyed with purple.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id93
sentence:
Thus they parted, the one going to the host of the Achaeans, and the other to that of the Trojans, who rejoiced when they saw their hero come to them safe and unharmed from the strong hands of mighty Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id96
sentence:
When they reached the quarters of the son of Atreus, Agamemnon sacrificed for them a five- year- old bull in honour of Jove the son of Saturn.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id97
sentence:
They flayed the carcass, made it ready, and divided it into joints; these they cut carefully up into smaller pieces, putting them on the spits, roasting them sufficiently, and then drawing them off.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id98
sentence:
When they had done all this and had prepared the feast, they ate it, and every man had his full and equal share, so that all were satisfied, and King Agamemnon gave Ajax some slices cut lengthways down the loin, as a mark of special honour.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id99
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, old Nestor whose counsel was ever truest began to speak; with all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:— "Son of Atreus, and other chieftains, inasmuch as many of the Achaeans are now dead, whose blood Mars has shed by the banks of the Scamander, and their souls have gone down to the house of Hades, it will be well when morning comes that we should cease fighting; we will then wheel our dead together with oxen and mules and burn them not far from the ships, that when we sail hence we may take the bones of our comrades home to their children.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id100
sentence:
Hard by the funeral pyre we will build a barrow that shall be raised from the plain for all in common; near this let us set about building a high wall, to shelter ourselves and our ships, and let it have well- made gates that there may be a way through them for our chariots.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id101
sentence:
Close outside we will dig a deep trench all round it to keep off both horse and foot, that the Trojan chieftains may not bear hard upon us."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id103
sentence:
Meanwhile the Trojans held a council, angry and full of discord, on the acropolis by the gates of King Priam 's palace; and wise Antenor spoke. "


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id105
sentence:
Let us give up Argive Helen and her wealth to the sons of Atreus, for we are now fighting in violation of our solemn covenants, and shall not prosper till we have done as I say."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id107
sentence:
Antenor," said he," your words are not to my liking; you can find a better saying than this if you will; if, however, you have spoken in good earnest, then indeed has heaven robbed you of your reason.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id108
sentence:
I will speak plainly, and hereby notify to the Trojans that I will not give up the woman; but the wealth that I brought home with her from Argos I will restore, and will add yet further of my own."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id109
sentence:
On this, when Paris had spoken and taken his seat, Priam of the race of Dardanus, peer of gods in council, rose and with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:" Hear me, Trojans, Dardanians, and allies, that I may speak even as I am minded.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id111
sentence:
At daybreak let Idaeus go to the ships, and tell Agamemnon and Menelaus sons of Atreus the saying of Alexandrus through whom this quarrel has come about; and let him also be instant with them that they now cease fighting till we burn our dead; hereafter we will fight anew, till heaven decide between us and give victory to one or to the other."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id114
sentence:
He found the Danaans, servants of Mars, in council at the stern of Agamemnon 's ship, and took his place in the midst of them."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id115
sentence:
Son of Atreus," he said," and princes of the Achaean host, Priam and the other noble Trojans have sent me to tell you the saying of Alexandrus through whom this quarrel has come about, if so be that you may find it acceptable.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id116
sentence:
All the treasure he took with him in his ships to Troy— would that he had sooner perished— he will restore, and will add yet further of his own, but he will not give up the wedded wife of Menelaus, though the Trojans would have him do so.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id117
sentence:
Priam bade me inquire further if you will cease fighting till we burn our dead; hereafter we will fight anew, till heaven decide between us and give victory to one or to the other."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id118
sentence:
They all held their peace, but presently Diomed of the loud war- cry spoke, saying," Let there be no taking, neither treasure, nor yet Helen ,for even a child may see that the doom of the Trojans is at hand."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id119
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans shouted applause at the words that Diomed had spoken, and thereon King Agamemnon said to Idaeus," Idaeus, you have heard the answer the Achaeans make you-


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id121
sentence:
But as concerning the dead, I give you leave to burn them, for when men are once dead there should be no grudging them the rites of fire.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id123
sentence:
As he spoke he upheld his sceptre in the sight of all the gods, and Idaeus went back to the strong city of Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id124
sentence:
The Trojans and Dardanians were gathered in council waiting his return; when he came, he stood in their midst and delivered his message.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id125
sentence:
As soon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id126
sentence:
The Argives on their part also hastened from their ships, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id127
sentence:
The sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, fresh risen into the vault of heaven from the slow still currents of deep Oceanus, when the two armies met.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id128
sentence:
They could hardly recognise their dead, but they washed the clotted gore from off them, shed tears over them, and lifted them upon their waggons.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id129
sentence:
Priam had forbidden the Trojans to wail aloud, so they heaped their dead sadly and silently upon the pyre, and having burned them went back to the city of Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id130
sentence:
The Achaeans in like manner heaped their dead sadly and silently on the pyre, and having burned them went back to their ships.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id131
sentence:
Now in the twilight when it was not yet dawn, chosen bands of the Achaeans were gathered round the pyre and built one barrow that was raised in common for all, and hard by this they built a high wall to shelter themselves and their ships; they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id132
sentence:
Thus did the Achaeans toil, and the gods, seated by the side of Jove the lord of lightning, marvelled at their great work; but Neptune, lord of the earthquake, spoke, saying," Father Jove, what mortal in the whole world will again take the gods into his counsel?


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id133
sentence:
See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods?


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id134
sentence:
The fame of this wall will reach as far as dawn itself, and men will no longer think anything of the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id136
sentence:
A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id137
sentence:
Surely when the Achaeans have gone home with their ships, you can shatter their wall and fling it into the sea; you can cover the beach with sand again, and the great wall of the Achaeans will then be utterly effaced."


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id138
sentence:
Thus did they converse, and by sunset the work of the Achaeans was completed; they then slaughtered oxen at their tents and got their supper.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id139
sentence:
Many ships had come with wine from Lemnos, sent by Euneus the son of Jason, born to him by Hypsipyle.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id140
sentence:
The son of Jason freighted them with ten thousand measures of wine, which he sent specially to the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id141
sentence:
From this supply the Achaeans bought their wine, some with bronze, some with iron, some with hides, some with whole heifers, and some again with captives.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id142
sentence:
They spread a goodly banquet and feasted the whole night through, as also did the Trojans and their allies in the city.


title: homer-iliad_07
idx: id144
sentence:
Pale fear got hold upon them, and they spilled the wine from their cups on to the ground, nor did any dare drink till he had made offerings to the most mighty son of Saturn.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id2
sentence:
Now when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the ships, he left them to their never- ending toil, and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horse- breeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble Hippemolgi, who live on milk, and the Abians, justest of mankind.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id3
sentence:
He no longer turned so much as a glance towards Troy, for he did not think that any of the immortals would go and help either Trojans or Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id4
sentence:
But King Neptune had kept no blind look- out; he had been looking admiringly on the battle from his seat on the topmost crests of wooded Samothrace, whence he could see all Ida, with the city of Priam and the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id5
sentence:
He had come from under the sea and taken his place here, for he pitied the Achaeans who were being overcome by the Trojans; and he was furiously angry with Jove.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id6
sentence:
Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked beneath the tread of his immortal feet.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id7
sentence:
Three strides he took, and with the fourth he reached his goal— Aegae, where is his glittering golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id8
sentence:
When he got there, he yoked his fleet brazen- footed steeds with their manes of gold all flying in the wind; he clothed himself in raiment of gold, grasped his gold whip, and took his stand upon his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id9
sentence:
As he went his way over the waves the sea- monsters left their lairs, for they knew their lord, and came gambolling round him from every quarter of the deep, while the sea in her gladness opened a path before his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id10
sentence:
So lightly did the horses fly that the bronze axle of the car was not even wet beneath it; and thus his bounding steeds took him to the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id11
sentence:
Now there is a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbrus; here Neptune lord of the earthquake stayed his horses, unyoked them, and set before them their ambrosial forage.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id12
sentence:
He hobbled their feet with hobbles of gold which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place until their lord should return.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id14
sentence:
Now the Trojans followed Hector son of Priam in close array like a storm- cloud or flame of fire, fighting with might and main and raising the cry battle; for they deemed that they should take the ships of the Achaeans and kill all their chiefest heroes then and there.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id16
sentence:
encircling Neptune lord of the earthquake cheered on the Argives, for he had come up out of the sea and had assumed the form and voice of Calchas.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id17
sentence:
First he spoke to the two Ajaxes, who were doing their best already, and said," Ajaxes, you two can be the saving of the Achaeans if you will put out all your strength and not let yourselves be daunted.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id18
sentence:
I am not afraid that the Trojans, who have got over the wall in force, will be victorious in any other part, for the Achaeans can hold all of them in check, but I much fear that some evil will befall us here where furious Hector, who boasts himself the son of great Jove himself, is leading them on like a pillar of flame.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id19
sentence:
May some god, then, put it into your hearts to make a firm stand here, and to incite others to do the like.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id21
sentence:
As he spoke the earth- encircling lord of the earthquake struck both of them with his sceptre and filled their hearts with daring.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id23
sentence:
Then, as the soaring falcon poises on the wing high above some sheer rock, and presently swoops down to chase some bird over the plain, even so did Neptune lord of the earthquake wing his flight into the air and leave them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id24
sentence:
Of the two, swift Ajax son of Oileus was the first to know who it was that had been speaking with them, and said to Ajax son of Telamon," Ajax, this is one of the gods that dwell on Olympus, who in the likeness of the prophet is bidding us fight hard by our ships.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id25
sentence:
It was not Calchas the seer and diviner of omens; I knew him at once by his feet and knees as he turned away, for the gods are soon recognised.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id26
sentence:
Moreover I feel the lust of battle burn more fiercely within me, while my hands and my feet under me are more eager for the fray."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id27
sentence:
And Ajax son of Telamon answered," I too feel my hands grasp my spear more firmly; my strength is greater, and my feet more nimble; I long, moreover, to meet furious Hector son of Priam, even in single combat."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id29
sentence:
Meanwhile the earth- encircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id30
sentence:
Tears began falling from their eyes as they beheld them, for they made sure that they should not escape destruction; but the lord of the earthquake passed lightly about among them and urged their battalions to the front.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id31
sentence:
First he went up to Teucer and Leitus, the hero Peneleos, and Thoas and Deipyrus; Meriones also and Antilochus, valiant warriors; all did he exhort. "


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id32
sentence:
Shame on you young Argives," he cried," it was on your prowess I relied for the saving of our ships; if you fight not with might and main, this very day will see us overcome by the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id33
sentence:
Of a truth my eyes behold a great and terrible portent which I had never thought to see— the Trojans at our ships— they, who were heretofore like panic- stricken hinds, the prey of jackals and wolves in a forest, with no strength but in flight for they can not defend themselves.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id34
sentence:
Hitherto the Trojans dared not for one moment face the attack of the Achaeans, but now they have sallied far from their city and are fighting at our very ships through the cowardice of our leader and the disaffection of the people themselves, who in their discontent care not to fight in defence of the ships but are being slaughtered near them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id35
sentence:
True, King Agamemnon son of Atreus is the cause of our disaster by having insulted the son of Peleus, still this is no reason why we should leave off fighting.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id38
sentence:
I blame no man for keeping out of battle if he is a weakling, but I am indignant with such men as you are.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id39
sentence:
My good friends, matters will soon become even worse through this slackness; think, each one of you, of his own honour and credit, for the hazard of the fight is extreme.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id40
sentence:
Great Hector is now fighting at our ships; he has broken through the gates and the strong bolt that held them."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id42
sentence:
Thereon round the two Ajaxes there gathered strong bands of men, of whom not even Mars nor Minerva, marshaller of hosts could make light if they went among them, for they were the picked men of all those who were now awaiting the onset of Hector and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id43
sentence:
They made a living fence, spear to spear, shield to shield, buckler to buckler, helmet to helmet, and man to man.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id44
sentence:
The horse- hair crests on their gleaming helmets touched one another as they nodded forward, so closely serried were they; the spears they brandished in their strong hands were interlaced, and their hearts were set on battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id45
sentence:
The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thundering down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further— even so easily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely serried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground ;thereon he shouted to the Trojans," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id47
sentence:
Deiphobus son of Priam went about among them intent on deeds of daring with his round shield before him, under cover of which he strode quickly forward.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id48
sentence:
Meriones took aim at him with a spear, nor did he fail to hit the broad orb of ox- hide; but he was far from piercing it for the spear broke in two pieces


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id49
sentence:
long ere he could do so; moreover Deiphobus had seen it coming and had held his shield well away from him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id50
sentence:
Meriones drew back under cover of his comrades, angry alike at having failed to vanquish Deiphobus, and having broken his spear.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id51
sentence:
He turned therefore towards the ships and tents to fetch a spear which he had left behind in his tent.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id53
sentence:
Teucer son of Telamon was the first to kill his man, to wit, the warrior Imbrius, son of Mentor, rich in horses.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id54
sentence:
Until the Achaeans came he had lived in Pedaeum, and had married Medesicaste, a bastard daughter of Priam; but on the arrival of the Danaan fleet he had gone back to Ilius, and was a great man among the Trojans, dwelling near Priam himself, who gave him like honour with his own sons.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id55
sentence:
The son of Telamon now struck him under the ear with a spear which he then drew back again, and Imbrius fell headlong as an ash- tree when it is felled on the crest of some high mountain beacon, and its delicate green foliage comes toppling down to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id56
sentence:
Thus did he fall with his bronze- dight armour ringing harshly round him, and Teucer sprang forward with intent to strip him of his armour; but as he was doing so, Hector took aim at him with a spear.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id57
sentence:
Teucer saw the spear coming and swerved aside, whereon it hit Amphimachus, son of Cteatus son of Actor, in the chest as he was coming into battle, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id58
sentence:
Hector sprang forward to take Amphimachus 's helmet from off his temples, and in a moment Ajax threw a spear at him, but did not wound him, for he was encased all over in his terrible armour; nevertheless the spear struck the boss of his shield with such force as to drive him back from the two corpses, which the Achaeans then drew off.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id59
sentence:
Stichius and Menestheus, captains of the Athenians, bore away Amphimachus to the host of the Achaeans, while the two brave and impetuous Ajaxes did the like by Imbrius.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id60
sentence:
As two lions snatch a goat from the hounds that have it in their fangs, and bear it through thick brushwood high above the ground in their jaws, thus did the Ajaxes bear aloft the body of Imbrius, and strip it of its armour.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id61
sentence:
Then the son of Oileus severed the head from the neck in revenge for the death of Amphimachus, and sent it whirling over the crowd as though it had been a ball, till it fell in the dust at Hector 's feet.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id62
sentence:
Neptune was exceedingly angry that his grandson Amphimachus should have fallen; he therefore went to the tents and ships of the Achaeans to urge the Danaans still further, and to devise evil for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id63
sentence:
Idomeneus met him, as he was taking leave of a comrade, who had just come to him from the fight, wounded in the knee.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id64
sentence:
His fellow- soldiers bore him off the field, and Idomeneus having given orders to the physicians went on to his tent, for he was still thirsting for battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id65
sentence:
Neptune spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraemon who ruled the Aetolians of all Pleuron and high Calydon, and was honoured among his people as though he were a god."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id66
sentence:
Idomeneus," said he," lawgiver to the Cretans, what has now become of the threats with which the sons of the Achaeans used to threaten the Trojans?"


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id67
sentence:
And Idomeneus chief among the Cretans answered," Thoas, no one, so far as I know, is in fault, for we can all fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id68
sentence:
None are held back neither by fear nor slackness, but it seems to be the will of almighty Jove that the Achaeans should perish ingloriously here far from Argos: you, Thoas, have been always staunch, and you keep others in heart if you see any fail in duty ;be not then remiss now, but exhort all to do their utmost."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id69
sentence:
To this Neptune lord of the earthquake made answer," Idomeneus, may he never return from Troy, but remain here for dogs to batten upon, who is this day wilfully slack in fighting.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id70
sentence:
Get your armour and go, we must make all haste together if we may be of any use, though we are only two.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id72
sentence:
Therewith the god went back into the thick of the fight, and Idomeneus when he had reached his tent donned his armour, grasped his two spears, and sallied forth.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id73
sentence:
As the lightning which the son of Saturn brandishes from bright Olympus when he would show a sign to mortals, and its gleam flashes far and wide— even so did his armour gleam about him as he ran.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id74
sentence:
Meriones his sturdy squire met him while he was still near his tent( for he was going to fetch his spear) and Idomeneus said: "Meriones, fleet son of Molus, best of comrades, why have you left the field?


