# sentences

title: homer-odyssey_21
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It is for a woman whose peer is not to be found in Pylos, Argos, or Mycene, nor yet in Ithaca nor on the mainland.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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I too will make trial of it, for if I can string it and shoot through the iron, I shall not suffer my mother to quit this house with a stranger, not if I can win the prizes which my father won before me.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" As he spoke he sprang from his seat, threw his crimson cloak from him, and took his sword from his shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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First he set the axes in a row, in a long groove which he had dug for them, and had made straight by line.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then he stamped the earth tight round them, and everyone was surprised when they saw him set them up so orderly, though he had never seen anything of the kind before.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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He was trying for the fourth time, and would have strung it had not Ulysses made a sign to check him in spite of all his eagerness.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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I shall either be always feeble and of no prowess, or I am too young, and have not yet reached my full strength so as to be able to hold my own if any one attacks me.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" On this he put the bow down, letting it lean against the door[ that led into the house] with the arrow standing against the top of the bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then he sat down on the seat from which he had risen, and Antinous said: "Come on each of you in his turn, going towards the right from the place at which the cupbearer begins when he is handing round the wine."


title: homer-odyssey_21
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He was now the first to take the bow and arrow, so he went on to the pavement to make his trial, but he could not string the bow, for his hands were weak and unused to hard work, they therefore soon grew tired, and he said to the suitors," My friends, I can not string it; let another have it, this bow shall take the life and soul out of many a chief among us, for it is better to die than to live after having missed the prize that we have so long striven for, and which has brought us so long together.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Some one of us is even now hoping and praying that he may marry Penelope, but when he has seen this bow and tried it, let him woo and make bridal offerings to some other woman, and let Penelope marry whoever makes her the best offer and whose lot it is to win her.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" On this he put the bow down, letting it lean against the door with the arrow standing against the tip of the bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then he took his seat again on the seat from which he had risen; and Antinous rebuked him saying: "Leiodes, what are you talking about?


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Shall, then, this bow take the life of many a chief among us, merely because you can not bend it yourself?


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then he said to Melanthius the goatherd," Look sharp, light a fire in the court, and set a seat hard by with a sheep skin on it; bring us also a large ball of lard, from what they have in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Let us warm the bow and grease it— we will then make trial of it again, and bring the contest to an end.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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He also brought a great ball of lard from what they had in the house, and the suitors warmed the bow and again made trial of it, but they were none of them nearly strong enough to string it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Nevertheless there still remained Antinous and Eurymachus, who were the ringleaders among the suitors and much the foremost among them all.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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When they had got outside the gates and the outer yard, Ulysses said to them quietly: "Stockman, and you swineherd, I have something in my mind which I am in doubt whether to say or no; but I think I will say it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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What manner of men would you be to stand by Ulysses, if some god should bring him back here all of a sudden?


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Say which you are disposed to do— to side with the suitors, or with Ulysses?" "Father Jove," answered the stockman," would indeed that you might so ordain it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If some god were but to bring Ulysses back, you should see with what might and main I would fight for him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" In like words Eumaeus prayed to all the gods that Ulysses might return; when, therefore, he saw for certain what mind they were of, Ulysses said," It is I, Ulysses, who am here.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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I find that you two alone of all my servants are glad that I should do so, for I have not heard any of the others praying for my return.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If heaven shall deliver the suitors into my hands, I will find wives for both of you, will give you house and holding close to my own, and you shall be to me as though you were brothers and friends of Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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See, here is the scar from the boar 's tooth that ripped me when I was out hunting on Mt. Parnassus with the sons of Autolycus.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" As he spoke he drew his rags aside from the great scar, and when they had examined it thoroughly, they both of them wept about Ulysses, threw their arms round him, and kissed his head and shoulders, while Ulysses kissed their hands and faces in return.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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The sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Ulysses had not checked them and said: "Cease your weeping, lest some one should come outside and see us, and tell those who are within.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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When you go in, do so separately, not both together; I will go first, and do you follow afterwards; let this moreover be the token between us; the suitors will all of them try to prevent me from getting hold of the bow and quiver; do you, therefore, Eumaeus, place it in my hands when you are carrying it about, and tell the women to close the doors of their apartment.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they must not come out; they must keep quiet, and stay where they are at their work.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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And I charge you, Philoetius, to make fast the doors of the outer court, and to bind them securely at once.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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He heaved a deep sigh and said," I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we can not string his bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Put it on one side— as for the axes they can stay where they are, for no one is likely to come to the house and take them away: let the cupbearer go round with his cups, that we may make our drinkofferings and drop this matter of the bow; we will tell Melanthius to bring us in some goats tomorrow— the best he has; we can then offer thigh bones to Apollo the mighty archer, and again make trial of the bow, so as to bring the contest to an end.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" The rest approved his words, and thereon men servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixingbowls with wine and water and handed it round after giving every man his drinkoffering.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then, when they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he desired, Ulysses craftily said:— "Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Cease shooting for the present and leave the matter to the gods, but in the morning let heaven give victory to whom it will.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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For the moment, however, give me the bow that I may prove the power of my hands among you all, and see whether I still have as much strength as I used to have, or whether travel and neglect have made an end of it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" This made them all very angry, for they feared he might string the bow, Antinous therefore rebuked him fiercely saying," Wretched creature, you have not so much as a grain of sense in your whole body; you ought to think yourself lucky in being allowed to dine unharmed among your betters, without having any smaller portion served you than we others have had, and in being allowed to hear our conversation.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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No other beggar or stranger has been allowed to hear what we say among ourselves; the wine must have been doing you a mischief, as it does with all those who drink immoderately.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithous among the Lapithae.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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When the wine had got into his head, he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Henceforth, therefore, there was war between mankind and the centaurs, but he brought it upon himself through his own drunkenness.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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In like manner I can tell you that it will go hardly with you if you string the bow: you will find no mercy from any one here, for we shall at once ship you off to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him: you will never get away alive, so drink and keep quiet without getting into a quarrel with men younger than yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Antinous," said she," it is not right that you should illtreat any guest of Telemachus who comes to this house.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If the stranger should prove strong enough to string the mighty bow of Ulysses, can you suppose that he would take me home with him and make me his wife?


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Even the man himself can have no such idea in his mind: none of you need let that disturb his feasting; it would be out of all reason.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" "Queen Penelope," answered Eurymachus," we do not suppose that this man will take you away with him; it is impossible; but we are afraid lest some of the baser sort, men or women among the Achaeans, should go gossiping about and say,' These suitors are a feeble folk; they are paying court to the wife of a brave man whose bow not one of them was able to string, and yet a beggarly tramp who came to the house strung it at once and sent an arrow through the iron.'


title: homer-odyssey_21
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This is what will be said, and it will be a scandal against us." "Eurymachus," Penelope answered," people who persist in eating up the estate of a great chieftain and dishonouring his house must not expect others to think well of them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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I say— and it shall surely be— that if Apollo vouchsafes him the glory of stringing it, I will give him a cloak and shirt of good wear, with a javelin to keep off dogs and robbers, and a sharp sword.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" Then Telemachus said," Mother, I am the only man either in Ithaca or in the islands that are over against Elis who has the right to let any one have the bow or to refuse it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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No one shall force me one way or the other, not even though I choose to make the stranger a present of the bow outright, and let him take it away with him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Go, then, within the house and busy yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and the ordering of your servants.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva sent sweet sleep over her eyelids.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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The swineherd now took up the bow and was for taking it to Ulysses, but the suitors clamoured at him from all parts of the cloisters, and one of them said," You idiot, where are you taking the bow to?


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If Apollo and the other gods will grant our prayer, your own boarhounds shall get you into some quiet little place, and worry you to death.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" Eumaeus was frightened at the outcry they all raised, so he put the bow down then and there, but Telemachus shouted out at him from the other side of the cloisters, and threatened him saying," Father Eumaeus, bring the bow on in spite of them, or young as I am I will pelt you with stones back to the country, for I am the better man of the two.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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I wish I was as much stronger than all the other suitors in the house as I am than you ,I would soon send some of them off sick and sorry, for they mean mischief.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" Thus did he speak, and they all of them laughed heartily, which put them in a better humour with Telemachus; so Eumaeus brought the bow on and placed it in the hands of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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When he had done this, he called Euryclea apart and said to her," Euryclea, Telemachus says you are to close the doors of the women 's apartments.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they are not to come out, but are to keep quiet and stay where they are at their work.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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There was a ship 's cable of byblus fibre lying in the gatehouse, so he made the gates fast with it and then came in again, resuming the seat that he had left, and keeping an eye on Ulysses, who had now got the bow in his hands, and was turning it every way about, and proving it all over to see whether the worms had been eating into its two horns during his absence.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then would one turn towards his neighbour saying," This is some tricky old bowfancier; either he has got one like it at home, or he wants to make one, in such workmanlike style does the old vagabond handle it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" Another said," I hope he may be no more successful in other things than he is likely to be in stringing this bow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Then he took it in his right hand to prove the string, and it sang sweetly under his touch like the twittering of a swallow.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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The suitors were dismayed, and turned colour as they heard it; at that moment, moreover, Jove thundered loudly as a sign, and the heart of Ulysses rejoiced as he heard the omen that the son of scheming Saturn had sent him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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He took an arrow that was lying upon the table— for those which the Achaeans were so shortly about to taste were all inside the quiver— he laid it on the centrepiece of the bow, and drew the notch of the arrow and the string toward him, still seated on his seat.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handleholes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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Now, however, it is time for the Achaeans to prepare supper while there is still daylight, and then otherwise to disport themselves with song and dance which are the crowning ornaments of a banquet.


title: homer-odyssey_21
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" As he spoke he made a sign with his eyebrows, and Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped his spear, and stood armed beside his father 's seat.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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PENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND—EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS, AND PHILOETIUS LEAVE THE TOWN.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Her aged knees became young again and her feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over her head to speak to her. "


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Wake up Penelope, my dear child," she exclaimed," and see with your own eyes something that you have been wanting this long time past.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, eating up his estate and ill treating his son.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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The gods sometimes send some very sensible people out of their minds, and make foolish people become sensible.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Why should you thus mock me when I have trouble enough already— talking such nonsense, and waking me up out of a sweet sleep that had taken possession of my eyes and closed them?


title: homer-odyssey_23
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I have never slept so soundly from the day my poor husband went to that city with the illomened name.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Go back again into the women 's room; if it had been any one else who had woke me up to bring me such absurd news I should have sent her away with a severe scolding.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Telemachus knew all the time that he was come back, but kept his father 's secret that he might have his revenge on all these wicked people.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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"But my dear nurse," said she," explain this to me; if he has really come home as you say, how did he manage to overcome the wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always were?" "I was not there," answered Euryclea," and do not know; I only heard them groaning while they were being killed.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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We sat crouching and huddled up in a corner of the women 's room with the doors closed, till your son came to fetch me because his father sent him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Then I found Ulysses standing over the corpses that were lying on the ground all round him, one on top of the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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You would have enjoyed it if you could have seen him standing there all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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He has sent me to call you, so come with me that you may both be happy together after all; for now at last the desire of your heart has been fulfilled; your husband is come home to find both wife and son alive and well, and to take his revenge in his own house on the suitors who behaved so badly to him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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You know how delighted every one would be to see Ulysses come home— more particularly myself, and the son who has been born to both of us; but what you tell me can not be really true.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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It is some god who is angry with the suitors for their great wickedness, and has made an end of them; for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end in consequence of their iniquity; Ulysses is dead far away from the Achaean land; he will never return home again.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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but you were all hard of belief and have made up your mind that your husband is never coming, although he is in the house and by his own fire side at this very moment.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Besides I can give you another proof; when I was washing him I perceived the scar which the wild boar gave him, and I wanted to tell you about it, but in his wisdom he would not let me, and clapped his hands over my mouth; so come with me and I will make this bargain with you —if I am deceiving you, you may have me killed by the most cruel death you can think of."


