# sentences

title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id240
sentence:
Then Ulysses in turn lifted Ajax and stirred him a little from the ground but could not lift him right off it, his knee sank under him, and the two fell side by side on the ground and were all begrimed with dust.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id241
sentence:
They now sprang towards one another and were for wrestling yet a third time, but Achilles rose and stayed them."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id242
sentence:
Put not each other further," said he," to such cruel suffering; the victory is with both alike, take each of you an equal prize, and let the other Achaeans now compete."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id243
sentence:
Thus did he speak and they did even as he had said, and put on their shirts again after wiping the dust from off their bodies.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id244
sentence:
The son of Peleus then offered prizes for speed in running— a mixing- bowl beautifully wrought, of pure silver.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id245
sentence:
It would hold six measures, and far exceeded all others in the whole world for beauty; it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea, who had made a present of it to Thoas.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id246
sentence:
Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroclus in ransom of Priam 's son Lycaon, and Achilles now offered it as a prize in honour of his comrade to him who should be the swiftest runner.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id247
sentence:
For the second prize he offered a large ox, well fattened, while for the last there was to be half a talent of gold.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id249
sentence:
Forthwith uprose fleet Ajax son of Oileus, with cunning Ulysses, and Nestor 's son Antilochus, the fastest runner among all the youth of his time.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id251
sentence:
The course was set out for them from the starting- post, and the son of Oileus took the lead at once, with Ulysses as close behind him as the shuttle is to a woman 's bosom when she throws the woof across the warp and holds it close up to her; even so close behind him was Ulysses— treading in his footprints before the dust could settle there, and Ajax could feel his breath on the back of his head as he ran swiftly on.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id252
sentence:
The Achaeans all shouted applause as they saw him straining his utmost, and cheered him as he shot past them; but when they were now nearing the end of the course Ulysses prayed inwardly to Minerva."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id254
sentence:
Thus did he pray, and Pallas Minerva heard his prayer; she made his hands and his feet feel light, and when the runners were at the point of pouncing upon the prize, Ajax, through Minerva 's spite slipped upon some offal that was lying there from the cattle which Achilles had slaughtered in honour of Patroclus, and his mouth and nostrils were all filled with cow dung.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id256
sentence:
But Ajax took the ox and stood with his hand on one of its horns, spitting the dung out of his mouth.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id257
sentence:
Then he said to the Argives," Alas, the goddess has spoiled my running; she watches over Ulysses and stands by him as though she were his own mother."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id259
sentence:
Antilochus carried off the last prize and smiled as he said to the bystanders," You all see, my friends, that now too the gods have shown their respect for seniority.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id260
sentence:
Ajax is somewhat older than I am, and as for Ulysses, he belongs to an earlier generation, but he is hale in spite of his years, and no man of the Achaeans can run against him save only Achilles."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id261
sentence:
He said this to pay a compliment to the son of Peleus, and Achilles answered," Antilochus, you shall not have praised me to no purpose; I shall give you an additional half talent of gold."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id263
sentence:
Then the son of Peleus brought out the spear, helmet and shield that had been borne by Sarpedon, and were taken from him by Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id264
sentence:
He stood up and said among the Argives," We bid two champions put on their armour, take their keen blades, and make trial of one another in the presence of the multitude; whichever of them can first wound the flesh of the other, cut through his armour, and draw blood, to him will I give this goodly Thracian sword inlaid with silver, which I took from Asteropaeus, but the armour let both hold in partnership, and I will give each of them a hearty meal in my own tent."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id266
sentence:
When they had put on their armour each on his own side of the ring, they both went into the middle eager to engage, and with fire flashing from their eyes.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id267
sentence:
The Achaeans marvelled as they beheld them, and when the two were now close up with one another, thrice did they spring forward and thrice try to strike each other in close combat.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id268
sentence:
Ajax pierced Diomed 's round shield, but did not draw blood, for the cuirass beneath the shield protected him; thereon the son of Tydeus from over his huge shield kept aiming continually at Ajax 's neck with the point of his spear, and the Achaeans alarmed for his safety bade them leave off fighting and divide the prize between them.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id269
sentence:
Achilles then gave the great sword to the son of Tydeus, with its scabbard, and the leathern belt with which to hang it.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id270
sentence:
Achilles next offered the massive iron quoit which mighty Eetion had erewhile been used to hurl, until Achilles had slain him and carried it off in his ships along with other spoils.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id272
sentence:
He who wins it will have a store of iron that will last him five years as they go rolling round, and if his fair fields lie far from a town his shepherd or ploughman will not have to make a journey to buy iron, for he will have a stock of it on his own premises."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id274
sentence:
They stood up one after the other and Epeus took the quoit, whirled it, and flung it from him, which set all the Achaeans laughing.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id276
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon threw third, and sent the quoit beyond any mark that had been made yet, but when mighty Polypoetes took the quoit he hurled it as though it had been a stockman 's stick which he sends flying about among his cattle when he is driving them, so far did his throw out- distance those of the others.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id277
sentence:
All who saw it roared applause, and his comrades carried the prize for him and set it on board his ship.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id278
sentence:
Achilles next offered a prize of iron for archery— ten double- edged axes and ten with single edges: he set up a ship 's mast, some way off upon the sands, and with a fine string tied a pigeon to it by the foot; this was what they were to aim at.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id279
sentence:
"Whoever," he said," can hit the pigeon shall have all the axes and take them away with him; he who hits the string without hitting the bird will have taken a worse aim and shall have the single- edged axes."


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id280
sentence:
Then uprose King Teucer, and Meriones the stalwart squire of Idomeneus rose also, They cast lots in a bronze helmet and the lot of Teucer fell first.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id281
sentence:
He let fly with his arrow forthwith, but he did not promise hecatombs of firstling lambs to King Apollo, and missed his bird, for Apollo foiled his aim; but he hit the string with which the bird was tied, near its foot; the arrow cut the string clean through so that it hung down towards the ground, while the bird flew up into the sky, and the Achaeans shouted applause.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id282
sentence:
Meriones, who had his arrow ready while Teucer was aiming, snatched the bow out of his hand, and at once promised that he would sacrifice a hecatomb of firstling lambs to Apollo lord of the bow; then espying the pigeon high up under the clouds, he hit her in the middle of the wing as she was circling upwards; the arrow went clean through the wing and fixed itself in the ground at Meriones ' feet, but the bird perched on the ship 's mast hanging her head and with all her feathers drooping; the life went out of her, and she fell heavily from the mast.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id283
sentence:
Meriones, therefore, took all ten double- edged axes, while Teucer bore off the single- edged ones to his ships.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id284
sentence:
Then the son of Peleus brought in a spear and a cauldron that had never been on the fire; it was worth an ox, and was chased with a pattern of flowers; and those that throw the javelin stood up— to wit the son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, and Meriones, stalwart squire of Idomeneus.


title: homer-iliad_23
idx: id285
sentence:
But Achilles spoke saying," Son of Atreus, we know how far you excel all others both in power and in throwing the javelin; take the cauldron back with you to your ships, but if it so please you, let us give the spear to Meriones; this at least is what I should myself wish."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id1
sentence:
ULYSSES CANNOT SLEEP—PENELOPE'S PRAYER TO DIANA—THE TWO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN—EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS ARRIVE—THE SUITORS DINE—CTESIPPUS THROWS AN OX'S FOOT AT ULYSSES—THEOCLYMENUS FORETELLS DISASTER AND LEAVES THE HOUSE.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id2
sentence:
Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed bullock 's hide, on the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had eaten, and Eurynome threw a cloak over him after he had laid himself down.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id3
sentence:
There, then, Ulysses lay wakefully brooding upon the way in which he should kill the suitors; and by and by, the women who had been in the habit of misconducting themselves with them, left the house giggling and laughing with one another.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id4
sentence:
This made Ulysses very angry, and he doubted whether to get up and kill every single one of them then and there, or to let them sleep one more and last time with the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id5
sentence:
His heart growled within him, and as a bitch with puppies growls and shows her teeth when she sees a stranger, so did his heart growl with anger at the evil deeds that were being done: but he beat his breast and said," Heart, be still, you had worse than this to bear on the day when the terrible Cyclops ate your brave companions; yet you bore it in silence till your cunning got you safe out of the cave, though you made sure of being killed."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id6
sentence:
Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side and then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible, even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id7
sentence:
But by and by Minerva came down from heaven in the likeness of a woman, and hovered over his head saying," My poor unhappy man, why do you lie awake in this way?


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id8
sentence:
This is your house: your wife is safe inside it, and so is your son who is just such a young man as any father may be proud of."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id9
sentence:
"Goddess," answered Ulysses," all that you have said is true, but I am in some doubt as to how I shall be able to kill these wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always are.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id11
sentence:
Supposing that with Jove 's and your assistance I succeed in killing them, I must ask you to consider where I am to escape to from their avengers when it is all over."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id12
sentence:
"For shame," replied Minerva," why, any one else would trust a worse ally than myself, even though that ally were only a mortal and less wise than I am.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id14
sentence:
I tell you plainly that even though there were fifty bands of men surrounding us and eager to kill us, you should take all their sheep and cattle, and drive them away with you.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id15
sentence:
But go to sleep; it is a very bad thing to lie awake all night, and you shall be out of your troubles before long."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id17
sentence:
While Ulysses was thus yielding himself to a very deep slumber that eased the burden of his sorrows, his admirable wife awoke, and sitting up in her bed began to cry.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id18
sentence:
When she had relieved herself by weeping she prayed to Diana saying," Great Goddess Diana, daughter of Jove, drive an arrow into my heart and slay me; or let some whirlwind snatch me up and bear me through paths of darkness till it drop me into the mouths of over- flowing Oceanus, as it did the daughters of Pandareus.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id19
sentence:
The daughters of Pandareus lost their father and mother, for the gods killed them, so they were left orphans.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id21
sentence:
Juno taught them to excel all women in beauty of form and understanding; Diana gave them an imposing presence, and Minerva endowed them with every kind of accomplishment; but one day when Venus had gone up to Olympus to see Jove about getting them married( for well does he know both what shall happen and what not happen to every one)


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id23
sentence:
Even so I wish that the gods who live in heaven would hide me from mortal sight, or that fair Diana might strike me, for I would fain go even beneath the sad earth if I might do so still looking towards Ulysses only, and without having to yield myself to a worse man than he was.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id24
sentence:
Besides, no matter how much people may grieve by day, they can put up with it so long as they can sleep at night, for when the eyes are closed in slumber people forget good and ill alike; whereas my misery haunts me even in my dreams.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id25
sentence:
This very night methought there was one lying by my side who was like Ulysses as he was when he went away with his host, and I rejoiced, for I believed that it was no dream, but the very truth itself."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id26
sentence:
On this the day broke, but Ulysses heard the sound of her weeping, and it puzzled him, for it seemed as though she already knew him and was by his side.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id27
sentence:
Then he gathered up the cloak and the fleeces on which he had lain, and set them on a seat in the cloister, but he took the bullock 's hide out into the open.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id28
sentence:
He lifted up his hands to heaven, and prayed, saying" Father Jove, since you have seen fit to bring me over land and sea to my own home after all the afflictions you have laid upon me, give me a sign out of the mouth of some one or other of those who are now waking within the house, and let me have another sign of some kind from outside."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id30
sentence:
Jove heard his prayer and forthwith thundered high up among the clouds from the splendour of Olympus, and Ulysses was glad when he heard it.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id31
sentence:
At the same time within the house, a miller- woman from hard by in the mill room lifted up her voice and gave him another sign.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id32
sentence:
There were twelve miller- women whose business it was to grind wheat and barley which are the staff of life.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id33
sentence:
The others had ground their task and had gone to take their rest, but this one had not yet finished, for she was not so strong as they were, and when she heard the thunder she stopped grinding and gave the sign to her master. "


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id34
sentence:
Father Jove," said she," you, who rule over heaven and earth, you have thundered from a clear sky without so much as a cloud in it, and this means something for somebody; grant the prayer, then, of me your poor servant who calls upon you, and let this be the very last day that the suitors dine in the house of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id35
sentence:
They have worn me out with labour of grinding meal for them, and I hope they may never have another dinner anywhere at all."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id36
sentence:
Ulysses was glad when he heard the omens conveyed to him by the woman 's speech, and by the thunder, for he knew they meant that he should avenge himself on the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id37
sentence:
Then the other maids in the house rose and lit the fire on the hearth; Telemachus also rose and put on his clothes.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id38
sentence:
He girded his sword about his shoulder, bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and took a doughty spear with a point of sharpened bronze; then he went to the threshold of the cloister and said to Euryclea," Nurse, did you make the stranger comfortable both as regards bed and board, or did you let him shift for himself?—for my mother, good woman though she is, has a way of paying great attention to second- rate people, and of neglecting others who are in reality much better men."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id40
sentence:
The stranger sat and drank his wine as long as he liked: your mother did ask him if he would take any more bread and he said he would not.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id41
sentence:
When he wanted to go to bed she told the servants to make one for him, but he said he was such a wretched outcast that he would not sleep on a bed and under blankets; he insisted on having an undressed bullock 's hide and some sheepskins put for him in the cloister and I threw a cloak over him myself."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id42
sentence:
Then Telemachus went out of the court to the place where the Achaeans were meeting in assembly; he had his spear in his hand, and he was not alone, for his two dogs went with him.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id43
sentence:
But Euryclea called the maids and said," Come, wake up; set about sweeping the cloisters and sprinkling them with water to lay the dust; put the covers on the seats; wipe down the tables, some of you, with a wet sponge; clean out the mixing- jugs and the cups, and go for water from the fountain at once; the suitors will be here directly; they will be here early, for it is a feast day."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id44
sentence:
Thus did she speak, and they did even as she had said: twenty of them went to the fountain for water, and the others set themselves busily to work about the house.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id46
sentence:
By and by the women returned from the fountain, and the swineherd came after them with the three best pigs he could pick out.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id47
sentence:
These he let feed about the premises, and then he said good- humouredly to Ulysses," Stranger, are the suitors treating you any better now, or are they as insolent as ever?"


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id48
sentence:
"May heaven," answered Ulysses," requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high- handedly in another man 's house without any sense of shame."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id49
sentence:
Thus did they converse; meanwhile Melanthius the goatherd came up, for he too was bringing in his best goats for the suitors ' dinner; and he had two shepherds with him.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id54
sentence:
You beg without any sense of decency: are there not feasts elsewhere among the Achaeans, as well as here?"


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id57
sentence:
These were brought over by the boatmen who are there to take people over when any one comes to them.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id58
sentence:
So Philoetius made his heifer and his goats secure under the gatehouse, and then went up to the swineherd.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id63
sentence:
Poor fellow, he looks as if he had been some great man, but the gods give sorrow to whom they will— even to kings if it so pleases them."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id64
sentence:
As he spoke he went up to Ulysses and saluted him with his right hand;" Good day to you, father stranger," said he," you seem to be very poorly off now, but I hope you will have better times by and by.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id67
sentence:
A sweat came over me when I saw this man, and my eyes filled with tears, for he reminds me of Ulysses, who I fear is going about in just such rags as this man 's are, if indeed he is still among the living.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id69
sentence:
for my good master, who made me his stockman when I was quite young among the Cephallenians, and now his cattle are countless; no one could have done better with them than I have, for they have bred like ears of corn; nevertheless I have to keep bringing them in for others to eat, who take no heed to his son though he is in the house, and fear not the wrath of heaven, but are already eager to divide Ulysses ' property among them because he has been away so long.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id70
sentence:
I have often thought— only it would not be right while his son is living— of going off with the cattle to some foreign country; bad as this would be, it is still harder to stay here and be ill- treated about other people 's herds.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id71
sentence:
My position is intolerable, and I should long since have run away and put myself under the protection of some other chief, only that I believe my poor master will yet return, and send all these suitors flying out of the house."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id72
sentence:
"Stockman," answered Ulysses," you seem to be a very well- disposed person, and I can see that you are a man of sense.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id74
sentence:
By Jove, the chief of all gods, and by that hearth of Ulysses to which I am now come, Ulysses shall return before you leave this place, and if you are so minded you shall see him killing the suitors who are now masters here."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id75
sentence:
"If Jove were to bring this to pass," replied the stockman," you should see how I would do my very utmost to help him."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id78
sentence:
Meanwhile the suitors were hatching a plot to murder Telemachus: but a bird flew near them on their left hand— an eagle with a dove in its talons.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id79
sentence:
On this Amphinomus said," My friends, this plot of ours to murder Telemachus will not succeed; let us go to dinner instead."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id81
sentence:
They sacrificed the sheep, goats, pigs, and the heifer, and when the inward meats were cooked they served them round.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id82
sentence:
They mixed the wine in the mixing- bowls, and the swineherd gave every man his cup, while Philoetius handed round the bread in the bread baskets, and Melanthius poured them out their wine.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id84
sentence:
Telemachus purposely made Ulysses sit in the part of the cloister that was paved with stone; he gave him a shabby looking seat at a little table to himself, and had his portion of the inward meats brought to him, with his wine in a gold cup. "


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id86
sentence:
I will put a stop to the gibes and blows of the suitors, for this is no public house, but belongs to Ulysses, and has passed from him to me.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id88
sentence:
The suitors bit their lips, and marvelled at the boldness of his speech; then Antinous said," We do not like such language but we will put up with it, for Telemachus is threatening us in good earnest.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id91
sentence:
Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy hecatomb through the city, and the Achaeans gathered under the shady grove of Apollo.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id92
sentence:
Then they roasted the outer meat, drew it off the spits, gave every man his portion, and feasted to their heart 's content; those who waited at table gave Ulysses exactly the same portion as the others had, for Telemachus had told them to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id93
sentence:
But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment drop their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become still more bitter against them.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id94
sentence:
Now there happened to be among them a ribald fellow, whose name was Ctesippus, and who came from Same.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id95
sentence:
This man, confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors," Hear what I have to say.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id96
sentence:
The stranger has already had as large a portion as any one else; this is well, for it is not right nor reasonable to ill- treat any guest of Telemachus who comes here.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id97
sentence:
I will, however, make him a present on my own account, that he may have something to give to the bath- woman, or to some other of Ulysses ' servants."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id98
sentence:
As he spoke he picked up a heifer 's foot from the meat- basket in which it lay, and threw it at Ulysses, but Ulysses turned his head a little aside, and avoided it, smiling grimly Sardinian fashion as he did so, and it hit the wall, not him.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id99
sentence:
On this Telemachus spoke fiercely to Ctesippus," It is a good thing for you," said he," that the stranger turned his head so that you missed him.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id100
sentence:
If you had hit him I should have run you through with my spear, and your father would have had to see about getting you buried rather than married in this house.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id101
sentence:
So let me have no more unseemly behaviour from any of you, for I am grown up now to the knowledge of good and evil and understand what is going on, instead of being the child that I have been heretofore.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id102
sentence:
I have long seen you killing my sheep and making free with my corn and wine: I have put up with this, for one man is no match for many, but do me no further violence.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id103
sentence:
Still, if you wish to kill me, kill me; I would far rather die than see such disgraceful scenes day after day— guests insulted, and men dragging the women servants about the house in an unseemly way."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id104
sentence:
They all held their peace till at last Agelaus son of Damastor said," No one should take offence at what has just been said, nor gainsay it, for it is quite reasonable.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id105
sentence:
Leave off, therefore, ill- treating the stranger, or any one else of the servants who are about the house; I would say, however, a friendly word to Telemachus and his mother, which I trust may commend itself to both.'


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id106
sentence:
As long,' I would say,' as you had ground for hoping that Ulysses would one day come home, no one could complain of your waiting and suffering the suitors to be in your house.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id107
sentence:
It would have been better that he should have returned, but it is now sufficiently clear that he will never do so; therefore talk all this quietly over with your mother, and tell her to marry the best man, and the one who makes her the most advantageous offer.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id108
sentence:
Thus you will yourself be able to manage your own inheritance, and to eat and drink in peace, while your mother will look after some other man 's house, not yours.'"


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id109
sentence:
To this Telemachus answered," By Jove, Agelaus, and by the sorrows of my unhappy father, who has either perished far from Ithaca, or is wandering in some distant land, I throw no obstacles in the way of my mother 's marriage; on the contrary I urge her to choose whomsoever she will, and I will give her numberless gifts into the bargain, but I dare not insist point blank that she shall leave the house against her own wishes.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id111
sentence:
Minerva now made the suitors fall to laughing immoderately, and set their wits wandering; but they were laughing with a forced laughter.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id112
sentence:
Their meat became smeared with blood; their eyes filled with tears, and their hearts were heavy with forebodings.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id114
sentence:
There is a shroud of darkness drawn over you from head to foot, your cheeks are wet with tears; the air is alive with wailing voices; the walls and roof- beams drip blood; the gate of the cloisters and the court beyond them are full of ghosts trooping down into the night of hell; the sun is blotted out of heaven, and a blighting gloom is over all the land."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id120
sentence:
I will take these out of the house with me, for I see mischief overhanging you, from which not one of you men who are insulting people and plotting ill deeds in the house of Ulysses will be able to escape."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id121
sentence:
He left the house as he spoke, and went back to Piraeus who gave him welcome, but the suitors kept looking at one another and provoking Telemachus by laughing at the strangers.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id122
sentence:
One insolent fellow said to him," Telemachus, you are not happy in your guests; first you have this importunate tramp, who comes begging bread and wine and has no skill for work or for hard fighting, but is perfectly useless, and now here is another fellow who is setting himself up as a prophet.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id123
sentence:
Let me persuade you, for it will be much better to put them on board ship and send them off to the Sicels to sell for what they will bring."


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id124
sentence:
Telemachus gave him no heed, but sate silently watching his father, expecting every moment that he would begin his attack upon the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id125
sentence:
Meanwhile the daughter of Icarius, wise Penelope, had had a rich seat placed for her facing the court and cloisters, so that she could hear what every one was saying.


title: homer-odyssey_20
idx: id126
sentence:
The dinner indeed had been prepared amid much merriment; it had been both good and abundant, for they had sacrificed many victims; but the supper was yet to come, and nothing can be conceived more gruesome than the meal which a goddess and a brave man were soon to lay before them— for they had brought their doom upon themselves.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id3
sentence:
But Panic, comrade of blood- stained Rout, had taken fast hold of the Achaeans, and their princes were all of them in despair.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id4
sentence:
As when the two winds that blow from Thrace— the north and the northwest— spring up of a sudden and rouse the fury of the main— in a moment the dark waves uprear their heads and scatter their sea- wrack in all directions— even thus troubled were the hearts of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id5
sentence:
The son of Atreus in dismay bade the heralds call the people to a council man by man, but not to cry the matter aloud; he made haste also himself to call them, and they sat sorry at heart in their assembly.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id6
sentence:
Agamemnon shed tears as it were a running stream or cataract on the side of some sheer cliff; and thus, with many a heavy sigh he spoke to the Achaeans. "


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id7
sentence:
My friends," said he," princes and councillors of the Argives, the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id8
sentence:
Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Troy before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id9
sentence:
Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id10
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say and sail back to our own country, for we shall not take Troy."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id11
sentence:
Thus he spoke, and the sons of the Achaeans for a long while sat sorrowful there, but they all held their peace, till at last Diomed of the loud battle- cry made answer saying," Son of Atreus, I will chide your folly, as is my right in council.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id13
sentence:
In the first place you attacked me before all the Danaans and said that I was a coward and no soldier.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id18
sentence:
Sir, think you that the sons of the Achaeans are indeed as unwarlike and cowardly as you say they are?


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id19
sentence:
If your own mind is set upon going home— go— the way is open to you; the many ships that followed you from Mycene stand ranged upon the seashore; but the rest of us stay here till we have sacked Troy.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id20
sentence:
Nay though these too should turn homeward with their ships, Sthenelus and myself will still fight on till we reach the goal of Ilius, for heaven was with us when we came."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id21
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans shouted applause at the words of Diomed, and presently Nestor rose to speak."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id22
sentence:
Son of Tydeus," said he," in war your prowess is beyond question, and in council you excel all who are of your own years; no one of the Achaeans can make light of what you say nor gainsay it, but you have not yet come to the end of the whole matter.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id23
sentence:
You are still young— you might be the youngest of my own children— still you have spoken wisely and have counselled the chief of the Achaeans not without discretion; nevertheless I am older than you and I will tell you everything; therefore let no man, not even King Agamemnon, disregard my saying, for he that foments civil discord is a clanless, hearthless outlaw.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id24
sentence:
"Now, however, let us obey the behests of night and get our suppers, but let the sentinels every man of them camp by the trench that is without the wall.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id25
sentence:
I am giving these instructions to the young men; when they have been attended to, do you, son of Atreus, give your orders, for you are the most royal among us all.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id26
sentence:
Prepare a feast for your councillors; it is right and reasonable that you should do so; there is abundance of wine in your tents, which the ships of the Achaeans bring from Thrace daily.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id28
sentence:
When many are got together, you can be guided by him whose counsel is wisest— and sorely do we need shrewd and prudent counsel, for the foe has lit his watchfires hard by our ships.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id32
sentence:
The sentinels went out in their armour under command of Nestor 's son Thrasymedes, a captain of the host, and of the bold warriors Ascalaphus and Ialmenus: there were also Meriones, Aphareus and Deipyrus, and the son of Creion, noble Lycomedes.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id33
sentence:
There were seven captains of the sentinels, and with each there went a hundred youths armed with long spears: they took their places midway between the trench and the wall, and when they had done so they lit their fires and got every man his supper.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id34
sentence:
The son of Atreus then bade many councillors of the Achaeans to his quarters and prepared a great feast in their honour.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id35
sentence:
They laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had enough to eat and drink, old Nestor, whose counsel was ever truest, was the first to lay his mind before them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id37
sentence:
"With yourself, most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, will I both begin my speech and end it, for you are king over much people.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id38
sentence:
Jove, moreover, has vouchsafed you to wield the sceptre and to uphold righteousness, that you may take thought for your people under you; therefore it behooves you above all others both to speak and to give ear, and to out the counsel of another who shall have been minded to speak wisely.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id40
sentence:
No man will be of a truer mind than that which has been mine from the hour when you, sir, angered Achilles by taking the girl Briseis from his tent against my judgment.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id41
sentence:
I urged you not to do so, but you yielded to your own pride, and dishonoured a hero whom heaven itself had honoured— for you still hold the prize that had been awarded to him.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id42
sentence:
Now, however, let us think how we may appease him, both with presents and fair speeches that may conciliate him."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id46
sentence:
One whom heaven befriends is in himself a host, and Jove has shown that he befriends this man by destroying much people of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id47
sentence:
I was blinded with passion and yielded to my worser mind; therefore I will make amends, and will give him great gifts by way of atonement.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id50
sentence:
I will give him twenty iron cauldrons and twelve strong horses that have won races and carried off prizes.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id52
sentence:
I will give him seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom I chose for myself when he took Lesbos— all of surpassing beauty.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id53
sentence:
I will give him these, and with them her whom I erewhile took from him, the daughter of Briseus; and I swear a great oath that I never went up into her couch, nor have been with her after the manner of men and women.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id54
sentence:
"All these things will I give him now, and if hereafter the gods vouchsafe me to sack the city of Priam, let him come when we Achaeans are dividing the spoil, and load his ship with gold and bronze to his liking; furthermore let him take twenty Trojan women, the loveliest after Helen herself.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id55
sentence:
Then, when we reach Achaean Argos, wealthiest of all lands, he shall be my son- in- law and I will show him like honour with my own dear son Orestes, who is being nurtured in all abundance.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id56
sentence:
I have three daughters, Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa, let him take the one of his choice, freely and without gifts of wooing, to the house of Peleus; I will add such dower to boot as no man ever yet gave his daughter, and will give him seven well established cities, Cardamyle, Enope, and Hire, where there is grass; holy Pherae and the rich meadows of Anthea; Aepea also, and the vine- clad slopes of Pedasus, all near the sea, and on the borders of sandy Pylos.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id57
sentence:
The men that dwell there are rich in cattle and sheep; they will honour him with gifts as though he were a god, and be obedient to his comfortable ordinances.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id59
sentence:
Let him then yield; it is only Hades who is utterly ruthless and unyielding— and hence he is of all gods the one most hateful to mankind.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id63
sentence:
The gifts you offer are no small ones, let us then send chosen messengers, who may go to the tent of Achilles son of Peleus without delay.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id65
sentence:
Let Phoenix, dear to Jove, lead the way; let Ajax and Ulysses follow, and let the heralds Odius and Eurybates go with them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id66
sentence:
Now bring water for our hands, and bid all keep silence while we pray to Jove the son of Saturn, if so be that he may have mercy upon us."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id68
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, when they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the envoys set out from the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus; and Nestor, looking first to one and then to another, but most especially at Ulysses, was instant with them that they should prevail with the noble son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id69
sentence:
They went their way by the shore of the sounding sea, and prayed earnestly to earth- encircling Neptune that the high spirit of the son of Aeacus might incline favourably towards them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id70
sentence:
When they reached the ships and tents of the Myrmidons, they found Achilles playing on a lyre, fair, of cunning workmanship, and its cross - bar was of silver.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id71
sentence:
It was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion, and he was now diverting himself with it and singing the feats of heroes.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id72
sentence:
He was alone with Patroclus, who sat opposite to him and said nothing, waiting till he should cease singing.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id74
sentence:
Achilles sprang from his seat with the lyre still in his hand, and Patroclus, when he saw the strangers, rose also.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id75
sentence:
Achilles then greeted them saying," All hail and welcome— you must come upon some great matter, you, who for all my anger are still dearest to me of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id76
sentence:
With this he led them forward, and bade them sit on seats covered with purple rugs; then he said to Patroclus who was close by him," Son of Menoetius, set a larger bowl upon the table, mix less water with the wine, and give every man his cup, for these are very dear friends, who are now under my roof."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id77
sentence:
Patroclus did as his comrade bade him; he set the chopping- block in front of the fire, and on it he laid the loin of a sheep, the loin also of a goat, and the chine of a fat hog.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id78
sentence:
Automedon held the meat while Achilles chopped it; he then sliced the pieces and put them on spits while the son of Menoetius made the fire burn high.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id79
sentence:
When the flame had died down, he spread the embers, laid the spits on top of them, lifting them up and setting them upon the spit- racks; and he sprinkled them with salt.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id80
sentence:
When the meat was roasted, he set it on platters, and handed bread round the table in fair baskets, while Achilles dealt them their portions.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id81
sentence:
Then Achilles took his seat facing Ulysses against the opposite wall, and bade his comrade Patroclus offer sacrifice to the gods; so he cast the offerings into the fire, and they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id82
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Ajax made a sign to Phoenix, and when he saw this, Ulysses filled his cup with wine and pledged Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id83
sentence:
"Hail," said he," Achilles, we have had no scant of good cheer, neither in the tent of Agamemnon, nor yet here; there has been plenty to eat and drink, but our thought turns upon no such matter.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id84
sentence:
Sir, we are in the face of great disaster, and without your help know not whether we shall save our fleet or lose it.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id85
sentence:
The Trojans and their allies have camped hard by our ships and by the wall; they have lit watchfires throughout their host and deem that nothing can now prevent them from falling on our fleet.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id86
sentence:
Jove, moreover, has sent his lightnings on their right; Hector, in all his glory, rages like a maniac; confident that Jove is with him he fears neither god nor man, but is gone raving mad, and prays for the approach of day.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id87
sentence:
He vows that he will hew the high sterns of our ships in pieces, set fire to their hulls, and make havoc of the Achaeans while they are dazed and smothered in smoke; I much fear that heaven will make good his boasting, and it will prove our lot to perish at Troy far from our home in Argos.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id88
sentence:
Up, then, and late though it be, save the sons of the Achaeans who faint before the fury of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id89
sentence:
You will repent bitterly hereafter if you do not, for when the harm is done there will be no curing it; consider ere it be too late, and save the Danaans from destruction.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id90
sentence:
"My good friend, when your father Peleus sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon, did he not charge you saying,' Son, Minerva and Juno will make you strong if they choose, but check your high temper, for the better part is in goodwill.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id94
sentence:
Agamemnon will make you great amends if you will forgive him; listen, and I will tell you what he has said in his tent that he will give you.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id95
sentence:
He will give you seven tripods that have never yet been on the fire, and ten talents of gold; twenty iron cauldrons, and twelve strong horses that have won races and carried off prizes.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id96
sentence:
Rich indeed both in land and gold is he who has as many prizes as these horses have won for Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id97
sentence:
Moreover he will give you seven excellent workwomen, Lesbians, whom he chose for himself, when you took Lesbos— all of surpassing beauty.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id98
sentence:
He will give you these, and with them her whom he erewhile took from you, the daughter of Briseus, and he will swear a great oath, he has never gone up into her couch nor been with her after the manner of men and women.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id99
sentence:
All these things will he give you now down, and if hereafter the gods vouchsafe him to sack the city of Priam, you can come when we Achaeans are dividing the spoil, and load your ship with gold and bronze to your liking.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id101
sentence:
Then, when we reach Achaean Argos, wealthiest of all lands, you shall be his son- in- law, and he will show you like honour with his own dear son Orestes, who is being nurtured in all abundance.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id102
sentence:
Agamemnon has three daughters, Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa; you may take the one of your choice, freely and without gifts of wooing, to the house of Peleus; he will add such dower to boot as no man ever yet gave his daughter, and will give you seven well- established cities, Cardamyle, Enope, and Hire where there is grass; holy Pheras and the rich meadows of Anthea; Aepea also, and the vine- clad slopes of Pedasus, all near the sea, and on the borders of sandy Pylos.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id103
sentence:
The men that dwell there are rich in cattle and sheep; they will honour you with gifts as though were a god, and be obedient to your comfortable ordinances.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id105
sentence:
Moreover, though you hate both him and his gifts with all your heart, yet pity the rest of the Achaeans who are being harassed in all their host; they will honour you as a god, and you will earn great glory at their hands.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id106
sentence:
You might even kill Hector; he will come within your reach, for he is infatuated, and declares that not a Danaan whom the ships have brought can hold his own against him."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id107
sentence:
Achilles answered," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from whatsoever quarter it may come.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id108
sentence:
Him do I hate even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart; therefore I will say what I mean.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id109
sentence:
I will be appeased neither by Agamemnon son of Atreus nor by any other of the Danaans, for I see that I have no thanks for all my fighting.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id110
sentence:
He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id111
sentence:
I have taken nothing by all my hardships— with my life ever in my hand; as a bird when she has found a morsel takes it to her nestlings, and herself fares hardly ,even so many a long night have I been wakeful, and many a bloody battle have I waged by day against those who were fighting for their women.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id112
sentence:
With my ships I have taken twelve cities, and eleven round about Troy have I stormed with my men by land; I took great store of wealth from every one of them, but I gave all up to Agamemnon son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id114
sentence:
"Nevertheless he did distribute some meeds of honour among the chieftains and kings, and these have them still; from me alone of the Achaeans did he take the woman in whom I delighted— let him keep her and sleep with her.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id119
sentence:
Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id120
sentence:
Agamemnon has taken her from me; he has played me false; I know him; let him tempt me no further, for he shall not move me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id123
sentence:
He has built a wall; he has dug a trench deep and wide all round it, and he has planted it within with stakes; but even so he stays not the murderous might of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id124
sentence:
So long as I fought the Achaeans Hector suffered not the battle range far from the city walls; he would come to the Scaean gates and to the oak tree, but no further.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id125
sentence:
Once he stayed to meet me and hardly did he escape my onset: now, however, since I am in no mood to fight him, I will to- morrow offer sacrifice to Jove and to all the gods; I will draw my ships into the water and then victual them duly; to- morrow morning, if you care to look, you will see my ships on the Hellespont, and my men rowing out to sea with might and main.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id127
sentence:
I have much there that I left behind me when I came here to my sorrow, and I shall bring back still further store of gold, of red copper, of fair women, and of iron, my share of the spoils that we have taken; but one prize, he who gave has insolently taken away.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id128
sentence:
Tell him all as I now bid you, and tell him in public that the Achaeans may hate him and beware of him should he think that he can yet dupe others for his effrontery never fails him.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id131
sentence:
He has wronged me and deceived me enough, he shall not cozen me further; let him go his own way, for Jove has robbed him of his reason.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id133
sentence:
He may offer me ten or even twenty times what he has now done, nay— not though it be all that he has in the world, both now or ever shall have; he may promise me the wealth of Orchomenus or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chariots and horses; he may offer me gifts as the sands of the sea or the dust of the plain in multitude, but even so he shall not move me till I have been revenged in full for the bitter wrong he has done me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id134
sentence:
I will not marry his daughter; she may be fair as Venus, and skilful as Minerva, but I will have none of her: let another take her, who may be a good match for her and who rules a larger kingdom.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id135
sentence:
If the gods spare me to return home, Peleus will find me a wife; there are Achaean women in Hellas and Phthia, daughters of kings that have cities under them; of these I can take whom I will and marry her.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id136
sentence:
Many a time was I minded when at home in Phthia to woo and we d a woman who would make me a suitable wife, and to enjoy the riches of my old father Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id137
sentence:
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius while it was yet at peace before the Achaeans went there, or than all the treasure that lies on the stone floor of Apollo 's temple beneath the cliffs of Pytho.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id138
sentence:
Cattle and sheep are to be had for harrying, and a man buy both tripods and horses if he wants them, but when his life has once left him it can neither be bought nor harried back again.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id140
sentence:
If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live for ever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id143
sentence:
Go, therefore, as in duty bound, and tell the princes of the Achaeans the message that I have sent them; tell them to find some other plan for the saving of their ships and people, for so long as my displeasure lasts the one that they have now hit upon may not be.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id146
sentence:
They all held their peace, dismayed at the sternness with which he had denied them, till presently the old knight Phoenix in his great fear for the ships of the Achaeans, burst into tears and said," Noble Achilles, if you are now minded to return, and in the fierceness of your anger will do nothing to save the ships from burning, how, my son, can I remain here without you?