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id78
sentence:
"Idomeneus," answered Meriones," I come for a spear, if I can find one in my tent; I have broken the one I had, in throwing it at the shield of Deiphobus."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id79
sentence:
And Idomeneus captain of the Cretans answered," You will find one spear, or twenty if you so please, standing up against the end wall of my tent.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id80
sentence:
I have taken them from Trojans whom I have killed, for I am not one to keep my enemy at arm 's length; therefore I have spears, bossed shields, helmets, and burnished corslets."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id81
sentence:
Then Meriones said," I too in my tent and at my ship have spoils taken from the Trojans, but they are not at hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id82
sentence:
I have been at all times valorous, and wherever there has been hard fighting have held my own among the foremost.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id83
sentence:
There may be those among the Achaeans who do not know how I fight, but you know it well enough yourself."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id85
sentence:
If the best men at the ships were being chosen to go on an ambush— and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chattering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action— if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id86
sentence:
If you were struck by a dart or smitten in close combat, it would not be from behind, in your neck nor back, but the weapon would hit you in the chest or belly as you were pressing forward to a place in the front ranks.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id87
sentence:
But let us no longer stay here talking like children, lest we be ill spoken of; go, fetch your spear from the tent at once."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id90
sentence:
As when baneful Mars sallies forth to battle, and his son Panic so strong and dauntless goes with him, to strike terror even into the heart of a hero— the pair have gone from Thrace to arm themselves among the Ephyri or the brave Phlegyans, but they will not listen to both the contending hosts, and will give victory to one side or to the other— even so did Meriones and Idomeneus, captains of men, go out to battle clad in their bronze armour.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id93
sentence:
On the right wing of the host, in the centre, or on the left wing, where I take it the Achaeans will be weakest?" Idomeneus answered," There are others to defend the centre— the two Ajaxes and Teucer, who is the finest archer of all the Achaeans, and is good also in a hand- to- hand fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id94
sentence:
These will give Hector son of Priam enough to do; fight as he may, he will find it hard to vanquish their indomitable fury, and fire the ships, unless the son of Saturn fling a firebrand upon them with his own hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id95
sentence:
Great Ajax son of Telamon will yield to no man who is in mortal mould and eats the grain of Ceres, if bronze and great stones can overthrow him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id96
sentence:
He would not yield even to Achilles in hand- to- hand fight, and in fleetness of foot there is none to beat him; let us turn therefore towards the left wing, that we may know forthwith whether we are to give glory to some other, or he to us."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id97
sentence:
Meriones, peer of fleet Mars, then led the way till they came to the part of the host which Idomeneus had named.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id98
sentence:
Now when the Trojans saw Idomeneus coming on like a flame of fire, him and his squire clad in their richly wrought armour, they shouted and made towards him all in a body, and a furious hand- to- hand fight raged under the ships ' sterns.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id99
sentence:
Fierce as the shrill winds that whistle upon a day when dust lies deep on the roads, and the gusts raise it into a thick cloud— even such was the fury of the combat, and might and main did they hack at each other with spear and sword throughout the host.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id101
sentence:
Dazzling was the sheen of their gleaming helmets, their fresh- burnished breastplates, and glittering shields as they joined battle with one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id102
sentence:
Iron indeed must be his courage who could take pleasure in the sight of such a turmoil, and look on it without being dismayed.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id104
sentence:
Jove was minded to give victory to the Trojans and to Hector, so as to do honour to fleet Achilles, nevertheless he did not mean to utterly overthrow the Achaean host before Ilius, and only wanted to glorify Thetis and her valiant son.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id105
sentence:
Neptune on the other hand went about among the Argives to incite them, having come up from the grey sea in secret, for he was grieved at seeing them vanquished by the Trojans, and was furiously angry with Jove.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id106
sentence:
Both were of the same race and country, but Jove was elder born and knew more, therefore Neptune feared to defend the Argives openly, but in the likeness of man, he kept on encouraging them throughout their host.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id107
sentence:
Thus, then, did these two devise a knot of war and battle, that none could unloose or break, and set both sides tugging at it, to the failing of men 's knees beneath them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id108
sentence:
And now Idomeneus, though his hair was already flecked with grey, called loud on the Danaans and spread panic among the Trojans as he leaped in among them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id110
sentence:
He sought Cassandra, the fairest of Priam 's daughters, in marriage, but offered no gifts of wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would drive the sons of the Achaeans willy nilly from Troy; old King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him, whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus made to him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id112
sentence:
His cuirass of bronze did not protect him, and the spear stuck in his belly, so that he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id113
sentence:
Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying," Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id114
sentence:
We too will make you an offer; we will give you the loveliest daughter of the son of Atreus, and will bring her from Argos for you to marry, if you will sack the goodly city of Ilius in company with ourselves; so come along with me, that we may make a covenant at the ships about the marriage, and we will not be hard upon you about gifts of wooing."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id115
sentence:
With this Idomeneus began dragging him by the foot through the thick of the fight, but Asius came up to protect the body, on foot, in front of his horses which his esquire drove so close behind him that he could feel their breath upon his shoulder.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id116
sentence:
He was longing to strike down Idomeneus, but ere he could do so Idomeneus smote him with his spear in the throat under the chin, and the bronze point went clean through it.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id117
sentence:
He fell as an oak, or poplar, or pine which shipwrights have felled for ship 's timber upon the mountains with whetted axes— even thus did he lie full length in front of his chariot and horses, grinding his teeth and clutching at the bloodstained dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id118
sentence:
His charioteer was struck with panic and did not dare turn his horses round and escape: thereupon Antilochus hit him in the middle of his body with a spear; his cuirass of bronze did not protect him, and the spear stuck in his belly.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id119
sentence:
He fell gasping from his chariot and Antilochus, great Nestor 's son, drove his horses from the Trojans to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id120
sentence:
Deiphobus then came close up to Idomeneus to avenge Asius, and took aim at him with a spear, but Idomeneus was on the look- out and avoided it, for he was covered by the round shield he always bore— a shield of oxhide and bronze with two arm- rods on the inside.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id121
sentence:
He crouched under cover of this, and the spear flew over him, but the shield rang out as the spear grazed it, and the weapon sped not in vain from the strong hand of Deiphobus, for it struck Hypsenor son of Hippasus, shepherd of his people, in the liver under the midriff, and his limbs failed beneath him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id122
sentence:
Deiphobus vaunted over him and cried with a loud voice saying," Of a truth Asius has not fallen unavenged; he will be glad even while passing into the house of Hades, strong warden of the gate, that I have sent some one to escort him."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id124
sentence:
Noble Antilochus was more angry than any one, but grief did not make him forget his friend and comrade.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id125
sentence:
He ran up to him, bestrode him, and covered him with his shield; then two of his staunch comrades, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, stooped down, and bore him away groaning heavily to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id127
sentence:
He kept on striving continually either to enshroud some Trojan in the darkness of death, or himself to fall while warding off the evil day from the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id128
sentence:
Then fell Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes; he was son- in- law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia, who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and understanding, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife— him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when Idomeneus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id129
sentence:
The coat of mail that had hitherto protected his body was now broken, and rang harshly as the spear tore through it.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id130
sentence:
He fell heavily to the ground, and the spear stuck in his heart, which still beat, and made the butt- end of the spear quiver till dread Mars put an end to his life.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id131
sentence:
Idomeneus vaunted over him and cried with a loud voice saying," Deiphobus, since you are in a mood to vaunt, shall we cry quits now that we have killed three men to your one?


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id132
sentence:
Nay, sir, stand in fight with me yourself, that you may learn what manner of Jove- begotten man am I that have come hither.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id134
sentence:
Deucalion begot me to be a ruler over many men in Crete, and my ships have now brought me hither, to be the bane of yourself, your father, and the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id135
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and Deiphobus was in two minds, whether to go back and fetch some other Trojan to help him, or to take up the challenge single- handed.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id136
sentence:
In the end, he deemed it best to go and fetch Aeneas, whom he found standing in the rear, for he had long been aggrieved with Priam because in spite of his brave deeds he did not give him his due share of honour.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id137
sentence:
Deiphobus went up to him and said," Aeneas, prince among the Trojans, if you know any ties of kinship, help me now to defend the body of your sister 's husband; come with me to the rescue of Alcathous, who being husband to your sister brought you up when you were a child in his house, and now Idomeneus has slain him."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id138
sentence:
With these words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in some lonely place— the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eagerness to defend himself against hounds and men— even so did famed Idomeneus hold his ground and budge not at the coming of Aeneas.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id139
sentence:
He cried aloud to his comrades looking towards Ascalaphus, Aphareus, Deipyrus, Meriones, and Antilochus, all of them brave soldiers—"Hither my friends," he cried," and leave me not single- handed— I go in great fear by fleet Aeneas, who is coming against me, and is a redoubtable dispenser of death battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id140
sentence:
Moreover he is in the flower of youth when a man 's strength is greatest; if I was of the same age as he is and in my present mind, either he or I should soon bear away the prize of victory."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id142
sentence:
Aeneas on the other side called to his comrades, looking towards Deiphobus, Paris, and Agenor, who were leaders of the Trojans along with himself, and the people followed them as sheep follow the ram when they go down to drink after they have been feeding, and the heart of the shepherd is glad— even so was the heart of Aeneas gladdened when he saw his people follow him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id143
sentence:
Then they fought furiously in close combat about the body of Alcathous, wielding their long spears; and the bronze armour about their bodies rang fearfully as they took aim at one another in the press of the fight, while the two heroes Aeneas and Idomeneus, peers of Mars, outvied everyone in their desire to hack at each other with sword and spear.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id144
sentence:
Aeneas took aim first, but Idomeneus was on the lookout and avoided the spear, so that it sped from Aeneas ' strong hand in vain, and fell quivering in the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id145
sentence:
Idomeneus meanwhile smote Oenomaus in the middle of his belly, and broke the plate of his corslet, whereon his bowels came gushing out and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id146
sentence:
Idomeneus drew his spear out of the body, but could not strip him of the rest of his armour for the rain of darts that were showered upon him: moreover his strength was now beginning to fail him so that he could no longer charge, and could neither spring forward to recover his own weapon nor swerve aside to avoid one that was aimed at him; therefore, though he still defended himself in hand- to- hand fight, his heavy feet could not bear him swiftly out of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id147
sentence:
Deiphobus aimed a spear at him as he was retreating slowly from the field, for his bitterness against him was as fierce as ever, but again he missed him, and hit Ascalaphus, the son of Mars; the spear went through his shoulder, and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id148
sentence:
Grim Mars of awful voice did not yet know that his son had fallen, for he was sitting on the summits of Olympus under the golden clouds, by command of Jove, where the other gods were also sitting, forbidden to take part in the battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id150
sentence:
Deiphobus tore the helmet from off his head, but Meriones sprang upon him, and struck him on the arm with a spear so that the visored helmet fell from his hand and came ringing down upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id151
sentence:
Thereon Meriones sprang upon him like a vulture, drew the spear from his shoulder, and fell back under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id152
sentence:
Then Polites, own brother of Deiphobus passed his arms around his waist, and bore him away from the battle till he got to his horses that were standing in the rear of the fight with the chariot and their driver.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id155
sentence:
Aeneas sprang on Aphareus son of Caletor, and struck him with a spear in his throat which was turned towards him; his head fell on one side, his helmet and shield came down along with him, and death, life 's foe, was shed around him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id157
sentence:
He laid open the vein that runs all the way up the back to the neck; he cut this vein clean away throughout its whole course, and Thoon fell in the dust face upwards, stretching out his hands imploringly towards his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id158
sentence:
Antilochus sprang upon him and stripped the armour from his shoulders, glaring round him fearfully as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id159
sentence:
The Trojans came about him on every side and struck his broad and gleaming shield, but could not wound his body, for Neptune stood guard over the son of Nestor, though the darts fell thickly round him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id160
sentence:
He was never clear of the foe, but was always in the thick of the fight; his spear was never idle; he poised and aimed it in every direction, so eager was he to hit someone from a distance or to fight him hand to hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id161
sentence:
As he was thus aiming among the crowd, he was seen by Adamas, son of Asius, who rushed towards him and struck him with a spear in the middle of his shield, but Neptune made its point without effect, for he grudged him the life of Antilochus.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id162
sentence:
One half, therefore, of the spear stuck fast like a charred stake in Antilochus 's shield, while the other lay on the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id163
sentence:
Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particularly painful to wretched mortals.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id164
sentence:
There did Meriones transfix him, and he writhed convulsively about the spear as some bull whom mountain herdsmen have bound with ropes of withes and are taking away perforce.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id165
sentence:
Even so did he move convulsively for a while, but not for very long, till Meriones came up and drew the spear out of his body, and his eyes were veiled in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id166
sentence:
Helenus then struck Deipyrus with a great Thracian sword, hitting him on the temple in close combat and tearing the helmet from his head; the helmet fell to the ground, and one of those who were fighting on the Achaean side took charge of it as it rolled at his feet, but the eyes of Deipyrus were closed in the darkness of death.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id167
sentence:
On this Menelaus was grieved, and made menacingly towards Helenus, brandishing his spear; but Helenus drew his bow, and the two attacked one another at one and the same moment, the one with his spear, and the other with his bow and arrow.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id169
sentence:
As black beans or pulse come pattering down on to a threshing- floor from the broad winnowing- shovel, blown by shrill winds and shaken by the shovel— even so did the arrow glance off and recoil from the shield of Menelaus, who in his turn wounded the hand with which Helenus carried his bow; the spear went right through his hand and stuck in the bow itself, so that to his life he retreated under cover of his men, with his hand dragging by his side— for the spear weighed it down till Agenor drew it out and bound the hand carefully up in a woollen sling which his esquire had with him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id170
sentence:
Pisander then made straight at Menelaus— his evil destiny luring him on to his doom, for he was to fall in fight with you, O Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id171
sentence:
When the two were hard by one another the spear of the son of Atreus turned aside and he missed his aim; Pisander then struck the shield of brave Menelaus but could not pierce it, for the shield stayed the spear and broke the shaft; nevertheless he was glad and made sure of victory; forthwith, however, the son of Atreus drew his sword and sprang upon him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id172
sentence:
Pisander then seized the bronze battle- axe, with its long and polished handle of olive wood that hung by his side under his shield, and the two made at one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id173
sentence:
Pisander struck the peak of Menelaus 's crested helmet just under the crest itself, and Menelaus hit Pisander as he was coming towards him, on the forehead, just at the rise of his nose; the bones cracked and his two gore- bedrabbled eyes fell by his feet in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id174
sentence:
He fell backwards to the ground, and Menelaus set his heel upon him, stripped him of his armour, and vaunted over him saying," Even thus shall you Trojans leave the ships of the Achaeans, proud and insatiate of battle though you be, nor shall you lack any of the disgrace and shame which you have heaped upon myself.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id175
sentence:
Cowardly she- wolves that you are ,you feared not the anger of dread Jove, avenger of violated hospitality, who will one day destroy your city; you stole my wedded wife and wickedly carried off much treasure when you were her guest, and now you would fling fire upon our ships, and kill our heroes.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id177
sentence:
O father Jove, you, who they say art above all, both gods and men, in wisdom, and from whom all things that befall us do proceed, how can you thus favour the Trojans— men so proud and overweening, that they are never tired of fighting?


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id178
sentence:
All things pall after a while— sleep, love, sweet song, and stately dance— still these are things of which a man would surely have his fill rather than of battle, whereas it is of battle that the Trojans are insatiate."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id179
sentence:
So saying Menelaus stripped the blood- stained armour from the body of Pisander, and handed it over to his men; then he again ranged himself among those who were in the front of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id180
sentence:
Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father, but he did not go home again.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id181
sentence:
He struck the middle of Menelaus 's shield with his spear but could not pierce it, and to save his life drew back under cover of his men, looking round him on every side lest he should be wounded.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id182
sentence:
But Meriones aimed a bronze- tipped arrow at him as he was leaving the field, and hit him on the right buttock; the arrow pierced the bone through and through, and penetrated the bladder, so he sat down where he was and breathed his last in the arms of his comrades, stretched like a worm upon the ground and watering the earth with the blood that flowed from his wound.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id183
sentence:
The brave Paphlagonians tended him with all due care; they raised him into his chariot, and bore him sadly off to the city of Troy; his father went also with him weeping bitterly, but there was no ransom that could bring his dead son to life again.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id184
sentence:
Paris was deeply grieved by the death of Harpalion, who was his host when he went among the Paphlagonians; he aimed an arrow, therefore, in order to avenge him.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id185
sentence:
Now there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidus the prophet, a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in Corinth.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id186
sentence:
This Euchenor had set sail for Troy well knowing that it would be the death of him, for his good old father Polyidus had often told him that he must either stay at home and die of a terrible disease, or go with the Achaeans and perish at the hands of the Trojans; he chose, therefore, to avoid incurring the heavy fine the Achaeans would have laid upon him, and at the same time to escape the pain and suffering of disease.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id187
sentence:
Paris now smote him on the jaw under his ear, whereon the life went out of him and he was enshrouded in the darkness of death.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id189
sentence:
But Hector had not yet heard, and did not know that the Argives were making havoc of his men on the left wing of the battle, where the Achaeans ere long would have triumphed over them, so vigorously did Neptune cheer them on and help them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id190
sentence:
He therefore held on at the point where he had first forced his way through the gates and the wall, after breaking through the serried ranks of Danaan warriors.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id191
sentence:
It was here that the ships of Ajax and Protesilaus were drawn up by the sea- shore; here the wall was at its lowest, and the fight both of man and horse raged most fiercely.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id192
sentence:
The Boeotians and the Ionians with their long tunics, the Locrians, the men of Phthia, and the famous force of the Epeans could hardly stay Hector as he rushed on towards the ships, nor could they drive him from them, for he was as a wall of fire.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id193
sentence:
The chosen men of the Athenians were in the van, led by Menestheus son of Peteos, with whom were also Pheidas, Stichius, and stalwart Bias; Meges son of Phyleus, Amphion, and Dracius commanded the Epeans, while Medon and staunch Podarces led the men of Phthia.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id194
sentence:
Of these, Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country, for he had killed the brother of his stepmother Eriopis, the wife of Oileus; the other, Podarces, was the son of Iphiclus, son of Phylacus.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id196
sentence:
Ajax son of Oileus, never for a moment left the side of Ajax, son of Telamon, but as two swart oxen both strain their utmost at the plough which they are drawing in a fallow field, and the sweat steams upwards from about the roots of their horns— nothing but the yoke divides them as they break up the ground till they reach the end of the field— even so did the two Ajaxes stand shoulder to shoulder by one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id197
sentence:
Many and brave comrades followed the son of Telamon, to relieve him of his shield when he was overcome with sweat and toil, but the Locrians did not follow so close after the son of Oileus, for they could not hold their own in a hand- to- hand fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id198
sentence:
They had no bronze helmets with plumes of horse- hair, neither had they shields nor ashen spears, but they had come to Troy armed with bows, and with slings of twisted wool from which they showered their missiles to break the ranks of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id199
sentence:
The others, therefore, with their heavy armour bore the brunt of the fight with the Trojans and with Hector, while the Locrians shot from behind, under their cover; and thus the Trojans began to lose heart, for the arrows threw them into confusion.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id200
sentence:
The Trojans would now have been driven in sorry plight from the ships and tents back to windy Ilius, had not Polydamas presently said to Hector," Hector, there is no persuading you to take advice.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id201
sentence:
Because heaven has so richly endowed you with the arts of war, you think that you must therefore excel others in counsel; but you can not thus claim preeminence in all things.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id202
sentence:
Heaven has made one man an excellent soldier; of another it has made a dancer or a singer and player on the lyre; while yet in another Jove has implanted a wise understanding of which men reap fruit to the saving of many, and he himself knows more about it than any one; therefore I will say what I think will be best.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id203
sentence:
The fight has hemmed you in as with a circle of fire, and even now that the Trojans are within the wall some of them stand aloof in full armour, while others are fighting scattered and outnumbered near the ships.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id204
sentence:
Draw back, therefore, and call your chieftains round you, that we may advise together whether to fall now upon the ships in the hope that heaven may vouchsafe us victory, or to beat a retreat while we can yet safely do so.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id205
sentence:
I greatly fear that the Achaeans will pay us their debt of yesterday in full, for there is one abiding at their ships who is never weary of battle, and who will not hold aloof much longer."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id207
sentence:
He sprang in full armour from his chariot and said," Polydamas, gather the chieftains here; I will go yonder into the fight, but will return at once when I have given them their orders."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id208
sentence:
He then sped onward, towering like a snowy mountain, and with a loud cry flew through the ranks of the Trojans and their allies.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id209
sentence:
When they heard his voice they all hastened to gather round Polydamas, the excellent son of Panthous, but Hector kept on among the foremost, looking everywhere to find Deiphobus and prince Helenus, Adamas son of Asius, and Asius son of Hyrtacus; living, indeed, and scatheless he could no longer find them, for the two last were lying by the sterns of the Achaean ships, slain by the Argives, while the others had been also stricken and wounded by them; but upon the left wing of the dread battle he found Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, cheering his men and urging them on to fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id211
sentence:
"Paris," said he," evil- hearted Paris, fair to see but woman- mad and false of tongue, where are Deiphobus and King Helenus?