title: homer-odyssey_23
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"My dear nurse," said Penelope," however wise you may be you can hardly fathom the counsels of the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Nevertheless, we will go in search of my son, that I may see the corpses of the suitors, and the man who has killed them.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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" On this she came down from her upper room, and while doing so she considered whether she should keep at a distance from her husband and question him, or whether she should at once go up to him and embrace him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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When, however, she had crossed the stone floor of the cloister, she sat down opposite Ulysses by the fire, against the wall at right angles[ to that by which she had entered], while Ulysses sat near one of the bearingposts, looking upon the ground, and waiting to see what his brave wife would say to him when she saw him.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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At one moment she looked him full in the face, but then again directly, she was misled by his shabby clothes and failed to recognise him till Telemachus began to reproach her and said: "Mother— but you are so hard that I can not call you by such a name —why do you keep away from my father in this way?


title: homer-odyssey_23
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No other woman could bear to keep away from her husband when he had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much; but your heart always was as hard as a stone.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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" Penelope answered," My son, I am so lost in astonishment that I can find no words in which either to ask questions or to answer them.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Still, if he really is Ulysses come back to his own home again, we shall get to understand one another better by and by, for there are tokens with which we two are alone acquainted, and which are hidden from all others.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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" Ulysses smiled at this, and said to Telemachus," Let your mother put me to any proof she likes; she will make up her mind about it presently.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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She rejects me for the moment and believes me to be somebody else, because I am covered with dirt and have such bad clothes on; let us, however, consider what we had better do next.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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When one man has killed another— even though he was not one who would leave many friends to take up his quarrel— the man who has killed him must still say good bye to his friends and fly the country; whereas we have been killing the stay of a whole town, and all the picked youth of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus," for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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We will follow you with right good will, nor shall you find us fail you in so far as our strength holds out.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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First wash and put your shirts on; tell the maids also to go to their own room and dress; Phemius shall then strike up a dance tune on his lyre, so that if people outside hear, or any of the neighbours, or some one going along the street happens to notice it, they may think there is a wedding in the house, and no rumours about the death of the suitors will get about in the town, before we can escape to the woods upon my own land.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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The house re echoed with the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said," I suppose the queen has been getting married at last.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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She ought to be ashamed of herself for not continuing to protect her husband 's property until he comes home.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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The upper servant Eurynome washed and anointed Ulysses in his own house and gave him a shirt and cloak, while Minerva made him look taller and stronger than before; she also made the hair grow thick on the top of his head, and flow down in curls like hyacinth blossoms; she glorified him about the head and shoulders just as a skilful workman who has studied art of all kinds under Vulcan or Minerva— and his work is full of beauty— enriches a piece of silver plate by gilding it.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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He came from the bath looking like one of the immortals, and sat down opposite his wife on the seat he had left.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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No other woman could bear to keep away from her husband when he had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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But come, nurse, get a bed ready for me; I will sleep alone, for this woman has a heart as hard as iron.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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" "My dear," answered Penelope," I have no wish to set myself up, nor to depreciate you; but I am not struck by your appearance, for I very well remember what kind of a man you were when you set sail from Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Bring the bed outside this room, and put bedding upon it with fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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" She said this to try him, but Ulysses was very angry and said," Wife, I am much displeased at what you have just been saying.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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He must have found it a hard task, no matter how skilled a workman he was, unless some god came and helped him to shift it.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearingpost.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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I built my room round this with strong walls of stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and wellfitting.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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This I dressed roughly from the root upwards and then worked with carpenter 's tools well and skilfully, straightening my work by drawing a line on the wood, and making it into a bedprop.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centrepost of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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So you see I know all about it, and I desire to learn whether it is still there, or whether any one has been removing it by cutting down the olive tree at its roots."


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth, and of growing old, together; do not then be aggrieved or take it amiss that I did not embrace you thus as soon as I saw you.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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I have been shuddering all the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying story; for there are many very wicked people going about.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Jove 's daughter Helen would never have yielded herself to a man from a foreign country, if she had known that the sons of Achaeans would come after her and bring her back.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Heaven put it in her heart to do wrong, and she gave no thought to that sin, which has been the source of all our sorrows.


title: homer-odyssey_23
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Now, however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about our bed( which no human being has ever seen but you and I and a single maidservant, the daughter of Actor, who was given me by my father on my marriage, and who keeps the doors of our room) hard of belief though I have been I can mistrust no longer."


title: homer-odyssey_23
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As the sight of land is welcome to men who are swimming towards the shore, when Neptune has wrecked their ship with the fury of his winds and waves; a few alone reach the land, and these, covered with brine, are thankful when they find themselves on firm ground and out of danger— even so was her husband welcome to her as she looked upon him, and she could not tear her two fair arms from about his neck.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
Indeed they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosyfingered morn appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west, while she would not suffer Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
It is long and difficult, but I must go through with it, for thus the shade of Teiresias prophesied concerning me, on the day when I went down into Hades to ask about my return and that of my companions.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
" "You shall go to bed as soon as you please," replied Penelope," now that the gods have sent you home to your own good house and to your country.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
I do not like it myself, for Teiresias bade me travel far and wide, carrying an oar, till I came to a country where the people have never heard of the sea, and do not even mix salt with their food.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
On this, I was to fix my oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Neptune; after which I was to go home and offer hecatombs to all the gods in heaven, one after the other.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
As for myself, he said that death should come to me from the sea, and that my life should ebb away very gently when I was full of years and peace of mind, and my people should bless me.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
" And Penelope said," If the gods are going to vouchsafe you a happier time in your old age, you may hope then to have some respite from misfortune.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft coverlets; as soon as they had laid them, the nurse went back into the house to go to her rest, leaving the bed chamber woman Eurynome to show Ulysses and Penelope to bed by torch light.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
When she had conducted them to their room she went back, and they then came joyfully to the rites of their own old bed.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
She told him how much she had had to bear in seeing the house filled with a crowd of wicked suitors who had killed so many sheep and oxen on her account, and had drunk so many casks of wine.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
Ulysses in his turn told her what he had suffered, and how much trouble he had himself given to other people.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
He told her everything, and she was so delighted to listen that she never went to sleep till he had ended his whole story.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
He began with his victory over the Cicons, and how he thence reached the fertile land of the Lotuseaters.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
He told her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly eaten his brave comrades; how he then went on to Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygonian city Telepylos, where the people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship only.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
Then he told of cunning Circe and her craft, and how he sailed to the chill house of Hades, to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias, and how he saw his old comrades in arms, and his mother who bore him and brought him up when he was a child; how he then heard the wondrous singing of the Sirens, and went on to the wandering rocks and terrible Charybdis and to Scylla, whom no man had ever yet passed in safety; how his men then ate the cattle of the sungod, and how Jove therefore struck the ship with his thunderbolts, so that all his men perished together, himself alone being left alive; how at last he reached the Ogygian island and the nymph Calypso, who kept him there in a cave, and fed him, and wanted him to marry her, in which case she intended making him immortal so that he should never grow old, but she could not persuade him to let her do so; and how after much suffering he had found his way to the Phaeacians, who had treated him as though he had been a god, and sent him back in a ship to his own country after having given him gold, bronze, and raiment in great abundance.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
This was the last thing about which he told her, for here a deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
When she deemed that Ulysses had had both of his wife and of repose, she bade goldenthroned Dawn rise out of Oceanus that she might shed light upon mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
On this, Ulysses rose from his comfortable bed and said to Penelope," Wife, we have both of us had our full share of troubles, you, here, in lamenting my absence, and I in being prevented from getting home though I was longing all the time to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
As for the sheep and goats which the wicked suitors have eaten, I will take many myself by force from other people, and will compel the Achaeans to make good the rest till they shall have filled all my yards.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
I am now going to the wooded lands out in the country to see my father who has so long been grieved on my account, and to yourself I will give these instructions, though you have little need of them.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
At sunrise it will at once get abroad that I have been killing the suitors; go upstairs, therefore and stay there with your women.