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id148
sentence:
You knew nothing neither of war nor of the arts whereby men make their mark in council, and he sent me with you to train you in all excellence of speech and action.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id149
sentence:
Therefore, my son, I will not stay here without you— no, not though heaven itself vouchsafe to strip my years from off me, and make me young as I was when I first left Hellas the land of fair women.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id150
sentence:
I was then flying the anger of father Amyntor, son of Ormenus, who was furious with me in the matter of his concubine, of whom he was enamoured to the wronging of his wife my mother.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id151
sentence:
My mother, therefore, prayed me without ceasing to lie with the woman myself, that so she hate my father, and in the course of time I yielded.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id153
sentence:
He prayed that no son of mine might ever sit upon knees— and the gods, Jove of the world below and awful Proserpine, fulfilled his curse.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id154
sentence:
I took counsel to kill him, but some god stayed my rashness and bade me think on men 's evil tongues and how I should be branded as the murderer of my father ;nevertheless I could not bear to stay in my father 's house with him so bitter against me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id155
sentence:
My cousins and clansmen came about me, and pressed me sorely to remain; many a sheep and many an ox did they slaughter, and many a fat hog did they set down to roast before the fire; many a jar, too, did they broach of my father 's wine.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id156
sentence:
Nine whole nights did they set a guard over me taking it in turns to watch, and they kept a fire always burning, both in the cloister of the outer court and in the inner court at the doors of the room wherein I lay; but when the darkness of the tenth night came, I broke through the closed doors of my room, and climbed the wall of the outer court after passing quickly and unperceived through the men on guard and the women servants.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id157
sentence:
I then fled through Hellas till I came to fertile Phthia, mother of sheep, and to King Peleus, who made me welcome and treated me as a father treats an only son who will be heir to all his wealth.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id158
sentence:
He made me rich and set me over much people, establishing me on the borders of Phthia where I was chief ruler over the Dolopians.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id159
sentence:
"It was I, Achilles, who had the making of you; I loved you with all my heart: for you would eat neither at home


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id160
sentence:
nor when you had gone out elsewhere, till I had first set you upon my knees, cut up the dainty morsel that you were to eat, and held the wine- cup to your lips.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id161
sentence:
Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt; I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven had vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and I made a son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id162
sentence:
Now, therefore, I say battle with your pride and beat it; cherish not your anger for ever; the might and majesty of heaven are more than ours, but even heaven may be appeased; and if a man has sinned he prays the gods, and reconciles them to himself by his piteous cries and by frankincense, with drink- offerings and the savour of burnt sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id163
sentence:
For prayers are as daughters to great Jove; halt, wrinkled, with eyes askance, they follow in the footsteps of sin, who, being fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him, and ever baneful to mankind outstrips them even to the ends of the world; but nevertheless the prayers come hobbling and healing after.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id164
sentence:
If a man has pity upon these daughters of Jove when they draw near him, they will bless him and hear him too when he is praying; but if he deny them and will not listen to them, they go to Jove the son of Saturn and pray that he may presently fall into sin— to his ruing bitterly hereafter.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id165
sentence:
Therefore, Achilles, give these daughters of Jove due reverence, and bow before them as all good men will bow.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id166
sentence:
Were not the son of Atreus offering you gifts and promising others later— if he were still furious and implacable— I am not he that would bid you throw off your anger and help the Achaeans, no matter how great their need; but he is giving much now, and more hereafter; he has sent his captains to urge his suit, and has chosen those who of all the Argives are most acceptable to you; make not then their words and their coming to be of none effect.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id168
sentence:
We have heard in song how heroes of old time quarrelled when they were roused to fury, but still they could be won by gifts, and fair words could soothe them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id170
sentence:
The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon— the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id171
sentence:
For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first- fruits.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id172
sentence:
The other gods had all been feasted with hecatombs, but to the daughter of great Jove alone he had made no sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id174
sentence:
Thereon the archer goddess in her displeasure sent a prodigious creature against him— a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple- trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id175
sentence:
But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it— for it was so monstrous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id176
sentence:
On this the goddess set the Curetes and the Aetolians fighting furiously about the head and skin of the boar.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id177
sentence:
"So long as Meleager was in the field things went badly with the Curetes, and for all their numbers they could not hold their ground under the city walls; but in the course of time Meleager was angered as even a wise man will sometimes be.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id178
sentence:
He was incensed with his mother Althaea, and therefore stayed at home with his wedded wife fair Cleopatra, who was daughter of Marpessa daughter of Euenus, and of Ides the man then living.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id179
sentence:
He it was who took his bow and faced King Apollo himself for fair Marpessa 's sake; her father and mother then named her Alcyone, because her mother had mourned with the plaintive strains of the halcyon- bird when Phoebus Apollo had carried her off.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id180
sentence:
Meleager, then, stayed at home with Cleopatra, nursing the anger which he felt by reason of his mother 's curses.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id181
sentence:
His mother, grieving for the death of her brother, prayed the gods, and beat the earth with her hands, calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears as she prayed that they would kill her son— and Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id182
sentence:
"Then was heard the din of battle about the gates of Calydon, and the dull thump of the battering against their walls.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id183
sentence:
Thereon the elders of the Aetolians besought Meleager; they sent the chiefest of their priests, and begged him to come out and help them, promising him a great reward.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id184
sentence:
They bade him choose fifty plough- gates, the most fertile in the plain of Calydon, the one- half vineyard and the other open plough- land.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id185
sentence:
The old warrior Oeneus implored him, standing at the threshold of his room and beating the doors in supplication.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id186
sentence:
His sisters and his mother herself besought him sore, but he the more refused them; those of his comrades who were nearest and dearest to him also prayed him, but they could not move him till the foe was battering at the very doors of his chamber, and the Curetes had scaled the walls and were setting fire to the city.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id187
sentence:
Then at last his sorrowing wife detailed the horrors that befall those whose city is taken; she reminded him how the men are slain, and the city is given over to the flames, while the women and children are carried into captivity; when he heard all this, his heart was touched, and he donned his armour to go forth.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id188
sentence:
Thus of his own inward motion he saved the city of the Aetolians; but they now gave him nothing of those rich rewards that they had offered earlier, and though he saved the city he took nothing by it.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id191
sentence:
Take the gifts, and go, for the Achaeans will then honour you as a god; whereas if you fight without taking them, you may beat the battle back, but you will not be held in like honour."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id193
sentence:
I have honour from Jove himself, which will abide with me at my ships while I have breath in my body, and my limbs are strong.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id194
sentence:
I say further— and lay my saying to your heart— vex me no more with this weeping and lamentation, all in the cause of the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id196
sentence:
You ought to help me rather in troubling those that trouble me; be king as much as I am, and share like honour with myself; the others shall take my answer; stay here yourself and sleep comfortably in your bed; at daybreak we will consider whether to remain or go."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id197
sentence:
On this he nodded quietly to Patroclus as a sign that he was to prepare a bed for Phoenix, and that the others should take their leave.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id198
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon then said," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, let us be gone, for I see that our journey is vain.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id200
sentence:
Achilles is savage and remorseless; he is cruel, and cares nothing for the love his comrades lavished upon him more than on all the others.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id201
sentence:
He is implacable— and yet if a man 's brother or son has been slain he will accept a fine by way of amends from him that killed him, and the wrong- doer having paid in full remains in peace among his own people; but as for you, Achilles, the gods have put a wicked unforgiving spirit in your heart, and this, all about one single girl, whereas we now offer you the seven best we have, and much else into the bargain.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id203
sentence:
We are with you as messengers from the host of the Danaans, and would fain he held nearest and dearest to yourself of all the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id204
sentence:
"Ajax," replied Achilles," noble son of Telamon, you have spoken much to my liking, but my blood boils when I think it all over, and remember how the son of Atreus treated me with contumely as though I were some vile tramp, and that too in the presence of the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id205
sentence:
Go, then, and deliver your message; say that I will have no concern with fighting till Hector, son of noble Priam, reaches the tents of the Myrmidons in his murderous course, and flings fire upon their ships.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id207
sentence:
On this they took every man his double cup, made their drink- offerings, and went back to the ships, Ulysses leading the way.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id208
sentence:
But Patroclus told his men and the maid- servants to make ready a comfortable bed for Phoenix; they therefore did so with sheepskins, a rug, and a sheet of fine linen.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id210
sentence:
But Achilles slept in an inner room, and beside him the daughter of Phorbas lovely Diomede, whom he had carried off from Lesbos.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id211
sentence:
Patroclus lay on the other side of the room, and with him fair Iphis whom Achilles had given him when he took Scyros the city of Enyeus.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id212
sentence:
When the envoys reached the tents of the son of Atreus, the Achaeans rose, pledged them in cups of gold, and began to question them.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id214
sentence:
"Tell me, Ulysses," said he," will he save the ships from burning, or did he refuse, and is he still furious?"


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id215
sentence:
Ulysses answered," Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, Achilles will not be calmed, but is more fiercely angry than ever, and spurns both you and your gifts.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id216
sentence:
He bids you take counsel with the Achaeans to save the ships and host as you best may; as for himself, he said that at daybreak he should draw his ships into the water.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id217
sentence:
He said further that he should advise every one to sail home likewise, for that you will not reach the goal of Ilius.'


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id219
sentence:
This is what he said, and the others who were with me can tell you the same story— Ajax and the two heralds, men, both of them, who may be trusted.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id220
sentence:
The old man Phoenix stayed where he was to sleep, for so Achilles would have it, that he might go home with him in the morning if he so would; but he will not take him by force."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id221
sentence:
They all held their peace, sitting for a long time silent and dejected, by reason of the sternness with which Achilles had refused them, till presently Diomed said," Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id225
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; we have eaten and drunk our fill, let us then take our rest, for in rest there is both strength and stay.


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id226
sentence:
But when fair rosy- fingered morn appears, forthwith bring out your host and your horsemen in front of the ships, urging them on, and yourself fighting among the foremost."


title: homer-iliad_09
idx: id228
sentence:
They then made their drink- offerings and went every man to his own tent, where they laid down to rest and enjoyed the boon of sleep.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id1
sentence:
Jove forbids the gods to interfere further—There is an even fight till midday, but then Jove inclines the scales of victory in favour of the Trojans, who eventually chase the Achaeans within their wall—Juno and Minerva set out to help the Trojans: Jove sends Iris to turn them back, but later on he promises Juno that she shall have her way in the end—Hector's triumph is stayed by nightfall—The Trojans bivouac on the plain.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id2
sentence:
Now when Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse light over the earth, Jove called the gods in council on the topmost crest of serrated Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id5
sentence:
Let none of you neither goddess nor god try to cross me, but obey me every one of you that I may bring this matter to an end.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id6
sentence:
If I see anyone acting apart and helping either Trojans or Danaans, he shall be beaten inordinately ere he come back again to Olympus; or I will hurl him down into dark Tartarus far into the deepest pit under the earth, where the gates are iron and the floor bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth, that you may learn how much the mightiest I am among you.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id8
sentence:
Hangs me a golden chain from heaven, and lay hold of it all of you, gods and goddesses together— tug as you will, you will not drag Jove the supreme counsellor from heaven to earth; but were I to pull at it myself I should draw you up with earth and sea into the bargain, then would I bind the chain about some pinnacle of Olympus and leave you all dangling in the mid firmament.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id10
sentence:
They were frightened and all of them of held their peace, for he had spoken masterfully; but at last Minerva answered," Father, son of Saturn, king of kings, we all know that your might is not to be gainsaid, but we are also sorry for the Danaan warriors, who are perishing and coming to a bad end.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id11
sentence:
We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id12
sentence:
Jove smiled at her and answered," Take heart, my child, Trito- born; I am not really in earnest, and I wish to be kind to you."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id14
sentence:
He girded himself also with gold about the body, seized his gold whip and took his seat in his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id15
sentence:
Thereon he lashed his horses and they flew forward nothing loth midway twixt earth and starry heaven.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id16
sentence:
After a while he reached many- fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Gargarus, where are his grove and fragrant altar.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id17
sentence:
There the father of gods and men stayed his horses, took them from the chariot, and hid them in a thick cloud; then he took his seat all glorious upon the topmost crests, looking down upon the city of Troy and the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id19
sentence:
The Trojans on the other hand likewise armed themselves throughout the city, fewer in numbers but nevertheless eager perforce to do battle for their wives and children.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id20
sentence:
All the gates were flung wide open, and horse and foot sallied forth with the tramp as of a great multitude.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id21
sentence:
When they were got together in one place, shield clashed with shield, and spear with spear, in the conflict of mail- clad men.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id22
sentence:
Mighty was the din as the bossed shields pressed hard on one another— death— cry and shout of triumph of slain and slayers, and the earth ran red with blood.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id23
sentence:
Now so long as the day waxed and it was still morning their weapons beat against one another, and the people fell, but when the sun had reached mid - heaven, the sire of all balanced his golden scales, and put two fates of death within them, one for the Trojans and the other for the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id24
sentence:
He took the balance by the middle, and when he lifted it up the day of the Achaeans sank; the death- fraught scale of the Achaeans settled down upon the ground, while that of the Trojans rose heavenwards.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id25
sentence:
Then he thundered aloud from Ida, and sent the glare of his lightning upon the Achaeans; when they saw this, pale fear fell upon them and they were sore afraid.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id26
sentence:
Idomeneus dared not stay nor yet Agamemnon, nor did the two Ajaxes, servants of Mars, hold their ground.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id27
sentence:
Nestor knight of Gerene alone stood firm, bulwark of the Achaeans, not of his own will, but one of his horses was disabled.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id28
sentence:
Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen had hit it with an arrow just on the top of its head where the mane begins to grow away from the skull, a very deadly place.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id29
sentence:
The horse bounded in his anguish as the arrow pierced his brain, and his struggles threw others into confusion.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id30
sentence:
The old man instantly began cutting the traces with his sword, but Hector 's fleet horses bore down upon him through the rout with their bold charioteer, even Hector himself, and the old man would have perished there and then had not Diomed been quick to mark, and with a loud cry called Ulysses to help him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id31
sentence:
"Ulysses," he cried," noble son of Laertes where are you flying to, with your back turned like a coward?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id34
sentence:
Ulysses would not give ear, but sped onward to the ships of the Achaeans, and the son of Tydeus flinging himself alone into the thick of the fight took his stand before the horses of the son of Neleus. "


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id35
sentence:
Sir," said he," these young warriors are pressing you hard, your force is spent, and age is heavy upon you, your squire is naught, and your horses are slow to move.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id36
sentence:
Mount my chariot and see what the horses of Tros can do— how cleverly they can scud hither and thither over the plain either in flight or in pursuit.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id38
sentence:
Let our squires attend to your own steeds, but let us drive mine straight at the Trojans, that Hector may learn how furiously I too can wield my spear."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id40
sentence:
Thereon the doughty squires, Sthenelus and kind- hearted Eurymedon, saw to Nestor 's horses, while the two both mounted Diomed 's chariot.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id41
sentence:
Nestor took the reins in his hands and lashed the horses on; they were soon close up with Hector, and the son of Tydeus aimed a spear at him as he was charging full speed towards them.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id42
sentence:
He missed him, but struck his charioteer and squire Eniopeus son of noble Thebaeus in the breast by the nipple while the reins were in his hands, so that he died there and then, and the horses swerved as he fell headlong from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id43
sentence:
Hector was greatly grieved at the loss of his charioteer, but let him lie for all his sorrow, while he went in quest of another driver; nor did his steeds have to go long without one, for he presently found brave Archeptolemus the son of Iphitus, and made him get up behind the horses, giving the reins into his hand.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id44
sentence:
All had then been lost and no help for it, for they would have been penned up in Ilius like sheep, had not the sire of gods and men been quick to mark, and hurled a fiery flaming thunderbolt which fell just in front of Diomed 's horses with a flare of burning brimstone.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id45
sentence:
The horses were frightened and tried to back beneath the car, while the reins dropped from Nestor 's hands.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id46
sentence:
Then he was afraid and said to Diomed," Son of Tydeus, turn your horses in flight; see you not that the hand of Jove is against you?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id47
sentence:
To- day he vouchsafes victory to Hector; to- morrow, if it so please him, he will again grant it to ourselves; no man, however brave, may thwart the purpose of Jove, for he is far stronger than any."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id48
sentence:
Diomed answered," All that you have said is true; there is a grief however which pierces me to the very heart, for Hector will talk among the Trojans and say,' The son of Tydeus fled before me to the ships.'


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id51
sentence:
Though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Dardanians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id52
sentence:
So saying he turned the horses back through the thick of the battle, and with a cry that rent the air the Trojans and Hector rained their darts after them.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id53
sentence:
Hector shouted to him and said," Son of Tydeus, the Danaans have done you honour hitherto as regards your place at table, the meals they give you, and the filling of your cup with wine.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id55
sentence:
Be off, girl and coward that you are, you shall not scale our walls through any flinching upon my part; neither shall you carry off our wives in your ships, for I shall kill you with my own hand."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id57
sentence:
Thrice did he doubt, and thrice did Jove thunder from the heights of Ida in token to the Trojans that he would turn the battle in their favour.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id58
sentence:
Hector then shouted to them and said," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, lovers of close fighting, be men, my friends, and fight with might and with main; I see that Jove is minded to vouchsafe victory and great glory to myself, while he will deal destruction upon the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id60
sentence:
It shall not stay my fury; my horses will spring lightly over their trench, and when I am at their ships forget not to bring me fire that I may burn them, while I slaughter the Argives who will be all dazed and bewildered by the smoke."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id61
sentence:
Then he cried to his horses," Xanthus and Podargus, and you Aethon and goodly Lampus, pay me for your keep now and for all the honey- sweet corn with which Andromache daughter of great Eetion has fed you, and for she has mixed wine and water for you to drink whenever you would, before doing so even for me who am her own husband.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id62
sentence:
Haste in pursuit, that we may take the shield of Nestor, the fame of which ascends to heaven, for it is of solid gold, arm- rods and all, and that we may strip from the shoulders of Diomed the cuirass which Vulcan made him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id66
sentence:
Can you find no compassion in your heart for the dying Danaans, who bring you many a welcome offering to Helice and to Aegae?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id68
sentence:
If all of us who are with the Danaans were to drive the Trojans back and keep Jove from helping them, he would have to sit there sulking alone on Ida."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id71
sentence:
Thus did they converse; but the whole space enclosed by the ditch, from the ships even to the wall, was filled with horses and warriors, who were pent up there by Hector son of Priam, now that the hand of Jove was with him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id72
sentence:
He would even have set fire to the ships and burned them, had not Queen Juno put it into the mind of Agamemnon, to bestir himself and to encourage the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id73
sentence:
To this end he went round the ships and tents carrying a great purple cloak, and took his stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses ' ship, which was middlemost of all; it was from this place that his voice would carry farthest, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles— for these two heroes, well assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id74
sentence:
From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying," Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious— the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing- bowls to the brim?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id75
sentence:
You vowed that you would each of you stand against a hundred or two hundred men, and now you prove no match even for one— for Hector, who will be ere long setting our ships in a blaze.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id77
sentence:
Yet, when to my sorrow I was coming hither ,I never let my ship pass your altars without offering the fat and thigh- bones of heifers upon every one of them, so eager was I to sack the city of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id78
sentence:
Vouchsafe me then this prayer— suffer us to escape at any rate with our lives, and let not the Achaeans be so utterly vanquished by the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id79
sentence:
Thus did he pray, and father Jove pitying his tears vouchsafed him that his people should live, not die; forthwith he sent them an eagle, most unfailingly portentous of all birds, with a young fawn in its talons; the eagle dropped the fawn by the altar on which the Achaeans sacrificed to Jove the lord of omens; when, therefore, the people saw that the bird had come from Jove ,they sprang more fiercely upon the Trojans and fought more boldly.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id80
sentence:
There was no man of all the many Danaans who could then boast that he had driven his horses over the trench and gone forth to fight sooner than the son of Tydeus; long before any one else could do so he slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Agelaus the son of Phradmon.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id81
sentence:
He had turned his horses in flight, but the spear struck him in the back midway between his shoulders and went right through his chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell forward from his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id82
sentence:
After him came Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus, the two Ajaxes clothed in valour as with a garment, Idomeneus and his companion in arms Meriones, peer of murderous Mars, and Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id83
sentence:
Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id84
sentence:
When Ajax lifted his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again duck down under his shield.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id86
sentence:
Orsilochus, and then Ormenus and Ophelestes, Daetor, Chromius, and godlike Lycophontes, Amopaon son of Polyaemon, and Melanippus.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id87
sentence:
All these in turn did he lay low upon the earth, and King Agamemnon was glad when he saw him making havoc of the Trojans with his mighty bow.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id88
sentence:
He went up to him and said," Teucer, man after my own heart, son of Telamon, captain among the host, shoot on, and be at once the saving of the Danaans and the glory of your father Telamon, who brought you up and took care of you in his own house when you were a child, bastard though you were.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id89
sentence:
Cover him with glory though he is far off; I will promise and I will assuredly perform; if aegis- bearing Jove and Minerva grant me to sack the city of Ilius, you shall have the next best meed of honour after my own— a tripod, or two horses with their chariot, or a woman who shall go up into your bed."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id90
sentence:
And Teucer answered," Most noble son of Atreus, you need not urge me; from the moment we began to drive them back to Ilius, I have never ceased so far as in me lies to look out for men whom I can shoot and kill; I have shot eight barbed shafts, and all of them have been buried in the flesh of warlike youths, but this mad dog I can not hit."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id91
sentence:
As he spoke he aimed another arrow straight at Hector, for he was bent on hitting him; nevertheless he missed him, and the arrow hit Priam 's brave son Gorgythion in the breast.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id92
sentence:
His mother, fair Castianeira, lovely as a goddess, had been married from Aesyme, and now he bowed his head as a garden poppy in full bloom when it is weighed down by showers in spring— even thus heavy bowed his head beneath the weight of his helmet.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id93
sentence:
Again he aimed at Hector, for he was longing to hit him, and again his arrow missed, for Apollo turned it aside; but he hit Hector 's brave charioteer Archeptolemus in the breast, by the nipple, as he was driving furiously into the fight.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id95
sentence:
Hector was greatly grieved at the loss of his charioteer, but for all his sorrow he let him lie where he fell, and bade his brother Cebriones, who was hard by, take the reins.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id97
sentence:
Hector thereon with a loud cry sprang from his chariot to the ground, and seizing a great stone made straight for Teucer with intent to kill him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id98
sentence:
Teucer had just taken an arrow from his quiver and had laid it upon the bow- string, but Hector struck him with the jagged stone as he was taking aim and drawing the string to his shoulder; he hit him just where the collar- bone divides the neck from the chest, a very deadly place, and broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand as he fell forward on his knees.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id99
sentence:
Ajax saw that his brother had fallen, and running towards him bestrode him and sheltered him with his shield.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id100
sentence:
Meanwhile his two trusty squires, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, came up and bore him to the ships groaning in his great pain.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id101
sentence:
Jove now again put heart into the Trojans, and they drove the Achaeans to their deep trench with Hector in all his glory at their head.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id102
sentence:
As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the hindmost as they rushed panic- stricken onwards.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id103
sentence:
When they had fled through the set stakes and trench and many Achaeans had been laid low at the hands of the Trojans, they halted at their ships, calling upon one another and praying every man instantly as they lifted up their hands to the gods; but Hector wheeled his horses this way and that, his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or murderous Mars.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id104
sentence:
Juno when she saw them had pity upon them, and at once said to Minerva," Alas, child of aegis- bearing Jove, shall you and I take no more thought for the dying Danaans, though it be the last time we ever do so?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id107
sentence:
Minerva answered," Would, indeed, this fellow might die in his own land, and fall by the hands of the Achaeans; but my father Jove is mad with spleen, ever foiling me, ever headstrong and unjust.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id108
sentence:
He forgets how often I saved his son when he was worn out by the labours Eurystheus had laid on him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id109
sentence:
He would weep till his cry came up to heaven, and then Jove would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell- hound from Erebus, he would never have come back alive out of the deep waters of the river Styx.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id110
sentence:
And now Jove hates me, while he lets Thetis have her way because she kissed his knees and took hold of his beard, when she was begging him to do honour to Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id112
sentence:
Get our horses ready, while I go within the house of aegis- bearing Jove and put on my armour; we shall then find out whether Priam 's son Hector will be glad to meet us in the highways of battle, or whether the Trojans will glut hounds and vultures with the fat of their flesh as they be dead by the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id113
sentence:
Thus did she speak and white- armed Juno, daughter of great Saturn, obeyed her words; she set about harnessing her gold- bedizened steeds, while Minerva daughter of aegis- bearing Jove flung her richly vesture, made with her own hands, on to the threshold of her father, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id114
sentence:
Then she stepped into her flaming chariot, and grasped the spear so stout and sturdy and strong with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id115
sentence:
Juno lashed her horses, and the gates of heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord— gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are heaven and Olympus, either to open the dense cloud that hides them or to close it.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id117
sentence:
But father Jove when he saw them from Ida was very angry, and sent winged Iris with a message to them. "


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id118
sentence:
Go," said he," fleet Iris, turn them back, and see that they do not come near me, for if we come to fighting there will be mischief.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id120
sentence:
I will lame their horses for them; I will hurl them from their chariot, and will break it in pieces.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id121
sentence:
It will take them all ten years to heal the wounds my lightning shall inflict upon them; my grey- eyed daughter will then learn what quarrelling with her father means.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id123
sentence:
With this Iris went her way, fleet as the wind, from the heights of Ida to the lofty summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id128
sentence:
This is what he says, and this is what he means to do, he will lame your horses for you, he will hurl you from your chariot, and will break it in pieces.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id129
sentence:
It will take you all ten years to heal the wounds his lightning will inflict upon you, that you may learn, grey- eyed goddess, what quarrelling with your father means.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id130
sentence:
He is less hurt and angry with Juno, for whatever he says she always contradicts him but you, bold hussy ,will you really dare to raise your huge spear in defiance of Jove?"