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id216
sentence:
I should hold aloof from battle on any day rather than this, for my mother bore me with nothing of the coward about me.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id217
sentence:
From the moment when you set our men fighting about the ships we have been staying here and doing battle with the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id218
sentence:
Our comrades about whom you ask me are dead; Deiphobus and King Helenus alone have left the field, wounded both of them in the hand, but the son of Saturn saved them alive.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id219
sentence:
Now, therefore, lead on where you would have us go, and we will follow with right goodwill; you shall not find us fail you in so far as our strength holds out, but no man can do more than in him lies, no matter how willing he may be."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id220
sentence:
With these words he satisfied his brother, and the two went towards the part of the battle where the fight was thickest, about Cebriones, brave Polydamas, Phalces, Orthaeus, godlike Polyphetes, Palmys, Ascanius, and Morys son of Hippotion, who had come from fertile Ascania on the preceding day to relieve other troops.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id222
sentence:
They flew forth like the blasts of some fierce wind that strike earth in the van of a thunderstorm— they buffet the salt sea into an uproar; many and mighty are the great waves that come crashing in one after the other upon the shore with their arching heads all crested with foam— even so did rank behind rank of Trojans arrayed in gleaming armour follow their leaders onward.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id223
sentence:
The way was led by Hector son of Priam, peer of murderous Mars, with his round shield before him— his shield of ox- hides covered with plates of bronze— and his gleaming helmet upon his temples.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id224
sentence:
He kept stepping forward under cover of his shield in every direction, making trial of the ranks to see if they would give way before him, but he could not daunt the courage of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id228
sentence:
Your heart, forsooth, is set on destroying our ships, but we too have hands that can keep you at bay, and your own fair town shall be sooner taken and sacked by ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id229
sentence:
The time is near when you shall pray Jove and all the gods in your flight, that your steeds may be swifter than hawks as they raise the dust on the plain and bear you back to your city."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id230
sentence:
As he was thus speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand, and the host of the Achaeans shouted, for they took heart at the omen.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id231
sentence:
But Hector answered," Ajax, braggart and false of tongue, would that I were as sure of being son for evermore to aegis- bearing Jove, with Queen Juno for my mother, and of being held in like honour with Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day is big with the destruction of the Achaeans; and you shall fall among them if you dare abide my spear; it shall rend your fair body and bid you glut our hounds and birds of prey with your fat and your flesh, as you fall by the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id232
sentence:
With these words he led the way and the others followed after with a cry that rent the air, while the host shouted behind them.


title: homer-iliad_13
idx: id233
sentence:
The Argives on their part raised a shout likewise, nor did they forget their prowess, but stood firm against the onslaught of the Trojan chieftains, and the cry from both the hosts rose up to heaven and to the brightness of Jove 's presence.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id3
sentence:
When she reached her father 's house she drew up at the gateway, and her brothers— comely as the gods— gathered round her, took the mules out of the waggon, and carried the clothes into the house, while she went to her own room, where an old servant, Eurymedusa of Apeira, lit the fire for her.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id4
sentence:
This old woman had been brought by sea from Apeira, and had been chosen as a prize for Alcinous because he was king over the Phaeacians, and the people obeyed him as though he were a god.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id5
sentence:
She had been nurse to Nausicaa, and had now lit the fire for her, and brought her supper for her into her own room.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id6
sentence:
Presently Ulysses got up to go towards the town; and Minerva shed a thick mist all round him to hide him in case any of the proud Phaeacians who met him should be rude to him, or ask him who he was.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id7
sentence:
Then, as he was just entering the town, she came towards him in the likeness of a little girl carrying a pitcher.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id8
sentence:
She stood right in front of him, and Ulysses said: "My dear, will you be so kind as to show me the house of king Alcinous?


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id10
sentence:
Then Minerva said," Yes, father stranger, I will show you the house you want, for Alcinous lives quite close to my own father.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id11
sentence:
I will go before you and show the way, but say not a word as you go, and do not look at any man, nor ask him questions; for the people here can not abide strangers, and do not like men who come from some other place.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id12
sentence:
They are a sea- faring folk, and sail the seas by the grace of Neptune in ships that glide along like thought, or as a bird in the air."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id13
sentence:
On this she led the way, and Ulysses followed in her steps; but not one of the Phaeacians could see him as he passed through the city in the midst of them; for the great goddess Minerva in her good will towards him had hidden him in a thick cloud of darkness.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id14
sentence:
He admired their harbours, ships, places of assembly, and the lofty walls of the city, which, with the palisade on top of them, were very striking, and when they reached the king 's house Minerva said: "This is the house, father stranger, which you would have me show you.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id15
sentence:
You will find a number of great people sitting at table, but do not be afraid; go straight in, for the bolder a man is the more likely he is to carry his point, even though he is a stranger.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id18
sentence:
They both descend originally from Neptune, who was father to Nausithous by Periboea, a woman of great beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id19
sentence:
Periboea was the youngest daughter of Eurymedon, who at one time reigned over the giants, but he ruined his ill- fated people and lost his own life to boot.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id20
sentence:
"Neptune, however, lay with his daughter, and she had a son by him, the great Nausithous, who reigned over the Phaeacians.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id21
sentence:
Nausithous had two sons Rhexenor and Alcinous; Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue; but he left a daughter Arete, whom Alcinous married, and honours as no other woman is honoured of all those that keep house along with their husbands.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id22
sentence:
"Thus she both was, and still is, respected beyond measure by her children, by Alcinous himself, and by the whole people, who look upon her as a goddess, and greet her whenever she goes about the city, for she is a thoroughly good woman both in head and heart, and when any women are friends of hers, she will help their husbands also to settle their disputes.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id23
sentence:
If you can gain her good will, you may have every hope of seeing your friends again, and getting safely back to your home and country."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id25
sentence:
She went to Marathon and to the spacious streets of Athens, where she entered the abode of Erechtheus; but Ulysses went on to the house of Alcinous, and he pondered much as he paused a while before reaching the threshold of bronze, for the splendour of the palace was like that of the sun or moon.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id27
sentence:
The doors were gold, and hung on pillars of silver that rose from a floor of bronze, while the lintel was silver and the hook of the door was of gold.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id28
sentence:
On either side there stood gold and silver mastiffs which Vulcan, with his consummate skill, had fashioned expressly to keep watch over the palace of king Alcinous; so they were immortal and could never grow old.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id29
sentence:
Seats were ranged all along the wall, here and there from one end to the other, with coverings of fine woven work which the women of the house had made.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id30
sentence:
Here the chief persons of the Phaeacians used to sit and eat and drink, for there was abundance at all seasons; and there were golden figures of young men with lighted torches in their hands, raised on pedestals, to give light by night to those who were at table.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id31
sentence:
There are fifty maid servants in the house, some of whom are always grinding rich yellow grain at the mill, while others work at the loom, or sit and spin, and their shuttles go backwards and forwards like the fluttering of aspen leaves, while the linen is so closely woven that it will turn oil.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id32
sentence:
As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id33
sentence:
Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id36
sentence:
The fruits never rot nor fail all the year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the old has dropped.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id37
sentence:
Pear grows on pear, apple on apple, and fig on fig, and so also with the grapes, for there is an excellent vineyard: on the level ground of a part of this, the grapes are being made into raisins; in another part they are being gathered; some are being trodden in the wine tubs, others further on have shed their blossom and are beginning to show fruit, others again are just changing colour.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id38
sentence:
In the furthest part of the ground there are beautifully arranged beds of flowers that are in bloom all the year round.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id39
sentence:
Two streams go through it, the one turned in ducts throughout the whole garden, while the other is carried under the ground of the outer court to the house itself, and the town 's people draw water from it.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id41
sentence:
So here Ulysses stood for a while and looked about him, but when he had looked long enough he crossed the threshold and went within the precincts of the house.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id42
sentence:
There he found all the chief people among the Phaeacians making their drink offerings to Mercury, which they always did the last thing before going away for the night.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id43
sentence:
He went straight through the court, still hidden by the cloak of darkness in which Minerva had enveloped him, till he reached Arete and King Alcinous; then he laid his hands upon the knees of the queen, and at that moment the miraculous darkness fell away from him and he became visible.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id44
sentence:
Every one was speechless with surprise at seeing a man there, but Ulysses began at once with his petition.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id45
sentence:
"Queen Arete," he exclaimed," daughter of great Rhexenor, in my distress I humbly pray you, as also your husband and these your guests( whom may heaven prosper with long life and happiness, and may they leave their possessions to their children, and all the honours conferred upon them by the state) to help me home to my own country as soon as possible; for I have been long in trouble and away from my friends."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id46
sentence:
Then he sat down on the hearth among the ashes and they all held their peace, till presently the old hero Echeneus, who was an excellent speaker and an elder among the Phaeacians, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: "Alcinous," said he," it is not creditable to you that a stranger should be seen sitting among the ashes of your hearth; every one is waiting to hear what you are about to say; tell him, then, to rise and take a seat on a stool inlaid with silver, and bid your servants mix some wine and water that we may make a drink offering to Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection; and let the housekeeper give him some supper, of whatever there may be in the house."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id47
sentence:
When Alcinous heard this he took Ulysses by the hand, raised him from the hearth, and bade him take the seat of Laodamas, who had been sitting beside him, and was his favourite son.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id48
sentence:
A maid servant then brought him water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for him to wash his hands, and she drew a clean table beside him; an upper servant brought him bread and offered him many good things of what there was in the house, and Ulysses ate and drank.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id49
sentence:
Then Alcinous said to one of the servants," Pontonous, mix a cup of wine and hand it round that we may make drink- offerings to Jove the lord of thunder, who is the protector of all well- disposed suppliants."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id50
sentence:
Pontonous then mixed wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink- offering.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id51
sentence:
When they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, Alcinous said: "Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, hear my words.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id53
sentence:
To- morrow morning I shall invite a still larger number of aldermen, and will give a sacrificial banquet in honour of our guest; we can then discuss the question of his escort, and consider how we may at once send him back rejoicing to his own country without trouble or inconvenience to himself, no matter how distant it may be.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id54
sentence:
We must see that he comes to no harm while on his homeward journey, but when he is once at home he will have to take the luck he was born with for better or worse like other people.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id55
sentence:
It is possible, however, that the stranger is one of the immortals who has come down from heaven to visit us; but in this case the gods are departing from their usual practice, for hitherto they have made themselves perfectly clear to us when we have been offering them hecatombs.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id56
sentence:
They come and sit at our feasts just like one of our selves, and if any solitary wayfarer happens to stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment, for we are as near of kin to the gods as the Cyclopes and the savage giants are."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id58
sentence:
I have nothing of the immortal about me, neither in body nor mind, and most resemble those among you who are the most afflicted.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id59
sentence:
Indeed, were I to tell you all that heaven has seen fit to lay upon me, you would say that I was still worse off than they are.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id60
sentence:
Nevertheless, let me sup in spite of sorrow, for an empty stomach is a very importunate thing, and thrusts itself on a man 's notice no matter how dire is his distress.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id61
sentence:
I am in great trouble, yet it insists that I shall eat and drink, bids me lay aside all memory of my sorrows and dwell only on the due replenishing of itself.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id63
sentence:
I shall be content to die if I may first once more behold my property, my bondsmen, and all the greatness of my house."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id65
sentence:
Every one approved his saying, and agreed that he should have his escort inasmuch as he had spoken reasonably.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id66
sentence:
Then when they had made their drink offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded they went home to bed every man in his own abode, leaving Ulysses in the cloister with Arete and Alcinous while the servants were taking the things away after supper.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id67
sentence:
Arete was the first to speak, for she recognised the shirt, cloak, and good clothes that Ulysses was wearing, as the work of herself and of her maids; so she said," Stranger, before we go any further, there is a question I should like to ask you.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id70
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," It would be a long story Madam, were I to relate in full the tale of my misfortunes, for the hand of heaven has been laid heavy upon me; but as regards your question, there is an island far away in the sea which is called' the Ogygian.'


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id73
sentence:
Fortune, however, brought me to her hearth all desolate and alone, for Jove struck my ship with his thunderbolts, and broke it up in mid - ocean.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id74
sentence:
My brave comrades were drowned every man of them, but I stuck to the keel and was carried hither and thither for the space of nine days, till at last during the darkness of the tenth night the gods brought me to the Ogygian island where the great goddess Calypso lives.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id75
sentence:
She took me in and treated me with the utmost kindness; indeed she wanted to make me immortal that I might never grow old, but she could not persuade me to let her do so.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id76
sentence:
"I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id79
sentence:
Days seven and ten did I sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth I caught sight of the first outlines of the mountains upon your coast— and glad indeed was I to set eyes upon them.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id80
sentence:
Nevertheless there was still much trouble in store for me ,for at this point Neptune would let me go no further, and raised a great storm against me; the sea was so terribly high that I could no longer keep to my raft, which went to pieces under the fury of the gale, and I had to swim for it, till wind and current brought me to your shores.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id81
sentence:
"There I tried to land, but could not, for it was a bad place and the waves dashed me against the rocks, so I again took to the sea and swam on till I came to a river that seemed the most likely landing place, for there were no rocks and it was sheltered from the wind.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id83
sentence:
Night was coming on, so I left the river, and went into a thicket, where I covered myself all over with leaves, and presently heaven sent me off into a very deep sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id84
sentence:
Sick and sorry as I was I slept among the leaves all night, and through the next day till afternoon, when I woke as the sun was westering, and saw your daughter 's maid servants playing upon the beach, and your daughter among them looking like a goddess.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id85
sentence:
I besought her aid, and she proved to be of an excellent disposition, much more so than could be expected from so young a person— for young people are apt to be thoughtless.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id86
sentence:
She gave me plenty of bread and wine, and when she had had me washed in the river she also gave me the clothes in which you see me.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id88
sentence:
Then Alcinous said," Stranger, it was very wrong of my daughter not to bring you on at once to my house along with the maids, seeing that she was the first person whose aid you asked."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id90
sentence:
She did tell me to follow along with the maids, but I was ashamed and afraid, for I thought you might perhaps be displeased if you saw me.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id92
sentence:
"Stranger," replied Alcinous," I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son- in- law.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id93
sentence:
If you will stay I will give you a house and an estate, but no one( heaven forbid) shall keep you here against your own wish, and that you may be sure of this I will attend tomorrow to the matter of your escort.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id94
sentence:
You can sleep during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellow- haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place— and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day without distressing themselves, and came back again afterwards.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id96
sentence:
Then was Ulysses glad and prayed aloud saying," Father Jove, grant that Alcinous may do all as he has said, for so he will win an imperishable name among mankind, and at the same time I shall return to my country."