title: homer-odyssey_23
sentence:
It was now daylight, but Minerva nevertheless concealed them in darkness and led them quickly out of the town.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thus did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades saying," Myrmidons, famed horsemen and my own trusted friends, not yet, forsooth, let us unyoke, but with horse and chariot draw near to the body and mourn Patroclus, in due honour to the dead.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
When we have had full comfort of lamentation we will unyoke our horses and take supper all of us here.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thrice did they drive their chariots all sorrowing round the body, and Thetis stirred within them a still deeper yearning.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The sands of the seashore and the men 's armour were wet with their weeping, so great a minister of fear was he whom they had lost.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Chief in all their mourning was the son of Peleus: he laid his bloodstained hand on the breast of his friend."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I will now do all that I erewhile promised you; I will drag Hector hither and let dogs devour him raw; twelve noble sons of Trojans will I also slay before your pyre to avenge you.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" As he spoke he treated the body of noble Hector with contumely, laying it at full length in the dust beside the bier of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The others then put off every man his armour, took the horses from their chariots, and seated themselves in great multitude by the ship of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, who thereon feasted them with an abundant funeral banquet.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and wellfed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Then the princes of the Achaeans took the son of Peleus to Agamemnon, but hardly could they persuade him to come with them, so wroth was he for the death of his comrade.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
As soon as they reached Agamemnon 's tent they told the servingmen to set a large tripod over the fire in case they might persuade the son of Peleus to wash the clotted gore from this body, but he denied them sternly, and swore it with a solemn oath, saying," Nay, by King Jove, first and mightiest of all gods, it is not meet that water should touch my body, till I have laid Patroclus on the flames, have built him a barrow, and shaved my head— for so long as I live no such second sorrow shall ever draw nigh me.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us do all that this sad festival demands, but at break of day, King Agamemnon, bid your men bring wood, and provide all else that the dead may duly take into the realm of darkness; the fire shall thus burn him out of our sight the sooner, and the people shall turn again to their own labours.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They made haste to prepare the meal, they ate, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, the others went to their rest each in his own tent, but the son of Peleus lay grieving among his Myrmidons by the shore of the sounding sea, in an open place where the waves came surging in one after another.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Here a very deep slumber took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows, for his limbs were weary with chasing Hector round windy Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Presently the sad spirit of Patroclus drew near him, like what he had been in stature, voice, and the light of his beaming eyes, clad, too, as he had been clad in life.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The spirit hovered over his head and said— "You sleep, Achilles, and have forgotten me; you loved me living, but now that I am dead you think for me no further.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Bury me with all speed that I may pass the gates of Hades; the ghosts, vain shadows of men that can labour no more, drive me away from them; they will not yet suffer me to join those that are beyond the river, and I wander all desolate by the wide gates of the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Give me now your hand I pray you, for when you have once given me my dues of fire, never shall I again come forth out of the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Nevermore shall we sit apart and take sweet counsel among the living; the cruel fate which was my birthright has yawned its wide jaws around me— nay, you too Achilles, peer of gods, are doomed to die beneath the wall of the noble Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
"One prayer more will I make you, if you will grant it; let not my bones be laid apart from yours, Achilles, but with them; even as we were brought up together in your own home, what time Menoetius brought me to you as a child from Opoeis because by a sad spite I had killed the son of Amphidamas— not of set purpose, but in childish quarrel over the dice.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The knight Peleus took me into his house, entreated me kindly, and named me to be your squire; therefore let our bones lie in but a single urn, the twohandled golden vase given to you by your mother.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Draw closer to me, let us once more throw our arms around one another, and find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" He opened his arms towards him as he spoke and would have clasped him in them, but there was nothing, and the spirit vanished as a vapour, gibbering and whining into the earth.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Achilles sprang to his feet, smote his two hands, and made lamentation saying," Of a truth even in the house of Hades there are ghosts and phantoms that have no life in them; all night long the sad spirit of Patroclus has hovered over head making piteous moan, telling me what I am to do for him, and looking wondrously like himself."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thus did he speak and his words set them all weeping and mourning about the poor dumb dead, till rosyfingered morn appeared.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Then King Agamemnon sent men and mules from all parts of the camp, to bring wood, and Meriones, squire to Idomeneus, was in charge over them.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of manyfountained Ida, they laid their axes to the roots of many a tall branching oak that came thundering down as they felled it.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They split the trees and bound them behind the mules, which then wended their way as they best could through the thick brushwood on to the plain.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
All who had been cutting wood bore logs, for so Meriones squire to Idomeneus had bidden them, and they threw them down in a line upon the seashore at the place where Achilles would make a mighty monument for Patroclus and for himself.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
When they had thrown down their great logs of wood over the whole ground, they stayed all of them where they were, but Achilles ordered his brave Myrmidons to gird on their armour, and to yoke each man his horses; they therefore rose, girded on their armour and mounted each his chariot— they and their charioteers with them.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The chariots went before, and they that were on foot followed as a cloud in their tens of thousands after.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
In the midst of them his comrades bore Patroclus and covered him with the locks of their hair which they cut off and threw upon his body.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Last came Achilles with his head bowed for sorrow, so noble a comrade was he taking to the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
When they came to the place of which Achilles had told them they laid the body down and built up the wood.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He went a space away from the pyre, and cut off the yellow lock which he had let grow for the river Spercheius.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He looked all sorrowfully out upon the dark sea, and said," Spercheius, in vain did my father Peleus vow to you that when I returned home to my loved native land I should cut off this lock and offer you a holy hecatomb; fifty shegoats was I to sacrifice to you there at your springs, where is your grove and your altar fragrant with burntofferings.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thus did my father vow, but you have not fulfilled his prayer; now, therefore, that I shall see my home no more ,I give this lock as a keepsake to the hero Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
As he spoke he placed the lock in the hands of his dear comrade, and all who stood by were filled with yearning and lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The sun would have gone down upon their mourning had not Achilles presently said to Agamemnon," Son of Atreus, for it is to you that the people will give ear, there is a time to mourn and a time to cease from mourning; bid the people now leave the pyre and set about getting their dinners: we, to whom the dead is dearest, will see to what is wanted here, and let the other princes also stay by me." When King Agamemnon heard this he dismissed the people to their ships, but those who were about the dead heaped up wood and built a pyre a hundred feet this way and that; then they laid the dead all sorrowfully upon the top of it.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They flayed and dressed many fat sheep and oxen before the pyre, and Achilles took fat from all of them and wrapped the body therein from head to foot, heaping the flayed carcases all round it.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Against the bier he leaned twohandled jars of honey and unguents; four proud horses did he then cast upon the pyre, groaning the while he did so.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The dead hero had had housedogs; two of them did Achilles slay and threw upon the pyre; he also put twelve brave sons of noble Trojans to the sword and laid them with the rest, for he was full of bitterness and fury.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Then he committed all to the resistless and devouring might of the fire; he groaned aloud and called on his dead comrade by name."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Fare well ,"he cried," Patroclus, even in the house of Hades; I am now doing all that I have promised you.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Twelve brave sons of noble Trojans shall the flames consume along with yourself, but dogs, not fire, shall devour the flesh of Hector son of Priam."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thus did he vaunt, but the dogs came not about the body of Hector, for Jove 's daughter Venus kept them off him night and day, and anointed him with ambrosial oil of roses that his flesh might not be torn when Achilles was dragging him about.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo moreover sent a dark cloud from heaven to earth, which gave shade to the whole place where Hector lay, that the heat of the sun might not parch his body.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Achilles therefore bethought him of another matter; he went apart and prayed to the two winds Boreas and Zephyrus vowing them goodly offerings.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He made them many drinkofferings from the golden cup and besought them to come and help him that the wood might make haste to kindle and the dead bodies be consumed.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They were holding high feast in the house of boisterous Zephyrus when Iris came running up to the stone threshold of the house and stood there, but as soon as they set eyes on her they all came towards her and each of them called her to him, but Iris would not sit down.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
"I can not stay," she said," I must go back to the streams of Oceanus and the land of the Ethiopians who are offering hecatombs to the immortals, and I would have my share; but


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Achilles prays that Boreas and shrill Zephyrus will come to him, and he vows them goodly offerings; he would have you blow upon the pyre of Patroclus for whom all the Achaeans are lamenting." With this she left them, and the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre till the mighty flames roared under the blast that they blew.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
All night long did they blow hard and beat upon the fire, and all night long did Achilles grasp his double cup, drawing wine from a mixingbowl of gold, and calling upon the spirit of dead Patroclus as he poured it upon the ground until the earth was drenched.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
As a father mourns when he is burning the bones of his bridegroom son whose death has wrung the hearts of his parents, even so did Achilles mourn while burning the body of his comrade, pacing round the bier with piteous groaning and lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffronmantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The son of Peleus now turned away from the pyre and lay down, overcome with toil, till he fell into a sweet slumber.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Presently they who were about the son of Atreus drew near in a body, and roused him with the noise and tramp of their coming.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He sat upright and said," Son of Atreus, and all other princes of the Achaeans, first pour red wine everywhere upon the fire and quench it; let us then gather the bones of Patroclus son of Menoetius, singling them out with care; they are easily found, for they lie in the middle of the pyre, while all else, both men and horses, has been thrown in a heap and burned at the outer edge.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
We will lay the bones in a golden urn, in two layers of fat, against the time when I shall myself go down into the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Afterwards, let those Achaeans who may be left at the ships when I am gone, build it both broad and high.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
With many tears they singled out the whitened bones of their loved comrade and laid them within a golden urn in two layers of fat: they then covered the urn with a linen cloth and took it inside the tent.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They marked off the circle where the barrow should be, made a foundation for it about the pyre, and forthwith heaped up the earth.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
When they had thus raised a mound they were going away, but Achilles stayed the people and made them sit in assembly.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He brought prizes from the ships— cauldrons, tripods, horses and mules, noble oxen, women with fair girdles, and swart iron.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The first prize he offered was for the chariot races— a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a threelegged cauldron that had ears for handles, and would hold twentytwo measures.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
For the second there was a sixyear old mare, unbroken, and in foal to a heass; the third was to have a goodly cauldron that had never yet been on the fire; it was still bright as when it left the maker, and would hold four measures.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Then he stood up and spoke among the Argives saying— "Son of Atreus, and all other Achaeans, these are the prizes that lie waiting the winners of the chariot races.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
At any other time I should carry off the first prize and take it to my own tent; you know how far my steeds excel all others— for they are immortal; Neptune gave them to my father Peleus, who in his turn gave them to myself; but I shall hold aloof, I and my steeds that have lost their brave and kind driver, who many a time has washed them in clear water and anointed their manes with oil.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
See how they stand weeping here, with their manes trailing on the ground in the extremity of their sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
But do you others set yourselves in order throughout the host, whosoever has confidence in his horses and in the strength of his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Next to him rose mighty Diomed son of Tydeus; he yoked the Trojan horses which he had taken from Aeneas, when Apollo bore him out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Next to him, yellowhaired Menelaus son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon 's mare Aethe, and his own horse Podargus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The mare had been given to Agamemnon by Echepolus son of Anchises, that he might not have to follow him to Ilius, but might stay at home and take his ease; for Jove had endowed him with great wealth and he lived in spacious Sicyon.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
These were bred in Pylos, and his father came up to him to give him good advice of which, however, he stood in but little need. "


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Antilochus," said Nestor," you are young, but Jove and Neptune have loved you well, and have made you an excellent horseman.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
You are skilful at wheeling your horses round the post, but the horses themselves are very slow, and it is this that will, I fear, mar your chances.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The other drivers know less than you do, but their horses are fleeter; therefore, my dear son, see if you can not hit upon some artifice whereby you may insure that the prize shall not slip through your fingers.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The woodman does more by skill than by brute force; by skill the pilot guides his stormtossed barque over the sea, and so by skill one driver can beat another.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
If a man go wide in rounding this way and that, whereas a man who knows what he is doing may have worse horses, but he will keep them well in hand when he sees the doublingpost; he knows the precise moment at which to pull the rein, and keeps his eye well on the man in front of him.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
There is a stump of a dead tree— oak or pine as it may be— some six feet above the ground, and not yet rotted away by rain; it stands at the fork of the road; it has two white stones set one on each side, and there is a clear course all round it.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doublingpost in days gone by; now, however, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your righthand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the lefthand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Therefore, my dear son, mind well what you are about, for if you can be first to round the post there is no chance of any one giving you the goby later, not even though you had Adrestus 's horse Arion behind you— a horse which is of divine race— or those of Laomedon, which are the noblest in this country.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" When Nestor had made an end of counselling his son he sat down in his place, and fifth in order Meriones got ready his horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Achilles shook the helmet, and the lot of Antilochus son of Nestor fell out first; next came that of King Eumelus, and after his, those of Menelaus son of Atreus and of Meriones.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They took their places in line; Achilles showed them the doublingpost round which they were to turn, some way off upon the plain; here he stationed his father 's follower Phoenix as umpire, to note the running, and report truly.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
At the same instant they all of them lashed their horses, struck them with the reins, and shouted at them with all their might.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They flew full speed over the plain away from the ships, the dust rose from under them as it were a cloud or whirlwind, and their manes were all flying in the wind.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
At one moment the chariots seemed to touch the ground, and then again they bounded into the air; the drivers stood erect, and their hearts beat fast and furious in their lust of victory.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Each kept calling on his horses, and the horses scoured the plain amid the clouds of dust that they raised.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
It was when they were doing the last part of the course on their way back towards the sea that their pace was strained to the utmost and it was seen what each could do.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The horses of the descendant of Pheres now took the lead, and close behind them came the Trojan stallions of Diomed.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They seemed as if about to mount Eumelus 's chariot, and he could feel their warm breath on his back and on his broad shoulders, for their heads were close to him as they flew over the course.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Diomed would have now passed him, or there would have been a dead heat, but Phoebus Apollo to spite him made him drop his whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Tears of anger fell from his eyes as he saw the mares going on faster than ever, while his own horses lost ground through his having no whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Minerva saw the trick which Apollo had played the son of Tydeus, so she brought him his whip and put spirit into his horses; moreover she went after the son of Admetus in a rage and broke his yoke for him; the mares went one to one side of the course, and the other to the other, and the pole was broken against the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Eumelus was thrown from his chariot close to the wheel; his elbows, mouth, and nostrils were all torn, and his forehead was bruised above his eyebrows; his eyes filled with tears and he could find no utterance.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
But the son of Tydeus turned his horses aside and shot far ahead, for Minerva put fresh strength into them and covered Diomed himself with glory.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I do not bid you try to beat the steeds of the son of Tydeus, for Minerva has put running into them, and has covered Diomed with glory; but you must overtake the horses of the son of Atreus and not be left behind, or Aethe who is so fleet will taunt you.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I tell you, and it shall surely be— Nestor will keep neither of you, but will put both of you to the sword, if we win any the worse a prize through your carelessness.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Fly after them at your utmost speed; I will hit on a plan for passing them in a narrow part of the way, and it shall not fail me." They feared the rebuke of their master, and for a short space went quicker.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The ground was broken, for the winter 's rain had gathered and had worn the road so that the whole place was deepened.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Menelaus was making towards it so as to get there first, for fear of a foul, but Antilochus turned his horses out of the way, and followed him a little on one side.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The son of Atreus was afraid and shouted out," Antilochus, you are driving recklessly; rein in your horses; the road is too narrow here, it will be wider soon, and you can pass me then; if you foul my chariot you may bring both of us to a mischief.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They went side by side for about as far as a young man can hurl a disc from his shoulder when he is trying his strength, and then Menelaus 's mares drew behind, for he left off driving for fear the horses should foul one another and upset the chariots; thus, while pressing on in quest of victory, they might both come headlong to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Menelaus then upbraided Antilochus and said," There is no greater trickster living than you are; go, and bad luck go with you; the Achaeans say not well that you have understanding, and come what may you shall not bear away the prize without sworn protest on my part.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" Then he called on his horses and said to them," Keep your pace, and slacken not; the limbs of the other horses will weary sooner than yours ,for they are neither of them young.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" The horses feared the rebuke of their master, and went faster, so that they were soon nearly up with the others.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Meanwhile the Achaeans from their seats were watching how the horses went, as they scoured the plain amid clouds of their own dust.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Idomeneus captain of the Cretans was first to make out the running, for he was not in the thick of the crowd, but stood on the most commanding part of the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The driver was a long way off, but Idomeneus could hear him shouting, and could see the foremost horse quite plainly— a chestnut with a round white star, like the moon, on its forehead.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He stood up and said among the Argives," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, can you see the running as well as I can?