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id131
sentence:
With this she left them, and Juno said to Minerva," Of a truth, child of aegis- bearing Jove, I am not for fighting men 's battles further in defiance of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id132
sentence:
Let them live or die as luck will have it, and let Jove mete out his judgements upon the Trojans and Danaans according to his own pleasure."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id133
sentence:
She turned her steeds; the Hours presently unyoked them, made them fast to their ambrosial mangers, and leaned the chariot against the end wall of the courtyard.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id134
sentence:
The two goddesses then sat down upon their golden thrones, amid the company of the other gods; but they were very angry.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id136
sentence:
The mighty lord of the earthquake unyoked his horses for him, set the car upon its stand, and threw a cloth over it.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id138
sentence:
Minerva and Juno sat alone, apart from Jove, and neither spoke nor asked him questions, but Jove knew what they meant, and said," Minerva and Juno, why are you so angry?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id140
sentence:
Be this as it may, such is the might of my hands that all the gods in Olympus can not turn me; you were both of you trembling all over ere ever you saw the fight and its terrible doings.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id142
sentence:
and it would have surely been— I should have struck you with lightning, and your chariots would never have brought you back again to Olympus."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id144
sentence:
Minerva sat silent without a word, for she was in a furious passion and bitterly incensed against her father; but Juno could not contain herself and said," What, dread son of Saturn, are you talking about?


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id145
sentence:
We know how great your power is, nevertheless we have compassion upon the Danaan warriors who are perishing and coming to a bad end.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id146
sentence:
We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives, that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id147
sentence:
And Jove answered," To- morrow morning, Juno, if you choose to do so, you will see the son of Saturn destroying large numbers of the Argives, for fierce Hector shall not cease fighting till he has roused the son of Peleus when they are fighting in dire straits at their ships ' sterns about the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id148
sentence:
Like it or no, this is how it is decreed; for aught I care, you may go to the lowest depths beneath earth and sea, where Iapetus and Saturn dwell in lone Tartarus with neither ray of light nor breath of wind to cheer them.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id149
sentence:
You may go on and on till you get there, and I shall not care one whit for your displeasure; you are the greatest vixen living."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id152
sentence:
Sorry indeed were the Trojans when light failed them, but welcome and thrice prayed for did darkness fall upon the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id153
sentence:
Then Hector led the Trojans back from the ships, and held a council on the open space near the river, where there was a spot clear of corpses.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id155
sentence:
He grasped a spear eleven cubits long, the bronze point of which gleamed in front of it, while the ring round the spear- head was of gold.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id162
sentence:
Take your horses out of their chariots and give them their feeds of corn; then make speed to bring sheep and cattle from the city; bring wine also and corn for your horses and gather much wood, that from dark till dawn we may burn watchfires whose flare may reach to heaven.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id163
sentence:
For the Achaeans may try to fly beyond the sea by night, and they must not embark scatheless and unmolested; many a man among them must take a dart with him to nurse at home, hit with spear or arrow as he is leaping on board his ship, that others may fear to bring war and weeping upon the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id164
sentence:
Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey- bearded men are to camp upon its heaven- built walls.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id165
sentence:
Let the women each of them light a great fire in her house, and let watch be safely kept lest the town be entered by surprise while the host is outside.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id166
sentence:
See to it, brave Trojans, as I have said, and let this suffice for the moment; at daybreak I will instruct you further.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id167
sentence:
I pray in hope to Jove and to the gods that we may then drive those fate- sped hounds from our land, for ' tis the fates that have borne them and their ships hither.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id168
sentence:
This night, therefore, let us keep watch, but with early morning let us put on our armour and rouse fierce war at the ships of the Achaeans; I shall then know whether brave Diomed the son of Tydeus will drive me back from the ships to the wall, or whether I shall myself slay him and carry off his bloodstained spoils.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id170
sentence:
I ween that at break of day, he shall be among the first to fall and many another of his comrades round him.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id171
sentence:
Would that I were as sure of being immortal and never growing old, and of being worshipped like Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day will bring evil to the Argives."


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id174
sentence:
They made haste to bring sheep and cattle from the city, they brought wine also and corn from their houses and gathered much wood.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id175
sentence:
They then offered unblemished hecatombs to the immortals, and the wind carried the sweet savour of sacrifice to heaven— but the blessed gods partook not thereof, for they bitterly hated Ilius with Priam and Priam 's people.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id176
sentence:
Thus high in hope they sat through the livelong night by the highways of war, and many a watchfire did they kindle.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id177
sentence:
As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright— there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland but it stands out in the ineffable radiance that breaks from the serene of heaven; the stars can all of them be told and the heart of the shepherd is glad— even thus shone the watchfires of the Trojans before Ilius midway between the ships and the river Xanthus.


title: homer-iliad_08
idx: id178
sentence:
A thousand camp- fires gleamed upon the plain, and in the glow of each there sat fifty men, while the horses, champing oats and corn beside their chariots, waited till dawn should come.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id1
sentence:
The gods hold a council and determine to watch the fight, from the hill Callicolone, and the barrow of Hercules—A fight between Achilles and AEneas is interrupted by Neptune, who saves AEneas—Achilles kills many Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id2
sentence:
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O son of Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans over against them armed upon the rise of the plain.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id3
sentence:
Meanwhile Jove from the top of many- delled Olympus, bade Themis gather the gods in council, whereon she went about and called them to the house of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id4
sentence:
There was not a river absent except Oceanus, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id5
sentence:
When they reached the house of cloud- compelling Jove, they took their seats in the arcades of polished marble which Vulcan with his consummate skill had made for father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id7
sentence:
Neptune also, lord of the earthquake, obeyed the call of the goddess, and came up out of the sea to join them.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id10
sentence:
Are you considering some matter that concerns the Trojans and Achaeans— for the blaze of battle is on the point of being kindled between them?"


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id13
sentence:
For my own part I shall stay here seated on Mt. Olympus and look on in peace, but do you others go about among Trojans and Achaeans, and help either side as you may be severally disposed.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id14
sentence:
If Achilles fights the Trojans without hindrance they will make no stand against him; they have ever trembled at the sight of him, and now that he is roused to such fury about his comrade, he will override fate itself and storm their city."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id15
sentence:
Thus spoke Jove and gave the word for war, whereon the gods took their several sides and went into battle.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id16
sentence:
Juno, Pallas Minerva, earth- encircling Neptune, Mercury bringer of good luck and excellent in all cunning— all these joined the host that came from the ships; with them also came Vulcan in all his glory, limping, but yet with his thin legs plying lustily under him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id17
sentence:
Mars of gleaming helmet joined the Trojans, and with him Apollo of locks unshorn, and the archer goddess Diana, Leto, Xanthus, and laughter- loving Venus.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id18
sentence:
So long as the gods held themselves aloof from mortal warriors the Achaeans were triumphant, for Achilles who had long refused to fight was now with them.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id19
sentence:
There was not a Trojan but his limbs failed him for fear as he beheld the fleet son of Peleus all glorious in his armour, and looking like Mars himself.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id20
sentence:
When, however, the Olympians came to take their part among men, forthwith uprose strong Strife, rouser of hosts, and Minerva raised her loud voice, now standing by the deep trench that ran outside the wall, and now shouting with all her might upon the shore of the sounding sea.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id21
sentence:
Mars also bellowed out upon the other side, dark as some black thunder- cloud, and called on the Trojans at the top of his voice, now from the acropolis, and now speeding up the side of the river Simois till he came to the hill Callicolone.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id23
sentence:
The sire of gods and men thundered from heaven above, while from beneath Neptune shook the vast earth, and bade the high hills tremble.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id24
sentence:
The spurs and crests of many- fountained Ida quaked, as also the city of the Trojans and the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id25
sentence:
Hades, king of the realms below, was struck with fear; he sprang panic- stricken from his throne and cried aloud in terror lest Neptune, lord of the earthquake, should crack the ground over his head, and lay bare his mouldy mansions to the sight of mortals and immortals— mansions so ghastly grim that even the gods shudder to think of them.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id27
sentence:
Apollo with his arrows took his stand to face King Neptune, while Minerva took hers against the god of war; the archer- goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far- darting Apollo, stood to face Juno; Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto, while the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against Vulcan.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id29
sentence:
But the heart of Achilles was set on meeting Hector son of Priam, for it was with his blood that he longed above all things else to glut the stubborn lord of battle.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id30
sentence:
Meanwhile Apollo set Aeneas on to attack the son of Peleus, and put courage into his heart, speaking with the voice of Lycaon son of Priam.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id31
sentence:
In his likeness therefore, he said to Aeneas," Aeneas, counsellor of the Trojans, where are now the brave words with which you vaunted over your wine before the Trojan princes, saying that you would fight Achilles son of Peleus in single combat?"


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id32
sentence:
And Aeneas answered," Why do you thus bid me fight the proud son of Peleus, when I am in no mind to do so?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id34
sentence:
His spear has already put me to flight from Ida, when he attacked our cattle and sacked Lyrnessus and Pedasus; Jove indeed saved me in that he vouchsafed me strength to fly, else had I fallen by the hands of Achilles and Minerva, who went before him to protect him and urged him to fall upon the Lelegae and Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id35
sentence:
No man may fight Achilles, for one of the gods is always with him as his guardian angel, and even were it not so, his weapon flies ever straight, and fails not to pierce the flesh of him who is against him; if heaven would let me fight him on even terms he should not soon overcome me, though he boasts that he is made of bronze."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id36
sentence:
Then said King Apollo, son to Jove," Nay, hero, pray to the ever- living gods, for men say that you were born of Jove 's daughter Venus, whereas Achilles is son to a goddess of inferior rank.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id38
sentence:
Bring, therefore, your spear to bear upon him, and let him not scare you with his taunts and menaces."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id39
sentence:
As he spoke he put courage into the heart of the shepherd of his people, and he strode in full armour among the ranks of the foremost fighters.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id40
sentence:
Nor did the son of Anchises escape the notice of white- armed Juno, as he went forth into the throng to meet Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id41
sentence:
She called the gods about her, and said," Look to it, you two, Neptune and Minerva, and consider how this shall be; Phoebus Apollo has been sending Aeneas clad in full armour to fight Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id42
sentence:
Shall we turn him back at once, or shall one of us stand by Achilles and endow him with strength so that his heart fail not, and he may learn that the chiefs of the immortals are on his side, while the others who have all along been defending the Trojans are but vain helpers?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id43
sentence:
Let us all come down from Olympus and join in the fight, that this day he may take no hurt at the hands of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id44
sentence:
Hereafter let him suffer whatever fate may have spun out for him when he was begotten and his mother bore him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id45
sentence:
If Achilles be not thus assured by the voice of a god, he may come to fear presently when one of us meets him in battle, for the gods are terrible if they are seen face to face."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id46
sentence:
Neptune lord of the earthquake answered her saying," Juno, restrain your fury; it is not well; I am not in favour of forcing the other gods to fight us, for the advantage is too greatly on our own side; let us take our places on some hill out of the beaten track, and let mortals fight it out among themselves.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id47
sentence:
If Mars or Phoebus Apollo begin fighting, or keep Achilles in check so that he can not fight, we too, will at once raise the cry of battle, and in that case they will soon leave the field and go back vanquished to Olympus among the other gods."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id48
sentence:
With these words the dark- haired god led the way to the high earth- barrow of Hercules, built round solid masonry, and made by the Trojans and Pallas Minerva for him to fly to when the sea- monster was chasing him from the shore on to the plain.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id49
sentence:
Here Neptune and those that were with him took their seats, wrapped in a thick cloud of darkness; but the other gods seated themselves on the brow of Callicolone round you, O Phoebus, and Mars the waster of cities.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id50
sentence:
Thus did the gods sit apart and form their plans, but neither side was willing to begin battle with the other, and Jove from his seat on high was in command over them all.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id52
sentence:
The earth rang again under the tramp of their feet as they rushed towards each other, and two champions, by far the foremost of them all, met between the hosts to fight— to wit, Aeneas son of Anchises, and noble Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id55
sentence:
The son of Peleus from the other side sprang forth to meet him, like some fierce lion that the whole country- side has met to hunt and kill— at first he bodes no ill, but when some daring youth has struck him with a spear, he crouches openmouthed, his jaws foam, he roars with fury, he lashes his tail from side to side about his ribs and loins, and glares as he springs straight before him, to find out whether he is to slay, or be slain among the foremost of his foes— even with such fury did Achilles burn to spring upon Aeneas.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id61
sentence:
Or have the Trojans been allotting you a demesne of passing richness, fair with orchard lawns and corn lands, if you should slay me?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id64
sentence:
Have you forgotten how when you were alone I chased you from your herds helter- skelter down the slopes of Ida?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id65
sentence:
You did not turn round to look behind you; you took refuge in Lyrnessus, but I attacked the city, and with the help of Minerva and father Jove


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id67
sentence:
You think they will protect you now, but they will not do so; therefore I say go back into the host, and do not face me, or you will rue it.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id69
sentence:
Then Aeneas answered," Son of Peleus, think not that your words can scare me as though I were a child.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id71
sentence:
We know one another 's race and parentage as matters of common fame, though neither have you ever seen my parents nor I yours.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id72
sentence:
Men say that you are son to noble Peleus, and that your mother is Thetis, fair- haired daughter of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id73
sentence:
I have noble Anchises for my father, and Venus for my mother; the parents of one or other of us shall this day mourn a son, for it will be more than silly talk that shall part us when the fight is over.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id75
sentence:
"In the beginning Dardanus was the son of Jove, and founded Dardania, for Ilius was not yet stablished on the plain for men to dwell in, and her people still abode on the spurs of many- fountained Ida.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id76
sentence:
Dardanus had a son, king Erichthonius, who was wealthiest of all men living; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water- meadows, they and their foals with them.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id77
sentence:
Boreas was enamoured of them as they were feeding, and covered them in the semblance of a dark- maned stallion.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id78
sentence:
Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him, and these, as they sped over the rich plain, would go bounding on over the ripe ears of corn and not break them; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id79
sentence:
Erichthonius begat Tros, king of the Trojans, and Tros had three noble sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Jove 's cupbearer, for his beauty 's sake, that he might dwell among the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id80
sentence:
Ilus begat Laomedon, and Laomedon begat Tithonus, Priam, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the stock of Mars.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id81
sentence:
But Assaracus was father to Capys, and Capys to Anchises, who was my father, while Hector is son to Priam.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id82
sentence:
"Such do I declare my blood and lineage, but as for valour, Jove gives it or takes it as he will, for he is lord of all.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id85
sentence:
The tongue can run all whithers and talk all wise; it can go here and there, and as a man says, so shall he be gainsaid.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id86
sentence:
What is the use of our bandying hard like women who when they fall foul of one another go out and wrangle in the streets, one half true and the other lies, as rage inspires them?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id87
sentence:
No words of yours shall turn me now that I am fain to fight— therefore let us make trial of one another with our spears."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id88
sentence:
As he spoke he drove his spear at the great and terrible shield of Achilles, which rang out as the point struck it.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id89
sentence:
The son of Peleus held the shield before him with his strong hand, and he was afraid, for he deemed that Aeneas 's spear would go through it quite easily, not reflecting that the god 's glorious gifts were little likely to yield before the blows of mortal men; and indeed Aeneas 's spear did not pierce the shield, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id90
sentence:
It went through two layers, but the god had made the shield in five, two of bronze, the two innermost ones of tin, and one of gold; it was in this that the spear was stayed.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id91
sentence:
Achilles in his turn threw, and struck the round shield of Aeneas at the very edge, where the bronze was thinnest; the spear of Pelian ash went clean through, and the shield rang under the blow; Aeneas was afraid, and crouched backwards, holding the shield away from him; the spear, however, flew over his back, and stuck quivering in the ground, after having gone through both circles of the sheltering shield.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id92
sentence:
Aeneas though he had avoided the spear, stood still, blinded with fear and grief because the weapon had gone so near him; then Achilles sprang furiously upon him, with a cry as of death and with his keen blade drawn, and Aeneas seized a great stone, so huge that two men, as men now are, would be unable to lift it, but Aeneas wielded it quite easily.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id93
sentence:
Aeneas would then have struck Achilles as he was springing towards him, either on the helmet, or on the shield that covered him, and Achilles would have closed with him and despatched him with his sword, had not Neptune lord of the earthquake been quick to mark, and said forthwith to the immortals," Alas, I am sorry for great Aeneas, who will now go down to the house of Hades, vanquished by the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id98
sentence:
Let us then snatch him from death 's jaws, lest the son of Saturn be angry should Achilles slay him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id99
sentence:
It is fated, moreover, that he should escape, and that the race of Dardanus, whom Jove loved above all the sons born to him of mortal women, shall not perish utterly without seed or sign.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id100
sentence:
For now indeed has Jove hated the blood of Priam, while Aeneas shall reign over the Trojans, he and his children 's children that shall be born hereafter."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id101
sentence:
Then answered Juno," Earth- shaker, look to this matter yourself, and consider concerning Aeneas, whether you will save him, or suffer him, brave though he be, to fall by the hand of Achilles son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id102
sentence:
For of a truth we two, I and Pallas Minerva, have sworn full many a time before all the immortals, that never would we shield Trojans from destruction, not even when all Troy is burning in the flames that the Achaeans shall kindle."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id103
sentence:
When earth- encircling Neptune heard this he went into the battle amid the clash of spears, and came to the place where Achilles and Aeneas were.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id104
sentence:
Forthwith he shed a darkness before the eyes of the son of Peleus, drew the bronze- headed ashen spear from the shield of Aeneas, and laid it at the feet of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id106
sentence:
Over the heads of many a band of warriors both horse and foot did he soar as the god 's hand sped him, till he came to the very fringe of the battle where the Cauconians were arming themselves for fight.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id107
sentence:
Neptune, shaker of the earth, then came near to him and said," Aeneas, what god has egged you on to this folly in fighting the son of Peleus, who is both a mightier man of valour and more beloved of heaven than you are?


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id108
sentence:
Give way before him whensoever you meet him, lest you go down to the house of Hades even though fate would have it otherwise.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id109
sentence:
When Achilles is dead you may then fight among the foremost undaunted, for none other of the Achaeans shall slay you."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id110
sentence:
The god left him when he had given him these instructions, and at once removed the darkness from before the eyes of Achilles, who opened them wide indeed and said in great anger," Alas!


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id113
sentence:
Of a truth Aeneas also must be under heaven 's protection, although I had thought his boasting was idle.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id114
sentence:
Let him go hang; he will be in no mood to fight me further, seeing how narrowly he has missed being killed.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id117
sentence:
Let not the Trojans," he cried," keep you at arm 's length, Achaeans, but go for them and fight them man for man.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id119
sentence:
Even Mars, who is an immortal, or Minerva, would shrink from flinging himself into the jaws of such a fight and laying about him; nevertheless, so far as in me lies I will show no slackness of hand or foot nor want of endurance, not even for a moment; I will utterly break their ranks, and woe to the Trojan who shall venture within reach of my spear."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id122
sentence:
"Be not afraid, proud Trojans," said he," to face the son of Peleus; I could fight gods myself if the battle were one of words only, but they would be more than a match for me, if we had to use our spears.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id123
sentence:
Even so the deed of Achilles will fall somewhat short of his word; he will do in part, and the other part he will clip short.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id124
sentence:
I will go up against him though his hands be as fire— though his hands be fire and his strength iron."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id125
sentence:
Thus urged the Trojans lifted up their spears against the Achaeans, and raised the cry of battle as they flung themselves into the midst of their ranks.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id126
sentence:
But Phoebus Apollo came up to Hector and said," Hector, on no account must you challenge Achilles to single combat; keep a lookout for him while you are under cover of the others and away from the thick of the fight, otherwise he will either hit you with a spear or cut you down at close quarters."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id127
sentence:
Thus he spoke, and Hector drew back within the crowd, for he was afraid when he heard what the god had said to him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id129
sentence:
First he killed Iphition son of Otrynteus, a leader of much people whom a naiad nymph had borne to Otrynteus waster of cities, in the land of Hyde under the snowy heights of Mt. Tmolus.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id130
sentence:
Achilles struck him full on the head as he was coming on towards him, and split it clean in two; whereon he fell heavily to the ground and Achilles vaunted over him saying," You be low, son of Otrynteus, mighty hero; your death is here, but your lineage is on the Gygaean lake where your father 's estate lies, by Hyllus, rich in fish, and the eddying waters of Hermus."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id132
sentence:
The chariots of the Achaeans cut him up as their wheels passed over him in the front of the battle, and after him Achilles killed Demoleon, a valiant man of war and son to Antenor.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id134
sentence:
The helmet did not stay the spear, but it went right on, crushing the bone so that the brain inside was shed in all directions, and his lust of fighting was ended.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id135
sentence:
Then he struck Hippodamas in the midriff as he was springing down from his chariot in front of him, and trying to escape.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id136
sentence:
He breathed his last, bellowing like a bull bellows when young men are dragging him to offer him in sacrifice to the King of Helice, and the heart of the earth- shaker is glad; even so did he bellow as he lay dying.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id137
sentence:
Achilles then went in pursuit of Polydorus son of Priam, whom his father had always forbidden to fight because he was the youngest of his sons, the one he loved best, and the fastest runner.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id138
sentence:
He, in his folly and showing off the fleetness of his feet, was rushing about among front ranks until he lost his life, for Achilles struck him in the middle of the back as he was darting past him: he struck him just at the golden fastenings of his belt and where the two pieces of the double breastplate overlapped.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id139
sentence:
The point of the spear pierced him through and came out by the navel, whereon he fell groaning on to his knees and a cloud of darkness overshadowed him as he sank holding his entrails in his hands.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id140
sentence:
When Hector saw his brother Polydorus with his entrails in his hands and sinking down upon the ground, a mist came over his eyes, and he could not bear to keep longer at a distance; he therefore poised his spear and darted towards Achilles like a flame of fire.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id141
sentence:
When Achilles saw him he bounded forward and vaunted saying," This is he that has wounded my heart most deeply and has slain my beloved comrade.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id144
sentence:
Hector feared him not and answered," Son of Peleus, think not that your words can scare me as though I were a child; I too if I will can brag and talk unseemly ;I know that you are a mighty warrior, mightier by far than I, nevertheless the issue lies in the lap of heaven whether I, worse man though I be, may not slay you with my spear, for this too has been found keen ere now."


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id145
sentence:
He hurled his spear as he spoke, but Minerva breathed upon it, and though she breathed but very lightly she turned it back from going towards Achilles, so that it returned to Hector and lay at his feet in front of him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id146
sentence:
Achilles then sprang furiously on him with a loud cry, bent on killing him, but Apollo caught him up easily as a god can, and hid him in a thick darkness.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id147
sentence:
Thrice did Achilles spring towards him spear in hand, and thrice did he waste his blow upon the air.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id148
sentence:
When he rushed forward for the fourth time as though he were a god, he shouted aloud saying," Hound, this time too you have escaped death— but of a truth it came exceedingly near you.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id149
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo, to whom it seems you pray before you go into battle, has again saved you; but if I too have any friend among the gods I will surely make an end of you when I come across you at some other time.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id151
sentence:
On this he struck Dryops with his spear, about the middle of his neck, and he fell headlong at his feet.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id152
sentence:
There he let him lie and stayed Demouchus son of Philetor, a man both brave and of great stature, by hitting him on the knee with a spear; then he smote him with his sword and killed him.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id153
sentence:
After this he sprang on Laogonus and Dardanus, sons of Bias, and threw them from their chariot, the one with a blow from a thrown spear, while the other he cut down in hand- to- hand fight.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id154
sentence:
There was also Tros the son of Alastor— he came up to Achilles and clasped his knees in the hope that he would spare him and not kill him but let him go, because they were both of the same age.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id155
sentence:
Fool, he might have known that he should not prevail with him, for the man was in no mood for pity or forbearance but was in grim earnest.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id156
sentence:
Therefore when Tros laid hold of his knees and sought a hearing for his prayers, Achilles drove his sword into his liver, and the liver came rolling out, while his bosom was all covered with the black blood that welled from the wound.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id158
sentence:
Achilles then went up to Mulius and struck him on the ear with a spear, and the bronze spear- head came right out at the other ear.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id159
sentence:
He also struck Echeclus son of Agenor on the head with his sword, which became warm with the blood, while death and stern fate closed the eyes of Echeclus.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id160
sentence:
Next in order the bronze point of his spear wounded Deucalion in the fore- arm where the sinews of the elbow are united, whereon he waited Achilles ' onset with his arm hanging down and death staring him in the face.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id161
sentence:
Achilles cut his head off with a blow from his sword and flung it helmet and all away from him, and the marrow came oozing out of his backbone as he lay.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id162
sentence:
He then went in pursuit of Rhigmus, noble son of Peires, who had come from fertile Thrace, and struck him through the middle with a spear which fixed itself in his belly, so that he fell headlong from his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id163
sentence:
He also speared Areithous squire to Rhigmus in the back as he was turning his horses in flight, and thrust him from his chariot, while the horses were struck with panic.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id164
sentence:
As a fire raging in some mountain glen after long drought— and the dense forest is in a blaze, while the wind carries great tongues of fire in every direction— even so furiously did Achilles rage, wielding his spear as though he were a god, and giving chase to those whom he would slay, till the dark earth ran with blood.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id165
sentence:
Or as one who yokes broad- browed oxen that they may tread barley in a threshing- floor— and it is soon bruised small under the feet of the lowing cattle— even so did the horses of Achilles trample on the shields and bodies of the slain.


title: homer-iliad_20
idx: id166
sentence:
The axle underneath and the railing that ran round the car were bespattered with clots of blood thrown up by the horses ' hoofs, and from the tyres of the wheels; but the son of Peleus pressed on to win still further glory, and his hands were bedrabbled with gore.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id2
sentence:
And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus— harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals— the gods met in council and with them, Jove the lord of thunder, who is their king.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id3
sentence:
Thereon Minerva began to tell them of the many sufferings of Ulysses, for she pitied him away there in the house of the nymph Calypso.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id4
sentence:
"Father Jove," said she," and all you other gods that live in everlasting bliss ,I hope there may never be such a thing as a kind and well- disposed ruler any more, nor one who will govern equitably.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id5
sentence:
I hope they will be all henceforth cruel and unjust, for there is not one of his subjects but has forgotten Ulysses, who ruled them as though he were their father.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id6
sentence:
There he is, lying in great pain in an island where dwells the nymph Calypso, who will not let him go; and he can not get back to his own country, for he can find neither ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id7
sentence:
Furthermore, wicked people are now trying to murder his only son Telemachus, who is coming home from Pylos and Lacedaemon, where he has been to see if he can get news of his father."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id8
sentence:
"What, my dear, are you talking about?" replied her father," did you not send him there yourself, because you thought it would help Ulysses to get home and punish the suitors?


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id9
sentence:
Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry- skurrying back without having killed him."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id10
sentence:
When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Mercury," Mercury, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id11
sentence:
He is to be convoyed neither by gods nor men, but after a perilous voyage of twenty days upon a raft he is to reach fertile Scheria the land of the Phaeacians, who are near of kin to the gods, and will honour him as though he were one of ourselves.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id12
sentence:
They will send him in a ship to his own country, and will give him more bronze and gold and raiment than he would have brought back from Troy, if he had had all his prize money and had got home without disaster.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id15
sentence:
Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id16
sentence:
He took the wand with which he seals men 's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id17
sentence:
He flew and flew over many a weary wave, but when at last he got to the island which was his journey 's end, he left the sea and went on by land till he came to the cave where the nymph Calypso lived.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id19
sentence:
There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id20
sentence:
As for herself, she was busy at her loom, shooting her golden shuttle through the warp and singing beautifully.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id21
sentence:
Round her cave there was a thick wood of alder, poplar, and sweet smelling cypress trees, wherein all kinds of great birds had built their nests— owls, hawks, and chattering sea- crows that occupy their business in the waters.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id22
sentence:
A vine loaded with grapes was trained and grew luxuriantly about the mouth of the cave; there were also four running rills of water in channels cut pretty close together, and turned hither and thither so as to irrigate the beds of violets and luscious herbage over which they flowed.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id23
sentence:
Even a god could not help being charmed with such a lovely spot, so Mercury stood still and looked at it; but when he had admired it sufficiently he went inside the cave.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id24
sentence:
Calypso knew him at once— for the gods all know each other, no matter how far they live from one another— but Ulysses was not within; he was on the sea- shore as usual, looking out upon the barren ocean with tears in his eyes, groaning and breaking his heart for sorrow.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id25
sentence:
Calypso gave Mercury a seat and said:" Why have you come to see me, Mercury— honoured, and ever welcome— for you do not visit me often?


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id26
sentence:
Say what you want; I will do it for you at once if I can, and if it can be done at all; but come inside, and let me set refreshment before you."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id27
sentence:
As she spoke she drew a table loaded with ambrosia beside him and mixed him some red nectar, so Mercury ate and drank till he had had enough, and then said: "We are speaking god and goddess to one another, and you ask me why I have come here, and I will tell you truly as you would have me do.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id28
sentence:
Jove sent me; it was no doing of mine; who could possibly want to come all this way over the sea where there are no cities full of people to offer me sacrifices or choice hecatombs?


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id30
sentence:
He says that you have here the most ill- starred of all those who fought nine years before the city of King Priam and sailed home in the tenth year after having sacked it.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id31
sentence:
On their way home they sinned against Minerva who raised both wind and waves against them, so that all his brave companions perished, and he alone was carried hither by wind and tide.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id32
sentence:
Jove says that you are to let this man go at once, for it is decreed that he shall not perish here, far from his own people, but shall return to his house and country and see his friends again."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id33
sentence:
Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this," You gods," she exclaimed," ought to be ashamed of yourselves.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id34
sentence:
You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id35
sentence:
So when rosy- fingered Dawn made love to Orion, you precious gods were all of you furious till Diana went and killed him in Ortygia.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id36
sentence:
So again when Ceres fell in love with Iasion, and yielded to him in a thrice- ploughed fallow field, Jove came to hear of it before so very long and killed Iasion with his thunderbolts.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id38
sentence:
I found the poor creature sitting all alone astride of a keel, for Jove had struck his ship with lightning and sunk it in mid ocean, so that all his crew were drowned, while he himself was driven by wind and waves on to my island.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id39
sentence:
I got fond of him and cherished him, and had set my heart on making him immortal, so that he should never grow old all his days; still I can not cross Jove, nor bring his counsels to nothing; therefore, if he insists upon it, let the man go beyond the seas again; but I can not send him anywhere myself for I have neither ships nor men who can take him.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id40
sentence:
Nevertheless I will readily give him such advice, in all good faith, as will be likely to bring him safely to his own country."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id42
sentence:
On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses, for she had heard Jove 's message.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id43
sentence:
She found him sitting upon the beach with his eyes ever filled with tears, and dying of sheer home sickness; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id44
sentence:
As for the day time, he spent it on the rocks and on the sea shore, weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id45
sentence:
Calypso then went close up to him said: "My poor fellow, you shall not stay here grieving and fretting your life out any longer.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id46
sentence:
I am going to send you away of my own free will; so go, cut some beams of wood, and make yourself a large raft with an upper deck that it may carry you safely over the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id48
sentence:
I will also give you clothes, and will send you a fair wind to take you home, if the gods in heaven so will it— for they know more about these things, and can settle them better than I can."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id50
sentence:
Now goddess," he answered," there is something behind all this; you can not be really meaning to help me home when you bid me do such a dreadful thing as put to sea on a raft.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id51
sentence:
Not even a well found ship with a fair wind could venture on such a distant voyage: nothing that you can say or do shall make me go on board a raft unless you first solemnly swear that you mean me no mischief."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id52
sentence:
Calypso smiled at this and caressed him with her hand:" You know a great deal," said she," but you are quite wrong here.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id53
sentence:
May heaven above and earth below be my witnesses, with the waters of the river Styx— and this is the most solemn oath which a blessed god can take— that I mean you no sort of harm, and am only advising you to do exactly what I should do myself in your place.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id54
sentence:
I am dealing with you quite straightforwardly; my heart is not made of iron, and I am very sorry for you."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id55
sentence:
When she had thus spoken she led the way rapidly before him, and Ulysses followed in her steps; so the pair, goddess and man, went on and on till they came to Calypso 's cave, where Ulysses took the seat that Mercury had just left.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id56
sentence:
Calypso set meat and drink before him of the food that mortals eat; but her maids brought ambrosia and nectar for herself, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id57
sentence:
When they had satisfied themselves with meat and drink, Calypso spoke, saying: "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would start home to your own land at once?