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id98
sentence:
Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id99
sentence:
The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said," Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready," and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.


title: homer-odyssey_07
idx: id100
sentence:
So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id2
sentence:
Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id4
sentence:
He held his round shield and his spear in front of him, resolute to kill any who should dare face him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id5
sentence:
But the son of Panthous had also noted the body, and came up to Menelaus saying," Menelaus, son of Atreus, draw back, leave the body, and let the bloodstained spoils be.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id6
sentence:
I was first of the Trojans and their brave allies to drive my spear into Patroclus, let me, therefore, have my full glory among the Trojans, or I will take aim and kill you."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id8
sentence:
The pard is not more bold, nor the lion nor savage wild- boar, which is fiercest and most dauntless of all creatures, than are the proud sons of Panthous.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id9
sentence:
Yet Hyperenor did not see out the days of his youth when he made light of me and withstood me, deeming me the meanest soldier among the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id11
sentence:
Even so shall I make an end of you too, if you withstand me; get you back into the crowd and do not face me, or it shall be worse for you.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id13
sentence:
Euphorbus would not listen, and said," Now indeed, Menelaus, shall you pay for the death of my brother over whom you vaunted, and whose wife you widowed in her bridal chamber, while you brought grief unspeakable on his parents.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id14
sentence:
I shall comfort these poor people if I bring your head and armour and place them in the hands of Panthous and noble Phrontis.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id16
sentence:
As he spoke he struck Menelaus full on the shield, but the spear did not go through, for the shield turned its point.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id17
sentence:
Menelaus then took aim, praying to father Jove as he did so; Euphorbus was drawing back, and Menelaus struck him about the roots of his throat, leaning his whole weight on the spear, so as to drive it home.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id18
sentence:
The point went clean through his neck, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id19
sentence:
His hair which was like that of the Graces, and his locks so deftly bound in bands of silver and gold, were all bedrabbled with blood.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id20
sentence:
As one who has grown a fine young olive tree in a clear space where there is abundance of water— the plant is full of promise, and though the winds beat upon it from every quarter it puts forth its white blossoms till the blasts of some fierce hurricane sweep down upon it and level it with the ground— even so did Menelaus strip the fair youth Euphorbus of his armour after he had slain him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id21
sentence:
Or as some fierce lion upon the mountains in the pride of his strength fastens on the finest heifer in a herd as it is feeding— first he breaks her neck with his strong jaws, and then gorges on her blood and entrails; dogs and shepherds raise a hue and cry against him, but they stand aloof and will not come close to him, for they are pale with fear— even so no one had the courage to face valiant Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id22
sentence:
The son of Atreus would have then carried off the armour of the son of Panthous with ease, had not Phoebus Apollo been angry, and in the guise of Mentes chief of the Cicons incited Hector to attack him. "


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id23
sentence:
Hector," said he," you are now going after the horses of the noble son of Aeacus, but you will not take them; they can not be kept in hand and driven by mortal man, save only by Achilles, who is son to an immortal mother.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id24
sentence:
Meanwhile Menelaus son of Atreus has bestridden the body of Patroclus and killed the noblest of the Trojans, Euphorbus son of Panthous, so that he can fight no more."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id25
sentence:
The god then went back into the toil and turmoil, but the soul of Hector was darkened with a cloud of grief; he looked along the ranks and saw Euphorbus lying on the ground with the blood still flowing from his wound, and Menelaus stripping him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id26
sentence:
On this he made his way to the front like a flame of fire, clad in his gleaming armour, and crying with a loud voice.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id29
sentence:
I may not let the Trojans take the armour of Patroclus who has fallen fighting on my behalf, lest some Danaan who sees me should cry shame upon me.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id30
sentence:
Still if for my honour 's sake I fight Hector and the Trojans single- handed, they will prove too many for me, for Hector is bringing them up in force.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id34
sentence:
Yet, if I could find Ajax, the two of us would fight Hector and heaven too, if we might only save the body of Patroclus for Achilles son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id36
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds, the Trojans came up to him with Hector at their head; he therefore drew back and left the body, turning about like some bearded lion who is being chased by dogs and men from a stockyard with spears and hue and cry, whereon he is daunted and slinks sulkily off— even so did Menelaus son of Atreus turn and leave the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id37
sentence:
When among the body of his men, he looked around for mighty Ajax son of Telamon, and presently saw him on the extreme left of the fight, cheering on his men and exhorting them to keep on fighting, for Phoebus Apollo had spread a great panic among them.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id38
sentence:
He ran up to him and said," Ajax, my good friend, come with me at once to dead Patroclus, if so be that we may take the body to Achilles— as for his armour, Hector already has it."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id39
sentence:
These words stirred the heart of Ajax, and he made his way among the front ranks, Menelaus going with him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id40
sentence:
Hector had stripped Patroclus of his armour, and was dragging him away to cut off his head and take the body to fling before the dogs of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id41
sentence:
But Ajax came up with his shield like wall before him, on which Hector withdrew under shelter of his men, and sprang on to his chariot, giving the armour over to the Trojans to take to the city, as a great trophy for himself; Ajax, therefore, covered the body of Patroclus with his broad shield and bestrode him; as a lion stands over his whelps if hunters have come upon him in a forest when he is with his little ones— in the pride and fierceness of his strength he draws his knit brows down till they cover his eyes— even so did Ajax bestride the body of Patroclus, and by his side stood Menelaus son of Atreus, nursing great sorrow in his heart.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id46
sentence:
Think how you may now save your town and citadel by the hands of your own people born in Ilius; for you will get no Lycians to fight for you, seeing what thanks they have had for their incessant hardships.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id47
sentence:
Are you likely, sir, to do anything to help a man of less note, after leaving Sarpedon, who was at once your guest and comrade in arms, to be the spoil and prey of the Danaans?


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id48
sentence:
So long as he lived he did good service both to your city and yourself; yet you had no stomach to save his body from the dogs.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id50
sentence:
If the Trojans had any of that daring fearless spirit which lays hold of men who are fighting for their country and harassing those who would attack it, we should soon bear off Patroclus into Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id51
sentence:
Could we get this dead man away and bring him into the city of Priam, the Argives would readily give up the armour of Sarpedon, and we should get his body to boot.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id52
sentence:
For he whose squire has been now killed is the foremost man at the ships of the Achaeans— he and his close- fighting followers.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id53
sentence:
Nevertheless you dared not make a stand against Ajax, nor face him, eye to eye, with battle all round you, for he is a braver man than you are."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id55
sentence:
I have held you so far as a man of more understanding than any in all Lycia, but now I despise you for saying that I am afraid of Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id56
sentence:
I fear neither battle nor the din of chariots, but Jove 's will is stronger than ours; Jove at one time makes even a strong man draw back and snatches victory from his grasp, while at another he will set him on to fight.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id57
sentence:
Come hither then, my friend, stand by me and see indeed whether I shall play the coward the whole day through as you say, or whether I shall not stay some even of the boldest Danaans from fighting round the body of Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id58
sentence:
As he spoke he called loudly on the Trojans saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, be men, my friends, and fight might and main, while I put on the goodly armour of Achilles, which I took when I killed Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id59
sentence:
With this Hector left the fight, and ran full speed after his men who were taking the armour of Achilles to Troy, but had not yet got far.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id61
sentence:
His own he sent to the strong city of Ilius and to the Trojans, while he put on the immortal armour of the son of Peleus, which the gods had given to Peleus, who in his age gave it to his son; but the son did not grow old in his father 's armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id62
sentence:
When Jove, lord of the storm- cloud, saw Hector standing aloof and arming himself in the armour of the son of Peleus, he wagged his head and muttered to himself saying," A! poor wretch, you arm in the armour of a hero, before whom many another trembles, and you reck nothing of the doom that is already close upon you.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id63
sentence:
You have killed his comrade so brave and strong, but it was not well that you should strip the armour from his head and shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id64
sentence:
I do indeed endow you with great might now, but as against this you shall not return from battle to lay the armour of the son of Peleus before Andromache."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id65
sentence:
The son of Saturn bowed his portentous brows, and Hector fitted the armour to his body, while terrible Mars entered into him, and filled his whole body with might and valour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id66
sentence:
With a shout he strode in among the allies, and his armour flashed about him so that he seemed to all of them like the great son of Peleus himself.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id67
sentence:
He went about among them and cheered them on— Mesthles, Glaucus, Medon, Thersilochus, Asteropaeus, Deisenor and Hippothous, Phorcys, Chromius and Ennomus the augur.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id68
sentence:
All these did he exhort saying," Hear me, allies from other cities who are here in your thousands, it was not in order to have a crowd about me that I called you hither each from his several city, but that with heart and soul you might defend the wives and little ones of the Trojans from the fierce Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id70
sentence:
Therefore turn, and charge at the foe, to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans, and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him one half of the spoils while I keep the other.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id72
sentence:
When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon the Danaans with their spears held out before them, and the hopes of each ran high that he should force Ajax son of Telamon to yield up the body— fools that they were, for he was about to take the lives of many.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id73
sentence:
Then Ajax said to Menelaus," My good friend Menelaus, you and I shall hardly come out of this fight alive.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id74
sentence:
I am less concerned for the body of Patroclus, who will shortly become meat for the dogs and vultures of Troy, than for the safety of my own head and yours.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id75
sentence:
Hector has wrapped us round in a storm of battle from every quarter, and our destruction seems now certain.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id78
sentence:
My friends," he cried," princes and counsellors of the Argives, all you who with Agamemnon and Menelaus drink at the public cost, and give orders each to his own people as Jove vouchsafes him power and glory, the fight is so thick about me that I can not distinguish you severally; come on, therefore, every man unbidden, and think it shame that Patroclus should become meat and morsel for Trojan hounds."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id79
sentence:
Fleet Ajax son of Oileus heard him and was first to force his way through the fight and run to help him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id83
sentence:
As a great wave that comes thundering in at the mouth of some heaven- born river, and the rocks that jut into the sea ring with the roar of the breakers that beat and buffet them— even with such a roar did the Trojans come on; but the Achaeans in singleness of heart stood firm about the son of Menoetius, and fenced him with their bronze shields.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id84
sentence:
Jove, moreover, hid the brightness of their helmets in a thick cloud, for he had borne no grudge against the son of Menoetius while he was still alive and squire to the descendant of Aeacus; therefore he was loth to let him fall a prey to the dogs of his foes the Trojans, and urged his comrades on to defend him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id87
sentence:
But the Achaeans did not lose it long, for Ajax, foremost of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus alike in stature and prowess, quickly rallied them and made towards the front like a wild boar upon the mountains when he stands at bay in the forest glades and routs the hounds and lusty youths that have attacked him— even so did Ajax son of Telamon passing easily in among the phalanxes of the Trojans, disperse those who had bestridden Patroclus and were most bent on winning glory by dragging him off to their city.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id88
sentence:
At this moment Hippothous brave son of the Pelasgian Lethus, in his zeal for Hector and the Trojans, was dragging the body off by the foot through the press of the fight, having bound a strap round the sinews near the ancle; but a mischief soon befell him from which none of those could save him who would have gladly done so, for the son of Telamon sprang forward and smote him on his bronze- cheeked helmet.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id89
sentence:
The plumed headpiece broke about the point of the weapon, struck at once by the spear and by the strong hand of Ajax, so that the bloody brain came oozing out through the crest- socket.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id90
sentence:
His strength then failed him and he let Patroclus ' foot drop from his hand, as he fell full length dead upon the body; thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id91
sentence:
Hector then took aim at Ajax with a spear, but he saw it coming and just managed to avoid it; the spear passed on and struck Schedius son of noble Iphitus, captain of the Phoceans, who dwelt in famed Panopeus and reigned over much people; it struck him under the middle of the collar- bone the bronze point went right through him, coming out at the bottom of his shoulder- blade, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id92
sentence:
Ajax in his turn struck noble Phorcys son of Phaenops in the middle of the belly as he was bestriding Hippothous, and broke the plate of his cuirass; whereon the spear tore out his entrails and he clutched the ground in his palm as he fell to earth.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id93
sentence:
Hector and those who were in the front rank then gave ground, while the Argives raised a loud cry of triumph, and drew off the bodies of Phorcys and Hippothous which they stripped presently of their armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id94
sentence:
The Trojans would now have been worsted by the brave Achaeans and driven back to Ilius through their own cowardice, while the Argives, so great was their courage and endurance, would have achieved a triumph even against the will of Jove, if Apollo had not roused Aeneas, in the likeness of Periphas son of Epytus, an attendant who had grown old in the service of Aeneas ' aged father, and was at all times devoted to him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id95
sentence:
In his likeness, then, Apollo said," Aeneas, can you not manage, even though heaven be against us, to save high Ilius?


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id96
sentence:
I have known men, whose numbers, courage, and self- reliance have saved their people in spite of Jove, whereas in this case he would much rather give victory to us than to the Danaans, if you would only fight instead of being so terribly afraid."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id97
sentence:
Aeneas knew Apollo when he looked straight at him, and shouted to Hector saying," Hector and all other Trojans and allies, shame on us if we are beaten by the Achaeans and driven back to Ilius through our own cowardice.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id101
sentence:
As he spoke he sprang out far in front of the others, who then rallied and again faced the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id102
sentence:
Aeneas speared Leiocritus son of Arisbas, a valiant follower of Lycomedes, and Lycomedes was moved with pity as he saw him fall; he therefore went close up, and speared Apisaon son of Hippasus shepherd of his people in the liver under the midriff, so that he died; he had come from fertile Paeonia and was the best man of them all after Asteropaeus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id103
sentence:
Asteropaeus flew forward to avenge him and attack the Danaans, but this might no longer be, inasmuch as those about Patroclus were well covered by their shields, and held their spears in front of them, for Ajax had given them strict orders that no man was either to give ground, or to stand out before the others, but all were to hold well together about the body and fight hand to hand.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id104
sentence:
Thus did huge Ajax bid them, and the earth ran red with blood as the corpses fell thick on one another alike on the side of the Trojans and allies, and on that of the Danaans; for these last, too, fought no bloodless fight though many fewer of them perished, through the care they took to defend and stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id105
sentence:
Thus did they fight as it were a flaming fire; it seemed as though it had gone hard even with the sun and moon, for they were hidden over all that part where the bravest heroes were fighting about the dead son of Menoetius, whereas the other Danaans and Achaeans fought at their ease in full daylight with brilliant sunshine all round them, and there was not a cloud to be seen neither on plain nor mountain.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id106
sentence:
These last moreover would rest for a while and leave off fighting, for they were some distance apart and beyond the range of one another 's weapons, whereas those who were in the thick of the fray suffered both from battle and darkness.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id107
sentence:
All the best of them were being worn out by the great weight of their armour, but the two valiant heroes, Thrasymedes and Antilochus, had not yet heard of the death of Patroclus, and believed him to be still alive and leading the van against the Trojans; they were keeping themselves in reserve against the death or rout of their own comrades, for so Nestor had ordered when he sent them from the ships into battle.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id108
sentence:
Thus through the livelong day did they wage fierce war, and the sweat of their toil rained ever on their legs under them, and on their hands and eyes, as they fought over the squire of the fleet son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id109
sentence:
It was as when a man gives a great ox- hide all drenched in fat to his men, and bids them stretch it; whereon they stand round it in a ring and tug till the moisture leaves it, and the fat soaks in for the many that pull at it, and it is well stretched— even so did the two sides tug the dead body hither and thither within the compass of but a little space— the Trojans steadfastly set on dragging it into Ilius, while the Achaeans were no less so on taking it to their ships; and fierce was the fight between them.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id110
sentence:
Not Mars himself the lord of hosts, nor yet Minerva, even in their fullest fury could make light of such a battle.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id112
sentence:
Meanwhile Achilles did not know that he had fallen, for the fight was under the wall of Troy a long way off the ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id113
sentence:
He had no idea, therefore, that Patroclus was dead, and deemed that he would return alive as soon as he had gone close up to the gates.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id114
sentence:
He knew that he was not to sack the city neither with nor without himself, for his mother had often told him this when he had sat alone with her, and she had informed him of the counsels of great Jove.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id115
sentence:
Now, however, she had not told him how great a disaster had befallen him in the death of the one who was far dearest to him of all his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id116
sentence:
The others still kept on charging one another round the body with their pointed spears and killing each other.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id117
sentence:
Then would one say," My friends, we can never again show our faces at the ships— better, and greatly better, that earth should open and swallow us here in this place, than that we should let the Trojans have the triumph of bearing off Patroclus to their city."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id118
sentence:
The Trojans also on their part spoke to one another saying," Friends, though we fall to a man beside this body, let none shrink from fighting."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id121
sentence:
The horses of the descendant of Aeacus stood out of the fight and wept when they heard that their driver had been laid low by the hand of murderous Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id122
sentence:
Automedon, valiant son of Diores, lashed them again and again; many a time did he speak kindly to them, and many a time did he upbraid them, but they would neither go back to the ships by the waters of the broad Hellespont, nor yet into battle among the Achaeans; they stood with their chariot stock still, as a pillar set over the tomb of some dead man or woman, and bowed their heads to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id123
sentence:
Hot tears fell from their eyes as they mourned the loss of their charioteer, and their noble manes drooped all wet from under the yokestraps on either side the yoke.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id125
sentence:
He wagged his head, and muttered to himself, saying," Poor things, why did we give you to King Peleus who is a mortal, while you are yourselves ageless and immortal?


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id127
sentence:
for of all creatures that live and move upon the earth there is none so pitiable as he is— still, Hector son of Priam shall drive neither you nor your chariot.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id130
sentence:
Furthermore I will give you strength of heart and limb to bear Automedon safely to the ships from battle, for I shall let the Trojans triumph still further, and go on killing till they reach the ships; whereon night shall fall and darkness overshadow the land."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id131
sentence:
As he spoke he breathed heart and strength into the horses so that they shook the dust from out of their manes, and bore their chariot swiftly into the fight that raged between Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id133
sentence:
In and out, and here and there, full speed he dashed amid the throng of the Trojans, but for all the fury of his pursuit he killed no man, for he could not wield his spear and keep his horses in hand when alone in the chariot; at last, however, a comrade, Alcimedon, son of Laerces son of Haemon caught sight of him and came up behind his chariot. "


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id134
sentence:
Automedon," said he," what god has put this folly into your heart and robbed you of your right mind, that you fight the Trojans in the front rank single- handed?