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
There seems to be another pair in front now, and another driver; those that led off at the start must have been disabled out on the plain.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I saw them at first making their way round the doublingpost, but now, though I search the plain of Troy, I can not find them.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Perhaps the reins fell from the driver 's hand so that he lost command of his horses at the doublingpost, and could not turn it.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I suppose he must have been thrown out there, and broken his chariot, while his mares have left the course and gone off wildly in a panic.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Come up and see for yourselves, I can not make out for certain, but the driver seems an Aetolian by descent, ruler over the Argives, brave Diomed the son of Tydeus." Ajax the son of Oileus took him up rudely and said," Idomeneus, why should you be in such a hurry to tell us all about it, when the mares are still so far out upon the plain?


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
You are none of the youngest, nor your eyes none of the sharpest, but you are always laying down the law.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Eumelus 's horses are in front now, as they always have been, and he is on the chariot holding the reins."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The captain of the Cretans was angry, and answered," Ajax you are an excellent railer, but you have no judgement, and are wanting in much else as well, for you have a vile temper.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I will wager you a tripod or cauldron, and Agamemnon son of Atreus shall decide whose horses are first.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" Ajax son of Oileus was for making him an angry answer, and there would have been yet further brawling between them, had not Achilles risen in his place and said," Cease your railing, Ajax and Idomeneus; it is not seemly; you would be scandalised if you saw any one else do the like: sit down and keep your eyes on the horses; they are speeding towards the winningpost and will be here directly.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" As he was speaking, the son of Tydeus came driving in, plying his whip lustily from his shoulder, and his horses stepping high as they flew over the course.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The sand and grit rained thick on the driver, and the chariot inlaid with gold and tin ran close behind his fleet horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
There was little trace of wheelmarks in the fine dust, and the horses came flying in at their utmost speed.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Diomed stayed them in the middle of the crowd, and the sweat from their manes and chests fell in streams on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Forthwith he sprang from his goodly chariot, and leaned his whip against his horses ' yoke; brave Sthenelus now lost no time, but at once brought on the prize, and gave the woman and the earhandled cauldron to his comrades to take away.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Next after him came in Antilochus of the race of Neleus, who had passed Menelaus by a trick and not by the fleetness of his horses; but even so Menelaus came in as close behind him as the wheel is to the horse that draws both the chariot and its master.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
The end hairs of a horse 's tail touch the tyre of the wheel, and there is never much space between wheel and horse when the chariot is going; Menelaus was no further than this behind Antilochus, though at first he had been a full disc 's throw behind him.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He had soon caught him up again, for Agamemnon 's mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
When Achilles saw him he was sorry, and stood up among the Argives saying," The best man is coming in last.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Thus did he speak and the others all of them applauded his saying, and were for doing as he had said, but Nestor 's son Antilochus stood up and claimed his rights from the son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Achilles," said he," I shall take it much amiss if you do this thing; you would rob me of my prize, because you think Eumelus 's chariot and horses were thrown out, and himself too, good man that he is.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
If you are sorry for him and so choose, you have much gold in your tents, with bronze, sheep, cattle and horses.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Take something from this store if you would have the Achaeans speak well of you, and give him a better prize even than that which you have now offered; but I will not give up the mare, and he that will fight me for her, let him come on." Achilles smiled as he heard this, and was pleased with Antilochus, who was one of his dearest comrades.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
So he said— "Antilochus, if you would have me find Eumelus another prize, I will give him the bronze breastplate with a rim of tin running all round it which I took from Asteropaeus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
An attendant placed his staff in his hands and bade the Argives keep silence: the hero then addressed them. "


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
You have made me cut a poor figure and baulked my horses by flinging your own in front of them, though yours are much worse than mine are; therefore, O princes and counsellors of the Argives, judge between us and show no favour, lest one of the Achaeans say,' Menelaus has got the mare through lying and corruption; his horses were far inferior to Antilochus 's, but he has greater weight and influence.'


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Come here, Antilochus, and stand, as our custom is, whip in hand before your chariot and horses; lay your hand on your steeds, and swear by earthencircling Neptune that you did not purposely and guilefully get in the way of my horses."


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
And Antilochus answered," Forgive me; I am much younger, King Menelaus, than you are; you stand higher than I do and are the better man of the two; you know how easily young men are betrayed into indiscretion; their tempers are more hasty and they have less judgement; make due allowances therefore, and bear with me; I will of my own accord give up the mare that I have won, and if you claim any further chattel from my own possessions, I would rather yield it to you, at once, than fall from your good graces henceforth, and do wrong in the sight of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" The son of Nestor then took the mare and gave her over to Menelaus, whose anger was thus appeased; as when dew falls upon a field of ripening corn, and the lands are bristling with the harvest— even so, O Menelaus, was your heart made glad within you.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He turned to Antilochus and said," Now, Antilochus, angry though I have been, I can give way to you of my own free will; you have never been headstrong nor illdisposed hitherto, but this time your youth has got the better of your judgement; be careful how you outwit your betters in future; no one else could have brought me round so easily, but your good father, your brother, and yourself have all of you had infinite trouble on my behalf; I therefore yield to your entreaty, and will give up the mare to you, mine though it indeed be; the people will thus see that I am neither harsh nor vindictive.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Meriones, who had come in fourth, carried off the two talents of gold, and the fifth prize, the twohandled urn, being unawarded, Achilles gave it to Nestor, going up to him among the assembled Argives and saying," Take this, my good old friend, as an heirloom and memorial of the funeral of Patroclus— for you shall see him no more among the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I give you this prize though you can not win one; you can now neither wrestle nor fight, and can not enter for the javelinmatch nor footraces ,for the hand of age has been laid heavily upon you.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" So saying he gave the urn over to Nestor, who received it gladly and answered," My son, all that you have said is true; there is no strength now in my legs and feet, nor can I hit out with my hands from either shoulder.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Would that I were still young and strong as when the Epeans were burying King Amarynceus in Buprasium, and his sons offered prizes in his honour.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
There was then none that could vie with me neither of the Epeans nor the Pylians themselves nor the Aetolians.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
In boxing I overcame Clytomedes son of Enops, and in wrestling, Ancaeus of Pleuron who had come forward against me.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Iphiclus was a good runner, but I beat him, and threw farther with my spear than either Phyleus or Polydorus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
In chariotracing alone did the two sons of Actor surpass me by crowding their horses in front of me, for they were angry at the way victory had gone, and at the greater part of the prizes remaining in the place in which they had been offered.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They were twins, and the one kept on holding the reins, and holding the reins, while the other plied the whip.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Such was I then, but now I must leave these matters to younger men; I must bow before the weight of years, but in those days I was eminent among heroes.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
And now, sir, go on with the funeral contests in honour of your comrade: gladly do I accept this urn, and my heart rejoices that you do not forget me but are ever mindful of my goodwill towards you, and of the respect due to me from the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" Thereon the son of Peleus, when he had listened to all the thanks of Nestor, went about among the concourse of the Achaeans, and presently offered prizes for skill in the painful art of boxing.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He brought out a strong mule, and made it fast in the middle of the crowd— a shemule never yet broken, but six years old— when it is hardest of all to break them: this was for the victor, and for the vanquished he offered a double cup.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Then he stood up and said among the Argives," Son of Atreus, and all other Achaeans, I invite our two champion boxers to lay about them lustily and compete for these prizes.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He to whom Apollo vouchsafes the greater endurance, and whom the Achaeans acknowledge as victor, shall take the mule back with him to his own tent, while he that is vanquished shall have the double cup.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
" As he spoke there stood up a champion both brave and of great stature, a skilful boxer, Epeus, son of Panopeus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He laid his hand on the mule and said," Let the man who is to have the cup come hither, for none but myself will take the mule.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
I tell you plainly, and it shall come true; if any man will box with me I will bruise his body and break his bones; therefore let his friends stay here in a body and be at hand to take him away when I have done with him.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of Cadmus.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
and then he gave him some wellcut thongs of oxhide; the two men being now girt went into the middle of the ring, and immediately fell to; heavily indeed did they punish one another and lay about them with their brawny fists.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Presently Epeus came on and gave Euryalus a blow on the jaw as he was looking round; Euryalus could not keep his legs; they gave way under him in a moment and he sprang up with a bound, as a fish leaps into the air near some shore that is all bestrewn with seawrack, when Boreas furs the top of the waves, and then falls back into deep water.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
But noble Epeus caught hold of him and raised him up; his comrades also came round him and led him from the ring, unsteady in his gait, his head hanging on one side, and spitting great clots of gore.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
For the winner there was a great tripod ready for setting upon the fire, and the Achaeans valued it among themselves at twelve oxen.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
For the loser he brought out a woman skilled in all manner of arts, and they valued her at four oxen.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
They gripped each other in their strong hands like the rafters which some masterbuilder frames for the roof of a high house to keep the wind out.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Their backbones cracked as they tugged at one another with their mighty arms— and sweat rained from them in torrents.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Many a bloody weal sprang up on their sides and shoulders, but they kept on striving with might and main for victory and to win the tripod.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
Ulysses could not throw Ajax, nor Ajax him; Ulysses was too strong for him; but when the Achaeans began to tire of watching them, Ajax said to Ulysses," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall either lift me, or I you, and let Jove settle it between us.


title: homer-iliad_23
sentence:
He hit Ajax in the hollow at back of his knee, so that he could not keep his feet, but fell on his back with Ulysses lying upon his chest, and all who saw it marvelled.


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


title: homer-iliad_23
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
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
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
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
sentence:
The course was set out for them from the startingpost, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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." Then uprose the two mighty men Polypoetes and Leonteus, with Ajax son of Telamon and noble Epeus.


title: homer-iliad_23
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
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 outdistance those of the others.


title: homer-iliad_23
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
sentence:
Achilles next offered a prize of iron for archery— ten doubleedged 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
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 singleedged axes." 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
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
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
sentence:
Meriones, therefore, took all ten doubleedged axes, while Teucer bore off the singleedged ones to his ships.


title: homer-iliad_23
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
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-iliad_22
sentence:
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements, while the Achaeans with their shields laid upon their shoulders drew close up to the walls.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_22
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On they flew along the waggonroad that ran hard by under the wall, past the lookout station, and past the weatherbeaten wild figtree, till they came to two fair springs which feed the river Scamander.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_22
sentence:
Hector with his dying breath then said," I know you what you are, and was sure that I should not move you, for your heart is hard as iron; look to it that I bring not heaven 's anger upon you on the day when Paris and Phoebus Apollo, valiant though you be, shall slay you at the Scaean gates." When he had thus said the shrouds of death enfolded him, whereon his soul went out of him and flew down to the house of Hades, lamenting its sad fate that it should enjoy youth and strength no longer.