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id58
sentence:
Good luck go with you, but if you could only know how much suffering is in store for you before you get back to your own country, you would stay where you are, keep house along with me, and let me make you immortal, no matter how anxious you may be to see this wife of yours, of whom you are thinking all the time day after day; yet I flatter myself that I am no whit less tall or well- looking than she is, for it is not to be expected that a mortal woman should compare in beauty with an immortal."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id65
sentence:
Presently the sun set and it became dark, whereon the pair retired into the inner part of the cave and went to bed.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id66
sentence:
When the child of morning rosy- fingered Dawn appeared, Ulysses put on his shirt and cloak, while the goddess wore a dress of a light gossamer fabric, very fine and graceful, with a beautiful golden girdle about her waist and a veil to cover her head.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id68
sentence:
So she gave him a great bronze axe that suited his hands; it was sharpened on both sides, and had a beautiful olive- wood handle fitted firmly on to it.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id69
sentence:
She also gave him a sharp adze, and then led the way to the far end of the island where the largest trees grew— alder, poplar and pine, that reached the sky— very dry and well seasoned, so as to sail light for him in the water.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id70
sentence:
Then, when she had shown him where the best trees grew, Calypso went home, leaving him to cut them, which he soon finished doing.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id71
sentence:
He cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id72
sentence:
Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id73
sentence:
He made the raft as broad as a skilled shipwright makes the beam of a large vessel, and he fixed a deck on top of the ribs, and ran a gunwale all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id75
sentence:
He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id76
sentence:
By and by Calypso brought him some linen to make the sails, and he made these too, excellently, making them fast with braces and sheets.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id78
sentence:
In four days he had completed the whole work, and on the fifth Calypso sent him from the island after washing him and giving him some clean clothes.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id79
sentence:
She gave him a goat skin full of black wine, and another larger one of water; she also gave him a wallet full of provisions, and found him in much good meat.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id80
sentence:
Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id81
sentence:
He never closed his eyes, but kept them fixed on the Pleiads, on late- setting Bootes, and on the Bear— which men also call the wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Oceanus— for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id82
sentence:
Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id83
sentence:
But King Neptune, who was returning from the Ethiopians, caught sight of Ulysses a long way off, from the mountains of the Solymi.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id84
sentence:
He could see him sailing upon the sea, and it made him very angry, so he wagged his head and muttered to himself, saying," Good heavens, so the gods have been changing their minds about Ulysses while I was away in Ethiopia, and now he is close to the land of the Phaeacians, where it is decreed that he shall escape from the calamities that have befallen him.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id86
sentence:
Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident, stirred it round in the sea, and roused the rage of every wind that blows till earth, sea, and sky were hidden in cloud, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id87
sentence:
Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up, so that Ulysses ' heart began to fail him."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id91
sentence:
How black is Jove making heaven with his clouds, and what a sea the winds are raising from every quarter at once.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id94
sentence:
Would that I had been killed on the day when the Trojans were pressing me so sorely about the dead body of Achilles, for then I should have had due burial and the Achaeans would have honoured my name; but now it seems that I shall come to a most pitiable end."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id95
sentence:
As he spoke a sea broke over him with such terrific fury that the raft reeled again, and he was carried overboard a long way off.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id96
sentence:
He let go the helm, and the force of the hurricane was so great that it broke the mast half way up, and both sail and yard went over into the sea.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id97
sentence:
For a long time Ulysses was under water, and it was all he could do to rise to the surface again, for the clothes Calypso had given him weighed him down; but at last he got his head above water and spat out the bitter brine that was running down his face in streams.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id98
sentence:
In spite of all this, however, he did not lose sight of his raft, but swam as fast as he could towards it, got hold of it, and climbed on board again so as to escape drowning.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id99
sentence:
The sea took the raft and tossed it about as Autumn winds whirl thistledown round and round upon a road.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id100
sentence:
It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id103
sentence:
Seeing in what great distress Ulysses now was, she had compassion upon him, and, rising like a sea- gull from the waves, took her seat upon the raft.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id106
sentence:
You seem to be a sensible person, do then as I bid you; strip, leave your raft to drive before the wind, and swim to the Phaeacian coast where better luck awaits you.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id107
sentence:
And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id108
sentence:
As soon as you touch land take it off, throw it back as far as you can into the sea, and then go away again."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id112
sentence:
Alas," he said to himself in his dismay," this is only some one or other of the gods who is luring me to ruin by advising me to quit my raft.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id113
sentence:
At any rate I will not do so at present, for the land where she said I should be quit of all troubles seemed to be still a good way off.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id114
sentence:
I know what I will do— I am sure it will be best— no matter what happens I will stick to the raft as long as her timbers hold together, but when the sea breaks her up I will swim for it; I do not see how I can do any better than this."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id115
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds, Neptune sent a terrible great wave that seemed to rear itself above his head till it broke right over the raft, which then went to pieces as though it were a heap of dry chaff tossed about by a whirlwind.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id116
sentence:
Ulysses got astride of one plank and rode upon it as if he were on horseback; he then took off the clothes Calypso had given him, bound Ino 's veil under his arms, and plunged into the sea— meaning to swim on shore.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id117
sentence:
King Neptune watched him as he did so, and wagged his head, muttering to himself and saying," There now, swim up and down as you best can till you fall in with well- to-


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id121
sentence:
But Minerva resolved to help Ulysses, so she bound the ways of all the winds except one, and made them lie quite still; but she roused a good stiff breeze from the North that should lay the waters till Ulysses reached the land of the Phaeacians where he would be safe.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id122
sentence:
Thereon he floated about for two nights and two days in the water, with a heavy swell on the sea and death staring him in the face; but when the third day broke, the wind fell and there was a dead calm without so much as a breath of air stirring.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id124
sentence:
Then, as children rejoice when their dear father begins to get better after having for a long time borne sore affliction sent him by some angry spirit, but the gods deliver him from evil, so was Ulysses thankful when he again saw land and trees, and swam on with all his strength that he might once more set foot upon dry ground.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id125
sentence:
When, however, he got within earshot, he began to hear the surf thundering up against the rocks, for the swell still broke against them with a terrific roar.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id126
sentence:
Everything was enveloped in spray; there were no harbours where a ship might ride, nor shelter of any kind, but only headlands, low- lying rocks, and mountain tops.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id127
sentence:
Ulysses ' heart now began to fail him, and he said despairingly to himself," Alas, Jove has let me see land after swimming so far that I had given up all hope, but I can find no landing place, for the coast is


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id128
sentence:
rocky and surf- beaten, the rocks are smooth and rise sheer from the sea, with deep water close under them so that I can not climb out for want of foot hold.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id129
sentence:
I am afraid some great wave will lift me off my legs and dash me against the rocks as I leave the water— which would give me a sorry landing.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id130
sentence:
If, on the other hand, I swim further in search of some shelving beach or harbour, a hurricane may carry me out to sea again sorely against my will, or heaven may send some great monster of the deep to attack me; for Amphitrite breeds many such, and I know that Neptune is very angry with me."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id131
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him and took him with such force against the rocks that he would have been smashed and torn to pieces if Minerva had not shown him what to do.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id132
sentence:
He caught hold of the rock with both hands and clung to it groaning with pain till the wave retired, so he was saved that time; but presently the wave came on again and carried him back with it far into the sea— tearing his hands as the suckers of a polypus are torn when some one plucks it from its bed, and the stones come up along with it— even so did the rocks tear the skin from his strong hands, and then the wave drew him deep down under the water.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id133
sentence:
Here poor Ulysses would have certainly perished even in spite of his own destiny, if Minerva had not helped him to keep his wits about him.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id134
sentence:
He swam seaward again, beyond reach of the surf that was beating against the land, and at the same time he kept looking towards the shore to see if he could find some haven, or a spit that should take the waves aslant.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id135
sentence:
By and by, as he swam on, he came to the mouth of a river, and here he thought would be the best place, for there were no rocks, and it afforded shelter from the wind.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id136
sentence:
He felt that there was a current, so he prayed inwardly and said: "Hear me, O King, whoever you may be, and save me from the anger of the sea- god Neptune, for I approach you prayerfully.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id137
sentence:
Any one who has lost his way has at all times a claim even upon the gods, wherefore in my distress I draw near to your stream, and cling to the knees of your riverhood.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id139
sentence:
Then the god staid his stream and stilled the waves, making all calm before him, and bringing him safely into the mouth of the river.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id141
sentence:
His body was all swollen, and his mouth and nostrils ran down like a river with sea- water, so that he could neither breathe nor speak, and lay swooning from sheer exhaustion; presently, when he had got his breath and came to himself again, he took off the scarf that Ino had given him and threw it back into the salt stream of the river, whereon Ino received it into her hands from the wave that bore it towards her.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id144
sentence:
If I stay here upon the river bed through the long watches of the night, I am so exhausted that the bitter cold and damp may make an end of me— for towards sunrise there will be a keen wind blowing from off the river.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id145
sentence:
If, on the other hand, I climb the hill side, find shelter in the woods, and sleep in some thicket, I may escape the cold and have a good night 's rest, but some savage beast may take advantage of me and devour me."


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id146
sentence:
In the end he deemed it best to take to the woods, and he found one upon some high ground not far from the water.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id147
sentence:
There he crept beneath two shoots of olive that grew from a single stock— the one an ungrafted sucker, while the other had been grafted.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id148
sentence:
No wind, however squally, could break through the cover they afforded, nor could the sun 's rays pierce them, nor the rain get through them, so closely did they grow into one another.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id149
sentence:
Ulysses crept under these and began to make himself a bed to lie on, for there was a great litter of dead leaves lying about— enough to make a covering for two or three men even in hard winter weather.


title: homer-odyssey_05
idx: id151
sentence:
Then, as one who lives alone in the country, far from any neighbor, hides a brand as fire- seed in the ashes to save himself from having to get a light elsewhere, even so did Ulysses cover himself up with leaves; and Minerva shed a sweet sleep upon his eyes, closed his eyelids, and made him lose all memories of his sorrows.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id2
sentence:
"Then, when we had got down to the sea shore we drew our ship into the water and got her mast and sails into her; we also put the sheep on board and took our places, weeping and in great distress of mind.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id3
sentence:
Circe, that great and cunning goddess, sent us a fair wind that blew dead aft and staid steadily with us keeping our sails all the time well filled; so we did whatever wanted doing to the ship 's gear and let her go as the wind and helmsman headed her.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id4
sentence:
All day long her sails were full as she held her course over the sea, but when the sun went down and darkness was over all the earth, we got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus, where lie the land and city of the Cimmerians who live enshrouded in mist and darkness which the rays of the sun never pierce neither at his rising nor as he goes down again out of the heavens, but the poor wretches live in one long melancholy night.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id5
sentence:
When we got there we beached the ship, took the sheep out of her, and went along by the waters of Oceanus till we came to the place of which Circe had told us.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id6
sentence:
"Here Perimedes and Eurylochus held the victims, while I drew my sword and dug the trench a cubit each way.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id7
sentence:
I made a drink- offering to all the dead, first with honey and milk, then with wine, and thirdly with water, and I sprinkled white barley meal over the whole, praying earnestly to the poor feckless ghosts, and promising them that when I got back to Ithaca I would sacrifice a barren heifer for them, the best I had, and would load the pyre with good things.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id8
sentence:
I also particularly promised that Teiresias should have a black sheep to himself, the best in all my flocks.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id9
sentence:
When I had prayed sufficiently to the dead, I cut the throats of the two sheep and let the blood run into the trench, whereon the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus— brides young bachelors, old men worn out with toil, maids who had been crossed in love, and brave men who had been killed in battle, with their armour still smirched with blood; they came from every quarter and flitted round the trench with a strange kind of screaming sound that made me turn pale with fear.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id10
sentence:
When I saw them coming I told the men to be quick and flay the carcasses of the two dead sheep and make burnt offerings of them, and at the same time to repeat prayers to Hades and to Proserpine; but I sat where I was with my sword drawn and would not let the poor feckless ghosts come near the blood till Teiresias should have answered my questions.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id11
sentence:
"The first ghost that came was that of my comrade Elpenor, for he had not yet been laid beneath the earth.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id13
sentence:
I was very sorry for him, and cried when I saw him:' Elpenor,' said I,' how did you come down here into this gloom and darkness?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id16
sentence:
I was lying asleep on the top of Circe 's house, and never thought of coming down again by the great staircase but fell right off the roof and broke my neck, so my soul came down to the house of Hades.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id17
sentence:
And now I beseech you by all those whom you have left behind you, though they are not here, by your wife, by the father who brought you up when you were a child, and by Telemachus who is the one hope of your house, do what I shall now ask you.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id19
sentence:
Do not go thence leaving me unwaked and unburied behind you, or I may bring heaven 's anger upon you; but burn me with whatever armour I have, build a barrow for me on the sea shore, that may tell people in days to come what a poor unlucky fellow I was, and plant over my grave the oar I used to row with when I was yet alive and with my messmates.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id21
sentence:
"Thus, then, did we sit and hold sad talk with one another, I on the one side of the trench with my sword held over the blood, and the ghost of my comrade saying all this to me from the other side.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id23
sentence:
I had left her alive when I set out for Troy and was moved to tears when I saw her, but even so, for all my sorrow I would not let her come near the blood till I had asked my questions of Teiresias.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id25
sentence:
He knew me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, why, poor man, have you left the light of day and come down to visit the dead in this sad place?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id26
sentence:
Stand back from the trench and withdraw your sword that I may drink of the blood and answer your questions truly.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id27
sentence:
"So I drew back, and sheathed my sword, whereon when he had drank of the blood he began with his prophecy.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id29
sentence:
I do not think that you will escape the eye of Neptune, who still nurses his bitter grudge against you for having blinded his son.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id30
sentence:
Still, after much suffering you may get home if you can restrain yourself and your companions when your ship reaches the Thrinacian island, where you will find the sheep and cattle belonging to the sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id31
sentence:
If you leave these flocks unharmed and think of nothing but of getting home, you may yet after much hardship reach Ithaca; but if you harm them, then I forewarn you of the destruction both of your ship and of your men.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id32
sentence:
Even though you may yourself escape, you will return in bad plight after losing all your men,[ in another man 's ship, and you will find trouble in your house, which will be overrun by high- handed people, who are devouring your substance under the pretext of paying court and making presents to your wife.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id33
sentence:
"'When you get home you will take your revenge on these suitors; and after you have killed them by force or fraud in your own house, you must take a well made oar and carry it on and on, till you come to a country where the people have never heard of the sea and do not even mix salt with their food, nor do they know anything about ships, and oars that are as the wings of a ship.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id35
sentence:
A wayfarer will meet you and will say it must be a winnowing shovel that you have got upon your shoulder; on this you must fix the oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Neptune.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id37
sentence:
As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id39
sentence:
"'This,' I answered,' must be as it may please heaven, but tell me and tell me and tell me true, I see my poor mother 's ghost close by us; she is sitting by the blood without saying a word, and though I am her own son she does not remember me and speak to me; tell me, Sir, how I can make her know me.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id41
sentence:
Any ghost that you let taste of the blood will talk with you like a reasonable being, but if you do not let them have any blood they will go away again.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id42
sentence:
"On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades, for his prophecyings had now been spoken, but I sat still where I was until my mother came up and tasted the blood.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id43
sentence:
Then she knew me at once and spoke fondly to me, saying,' My son, how did you come down to this abode of darkness while you are still alive?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id44
sentence:
It is a hard thing for the living to see these places, for between us and them there are great and terrible waters, and there is Oceanus, which no man can cross on foot, but he must have a good ship to take him.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id45
sentence:
Are you all this time trying to find your way home from Troy, and have you never yet got back to Ithaca nor seen your wife in your own house?'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id47
sentence:
I have never yet been near the Achaean land nor set foot on my native country, and I have had nothing but one long series of misfortunes from the very first day that I set out with Agamemnon for Ilius, the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id50
sentence:
Tell me also about my father, and the son whom I left behind me, is my property still in their hands, or has some one else got hold of it, who thinks that I shall not return to claim it?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id51
sentence:
Tell me again what my wife intends doing, and in what mind she is; does she live with my son and guard my estate securely, or has she made the best match she could and married again?'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id52
sentence:
"My mother answered,' Your wife still remains in your house, but she is in great distress of mind and spends her whole time in tears both night and day.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id53
sentence:
No one as yet has got possession of your fine property, and Telemachus still holds your lands undisturbed.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id54
sentence:
He has to entertain largely, as of course he must, considering his position as a magistrate and how every one invites him; your father remains at his old place in the country and never goes near the town.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id55
sentence:
He has no comfortable bed nor bedding; in the winter he sleeps on the floor in front of the fire with the men and goes about all in rags, but in summer, when the warm weather comes on again, he lies out in the vineyard on a bed of vine leaves thrown any how upon the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id56
sentence:
He grieves continually about your never having come home, and suffers more and more as he grows older.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id57
sentence:
As for my own end it was in this wise: heaven did not take me swiftly and painlessly in my own house, nor was I attacked by any illness such as those that generally wear people out and kill them, but my longing to know what you were doing and the force of my affection for you— this it was that was the death of me.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id59
sentence:
Thrice I sprang towards her and tried to clasp her in my arms, but each time she flitted from my embrace as it were a dream or phantom, and being touched to the quick I said to her,' Mother, why do you not stay still when I would embrace you?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id60
sentence:
If we could throw our arms around one another we might find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows even in the house of Hades; does Proserpine want to lay a still further load of grief upon me by mocking me with a phantom only?'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id61
sentence:
"'My son,' she answered,' most ill- fated of all mankind, it is not Proserpine that is beguiling you, but all people are like this when they are dead.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id62
sentence:
The sinews no longer hold the flesh and bones together; these perish in the fierceness of consuming fire as soon as life has left the body, and the soul flits away as though it were a dream.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id63
sentence:
Now, however, go back to the light of day as soon as you can, and note all these things that you may tell them to your wife hereafter.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id64
sentence:
"Thus did we converse, and anon Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id66
sentence:
In the end I deemed that it would be best to draw the keen blade that hung by my sturdy thigh, and keep them from all drinking the blood at once.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id71
sentence:
Once when she was taking a walk by his side as usual, Neptune, disguised as her lover, lay with her at the mouth of the river, and a huge blue wave arched itself like a mountain over them to hide both woman and god, whereon he loosed her virgin girdle and laid her in a deep slumber.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id72
sentence:
When the god had accomplished the deed of love, he took her hand in his own and said,' Tyro, rejoice in all good will; the embraces of the gods are not fruitless, and you will have fine twins about this time twelve months.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id75
sentence:
"Then he dived under the sea, and she in due course bore Pelias and Neleus, who both of them served Jove with all their might.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id77
sentence:
The rest of her children were by Cretheus, namely, Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon, who was a mighty warrior and charioteer.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id78
sentence:
"Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id79
sentence:
These founded Thebes with its seven gates, and built a wall all round it; for strong though they were they could not hold Thebes till they had walled it.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id80
sentence:
"Then I saw Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to Jove indomitable Hercules; and Megara who was daughter to great King Creon, and married the redoubtable son of Amphitryon.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id81
sentence:
"I also saw fair Epicaste mother of king Oedipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id82
sentence:
He married her after having killed his father, but the gods proclaimed the whole story to the world; whereon he remained king of Thebes, in great grief for the spite the gods had borne him; but Epicaste went to the house of the mighty jailor Hades, having hanged herself for grief, and the avenging spirits haunted him as for an outraged mother— to his ruing bitterly thereafter.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id84
sentence:
She was youngest daughter to Amphion son of Iasus and king of Minyan Orchomenus, and was Queen in Pylos.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id85
sentence:
She bore Nestor, Chromius, and Periclymenus, and she also bore that marvellously lovely woman Pero, who was wooed by all the country round; but Neleus would only give her to him who should raid the cattle of Iphicles from the grazing grounds of Phylace, and this was a hard task.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id86
sentence:
The only man who would undertake to raid them was a certain excellent seer but the will of heaven was against him, for the rangers of the cattle caught him and put him in prison; nevertheless when a full year had passed and the same season came round again, Iphicles set him at liberty, after he had expounded all the oracles of heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id88
sentence:
"And I saw Leda the wife of Tyndarus, who bore him two famous sons, Castor breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id89
sentence:
Both these heroes are lying under the earth, though they are still alive, for by a special dispensation of Jove, they die and come to life again, each one of them every other day throughout all time, and they have the rank of gods.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id92
sentence:
They were the finest children that were ever born in this world, and the best looking, Orion only excepted; for at nine years old they were nine fathoms high, and measured nine cubits round the chest.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id93
sentence:
They threatened to make war with the gods in Olympus, and tried to set Mount Ossa on the top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on the top of Ossa, that they might scale heaven itself, and they would have done it too if they had been grown up, but Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them, before they had got so much as a sign of hair upon their cheeks or chin.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id94
sentence:
"Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Diana killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id96
sentence:
But it would take me all night if I were to name every single one of the wives and daughters of heroes whom I saw, and it is time for me to go to bed, either on board ship with my crew, or here.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id98
sentence:
Here he ended, and the guests sat all of them enthralled and speechless throughout the covered cloister.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id102
sentence:
Do not be in a hurry to send him away, nor niggardly in the presents you make to one who is in such great need, for heaven has blessed all of you with great abundance."


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id103
sentence:
Then spoke the aged hero Echeneus who was one of the oldest men among them," My friends," said he," what our august queen has just said to us is both reasonable and to the purpose, therefore be persuaded by it; but the decision whether in word or deed rests ultimately with King Alcinous."


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id104
sentence:
"The thing shall be done," exclaimed Alcinous," as surely as I still live and reign over the Phaeacians.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id105
sentence:
Our guest is indeed very anxious to get home, still we must persuade him to remain with us until to- morrow, by which time I shall be able to get together the whole sum that I mean to give him.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id106
sentence:
As regards his escort it will be a matter for you all, and mine above all others as the chief person among you."


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id107
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," King Alcinous, if you were to bid me to stay here for a whole twelve months, and then speed me on my way, loaded with your noble gifts, I should obey you gladly and it would redound greatly to my advantage, for I should return fuller- handed to my own people, and should thus be more respected and beloved by all who see me when I get back to Ithaca."


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id108
sentence:
"Ulysses," replied Alcinous," not one of us who sees you has any idea that you are a charlatan or a swindler.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id109
sentence:
I know there are many people going about who tell such plausible stories that it is very hard to see through them, but there is a style about your language which assures me of your good disposition.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id110
sentence:
Moreover you have told the story of your own misfortunes, and those of the Argives, as though you were a practiced bard; but tell me, and tell me true, whether you saw any of the mighty heroes who went to Troy at the same time with yourself, and perished there.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id111
sentence:
The evenings are still at their longest, and it is not yet bed time— go on, therefore, with your divine story, for I could stay here listening till tomorrow morning, so long as you will continue to tell us of your adventures."


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id112
sentence:
"Alcinous," answered Ulysses," there is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed; nevertheless, since you so desire, I will not refrain from telling you the still sadder tale of those of my comrades who did not fall fighting with the Trojans, but perished on their return, through the treachery of a wicked woman.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id113
sentence:
"When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts in all directions, the ghost of Agamemnon son of Atreus came sadly up to me, surrounded by those who had perished with him in the house of Aegisthus.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id114
sentence:
As soon as he had tasted the blood, he knew me, and weeping bitterly stretched out his arms towards me to embrace me; but he had no strength nor substance any more, and I too wept and pitied him as I beheld him.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id116
sentence:
Did Neptune raise his winds and waves against you when you were at sea, or did your enemies make an end of you on the main land when you were cattle- lifting or sheep- stealing, or while they were fighting in defence of their wives and city?'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id117
sentence:
"'Ulysses,' he answered,' noble son of Laertes, I was not lost at sea in any storm of Neptune 's raising, nor did my foes despatch me upon the mainland, but Aegisthus and my wicked wife were the death of me between them.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id118
sentence:
He asked me to his house, feasted me, and then butchered me most miserably as though I were a fat beast in a slaughter house, while all around me my comrades were slain like sheep or pigs for the wedding breakfast, or picnic, or gorgeous banquet of some great nobleman.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id119
sentence:
You must have seen numbers of men killed either in a general engagement, or in single combat, but you never saw anything so truly pitiable as the way in which we fell in that cloister, with the mixing bowl and the loaded tables lying all about, and the ground reeking with our blood.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id121
sentence:
I lay dying upon the earth with the sword in my body, and raised my hands to kill the slut of a murderess, but she slipped away from me; she would not even close my lips nor my eyes when I was dying, for there is nothing in this world so cruel and so shameless as a woman when she has fallen into such guilt as hers was.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id123
sentence:
I thought I was going to be welcomed home by my children and my servants, but her abominable crime has brought disgrace on herself and all women who shall come after— even on the good ones.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id124
sentence:
"And I said,' In truth Jove has hated the house of Atreus from first to last in the matter of their women 's counsels.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id125
sentence:
See how many of us fell for Helen 's sake, and now it seems that Clytemnestra hatched mischief against you too during your absence.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id129
sentence:
Not that your wife, Ulysses, is likely to murder you, for Penelope is a very admirable woman, and has an excellent nature.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id131
sentence:
This child no doubt is now grown up happily to man 's estate and he and his father will have a joyful meeting and embrace one another as it is right they should do, whereas my wicked wife did not even allow me the happiness of looking upon my son, but killed me


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id134
sentence:
Furthermore I say— and lay my saying to your heart— do not tell people when you are bringing your ship to Ithaca, but steal a march upon them, for after all this there is no trusting women.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id136
sentence:
Is he in Orchomenus, or at Pylos, or is he at Sparta with Menelaus— for I presume that he is still living.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id138
sentence:
I do not know whether your son is alive or dead, and it is not right to talk when one does not know.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id139
sentence:
"As we two sat weeping and talking thus sadly with one another the ghost of Achilles came up to us with Patroclus, Antilochus, and Ajax who was the finest and goodliest man of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id140
sentence:
The fleet descendant of Aeacus knew me and spoke piteously, saying,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, what deed of daring will you undertake next, that you venture down to the house of Hades among us silly dead, who are but the ghosts of them that can labour no more?'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id141
sentence:
"And I said,' Achilles, son of Peleus, foremost champion of the Achaeans, I came to consult Teiresias, and see if he could advise me about my return home to Ithaca, for I have never yet been able to get near the Achaean land, nor to set foot in my own country, but have been in trouble all the time.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id142
sentence:
As for you, Achilles, no one was ever yet so fortunate as you have been, nor ever will be, for you were adored by all us Argives as long as you were alive, and now that you are here you are a great prince among the dead.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id144
sentence:
"'Say not a word,' he answered,' in death 's favour; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man 's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id145
sentence:
But give me news about my son; is he gone to the wars and will he be a great soldier, or is this not so?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id146
sentence:
Tell me also if you have heard anything about my father Peleus— does he still rule among the Myrmidons, or do they show him no respect throughout Hellas and Phthia now that he is old and his limbs fail him?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id147
sentence:
Could I but stand by his side, in the light of day, with the same strength that I had when I killed the bravest of our foes upon the plain of Troy— could I but be as I then was and go even for a short time to my father 's house, any one who tried to do him violence or supersede him would soon rue it.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id148
sentence:
"'I have heard nothing,' I answered,' of Peleus, but I can tell you all about your son Neoptolemus, for I took him in my own ship from Scyros with the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id150
sentence:
Nestor and I were the only two who could surpass him; and when it came to fighting on the plain of Troy, he would never remain with the body of his men, but would dash on far in front, foremost of them all in valour.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id151
sentence:
Many a man did he kill in battle— I can not name every single one of those whom he slew while fighting on the side of the Argives, but will only say how he killed that valiant hero Eurypylus son of Telephus, who was the handsomest man I ever saw except Memnon; many others also of the Ceteians fell around him by reason of a woman 's bribes.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id152
sentence:
Moreover, when all the bravest of the Argives went inside the horse that Epeus had made, and it was left to me to settle when we should either open the door of our ambuscade, or close it, though all the other leaders and chief men among the Danaans were drying their eyes and quaking in every limb, I never once saw him turn pale nor wipe a tear from his cheek; he was all the time urging me to break out from the horse— grasping the handle of his sword and his bronze- shod spear, and breathing fury against the foe.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id153
sentence:
Yet when we had sacked the city of Priam he got his handsome share of the prize money and went on board( such is the fortune of war) without a wound upon him, neither from a thrown spear nor in close combat, for the rage of Mars is a matter of great chance.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id154
sentence:
"When I had told him this, the ghost of Achilles strode off across a meadow full of asphodel, exulting over what I had said concerning the prowess of his son.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id155
sentence:
"The ghosts of other dead men stood near me and told me each his own melancholy tale; but that of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof— still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about the armour of Achilles.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id157
sentence:
Would that I had never gained the day in such a contest, for it cost the life of Ajax, who was foremost of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus, alike in stature and prowess.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id158
sentence:
"When I saw him I tried to pacify him and said,' Ajax, will you not forget and forgive even in death, but must the judgement about that hateful armour still rankle with you?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id160
sentence:
We mourned you as much as we mourned Achilles son of Peleus himself, nor can the blame be laid on anything but on the spite which Jove bore against the Danaans, for it was this that made him counsel your destruction— come hither, therefore, bring your proud spirit into subjection, and hear what I can tell you.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id161
sentence:
"He would not answer, but turned away to Erebus and to the other ghosts; nevertheless, I should have made him talk to me in spite of his being so angry, or I should have gone on talking to him only that there were still others among the dead whom I desired to see.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id162
sentence:
"Then I saw Minos son of Jove with his golden sceptre in his hand sitting in judgement on the dead, and the ghosts were gathered sitting and standing round him in the spacious house of Hades, to learn his sentences upon them.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id163
sentence:
"After him I saw huge Orion in a meadow full of asphodel driving the ghosts of the wild beasts that he had killed upon the mountains, and he had a great bronze club in his hand, unbreakable for ever and ever.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id165
sentence:
Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Jove 's mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id166
sentence:
"I saw also the dreadful fate of Tantalus, who stood in a lake that reached his chin; he was dying to quench his thirst, but could never reach the water, for whenever the poor creature stooped to drink, it dried up and vanished, so that there was nothing but dry ground— parched by the spite of heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id167
sentence:
There were tall trees, moreover, that shed their fruit over his head— pears, pomegranates, apples, sweet figs and juicy olives, but whenever the poor creature stretched out his hand to take some, the wind tossed the branches back again to the clouds.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id169
sentence:
With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone would come thundering down again on to the plain.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id170
sentence:
Then he would begin trying to push it up hill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id171
sentence:
"After him I saw mighty Hercules, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Jove and Juno.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id173
sentence:
He looked black as night with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string, glaring around as though ever on the point of taking aim.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id174
sentence:
About his breast there was a wondrous golden belt adorned in the most marvellous fashion with bears, wild boars, and lions with gleaming eyes; there was also war, battle, and death.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id176
sentence:
Hercules knew me at once when he saw me, and spoke piteously, saying,' My poor Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you too leading the same sorry kind of life that I did when I was above ground?