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id135
sentence:
He who was your comrade is slain, and Hector plumes himself on being armed in the armour of the descendant of Aeacus."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id136
sentence:
Automedon son of Diores answered," Alcimedon, there is no one else who can control and guide the immortal steeds so well as you can, save only Patroclus— while he was alive— peer of gods in counsel.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id138
sentence:
Alcimedon sprang on to the chariot, and caught up the whip and reins, while Automedon leaped from off the car.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id139
sentence:
When Hector saw him he said to Aeneas who was near him," Aeneas, counsellor of the mail- clad Trojans, I see the steeds of the fleet son of Aeacus come into battle with weak hands to drive them.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id140
sentence:
I am sure, if you think well, that we might take them; they will not dare face us if we both attack them."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id141
sentence:
The valiant son of Anchises was of the same mind, and the pair went right on, with their shoulders covered under shields of tough dry ox- hide, overlaid with much bronze.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id142
sentence:
Chromius and Aretus went also with them, and their hearts beat high with hope that they might kill the men and capture the horses— fools that they were, for they were not to return scatheless from their meeting with Automedon, who prayed to father Jove and was forthwith filled with courage and strength abounding.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id143
sentence:
He turned to his trusty comrade Alcimedon and said," Alcimedon, keep your horses so close up that I may feel their breath upon my back; I doubt that we shall not stay Hector son of Priam till he has killed us and mounted behind the horses; he will then either spread panic among the ranks of the Achaeans, or himself be killed among the foremost."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id144
sentence:
On this he cried out to the two Ajaxes and Menelaus," Ajaxes captains of the Argives, and Menelaus, give the dead body over to them that are best able to defend it, and come to the rescue of us living; for Hector and Aeneas who are the two best men among the Trojans, are pressing us hard in the full tide of war.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id145
sentence:
Nevertheless the issue lies on the lap of heaven, I will therefore hurl my spear and leave the rest to Jove."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id146
sentence:
He poised and hurled as he spoke, whereon the spear struck the round shield of Aretus, and went right through it for the shield stayed it not, so that it was driven through his belt into the lower part of his belly.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id147
sentence:
As when some sturdy youth, axe in hand, deals his blow behind the horns of an ox and severs the tendons at the back of its neck so that it springs forward and then drops, even so did Aretus give one bound and then fall on his back the spear quivering in his body till it made an end of him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id148
sentence:
Hector then aimed a spear at Automedon but he saw it coming and stooped forward to avoid it, so that it 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_17
idx: id149
sentence:
They would then have fought hand to hand with swords had not the two Ajaxes forced their way through the crowd when they heard their comrade calling, and parted them for all their fury— for Hector, Aeneas, and Chromius were afraid and drew back, leaving Aretus to lie there struck to the heart.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id150
sentence:
Automedon, peer of fleet Mars, then stripped him of his armour and vaunted over him saying," I have done little to assuage my sorrow for the son of Menoetius, for the man I have killed is not so good as he was."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id151
sentence:
As he spoke he took the blood- stained spoils and laid them upon his chariot; then he mounted the car with his hands and feet all steeped in gore as a lion that has been gorging upon a bull.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id152
sentence:
And now the fierce groanful fight again raged about Patroclus, for Minerva came down from heaven and roused its fury by the command of far- seeing Jove, who had changed his mind and sent her to encourage the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id153
sentence:
As when Jove bends his bright bow in heaven in token to mankind either of war or of the chill storms that stay men from their labour and plague the flocks— even so, wrapped in such radiant raiment, did Minerva go in among the host and speak man by man to each.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id154
sentence:
First she took the form and voice of Phoenix and spoke to Menelaus son of Atreus, who was standing near her."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id155
sentence:
Menelaus," said she," it will be shame and dishonour to you, if dogs tear the noble comrade of Achilles under the walls of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id157
sentence:
Menelaus answered," Phoenix, my good old friend, may Minerva vouchsafe me strength and keep the darts from off me, for so shall I stand by Patroclus and defend him; his death has gone to my heart, but Hector is as a raging fire and deals his blows without ceasing, for Jove is now granting him a time of triumph."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id159
sentence:
Therefore she put strength into his knees and shoulders, and made him as bold as a fly, which, though driven off will yet come again and bite if it can, so dearly does it love man 's blood— even so bold as this did she make him as he stood over Patroclus and threw his spear.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id161
sentence:
Hector held him in the highest honour for he was his comrade and boon companion; the spear of Menelaus struck this man in the girdle just as he had turned in flight, and went right through him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id162
sentence:
Whereon he fell heavily forward, and Menelaus son of Atreus drew off his body from the Trojans into the ranks of his own people.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id163
sentence:
Apollo then went up to Hector and spurred him on to fight, in the likeness of Phaenops son of Asius who lived in Abydos and was the most favoured of all Hector 's guests.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id164
sentence:
In his likeness Apollo said," Hector, who of the Achaeans will fear you henceforward now that you have quailed before Menelaus who has ever been rated poorly as a soldier?


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id165
sentence:
Yet he has now got a corpse away from the Trojans single- handed, and has slain your own true comrade, a man brave among the foremost, Podes son of Eetion."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id166
sentence:
A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he made his way to the front clad in full armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id167
sentence:
Thereon the son of Saturn seized his bright tasselled aegis, and veiled Ida in cloud: he sent forth his lightnings and his thunders, and as he shook his aegis he gave victory to the Trojans and routed the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id168
sentence:
The panic was begun by Peneleos the Boeotian, for while keeping his face turned ever towards the foe he had been hit with a spear on the upper part of the shoulder; a spear thrown by Polydamas had grazed the top of the bone, for Polydamas had come up to him and struck him from close at hand.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id169
sentence:
Then Hector in close combat struck Leitus son of noble Alectryon in the hand by the wrist, and disabled him from fighting further.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id170
sentence:
He looked about him in dismay, knowing that never again should he wield spear in battle with the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id171
sentence:
While Hector was in pursuit of Leitus, Idomeneus struck him on the breastplate over his chest near the nipple; but the spear broke in the shaft, and the Trojans cheered aloud.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id172
sentence:
Hector then aimed at Idomeneus son of Deucalion as he was standing on his chariot, and very narrowly missed him, but the spear hit Coiranus, a follower and charioteer of Meriones who had come with him from Lyctus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id173
sentence:
Idomeneus had left the ships on foot and would have afforded a great triumph to the Trojans if Coiranus had not driven quickly up to him, he therefore brought life and rescue to Idomeneus, but himself fell by the hand of murderous Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id174
sentence:
For Hector hit him on the jaw under the ear; the end of the spear drove out his teeth and cut his tongue in two pieces, so that he fell from his chariot and let the reins fall to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id175
sentence:
Meriones gathered them up from the ground and took them into his own hands, then he said to Idomeneus," Lay on, till you get back to the ships, for you must see that the day is no longer ours."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id177
sentence:
Ajax and Menelaus noted how Jove had turned the scale in favour of the Trojans, and Ajax was first to speak."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id179
sentence:
All their weapons strike home; no matter whether it be a brave man or a coward that hurls them, Jove speeds all alike, whereas ours fall each one of them without effect.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id180
sentence:
What, then, will be best both as regards rescuing the body, and our return to the joy of our friends who will be grieving as they look hitherwards; for they will make sure that nothing can now check the terrible hands of Hector, and that he will fling himself upon our ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id181
sentence:
I wish that some one would go and tell the son of Peleus at once, for I do not think he can have yet heard the sad news that the dearest of his friends has fallen.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id182
sentence:
But I can see not a man among the Achaeans to send, for they and their chariots are alike hidden in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id183
sentence:
O father Jove, lift this cloud from over the sons of the Achaeans; make heaven serene, and let us see; if you will that we perish, let us fall at any rate by daylight."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id185
sentence:
Forthwith he chased away the cloud of darkness, so that the sun shone out and all the fighting was revealed.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id186
sentence:
Ajax then said to Menelaus," Look, Menelaus, and if Antilochus son of Nestor be still living, send him at once to tell Achilles that by far the dearest to him of all his comrades has fallen."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id187
sentence:
Menelaus heeded his words and went his way as a lion from a stockyard— the lion is tired of attacking the men and hounds, who keep watch the whole night through and will not let him feast on the fat of their herd.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id188
sentence:
In his lust of meat he makes straight at them but in vain, for darts from strong hands assail him, and burning brands which daunt him for all his hunger, so in the morning he slinks sulkily away— even so did Menelaus sorely against his will leave Patroclus, in great fear lest the Achaeans should be driven back in rout and let him fall into the hands of the foe.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id189
sentence:
He charged Meriones and the two Ajaxes straitly saying," Ajaxes and Meriones, leaders of the Argives, now indeed remember how good Patroclus was; he was ever courteous while alive, bear it in mind now that he is dead."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id190
sentence:
With this Menelaus left them, looking round him as keenly as an eagle, whose sight they say is keener than that of any other bird— however high he may be in the heavens, not a hare that runs can escape him by crouching under bush or thicket, for he will swoop down upon it and make an end of it— even so, O Menelaus ,did your keen eyes range round the mighty host of your followers to see if you could find the son of Nestor still alive.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id191
sentence:
Presently Menelaus saw him on the extreme left of the battle cheering on his men and exhorting them to fight boldly.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id192
sentence:
Menelaus went up to him and said," Antilochus, come here and listen to sad news, which I would indeed were untrue.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id193
sentence:
You must see with your own eyes that heaven is heaping calamity upon the Danaans, and giving victory to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id195
sentence:
Run instantly to the ships and tell Achilles, that he may come to rescue the body and bear it to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id198
sentence:
For a long time he was speechless; his eyes filled with tears and he could find no utterance, but he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id200
sentence:
Nor were you, O Menelaus, minded to succour his harassed comrades, when Antilochus had left the Pylians— and greatly did they miss him— but he sent them noble Thrasymedes, and himself went back to Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id201
sentence:
He came running up to the two Ajaxes and said," I have sent Antilochus to the ships to tell Achilles, but rage against Hector as he may, he can not come, for he can not fight without armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id202
sentence:
What then will be our best plan both as regards rescuing the dead, and our own escape from death amid the battle- cries of the Trojans?"


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id203
sentence:
Ajax answered," Menelaus, you have said well: do you, then, and Meriones stoop down, raise the body, and bear it out of the fray, while we two behind you keep off Hector and the Trojans, one in heart as in name, and long used to fighting side by side with one another."


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id204
sentence:
On this Menelaus and Meriones took the dead man in their arms and lifted him high aloft with a great effort.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id205
sentence:
The Trojan host raised a hue and cry behind them when they saw the Achaeans bearing the body away, and flew after them like hounds attacking a wounded boar at the loo of a band of young huntsmen.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id206
sentence:
For a while the hounds fly at him as though they would tear him in pieces, but now and again he turns on them in a fury, scaring and scattering them in all directions— even so did the Trojans for a while charge in a body, striking with sword and with spears pointed at both the ends, but when the two Ajaxes faced them and stood at bay, they would turn pale and no man dared press on to fight further about the dead.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id208
sentence:
The battle raged round them like fierce flames that when once kindled spread like wildfire over a city, and the houses fall in the glare of its burning— even such was the roar and tramp of men and horses that pursued them as they bore Patroclus from the field.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id209
sentence:
Or as mules that put forth all their strength to draw some beam or great piece of ship 's timber down a rough mountain- track, and they pant and sweat as they go— even so did Menelaus and pant and sweat as they bore the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id211
sentence:
As some wooded mountain- spur that stretches across a plain will turn water and check the flow even of a great river, nor is there any stream strong enough to break through it— even so did the two Ajaxes face the Trojans and stem the tide of their fighting though they kept pouring on towards them and foremost among them all was Aeneas son of Anchises with valiant Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id212
sentence:
As a flock of daws or starlings fall to screaming and chattering when they see a falcon, foe to all small birds, come soaring near them, even so did the Achaean youth raise a babel of cries as they fled before Aeneas and Hector, unmindful of their former prowess.


title: homer-iliad_17
idx: id213
sentence:
In the rout of the Danaans much goodly armour fell round about the trench, and of fighting there was no end.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id1
sentence:
Alexandria, also called Paris, challenges Menelaus—Helen and Priam view the Achaeans from the wall—The covenant—Paris and Menelaus fight, and Paris is worsted—Venus carries him off to save him—Scene between him and Helen.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id2
sentence:
When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id3
sentence:
As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id5
sentence:
On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id6
sentence:
Menelaus saw him thus stride out before the ranks, and was glad as a hungry lion that lights on the carcase of some goat or horned stag, and devours it there and then, though dogs and youths set upon him.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id7
sentence:
Even thus was Menelaus glad when his eyes caught sight of Alexandrus, for he deemed that now he should be revenged.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id9
sentence:
Alexandrus quailed as he saw Menelaus come forward, and shrank in fear of his life under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id10
sentence:
As one who starts back affrighted, trembling and pale, when he comes suddenly upon a serpent in some mountain glade, even so did Alexandrus plunge into the throng of Trojan warriors, terror- stricken at the sight of the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id12
sentence:
"Paris," said he," evil- hearted Paris, fair to see, but woman- mad, and false of tongue, would that you had never been born, or that you had died unwed.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id14
sentence:
Will not the Achaeans mock at us and say that we have sent one to champion us who is fair to see but who has neither wit nor courage?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id16
sentence:
Did you not from your a far country carry off a lovely woman wedded among a people of warriors— to bring sorrow upon your father, your city, and your whole country, but joy to your enemies, and hang- dog shamefacedness to yourself?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id17
sentence:
And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id18
sentence:
Where indeed would be your lyre and your love- tricks, your comely locks and your fair favour, when you were lying in the dust before him?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id19
sentence:
The Trojans are a weak- kneed people, or ere this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done them."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id21
sentence:
You are hard as the axe which a shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his liking.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id23
sentence:
Still, taunt me not with the gifts that golden Venus has given me; they are precious; let not a man disdain them, for the gods give them where they are minded, and none can have them for the asking.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id24
sentence:
If you would have me do battle with Menelaus, bid the Trojans and Achaeans take their seats, while he and I fight in their midst for Helen and all her wealth.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id25
sentence:
Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id26
sentence:
When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying," Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id28
sentence:
Hear from my mouth," said he," Trojans and Achaeans, the saying of Alexandrus, through whom this quarrel has come about.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id29
sentence:
He bids the Trojans and Achaeans lay their armour upon the ground, while he and Menelaus fight in the midst of you for Helen and all her wealth.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id30
sentence:
Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id31
sentence:
Thus he spoke, and they all held their peace, till Menelaus of the loud battle- cry addressed them."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id33
sentence:
I deem that the parting of Achaeans and Trojans is at hand, as well it may be, seeing how much have suffered for my quarrel with Alexandrus and the wrong he did me.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id35
sentence:
Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id36
sentence:
Moreover, you shall bid Priam come, that he may swear to the covenant himself; for his sons are high- handed and ill to trust, and the oaths of Jove must not be transgressed or taken in vain.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id37
sentence:
Young men 's minds are light as air, but when an old man comes he looks before and after, deeming that which shall be fairest upon both sides."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id38
sentence:
The Trojans and Achaeans were glad when they heard this, for they thought that they should now have rest.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id39
sentence:
They backed their chariots toward the ranks, got out of them, and put off their armour, laying it down upon the ground; and the hosts were near to one another with a little space between them.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id40
sentence:
Hector sent two messengers to the city to bring the lambs and to bid Priam come, while Agamemnon told Talthybius to fetch the other lamb from the ships, and he did as Agamemnon had said.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id41
sentence:
Meanwhile Iris went to Helen in the form of her sister- in- law, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam 's daughters.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id42
sentence:
She found her in her own room, working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Mars had made them fight for her sake.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id43
sentence:
Iris then came close up to her and said," Come hither, child, and see the strange doings of the Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id44
sentence:
Till now they have been warring upon the plain, mad with lust of battle, but now they have left off fighting, and are leaning upon their shields, sitting still with their spears planted beside them.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id45
sentence:
Alexandrus and Menelaus are going to fight about yourself, and you are to be the wife of him who is the victor."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id46
sentence:
Thus spoke the goddess, and Helen 's heart yearned after her former husband, her city, and her parents.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id47
sentence:
She threw a white mantle over her head, and hurried from her room, weeping as she went, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids, Aethrae, daughter of Pittheus, and Clymene.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id49
sentence:
The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id50
sentence:
These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id51
sentence:
When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another," Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id52
sentence:
Still, fair though she be, let them take her and go, or she will breed sorrow for us and for our children after us."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id54
sentence:
My child," said he," take your seat in front of me that you may see your former husband, your kinsmen and your friends.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id60
sentence:
"Sir," answered Helen," father of my husband, dear and reverend in my eyes, would that I had chosen death rather than to have come here with your son, far from my bridal chamber, my friends, my darling daughter, and all the companions of my girlhood.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id62
sentence:
As for your question, the hero of whom you ask is Agamemnon, son of Atreus, a good king and a brave soldier, brother- in- law as surely as that he lives, to my abhorred and miserable self."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id65
sentence:
When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id66
sentence:
The old man next looked upon Ulysses;" Tell me," he said," who is that other, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, but broader across the chest and shoulders?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id67
sentence:
His armour is laid upon the ground, and he stalks in front of the ranks as it were some great woolly ram ordering his ewes."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id73
sentence:
When they stood up in presence of the assembled Trojans, Menelaus was the broader shouldered, but when both were seated Ulysses had the more royal presence.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id74
sentence:
After a time they delivered their message, and the speech of Menelaus ran trippingly on the tongue; he did not say much, for he was a man of few words, but he spoke very clearly and to the point, though he was the younger man of the two; Ulysses, on the other hand, when he rose to speak, was at first silent and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id75
sentence:
There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory— one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id76
sentence:
Priam then caught sight of Ajax and asked," Who is that great and goodly warrior whose head and broad shoulders tower above the rest of the Argives?"