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


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


title: homer-iliad_22
sentence:
Then would one turn to his neighbour and say," It is easier to handle Hector now than when he was flinging fire on to our ships"—and as he spoke he would thrust his spear into him anew.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_22
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So long as you lived you were their pride, but now death and destruction have fallen upon you." Hector 's wife had as yet heard nothing, for no one had come to tell her that her husband had remained without the gates.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_22
sentence:
When she reached the battlements and the crowd of people, she stood looking out upon the wall, and saw Hector being borne away in front of the city— the horses dragging him without heed or care over the ground towards the ships of the Achaeans.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die." They turned pale with fear as he spoke, and every man looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety, but Eurymachus alone spoke.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_22
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Say, shall I kill him, if I can get the better of him, or shall I bring him here that you may take your own revenge for all the many wrongs that he has done in your house?" Ulysses answered," Telemachus and I will hold these suitors in check, no matter what they do; go back both of you and bind Melanthius ' hands and feet behind him.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_22
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One hit a bearingpost of the cloister; another went against the door; while the pointed shaft of another struck the wall.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_22
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he cried," the man is guiltless, do him no hurt; and we will spare Medon too, who was always good to me when I was a boy, unless Philoetius or Eumaeus has already killed him, or he has fallen in your way when you were raging about the court." Medon caught these words of Telemachus, for he was crouching under a seat beneath which he had hidden by covering himself up with a freshly flayed heifer 's hide, so he threw off the hide, went up to Telemachus, and laid hold of his knees.


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
" When Euryclea heard this she unfastened the door of the women 's room and came out, following Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
She found Ulysses among the corpses bespattered with blood and filth like a lion that has just been devouring an ox, and his breast and both his cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight; even so was Ulysses besmirched from head to foot with gore.


title: homer-odyssey_22
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When she saw all the corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done; but Ulysses checked her," Old woman," said he," rejoice in silence; restrain yourself, and do not make any noise about it; it is an unholy thing to vaunt over dead men.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
Heaven 's doom and their own evil deeds have brought these men to destruction, for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad end as a punishment for their wickedness and folly.


title: homer-odyssey_22
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Now, however, tell me which of the women in the house have misconducted themselves, and who are innocent.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
"There are fifty women in the house whom we teach to do things, such as carding wool, and all kinds of household work.


title: homer-odyssey_22
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Of these, twelve in all have misbehaved, and have been wanting in respect to me, and also to Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
They showed no disrespect to Telemachus, for he has only lately grown and his mother never permitted him to give orders to the female servants; but let me go upstairs and tell your wife all that has happened, for some god has been sending her to sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
" "Do not wake her yet," answered Ulysses," but tell the women who have misconducted themselves to come to me.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
" Euryclea left the cloister to tell the women, and make them come to Ulysses; in the meantime he called Telemachus, the stockman, and the swineherd.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
When you have thoroughly cleansed the whole cloisters, take the women into the space between the domed room and the wall of the outer court, and run them through with your swords till they are quite dead, and have forgotten all about love and the way in which they used to lie in secret with the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
Ulysses ordered them about and made them do their work quickly, so they had to carry the bodies out.


title: homer-odyssey_22
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When they had done this, they cleaned all the tables and seats with sponges and water, while Telemachus and the two others shovelled up the blood and dirt from the ground, and the women carried it all away and put it out of doors.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
Then when they had made the whole place quite clean and orderly, they took the women out and hemmed them in the narrow space between the wall of the domed room and that of the yard, so that they could not get away: and Telemachus said to the other two," I shall not let these women die a clean death, for they were insolent to me and my mother, and used to sleep with the suitors."


title: homer-odyssey_22
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So saying he made a ship 's cable fast to one of the bearingposts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women 's feet should touch the ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
There they cut off his nose and his ears; they drew out his vitals and gave them to the dogs raw, and then in their fury they cut off his hands and his feet.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
When they had done this they washed their hands and feet and went back into the house, for all was now over; and Ulysses said to the dear old nurse Euryclea," Bring me sulphur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire also that I may burn it, and purify the cloisters.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
Go, moreover, and tell Penelope to come here with her attendants, and also all the maidservants that are in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
" "All that you have said is true," answered Euryclea," but let me bring you some clean clothes— a shirt and cloak.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.


title: homer-odyssey_22
sentence:
Then she went inside to call the women and tell them what had happened; whereon they came from their apartment with torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands.


title: homer-iliad_13
sentence:
Now when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the ships, he left them to their neverending toil, and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horsebreeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble Hippemolgi, who live on milk, and the Abians, justest of mankind.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_13
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Stichius and Menestheus, captains of the Athenians, bore away Amphimachus to the host of the Achaeans, while the two brave and impetuous Ajaxes did the like by Imbrius.


title: homer-iliad_13
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As two lions snatch a goat from the hounds that have it in their fangs, and bear it through thick brushwood high above the ground in their jaws, thus did the Ajaxes bear aloft the body of Imbrius, and strip it of its armour.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Then the son of Oileus severed the head from the neck in revenge for the death of Amphimachus, and sent it whirling over the crowd as though it had been a ball, till it fell in the dust at Hector 's feet.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Neptune was exceedingly angry that his grandson Amphimachus should have fallen; he therefore went to the tents and ships of the Achaeans to urge the Danaans still further, and to devise evil for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Idomeneus met him, as he was taking leave of a comrade, who had just come to him from the fight, wounded in the knee.


title: homer-iliad_13
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His fellowsoldiers bore him off the field, and Idomeneus having given orders to the physicians went on to his tent, for he was still thirsting for battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Neptune spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraemon who ruled the Aetolians of all Pleuron and high Calydon, and was honoured among his people as though he were a god."


title: homer-iliad_13
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Idomeneus," said he," lawgiver to the Cretans, what has now become of the threats with which the sons of the Achaeans used to threaten the Trojans?


title: homer-iliad_13
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" And Idomeneus chief among the Cretans answered," Thoas, no one, so far as I know, is in fault, for we can all fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
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None are held back neither by fear nor slackness, but it seems to be the will of almighty Jove that the Achaeans should perish ingloriously here far from Argos: you, Thoas, have been always staunch, and you keep others in heart if you see any fail in duty ;be not then remiss now, but exhort all to do their utmost."


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To this Neptune lord of the earthquake made answer," Idomeneus, may he never return from Troy, but remain here for dogs to batten upon, who is this day wilfully slack in fighting.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Get your armour and go, we must make all haste together if we may be of any use, though we are only two.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Therewith the god went back into the thick of the fight, and Idomeneus when he had reached his tent donned his armour, grasped his two spears, and sallied forth.


title: homer-iliad_13
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As the lightning which the son of Saturn brandishes from bright Olympus when he would show a sign to mortals, and its gleam flashes far and wide— even so did his armour gleam about him as he ran.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Meriones his sturdy squire met him while he was still near his tent( for he was going to fetch his spear) and Idomeneus said: "Meriones, fleet son of Molus, best of comrades, why have you left the field?


title: homer-iliad_13
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" "Idomeneus," answered Meriones," I come for a spear, if I can find one in my tent; I have broken the one I had, in throwing it at the shield of Deiphobus.


title: homer-iliad_13
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And Idomeneus captain of the Cretans answered," You will find one spear, or twenty if you so please, standing up against the end wall of my tent.


title: homer-iliad_13
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I have taken them from Trojans whom I have killed, for I am not one to keep my enemy at arm 's length; therefore I have spears, bossed shields, helmets, and burnished corslets.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" Then Meriones said," I too in my tent and at my ship have spoils taken from the Trojans, but they are not at hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
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I have been at all times valorous, and wherever there has been hard fighting have held my own among the foremost.


title: homer-iliad_13
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There may be those among the Achaeans who do not know how I fight, but you know it well enough yourself.


title: homer-iliad_13
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If the best men at the ships were being chosen to go on an ambush— and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chattering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action— if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.


title: homer-iliad_13
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If you were struck by a dart or smitten in close combat, it would not be from behind, in your neck nor back, but the weapon would hit you in the chest or belly as you were pressing forward to a place in the front ranks.


title: homer-iliad_13
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But let us no longer stay here talking like children, lest we be ill spoken of; go, fetch your spear from the tent at once.


title: homer-iliad_13
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As when baneful Mars sallies forth to battle, and his son Panic so strong and dauntless goes with him, to strike terror even into the heart of a hero— the pair have gone from Thrace to arm themselves among the Ephyri or the brave Phlegyans, but they will not listen to both the contending hosts, and will give victory to one side or to the other— even so did Meriones and Idomeneus, captains of men, go out to battle clad in their bronze armour.


title: homer-iliad_13
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On the right wing of the host, in the centre, or on the left wing, where I take it the Achaeans will be weakest?" Idomeneus answered," There are others to defend the centre— the two Ajaxes and Teucer, who is the finest archer of all the Achaeans, and is good also in a handtohand fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
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These will give Hector son of Priam enough to do; fight as he may, he will find it hard to vanquish their indomitable fury, and fire the ships, unless the son of Saturn fling a firebrand upon them with his own hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Great Ajax son of Telamon will yield to no man who is in mortal mould and eats the grain of Ceres, if bronze and great stones can overthrow him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He would not yield even to Achilles in handtohand fight, and in fleetness of foot there is none to beat him; let us turn therefore towards the left wing, that we may know forthwith whether we are to give glory to some other, or he to us.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" Meriones, peer of fleet Mars, then led the way till they came to the part of the host which Idomeneus had named.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Now when the Trojans saw Idomeneus coming on like a flame of fire, him and his squire clad in their richly wrought armour, they shouted and made towards him all in a body, and a furious handtohand fight raged under the ships ' sterns.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Fierce as the shrill winds that whistle upon a day when dust lies deep on the roads, and the gusts raise it into a thick cloud— even such was the fury of the combat, and might and main did they hack at each other with spear and sword throughout the host.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Dazzling was the sheen of their gleaming helmets, their freshburnished breastplates, and glittering shields as they joined battle with one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Iron indeed must be his courage who could take pleasure in the sight of such a turmoil, and look on it without being dismayed.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Jove was minded to give victory to the Trojans and to Hector, so as to do honour to fleet Achilles, nevertheless he did not mean to utterly overthrow the Achaean host before Ilius, and only wanted to glorify Thetis and her valiant son.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Neptune on the other hand went about among the Argives to incite them, having come up from the grey sea in secret, for he was grieved at seeing them vanquished by the Trojans, and was furiously angry with Jove.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Both were of the same race and country, but Jove was elder born and knew more, therefore Neptune feared to defend the Argives openly, but in the likeness of man, he kept on encouraging them throughout their host.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Thus, then, did these two devise a knot of war and battle, that none could unloose or break, and set both sides tugging at it, to the failing of men 's knees beneath them.


title: homer-iliad_13
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And now Idomeneus, though his hair was already flecked with grey, called loud on the Danaans and spread panic among the Trojans as he leaped in among them.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He sought Cassandra, the fairest of Priam 's daughters, in marriage, but offered no gifts of wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would drive the sons of the Achaeans willy nilly from Troy; old King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him, whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus made to him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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His cuirass of bronze did not protect him, and the spear stuck in his belly, so that he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Then Idomeneus vaunted over him saying," Othryoneus, there is no one in the world whom I shall admire more than I do you, if you indeed perform what you have promised Priam son of Dardanus in return for his daughter.