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id177
sentence:
I was son of Jove, but I went through an infinity of suffering, for I became bondsman to one who was far beneath me— a low fellow who set me all manner of labours.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id178
sentence:
He once sent me here to fetch the hell- hound— for he did not think he could find anything harder for me than this, but I got the hound out of Hades and brought him to him, for Mercury and Minerva helped me.'


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id179
sentence:
"On this Hercules went down again into the house of Hades, but I stayed where I was in case some other of the mighty dead should come to me.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id180
sentence:
And I should have seen still other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen— Theseus and Pirithous— glorious children of the gods, but so many thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries, that I was panic stricken lest Proserpine should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon.


title: homer-odyssey_11
idx: id181
sentence:
On this I hastened back to my ship and ordered my men to go on board at once and loose the hawsers; so they embarked and took their places, whereon the ship went down the stream of the river Oceanus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id1
sentence:
In the forenoon the fight is equal, but Agamemnon turns the fortune of the day towards the Achaeans until he gets wounded and leaves the field—Hector then drives everything before him till he is wounded by Diomed—Paris wounds Diomed—Ulysses, Nestor, and Idomeneus perform prodigies of valour—Machaon is wounded—Nestor drives him off in his chariot—Achilles sees the pair driving towards the camp and sends Patroclus to ask who it is that is wounded—This is the beginning of evil for Patroclus—Nestor makes a long speech.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id2
sentence:
And now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id3
sentence:
She took her stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses ' ship which was middlemost of all, so that her voice might carry farthest on either side, on the one hand towards the tents of Ajax son of Telamon, and on the other towards those of Achilles— for these two heroes, well- assured of their own strength, had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id4
sentence:
There she took her stand, and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage, giving them heart to fight resolutely and with all their might, so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id5
sentence:
The son of Atreus shouted aloud and bade the Argives gird themselves for battle while he put on his armour.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id6
sentence:
First he girded his goodly greaves about his legs, making them fast with ankle- clasps of silver; and about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest- gift.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id7
sentence:
It had been noised abroad as far as Cyprus that the Achaeans were about to sail for Troy, and therefore he gave it to the king.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id9
sentence:
There were serpents of cyanus that reared themselves up towards the neck, three upon either side, like the rainbows which the son of Saturn has set in heaven as a sign to mortal men.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id10
sentence:
About his shoulders he threw his sword, studded with bosses of gold; and the scabbard was of silver with a chain of gold wherewith to hang it.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id11
sentence:
He took moreover the richly- dight shield that covered his body when he was in battle— fair to see, with ten circles of bronze running all round it.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id12
sentence:
On the body of the shield there were twenty bosses of white tin, with another of dark cyanus in the middle: this last was made to show a Gorgon 's head, fierce and grim, with Rout and Panic on either side.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id13
sentence:
The band for the arm to go through was of silver, on which there was a writhing snake of cyanus with three heads that sprang from a single neck, and went in and out among one another.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id14
sentence:
On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse- hair that nodded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze- shod spears, and the gleam of his armour shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of rich Mycene.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id15
sentence:
Every man now left his horses in charge of his charioteer to hold them in readiness by the trench, while he went into battle on foot clad in full armour, and a mighty uproar rose on high into the dawning.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id17
sentence:
The son of Saturn sent a portent of evil sound about their host, and the dew fell red with blood, for he was about to send many a brave man hurrying down to Hades.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id18
sentence:
The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hector, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honoured by the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor, Polybus, Agenor, and young Acamas beauteous as a god.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id19
sentence:
Hector 's round shield showed in the front rank, and as some baneful star that shines for a moment through a rent in the clouds and is again hidden beneath them; even so was Hector now seen in the front ranks and now again in the hindermost, and his bronze armour gleamed like the lightning of aegis- bearing Jove.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id20
sentence:
And now as a band of reapers mow swathes of wheat or barley upon a rich man 's land, and the sheaves fall thick before them, even so did the Trojans and Achaeans fall upon one another; they were in no mood for yielding but fought like wolves, and neither side got the better of the other.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id21
sentence:
Discord was glad as she beheld them, for she was the only god that went among them; the others were not there, but stayed quietly each in his own home among the dells and valleys of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id22
sentence:
All of them blamed the son of Saturn for wanting to give victory to the Trojans, but father Jove heeded them not: he held aloof from all, and sat apart in his all- glorious majesty, looking down upon the city of the Trojans, the ships of the Achaeans, the gleam of bronze, and alike upon the slayers and on the slain.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id23
sentence:
Now so long as the day waxed and it was still morning, their darts rained thick on one another and the people perished, but as the hour drew nigh when a woodman working in some mountain forest will get his midday meal— for he has felled till his hands are weary; he is tired out, and must now have food— then the Danaans with a cry that rang through all their ranks, broke the battalions of the enemy.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id24
sentence:
Agamemnon led them on, and slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him; but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear; his bronze visor was of no avail against the weapon, which pierced both bronze and bone, so that his brains were battered in and he was killed in full fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id25
sentence:
Agamemnon stripped their shirts from off them and left them with their breasts all bare to lie where they had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id26
sentence:
He then went on to kill Isus and Antiphus two sons of Priam, the one a bastard, the other born in wedlock; they were in the same chariot— the bastard driving, while noble Antiphus fought beside him.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id27
sentence:
Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Ida, and had bound them with fresh withes as they were shepherding, but he had taken a ransom for them; now, however, Agamemnon son of Atreus smote Isus in the chest above the nipple with his spear, while he struck Antiphus hard by the ear and threw him from his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id28
sentence:
Forthwith he stripped their goodly armour from off them and recognized them, for he had already seen them at ships when Achilles brought them in from Ida.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id29
sentence:
As a lion fastens on the fawns of a hind and crushes them in his great jaws, robbing them of their tender life while he on his way back to his lair— the hind can do nothing for them even though she be close by, for she is in an agony of fear, and flies through the thick forest, sweating, and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster— so, no man of the Trojans could help Isus and Antiphus, for they were themselves flying in panic before the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id31
sentence:
It was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helen 's being restored to Menelaus, for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus; and now Agamemnon took his two sons, both in the same chariot, trying to bring their horses to a stand— for they had lost hold of the reins and the horses were mad with fear.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id34
sentence:
Our father Antimachus has great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of our being alive at the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id35
sentence:
With such piteous words and tears did they beseech the king, but they heard no pitiful answer in return.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id36
sentence:
"If," said Agamemnon," you are sons of Antimachus, who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaus and Ulysses, who had come to you as envoys, should be killed and not suffered to return, you shall now pay for the foul iniquity of your father."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id37
sentence:
As he spoke he felled Pisander from his chariot to the earth, smiting him on the chest with his spear, so that he lay face uppermost upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id38
sentence:
Hippolochus fled, but him too did Agamemnon smite; he cut off his hands and his head— which he sent rolling in among the crowd as though it were a ball.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id39
sentence:
There he let them both lie, and wherever the ranks were thickest thither he flew, while the other Achaeans followed.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id40
sentence:
Foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in rout before them, and slew them; horsemen did the like by horsemen, and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id42
sentence:
As when some mighty forest is all ablaze— the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame— even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atreus, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were lying on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id43
sentence:
Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle; but the son of Atreus sped onwards, calling out lustily to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id44
sentence:
They flew on by the tomb of old Ilus, son of Dardanus, in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild fig- tree making always for the city— the son of Atreus still shouting, and with hands all bedrabbled in gore; but when they had reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, there they halted and waited for the others to come up.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id45
sentence:
Meanwhile the Trojans kept on flying over the middle of the plain like a herd of cows maddened with fright when a lion has attacked them in the dead of night— he springs on one of them, seizes her neck in the grip of his strong teeth and then laps up her blood and gorges himself upon her entrails— even so did King Agamemnon son of Atreus pursue the foe, ever slaughtering the hindmost as they fled pell- mell before him.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id46
sentence:
Many a man was flung headlong from his chariot by the hand of the son of Atreus, for he wielded his spear with fury.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id47
sentence:
But when he was just about to reach the high wall and the city, the father of gods and men came down from heaven and took his seat, thunderbolt in hand, upon the crest of many- fountained Ida.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id49
sentence:
Go," said he," fleet Iris, and speak thus to Hector— say that so long as he sees Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, he is to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will I vouchsafe him strength to slay till he reach the ships and night falls at the going down of the sun."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id51
sentence:
Down she went to strong Ilius from the crests of Ida, and found Hector son of Priam standing by his chariot and horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id52
sentence:
Then she said," Hector son of Priam, peer of gods in counsel, father Jove has sent me to bear you this message— so long as you see Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, you are to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will Jove vouchsafe you strength to slay till you reach the ships, and till night falls at the going down of the sun."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id53
sentence:
When she had thus spoken Iris left him, and Hector sprang full armed from his chariot to the ground, brandishing his spear as he went about everywhere among the host, cheering his men on to fight, and stirring the dread strife of battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id54
sentence:
The Trojans then wheeled round, and again met the Achaeans, while the Argives on their part strengthened their battalions.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id55
sentence:
The battle was now in array and they stood face to face with one another, Agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id56
sentence:
Tell me now ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon?


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id57
sentence:
It was Iphidamas son of Antenor, a man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace, the mother of sheep.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id58
sentence:
Cisses, his mother 's father, brought him up in his own house when he was a child— Cisses, father to fair Theano.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id59
sentence:
When he reached manhood, Cisses would have kept him there, and was for giving him his daughter in marriage, but as soon as he had married he set out to fight the Achaeans with twelve ships that followed him: these he had left at Percote and had come on by land to Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id61
sentence:
When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the girdle below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the girdle, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver and was turned aside as though it had been lead: King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with the fury of a lion; he then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamas by striking him on the neck.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id62
sentence:
So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellow- citizens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred- head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id63
sentence:
Agamemnon son of Atreus then despoiled him, and carried off his armour into the host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id64
sentence:
When noble Coon, Antenor 's eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id65
sentence:
Unseen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id66
sentence:
Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who was trying to drag off the body of his brother— his father 's son— by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronze- shod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id67
sentence:
Thus did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id68
sentence:
As long as the blood still welled warm from his wound Agamemnon went about attacking the ranks of the enemy with spear and sword and with great handfuls of stone, but when the blood had ceased to flow and the wound grew dry, the pain became great.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id69
sentence:
As the sharp pangs which the Eilithuiae, goddesses of childbirth, daughters of Juno and dispensers of cruel pain, send upon a woman when she is in labour— even so sharp were the pangs of the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id71
sentence:
With a loud clear voice he shouted to the Danaans," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Jove has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id73
sentence:
Their chests were white with foam and their bellies with dust, as they drew the wounded king out of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id74
sentence:
When Hector saw Agamemnon quit the field, he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanian warriors, be men, my friends, and acquit yourselves in battle bravely; their best man has left them, and Jove has vouchsafed me a great triumph; charge the foe with your chariots that you may win still greater glory."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id75
sentence:
With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id76
sentence:
Full of hope he plunged in among the foremost, and fell on the fight like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep blue waters into fury.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id77
sentence:
What, then is the full tale of those whom Hector son of Priam killed in the hour of triumph which Jove then vouchsafed him?


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id78
sentence:
First Asaeus, Autonous, and Opites; Dolops son of Clytius, Opheltius and Agelaus; Aesymnus, Orus and Hipponous steadfast in battle; these chieftains of the Achaeans did Hector slay, and then he fell upon the rank and file.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id79
sentence:
As when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury— the waves of the sea roll high, and the spray is flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind— even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id80
sentence:
All had then been lost and no help for it, and the Achaeans would have fled pell- mell to their ships, had not Ulysses cried out to Diomed," Son of Tydeus, what has happened to us that we thus forget our prowess?


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id81
sentence:
Come, my good fellow, stand by my side and help me, we shall be shamed for ever if Hector takes the ships."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id82
sentence:
And Diomed answered," Come what may, I will stand firm; but we shall have scant joy of it, for Jove is minded to give victory to the Trojans rather than to us."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id83
sentence:
With these words he struck Thymbraeus from his chariot to the ground, smiting him in the left breast with his spear, while Ulysses killed Molion who was his squire.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id84
sentence:
These they let lie, now that they had stopped their fighting; the two heroes then went on playing havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend the hounds that hunt them.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id85
sentence:
Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id86
sentence:
They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of Merops of Percote, who excelled all others in the arts of divination.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id87
sentence:
He had forbidden his sons to go to the war, but they would not obey him, for fate lured them to their fall.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id88
sentence:
Diomed son of Tydeus slew them both and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses killed Hippodamus and Hypeirochus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id89
sentence:
And now the son of Saturn as he looked down from Ida ordained that neither side should have the advantage, and they kept on killing one another.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id92
sentence:
His squire was in charge of it at some distance and he was fighting on foot among the foremost until he lost his life.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id93
sentence:
Hector soon marked the havoc Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomed was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses who was beside him," Great Hector is bearing down upon us and we shall be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id95
sentence:
He had aimed at Hector 's head near the top of his helmet, but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was untouched, for the spear was stayed by the visored helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id96
sentence:
Hector sprang back with a great bound under cover of the ranks; he fell on his knees and propped himself with his brawny hand leaning on the ground, for darkness had fallen on his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id97
sentence:
The son of Tydeus having thrown his spear dashed in among the foremost fighters, to the place where he had seen it strike the ground; meanwhile Hector recovered himself and springing back into his chariot mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id98
sentence:
But Diomed made at him with his spear and said," Dog, you have again got away though death was close on your heels.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id100
sentence:
you go into battle ,has again saved you, nevertheless I will meet you and make an end of you hereafter, if there is any god who will stand by me too and be my helper.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id102
sentence:
As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the son of Paeon, but Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilus son of Dardanus, a ruler in days of old.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id103
sentence:
Diomed had taken the cuirass from off the breast of Agastrophus, his heavy helmet also, and the shield from off his shoulders, when Paris drew his bow and let fly an arrow that sped not from his hand in vain, but pierced the flat of Diomed 's right foot, going right through it and fixing itself in the ground.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id104
sentence:
Thereon Paris with a hearty laugh sprang forward from his hiding- place, and taunted him saying," You are wounded— my arrow has not been shot in vain; would that it had hit you in the belly and killed you, for thus the Trojans, who fear you as goats fear a lion, would have had a truce from evil."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id105
sentence:
Diomed all undaunted answered," Archer, you who without your bow are nothing, slanderer and seducer, if you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armour, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id108
sentence:
A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound; when I wound a man though I but graze his skin it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id109
sentence:
His wife will tear her cheeks for grief and his children will be fatherless: there will he rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id111
sentence:
Under this cover he sat down to draw the arrow from his foot, and sharp was the pain he suffered as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id112
sentence:
Then he sprang on to his chariot and bade the charioteer drive him to the ships, for he was sick at heart.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id115
sentence:
It is ill if I turn and fly before these odds, but it will be worse if I am left alone and taken prisoner, for the son of Saturn has struck the rest of the Danaans with panic.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id117
sentence:
Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id118
sentence:
While he was thus in two minds, the ranks of the Trojans advanced and hemmed him in, and bitterly did they come to rue it.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id119
sentence:
As hounds and lusty youths set upon a wild boar that sallies from his lair whetting his white tusks— they attack him from every side and can hear the gnashing of his jaws, but for all his fierceness they still hold their ground— even so furiously did the Trojans attack Ulysses.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id120
sentence:
First he sprang spear in hand upon Deiopites and wounded him on the shoulder with a downward blow; then he killed Thoon and Ennomus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id121
sentence:
After these he struck Chersidamas in the loins under his shield as he had just sprung down from his chariot; so he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in the hollow of his hand.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id123
sentence:
Socus, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Ulysses he said," Far- famed Ulysses, insatiable of craft and toil, this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hippasus and stripped them of their armour, or you shall fall before my spear."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id125
sentence:
The spear went through the shield and passed on through his richly wrought cuirass, tearing the flesh from his side, but Pallas Minerva did not suffer it to pierce the entrails of the hero.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id126
sentence:
Ulysses knew that his hour was not yet come, but he gave ground and said to Socus," Wretch, you shall now surely die.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id127
sentence:
You have stayed me from fighting further with the Trojans, but you shall now fall by my spear, yielding glory to myself, and your soul to Hades of the noble steeds."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id128
sentence:
Socus had turned in flight, but as he did so, the spear struck him in the back midway between the shoulders, and went right through his chest.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id129
sentence:
He fell heavily to the ground and Ulysses vaunted over him saying," O Socus, son of Hippasus tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him: poor wretch, not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the ravening vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings and devour you.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id131
sentence:
So saying he drew Socus 's heavy spear out of his flesh and from his shield, and the blood welled forth when the spear was withdrawn so that he was much dismayed.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id132
sentence:
When the Trojans saw that Ulysses was bleeding they raised a great shout and came on in a body towards him; he therefore gave ground, and called his comrades to come and help him.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id133
sentence:
Thrice did he cry as loudly as man can cry, and thrice did brave Menelaus hear him; he turned, therefore, to Ajax who was close beside him and said," Ajax, noble son of Telamon, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is single- handed.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id134
sentence:
Let us make our way through the throng; it will be well that we defend him ;I fear he may come to harm for all his valour if he be left without support, and the Danaans would miss him sorely."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id136
sentence:
The Trojans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcase of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow— the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id137
sentence:
Then heaven sends a fierce lion thither, whereon the jackals fly in terror and the lion robs them of their prey— even so did Trojans many and brave gather round crafty Ulysses, but the hero stood at bay and kept them off with his spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id138
sentence:
Ajax then came up with his shield before him like a wall, and stood hard by, whereon the Trojans fled in all directions.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id139
sentence:
Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven— many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea— even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id140
sentence:
Hector did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the river Scamander, where the carnage was thickest and the war- cry loudest round Nestor and brave Idomeneus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id141
sentence:
Among these Hector was making great slaughter with his spear and furious driving, and was destroying the ranks that were opposed to him; still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen stayed the prowess of Machaon, shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triple- barbed arrow.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id142
sentence:
The Achaeans were in great fear that as the fight had turned against them the Trojans might take him prisoner, and Idomeneus said to Nestor," Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, mount your chariot at once; take Machaon with you and drive your horses to the ships as fast as you can.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id143
sentence:
A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id144
sentence:
Nestor knight of Gerene did as Idomeneus had counselled; he at once mounted his chariot, and Machaon son of the famed physician Aesculapius, went with him.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id145
sentence:
He lashed his horses and they flew onward nothing loth towards the ships, as though of their own free will.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id146
sentence:
Then Cebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion said to Hector from his place beside him," Hector, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in pell- mell rout, they and their horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id147
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon is driving them before him; I know him by the breadth of his shield: let us turn our chariot and horses thither, where horse and foot are fighting most desperately, and where the cry of battle is loudest."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id148
sentence:
With this he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full speed among the Achaeans and Trojans, over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen: the axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail round the car was covered with splashes both from the horses ' hoofs and from the tyres of the wheels.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id149
sentence:
Hector tore his way through and flung himself into the thick of the fight, and his presence threw the Danaans into confusion, for his spear was not long idle; nevertheless though he went among the ranks with sword and spear, and throwing great stones, he avoided Ajax son of Telamon, for Jove would have been angry with him if he had fought a better man than himself.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id150
sentence:
Then father Jove from his high throne struck fear into the heart of Ajax, so that he stood there dazed and threw his shield behind him— looking fearfully at the throng of his foes as though he were some wild beast, and turning hither and thither but crouching slowly backwards.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id151
sentence:
As peasants with their hounds chase a lion from their stockyard, and watch by night to prevent his carrying off the pick of their herd— he makes his greedy spring, but in vain, for the darts from many a strong hand fall thick around him, with burning brands that scare him for all his fury, and when morning comes he slinks foiled and angry away— even so did Ajax, sorely against his will, retreat angrily before the Trojans, fearing for the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id152
sentence:
Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn— boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they can not hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field— even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id153
sentence:
Now and again he would turn and show fight, keeping back the battalions of the Trojans, and then he would again retreat; but he prevented any of them from making his way to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id154
sentence:
Single- handed he stood midway between the Trojans and Achaeans: the spears that sped from their hands stuck some of them in his mighty shield, while many, though thirsting for his blood, fell to the ground ere they could reach him to the wounding of his fair flesh.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id155
sentence:
Now when Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon saw that Ajax was being overpowered by the rain of arrows, he went up to him and hurled his spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id157
sentence:
Eurypylus sprang upon him, and stripped the armour from his shoulders; but when Alexandrus saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh; the arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh; he drew back, therefore, under cover of his comrades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Danaans," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rally to the defence of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id159
sentence:
Even so did he cry when he was wounded; thereon the others came near, and gathered round him, holding their shields upwards from their shoulders so as to give him cover.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id162
sentence:
Meanwhile the mares of Neleus, all in a lather with sweat, were bearing Nestor out of the fight, and with him Machaon shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id163
sentence:
Achilles saw and took note, for he was standing on the stern of his ship watching the hard stress and struggle of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id164
sentence:
He called from the ship to his comrade Patroclus, who heard him in the tent and came out looking like Mars himself— here indeed was the beginning of the ill that presently befell him. "


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id167
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Noble son of Menoetius, man after my own heart, I take it that I shall now have the Achaeans praying at my knees, for they are in great straits; go, Patroclus, and ask Nestor who it is that he is bearing away wounded from the field; from his back I should say it was Machaon son of Aesculapius, but I could not see his face for the horses went by me at full speed."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id168
sentence:
Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him, and set off running by the ships and tents of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id169
sentence:
When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire, Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id170
sentence:
The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id171
sentence:
Fair Hecamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess; she was daughter of wise Arsinous, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in counsel.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id172
sentence:
First she set for them a fair and well- made table that had feet of cyanus; on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley- meal.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id173
sentence:
There was also a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id174
sentence:
Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id175
sentence:
In this the woman, as fair as a goddess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat 's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley- meal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id176
sentence:
When they had done so and had thus quenched their thirst, they fell talking with one another, and at this moment Patroclus appeared at the door.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id177
sentence:
When the old man saw him he sprang from his seat, seized his hand, led him into the tent, and bade him take his place among them; but Patroclus stood where he was and said," Noble sir, I may not stay, you can not persuade me to come in; he that sent me is not one to be trifled with, and he bade me ask who the wounded man was whom you were bearing away from the field.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id182
sentence:
He recks not of the dismay that reigns in our host; our most valiant chieftains lie disabled, brave Diomed, son of Tydeus, is wounded; so are Ulysses and Agamemnon; Eurypylus has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field— he too wounded with an arrow.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id185
sentence:
As for me, I have no strength nor stay in me any longer; would that I were still young and strong as in the days when there was a fight between us and the men of Elis about some cattle- raiding.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id186
sentence:
I then killed Itymoneus, the valiant son of Hypeirochus, a dweller in Elis, as I was driving in the spoil; he was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defence of his cows, so he fell and the country people around him were in great fear.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id187
sentence:
We drove off a vast quantity of booty from the plain, fifty herds of cattle and as many flocks of sheep; fifty droves also of pigs, and as many wide- spreading flocks of goats.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id188
sentence:
Of horses, moreover, we seized a hundred and fifty, all of them mares, and many had foals running with them.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id189
sentence:
All these did we drive by night to Pylus, the city of Neleus, taking them within the city; and the heart of Neleus was glad in that I had taken so much, though it was the first time I had ever been in the field.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id190
sentence:
At daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in Elis to whom there was a debt owing should come; and the leading Pylians assembled to divide the spoils.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id191
sentence:
There were many to whom the Epeans owed chattels, for we men of Pylus were few and had been oppressed with wrong; in former years Hercules had come, and had laid his hand heavy upon us, so that all our best men had perished.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id194
sentence:
My father chose a herd of cattle and a great flock of sheep— three hundred in all— and he took their shepherds with him, for there was a great debt due to him in Elis, to wit four horses, winners of prizes.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id195
sentence:
They and their chariots with them had gone to the games and were to run for a tripod, but King Augeas took them, and sent back their driver grieving for the loss of his horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id196
sentence:
Neleus was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he divided the rest, that no man might have less than his full share.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id197
sentence:
"Thus did we order all things, and offer sacrifices to the gods throughout the city; but three days afterwards the Epeans came in a body, many in number, they and their chariots, in full array, and with them the two Moliones in their armour, though they were still lads and unused to fighting.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id198
sentence:
Now there is a certain town, Thryoessa, perched upon a rock on the river Alpheus, the border city of Pylus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id199
sentence:
This they would destroy, and pitched their camp about it, but when they had crossed their whole plain, Minerva darted down by night from Olympus and bade us set ourselves in array; and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id200
sentence:
Neleus would not let me arm, and hid my horses, for he said that as yet I could know nothing about war ;nevertheless Minerva so ordered the fight that, all on foot as I was, I fought among our mounted forces and vied with the foremost of them.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id201
sentence:
There is a river Minyeius that falls into the sea near Arene, and there they that were mounted( and I with them) waited till morning, when the companies of foot soldiers came up with us in force.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id202
sentence:
Thence in full panoply and equipment we came towards noon to the sacred waters of the Alpheus, and there we offered victims to almighty Jove, with a bull to Alpheus, another to Neptune, and a herd- heifer to Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id203
sentence:
After this we took supper in our companies, and laid us down to rest each in his armour by the river.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id204
sentence:
"The Epeans were beleaguering the city and were determined to take it, but ere this might be there was a desperate fight in store for them.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id205
sentence:
When the sun 's rays began to fall upon the earth we joined battle, praying to Jove and to Minerva, and when the fight had begun, I was the first to kill my man and take his horses— to wit the warrior Mulius.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id206
sentence:
He was son- in- law to Augeas, having married his eldest daughter, golden- haired Agamede, who knew the virtues of every herb which grows upon the face of the earth.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id207
sentence:
I speared him as he was coming towards me, and when he fell headlong in the dust, I sprang upon his chariot and took my place in the front ranks.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id208
sentence:
The Epeans fled in all directions when they saw the captain of their horsemen( the best man they had) laid low, and I swept down on them like a whirlwind, taking fifty chariots— and in each of them two men bit the dust, slain by my spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id209
sentence:
I should have even killed the two Moliones, sons of Actor, unless their real father, Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist and borne them out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id210
sentence:
Thereon Jove vouchsafed the Pylians a great victory, for we chased them far over the plain, killing the men and bringing in their armour, till we had brought our horses to Buprasium, rich in wheat, and to the Olenian rock, with the hill that is called Alision, at which point Minerva turned the people back.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id211
sentence:
There I slew the last man and left him; then the Achaeans drove their horses back from Buprasium to Pylos and gave thanks to Jove among the gods, and among mortal men to Nestor.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id212
sentence:
"Such was I among my peers, as surely as ever was, but Achilles is for keeping all his valour for himself; bitterly will he rue it hereafter when the host is being cut to pieces.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id213
sentence:
My good friend, did not Menoetius charge you thus, on the day when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon?


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id214
sentence:
Ulysses and I were in the house, inside, and heard all that he said to you; for we came to the fair house of Peleus while beating up recruits throughout all Achaea, and when we got there we found Menoetius and yourself, and Achilles with you.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id215
sentence:
The old knight Peleus was in the outer court, roasting the fat thigh- bones of a heifer to Jove the lord of thunder; and he held a gold chalice in his hand from which he poured drink- offerings of wine over the burning sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id216
sentence:
You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id217
sentence:
When we had satisfied ourselves with meat and drink, I said my say and urged both of you to join us.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id219
sentence:
Old Peleus bade his son Achilles fight ever among the foremost and outvie his peers, while Menoetius the son of Actor spoke thus to you:' My son,' said he,' Achilles is of nobler birth than you are, but you are older than he, though he is far the better man of the two.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id221
sentence:
Thus did your father charge you, but you have forgotten; nevertheless, even now, say all this to Achilles if he will listen to you.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id223
sentence:
If, however, he is fearful about some oracle, or if his mother has told him something from Jove, then let him send you, and let the rest of the Myrmidons follow with you, if perchance you may bring light and saving to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id224
sentence:
And let him send you into battle clad in his own armour, that the Trojans may mistake you for him and leave off fighting; the sons of the Achaeans may thus have time to get their breath, for they are hard pressed and there is little breathing time in battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id225
sentence:
You, who are fresh, might easily drive a tired enemy back to his walls and away from the tents and ships."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id226
sentence:
With these words he moved the heart of Patroclus, who set off running by the line of the ships to Achilles, descendant of Aeacus.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id227
sentence:
When he had got as far as the ships of Ulysses, where was their place of assembly and court of justice, with their altars dedicated to the gods, Eurypylus son of Euaemon, met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id228
sentence:
Sweat rained from his head and shoulders, and black blood welled from his cruel wound, but his mind did not wander.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id229
sentence:
The son of Menoetius when he saw him had compassion upon him and spoke piteously saying," O unhappy princes and counsellors of the Danaans, are you then doomed to feed the hounds of Troy with your fat, far from your friends and your native land?


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id230
sentence:
Say, noble Eurypylus, will the Achaeans be able to hold great Hector in check, or will they fall now before his spear?"


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id231
sentence:
Wounded Eurypylus made answer," Noble Patroclus, there is no hope left for the Achaeans but they will perish at their ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id232
sentence:
All they that were princes among us are lying struck down and wounded at the hands of the Trojans, who are waxing stronger and stronger.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id233
sentence:
But save me and take me to your ship; cut out the arrow from my thigh; wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, most righteous of all the centaurs.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id234
sentence:
For of the physicians Podalirius and Machaon, I hear that the one is lying wounded in his tent and is himself in need of healing, while the other is fighting the Trojans upon the plain."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id237
sentence:
I am on my way to bear a message to noble Achilles from Nestor of Gerene, bulwark of the Achaeans, but even so I will not be unmindful of your distress."