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id77
sentence:
"That," answered Helen," is huge Ajax, bulwark of the Achaeans, and on the other side of him, among the Cretans, stands Idomeneus looking like a god, and with the captains of the Cretans round him.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id79
sentence:
I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id80
sentence:
Either they have not left Lacedaemon, or else, though they have brought their ships, they will not show themselves in battle for the shame and disgrace that I have brought upon them."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id81
sentence:
She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id82
sentence:
Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy oath- offerings through the city— two lambs and a goatskin of wine, the gift of earth; and Idaeus brought the mixing bowl and the cups of gold.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id83
sentence:
He went up to Priam and said," Son of Laomedon, the princes of the Trojans and Achaeans bid you come down on to the plain and swear to a solemn covenant.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id84
sentence:
Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id85
sentence:
We are to swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby we others shall dwell here in Troy, while the Achaeans return to Argos and the land of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id86
sentence:
The old man trembled as he heard, but bade his followers yoke the horses, and they made all haste to do so.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id87
sentence:
He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id88
sentence:
When they reached the ranks of the Trojans and Achaeans they left the chariot, and with measured pace advanced into the space between the hosts.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id90
sentence:
The attendants brought on the oath- offerings and mixed the wine in the mixing- bowls; they poured water over the hands of the chieftains, and the son of Atreus drew the dagger that hung by his sword, and cut wool from the lambs ' heads; this the men- servants gave about among the Trojan and Achaean princes, and the son of Atreus lifted up his hands in prayer. "


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id91
sentence:
Father Jove," he cried," that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, witness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id92
sentence:
If Alexandrus kills Menelaus, let him keep Helen and all her wealth, while we sail home with our ships; but if Menelaus kills Alexandrus, let the Trojans give back Helen and all that she has; let them moreover pay such fine to the Achaeans as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among those that shall be born hereafter.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id93
sentence:
And if Priam and his sons refuse such fine when Alexandrus has fallen, then will I stay here and fight on till I have got satisfaction."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id94
sentence:
As he spoke he drew his knife across the throats of the victims, and laid them down gasping and dying upon the ground, for the knife had reft them of their strength.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id95
sentence:
Then they poured wine from the mixing- bowl into the cups, and prayed to the everlasting gods, saying, Trojans and Achaeans among one another," Jove, most great and glorious, and ye other everlasting gods, grant that the brains of them who shall first sin against their oaths— of them and their children— may be shed upon the ground even as this wine, and let their wives become the slaves of strangers."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id97
sentence:
Then Priam, descendant of Dardanus, spoke, saying," Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, I will now go back to the wind- beaten city of Ilius: I dare not with my own eyes witness this fight between my son and Menelaus, for Jove and the other immortals alone know which shall fall."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id100
sentence:
Hector and Ulysses measured the ground, and cast lots from a helmet of bronze to see which should take aim first.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id101
sentence:
Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying," Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id102
sentence:
Great Hector now turned his head aside while he shook the helmet, and the lot of Paris flew out first.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id103
sentence:
The others took their several stations, each by his horses and the place where his arms were lying, while Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, put on his goodly armour.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id104
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 his brother Lycaon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silver- studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id105
sentence:
On his comely head he set his helmet, well- wrought, with a crest of horse- hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id107
sentence:
When they had thus armed, each amid his own people, they strode fierce of aspect into the open space, and both Trojans and Achaeans were struck with awe as they beheld them.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id108
sentence:
They stood near one another on the measured ground, brandishing their spears, and each furious against the other.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id109
sentence:
Alexandrus aimed first, and struck the round shield of the son of Atreus, but the spear did not pierce it, for the shield turned its point.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id111
sentence:
King Jove," he said," grant me revenge on Alexandrus who has wronged me; subdue him under my hand that in ages yet to come a man may shrink from doing ill deeds in the house of his host."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id113
sentence:
Through shield and cuirass it went, and tore the shirt by his flank, but Alexandrus swerved aside, and thus saved his life.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id114
sentence:
Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven," Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id115
sentence:
With this he flew at Alexandrus, caught him by the horsehair plume of his helmet, and began dragging him towards the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id116
sentence:
The strap of the helmet that went under his chin was choking him, and Menelaus would have dragged him off to his own great glory had not Jove 's daughter Venus been quick to mark and to break the strap of oxhide, so that the empty helmet came away in his hand.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id117
sentence:
This he flung to his comrades among the Achaeans, and was again springing upon Alexandrus to run him through with a spear, but Venus snatched him up in a moment( as a god can do), hid him under a cloud of darkness, and conveyed him to his own bedchamber.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id118
sentence:
Then she went to call Helen, and found her on a high tower with the Trojan women crowding round her.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id119
sentence:
She took the form of an old woman who used to dress wool for her when she was still in Lacedaemon, and of whom she was very fond.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id120
sentence:
Thus disguised she plucked her by perfumed robe and said," Come hither; Alexandrus says you are to go to the house; he is on his bed in his own room, radiant with beauty and dressed in gorgeous apparel.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id121
sentence:
No one would think he had just come from fighting, but rather that he was going to a dance, or had done dancing and was sitting down."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id123
sentence:
When she marked the beautiful neck of the goddess, her lovely bosom, and sparkling eyes, she marvelled at her and said," Goddess, why do you thus beguile me?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id124
sentence:
Are you going to send me afield still further to some man whom you have taken up in Phrygia or fair Meonia?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id127
sentence:
Go sit with Alexandrus yourself; henceforth be goddess no longer ;never let your feet carry you back to Olympus; worry about him and look after him till he make you his wife, or, for the matter of that, his slave— but me?


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id128
sentence:
I shall not go; I can garnish his bed no longer; I should be a by- word among all the women of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id130
sentence:
Venus was very angry, and said," Bold hussy, do not provoke me; if you do, I shall leave you to your fate and hate you as much as I have loved you.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id133
sentence:
She wrapped her mantle about her and went in silence, following the goddess and unnoticed by the Trojan women.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id134
sentence:
When they came to the house of Alexandrus the maid- servants set about their work, but Helen went into her own room, and the laughter- loving goddess took a seat and set it for her facing Alexandrus.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id135
sentence:
On this Helen, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, sat down, and with eyes askance began to upbraid her husband.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id136
sentence:
"So you are come from the fight," said she;" would that you had fallen rather by the hand of that brave man who was my husband.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id138
sentence:
Go, then, and challenge him again— but I should advise you not to do so, for if you are foolish enough to meet him in single combat, you will soon fall by his spear."


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id140
sentence:
This time, with the help of Minerva, Menelaus has vanquished me; another time I may myself be victor, for I too have gods that will stand by me.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id142
sentence:
Never yet was I so passionately enamoured of you as at this moment— not even when I first carried you off from Lacedaemon and sailed away with you— not even when I had converse with you upon the couch of love in the island of Cranae was I so enthralled by desire of you as now. "


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id144
sentence:
Thus they laid themselves on the bed together; but the son of Atreus strode among the throng, looking everywhere for Alexandrus, and no man, neither of the Trojans nor of the allies, could find him.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id145
sentence:
If they had seen him they were in no mind to hide him, for they all of them hated him as they did death itself.


title: homer-iliad_03
idx: id147
sentence:
The victory has been with Menelaus; therefore give back Helen with all her wealth, and pay such fine as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among them that shall be born hereafter."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id2
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and they all held their peace throughout the covered cloister, enthralled by the charm of his story, till presently Alcinous began to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id3
sentence:
"Ulysses," said he," now that you have reached my house I doubt not you will get home without further misadventure no matter how much you have suffered in the past.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id4
sentence:
To you others, however, who come here night after night to drink my choicest wine and listen to my bard, I would insist as follows.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id5
sentence:
Our guest has already packed up the clothes, wrought gold and other valuables which you have brought for his acceptance; let us now, therefore, present him further, each one of us, with a large tripod and a cauldron.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id6
sentence:
We will recoup ourselves by the levy of a general rate; for private individuals can not be expected to bear the burden of such a handsome present."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id8
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared they hurried down to the ship and brought their cauldrons with them.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id9
sentence:
Alcinous went on board and saw everything so securely stowed under the ship 's benches that nothing could break adrift and injure the rowers.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id10
sentence:
Then they went to the house of Alcinous to get dinner, and he sacrificed a bull for them in honour of Jove who is the lord of all.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id11
sentence:
They set the steaks to grill and made an excellent dinner, after which the inspired bard, Demodocus, who was a favourite with every one, sang to them; but Ulysses kept on turning his eyes towards the sun, as though to hasten his setting, for he was longing to be on his way.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id12
sentence:
As one who has been all day ploughing a fallow field with a couple of oxen keeps thinking about his supper and is glad when night comes that he may go and get it, for it is all his legs can do to carry him, even so did Ulysses rejoice when the sun went down, and he at once said to the Phaeacians, addressing himself more particularly to King Alcinous: "Sir, and all of you, farewell.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id13
sentence:
Make your drink- offerings and send me on my way rejoicing, for you have fulfilled my heart 's desire by giving me an escort, and making me presents, which heaven grant that I may turn to good account; may I find my admirable wife living in peace among friends and may you whom I leave behind me give satisfaction to your wives and children ;may heaven vouchsafe you every good grace, and may no evil thing come among your people."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id15
sentence:
His hearers all of them approved his saying and agreed that he should have his escort inasmuch as he had spoken reasonably.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id16
sentence:
Alcinous therefore said to his servant," Pontonous, mix some wine and hand it round to everybody, that we may offer a prayer to father Jove, and speed our guest upon his way."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id17
sentence:
Pontonous mixed the wine and handed it to every one in turn; the others each from his own seat made a drink- offering to the blessed gods that live in heaven, but Ulysses rose and placed the double cup in the hands of queen Arete.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id18
sentence:
"Farewell, queen," said he," henceforward and for ever, till age and death, the common lot of mankind, lay their hands upon you.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id19
sentence:
I now take my leave; be happy in this house with your children, your people, and with king Alcinous."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id20
sentence:
As he spoke he crossed the threshold, and Alcinous sent a man to conduct him to his ship and to the sea shore.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id21
sentence:
Arete also sent some maidservants with him— one with a clean shirt and cloak, another to carry his strong box, and a third with corn and wine.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id22
sentence:
When they got to the water side the crew took these things and put them on board, with all the meat and drink; but for Ulysses they spread a rug and a linen sheet on deck that he might sleep soundly in the stern of the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id23
sentence:
Then he too went on board and lay down without a word, but the crew took every man his place and loosed the hawser from the pierced stone to which it had been bound.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id24
sentence:
Thereon, when they began rowing out to sea, Ulysses fell into a deep, sweet, and almost deathlike slumber.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id25
sentence:
The ship bounded forward on her way as a four in hand chariot flies over the course when the horses feel the whip.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id26
sentence:
Her prow curvetted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id27
sentence:
She held steadily on her course, and even a falcon, swiftest of all birds, could not have kept pace with her.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id28
sentence:
Thus, then, she cut her way through the water, carrying one who was as cunning as the gods, but who was now sleeping peacefully, forgetful of all that he had suffered both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id30
sentence:
Now there is in Ithaca a haven of the old merman Phorcys, which lies between two points that break the line of the sea and shut the harbour in.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id31
sentence:
These shelter it from the storms of wind and sea that rage outside, so that, when once within it, a ship may lie without being even moored.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id32
sentence:
At the head of this harbour there is a large olive tree, and at no great distance a fine overarching cavern sacred to the nymphs who are called Naiads.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id34
sentence:
Moreover, there are great looms of stone on which the nymphs weave their robes of sea purple— very curious to see— and at all times there is water within it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id35
sentence:
It has two entrances, one facing North by which mortals can go down into the cave, while the other comes from the South and is more mysterious; mortals can not possibly get in by it, it is the way taken by the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id37
sentence:
She had so much way upon her that she ran half her own length on to the shore; when, however, they had landed, the first thing they did was to lift Ulysses with his rug and linen sheet out of the ship, and lay him down upon the sand still fast asleep.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id38
sentence:
Then they took out the presents which Minerva had persuaded the Phaeacians to give him when he was setting out on his voyage homewards.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id39
sentence:
They put these all together by the root of the olive tree, away from the road, for fear some passer by might come and steal them before Ulysses awoke; and then they made the best of their way home again.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id40
sentence:
But Neptune did not forget the threats with which he had already threatened Ulysses, so he took counsel with Jove."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id41
sentence:
Father Jove," said he," I shall no longer be held in any sort of respect among you gods, if mortals like the Phaeacians, who are my own flesh and blood, show such small regard for me.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id43
sentence:
I did not say that he should never get home at all, for I knew you had already nodded your head about it, and promised that he should do so; but now they have brought him in a ship fast asleep and have landed him in Ithaca after loading him with more magnificent presents of bronze, gold, and raiment than he would ever have brought back from Troy, if he had had his share of the spoil and got home without misadventure."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id47
sentence:
As regards mortals, however, if any of them is indulging in insolence and treating you disrespectfully, it will always rest with yourself to deal with him as you may think proper, so do just as you please."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id48
sentence:
"I should have done so at once," replied Neptune," if I were not anxious to avoid anything that might displease you; now, therefore, I should like to wreck the Phaeacian ship as it is returning from its escort.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id49
sentence:
This will stop them from escorting people in future; and I should also like to bury their city under a huge mountain."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id50
sentence:
"My good friend," answered Jove," I should recommend you at the very moment when the people from the city are watching the ship on her way, to turn it into a rock near the land and looking like a ship.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id52
sentence:
When earth- encircling Neptune heard this he went to Scheria where the Phaeacians live, and stayed there till the ship, which was making rapid way, had got close in.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id53
sentence:
Then he went up to it, turned it into stone, and drove it down with the flat of his hand so as to root it in the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id55
sentence:
The Phaeacians then began talking among themselves, and one would turn towards his neighbour, saying," Bless my heart, who is it that can have rooted the ship in the sea just as she was getting into port?


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id57
sentence:
This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alcinous said," I remember now the old prophecy of my father.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id58
sentence:
He said that Neptune would be angry with us for taking every one so safely over the sea, and would one day wreck a Phaeacian ship as it was returning from an escort, and bury our city under a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id60
sentence:
Now therefore let us all do as I say; in the first place we must leave off giving people escorts when they come here, and in the next let us sacrifice twelve picked bulls to Neptune that he may have mercy upon us, and not bury our city under the high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id62
sentence:
Thus did the chiefs and rulers of the Phaeacians pray to king Neptune, standing round his altar; and at the same time Ulysses woke up once more upon his own soil.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id63
sentence:
He had been so long away that he did not know it again; moreover, Jove 's daughter Minerva had made it a foggy day, so that people might not know of his having come, and that she might tell him everything without either his wife or his fellow citizens and friends recognising him until he had taken his revenge upon the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id64
sentence:
Everything, therefore, seemed quite different to him— the long straight tracks, the harbours, the precipices, and the goodly trees, appeared all changed as he started up and looked upon his native land.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id69
sentence:
I wish I had staid over there with the Phaeacians; or I could have gone to some other great chief who would have been good to me and given me an escort.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id70
sentence:
As it is I do not know where to put my treasure, and I can not leave it here for fear somebody else should get hold of it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id71
sentence:
In good truth the chiefs and rulers of the Phaeacians have not been dealing fairly by me, and have left me in the wrong country; they said they would take me back to Ithaca and they have not done so :may Jove the protector of suppliants chastise them, for he watches over everybody and punishes those who do wrong.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id73
sentence:
He counted his goodly coppers and cauldrons, his gold and all his clothes, but there was nothing missing; still he kept grieving about not being in his own country, and wandered up and down by the shore of the sounding sea bewailing his hard fate.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id74
sentence:
Then Minerva came up to him disguised as a young shepherd of delicate and princely mien, with a good cloak folded double about her shoulders; she had sandals on her comely feet and held a javelin in her hand.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id76
sentence:
"My friend," said he," you are the first person whom I have met with in this country; I salute you, therefore, and beg you to be well disposed towards me.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id77
sentence:
Protect these my goods, and myself too, for I embrace your knees and pray to you as though you were a god.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id81
sentence:
Minerva answered," Stranger, you must be very simple, or must have come from somewhere a long way off, not to know what country this is.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id83
sentence:
It is rugged and not a good driving country, but it is by no means a bad island for what there is of it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id84
sentence:
It grows any quantity of corn and also wine, for it is watered both by rain and dew; it breeds cattle also and goats; all kinds of timber grow here, and there are watering places where the water never runs dry; so, sir, the name of Ithaca is known even as far as Troy, which I understand to be a long way off from this Achaean country."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id85
sentence:
Ulysses was glad at finding himself, as Minerva told him, in his own country, and he began to answer, but he did not speak the truth, and made up a lying story in the instinctive wiliness of his heart.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id86
sentence:
"I heard of Ithaca," said he," when I was in Crete beyond the seas, and now it seems I have reached it with all these treasures.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id87
sentence:
I have left as much more behind me for my children, but am flying because I killed Orsilochus son of Idomeneus, the fleetest runner in Crete.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id88
sentence:
I killed him because he wanted to rob me of the spoils I had got from Troy with so much trouble and danger both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea; he said I had not served his father loyally at Troy as vassal, but had set myself up as an independent ruler, so I lay in wait for him with one of my followers by the road side, and speared him as he was coming into town from the country.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id89
sentence:
It was a very dark night and nobody saw us; it was not known, therefore, that I had killed him, but as soon as I had done so I went to a ship and besought the owners, who were Phoenicians, to take me on board and set me in Pylos or in Elis where the Epeans rule, giving them as much spoil as satisfied them.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id90
sentence:
They meant no guile, but the wind drove them off their course, and we sailed on till we came hither by night.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id91
sentence:
It was all we could do to get inside the harbour, and none of us said a word about supper though we wanted it badly, but we all went on shore and lay down just as we were.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id92
sentence:
I was very tired and fell asleep directly, so they took my goods out of the ship, and placed them beside me where I was lying upon the sand.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id95
sentence:
Then she took the form of a woman, fair, stately, and wise," He must be indeed a shifty lying fellow," said she," who could surpass you in all manner of craft even though you had a god for your antagonist.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id96
sentence:
Dare devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again?


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id97
sentence:
We will say no more, however, about this, for we can both of us deceive upon occasion— you are the most accomplished counsellor and orator among all mankind, while I for diplomacy and subtlety have no equal among the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id98
sentence:
Did you not know Jove 's daughter Minerva— me, who have been ever with you, who kept watch over you in all your troubles, and who made the Phaeacians take so great a liking to you?


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id99
sentence:
And now, again, I am come here to talk things over with you, and help you to hide the treasure I made the Phaeacians give you; I want to tell you about the troubles that await you in your own house; you have got to face them, but tell no one, neither man nor woman, that you have come home again.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id101
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," A man, goddess, may know a great deal, but you are so constantly changing your appearance that when he meets you it is a hard matter for him to know whether it is you or not.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id102
sentence:
This much, however, I know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we Achaeans were fighting before Troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of Priam, and heaven dispersed us— from that day, Minerva, I saw no more of you, and can not ever remember your coming to my ship to help me in a difficulty; I had to wander on sick and sorry till the gods delivered me from evil and I reached the city of the Phaeacians, where you encouraged me and took me into the town.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id103
sentence:
And now, I beseech you in your father 's name, tell me the truth, for I do not believe I am really back in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id106
sentence:
"You are always taking something of that sort in your head," replied Minerva," and that is why I can not desert you in your afflictions; you are so plausible, shrewd and shifty.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id107
sentence:
Any one but yourself on returning from so long a voyage would at once have gone home to see his wife and children, but you do not seem to care about asking after them or hearing any news about them till you have exploited your wife, who remains at home vainly grieving for you, and having no peace night or day for the tears she sheds on your behalf.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id108
sentence:
As for my not coming near you, I was never uneasy about you, for I was certain you would get back safely though you would lose all your men, and I did not wish to quarrel with my uncle Neptune, who never forgave you for having blinded his son.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id110
sentence:
This is the haven of the old merman Phorcys, and here is the olive tree that grows at the head of it;[ near it is the cave sacred to the Naiads; here too is the overarching cavern in which you have offered many an acceptable hecatomb to the nymphs, and this is the wooded mountain Neritum."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id112
sentence:
Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil; he lifted up his hands and prayed to the nymphs, saying," Naiad nymphs, daughters of Jove, I made sure that I was never again to see you, now therefore I greet you with all loving salutations, and I will bring you offerings as in the old days, if Jove 's redoubtable daughter will grant me life, and bring my son to manhood."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id113
sentence:
"Take heart, and do not trouble yourself about that," rejoined Minerva," let us rather set about stowing your things at once in the cave, where they will be quite safe.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id115
sentence:
Therewith she went down into the cave to look for the safest hiding places, while Ulysses brought up all the treasure of gold, bronze, and good clothing which the Phaeacians had given him.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id117
sentence:
Then the two sat down by the root of the great olive, and consulted how to compass the destruction of the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id118
sentence:
"Ulysses," said Minerva," noble son of Laertes, think how you can lay hands on these disreputable people who have been lording it in your house these three years, courting your wife and making wedding presents to her, while she does nothing but lament your absence, giving hope and sending encouraging messages to every one of them, but meaning the very opposite of all she says."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id119
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," In good truth, goddess, it seems I should have come to much the same bad end in my own house as Agamemnon did, if you had not given me such timely information.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id121
sentence:
Stand by my side and put your courage into my heart as on the day when we loosed Troy 's fair diadem from her brow.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id123
sentence:
"Trust me for that," said she," I will not lose sight of you when once we set about it, and I imagine that some of those who are devouring your substance will then bespatter the pavement with their blood and brains.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id124
sentence:
I will begin by disguising you so that no human being shall know you; I will cover your body with wrinkles; you shall lose all your yellow hair; I will clothe you in a garment that shall fill all who see it with loathing; I will blear your fine eyes for you, and make you an unseemly object in the sight of the suitors, of your wife, and of the son whom you left behind you.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id125
sentence:
Then go at once to the swineherd who is in charge of your pigs; he has been always well affected towards you, and is devoted to Penelope and your son; you will find him feeding his pigs near the rock that is called Raven by the fountain Arethusa, where they are fattening on beechmast and spring water after their manner.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id126
sentence:
Stay with him and find out how things are going, while I proceed to Sparta and see your son, who is with Menelaus at Lacedaemon, where he has gone to try and find out whether you are still alive."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id128
sentence:
Did you want him too to go sailing about amid all kinds of hardship while others are eating up his estate?"