title: homer-iliad_13
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We too will make you an offer; we will give you the loveliest daughter of the son of Atreus, and will bring her from Argos for you to marry, if you will sack the goodly city of Ilius in company with ourselves; so come along with me, that we may make a covenant at the ships about the marriage, and we will not be hard upon you about gifts of wooing.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" With this Idomeneus began dragging him by the foot through the thick of the fight, but Asius came up to protect the body, on foot, in front of his horses which his esquire drove so close behind him that he could feel their breath upon his shoulder.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He was longing to strike down Idomeneus, but ere he could do so Idomeneus smote him with his spear in the throat under the chin, and the bronze point went clean through it.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He fell as an oak, or poplar, or pine which shipwrights have felled for ship 's timber upon the mountains with whetted axes— even thus did he lie full length in front of his chariot and horses, grinding his teeth and clutching at the bloodstained dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
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His charioteer was struck with panic and did not dare turn his horses round and escape: thereupon Antilochus hit him in the middle of his body with a spear; his cuirass of bronze did not protect him, and the spear stuck in his belly.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He fell gasping from his chariot and Antilochus, great Nestor 's son, drove his horses from the Trojans to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deiphobus then came close up to Idomeneus to avenge Asius, and took aim at him with a spear, but Idomeneus was on the lookout and avoided it, for he was covered by the round shield he always bore— a shield of oxhide and bronze with two armrods on the inside.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He crouched under cover of this, and the spear flew over him, but the shield rang out as the spear grazed it, and the weapon sped not in vain from the strong hand of Deiphobus, for it struck Hypsenor son of Hippasus, shepherd of his people, in the liver under the midriff, and his limbs failed beneath him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deiphobus vaunted over him and cried with a loud voice saying," Of a truth Asius has not fallen unavenged; he will be glad even while passing into the house of Hades, strong warden of the gate, that I have sent some one to escort him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Noble Antilochus was more angry than any one, but grief did not make him forget his friend and comrade.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He ran up to him, bestrode him, and covered him with his shield; then two of his staunch comrades, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, stooped down, and bore him away groaning heavily to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He kept on striving continually either to enshroud some Trojan in the darkness of death, or himself to fall while warding off the evil day from the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Then fell Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes; he was soninlaw to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia, who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and understanding, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife— him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when Idomeneus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The coat of mail that had hitherto protected his body was now broken, and rang harshly as the spear tore through it.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He fell heavily to the ground, and the spear stuck in his heart, which still beat, and made the buttend of the spear quiver till dread Mars put an end to his life.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Idomeneus vaunted over him and cried with a loud voice saying," Deiphobus, since you are in a mood to vaunt, shall we cry quits now that we have killed three men to your one?


title: homer-iliad_13
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Nay, sir, stand in fight with me yourself, that you may learn what manner of Jovebegotten man am I that have come hither.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deucalion begot me to be a ruler over many men in Crete, and my ships have now brought me hither, to be the bane of yourself, your father, and the Trojans."


title: homer-iliad_13
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Thus did he speak, and Deiphobus was in two minds, whether to go back and fetch some other Trojan to help him, or to take up the challenge singlehanded.


title: homer-iliad_13
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In the end, he deemed it best to go and fetch Aeneas, whom he found standing in the rear, for he had long been aggrieved with Priam because in spite of his brave deeds he did not give him his due share of honour.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deiphobus went up to him and said," Aeneas, prince among the Trojans, if you know any ties of kinship, help me now to defend the body of your sister 's husband; come with me to the rescue of Alcathous, who being husband to your sister brought you up when you were a child in his house, and now Idomeneus has slain him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" With these words he moved the heart of Aeneas, and he went in pursuit of Idomeneus, big with great deeds of valour; but Idomeneus was not to be thus daunted as though he were a mere child; he held his ground as a wild boar at bay upon the mountains, who abides the coming of a great crowd of men in some lonely place— the bristles stand upright on his back, his eyes flash fire, and he whets his tusks in his eagerness to defend himself against hounds and men— even so did famed Idomeneus hold his ground and budge not at the coming of Aeneas.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He cried aloud to his comrades looking towards Ascalaphus, Aphareus, Deipyrus, Meriones, and Antilochus, all of them brave soldiers—"Hither my friends," he cried," and leave me not singlehanded— I go in great fear by fleet Aeneas, who is coming against me, and is a redoubtable dispenser of death battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Moreover he is in the flower of youth when a man 's strength is greatest; if I was of the same age as he is and in my present mind, either he or I should soon bear away the prize of victory.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Aeneas on the other side called to his comrades, looking towards Deiphobus, Paris, and Agenor, who were leaders of the Trojans along with himself, and the people followed them as sheep follow the ram when they go down to drink after they have been feeding, and the heart of the shepherd is glad— even so was the heart of Aeneas gladdened when he saw his people follow him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Then they fought furiously in close combat about the body of Alcathous, wielding their long spears; and the bronze armour about their bodies rang fearfully as they took aim at one another in the press of the fight, while the two heroes Aeneas and Idomeneus, peers of Mars, outvied everyone in their desire to hack at each other with sword and spear.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Aeneas took aim first, but Idomeneus was on the lookout and avoided the spear, so that it sped from Aeneas ' strong hand in vain, and fell quivering in the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Idomeneus meanwhile smote Oenomaus in the middle of his belly, and broke the plate of his corslet, whereon his bowels came gushing out and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Idomeneus drew his spear out of the body, but could not strip him of the rest of his armour for the rain of darts that were showered upon him: moreover his strength was now beginning to fail him so that he could no longer charge, and could neither spring forward to recover his own weapon nor swerve aside to avoid one that was aimed at him; therefore, though he still defended himself in handtohand fight, his heavy feet could not bear him swiftly out of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deiphobus aimed a spear at him as he was retreating slowly from the field, for his bitterness against him was as fierce as ever, but again he missed him, and hit Ascalaphus, the son of Mars; the spear went through his shoulder, and he clutched the earth in the palms of his hands as he fell sprawling in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Grim Mars of awful voice did not yet know that his son had fallen, for he was sitting on the summits of Olympus under the golden clouds, by command of Jove, where the other gods were also sitting, forbidden to take part in the battle.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Deiphobus tore the helmet from off his head, but Meriones sprang upon him, and struck him on the arm with a spear so that the visored helmet fell from his hand and came ringing down upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Thereon Meriones sprang upon him like a vulture, drew the spear from his shoulder, and fell back under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Then Polites, own brother of Deiphobus passed his arms around his waist, and bore him away from the battle till he got to his horses that were standing in the rear of the fight with the chariot and their driver.


title: homer-iliad_13
sentence:
Aeneas sprang on Aphareus son of Caletor, and struck him with a spear in his throat which was turned towards him; his head fell on one side, his helmet and shield came down along with him, and death, life 's foe, was shed around him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He laid open the vein that runs all the way up the back to the neck; he cut this vein clean away throughout its whole course, and Thoon fell in the dust face upwards, stretching out his hands imploringly towards his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Antilochus sprang upon him and stripped the armour from his shoulders, glaring round him fearfully as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The Trojans came about him on every side and struck his broad and gleaming shield, but could not wound his body, for Neptune stood guard over the son of Nestor, though the darts fell thickly round him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He was never clear of the foe, but was always in the thick of the fight; his spear was never idle; he poised and aimed it in every direction, so eager was he to hit someone from a distance or to fight him hand to hand.


title: homer-iliad_13
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As he was thus aiming among the crowd, he was seen by Adamas, son of Asius, who rushed towards him and struck him with a spear in the middle of his shield, but Neptune made its point without effect, for he grudged him the life of Antilochus.


title: homer-iliad_13
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One half, therefore, of the spear stuck fast like a charred stake in Antilochus 's shield, while the other lay on the ground.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Adamas then sought shelter under cover of his men, but Meriones followed after and hit him with a spear midway between the private parts and the navel, where a wound is particularly painful to wretched mortals.


title: homer-iliad_13
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There did Meriones transfix him, and he writhed convulsively about the spear as some bull whom mountain herdsmen have bound with ropes of withes and are taking away perforce.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Even so did he move convulsively for a while, but not for very long, till Meriones came up and drew the spear out of his body, and his eyes were veiled in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Helenus then struck Deipyrus with a great Thracian sword, hitting him on the temple in close combat and tearing the helmet from his head; the helmet fell to the ground, and one of those who were fighting on the Achaean side took charge of it as it rolled at his feet, but the eyes of Deipyrus were closed in the darkness of death.


title: homer-iliad_13
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On this Menelaus was grieved, and made menacingly towards Helenus, brandishing his spear; but Helenus drew his bow, and the two attacked one another at one and the same moment, the one with his spear, and the other with his bow and arrow.


title: homer-iliad_13
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As black beans or pulse come pattering down on to a threshingfloor from the broad winnowingshovel, blown by shrill winds and shaken by the shovel— even so did the arrow glance off and recoil from the shield of Menelaus, who in his turn wounded the hand with which Helenus carried his bow; the spear went right through his hand and stuck in the bow itself, so that to his life he retreated under cover of his men, with his hand dragging by his side— for the spear weighed it down till Agenor drew it out and bound the hand carefully up in a woollen sling which his esquire had with him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Pisander then made straight at Menelaus— his evil destiny luring him on to his doom, for he was to fall in fight with you, O Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_13
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When the two were hard by one another the spear of the son of Atreus turned aside and he missed his aim; Pisander then struck the shield of brave Menelaus but could not pierce it, for the shield stayed the spear and broke the shaft; nevertheless he was glad and made sure of victory; forthwith, however, the son of Atreus drew his sword and sprang upon him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Pisander then seized the bronze battleaxe, with its long and polished handle of olive wood that hung by his side under his shield, and the two made at one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Pisander struck the peak of Menelaus 's crested helmet just under the crest itself, and Menelaus hit Pisander as he was coming towards him, on the forehead, just at the rise of his nose; the bones cracked and his two gorebedrabbled eyes fell by his feet in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He fell backwards to the ground, and Menelaus set his heel upon him, stripped him of his armour, and vaunted over him saying," Even thus shall you Trojans leave the ships of the Achaeans, proud and insatiate of battle though you be, nor shall you lack any of the disgrace and shame which you have heaped upon myself.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Cowardly shewolves that you are ,you feared not the anger of dread Jove, avenger of violated hospitality, who will one day destroy your city; you stole my wedded wife and wickedly carried off much treasure when you were her guest, and now you would fling fire upon our ships, and kill our heroes.


title: homer-iliad_13
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O father Jove, you, who they say art above all, both gods and men, in wisdom, and from whom all things that befall us do proceed, how can you thus favour the Trojans— men so proud and overweening, that they are never tired of fighting?


title: homer-iliad_13
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All things pall after a while— sleep, love, sweet song, and stately dance— still these are things of which a man would surely have his fill rather than of battle, whereas it is of battle that the Trojans are insatiate.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" So saying Menelaus stripped the bloodstained armour from the body of Pisander, and handed it over to his men; then he again ranged himself among those who were in the front of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
sentence:
Harpalion son of King Pylaemenes then sprang upon him; he had come to fight at Troy along with his father, but he did not go home again.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He struck the middle of Menelaus 's shield with his spear but could not pierce it, and to save his life drew back under cover of his men, looking round him on every side lest he should be wounded.


title: homer-iliad_13
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But Meriones aimed a bronzetipped arrow at him as he was leaving the field, and hit him on the right buttock; the arrow pierced the bone through and through, and penetrated the bladder, so he sat down where he was and breathed his last in the arms of his comrades, stretched like a worm upon the ground and watering the earth with the blood that flowed from his wound.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The brave Paphlagonians tended him with all due care; they raised him into his chariot, and bore him sadly off to the city of Troy; his father went also with him weeping bitterly, but there was no ransom that could bring his dead son to life again.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Paris was deeply grieved by the death of Harpalion, who was his host when he went among the Paphlagonians; he aimed an arrow, therefore, in order to avenge him.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Now there was a certain man named Euchenor, son of Polyidus the prophet, a brave man and wealthy, whose home was in Corinth.