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id238
sentence:
With this he clasped him round the middle and led him into the tent, and a servant, when he saw him, spread bullock- skins on the ground for him to lie on.


title: homer-iliad_11
idx: id239
sentence:
He laid him at full length and cut out the sharp arrow from his thigh; he washed the black blood from the wound with warm water; he then crushed a bitter herb, rubbing it between his hands, and spread it upon the wound; this was a virtuous herb which killed all pain; so the wound presently dried and the blood left off flowing.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id1
sentence:
Ulysses and Diomed go out as spies, and meet Dolon, who gives them information: they then kill him, and profiting by what he had told them, kill Rhesus king of the Thracians and take his horses.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id2
sentence:
Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole night through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that he could get no rest.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id3
sentence:
As when fair Juno 's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snow- flakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the wide jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh, for his soul trembled within him.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id4
sentence:
When he looked upon the plain of Troy he marvelled at the many watchfires burning in front of Ilius, and at the sound of pipes and flutes and of the hum of men, but when presently he turned towards the ships and hosts of the Achaeans, he tore his hair by handfuls before Jove on high, and groaned aloud for the very disquietness of his soul.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id5
sentence:
In the end he deemed it best to go at once to Nestor son of Neleus, and see if between them they could find any way of the Achaeans from destruction.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id6
sentence:
He therefore rose, put on his shirt, bound his sandals about his comely feet, flung the skin of a huge tawny lion over his shoulders— a skin that reached his feet— and took his spear in his hand.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id7
sentence:
Neither could Menelaus sleep, for he, too, boded ill for the Argives who for his sake had sailed from far over the seas to fight the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id8
sentence:
He covered his broad back with the skin of a spotted panther, put a casque of bronze upon his head, and took his spear in his brawny hand.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id9
sentence:
Then he went to rouse his brother, who was by far the most powerful of the Achaeans, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id10
sentence:
He found him by the stern of his ship already putting his goodly array about his shoulders, and right glad was he that his brother had come.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id14
sentence:
I greatly fear that no one will do you this service, and spy upon the enemy alone in the dead of night.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id16
sentence:
And King Agamemnon answered," Menelaus, we both of us need shrewd counsel to save the Argives and our ships, for Jove has changed his mind, and inclines towards Hector 's sacrifices rather than ours.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id17
sentence:
I never saw nor heard tell of any man as having wrought such ruin in one day as Hector has now wrought against the sons of the Achaeans— and that too of his own unaided self, for he is son neither to god nor goddess.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id20
sentence:
Meanwhile I will go to Nestor, and bid him rise and go about among the companies of our sentinels to give them their instructions; they will listen to him sooner than to any man, for his own son, and Meriones brother in arms to Idomeneus, are captains over them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id23
sentence:
Am I to stay with them and wait your coming, or shall I return here as soon as I have given your orders?"


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id24
sentence:
"Wait," answered King Agamemnon," for there are so many paths about the camp that we might miss one another.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id25
sentence:
Call every man on your way, and bid him be stirring; name him by his lineage and by his father 's name, give each all titular observance, and stand not too much upon your own dignity; we must take our full share of toil, for at our birth Jove laid this heavy burden upon us."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id26
sentence:
With these instructions he sent his brother on his way, and went on to Nestor shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id27
sentence:
He found him sleeping in his tent hard by his own ship; his goodly armour lay beside him— his shield, his two spears and his helmet; beside him also lay the gleaming girdle with which the old man girded himself when he armed to lead his people into battle— for his age stayed him not.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id29
sentence:
"Who is it," said he," that goes thus about the host and the ships alone and in the dead of night, when men are sleeping?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id33
sentence:
And Agamemnon answered," Nestor, son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, it is I, Agamemnon son of Atreus, on whom Jove has laid labour and sorrow so long as there is breath in my body and my limbs carry me.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id34
sentence:
I am thus abroad because sleep sits not upon my eyelids, but my heart is big with war and with the jeopardy of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id36
sentence:
I am at sea, and without sure counsel; my heart beats as though it would leap out of my body, and my limbs fail me.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id37
sentence:
If then you can do anything— for you too can not sleep— let us go the round of the watch, and see whether they are drowsy with toil and sleeping to the neglect of their duty.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id39
sentence:
Nestor replied," Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, Jove will not do all for Hector that Hector thinks he will; he will have troubles yet in plenty if Achilles will lay aside his anger.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id40
sentence:
I will go with you, and we will rouse others, either the son of Tydeus, or Ulysses, or fleet Ajax and the valiant son of Phyleus.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id41
sentence:
Some one had also better go and call Ajax and King Idomeneus, for their ships are not near at hand but the farthest of all.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id42
sentence:
I can not however refrain from blaming Menelaus, much as I love him and respect him— and I will say so plainly, even at the risk of offending you— for sleeping and leaving all this trouble to yourself.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id43
sentence:
He ought to be going about imploring aid from all the princes of the Achaeans, for we are in extreme danger."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id44
sentence:
And Agamemnon answered," Sir, you may sometimes blame him justly, for he is often remiss and unwilling to exert himself— not indeed from sloth, nor yet heedlessness, but because he looks to me and expects me to take the lead.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id50
sentence:
"In that case," answered Nestor," the Argives will not blame him nor disobey his orders when he urges them to fight or gives them instructions."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id52
sentence:
He buckled on his purple coat, of two thicknesses, large, and of a rough shaggy texture, grasped his redoubtable bronze- shod spear, and wended his way along the line of the Achaean ships.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id53
sentence:
First he called loudly to Ulysses peer of gods in counsel and woke him, for he was soon roused by the sound of the battle- cry.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id54
sentence:
He came outside his tent and said," Why do you go thus alone about the host, and along the line of the ships in the stillness of the night?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id56
sentence:
And Nestor knight of Gerene answered," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, take it not amiss, for the Achaeans are in great straits.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id57
sentence:
Come with me and let us wake some other, who may advise well with us whether we shall fight or fly."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id58
sentence:
On this Ulysses went at once into his tent, put his shield about his shoulders and came out with them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id59
sentence:
First they went to Diomed son of Tydeus, and found him outside his tent clad in his armour with his comrades sleeping round him and using their shields as pillows; as for their spears, they stood upright on the spikes of their butts that were driven into the ground, and the burnished bronze flashed afar like the lightning of father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id60
sentence:
The hero was sleeping upon the skin of an ox, with a piece of fine carpet under his head; Nestor went up to him and stirred him with his heel to rouse him, upbraiding him and urging him to bestir himself.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id64
sentence:
Can you not see that the Trojans are encamped on the brow of the plain hard by our ships, with but a little space between us and them?"


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id65
sentence:
On these words Diomed leaped up instantly and said," Old man, your heart is of iron; you rest not one moment from your labours.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id69
sentence:
I have good sons, and also much people who might call the chieftains, but the Achaeans are in the gravest danger; life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id71
sentence:
Diomed threw the skin of a great tawny lion about his shoulders— a skin that reached his feet— and grasped his spear.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id72
sentence:
When he had roused the heroes, he brought them back with him; they then went the round of those who were on guard, and found the captains not sleeping at their posts but wakeful and sitting with their arms about them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id73
sentence:
As sheep dogs that watch their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain forest towards them— forthwith there is a hue and cry of dogs and men, and slumber is broken— even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked night, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id75
sentence:
"Watch on, my children," said he," and let not sleep get hold upon you, lest our enemies triumph over us."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id76
sentence:
With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id78
sentence:
When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground where there was a space clear of corpses, for it was here that when night fell Hector had turned back from his onslaught on the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id81
sentence:
My friends," said he," is there any man bold enough to venture among the Trojans, and cut off some straggler, or bring us news of what the enemy mean to do whether they will stay here by the ships away from the city, or whether, now that they have worsted the Achaeans, they will retire within their walls.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id82
sentence:
If he could learn all this and come back safely here, his fame would be high as heaven in the mouths of all men, and he would be rewarded richly; for the chiefs from all our ships would each of them give him a black ewe with her lamb— which is a present of surpassing value— and he would be asked as a guest to all feasts and clan- gatherings."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id83
sentence:
They all held their peace, but Diomed of the loud war- cry spoke saying," Nestor, gladly will I visit the host of the Trojans over against us, but if another will go with me I shall do so in greater confidence and comfort.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id84
sentence:
When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id86
sentence:
The two Ajaxes, servants of Mars, Meriones, and the son of Nestor all wanted to go, so did Menelaus son of Atreus; Ulysses also wished to go among the host of the Trojans, for he was ever full of daring, and thereon Agamemnon king of men spoke thus:" Diomed," said he," son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, choose your comrade for yourself— take the best man of those that have offered, for many would now go with you.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id87
sentence:
Do not through delicacy reject the better man, and take the worst out of respect for his lineage, because he is of more royal blood."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id89
sentence:
Diomed answered," If you bid me take the man of my own choice, how in that case can I fail to think of Ulysses, than whom there is no man more eager to face all kinds of danger— and Pallas Minerva loves him well?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id90
sentence:
If he were to go with me we should pass safely through fire itself, for he is quick to see and understand."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id91
sentence:
"Son of Tydeus," replied Ulysses," say neither good nor ill about me, for you are among Argives who know me well.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id93
sentence:
The stars have gone forward, two- thirds of the night are already spent, and the third is alone left us."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id95
sentence:
Brave Thrasymedes provided the son of Tydeus with a sword and a shield( for he had left his own at his ship) and on his head he set a helmet of bull 's hide without either peak or crest; it is called a skull- cap and is a common headgear.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id96
sentence:
Meriones found a bow and quiver for Ulysses, and on his head he set a leathern helmet that was lined with a strong plaiting of leathern thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar 's teeth, well and skilfully set into it; next the head there was an inner lining of felt.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id97
sentence:
This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id98
sentence:
He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest- gift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id100
sentence:
Pallas Minerva sent them a heron by the wayside upon their right hands; they could not see it for the darkness, but they heard its cry.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id101
sentence:
Ulysses was glad when he heard it and prayed to Minerva:" Hear me," he cried," daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, you who spy out all my ways and who are with me in all my hardships; befriend me in this mine hour, and grant that we may return to the ships covered with glory after having achieved some mighty exploit that shall bring sorrow to the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id102
sentence:
Then Diomed of the loud war- cry also prayed:" Hear me too," said he," daughter of Jove, unweariable; be with me even as you were with my noble father Tydeus when he went to Thebes as envoy sent by the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id103
sentence:
He left the Achaeans by the banks of the river Aesopus, and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Cadmeians; on his return thence, with your help, goddess, he did great deeds of daring, for you were his ready helper.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id104
sentence:
Even so guide me and guard me now, and 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-iliad_10
idx: id107
sentence:
When they had done praying to the daughter of great Jove, they went their way like two lions prowling by night amid the armour and blood- stained bodies of them that had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id108
sentence:
Neither again did Hector let the Trojans sleep; for he too called the princes and councillors of the Trojans that he might set his counsel before them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id112
sentence:
I will give him a chariot and a couple of horses, the fleetest that can be found at the ships of the Achaeans, if he will dare this thing; and he will win infinite honour to boot; he must go to the ships and find out whether they are still guarded as heretofore, or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id113
sentence:
They all held their peace; but there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolon, son of Eumedes, the famous herald— a man rich in gold and bronze.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id117
sentence:
But first hold up your sceptre and swear that you will give me the chariot, bedight with bronze, and the horses that now carry the noble son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id119
sentence:
I will go through the host from one end to the other till I come to the ship of Agamemnon, where I take it the princes of the Achaeans are now consulting whether they shall fight or fly."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id120
sentence:
When he had done speaking Hector held up his sceptre, and swore him his oath saying," May Jove the thundering husband of Juno bear witness that no other Trojan but yourself shall mount those steeds, and that you shall have your will with them for ever."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id122
sentence:
He hung his bow over his shoulder, and as an overall he wore the skin of a grey wolf, while on his head he set a cap of ferret skin.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id123
sentence:
Then he took a pointed javelin, and left the camp for the ships, but he was not to return with any news for Hector.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id124
sentence:
When he had left the horses and the troops behind him, he made all speed on his way, but Ulysses perceived his coming and said to Diomed," Diomed, here is some one from the camp; I am not sure whether he is a spy, or whether it is some thief who would plunder the bodies of the dead; let him get a little past us, we can then spring upon him and take him.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id125
sentence:
If, however, he is too quick for us, go after him with your spear and hem him in towards the ships away from the Trojan camp, to prevent his getting back to the town."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id127
sentence:
Dolon suspected nothing and soon passed them, but when he had got about as far as the distance by which a mule- plowed furrow exceeds one that has been ploughed by oxen( for mules can plow fallow land quicker than oxen)


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id128
sentence:
they ran after him, and when he heard their footsteps he stood still, for he made sure they were friends from the Trojan camp come by Hector 's orders to bid him return; when, however, they were only a spear 's cast, or less, away from him, he saw that they were enemies and ran as fast as his legs could take him.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id129
sentence:
The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of well- trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them, even so did the son of Tydeus and Ulysses pursue Dolon and cut him off from his own people.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id130
sentence:
But when he had fled so far towards the ships that he would soon have fallen in with the outposts, Minerva infused fresh strength into the son of Tydeus for fear some other of the Achaeans might have the glory of being first to hit him, and he might himself be only second; he therefore sprang forward with his spear and said," Stand, or I shall throw my spear, and in that case I shall soon make an end of you."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id133
sentence:
He stood stock still, trembling and in great fear; his teeth chattered, and he turned pale with fear.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id134
sentence:
The two came breathless up to him and seized his hands, whereon he began to weep and said," Take me alive; I will ransom myself; we have great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this my father will satisfy you with a very large ransom, should he hear of my being alive at the ships of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id135
sentence:
"Fear not," replied Ulysses," let no thought of death be in your mind; but tell me, and tell me true, why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships, while other men are sleeping?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id136
sentence:
Is it to plunder the bodies of the slain, or did Hector send you to spy out what was going on at the ships?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id138
sentence:
Dolon answered, his limbs trembling beneath him:" Hector, with his vain flattering promises, lured me from my better judgement.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id139
sentence:
He said he would give me the horses of the noble son of Peleus and his bronze- bedizened chariot; he bade me go through the darkness of the flying night, get close to the enemy, and find out whether the ships are still guarded as heretofore, or whether, now that we have beaten them, the Achaeans design to fly, and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id140
sentence:
Ulysses smiled at him and answered," You had indeed set your heart upon a great reward, but the horses of the descendant of Aeacus are hardly to be kept in hand or driven by any other mortal man than Achilles himself, whose mother was an immortal.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id145
sentence:
Will they stay here by the ships and away from the city, or now that they have worsted the Achaeans, will they retire within their walls?"


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id147
sentence:
Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id148
sentence:
The Trojans have their watchfires, for they are bound to have them; they, therefore, are awake and keep each other to their duty as sentinels; but the allies who have come from other places are asleep and leave it to the Trojans to keep guard, for their wives and children are not here."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id152
sentence:
To the seaward lie the Carians, the Paeonian bowmen, the Leleges, the Cauconians, and the noble Pelasgi.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id153
sentence:
The Lysians and proud Mysians, with the Phrygians and Meonians, have their place on the side towards Thymbra; but why ask about all this?


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id154
sentence:
If you want to find your way into the host of the Trojans, there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp; and they have Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id155
sentence:
His horses are the finest and strongest that I have ever seen, they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id156
sentence:
His chariot is bedight with silver and gold, and he has brought his marvellous golden armour, of the rarest workmanship— too splendid for any mortal man to carry, and meet only for the gods.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id157
sentence:
Now, therefore, take me to the ships or bind me securely here, until you come back and have proved my words whether they be false or true."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id158
sentence:
Diomed looked sternly at him and answered," Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and an end of you, you will give no more trouble."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id159
sentence:
On this Dolon would have caught him by the beard to beseech him further, but Diomed struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id161
sentence:
Ulysses hung them up aloft in honour of Minerva the goddess of plunder, and prayed saying," Accept these, goddess, for we give them to you in preference to all the gods in Olympus: therefore speed us still further towards the horses and sleeping- ground of the Thracians."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id162
sentence:
With these words he took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree, and they marked the place by pulling up reeds and gathering boughs of tamarisk that they might not miss it as they came back through the flying hours of darkness.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id163
sentence:
The two then went onwards amid the fallen armour and the blood, and came presently to the company of Thracian soldiers, who were sleeping, tired out with their day 's toil; their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them all orderly in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id164
sentence:
Rhesus was sleeping in the middle, and hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id165
sentence:
Ulysses from some way off saw him and said," This, Diomed, is the man, and these are the horses about which Dolon whom we killed told us.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id166
sentence:
Do your very utmost; dally not about your armour, but loose the horses at once— or else kill the men yourself, while I see to the horses."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id168
sentence:
They made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about, and the earth was red with their blood.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id169
sentence:
As a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds them without their shepherd, so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id170
sentence:
As he killed them Ulysses came and drew them aside by their feet one by one, that the horses might go forward freely without being frightened as they passed over the dead bodies, for they were not yet used to them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id171
sentence:
When the son of Tydeus came to the king, he killed him too( which made thirteen), as he was breathing hard, for by the counsel of Minerva an evil dream, the seed of Oeneus, hovered that night over his head.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id172
sentence:
Meanwhile Ulysses untied the horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off, striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id175
sentence:
He was doubting whether to take the chariot in which the king 's armour was lying, and draw it out by the pole, or to lift the armour out and carry it off; or whether again, he should not kill some more Thracians.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id176
sentence:
While he was thus hesitating Minerva came up to him and said," Get back, Diomed, to the ships or you may be driven thither, should some other god rouse the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id180
sentence:
He was angry with her, and coming to the host of the Trojans he roused Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id181
sentence:
He started up out of his sleep and saw that the horses were no longer in their place, and that the men were gasping in their death- agony; on this he groaned aloud, and called upon his friend by name.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id182
sentence:
Then the whole Trojan camp was in an uproar as the people kept hurrying together, and they marvelled at the deeds of the heroes who had now got away towards the ships.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id183
sentence:
When they reached the place where they had killed Hector 's scout, Ulysses stayed his horses, and the son of Tydeus, leaping to the ground, placed the blood- stained spoils in the hands of Ulysses and remounted: then he lashed the horses onwards, and they flew forward nothing loth towards the ships as though of their own free will.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id185
sentence:
My friends," said he," princes and counsellors of the Argives, shall I guess right or wrong?—but I must say what I think: there is a sound in my ears as of the tramp of horses.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id186
sentence:
I hope it may be Diomed and Ulysses driving in horses from the Trojans, but I much fear that the bravest of the Argives may have come to some harm at their hands."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id187
sentence:
He had hardly done speaking when the two men came in and dismounted, whereon the others shook hands right gladly with them and congratulated them.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id192
sentence:
I am well conversant with the Trojans, for old warrior though I am I never hold back by the ships, but I never yet saw or heard of such horses as these are.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id193
sentence:
Surely some god must have met you and given them to you, for you are both of you dear to Jove, and to Jove 's daughter Minerva."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id194
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, heaven, if it so will, can give us even better horses than these, for the gods are far mightier than we are.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id197
sentence:
Hard by the ships we took a thirteenth man— a scout whom Hector and the other Trojans had sent as a spy upon our ships."


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id198
sentence:
He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch, while the other Achaeans followed him gladly.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id199
sentence:
When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tydeus, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the blood- stained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id200
sentence:
As for themselves, they went into the sea and washed the sweat from their bodies, and from their necks and thighs.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id201
sentence:
When the sea- water had taken all the sweat from off them, and had refreshed them, they went into the baths and washed themselves.


title: homer-iliad_10
idx: id202
sentence:
After they had so done and had anointed themselves with oil, they sat down to table, and drawing from a full mixing- bowl, made a drink- offering of wine to Minerva.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id2
sentence:
Now when the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the Phaeacian place of assembly, which was near the ships.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id3
sentence:
When they got there they sat down side by side on a seat of polished stone, while Minerva took the form of one of Alcinous' servants, and went round the town in order to help Ulysses to get home.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id4
sentence:
She went up to the citizens, man by man, and said," Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, come to the assembly all of you and listen to the stranger who has just come off a long voyage to the house of King Alcinous; he looks like an immortal god."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id5
sentence:
With these words she made them all want to come, and they flocked to the assembly till seats and standing room were alike crowded.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id6
sentence:
Every one was struck with the appearance of Ulysses, for Minerva had beautified him about the head and shoulders, making him look taller and stouter than he really was, that he might impress the Phaeacians favourably as being a very remarkable man, and might come off well in the many trials of skill to which they would challenge him.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id7
sentence:
Then, when they were got together, Alcinous spoke: "Hear me," said he," aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, that I may speak even as I am minded.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id8
sentence:
This stranger, whoever he may be, has found his way to my house from somewhere or other either East or West.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id10
sentence:
Let us then get one ready for him, as we have done for others before him; indeed, no one who ever yet came to my house has been able to complain of me for not speeding on his way soon enough.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id11
sentence:
Let us draw a ship into the sea— one that has never yet made a voyage— and man her with two and fifty of our smartest young sailors.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id12
sentence:
Then when you have made fast your oars each by his own seat, leave the ship and come to my house to prepare a feast.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id14
sentence:
I am giving these instructions to the young men who will form the crew, for as regards you aldermen and town councillors, you will join me in entertaining our guest in the cloisters.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id15
sentence:
I can take no excuses, and we will have Demodocus to sing to us; for there is no bard like him whatever he may choose to sing about."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id17
sentence:
The fifty- two picked oarsmen went to the sea shore as they had been told, and when they got there they drew the ship into the water, got her mast and sails inside her, bound the oars to the thole- pins with twisted thongs of leather, all in due course, and spread the white sails aloft.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id18
sentence:
They moored the vessel a little way out from land, and then came on shore and went to the house of King Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id19
sentence:
The out houses yards, and all the precincts were filled with crowds of men in great multitudes both old and young; and Alcinous killed them a dozen sheep, eight full grown pigs, and two oxen.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id21
sentence:
A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodocus, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id23
sentence:
He hung the lyre for him on a peg over his head, and showed him where he was to feel for it with his hands.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id24
sentence:
He also set a fair table with a basket of victuals by his side, and a cup of wine from which he might drink whenever he was so disposed.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id25
sentence:
The company then laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, but as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, the muse inspired Demodocus to sing the feats of heroes, and more especially a matter that was then in the mouths of all men, to wit, the quarrel between Ulysses and Achilles, and the fierce words that they heaped on one another as they sat together at a banquet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id26
sentence:
But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id28
sentence:
Thus sang the bard, but Ulysses drew his purple mantle over his head and covered his face, for he was ashamed to let the Phaeacians see that he was weeping.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id29
sentence:
When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drink- offering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodocus to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id30
sentence:
No one noticed his distress except Alcinous, who was sitting near him, and heard the heavy sighs that he was heaving.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id31
sentence:
So he at once said," Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, we have had enough now, both of the feast, and of the minstrelsy that is its due accompaniment; let us proceed therefore to the athletic sports, so that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as boxers, wrestlers, jumpers, and runners."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id33
sentence:
A servant hung Demodocus 's lyre on its peg for him, led him out of the cloister, and set him on the same way as that along which all the chief men of the Phaeacians were going to see the sports; a crowd of several thousands of people followed them, and there were many excellent competitors for all the prizes.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id34
sentence:
Acroneos, Ocyalus, Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, Anchialus, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus, Thoon, Anabesineus, and Amphialus son of Polyneus son of Tecton.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id35
sentence:
There was also Euryalus son of Naubolus, who was like Mars himself, and was the best looking man among the Phaeacians except Laodamas.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id38
sentence:
The course was set out for them from the starting post, and they raised a dust upon the plain as they all flew forward at the same moment.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id39
sentence:
Clytoneus came in first by a long way; he left every one else behind him by the length of the furrow that a couple of mules can plough in a fallow field.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id41
sentence:
Amphialus excelled all the others in jumping, while at throwing the disc there was no one who could approach Elatreus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id42
sentence:
Alcinous 's son Laodamas was the best boxer, and he it was who presently said, when they had all been diverted with the games ,"Let us ask the stranger whether he excels in any of these sports; he seems very powerfully built; his thighs, calves, hands, and neck are of prodigious strength, nor is he at all old, but he has suffered much lately, and there is nothing like the sea for making havoc with a man, no matter how strong he is."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id43
sentence:
"You are quite right, Laodamas," replied Euryalus," go up to your guest and speak to him about it yourself."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id44
sentence:
When Laodamas heard this he made his way into the middle of the crowd and said to Ulysses," I hope, Sir, that you will enter yourself for some one or other of our competitions if you are skilled in any of them— and you must have gone in for many a one before now.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id45
sentence:
There is nothing that does any one so much credit all his life long as the showing himself a proper man with his hands and feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id47
sentence:
Your return home will not be long delayed, for the ship is already drawn into the water, and the crew is found."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id49
sentence:
my mind is set rather on cares than contests; I have been through infinite trouble, and am come among you now as a suppliant, praying your king and people to further me on my return home."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id50
sentence:
Then Euryalus reviled him outright and said," I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports that men generally delight in.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id51
sentence:
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id53
sentence:
"For shame, Sir," answered Ulysses, fiercely," you are an insolent fellow— so true is it that the gods do not grace all men alike in speech, person, and understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id54
sentence:
One man may be of weak presence, but heaven has adorned this with such a good conversation that he charms every one who sees him; his honeyed moderation carries his hearers with him so that he is leader in all assemblies of his fellows, and wherever he goes he is looked up to.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id58
sentence:
Your ill- judged remarks have made me exceedingly angry, and you are quite mistaken, for I excel in a great many athletic exercises ;indeed, so long as I had youth and strength, I was among the first athletes of the age.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id59
sentence:
Now, however, I am worn out by labour and sorrow, for I have gone through much both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea; still, in spite of all this I will compete, for your taunts have stung me to the quick."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id60
sentence:
So he hurried up without even taking his cloak off, and seized a disc, larger, more massive and much heavier than those used by the Phaeacians when disc- throwing among themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id61
sentence:
Then, swinging it back, he threw it from his brawny hand, and it made a humming sound in the air as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id62
sentence:
The Phaeacians quailed beneath the rushing of its flight as it sped gracefully from his hand, and flew beyond any mark that had been made yet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id64
sentence:
A blind man, Sir," said she," could easily tell your mark by groping for it— it is so far ahead of any other.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id65
sentence:
You may make your mind easy about this contest, for no Phaeacian can come near to such a throw as yours."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id66
sentence:
Ulysses was glad when he found he had a friend among the lookers- on, so he began to speak more pleasantly. "


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id67
sentence:
Young men," said he," come up to that throw if you can, and I will throw another disc as heavy or even heavier.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id68
sentence:
If anyone wants to have a bout with me let him come on, for I am exceedingly angry; I will box, wrestle, or run, I do not care what it is, with any man of you all except Laodamas, but not with him because I am his guest, and one can not compete with one 's own personal friend.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id69
sentence:
At least I do not think it a prudent or a sensible thing for a guest to challenge his host 's family at any game, especially when he is in a foreign country.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id70
sentence:
He will cut the ground from under his own feet if he does; but I make no exception as regards any one else, for I want to have the matter out and know which is the best man.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id73
sentence:
In battle I am always the first to bring a man down with my arrow, no matter how many more are taking aim at him alongside of me.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id74
sentence:
Philoctetes was the only man who could shoot better than I could when we Achaeans were before Troy and in practice.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id75
sentence:
I far excel every one else in the whole world, of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth, but I should not like to shoot against the mighty dead, such as Hercules, or Eurytus the Oechalian— men who could shoot against the gods themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id76
sentence:
This in fact was how Eurytus came prematurely by his end, for Apollo was angry with him and killed him because he challenged him as an archer.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id78
sentence:
Running is the only point in respect of which I am afraid some of the Phaeacians might beat me, for I have been brought down very low at sea; my provisions ran short, and therefore I am still weak."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id79
sentence:
They all held their peace except King Alcinous, who began," Sir, we have had much pleasure in hearing all that you have told us, from which I understand that you are willing to show your prowess, as having been displeased with some insolent remarks that have been made to you by one of our athletes, and which could never have been uttered by any one who knows how to talk with propriety.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id80
sentence:
I hope you will apprehend my meaning, and will explain to any one of your chief men who may be dining with yourself and your family when you get home, that we have an hereditary aptitude for accomplishments of all kinds.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id81
sentence:
We are not particularly remarkable for our boxing, nor yet as wrestlers, but we are singularly fleet of foot and are excellent sailors.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id82
sentence:
We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and dancing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths, and good beds, so now, please, some of you who are the best dancers set about dancing, that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as sailors, runners, dancers, and minstrels.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id84
sentence:
On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king 's house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id85
sentence:
It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id86
sentence:
Presently the servant came back with Demodocus 's lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id87
sentence:
Meanwhile the bard began to sing the loves of Mars and Venus, and how they first began their intrigue in the house of Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id88
sentence:
Mars made Venus many presents, and defiled King Vulcan 's marriage bed, so the sun, who saw what they were about, told Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id89
sentence:
Vulcan was very angry when he heard such dreadful news, so he went to his smithy brooding mischief, got his great anvil into its place, and began to forge some chains which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id90
sentence:
When he had finished his snare he went into his bedroom and festooned the bed- posts all over with chains like cobwebs; he also let many hang down from the great beam of the ceiling.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id92
sentence:
As soon as he had spread the chains all over the bed, he made as though he were setting out for the fair state of Lemnos, which of all places in the world was the one he was most fond of.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id93
sentence:
But Mars kept no blind look out, and as soon as he saw him start, hurried off to his house, burning with love for Venus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id94
sentence:
Now Venus was just come in from a visit to her father Jove, and was about sitting down when Mars came inside the house, and said as he took her hand in his own," Let us go to the couch of Vulcan :he is not at home, but is gone off to Lemnos among the Sintians, whose speech is barbarous."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id95
sentence:
She was nothing loth, so they went to the couch to take their rest, whereon they were caught in the toils which cunning Vulcan had spread for them, and could neither get up nor stir hand or foot, but found too late that they were in a trap.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id96
sentence:
Then Vulcan came up to them, for he had turned back before reaching Lemnos, when his scout the sun told him what was going on.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id97
sentence:
He was in a furious passion, and stood in the vestibule making a dreadful noise as he shouted to all the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id98
sentence:
"Father Jove," he cried," and all you other blessed gods who live for ever, come here and see the ridiculous and disgraceful sight that I will show you.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id100
sentence:
She is in love with Mars, who is handsome and clean built, whereas I am a cripple— but my parents are to blame for that, not I; they ought never to have begotten me.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id103
sentence:
They are very fond of one another, but I do not think they will lie there longer than they can help, nor do I think that they will sleep much ;there, however, they shall stay till her father has repaid me the sum I gave him for his baggage of a daughter, who is fair but not honest."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id105
sentence:
encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo, but the goddesses staid at home all of them for shame.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id106
sentence:
Then the givers of all good things stood in the doorway, and the blessed gods roared with inextinguishable laughter, as they saw how cunning Vulcan had been, whereon one would turn towards his neighbour saying: "Ill deeds do not prosper, and the weak confound the strong.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id107
sentence:
See how limping Vulcan, lame as he is, has caught Mars who is the fleetest god in heaven; and now Mars will be cast in heavy damages."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id108
sentence:
Thus did they converse, but King Apollo said to Mercury," Messenger Mercury, giver of good things, you would not care how strong the chains were, would you, if you could sleep with Venus?"


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id109
sentence:
"King Apollo," answered Mercury," I only wish I might get the chance, though there were three times as many chains— and you might look on, all of you, gods and goddesses, but I would sleep with her if I could."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id110
sentence:
The immortal gods burst out laughing as they heard him, but Neptune took it all seriously, and kept on imploring Vulcan to set Mars free again."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id111
sentence:
Let him go," he cried," and I will undertake, as you require, that he shall pay you all the damages that are held reasonable among the immortal gods."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id112
sentence:
"Do not," replied Vulcan," ask me to do this; a bad man 's bond is bad security; what remedy could I enforce against you if Mars should go away and leave his debts behind him along with his chains?"