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id129
sentence:
Minerva answered," Never mind about him, I sent him that he might be well spoken of for having gone.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id130
sentence:
He is in no sort of difficulty, but is staying quite comfortably with Menelaus, and is surrounded with abundance of every kind.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id131
sentence:
The suitors have put out to sea and are lying in wait for him, for they mean to kill him before he can get home.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id132
sentence:
I do not much think they will succeed, but rather that some of those who are now eating up your estate will first find a grave themselves."


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id133
sentence:
As she spoke Minerva touched him with her wand and covered him with wrinkles, took away all his yellow hair, and withered the flesh over his whole body; she bleared his eyes, which were naturally very fine ones; she changed his clothes and threw an old rag of a wrap about him, and a tunic, tattered, filthy, and begrimed with smoke; she also gave him an undressed deer skin as an outer garment, and furnished him with a staff and a wallet all in holes, with a twisted thong for him to sling it over his shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_13
idx: id134
sentence:
When the pair had thus laid their plans they parted, and the goddess went straight to Lacedaemon to fetch Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id3
sentence:
but as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of Neleus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id4
sentence:
Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id6
sentence:
As they were eating the inward meats and burning the thigh bones[ on the embers] in the name of Neptune, Telemachus and his crew arrived, furled their sails, brought their ship to anchor, and went ashore.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id8
sentence:
Presently she said," Telemachus, you must not be in the least shy or nervous; you have taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried and how he came by his end; so go straight up to Nestor that we may see what he has got to tell us.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id11
sentence:
I have never yet been used to holding long conversations with people, and am ashamed to begin questioning one who is so much older than myself."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id12
sentence:
"Some things, Telemachus," answered Minerva," will be suggested to you by your own instinct, and heaven will prompt you further; for I am assured that the gods have been with you from the time of your birth until now."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id13
sentence:
She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were assembled.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id14
sentence:
There they found Nestor sitting with his sons, while his company round him were busy getting dinner ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits while other pieces were cooking.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id15
sentence:
When they saw the strangers they crowded round them, took them by the hand and bade them take their places.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id16
sentence:
Nestor 's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id17
sentence:
Then he gave them their portions of the inward meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup, handing it to Minerva first, and saluting her at the same time.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id18
sentence:
"Offer a prayer, sir," said he," to King Neptune, for it is his feast that you are joining; when you have duly prayed and made your drink offering, pass the cup to your friend that he may do so also.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id20
sentence:
Still he is younger than you are, and is much of an age with myself, so I will give you the precedence."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id22
sentence:
Minerva thought it very right and proper of him to have given it to herself first; she accordingly began praying heartily to Neptune. "


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id23
sentence:
O thou," she cried," that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon thee.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id24
sentence:
More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id25
sentence:
Lastly, grant Telemachus and myself a happy issue, in respect of the matter that has brought us in our ship to Pylos."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id27
sentence:
By and by, when the outer meats were roasted and had been taken off the spits, the carvers gave every man his portion and they all made an excellent dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id32
sentence:
or do you sail the seas as rovers with your hand against every man, and every man 's hand against you?"


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id33
sentence:
Telemachus answered boldly, for Minerva had given him courage to ask about his father and get himself a good name.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id34
sentence:
"Nestor," said he," son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name ,you ask whence we come, and I will tell you.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id35
sentence:
We come from Ithaca under Neritum and the matter about which I would speak is of private not public import.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id36
sentence:
I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses, who is said to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id37
sentence:
We know what fate befell each one of the other heroes who fought at Troy, but as regards Ulysses heaven has hidden from us the knowledge even that he is dead at all, for no one can certify us in what place he perished, nor say whether he fell in battle on the mainland, or was lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id38
sentence:
Therefore I am suppliant at your knees, if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller, for he was a man born to trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id40
sentence:
If my brave father Ulysses ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed among the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favour and tell me truly all."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id41
sentence:
"My friend," answered Nestor," you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king Priam.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id42
sentence:
Our best men all of them fell there— Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus peer of gods in counsel, and my own dear son Antilochus, a man singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id44
sentence:
Though you were to stay here and question me for five years, or even six, I could not tell you all that the Achaeans suffered, and you would turn homeward weary of my tale before it ended.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id45
sentence:
Nine long years did we try every kind of stratagem, but the hand of heaven was against us; during all this time there was no one who could compare with your father in subtlety— if indeed you are his son— I can hardly believe my eyes— and you talk just like him too —no one would say that people of such different ages could speak so much alike.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id46
sentence:
He and I never had any kind of difference from first to last neither in camp nor council, but in singleness of heart and purpose we advised the Argives how all might be ordered for the best.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id47
sentence:
"When, however, we had sacked the city of Priam, and were setting sail in our ships as heaven had dispersed us, then Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage; for they had not all been either wise or understanding, and hence many came to a bad end through the displeasure of Jove 's daughter Minerva, who brought about a quarrel between the two sons of Atreus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id48
sentence:
"The sons of Atreus called a meeting which was not as it should be, for it was sunset and the Achaeans were heavy with wine.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id49
sentence:
When they explained why they had called the people together, it seemed that Menelaus was for sailing homeward at once, and this displeased Agamemnon, who thought that we should wait till we had offered hecatombs to appease the anger of Minerva.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id50
sentence:
Fool that he was, he might have known that he would not prevail with her, for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id51
sentence:
So the two stood bandying hard words, whereon the Achaeans sprang to their feet with a cry that rent the air, and were of two minds as to what they should do.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id53
sentence:
But in the morning some of us drew our ships into the water and put our goods with our women on board, while the rest, about half in number, stayed behind with Agamemnon.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id55
sentence:
When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home; cruel Jove, however, did not yet mean that we should do so, and raised a second quarrel in the course of which some among us turned their ships back again, and sailed away under Ulysses to make their peace with Agamemnon; but I, and all the ships that were with me pressed forward, for I saw that mischief was brewing.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id57
sentence:
Later on Menelaus joined us at Lesbos, and found us making up our minds about our course— for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against the stormy headland of Mimas.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id58
sentence:
So we asked heaven for a sign, and were shown one to the effect that we should be soonest out of danger if we headed our ships across the open sea to Euboea.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id59
sentence:
This we therefore did, and a fair wind sprang up which gave us a quick passage during the night to Geraestus where we offered many sacrifices to Neptune for having helped us so far on our way.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id60
sentence:
Four days later Diomed and his men stationed their ships in Argos, but I held on for Pylos, and the wind never fell light from the day when heaven first made it fair for me.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id62
sentence:
I know neither who got home safely nor who were lost but, as in duty bound, I will give you without reserve the reports that have reached me since I have been here in my own house.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id63
sentence:
They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles ' son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id64
sentence:
Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id65
sentence:
No matter how far out of the world you live, you will have heard of Agamemnon and the bad end he came to at the hands of Aegisthus— and a fearful reckoning did Aegisthus presently pay.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id66
sentence:
See what a good thing it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id67
sentence:
You too, then— for you are a tall smart- looking fellow— show your mettle and make yourself a name in story."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id68
sentence:
"Nestor son of Neleus," answered Telemachus," honour to the Achaean name, the Achaeans applaud Orestes and his name will live through all time for he has avenged his father nobly.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id69
sentence:
Would that heaven might grant me to do like vengeance on the insolence of the wicked suitors, who are ill treating me and plotting my ruin; but the gods have no such happiness in store for me and for my father, so we must bear it as best we may."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id70
sentence:
"My friend," said Nestor," now that you remind me, I remember to have heard that your mother has many suitors, who are ill disposed towards you and are making havoc of your estate.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id72
sentence:
Who knows but what Ulysses may come back after all, and pay these scoundrels in full, either single- handed or with a force of Achaeans behind him?


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id73
sentence:
If Minerva were to take as great a liking to you as she did to Ulysses when we were fighting before Troy( for I never yet saw the gods so openly fond of any one as Minerva then was of your father), if she would take as good care of you as she did of him, these wooers would soon some of them forget their wooing."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id78
sentence:
Heaven has a long arm if it is minded to save a man; and if it were me, I should not care how much I suffered before getting home, provided I could be safe when I was once there.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id79
sentence:
I would rather this, than get home quickly, and then be killed in my own house as Agamemnon was by the treachery of Aegisthus and his wife.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id80
sentence:
Still, death is certain, and when a man 's hour is come, not even the gods can save him, no matter how fond they are of him."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id82
sentence:
There is no chance of my father 's ever coming back; the gods have long since counselled his destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id83
sentence:
There is something else, however, about which I should like to ask Nestor, for he knows much more than any one else does.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id88
sentence:
Was Menelaus away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhither among mankind, that Aegisthus took heart and killed Agamemnon?"


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id89
sentence:
"I will tell you truly," answered Nestor," and indeed you have yourself divined how it all happened.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id90
sentence:
If Menelaus when he got back from Troy had found Aegisthus still alive in his house, there would have been no barrow heaped up for him, not even when he was dead, but he would have been thrown outside the city to dogs and vultures, and not a woman would have mourned him, for he had done a deed of great wickedness; but we were over there, fighting hard at Troy, and Aegisthus, who was taking his ease quietly in the heart of Argos, cajoled Agamemnon 's wife Clytemnestra with incessant flattery.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id91
sentence:
"At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; moreover there was a bard with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife; but when heaven had counselled her destruction, Aegisthus carried this bard off to a desert island and left him there for crows and seagulls to batten upon— after which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id92
sentence:
Then he offered many burnt sacrifices to the gods, and decorated many temples with tapestries and gilding, for he had succeeded far beyond his expectations.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id94
sentence:
When we got to Sunium, which is the point of Athens, Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the steersman of Menelaus ' ship( and never man knew better how to handle a vessel in rough weather) so that he died then and there with the helm in his hand, and Menelaus, though very anxious to press forward, had to wait in order to bury his comrade and give him his due funeral rites.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id95
sentence:
Presently, when he too could put to sea again, and had sailed on as far as the Malean heads, Jove counselled evil against him and made it blow hard till the waves ran mountains high.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id96
sentence:
Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id97
sentence:
There is a high headland hereabouts stretching out into the sea from a place called Gortyn, and all along this part of the coast as far as Phaestus the sea runs high when there is a south wind blowing, but after Phaestus the coast is more protected, for a small headland can make a great shelter.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id98
sentence:
Here this part of the fleet was driven on to the rocks and wrecked; but the crews just managed to save themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id99
sentence:
As for the other five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaus gathered much gold and substance among people of an alien speech.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id101
sentence:
For seven years after he had killed Agamemnon he ruled in Mycene, and the people were obedient under him, but in the eighth year Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and killed the murderer of his father.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id102
sentence:
Then he celebrated the funeral rites of his mother and of false Aegisthus by a banquet to the people of Argos, and on that very day Menelaus came home with as much treasure as his ships could carry.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id103
sentence:
"Take my advice then, and do not go travelling about for long so far from home, 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_03
idx: id104
sentence:
Still, I should advise you by all means to go and visit Menelaus, who has lately come off a voyage among such distant peoples as no man could ever hope to get back from, when the winds had once carried him so far out of his reckoning; even birds can not fly the distance in a twelve- month, so vast and terrible are the seas that they must cross.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id105
sentence:
Go to him, therefore, by sea, and take your own men with you; or if you would rather travel by land you can have a chariot, you can have horses, and here are my sons who can escort you to Lacedaemon where Menelaus lives.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id107
sentence:
As he spoke the sun set and it came on dark, whereon Minerva said," Sir, all that you have said is well; now, however, order the tongues of the victims to be cut, and mix wine that we may make drink- offerings to Neptune, and the other immortals, and then go to bed, for it is bed time.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id110
sentence:
Men servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing- bowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink offering; then they threw the tongues of the victims into the fire, and stood up to make their drink offerings.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id111
sentence:
When they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded, Minerva and Telemachus were for going on board their ship, but Nestor caught them up at once and stayed them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id112
sentence:
"Heaven and the immortal gods," he exclaimed," forbid that you should leave my house to go on board of a ship.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id113
sentence:
Do you think I am so poor and short of clothes, or that I have so few cloaks and as to be unable to find comfortable beds both for myself and for my guests?


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id114
sentence:
Let me tell you I have store both of rugs and cloaks, and shall not permit the son of my old friend Ulysses to camp down on the deck of a ship— not while I live— nor yet will my sons after me, but they will keep open house as I have done."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id115
sentence:
Then Minerva answered," Sir, you have spoken well, and it will be much better that Telemachus should do as you have said; he, therefore, shall return with you and sleep at your house, but I must go back to give orders to my crew, and keep them in good heart.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id116
sentence:
I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus ' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id118
sentence:
As for Telemachus, now that he is your guest, send him to Lacedaemon in a chariot, and let one of your sons go with him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id120
sentence:
When she had thus spoken, she flew away in the form of an eagle, and all marvelled as they beheld it.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id122
sentence:
My friend," said he," I see that you are going to be a great hero some day, since the gods wait upon you thus while you are still so young.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id123
sentence:
This can have been none other of those who dwell in heaven than Jove 's redoubtable daughter, the Trito- born, who shewed such favour towards your brave father among the Argives.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id124
sentence:
Holy queen," he continued," vouchsafe to send down thy grace upon myself, my good wife, and my children.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id125
sentence:
In return, I will offer you in sacrifice a broad- browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id129
sentence:
When they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and seats, he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id130
sentence:
As he mixed the wine, he prayed much and made drink offerings to Minerva, daughter of Aegis- bearing Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id131
sentence:
Then, when they had made their drink offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the others went home to bed each in his own abode; but Nestor put Telemachus to sleep in the room that was over the gateway along with Pisistratus, who was the only unmarried son now left him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id133
sentence:
Now when the child of morning rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id134
sentence:
Here aforetime sat Neleus, peer of gods in counsel, but he was now dead, and had gone to the house of Hades; so Nestor sat in his seat sceptre in hand, as guardian of the public weal.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id135
sentence:
His sons as they left their rooms gathered round him, Echephron, Stratius, Perseus, Aretus, and Thrasymedes; the sixth son was Pisistratus, and when Telemachus joined them they made him sit with them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id138
sentence:
I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday 's festivities.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id139
sentence:
Go, then, one or other of you to the plain, tell the stockman to look me out a heifer, and come on here with it at once.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id140
sentence:
Another must go to Telemachus ' ship, and invite all the crew, leaving two men only in charge of the vessel.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id142
sentence:
The rest, stay all of you where you are; tell the maids in the house to prepare an excellent dinner, and to fetch seats, and logs of wood for a burnt offering.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id145
sentence:
The heifer was brought in from the plain, and Telemachus 's crew came from the ship; the goldsmith brought the anvil, hammer, and tongs, with which he worked his gold, and Minerva herself came to accept the sacrifice.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id146
sentence:
Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id147
sentence:
Then Stratius and Echephron brought her in by the horns; Aretus fetched water from the house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it, and in his other hand he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id148
sentence:
Then Nestor began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley meal, and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock from the heifer 's head upon the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id149
sentence:
When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice( she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id152
sentence:
They cut out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five- pronged spits in their hands.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id153
sentence:
When the thighs were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces on the spits and toasted them over the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id155
sentence:
When she had washed him and anointed him with oil, she brought him a fair mantle and shirt and he looked like a god as he came from the bath and took his seat by the side of Nestor.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id156
sentence:
When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id157
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Nestor said," Sons, put Telemachus 's horses to the chariot that he may start at once."