title: homer-iliad_13
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This Euchenor had set sail for Troy well knowing that it would be the death of him, for his good old father Polyidus had often told him that he must either stay at home and die of a terrible disease, or go with the Achaeans and perish at the hands of the Trojans; he chose, therefore, to avoid incurring the heavy fine the Achaeans would have laid upon him, and at the same time to escape the pain and suffering of disease.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Paris now smote him on the jaw under his ear, whereon the life went out of him and he was enshrouded in the darkness of death.


title: homer-iliad_13
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But Hector had not yet heard, and did not know that the Argives were making havoc of his men on the left wing of the battle, where the Achaeans ere long would have triumphed over them, so vigorously did Neptune cheer them on and help them.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He therefore held on at the point where he had first forced his way through the gates and the wall, after breaking through the serried ranks of Danaan warriors.


title: homer-iliad_13
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It was here that the ships of Ajax and Protesilaus were drawn up by the seashore; here the wall was at its lowest, and the fight both of man and horse raged most fiercely.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The Boeotians and the Ionians with their long tunics, the Locrians, the men of Phthia, and the famous force of the Epeans could hardly stay Hector as he rushed on towards the ships, nor could they drive him from them, for he was as a wall of fire.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The chosen men of the Athenians were in the van, led by Menestheus son of Peteos, with whom were also Pheidas, Stichius, and stalwart Bias; Meges son of Phyleus, Amphion, and Dracius commanded the Epeans, while Medon and staunch Podarces led the men of Phthia.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Of these, Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country, for he had killed the brother of his stepmother Eriopis, the wife of Oileus; the other, Podarces, was the son of Iphiclus, son of Phylacus.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Ajax son of Oileus, never for a moment left the side of Ajax, son of Telamon, but as two swart oxen both strain their utmost at the plough which they are drawing in a fallow field, and the sweat steams upwards from about the roots of their horns— nothing but the yoke divides them as they break up the ground till they reach the end of the field— even so did the two Ajaxes stand shoulder to shoulder by one another.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Many and brave comrades followed the son of Telamon, to relieve him of his shield when he was overcome with sweat and toil, but the Locrians did not follow so close after the son of Oileus, for they could not hold their own in a handtohand fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
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They had no bronze helmets with plumes of horsehair, neither had they shields nor ashen spears, but they had come to Troy armed with bows, and with slings of twisted wool from which they showered their missiles to break the ranks of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The others, therefore, with their heavy armour bore the brunt of the fight with the Trojans and with Hector, while the Locrians shot from behind, under their cover; and thus the Trojans began to lose heart, for the arrows threw them into confusion.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The Trojans would now have been driven in sorry plight from the ships and tents back to windy Ilius, had not Polydamas presently said to Hector," Hector, there is no persuading you to take advice.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Because heaven has so richly endowed you with the arts of war, you think that you must therefore excel others in counsel; but you can not thus claim preeminence in all things.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Heaven has made one man an excellent soldier; of another it has made a dancer or a singer and player on the lyre; while yet in another Jove has implanted a wise understanding of which men reap fruit to the saving of many, and he himself knows more about it than any one; therefore I will say what I think will be best.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The fight has hemmed you in as with a circle of fire, and even now that the Trojans are within the wall some of them stand aloof in full armour, while others are fighting scattered and outnumbered near the ships.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Draw back, therefore, and call your chieftains round you, that we may advise together whether to fall now upon the ships in the hope that heaven may vouchsafe us victory, or to beat a retreat while we can yet safely do so.


title: homer-iliad_13
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I greatly fear that the Achaeans will pay us their debt of yesterday in full, for there is one abiding at their ships who is never weary of battle, and who will not hold aloof much longer." Thus spoke Polydamas, and his words pleased Hector well.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He sprang in full armour from his chariot and said," Polydamas, gather the chieftains here; I will go yonder into the fight, but will return at once when I have given them their orders.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" He then sped onward, towering like a snowy mountain, and with a loud cry flew through the ranks of the Trojans and their allies.


title: homer-iliad_13
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When they heard his voice they all hastened to gather round Polydamas, the excellent son of Panthous, but Hector kept on among the foremost, looking everywhere to find Deiphobus and prince Helenus, Adamas son of Asius, and Asius son of Hyrtacus; living, indeed, and scatheless he could no longer find them, for the two last were lying by the sterns of the Achaean ships, slain by the Argives, while the others had been also stricken and wounded by them; but upon the left wing of the dread battle he found Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, cheering his men and urging them on to fight.


title: homer-iliad_13
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"Paris," said he," evilhearted Paris, fair to see but womanmad and false of tongue, where are Deiphobus and King Helenus?


title: homer-iliad_13
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Ilius is undone and will now surely fall!" Alexandrus answered," Hector, why find fault when there is no one to find fault with?


title: homer-iliad_13
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I should hold aloof from battle on any day rather than this, for my mother bore me with nothing of the coward about me.


title: homer-iliad_13
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From the moment when you set our men fighting about the ships we have been staying here and doing battle with the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Our comrades about whom you ask me are dead; Deiphobus and King Helenus alone have left the field, wounded both of them in the hand, but the son of Saturn saved them alive.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Now, therefore, lead on where you would have us go, and we will follow with right goodwill; you shall not find us fail you in so far as our strength holds out, but no man can do more than in him lies, no matter how willing he may be.


title: homer-iliad_13
sentence:
" With these words he satisfied his brother, and the two went towards the part of the battle where the fight was thickest, about Cebriones, brave Polydamas, Phalces, Orthaeus, godlike Polyphetes, Palmys, Ascanius, and Morys son of Hippotion, who had come from fertile Ascania on the preceding day to relieve other troops.


title: homer-iliad_13
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They flew forth like the blasts of some fierce wind that strike earth in the van of a thunderstorm— they buffet the salt sea into an uproar; many and mighty are the great waves that come crashing in one after the other upon the shore with their arching heads all crested with foam— even so did rank behind rank of Trojans arrayed in gleaming armour follow their leaders onward.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The way was led by Hector son of Priam, peer of murderous Mars, with his round shield before him— his shield of oxhides covered with plates of bronze— and his gleaming helmet upon his temples.


title: homer-iliad_13
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He kept stepping forward under cover of his shield in every direction, making trial of the ranks to see if they would give way before him, but he could not daunt the courage of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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Your heart, forsooth, is set on destroying our ships, but we too have hands that can keep you at bay, and your own fair town shall be sooner taken and sacked by ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The time is near when you shall pray Jove and all the gods in your flight, that your steeds may be swifter than hawks as they raise the dust on the plain and bear you back to your city.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" As he was thus speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand, and the host of the Achaeans shouted, for they took heart at the omen.


title: homer-iliad_13
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But Hector answered," Ajax, braggart and false of tongue, would that I were as sure of being son for evermore to aegisbearing Jove, with Queen Juno for my mother, and of being held in like honour with Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day is big with the destruction of the Achaeans; and you shall fall among them if you dare abide my spear; it shall rend your fair body and bid you glut our hounds and birds of prey with your fat and your flesh, as you fall by the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_13
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" With these words he led the way and the others followed after with a cry that rent the air, while the host shouted behind them.


title: homer-iliad_13
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The Argives on their part raised a shout likewise, nor did they forget their prowess, but stood firm against the onslaught of the Trojan chieftains, and the cry from both the hosts rose up to heaven and to the brightness of Jove 's presence.


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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Thereon Alexandrus killed Menesthius the son of Areithous; he lived in Arne, and was son of Areithous the Maceman, and of Phylomedusa.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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Tell me, then, how do you propose to end this present fighting?" Apollo, son of Jove, replied," Let us incite great Hector to challenge some one of the Danaans in single combat; on this the Achaeans will be shamed into finding a man who will fight him.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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I will myself go out against this man, but the upshot of the fight will be from on high in the hands of the immortal gods." With these words he put on his armour; and then, O Menelaus, your life would have come to an end at the hands of hands of Hector, for he was far better the man, had not the princes of the Achaeans sprung upon you and checked you.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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I can charge among the chariots and horsemen, and in hand to hand fighting can delight the heart of Mars; howbeit I would not take such a man as you are off his guard— but I will smite you openly if I can." He poised his spear as he spoke, and hurled it from him.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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When they reached the quarters of the son of Atreus, Agamemnon sacrificed for them a fiveyearold bull in honour of Jove the son of Saturn.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_07
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The fame of this wall will reach as far as dawn itself, and men will no longer think anything of the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon." Jove was displeased and answered," What, O shaker of the earth, are you talking about?


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_07
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When she reached her father 's house she drew up at the gateway, and her brothers— comely as the gods— gathered round her, took the mules out of the waggon, and carried the clothes into the house, while she went to her own room, where an old servant, Eurymedusa of Apeira, lit the fire for her.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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This old woman had been brought by sea from Apeira, and had been chosen as a prize for Alcinous because he was king over the Phaeacians, and the people obeyed him as though he were a god.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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She had been nurse to Nausicaa, and had now lit the fire for her, and brought her supper for her into her own room.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Presently Ulysses got up to go towards the town; and Minerva shed a thick mist all round him to hide him in case any of the proud Phaeacians who met him should be rude to him, or ask him who he was.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Then, as he was just entering the town, she came towards him in the likeness of a little girl carrying a pitcher.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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She stood right in front of him, and Ulysses said: "My dear, will you be so kind as to show me the house of king Alcinous?