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id115
sentence:
Thereon he loosed the bonds that bound them, and as soon as they were free they scampered off, Mars to Thrace and laughter- loving Venus to Cyprus and to Paphos, where is her grove and her altar fragrant with burnt offerings.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id116
sentence:
Here the Graces bathed her, and anointed her with oil of ambrosia such as the immortal gods make use of, and they clothed her in raiment of the most enchanting beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id119
sentence:
So they took a red ball which Polybus had made for them, and one of them bent himself backwards and threw it up towards the clouds, while the other jumped from off the ground and caught it with ease before it came down again.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id120
sentence:
When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id121
sentence:
Then Ulysses said: "King Alcinous, you said your people were the nimblest dancers in the world, and indeed they have proved themselves to be so.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id123
sentence:
The king was delighted at this, and exclaimed to the Phaeacians," Aldermen and town councillors, our guest seems to be a person of singular judgement; let us give him such proof of our hospitality as he may reasonably expect.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id124
sentence:
There are twelve chief men among you, and counting myself there are thirteen; contribute, each of you, a clean cloak, a shirt, and a talent of fine gold; let us give him all this in a lump down at once, so that when he gets his supper he may do so with a light heart.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id132
sentence:
As he spoke he placed the sword in the hands of Ulysses and said," Good luck to you, father stranger; if anything has been said amiss may the winds blow it away with them, and may heaven grant you a safe return, for I understand you have been long away from home, and have gone through much hardship."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id133
sentence:
To which Ulysses answered," Good luck to you too my friend, and may the gods grant you every happiness.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id135
sentence:
With these words he girded the sword about his shoulders and towards sundown the presents began to make their appearance, as the servants of the donors kept bringing them to the house of King Alcinous; here his sons received them, and placed them under their mother 's charge.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id137
sentence:
"Wife," said he, turning to Queen Arete," Go, fetch the best chest we have, and put a clean cloak and shirt in it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id138
sentence:
Also, set a copper on the fire and heat some water; our guest will take a warm bath; see also to the careful packing of the presents that the noble Phaeacians have made him; he will thus better enjoy both his supper and the singing that will follow.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id139
sentence:
I shall myself give him this golden goblet— which is of exquisite workmanship— that he may be reminded of me for the rest of his life whenever he makes a drink offering to Jove, or to any of the gods."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id140
sentence:
Then Arete told her maids to set a large tripod upon the fire as fast as they could, whereon they set a tripod full of bath water on to a clear fire; they threw on sticks to make it blaze, and the water became hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id141
sentence:
Meanwhile Arete brought a magnificent chest from her own room, and inside it she packed all the beautiful presents of gold and raiment which the Phaeacians had brought.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id142
sentence:
Lastly she added a cloak and a good shirt from Alcinous, and said to Ulysses: "See to the lid yourself, and have the whole bound round at once, for fear any one should rob you by the way when you are asleep in your ship."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id143
sentence:
When Ulysses heard this he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id145
sentence:
He was very glad of a warm bath, for he had had no one to wait upon him ever since he left the house of Calypso, who as long as he remained with her had taken as good care of him as though he had been a god.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id146
sentence:
When the servants had done washing and anointing him with oil, and had given him a clean cloak and shirt, he left the bath room and joined the guests who were sitting over their wine.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id147
sentence:
Lovely Nausicaa stood by one of the bearing- posts supporting the roof of the cloister, and admired him as she saw him pass. "


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id148
sentence:
Farewell stranger," said she," do not forget me when you are safe at home again, for it is to me first that you owe a ransom for having saved your life."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id149
sentence:
And Ulysses said," Nausicaa, daughter of great Alcinous, may Jove the mighty husband of Juno, grant that I may reach my home; so shall I bless you as my guardian angel all my days, for it was you who saved me."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id152
sentence:
A servant led in the favourite bard Demodocus, and set him in the midst of the company, near one of the bearing- posts supporting the cloister, that he might lean against it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id153
sentence:
Then Ulysses cut off a piece of roast pork with plenty of fat( for there was abundance left on the joint) and said to a servant," Take this piece of pork over to Demodocus and tell him to eat it; for all the pain his lays may cause me I will salute him none the less; bards are honoured and respected throughout the world, for the muse teaches them their songs and loves them."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id154
sentence:
The servant carried the pork in his fingers over to Demodocus, who took it and was very much pleased.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id155
sentence:
They then laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had to eat and drink, Ulysses said to Demodocus," Demodocus, there is no one in the world whom I admire more than I do you.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id156
sentence:
You must have studied under the Muse, Jove 's daughter, and under Apollo, so accurately do you sing the return of the Achaeans with all their sufferings and adventures.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id158
sentence:
Now, however, change your song and tell us of the wooden horse which Epeus made with the assistance of Minerva, and which Ulysses got by stratagem into the fort of Troy after freighting it with the men who afterwards sacked the city.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id159
sentence:
If you will sing this tale aright I will tell all the world how magnificently heaven has endowed you."


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id160
sentence:
The bard inspired of heaven took up the story at the point where some of the Argives set fire to their tents and sailed away while others, hidden within the horse were waiting with Ulysses in the Trojan place of assembly.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id161
sentence:
For the Trojans themselves had drawn the horse into their fortress, and it stood there while they sat in council round it, and were in three minds as to what they should do.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id162
sentence:
Some were for breaking it up then and there; others would have it dragged to the top of the rock on which the fortress stood, and then thrown down the precipice; while yet others were for letting it remain as an offering and propitiation for the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id163
sentence:
And this was how they settled it in the end, for the city was doomed when it took in that horse, within which were all the bravest of the Argives waiting to bring death and destruction on the Trojans.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id164
sentence:
Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id165
sentence:
He sang how they overran the city hither and thither and ravaged it, and how Ulysses went raging like Mars along with Menelaus to the house of Deiphobus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id166
sentence:
It was there that the fight raged most furiously, nevertheless by Minerva 's help he was victorious.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id168
sentence:
He wept as a woman weeps when she throws herself on the body of her husband who has fallen before his own city and people, fighting bravely in defence of his home and children.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id169
sentence:
She screams aloud and flings her arms about him as he lies gasping for breath and dying, but her enemies beat her from behind about the back and shoulders, and carry her off into slavery, to a life of labour and sorrow, and the beauty fades from her cheeks— even so piteously did Ulysses weep, but none of those present perceived his tears except Alcinous, who was sitting near him, and could hear the sobs and sighs that he was heaving.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id170
sentence:
The king, therefore, at once rose and said: "Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, let Demodocus cease his song, for there are those present who do not seem to like it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id171
sentence:
From the moment that we had done supper and Demodocus began to sing, our guest has been all the time groaning and lamenting.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id172
sentence:
He is evidently in great trouble, so let the bard leave off, that we may all enjoy ourselves, hosts and guest alike.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id173
sentence:
This will be much more as it should be, for all these festivities, with the escort and the presents that we are making with so much good will are wholly in his honour, and any one with even a moderate amount of right feeling knows that he ought to treat a guest and a suppliant as though he were his own brother.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id174
sentence:
"Therefore, Sir, do you on your part affect no more concealment nor reserve in the matter about which I shall ask you; it will be more polite in you to give me a plain answer; tell me the name by which your father and mother over yonder used to call you, and by which you were known among your neighbours and fellow- citizens.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id175
sentence:
There is no one, neither rich nor poor, who is absolutely without any name whatever, for people 's fathers and mothers give them names as soon as they are born.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id176
sentence:
Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id177
sentence:
For the Phaeacians have no pilots; their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want ;they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id178
sentence:
Still I do remember hearing my father say that Neptune was angry with us for being too easy- going in the matter of giving people escorts.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id179
sentence:
He said that one of these days he should wreck a ship of ours as it was returning from having escorted some one and bury our city under a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id180
sentence:
This is what my father used to say, but whether the god will carry out his threat or no is a matter which he will decide for himself.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id183
sentence:
Tell us of the peoples themselves, and of their cities— who were hostile, savage and uncivilised, and who, on the other hand, hospitable and humane.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id184
sentence:
Tell us also why you are made so unhappy on hearing about the return of the Argive Danaans from Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id185
sentence:
The gods arranged all this, and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about.


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id187
sentence:
a son- in- law or father- in- law— which are the nearest relations a man has outside his own flesh and blood?


title: homer-odyssey_08
idx: id188
sentence:
or was it some brave and kindly- natured comrade— for a good friend is as dear to a man as his own brother?"


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id1
sentence:
The exploits of Diomed, who, though wounded by Pandarus, continues fighting—He kills Pandarus and wounds AEneas—Venus rescues AEneas, but being wounded by Diomed, commits him to the care of Apollo and goes to Olympus, where she is tended by her mother Dione—Mars encourages the Trojans, and AEneas returns to the fight cured of his wound—Minerva and Juno help the Achaeans, and by the advice of the former Diomed wounds Mars, who returns to Olympus to get cured.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id2
sentence:
Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id3
sentence:
She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus— even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly- burly of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id4
sentence:
Now there was a certain rich and honourable man among the Trojans, priest of Vulcan, and his name was Dares.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id6
sentence:
These two came forward from the main body of Trojans, and set upon Diomed, he being on foot, while they fought from their chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id7
sentence:
When they were close up to one another, Phegeus took aim first, but his spear went over Diomed 's left shoulder without hitting him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id8
sentence:
Diomed then threw, and his spear sped not in vain, for it hit Phegeus on the breast near the nipple, and he fell from his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id9
sentence:
Idaeus did not dare to bestride his brother 's body, but sprang from the chariot and took to flight, or he would have shared his brother 's fate; whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief; but the son of Tydeus drove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id10
sentence:
The Trojans were scared when they saw the two sons of Dares, one of them in fright and the other lying dead by his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id11
sentence:
Minerva, therefore, took Mars by the hand and said," Mars, Mars, bane of men, bloodstained stormer of cities, may we not now leave the Trojans and Achaeans to fight it out, and see to which of the two Jove will vouchsafe the victory?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id16
sentence:
The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the broad of his back, just as he was turning in flight; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id18
sentence:
Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right shoulder as he was mounting his chariot, and the darkness of death enshrouded him as he fell heavily from the car.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id19
sentence:
The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour, while Menelaus, son of Atreus, killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius, a mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id20
sentence:
Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but neither she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id21
sentence:
Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton, who was the son of Hermon, a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of cunning workmanship, for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id22
sentence:
He it was that made the ships for Alexandrus, which were the beginning of all mischief, and brought evil alike both on the Trojans and on Alexandrus himself; for he heeded not the decrees of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id24
sentence:
The point of the spear went through the bone into the bladder, and death came upon him as he cried aloud and fell forward on his knees.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id25
sentence:
Meges, moreover, slew Pedaeus, son of Antenor, who, though he was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children, for the love she bore her husband.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id26
sentence:
The son of Phyleus got close up to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck: it went under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and fell dead in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id27
sentence:
And Eurypylus, son of Euaemon, killed Hypsenor, the son of noble Dolopion, who had been made priest of the river Scamander, and was honoured among the people as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id28
sentence:
Eurypylus gave him chase as he was flying before him, smote him with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong hand from off it.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id29
sentence:
The bloody hand fell to the ground, and the shades of death, with fate that no man can withstand, came over his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id32
sentence:
He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man 's hand has reclaimed— even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id33
sentence:
Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving the Trojans pell- mell before him, he aimed an arrow and hit the front part of his cuirass near the shoulder: the arrow went right through the metal and pierced the flesh, so that the cuirass was covered with blood.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id34
sentence:
On this the son of Lycaon shouted in triumph," Knights Trojans, come on; the bravest of the Achaeans is wounded, and he will not hold out much longer if King Apollo was indeed with me when I sped from Lycia hither."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id35
sentence:
Thus did he vaunt; but his arrow had not killed Diomed, who withdrew and made for the chariot and horses of Sthenelus, the son of Capaneus. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id36
sentence:
Dear son of Capaneus," said he," come down from your chariot, and draw the arrow out of my shoulder."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id37
sentence:
Sthenelus sprang from his chariot, and drew the arrow from the wound, whereon the blood came spouting out through the hole that had been made in his shirt.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id38
sentence:
Then Diomed prayed, saying," Hear me, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear 's throw of that man and kill him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id39
sentence:
He has been too quick for me and has wounded me; and now he is boasting that I shall not see the light of the sun much longer."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id40
sentence:
Thus he prayed, and Pallas Minerva heard him; she made his limbs supple and quickened his hands and his feet.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id41
sentence:
Then she went up close to him and said," Fear not, Diomed, to do battle with the Trojans, for I have set in your heart the spirit of your knightly father Tydeus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id43
sentence:
If, then, any other god comes here and offers you battle, do not fight him; but should Jove 's daughter Venus come, strike her with your spear and wound her."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id44
sentence:
When she had said this Minerva went away, and the son of Tydeus again took his place among the foremost fighters, three times more fierce even than he had been before.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id45
sentence:
He was like a lion that some mountain shepherd has wounded, but not killed, as he is springing over the wall of a sheep- yard to attack the sheep.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id46
sentence:
The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but can not defend his flock, so he takes shelter under cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic- stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep- yard wall.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id48
sentence:
He killed Astynous, and Hypeiron shepherd of his people, the one with a thrust of his spear, which struck him above the nipple, the other with a sword- cut on the collar- bone, that severed his shoulder from his neck and back.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id49
sentence:
He let both of them lie, and went in pursuit of Abas and Polyidus, sons of the old reader of dreams Eurydamas: they never came back for him to read them any more dreams, for mighty Diomed made an end of them.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id50
sentence:
He then gave chase to Xanthus and Thoon, the two sons of Phaenops, both of them very dear to him, for he was now worn out with age, and begat no more sons to inherit his possessions.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id51
sentence:
But Diomed took both their lives and left their father sorrowing bitterly, for he nevermore saw them come home from battle alive, and his kinsmen divided his wealth among themselves.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id53
sentence:
He sprang upon them as a lion fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a coppice.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id54
sentence:
For all their vain struggles he flung them both from their chariot and stripped the armour from their bodies.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id56
sentence:
When Aeneas saw him thus making havoc among the ranks, he went through the fight amid the rain of spears to see if he could find Pandarus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id57
sentence:
When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he said," Pandarus, where is now your bow, your winged arrows, and your renown as an archer, in respect of which no man here can rival you nor is there any in Lycia that can beat you?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id58
sentence:
Lift then your hands to Jove and send an arrow at this fellow who is going so masterfully about, and has done such deadly work among the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id59
sentence:
He has killed many a brave man— unless indeed he is some god who is angry with the Trojans about their sacrifices, and and has set his hand against them in his displeasure."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id62
sentence:
It is possible that he may be a god, but if he is the man I say he is, he is not making all this havoc without heaven 's help, but has some god by his side who is shrouded in a cloud of darkness, and who turned my arrow aside when it had hit him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id63
sentence:
I have taken aim at him already and hit him on the right shoulder; my arrow went through the breastpiece of his cuirass; and I made sure I should send him hurrying to the world below, but it seems that I have not killed him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id66
sentence:
In my father 's stables there are eleven excellent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill- fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id67
sentence:
These it seems, are of no use, for I have already hit two chieftains, the sons of Atreus and of Tydeus, and though I drew blood surely enough, I have only made them still more furious.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id68
sentence:
I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in Hector 's service, and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may some one cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire— such pranks as it plays me."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id70
sentence:
Things will not mend till we two go against this man with chariot and horses and bring him to a trial of arms.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id71
sentence:
Mount my chariot, and note how cleverly the horses of Tros can speed hither and thither over the plain in pursuit or flight.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id73
sentence:
Take hold, then, of the whip and reins while I stand upon the car to fight, or else do you wait this man 's onset while I look after the horses."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id74
sentence:
"Aeneas," replied the son of Lycaon," take the reins and drive; if we have to fly before the son of Tydeus the horses will go better for their own driver.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id75
sentence:
If they miss the sound of your voice when they expect it they may be frightened, and refuse to take us out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id79
sentence:
Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, saw them coming and said to Diomed," Diomed, son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, I see two heroes speeding towards you, both of them men of might the one a skilful archer, Pandarus son of Lycaon, the other, Aeneas, whose sire is Anchises, while his mother is Venus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id82
sentence:
Diomed looked angrily at him and answered:" Talk not of flight, for I shall not listen to you: I am of a race that knows neither flight nor fear, and my limbs are as yet unwearied.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id83
sentence:
I am in no mind to mount, but will go against them even as I am; Pallas Minerva bids me be afraid of no man, and even though one of them escape, their steeds shall not take both back again.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id84
sentence:
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart —if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Aeneas ' horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id85
sentence:
They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id86
sentence:
King Anchises stole the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon 's knowledge, and they bore him six foals.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id89
sentence:
Thus did they converse, but the other two had now driven close up to them, and the son of Lycaon spoke first. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id90
sentence:
Great and mighty son," said he," of noble Tydeus, my arrow failed to lay you low, so I will now try with my spear."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id92
sentence:
It struck the shield of the son of Tydeus; the bronze point pierced it and passed on till it reached the breastplate.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id93
sentence:
Thereon the son of Lycaon shouted out and said," You are hit clean through the belly; you will not stand out for long, and the glory of the fight is mine."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id94
sentence:
But Diomed all undismayed made answer," You have missed, not hit, and before you two see the end of this matter one or other of you shall glut tough- shielded Mars with his blood."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id96
sentence:
It went crashing in among his white teeth; the bronze point cut through the root of his tongue, coming out under his chin, and his glistening armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id98
sentence:
Aeneas sprang from his chariot armed with shield and spear, fearing lest the Achaeans should carry off the body.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id99
sentence:
He bestrode it as a lion in the pride of strength, with shield and spear before him and a cry of battle on his lips resolute to kill the first that should dare face him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id100
sentence:
But the son of Tydeus caught up a mighty stone, so huge and great that as men now are it would take two to lift it; nevertheless he bore it aloft with ease unaided, and with this he struck Aeneas on the groin where the hip turns in the joint that is called the" cup- bone. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id101
sentence:
The stone crushed this joint, and broke both the sinews, while its jagged edges tore away all the flesh.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id102
sentence:
The hero fell on his knees, and propped himself with his hand resting on the ground till the darkness of night fell upon his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id103
sentence:
And now Aeneas, king of men, would have perished then and there, had not his mother, Jove 's daughter Venus, who had conceived him by Anchises when he was herding cattle, been quick to mark, and thrown her two white arms about the body of her dear son.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id104
sentence:
She protected him by covering him with a fold of her own fair garment, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id107
sentence:
He made his own horses fast, away from the hurly- burly, by binding the reins to the rim of the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id109
sentence:
When he had so done he gave them over to his chosen comrade Deipylus, whom he valued above all others as the one who was most like- minded with himself, to take them on to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id110
sentence:
He then remounted his own chariot, seized the reins, and drove with all speed in search of the son of Tydeus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id111
sentence:
Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess, spear in hand, for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities, and when at last after a long chase he caught her up, he flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate hand.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id112
sentence:
The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id113
sentence:
Venus screamed aloud, and let her son fall, but Phoebus Apollo caught him in his arms, and hid him in a cloud of darkness, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him; and Diomed shouted out as he left her," Daughter of Jove, leave war and battle alone, can you not be contented with beguiling silly women?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id115
sentence:
The goddess went dazed and discomfited away, and Iris, fleet as the wind, drew her from the throng, in pain and with her fair skin all besmirched.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id116
sentence:
She found fierce Mars waiting on the left of the battle, with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud; whereon she fell on her knees before her brother and implored him to let her have his horses. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id117
sentence:
Dear brother," she cried," save me, and give me your horses to take me to Olympus where the gods dwell.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id120
sentence:
She mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart, while Iris sat beside her and took the reins in her hand.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id121
sentence:
She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id122
sentence:
There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying," Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?"


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id123
sentence:
And laughter- loving Venus answered," Proud Diomed, the son of Tydeus, wounded me because I was bearing my dear son Aeneas, whom I love best of all mankind, out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id124
sentence:
The war is no longer one between Trojans and Achaeans, for the Danaans have now taken to fighting with the immortals."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id126
sentence:
We dwellers in Olympus have to put up with much at the hands of men, and we lay much suffering on one another.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id127
sentence:
Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id128
sentence:
Mars would have then perished had not fair Eeriboea, stepmother to the sons of Aloeus, told Mercury, who stole him away when he was already well- nigh worn out by the severity of his bondage.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id129
sentence:
Juno, again, suffered when the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a three- barbed arrow, and nothing could assuage her pain.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id130
sentence:
So, also, did huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis- bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id131
sentence:
Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id132
sentence:
Daring, head- strong, evildoer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell in Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id133
sentence:
And now Minerva has egged this son of Tydeus on against yourself, fool that he is for not reflecting that no man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id134
sentence:
Let, then, the son of Tydeus see that he does not have to fight with one who is stronger than you are.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id135
sentence:
Then shall his brave wife Aegialeia, daughter of Adrestus, rouse her whole house from sleep, wailing for the loss of her wedded lord, Diomed the bravest of the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id136
sentence:
So saying, she wiped the ichor from the wrist of her daughter with both hands, whereon the pain left her, and her hand was healed.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id137
sentence:
But Minerva and Juno, who were looking on, began to taunt Jove with their mocking talk, and Minerva was first to speak. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id138
sentence:
Father Jove," said she," do not be angry with me, but I think the Cyprian must have been persuading some one of the Achaean women to go with the Trojans of whom she is so very fond, and while caressing one or other of them she must have torn her delicate hand with the gold pin of the woman 's brooch."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id142
sentence:
Attend, henceforth, to your own delightful matrimonial duties, and leave all this fighting to Mars and to Minerva."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id145
sentence:
Not one whit did he fear the mighty god ,so set was he on killing Aeneas and stripping him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id146
sentence:
Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay him, and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id147
sentence:
When he was coming on for the fourth time, as though he were a god, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said," Take heed, son of Tydeus, and draw off; think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth can not hold their own with the immortals."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id148
sentence:
The son of Tydeus then gave way for a little space, to avoid the anger of the god, while Apollo took Aeneas out of the crowd and set him in sacred Pergamus, where his temple stood.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id149
sentence:
There, within the mighty sanctuary, Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold, while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas, and armed as he was.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id150
sentence:
Round this the Trojans and Achaeans hacked at the bucklers about one another 's breasts, hewing each other 's round shields and light hide- covered targets.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id151
sentence:
Then Phoebus Apollo said to Mars," Mars, Mars, bane of men, blood- stained stormer of cities, can you not go to this man, the son of Tydeus, who would now fight even with father Jove, and draw him out of the battle?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id152
sentence:
He first went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist, and afterwards sprang upon me too, as though he were a god."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id153
sentence:
He then took his seat on the top of Pergamus, while murderous Mars went about among the ranks of the Trojans, cheering them on, in the likeness of fleet Acamas chief of the Thracians."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id162
sentence:
You used to say that though you had neither people nor allies you could hold the town alone with your brothers and brothers- in- law.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id163
sentence:
I see not one of them here; they cower as hounds before a lion; it is we, your allies, who bear the brunt of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id164
sentence:
I have come from afar, even from Lycia and the banks of the river Xanthus, where I have left my wife, my infant son, and much wealth to tempt whoever is needy; nevertheless, I head my Lycian soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder, while you look on, without even bidding your men stand firm in defence of their wives.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id165
sentence:
See that you fall not into the hands of your foes as men caught in the meshes of a net, and they sack your fair city forthwith.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id166
sentence:
Keep this before your mind night and day, and beseech the captains of your allies to hold on without flinching, and thus put away their reproaches from you."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id168
sentence:
He sprang from his chariot clad in his suit of armour, and went about among the host brandishing his two spears, exhorting the men to fight and raising the terrible cry of battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id169
sentence:
Then they rallied and again faced the Achaeans, but the Argives stood compact and firm, and were not driven back.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id170
sentence:
As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some goodly threshing- floor, when men are winnowing— while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaff- heaps grow whiter and whiter— even so did the Achaeans whiten in the dust which the horses ' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them back to battle, and they bore down with might upon the foe.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id171
sentence:
Fierce Mars, to help the Trojans, covered them in a veil of darkness, and went about everywhere among them, inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo had told him that when he saw Pallas Minerva leave the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of the Trojans —for it was she who was helping the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id172
sentence:
Then Apollo sent Aeneas forth from his rich sanctuary, and filled his heart with valour, whereon he took his place among his comrades, who were overjoyed at seeing him alive, sound, and of a good courage; but they could not ask him how it had all happened, for they were too busy with the turmoil raised by Mars and by Strife, who raged insatiably in their midst.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id173
sentence:
The two Ajaxes, Ulysses and Diomed, cheered the Danaans on, fearless of the fury and onset of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id174
sentence:
They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions— even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id176
sentence:
My friends," said he," quit yourselves like brave men, and shun dishonour in one another 's eyes amid the stress of battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id177
sentence:
They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id178
sentence:
As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the front rank, the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id179
sentence:
The spear of King Agamemnon struck his shield and went right through it, for the shield stayed it not.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id180
sentence:
It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id182
sentence:
Their father was a rich man who lived in the strong city of Phere and was descended from the river Alpheus, whose broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id183
sentence:
The river begat Orsilochus, who ruled over much people and was father to Diocles, who in his turn begat twin sons, Crethon and Orsilochus, well skilled in all the arts of war.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id184
sentence:
These, when they grew up, went to Ilius with the Argive fleet in the cause of Menelaus and Agamemnon sons of Atreus, and there they both of them fell.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id185
sentence:
As two lions whom their dam has reared in the depths of some mountain forest to plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they get killed by the hand of man, so were these two vanquished by Aeneas, and fell like high pine- trees to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id186
sentence:
Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandishing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were setting their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id187
sentence:
Aeneas, bold though he was, drew back on seeing the two heroes side by side in front of him, so they drew the bodies of Crethon and Orsilochus to the ranks of the Achaeans and committed the two poor fellows into the hands of their comrades.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id190
sentence:
Menelaus struck him on the collar- bone as he was standing on his chariot, while Antilochus hit his charioteer and squire Mydon, the son of Atymnius, who was turning his horses in flight.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id191
sentence:
He hit him with a stone upon the elbow, and the reins, enriched with white ivory, fell from his hands into the dust.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id192
sentence:
Antilochus rushed towards him and struck him on the temples with his sword, whereon he fell head first from the chariot to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id193
sentence:
There he stood for a while with his head and shoulders buried deep in the dust— for he had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as Antilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id194
sentence:
But Hector marked them from across the ranks, and with a loud cry rushed towards them, followed by the strong battalions of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id195
sentence:
Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id197
sentence:
As a man crossing a wide plain is dismayed to find himself on the brink of some great river rolling swiftly to the sea— he sees its boiling waters and starts back in fear— even so did the son of Tydeus give ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id199
sentence:
Some god is ever by his side to protect him, and now Mars is with him in the likeness of mortal man.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id200
sentence:
Keep your faces therefore towards the Trojans, but give ground backwards, for we dare not fight with gods."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id201
sentence:
As he spoke the Trojans drew close up, and Hector killed two men, both in one chariot, Menesthes and Anchialus, heroes well versed in war.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id202
sentence:
Ajax son of Telamon pitied them in their fall; he came close up and hurled his spear, hitting Amphius the son of Selagus, a man of great wealth who lived in Paesus and owned much corn- growing land, but his lot had led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id203
sentence:
Ajax struck him in the belt; the spear pierced the lower part of his belly, and he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id204
sentence:
Then Ajax ran towards him to strip him of his armour, but the Trojans rained spears upon him, many of which fell upon his shield.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id205
sentence:
He planted his heel upon the body and drew out his spear, but the darts pressed so heavily upon him that he could not strip the goodly armour from his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id206
sentence:
The Trojan chieftains, moreover, many and valiant, came about him with their spears, so that he dared not stay; great, brave and valiant though he was, they drove him from them and he was beaten back.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id208
sentence:
Presently the strong hand of fate impelled Tlepolemus, the son of Hercules, a man both brave and of great stature, to fight Sarpedon; so the two, son and grandson of great Jove, drew near to one another, and Tlepolemus spoke first.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id209
sentence:
"Sarpedon," said he," councillor of the Lycians, why should you come skulking here you who are a man of peace?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id210
sentence:
They lie who call you son of aegis- bearing Jove, for you are little like those who were of old his children.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id211
sentence:
Far other was Hercules, my own brave and lion- hearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilius and made a wilderness of her highways.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id213
sentence:
For all your strength, and all your coming from Lycia, you will be no help to the Trojans but will pass the gates of Hades vanquished by my hand."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id214
sentence:
And Sarpedon, captain of the Lycians, answered," Tlepolemus, your father overthrew Ilius by reason of Laomedon 's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id219
sentence:
They threw at the same moment, and Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his throat; the spear went right through, and the darkness of death fell upon his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id220
sentence:
Tlepolemus 's spear struck Sarpedon on the left thigh with such force that it tore through the flesh and grazed the bone, but his father as yet warded off destruction from him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id221
sentence:
His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight, in great pain by the weight of the spear that was dragging from his wound.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id222
sentence:
They were in such haste and stress as they bore him that no one thought of drawing the spear from his thigh so as to let him walk uprightly.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id223
sentence:
Meanwhile the Achaeans carried off the body of Tlepolemus, whereon Ulysses was moved to pity, and panted for the fray as he beheld them.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id224
sentence:
He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it was not decreed, however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, therefore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id225
sentence:
He killed Coeranus, Alastor, Chromius, Alcandrus, Halius, Noemon, and Prytanis, and would have slain yet more, had not great Hector marked him, and sped to the front of the fight clad in his suit of mail, filling the Danaans with terror.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id226
sentence:
Sarpedon was glad when he saw him coming, and besought him, saying," Son of Priam, let me not be here to fall into the hands of the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id227
sentence:
Help me, and since I may not return home to gladden the hearts of my wife and of my infant son, let me die within the walls of your city."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id228
sentence:
Hector made him no answer, but rushed onward to fall at once upon the Achaeans and kill many among them.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id230
sentence:
Pelagon, his friend and comrade, drew the spear out of his thigh, but Sarpedon fainted and a mist came over his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id231
sentence:
Presently he came to himself again, for the breath of the north wind as it played upon him gave him new life, and brought him out of the deep swoon into which he had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id232
sentence:
Meanwhile the Argives were neither driven towards their ships by Mars and Hector, nor yet did they attack them; when they knew that Mars was with the Trojans they retreated, but kept their faces still turned towards the foe.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id234
sentence:
They were valiant Teuthras, and Orestes the renowned charioteer, Trechus the Aetolian warrior, Oenomaus, Helenus the son of Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle, who was possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian lake with the other Boeotians who lived near him, owners of a fertile country.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id235
sentence:
Now when the goddess Juno saw the Argives thus falling, she said to Minerva," Alas, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, unweariable, the promise we made Menelaus that he should not return till he had sacked the city of Ilius will be of no effect if we let Mars rage thus furiously.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id239
sentence:
Hebe with all speed fitted on the eight- spoked wheels of bronze that were on either side of the iron axle- tree.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id240
sentence:
The felloes of the wheels were of gold, imperishable, and over these there was a tire of bronze, wondrous to behold.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id242
sentence:
The car itself was made with plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double top- rail running all round it.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id243
sentence:
From the body of the car there went a pole of silver, on to the end of which she bound the golden yoke, with the bands of gold that were to go under the necks of the horses Then Juno put her steeds under the yoke, eager for battle and the war- cry.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id244
sentence:
Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered vesture, made with her own hands, on to her father 's threshold, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id245
sentence:
She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis- bearing Jove.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id246
sentence:
On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind— decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id247
sentence:
Juno lashed the horses on, and the gates of heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord— gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are Heaven and Olympus, either to open the dense cloud that hides them, or to close it.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id248
sentence:
Through these the goddesses drove their obedient steeds, and found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the topmost ridges of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id251
sentence:
how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he has destroyed to my great grief, and without either right or reason, while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and setting this unrighteous madman on to do further mischief.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id252
sentence:
I hope, Father Jove, that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of the battle."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id256
sentence:
As far as a man can see when he looks out upon the sea from some high beacon, so far can the loud- neighing horses of the gods spring at a single bound.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id257
sentence:
When they reached Troy and the place where its two flowing streams Simois and Scamander meet, there Juno stayed them and took them from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id258
sentence:
She hid them in a thick cloud, and Simois made ambrosia spring up for them to eat; the two goddesses then went on, flying like turtledoves in their eagerness to help the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id259
sentence:
When they came to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomed, fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and endurance, there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that of brazen- voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together. "


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id260
sentence:
Argives," she cried;" shame on cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; as long as Achilles was fighting, if his spear was so deadly that the Trojans dared not show themselves outside the Dardanian gates, but now they sally far from the city and fight even at your ships."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id261
sentence:
With these words she put heart and soul into them all, while Minerva sprang to the side of the son of Tydeus, whom she found near his chariot and horses, cooling the wound that Pandarus had given him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id262
sentence:
For the sweat caused by the hand that bore the weight of his shield irritated the hurt: his arm was weary with pain, and he was lifting up the strap to wipe away the blood.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id263
sentence:
The goddess laid her hand on the yoke of his horses and said," The son of Tydeus is not such another as his father.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id264
sentence:
Tydeus was a little man, but he could fight, and rushed madly into the fray even when I told him not to do so.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id265
sentence:
When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id266
sentence:
I stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id267
sentence:
Diomed answered," I know you, goddess, daughter of aegis- bearing Jove, and will hide nothing from you.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id269
sentence:
I am only following your own instructions; you told me not to fight any of the blessed gods; but if Jove 's daughter Venus came into battle I was to wound her with my spear.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id270
sentence:
Therefore I am retreating, and bidding the other Argives gather in this place, for I know that Mars is now lording it in the field."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id271
sentence:
"Diomed, son of Tydeus," replied Minerva," man after my own heart, fear neither Mars nor any other of the immortals, for I will befriend you.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id272
sentence:
Nay, drive straight at Mars, and smite him in close combat; fear not this raging madman, villain incarnate, first on one side and then on the other.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id273
sentence:
But now he was holding talk with Juno and myself, saying he would help the Argives and attack the Trojans; nevertheless he is with the Trojans, and has forgotten the Argives."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id275
sentence:
In a second he was on the ground, whereupon the goddess mounted the car and placed herself by the side of Diomed.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id276
sentence:
The oaken axle groaned aloud under the burden of the awful goddess and the hero; Pallas Minerva took the whip and reins, and drove straight at Mars.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id278
sentence:
Bloody Mars was stripping him of his armour, and Minerva donned the helmet of Hades, that he might not see her ;when, therefore, he saw Diomed, he made straight for him and let Periphas lie where he had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id279
sentence:
As soon as they were at close quarters he let fly with his bronze spear over the reins and yoke, thinking to take Diomed 's life, but Minerva caught the spear in her hand and made it fly harmlessly over the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id280
sentence:
Diomed then threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars 's stomach where his under- girdle went round him.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id282
sentence:
Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id283
sentence:
As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow after heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id284
sentence:
With all speed he reached high Olympus, home of the gods, and in great pain sat down beside Jove the son of Saturn.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id285
sentence:
He showed Jove the immortal blood that was flowing from his wound, and spoke piteously, saying," Father Jove, are you not angered by such doings?