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id159
sentence:
The housekeeper packed them up a provision of bread, wine, and sweet meats fit for the sons of princes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id160
sentence:
Then Telemachus got into the chariot, while Pisistratus gathered up the reins and took his seat beside him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id161
sentence:
He lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth into the open country, leaving the high citadel of Pylos behind them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id162
sentence:
All that day did they travel, swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and darkness was over all the land.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id165
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse.


title: homer-odyssey_03
idx: id166
sentence:
Pisistratus lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth; presently they came to the corn lands of the open country, and in the course of time completed their journey, so well did their steeds take them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id1
sentence:
TELEMACHUS AND HIS MOTHER MEET—ULYSSES AND EUMAEUS COME DOWN TO THE TOWN, AND ULYSSES IS INSULTED BY MELANTHIUS—HE IS RECOGNISED BY THE DOG ARGOS—HE IS INSULTED AND PRESENTLY STRUCK BY ANTINOUS WITH A STOOL—PENELOPE DESIRES THAT HE SHALL BE SENT TO HER.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id2
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited his hands, for he wanted to go into the city.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id4
sentence:
Old friend," said he to the swineherd," I will now go to the town and show myself to my mother, for she will never leave off grieving till she has seen me.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id5
sentence:
As for this unfortunate stranger, take him to the town and let him beg there of any one who will give him a drink and a piece of bread.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id8
sentence:
Then Ulysses said," Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id10
sentence:
Therefore let this man do as you have just told him, and take me to the town as soon as I have had a warm by the fire, and the day has got a little heat in it.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id11
sentence:
My clothes are wretchedly thin, and this frosty morning I shall be perished with cold, for you say the city is some way off."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id13
sentence:
When he reached home he stood his spear against a bearing- post of the cloister, crossed the stone floor of the cloister itself, and went inside.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id15
sentence:
She was putting the fleeces on to the seats, and she burst out crying as she ran up to him; all the other maids came up too, and covered his head and shoulders with their kisses.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id16
sentence:
Penelope came out of her room looking like Diana or Venus, and wept as she flung her arms about her son.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id17
sentence:
She kissed his forehead and both his beautiful eyes," Light of my eyes," she cried as she spoke fondly to him," so you are come home again; I made sure I was never going to see you any more.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id20
sentence:
"Do not scold me, mother," answered Telemachus," nor vex me, seeing what a narrow escape I have had, but wash your face, change your dress, go upstairs with your maids, and promise full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if Jove will only grant us our revenge upon the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id22
sentence:
I sent him on with my crew, and told Piraeus to take him home and look after him till I could come for him myself."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id23
sentence:
She heeded her son 's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id24
sentence:
Telemachus went through, and out of, the cloisters spear in hand— not alone, for his two fleet dogs went with him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id25
sentence:
Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father 's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id26
sentence:
Then Piraeus came up with Theoclymenus, whom he had escorted through the town to the place of assembly, whereon Telemachus at once joined them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id27
sentence:
Piraeus was first to speak:" Telemachus," said he," I wish you would send some of your women to my house to take away the presents Menelaus gave you."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id29
sentence:
If the suitors kill me in my own house and divide my property among them, I would rather you had the presents than that any of those people should get hold of them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id30
sentence:
If on the other hand I managed to kill them, I shall be much obliged if you will kindly bring me my presents."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id32
sentence:
When they got there they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats, went into the baths, and washed themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id33
sentence:
When the maids had washed and anointed them, and had given them cloaks and shirts, they took their seats at table.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id34
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_17
idx: id35
sentence:
An upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id36
sentence:
Opposite them sat Penelope, reclining on a couch by one of the bearing- posts of the cloister, and spinning.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id37
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 Penelope said: "Telemachus, I shall go upstairs and lie down on that sad couch, which I have not ceased to water with my tears, from the day Ulysses set out for Troy with the sons of Atreus.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id38
sentence:
You failed, however, to make it clear to me before the suitors came back to the house, whether or no you had been able to hear anything about the return of your father."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id40
sentence:
"We went to Pylos and saw Nestor, who took me to his house and treated me as hospitably as though I were a son of his own who had just returned after a long absence; so also did his sons; but he said he had not heard a word from any human being about Ulysses, whether he was alive or dead.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id42
sentence:
There I saw Helen, for whose sake so many, both Argives and Trojans, were in heaven 's wisdom doomed to suffer.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id43
sentence:
Menelaus asked me what it was that had brought me to Lacedaemon, and I told him the whole truth, whereon he said,' So, then, these cowards would usurp a brave man 's bed?


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id44
sentence:
A hind might as well lay her new- born young in the lair of a lion, and then go off to feed in the forest or in some grassy dell.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id45
sentence:
The lion, when he comes back to his lair, will make short work with the pair of them, and so will Ulysses with these suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id46
sentence:
By father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, if Ulysses is still the man that he was when he wrestled with Philomeleides in Lesbos, and threw him so heavily that all the Greeks cheered him— if he is still such, and were to come near these suitors, they would have a short shrift and a sorry wedding.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id47
sentence:
As regards your question, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but what the old man of the sea told me, so much will I tell you in full.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id48
sentence:
He said he could see Ulysses on an island sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso, who was keeping him prisoner, and he could not reach his home, for he had no ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id49
sentence:
This was what Menelaus told me, and when I had heard his story I came away; the gods then gave me a fair wind and soon brought me safe home again."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id51
sentence:
Then Theoclymenus said to her: "Madam, wife of Ulysses, Telemachus does not understand these things; listen therefore to me, for I can divine them surely, and will hide nothing from you.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id52
sentence:
May Jove the king of heaven be my witness, and the rites of hospitality, with that hearth of Ulysses to which I now come, that Ulysses himself is even now in Ithaca, and, either going about the country or staying in one place, is enquiring into all these evil deeds and preparing a day of reckoning for the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id54
sentence:
"May it be even so," answered Penelope;" if your words come true, you shall have such gifts and such good will from me that all who see you shall congratulate you."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id56
sentence:
Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs, or aiming with spears at a mark on the levelled ground in front of the house, and behaving with all their old insolence.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id57
sentence:
But when it was now time for dinner, and the flock of sheep and goats had come into the town from all the country round, with their shepherds as usual, then Medon, who was their favourite servant, and who waited upon them at table, said," Now then, my young masters, you have had enough sport, so come inside that we may get dinner ready.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id59
sentence:
They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id61
sentence:
In the meantime Ulysses and the swineherd were about starting for the town, and the swineherd said," Stranger, I suppose you still want to go to town to- day, as my master said you were to do; for my own part I should have liked you to stay here as a station hand, but I must do as my master tells me, or he will scold me later on, and a scolding from one 's master is a very serious thing.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id65
sentence:
Let us be going, but if you have a stick ready cut, let me have it to walk with, for you say the road is a very rough one."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id66
sentence:
As he spoke he threw his shabby old tattered wallet over his shoulders, by the cord from which it hung, and Eumaeus gave him a stick to his liking.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id67
sentence:
The two then started, leaving the station in charge of the dogs and herdsmen who remained behind; the swineherd led the way and his master followed after, looking like some broken down old tramp as he leaned upon his staff, and his clothes were all in rags.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id68
sentence:
When they had got over the rough steep ground and were nearing the city, they reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id70
sentence:
There was a grove of water- loving poplars planted in a circle all round it, and the clear cold water came down to it from a rock high up while above the fountain there was an altar to the nymphs, at which all wayfarers used to sacrifice.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id71
sentence:
Here Melanthius son of Dolius overtook them as he was driving down some goats, the best in his flock, for the suitors ' dinner, and there were two shepherds with him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id72
sentence:
When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id77
sentence:
A fellow like this never won a prize for anything in his life, but will go about rubbing his shoulders against every man 's door post, and begging, not for swords and cauldrons like a man, but only for a few scraps not worth begging for.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id78
sentence:
If you would give him to me for a hand on my station, he might do to clean out the folds, or bring a bit of sweet feed to the kids, and he could fatten his thighs as much as he pleased on whey; but he has taken to bad ways and will not go about any kind of work; he will do nothing but beg victuals all the town over, to feed his insatiable belly.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id79
sentence:
I say, therefore— and it shall surely be— if he goes near Ulysses ' house he will get his head broken by the stools they will fling at him, till they turn him out."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id80
sentence:
On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id81
sentence:
For a moment he doubted whether or no to fly at Melanthius and kill him with his staff, or fling him to the ground and beat his brains out; he resolved, however, to endure it and keep himself in check, but the swineherd looked straight at Melanthius and rebuked him, lifting up his hands and praying to heaven as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id82
sentence:
"Fountain nymphs," he cried," children of Jove, if ever Ulysses burned you thigh bones covered with fat whether of lambs or kids, grant my prayer that heaven may send him home.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id83
sentence:
He would soon put an end to the swaggering threats with which such men as you go about insulting people— gadding all over the town while your flocks are going to ruin through bad shepherding."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id85
sentence:
Some day or other I will put you on board ship and take you to a foreign country, where I can sell you and pocket the money you will fetch.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id86
sentence:
I wish I were as sure that Apollo would strike Telemachus dead this very day, or that the suitors would kill him, as I am that Ulysses will never come home again."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id87
sentence:
With this he left them to come on at their leisure, while he went quickly forward and soon reached the house of his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id88
sentence:
When he got there he went in and took his seat among the suitors opposite Eurymachus, who liked him better than any of the others.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id89
sentence:
The servants brought him a portion of meat, and an upper woman servant set bread before him that he might eat.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id90
sentence:
Presently Ulysses and the swineherd came up to the house and stood by it, amid a sound of music, for Phemius was just beginning to sing to the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id91
sentence:
Then Ulysses took hold of the swineherd 's hand, and said: "Eumaeus, this house of Ulysses is a very fine place.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id94
sentence:
The outer court has a wall with battlements all round it; the doors are double folding, and of good workmanship; it would be a hard matter to take it by force of arms.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id95
sentence:
I perceive, too, that there are many people banqueting within it, for there is a smell of roast meat, and I hear a sound of music, which the gods have made to go along with feasting."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id96
sentence:
Then Eumaeus said," You have perceived aright, as indeed you generally do; but let us think what will be our best course.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id97
sentence:
Will you go inside first and join the suitors, leaving me here behind you, or will you wait here and let me go in first?


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id103
sentence:
I have been so much buffeted about in war and by sea that I am case- hardened, and this too may go with the rest.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id104
sentence:
But a man can not hide away the cravings of a hungry belly; this is an enemy which gives much trouble to all men; it is because of this that ships are fitted out to sail the seas, and to make war upon other people."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id105
sentence:
As they were thus talking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id106
sentence:
This was Argos, whom Ulysses had bred before setting out for Troy, but he had never had any work out of him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id107
sentence:
In the old days he used to be taken out by the young men when they went hunting wild goats, or deer, or hares, but now that his master was gone he was lying neglected on the heaps of mule and cow dung that lay in front of the stable doors till the men should come and draw it away to manure the great close; and he was full of fleas.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id108
sentence:
As soon as he saw Ulysses standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id109
sentence:
When Ulysses saw the dog on the other side of the yard, he dashed a tear from his eyes without Eumaeus seeing it, and said: "Eumaeus, what a noble hound that is over yonder on the manure heap: his build is splendid; is he as fine a fellow as he looks, or is he only one of those dogs that come begging about a table, and are kept merely for show?"


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id112
sentence:
There was not a wild beast in the forest that could get away from him when he was once on its tracks.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id113
sentence:
But now he has fallen on evil times, for his master is dead and gone, and the women take no care of him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id114
sentence:
Servants never do their work when their master 's hand is no longer over them, for Jove takes half the goodness out of a man when he makes a slave of him."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id115
sentence:
As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the cloister where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id116
sentence:
Telemachus saw Eumaeus long before any one else did, and beckoned him to come and sit beside him; so he looked about and saw a seat lying near where the carver sat serving out their portions to the suitors; he picked it up, brought it to Telemachus 's table, and sat down opposite him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id118
sentence:
Immediately afterwards Ulysses came inside, looking like a poor miserable old beggar, leaning on his staff and with his clothes all in rags.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id119
sentence:
He sat down upon the threshold of ash- wood just inside the doors leading from the outer to the inner court, and against a bearing- post of cypress- wood which the carpenter had skilfully planed, and had made to join truly with rule and line.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id120
sentence:
Telemachus took a whole loaf from the bread- basket, with as much meat as he could hold in his two hands, and said to Eumaeus," Take this to the stranger, and tell him to go the round of the suitors, and beg from them; a beggar must not be shamefaced."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id122
sentence:
Telemachus sends you this, and says you are to go the round of the suitors begging, for beggars must not be shamefaced."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id123
sentence:
Ulysses answered," May King Jove grant all happiness to Telemachus, and fulfil the desire of his heart."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id124
sentence:
Then with both hands he took what Telemachus had sent him, and laid it on the dirty old wallet at his feet.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id126
sentence:
The suitors applauded the bard, whereon Minerva went up to Ulysses and prompted him to beg pieces of bread from each one of the suitors, that he might see what kind of people they were, and tell the good from the bad; but come what might she was not going to save a single one of them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id127
sentence:
Ulysses, therefore, went on his round, going from left to right, and stretched out his hands to beg as though he were a real beggar.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id128
sentence:
Some of them pitied him, and were curious about him, asking one another who he was and where he came from; whereon the goatherd Melanthius said," Suitors of my noble mistress, I can tell you something about him, for I have seen him before.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id133
sentence:
Do you think it a small thing that such people gather here to waste your master 's property— and must you needs bring this man as well?"


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id136
sentence:
Who is likely to invite a stranger from a foreign country, unless it be one of those who can do public service as a seer, a healer of hurts, a carpenter, or a bard who can charm us with his singing?


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id137
sentence:
Such men are welcome all the world over, but no one is likely to ask a beggar who will only worry him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id138
sentence:
You are always harder on Ulysses ' servants than any of the other suitors are, and above all on me, but I do not care so long as Telemachus and Penelope are alive and here."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id139
sentence:
But Telemachus said," Hush, do not answer him; Antinous has the bitterest tongue of all the suitors, and he makes the others worse."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id140
sentence:
Then turning to Antinous he said," Antinous, you take as much care of my interests as though I were your son.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id143
sentence:
Never mind my mother, nor any of the other servants in the house; but I know you will not do what I say, for you are more fond of eating things yourself than of giving them to other people."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id145
sentence:
If all the suitors were to give him as much as I will, he would not come here again for another three months."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id146
sentence:
As he spoke he drew the stool on which he rested his dainty feet from under the table, and made as though he would throw it at Ulysses, but the other suitors all gave him something, and filled his wallet with bread and meat; he was about, therefore, to go back to the threshold and eat what the suitors had given him, but he first went up to Antinous and said: "Sir, give me something; you are not, surely, the poorest man here; you seem to be a chief, foremost among them all; therefore you should be the better giver, and I will tell far and wide of your bounty.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id148
sentence:
I had any number of servants, and all the other things which people have who live well and are accounted wealthy, but it pleased Jove to take all away from me.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id150
sentence:
I stationed my ships in the river Aegyptus, and bade 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_17
idx: id151
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 captives.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id152
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 soldiers horse and foot, and with the gleam of armour.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id153
sentence:
Then Jove spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id154
sentence:
The Egyptians killed many of us, and took the rest alive to do forced labour for them; as for myself, they gave me to a friend who met them, to take to Cyprus, Dmetor by name, son of Iasus, who was a great man in Cyprus.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id157
sentence:
Get out, into the open part of the court or I will give you Egypt and Cyprus over again for your insolence and importunity; you have begged of all the others, and they have given you lavishly, for they have abundance round them, and it is easy to be free with other people 's property when there is plenty of it."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id158
sentence:
On this Ulysses began to move off, and said," Your looks, my fine sir, are better than your breeding; if you were in your own house you would not spare a poor man so much as a pinch of salt, for though you are in another man 's, and surrounded with abundance, you can not find it in you to give him even a piece of bread."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id159
sentence:
This made Antinous very angry, and he scowled at him saying," You shall pay for this before you get clear of the court."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id160
sentence:
With these words he threw a footstool at him, and hit him on the right shoulder blade near the top of his back.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id161
sentence:
Ulysses stood firm as a rock and the blow did not even stagger him, but he shook his head in silence as he brooded on his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id164
sentence:
A man knows neither ache nor pain if he gets hit while fighting for his money, or for his sheep or his cattle; and even so Antinous has hit me while in the service of my miserable belly, which is always getting people into trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id165
sentence:
Still, if the poor have gods and avenging deities at all, I pray them that Antinous may come to a bad end before his marriage."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id167
sentence:
"If you say more I will have you dragged hand and foot through the courts, and the servants shall flay you alive."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id168
sentence:
The other suitors were much displeased at this, and one of the young men said," Antinous, you did ill in striking that poor wretch of a tramp: it will be worse for you if he should turn out to be some god— and we know the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who righteously."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id170
sentence:
Meanwhile Telemachus was furious about the blow that had been given to his father, and though no tear fell from him, he shook his head in silence and brooded on his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id171
sentence:
Now when Penelope heard that the beggar had been struck in the banqueting- cloister, she said before her maids," Would that Apollo would so strike you, Antinous," and her waiting woman Eurynome answered," If our prayers were answered not one of the suitors would ever again see the sun rise."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id172
sentence:
Then Penelope said," Nurse I hate every single one of them, for they mean nothing but mischief, but I hate Antinous like the darkness of death itself.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id174
sentence:
Every one else has given him something to put in his wallet, but Antinous has hit him on the right shoulder- blade with a footstool."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id175
sentence:
Thus did she talk with her maids as she sat in her own room, and in the meantime Ulysses was getting his dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id176
sentence:
Then she called for the swineherd and said," Eumaeus, go and tell the stranger to come here, I want to see him and ask him some questions.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id178
sentence:
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," If these Achaeans, Madam, would only keep quiet, you would be charmed with the history of his adventures.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id179
sentence:
I had him three days and three nights with me in my hut, which was the first place he reached after running away from his ship, and he has not yet completed the story of his misfortunes.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id180
sentence:
If he had been the most heaven- taught minstrel in the whole world, on whose lips all hearers hang entranced, I could not have been more charmed as I sat in my hut and listened to him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id181
sentence:
He says there is an old friendship between his house and that of Ulysses, and that he comes from Crete where the descendants of Minos live, after having been driven hither and thither by every kind of misfortune; he also declares that he has heard of Ulysses as being alive and near at hand among the Thesprotians, and that he is bringing great wealth home with him."


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id183
sentence:
As for the suitors, let them take their pleasure indoors or out as they will, for they have nothing to fret about.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id184
sentence:
Their corn and wine remain unwasted in their houses with none but servants to consume them, while they keep hanging about our house day after day 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_17
idx: id188
sentence:
Penelope laughed when she heard this, and said to Eumaeus," Go and call the stranger; did you not hear how my son sneezed just as I was speaking?


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id189
sentence:
This can only mean that all the suitors are going to be killed, and that not one of them shall escape.


title: homer-odyssey_17
idx: id190
sentence:
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart: if I am satisfied that the stranger is speaking the truth I shall give him a shirt and cloak of good wear."