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id286
sentence:
We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another 's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id287
sentence:
We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id289
sentence:
First he went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist, and then he sprang upon me too as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id290
sentence:
Had I not run for it I must either have lain there for long enough in torments among the ghastly corpses, or have been eaten alive with spears till I had no more strength left in me."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id293
sentence:
You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight :still, I can not let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own offspring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans."


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id294
sentence:
He then bade Paeeon heal him, whereon Paeeon spread pain- killing herbs upon his wound and cured him, for he was not of mortal mould.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id295
sentence:
As the juice of the fig- tree curdles milk, and thickens it in a moment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Paeeon cure fierce Mars.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id296
sentence:
Then Hebe washed him, and clothed him in goodly raiment, and he took his seat by his father Jove all glorious to behold.


title: homer-iliad_05
idx: id297
sentence:
But Juno of Argos and Minerva of Alalcomene, now that they had put a stop to the murderous doings of Mars, went back again to the house of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id1
sentence:
A quarrel in Olympus—Minerva goes down and persuades Fandarus to violate the oaths by wounding Menelaus with an arrow—Agamemnon makes a speech and sends for Machaon—He then goes about among his captains and upbraids Ulysses and Sthenelus, who each of them retort fiercely—Diomed checks Sthenelus, and the two hosts then engage, with great slaughter on either side.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id2
sentence:
Now the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon the golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id4
sentence:
Menelaus," said he," has two good friends among the goddesses, Juno of Argos, and Minerva of Alalcomene, but they only sit still and look on, while Venus keeps ever by Alexandrus ' side to defend him in any danger ;indeed she has just rescued him when he made sure that it was all over with him— for the victory really did lie with Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id5
sentence:
We must consider what we shall do about all this; shall we set them fighting anew or make peace between them?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id6
sentence:
If you will agree to this last Menelaus can take back Helen and the city of Priam may remain still inhabited."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id7
sentence:
Minerva and Juno muttered their discontent as they sat side by side hatching mischief for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id8
sentence:
Minerva scowled at her father, for she was in a furious passion with him, and said nothing, but Juno could not contain herself. "


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id10
sentence:
Is my trouble, then, to go for nothing, and the sweat that I have sweated, to say nothing of my horses, while getting the people together against Priam and his children?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id12
sentence:
Jove was angry and answered," My dear, what harm have Priam and his sons done you that you are so hotly bent on sacking the city of Ilius?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id13
sentence:
Will nothing do for you but you must within their walls and eat Priam raw, with his sons and all the other Trojans to boot?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id15
sentence:
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, if ever I want to sack a city belonging to friends of yours, you must not try to stop me; you will have to let me do it, for I am giving in to you sorely against my will.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id16
sentence:
Of all inhabited cities under the sun and stars of heaven ,there was none that I so much respected as Ilius with Priam and his whole people.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id17
sentence:
Equitable feasts were never wanting about my altar, nor the savour of burning fat, which is honour due to ourselves."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id21
sentence:
Even if I did, and tried to stay you, I should take nothing by it, for you are much stronger than I am, but I will not have my own work wasted.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id23
sentence:
I am Saturn 's eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king over the gods.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id24
sentence:
Let it be a case, then, of give- and- take between us, and the rest of the gods will follow our lead.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id25
sentence:
Tell Minerva to go and take part in the fight at once, and let her contrive that the Trojans shall be the first to break their oaths and set upon the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id26
sentence:
The sire of gods and men heeded her words, and said to Minerva," Go at once into the Trojan and Achaean hosts, and contrive that the Trojans shall be the first to break their oaths and set upon the Achaeans."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id27
sentence:
This was what Minerva was already eager to do, so down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id28
sentence:
She shot through the sky as some brilliant meteor which the son of scheming Saturn has sent as a sign to mariners or to some great army, and a fiery train of light follows in its wake.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id29
sentence:
The Trojans and Achaeans were struck with awe as they beheld, and one would turn to his neighbour, saying," Either we shall again have war and din of combat, or Jove the lord of battle will now make peace between us."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id31
sentence:
Then Minerva took the form of Laodocus, son of Antenor, and went through the ranks of the Trojans to find Pandarus, the redoubtable son of Lycaon.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id32
sentence:
She found him standing among the stalwart heroes who had followed him from the banks of the Aesopus, so she went close up to him and said," Brave son of Lycaon, will you do as I tell you?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id33
sentence:
If you dare send an arrow at Menelaus you will win honour and thanks from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexandrus— he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaus mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id34
sentence:
Take your home aim then, and pray to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer; vow that when you get home to your strong city of Zelea you will offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id36
sentence:
This bow was made from the horns of a wild ibex which he had killed as it was bounding from a rock; he had stalked it, and it had fallen as the arrow struck it to the heart.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id37
sentence:
Its horns were sixteen palms long, and a worker in horn had made them into a bow, smoothing them well down, and giving them tips of gold.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id38
sentence:
When Pandarus had strung his bow he laid it carefully on the ground, and his brave followers held their shields before him lest the Achaeans should set upon him before he had shot Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id39
sentence:
Then he opened the lid of his quiver and took out a winged arrow that had not yet been shot, fraught with the pangs of death.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id40
sentence:
He laid the arrow on the string and prayed to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer, vowing that when he got home to his strong city of Zelea he would offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id41
sentence:
He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow- head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half- circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id42
sentence:
But the blessed gods did not forget thee, O Menelaus, and Jove 's daughter, driver of the spoil, was the first to stand before thee and ward off the piercing arrow.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id43
sentence:
She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id44
sentence:
It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, nevertheless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id45
sentence:
As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek- piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house— many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud— even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id46
sentence:
When King Agamemnon saw the blood flowing from the wound he was afraid, and so was brave Menelaus himself till he saw that the barbs of the arrow and the thread that bound the arrow- head to the shaft were still outside the wound.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id47
sentence:
Then he took heart, but Agamemnon heaved a deep sigh as he held Menelaus 's hand in his own, and his comrades made moan in concert. "


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id48
sentence:
Dear brother," he cried," I have been the death of you in pledging this covenant and letting you come forward as our champion.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id49
sentence:
The Trojans have trampled on their oaths and have wounded you; nevertheless the oath, the blood of lambs, the drink- offerings and the right hands of fellowship in which we have put our trust shall not be vain.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id50
sentence:
If he that rules Olympus fulfil it not here and now, he will yet fulfil it hereafter, and they shall pay dearly with their lives and with their wives and children.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id51
sentence:
The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam 's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in punishment of their present treachery.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id54
sentence:
We shall leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, and the earth will rot your bones as you lie here at Troy with your purpose not fulfilled.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id55
sentence:
Then shall some braggart Trojan leap upon your tomb and say,' Ever thus may Agamemnon wreak his vengeance; he brought his army in vain; he is gone home to his own land with empty ships, and has left Menelaus behind him.'


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id57
sentence:
But Menelaus reassured him and said," Take heart, and do not alarm the people; the arrow has not struck me in a mortal part, for my outer belt of burnished metal first stayed it, and under this my cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze- smiths made me."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id58
sentence:
And Agamemnon answered," I trust, dear Menelaus, that it may be even so, but the surgeon shall examine your wound and lay herbs upon it to relieve your pain."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id59
sentence:
He then said to Talthybius," Talthybius, tell Machaon, son to the great physician, Aesculapius, to come and see Menelaus immediately.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id60
sentence:
Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay, and to his own great glory."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id62
sentence:
Presently he found standing amid the brave warriors who had followed him from Tricca; thereon he went up to him and said," Son of Aesculapius, King Agamemnon says you are to come and see Menelaus immediately.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id63
sentence:
Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay and to his own great glory."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id65
sentence:
They passed through the spreading host of the Achaeans and went on till they came to the place where Menelaus had been wounded and was lying with the chieftains gathered in a circle round him.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id66
sentence:
Machaon passed into the middle of the ring and at once drew the arrow from the belt, bending its barbs back through the force with which he pulled it out.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id67
sentence:
He undid the burnished belt, and beneath this the cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronze- smiths had made; then, when he had seen the wound, he wiped away the blood and applied some soothing drugs which Chiron had given to Aesculapius out of the good will he bore him.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id68
sentence:
While they were thus busy about Menelaus, the Trojans came forward against them, for they had put on their armour, and now renewed the fight.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id69
sentence:
You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id70
sentence:
He left his chariot rich with bronze and his panting steeds in charge of Eurymedon, son of Ptolemaeus the son of Peiraeus, and bade him hold them in readiness against the time his limbs should weary of going about and giving orders to so many, for he went among the ranks on foot.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id72
sentence:
Argives," said he," slacken not one whit in your onset; father Jove will be no helper of liars; the Trojans have been the first to break their oaths and to attack us; therefore they shall be devoured of vultures; we shall take their city and carry off their wives and children in our ships."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id74
sentence:
Argives," he cried," cowardly miserable creatures, have you no shame to stand here like frightened fawns who, when they can no longer scud over the plain, huddle together, but show no fight?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id76
sentence:
Would you wait till the Trojans reach the sterns of our ships as they lie on the shore, to see whether the son of Saturn will hold his hand over you to protect you?"


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id78
sentence:
Passing through the crowd, he came presently on the Cretans, arming round Idomeneus, who was at their head, fierce as a wild boar, while Meriones was bringing up the battalions that were in the rear.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id80
sentence:
Idomeneus," said he," I treat you with greater distinction than I do any others of the Achaeans, whether in war or in other things, or at table.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id81
sentence:
When the princes are mixing my choicest wines in the mixing- bowls, they have each of them a fixed allowance, but your cup is kept always full like my own, that you may drink whenever you are minded.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id84
sentence:
Urge on the other Achaeans, that we may join battle at once, for the Trojans have trampled upon their covenants.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id85
sentence:
Death and destruction shall be theirs, seeing they have been the first to break their oaths and to attack us."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id86
sentence:
The son of Atreus went on, glad at heart, till he came upon the two Ajaxes arming themselves amid a host of foot- soldiers.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id87
sentence:
As when a goat- herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind— black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave— even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id89
sentence:
No need," he cried," to give orders to such leaders of the Argives as you are, for of your own selves you spur your men on to fight with might and main.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id90
sentence:
Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo that all were so minded as you are, for the city of Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id91
sentence:
With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshalling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, and Bias shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id92
sentence:
He placed his knights with their chariots and horses in the front rank, while the foot- soldiers, brave men and many, whom he could trust, were in the rear.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id94
sentence:
He gave his orders to the knights first, bidding them hold their horses well in hand, so as to avoid confusion.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id95
sentence:
"Let no man," he said," relying on his strength or horsemanship, get before the others and engage singly with the Trojans, nor yet let him lag behind or you will weaken your attack; but let each when he meets an enemy 's chariot throw his spear from his own; this be much the best; this is how the men of old took towns and strongholds; in this wise were they minded."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id97
sentence:
"I wish," he said to him," that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; but age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id98
sentence:
And Nestor, knight of Gerene, answered," Son of Atreus, I too would gladly be the man I was when I slew mighty Ereuthalion; but the gods will not give us everything at one and the same time.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id99
sentence:
I was then young, and now I am old; still I can go with my knights and give them that counsel which old men have a right to give.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id101
sentence:
Agamemnon went his way rejoicing, and presently found Menestheus, son of Peteos, tarrying in his place, and with him were the Athenians loud of tongue in battle.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id102
sentence:
Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephallenians round him; they had not yet heard the battle- cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fighting.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id103
sentence:
When he saw this Agamemnon rebuked them and said," Son of Peteos, and you other, steeped in cunning, heart of guile, why stand you here cowering and waiting on others?


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id104
sentence:
You two should be of all men foremost when there is hard fighting to be done, for you are ever foremost to accept my invitation when we councillors of the Achaeans are holding feast.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id105
sentence:
You are glad enough then to take your fill of roast meats and to drink wine as long as you please, whereas now you would not care though you saw ten columns of Achaeans engage the enemy in front of you."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id108
sentence:
When the Achaeans are in full fight with the Trojans, you shall see, if you care to do so, that the father of Telemachus will join battle with the foremost of them.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id111
sentence:
Ulysses," said he," noble son of Laertes, excellent in all good counsel, I have neither fault to find nor orders to give you, for I know your heart is right, and that you and I are of a mind.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id112
sentence:
Enough; I will make you amends for what I have said, and if any ill has now been spoken may the gods bring it to nothing."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id114
sentence:
Presently he saw the son of Tydeus, noble Diomed, standing by his chariot and horses, with Sthenelus the son of Capaneus beside him; whereon he began to upbraid him. "


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id116
sentence:
Tydeus did not shrink thus, but was ever ahead of his men when leading them on against the foe— so, at least, say they that saw him in battle, for I never set eyes upon him myself.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id118
sentence:
He came once to Mycenae, not as an enemy but as a guest, in company with Polynices to recruit his forces, for they were levying war against the strong city of Thebes, and prayed our people for a body of picked men to help them.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id119
sentence:
The men of Mycenae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable omens.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id121
sentence:
When they had got as far the deep- meadowed and rush- grown banks of the Aesopus, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteocles.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id122
sentence:
Stranger though he was, he knew no fear on finding himself single- handed among so many, but challenged them to contests of all kinds, and in each one of them was at once victorious, so mightily did Minerva help him.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id123
sentence:
The Cadmeans were incensed at his success, and set a force of fifty youths with two captains— the godlike hero Maeon, son of Haemon, and Polyphontes, son of Autophonus— at their head, to lie in wait for him on his return journey; but Tydeus slew every man of them, save only Maeon, whom he let go in obedience to heaven 's omens.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id126
sentence:
Diomed made no answer, for he was shamed by the rebuke of Agamemnon; but the son of Capaneus took up his words and said," Son of Atreus, tell no lies, for you can speak truth if you will.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id127
sentence:
We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven- gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id129
sentence:
It is not amiss that Agamemnon should urge the Achaeans forward, for the glory will be his if we take the city, and his the shame if we are vanquished.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id131
sentence:
As he spoke he sprang from his chariot, and his armour rang so fiercely about his body that even a brave man might well have been scared to hear it.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id132
sentence:
As when some mighty wave that thunders on the beach when the west wind has lashed it into fury— it has reared its head afar and now comes crashing down on the shore; it bows its arching crest high over the jagged rocks and spews its salt foam in all directions— even so did the serried phalanxes of the Danaans march steadfastly to battle.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id133
sentence:
The chiefs gave orders each to his own people, but the men said never a word; no man would think it, for huge as the host was, it seemed as though there was not a tongue among them, so silent were they in their obedience; and as they marched the armour about their bodies glistened in the sun.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id134
sentence:
But the clamour of the Trojan ranks was as that of many thousand ewes that stand waiting to be milked in the yards of some rich flockmaster, and bleat incessantly in answer to the bleating of their lambs; for they had not one speech nor language, but their tongues were diverse, and they came from many different places.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id135
sentence:
These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva— and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murderous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id136
sentence:
She it was that went about among them and flung down discord to the waxing of sorrow with even hand between them.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id137
sentence:
When they were got together in one place shield clashed with shield and spear with spear in the rage of battle.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id138
sentence:
The bossed shields beat one upon another, and there was a tramp as of a great multitude— death- cry and shout of triumph of slain and slayers, and the earth ran red with blood.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id139
sentence:
As torrents swollen with rain course madly down their deep channels till the angry floods meet in some gorge, and the shepherd on the hillside hears their roaring from afar— even such was the toil and uproar of the hosts as they joined in battle.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id140
sentence:
First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id141
sentence:
He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephenor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were falling around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id142
sentence:
But his purpose was not for long; Agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronze- shod spear— for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield— and thus he perished.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id143
sentence:
Then the fight between Trojans and Achaeans grew furious over his body, and they flew upon each other like wolves, man and man crushing one upon the other.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id144
sentence:
Forthwith Ajax, son of Telamon, slew the fair youth Simoeisius, son of Anthemion, whom his mother bore by the banks of the Simois, as she was coming down from Mt. Ida, where she had been with her parents to see their flocks.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id145
sentence:
Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the foremost fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id146
sentence:
Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodly chariot, and it lies seasoning by the waterside.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id148
sentence:
Thereon Antiphus of the gleaming corslet, son of Priam, hurled a spear at Ajax from amid the crowd and missed him, but he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Ulysses, in the groin, as he was dragging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side; so he fell upon the body and loosed his hold upon it.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id149
sentence:
Ulysses was furious when he saw Leucus slain, and strode in full armour through the front ranks till he was quite close; then he glared round about him and took aim, and the Trojans fell back as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id150
sentence:
His dart was not sped in vain, for it struck Democoon, the bastard son of Priam, who had come to him from Abydos, where he had charge of his father 's mares.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id151
sentence:
Ulysses, infuriated by the death of his comrade, hit him with his spear on one temple, and the bronze point came through on the other side of his forehead.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id152
sentence:
Thereon darkness veiled his eyes, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id153
sentence:
Hector, and they that were in front, then gave round while the Argives raised a shout and drew off the dead, pressing further forward as they did so.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id157
sentence:
Moreover, Achilles, the son of lovely Thetis, is not fighting, but is nursing his anger at the ships."


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id158
sentence:
Thus spoke the mighty god, crying to them from the city, while Jove 's redoubtable daughter, the Trito- born, went about among the host of the Achaeans, and urged them forward whenever she beheld them slackening.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id159
sentence:
Then fate fell upon Diores, son of Amarynceus, for he was struck by a jagged stone near the ancle of his right leg.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id160
sentence:
He that hurled it was Peirous, son of Imbrasus, captain of the Thracians, who had come from Aenus; the bones and both the tendons were crushed by the pitiless stone.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id161
sentence:
He fell to the ground on his back, and in his death throes stretched out his hands towards his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id162
sentence:
But Peirous, who had wounded him, sprang on him and thrust a spear into his belly, so that his bowels came gushing out upon the ground, and darkness veiled his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id163
sentence:
As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id164
sentence:
Thoas came close up to him, pulled the spear out of his chest, and then drawing his sword, smote him in the middle of the belly so that he died; but he did not strip him of his armour, for his Thracian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the top of their heads, stood round the body and kept him off with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so he was driven back.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id165
sentence:
Thus the two corpses lay stretched on earth near to one another, the one captain of the Thracians and the other of the Epeans; and many another fell round them.


title: homer-iliad_04
idx: id166
sentence:
And now no man would have made light of the fighting if he could have gone about among it scatheless and unwounded, with Minerva leading him by the hand, and protecting him from the storm of spears and arrows.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id2
sentence:
"After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there is dawn and sun- rise as in other places.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id3
sentence:
We then drew our ship on to the sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleep and waited till day should break.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id4
sentence:
"Then, when the child of morning, rosy- fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe 's house to fetch the body of Elpenor.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id5
sentence:
We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id6
sentence:
When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id7
sentence:
"While we were doing all this, Circe, who knew that we had got back from the house of Hades, dressed herself and came to us as fast as she could; and her maid servants came with her bringing us bread, meat, and wine.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id8
sentence:
Then she stood in the midst of us and said,' You have done a bold thing in going down alive to the house of Hades, and you will have died twice, to other people 's once; now, then, stay here for the rest of the day, feast your fill, and go on with your voyage at daybreak tomorrow morning.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id9
sentence:
In the meantime I will tell Ulysses about your course, and will explain everything to him so as to prevent your suffering from misadventure either by land or sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id10
sentence:
"We agreed to do as she had said, and feasted through the livelong day to the going down of the sun, but when the sun had set and it came on dark, the men laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id11
sentence:
Then Circe took me by the hand and bade me be seated away from the others, while she reclined by my side and asked me all about our adventures.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id12
sentence:
"'So far so good,' said she, when I had ended my story,' and now pay attention to what I am about to tell you— heaven itself, indeed, will recall it to your recollection.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id14
sentence:
If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id16
sentence:
Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men 's ears with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright on a cross piece half way up the mast and they must lash the rope 's ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id18
sentence:
"'When your crew have taken you past these Sirens, I can not give you coherent directions as to which of two courses you are to take; I will lay the two alternatives before you, and you must consider them for yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id19
sentence:
On the one hand there are some overhanging rocks against which the deep blue waves of Amphitrite beat with terrific fury; the blessed gods call these rocks the Wanderers.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id20
sentence:
Here not even a bird may pass, no, not even the timid doves that bring ambrosia to Father Jove, but the sheer rock always carries off one of them, and Father Jove has to send another to make up their number; no ship that ever yet came to these rocks has got away again, but the waves and whirlwinds of fire are freighted with wreckage and with the bodies of dead men.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id21
sentence:
The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aetes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Juno piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id24
sentence:
No man though he had twenty hands and twenty feet could get a foothold on it and climb it, for it runs sheer up, as smooth as though it had been polished.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id25
sentence:
In the middle of it there is a large cavern, looking West and turned towards Erebus; you must take your ship this way, but the cave is so high up that not even the stoutest archer could send an arrow into it.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id26
sentence:
Inside it Scylla sits and yelps with a voice that you might take to be that of a young hound, but in truth she is a dreadful monster and no one— not even a god— could face her without being terror- struck.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id27
sentence:
She has twelve mis- shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id28
sentence:
No ship ever yet got past her without losing some men, for she shoots out all her heads at once, and carries off a man in each mouth.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id29
sentence:
"'You will find the other rock lie lower, but they are so close together that there is not more than a bow- shot between them.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id30
sentence:
[A large fig tree in full leaf grows upon it], and under it lies the sucking whirlpool of Charybdis.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id31
sentence:
Three times in the day does she vomit forth her waters, and three times she sucks them down again; see that you be not there when she is sucking, for if you are ,Neptune himself could not save you; you must hug the Scylla side and drive ship by as fast as you can, for you had better lose six men than your whole crew.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id32
sentence:
"'Is there no way,' said I,' of escaping Charybdis, and at the same time keeping Scylla off when she is trying to harm my men?'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id33
sentence:
"'You dare devil,' replied the goddess,' you are always wanting to fight somebody or something; you will not let yourself be beaten even by the immortals.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id35
sentence:
There is no help for it; your best chance will be to get by her as fast as ever you can, for if you dawdle about her rock while you are putting on your armour, she may catch you with a second cast of her six heads, and snap up another half dozen of your men; so drive your ship past her at full speed, and roar out lustily to Crataiis who is Scylla 's dam, bad luck to her; she will then stop her from making a second raid upon you.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id36
sentence:
"'You will now come to the Thrinacian island, and here you will see many herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to the sun- god— seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id37
sentence:
They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetie, who are children of the sun- god Hyperion by Neaera.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id38
sentence:
Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father 's flocks and herds.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id39
sentence:
If you leave these flocks unharmed, and think of nothing but getting home, you may yet after much hardship reach Ithaca; but if you harm them, then I forewarn you of the destruction both of your ship and of your comrades; and even though you may yourself escape, you will return late, in bad plight, after losing all your men.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id41
sentence:
I then went on board and told my men to loose the ship from her moorings; so they at once got into her, took their places, and began to smite the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id42
sentence:
Presently the great and cunning goddess Circe befriended us with a fair wind that blew dead aft, and staid steadily with us, keeping our sails well filled, so we did whatever wanted doing to the ship 's gear, and let her go as wind and helmsman headed her.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id43
sentence:
"Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men,' My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id44
sentence:
First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id45
sentence:
Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I can not possibly break away, and lash the rope 's ends to the mast itself.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id47
sentence:
"I had hardly finished telling everything to the men before we reached the island of the two Sirens for the wind had been very favourable.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id48
sentence:
Then all of a sudden it fell dead calm; there was not a breath of wind nor a ripple upon the water, so the men furled the sails and stowed them; then taking to their oars they whitened the water with the foam they raised in rowing.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id50
sentence:
Then I kneaded the wax in my strong hands till it became soft, which it soon did between the kneading and the rays of the sun- god son of Hyperion.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id51
sentence:
Then I stopped the ears of all my men, and they bound me hands and feet to the mast as I stood upright on the cross piece; but they went on rowing themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id52
sentence:
When we had got within earshot of the land, and the ship was going at a good rate, the Sirens saw that we were getting in shore and began with their singing.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id53
sentence:
"'Come here,' they sang,' renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to our two voices.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id54
sentence:
No one ever sailed past us without staying to hear the enchanting sweetness of our song— and he who listens will go on his way not only charmed, but wiser, for we know all the ills that the gods laid upon the Argives and Trojans before Troy, and can tell you everything that is going to happen over the whole world.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id55
sentence:
"They sang these words most musically, and as I longed to hear them further I made signs by frowning to my men that they should set me free; but they quickened their stroke, and Eurylochus and Perimedes bound me with still stronger bonds till we had got out of hearing of the Sirens ' voices.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id57
sentence:
"Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave from which spray was rising, and I heard a loud roaring sound.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id58
sentence:
The men were so frightened that they loosed hold of their oars, for the whole sea resounded with the rushing of the waters but the ship stayed where it was, for the men had left off rowing.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id60
sentence:
"'My friends,' said I,' this is not the first time that we have been in danger, and we are in nothing like so bad a case as when the Cyclops shut us up in his cave; nevertheless, my courage and wise counsel saved us then, and we shall live to look back on all this as well.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id62
sentence:
As for you, coxswain, these are your orders; attend to them, for the ship is in your hands; turn her head away from these steaming rapids and hug the rock, or she will give you the slip and be over yonder before you know where you are, and you will be the death of us.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id63
sentence:
"So they did as I told them; but I said nothing about the awful monster Scylla, for I knew the men would not go on rowing if I did, but would huddle together in the hold.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id65
sentence:
Then seizing two strong spears I took my stand on the ship 's bows, for it was there that I expected first to see the monster of the rock, who was to do my men so much harm; but I could not make her out anywhere, though I strained my eyes with looking the gloomy rock all over and over.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id66
sentence:
"Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id67
sentence:
As she vomited it up, it was like the water in a cauldron when it is boiling over upon a great fire, and the spray reached the top of the rocks on either side.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id68
sentence:
When she began to suck again, we could see the water all inside whirling round and round, and it made a deafening sound as it broke against the rocks.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id69
sentence:
We could see the bottom of the whirlpool all black with sand and mud, and the men were at their wits ends for fear.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id70
sentence:
While we were taken up with this, and were expecting each moment to be our last, Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up my six best men.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id71
sentence:
I was looking at once after both ship and men, and in a moment I saw their hands and feet ever so high above me, struggling in the air as Scylla was carrying them off, and I heard them call out my name in one last despairing cry.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id72
sentence:
As a fisherman, seated, spear in hand, upon some jutting rock throws bait into the water to deceive the poor little fishes, and spears them with the ox 's horn with which his spear is shod, throwing them gasping on to the land as he catches them one by one— even so did Scylla land these panting creatures on her rock and munch them up at the mouth of her den, while they screamed and stretched out their hands to me in their mortal agony.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id74
sentence:
"When we had passed the[ Wandering] rocks, with Scylla and terrible Charybdis, we reached the noble island of the sun- god, where were the goodly cattle and sheep belonging to the sun Hyperion.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id75
sentence:
While still at sea in my ship I could bear the cattle lowing as they came home to the yards, and the sheep bleating.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id76
sentence:
Then I remembered what the blind Theban prophet Teiresias had told me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe had warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun- god.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id77
sentence:
So being much troubled I said to the men,' My men, I know you are hard pressed, but listen while I tell you the prophecy that Teiresias made me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun- god, for it was here, she said, that our worst danger would lie.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id80
sentence:
Ulysses,' said he,' you are cruel; you are very strong yourself and never get worn out; you seem to be made of iron, and now, though your men are exhausted with toil and want of sleep, you will not let them land and cook themselves a good supper upon this island, but bid them put out to sea and go faring fruitlessly on through the watches of the flying night.


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id81
sentence:
It is by night that the winds blow hardest and do so much damage; how can we escape should one of those sudden squalls spring up from South West or West, which so often wreck a vessel when our lords the gods are unpropitious?


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id82
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us obey the behests of night and prepare our supper here hard by the ship; to- morrow morning we will go on board again and put out to sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id84
sentence:
I saw that heaven meant us a mischief and said,' You force me to yield, for you are many against one, but at any rate each one of you must take his solemn oath that if he meet with a herd of cattle or a large flock of sheep, he will not be so mad as to kill a single head of either, but will be satisfied with the food that Circe has given us.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
idx: id85
sentence:
"They all swore as I bade them, and when they had completed their oath we made the ship fast in a harbour that was near a stream of fresh water, and the men went ashore and cooked their suppers.