title: homer-odyssey_07
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" Then Minerva said," Yes, father stranger, I will show you the house you want, for Alcinous lives quite close to my own father.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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I will go before you and show the way, but say not a word as you go, and do not look at any man, nor ask him questions; for the people here can not abide strangers, and do not like men who come from some other place.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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They are a seafaring folk, and sail the seas by the grace of Neptune in ships that glide along like thought, or as a bird in the air.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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" On this she led the way, and Ulysses followed in her steps; but not one of the Phaeacians could see him as he passed through the city in the midst of them; for the great goddess Minerva in her good will towards him had hidden him in a thick cloud of darkness.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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He admired their harbours, ships, places of assembly, and the lofty walls of the city, which, with the palisade on top of them, were very striking, and when they reached the king 's house Minerva said: "This is the house, father stranger, which you would have me show you.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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You will find a number of great people sitting at table, but do not be afraid; go straight in, for the bolder a man is the more likely he is to carry his point, even though he is a stranger.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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They both descend originally from Neptune, who was father to Nausithous by Periboea, a woman of great beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Periboea was the youngest daughter of Eurymedon, who at one time reigned over the giants, but he ruined his illfated people and lost his own life to boot.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
"Neptune, however, lay with his daughter, and she had a son by him, the great Nausithous, who reigned over the Phaeacians.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Nausithous had two sons Rhexenor and Alcinous; Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue; but he left a daughter Arete, whom Alcinous married, and honours as no other woman is honoured of all those that keep house along with their husbands.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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"Thus she both was, and still is, respected beyond measure by her children, by Alcinous himself, and by the whole people, who look upon her as a goddess, and greet her whenever she goes about the city, for she is a thoroughly good woman both in head and heart, and when any women are friends of hers, she will help their husbands also to settle their disputes.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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If you can gain her good will, you may have every hope of seeing your friends again, and getting safely back to your home and country.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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She went to Marathon and to the spacious streets of Athens, where she entered the abode of Erechtheus; but Ulysses went on to the house of Alcinous, and he pondered much as he paused a while before reaching the threshold of bronze, for the splendour of the palace was like that of the sun or moon.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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The doors were gold, and hung on pillars of silver that rose from a floor of bronze, while the lintel was silver and the hook of the door was of gold.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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On either side there stood gold and silver mastiffs which Vulcan, with his consummate skill, had fashioned expressly to keep watch over the palace of king Alcinous; so they were immortal and could never grow old.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Seats were ranged all along the wall, here and there from one end to the other, with coverings of fine woven work which the women of the house had made.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Here the chief persons of the Phaeacians used to sit and eat and drink, for there was abundance at all seasons; and there were golden figures of young men with lighted torches in their hands, raised on pedestals, to give light by night to those who were at table.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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There are fifty maid servants in the house, some of whom are always grinding rich yellow grain at the mill, while others work at the loom, or sit and spin, and their shuttles go backwards and forwards like the fluttering of aspen leaves, while the linen is so closely woven that it will turn oil.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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The fruits never rot nor fail all the year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the old has dropped.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Pear grows on pear, apple on apple, and fig on fig, and so also with the grapes, for there is an excellent vineyard: on the level ground of a part of this, the grapes are being made into raisins; in another part they are being gathered; some are being trodden in the wine tubs, others further on have shed their blossom and are beginning to show fruit, others again are just changing colour.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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In the furthest part of the ground there are beautifully arranged beds of flowers that are in bloom all the year round.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Two streams go through it, the one turned in ducts throughout the whole garden, while the other is carried under the ground of the outer court to the house itself, and the town 's people draw water from it.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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So here Ulysses stood for a while and looked about him, but when he had looked long enough he crossed the threshold and went within the precincts of the house.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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There he found all the chief people among the Phaeacians making their drink offerings to Mercury, which they always did the last thing before going away for the night.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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He went straight through the court, still hidden by the cloak of darkness in which Minerva had enveloped him, till he reached Arete and King Alcinous; then he laid his hands upon the knees of the queen, and at that moment the miraculous darkness fell away from him and he became visible.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Every one was speechless with surprise at seeing a man there, but Ulysses began at once with his petition.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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"Queen Arete," he exclaimed," daughter of great Rhexenor, in my distress I humbly pray you, as also your husband and these your guests( whom may heaven prosper with long life and happiness, and may they leave their possessions to their children, and all the honours conferred upon them by the state) to help me home to my own country as soon as possible; for I have been long in trouble and away from my friends.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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" Then he sat down on the hearth among the ashes and they all held their peace, till presently the old hero Echeneus, who was an excellent speaker and an elder among the Phaeacians, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: "Alcinous," said he," it is not creditable to you that a stranger should be seen sitting among the ashes of your hearth; every one is waiting to hear what you are about to say; tell him, then, to rise and take a seat on a stool inlaid with silver, and bid your servants mix some wine and water that we may make a drink offering to Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection; and let the housekeeper give him some supper, of whatever there may be in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
" When Alcinous heard this he took Ulysses by the hand, raised him from the hearth, and bade him take the seat of Laodamas, who had been sitting beside him, and was his favourite son.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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A maid servant then brought him water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for him to wash his hands, and she drew a clean table beside him; an upper servant brought him bread and offered him many good things of what there was in the house, and Ulysses ate and drank.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Then Alcinous said to one of the servants," Pontonous, mix a cup of wine and hand it round that we may make drinkofferings to Jove the lord of thunder, who is the protector of all welldisposed suppliants.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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" Pontonous then mixed wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drinkoffering.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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When they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, Alcinous said: "Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, hear my words.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Tomorrow morning I shall invite a still larger number of aldermen, and will give a sacrificial banquet in honour of our guest; we can then discuss the question of his escort, and consider how we may at once send him back rejoicing to his own country without trouble or inconvenience to himself, no matter how distant it may be.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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We must see that he comes to no harm while on his homeward journey, but when he is once at home he will have to take the luck he was born with for better or worse like other people.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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It is possible, however, that the stranger is one of the immortals who has come down from heaven to visit us; but in this case the gods are departing from their usual practice, for hitherto they have made themselves perfectly clear to us when we have been offering them hecatombs.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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They come and sit at our feasts just like one of our selves, and if any solitary wayfarer happens to stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment, for we are as near of kin to the gods as the Cyclopes and the savage giants are."


title: homer-odyssey_07
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I have nothing of the immortal about me, neither in body nor mind, and most resemble those among you who are the most afflicted.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Indeed, were I to tell you all that heaven has seen fit to lay upon me, you would say that I was still worse off than they are.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Nevertheless, let me sup in spite of sorrow, for an empty stomach is a very importunate thing, and thrusts itself on a man 's notice no matter how dire is his distress.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
I am in great trouble, yet it insists that I shall eat and drink, bids me lay aside all memory of my sorrows and dwell only on the due replenishing of itself.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
I shall be content to die if I may first once more behold my property, my bondsmen, and all the greatness of my house.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Every one approved his saying, and agreed that he should have his escort inasmuch as he had spoken reasonably.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Then when they had made their drink offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded they went home to bed every man in his own abode, leaving Ulysses in the cloister with Arete and Alcinous while the servants were taking the things away after supper.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Arete was the first to speak, for she recognised the shirt, cloak, and good clothes that Ulysses was wearing, as the work of herself and of her maids; so she said," Stranger, before we go any further, there is a question I should like to ask you.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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And Ulysses answered," It would be a long story Madam, were I to relate in full the tale of my misfortunes, for the hand of heaven has been laid heavy upon me; but as regards your question, there is an island far away in the sea which is called' the Ogygian.'


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Fortune, however, brought me to her hearth all desolate and alone, for Jove struck my ship with his thunderbolts, and broke it up in mid ocean.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
My brave comrades were drowned every man of them, but I stuck to the keel and was carried hither and thither for the space of nine days, till at last during the darkness of the tenth night the gods brought me to the Ogygian island where the great goddess Calypso lives.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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She took me in and treated me with the utmost kindness; indeed she wanted to make me immortal that I might never grow old, but she could not persuade me to let her do so.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
"I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Days seven and ten did I sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth I caught sight of the first outlines of the mountains upon your coast— and glad indeed was I to set eyes upon them.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Nevertheless there was still much trouble in store for me ,for at this point Neptune would let me go no further, and raised a great storm against me; the sea was so terribly high that I could no longer keep to my raft, which went to pieces under the fury of the gale, and I had to swim for it, till wind and current brought me to your shores.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
"There I tried to land, but could not, for it was a bad place and the waves dashed me against the rocks, so I again took to the sea and swam on till I came to a river that seemed the most likely landing place, for there were no rocks and it was sheltered from the wind.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Night was coming on, so I left the river, and went into a thicket, where I covered myself all over with leaves, and presently heaven sent me off into a very deep sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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Sick and sorry as I was I slept among the leaves all night, and through the next day till afternoon, when I woke as the sun was westering, and saw your daughter 's maid servants playing upon the beach, and your daughter among them looking like a goddess.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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I besought her aid, and she proved to be of an excellent disposition, much more so than could be expected from so young a person— for young people are apt to be thoughtless.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
She gave me plenty of bread and wine, and when she had had me washed in the river she also gave me the clothes in which you see me.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Then Alcinous said," Stranger, it was very wrong of my daughter not to bring you on at once to my house along with the maids, seeing that she was the first person whose aid you asked.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
She did tell me to follow along with the maids, but I was ashamed and afraid, for I thought you might perhaps be displeased if you saw me.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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" "Stranger," replied Alcinous," I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my soninlaw.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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If you will stay I will give you a house and an estate, but no one( heaven forbid) shall keep you here against your own wish, and that you may be sure of this I will attend tomorrow to the matter of your escort.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
You can sleep during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellowhaired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place— and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day without distressing themselves, and came back again afterwards.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Then was Ulysses glad and prayed aloud saying," Father Jove, grant that Alcinous may do all as he has said, for so he will win an imperishable name among mankind, and at the same time I shall return to my country.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.


title: homer-odyssey_07
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The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said," Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready," and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.


title: homer-odyssey_07
sentence:
So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and they all held their peace throughout the covered cloister, enthralled by the charm of his story, till presently Alcinous began to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
"Ulysses," said he," now that you have reached my house I doubt not you will get home without further misadventure no matter how much you have suffered in the past.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
To you others, however, who come here night after night to drink my choicest wine and listen to my bard, I would insist as follows.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Our guest has already packed up the clothes, wrought gold and other valuables which you have brought for his acceptance; let us now, therefore, present him further, each one of us, with a large tripod and a cauldron.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
We will recoup ourselves by the levy of a general rate; for private individuals can not be expected to bear the burden of such a handsome present.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
When the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared they hurried down to the ship and brought their cauldrons with them.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Alcinous went on board and saw everything so securely stowed under the ship 's benches that nothing could break adrift and injure the rowers.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Then they went to the house of Alcinous to get dinner, and he sacrificed a bull for them in honour of Jove who is the lord of all.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
They set the steaks to grill and made an excellent dinner, after which the inspired bard, Demodocus, who was a favourite with every one, sang to them; but Ulysses kept on turning his eyes towards the sun, as though to hasten his setting, for he was longing to be on his way.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
As one who has been all day ploughing a fallow field with a couple of oxen keeps thinking about his supper and is glad when night comes that he may go and get it, for it is all his legs can do to carry him, even so did Ulysses rejoice when the sun went down, and he at once said to the Phaeacians, addressing himself more particularly to King Alcinous: "Sir, and all of you, farewell.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Make your drinkofferings and send me on my way rejoicing, for you have fulfilled my heart 's desire by giving me an escort, and making me presents, which heaven grant that I may turn to good account; may I find my admirable wife living in peace among friends and may you whom I leave behind me give satisfaction to your wives and children ;may heaven vouchsafe you every good grace, and may no evil thing come among your people.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
His hearers all of them approved his saying and agreed that he should have his escort inasmuch as he had spoken reasonably.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Alcinous therefore said to his servant," Pontonous, mix some wine and hand it round to everybody, that we may offer a prayer to father Jove, and speed our guest upon his way.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
" Pontonous mixed the wine and handed it to every one in turn; the others each from his own seat made a drinkoffering to the blessed gods that live in heaven, but Ulysses rose and placed the double cup in the hands of queen Arete.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
"Farewell, queen," said he," henceforward and for ever, till age and death, the common lot of mankind, lay their hands upon you.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
I now take my leave; be happy in this house with your children, your people, and with king Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
" As he spoke he crossed the threshold, and Alcinous sent a man to conduct him to his ship and to the sea shore.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Arete also sent some maidservants with him— one with a clean shirt and cloak, another to carry his strong box, and a third with corn and wine.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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When they got to the water side the crew took these things and put them on board, with all the meat and drink; but for Ulysses they spread a rug and a linen sheet on deck that he might sleep soundly in the stern of the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then he too went on board and lay down without a word, but the crew took every man his place and loosed the hawser from the pierced stone to which it had been bound.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Thereon, when they began rowing out to sea, Ulysses fell into a deep, sweet, and almost deathlike slumber.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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The ship bounded forward on her way as a four in hand chariot flies over the course when the horses feel the whip.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Her prow curvetted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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She held steadily on her course, and even a falcon, swiftest of all birds, could not have kept pace with her.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Thus, then, she cut her way through the water, carrying one who was as cunning as the gods, but who was now sleeping peacefully, forgetful of all that he had suffered both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Now there is in Ithaca a haven of the old merman Phorcys, which lies between two points that break the line of the sea and shut the harbour in.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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These shelter it from the storms of wind and sea that rage outside, so that, when once within it, a ship may lie without being even moored.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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At the head of this harbour there is a large olive tree, and at no great distance a fine overarching cavern sacred to the nymphs who are called Naiads.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Moreover, there are great looms of stone on which the nymphs weave their robes of sea purple— very curious to see— and at all times there is water within it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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It has two entrances, one facing North by which mortals can go down into the cave, while the other comes from the South and is more mysterious; mortals can not possibly get in by it, it is the way taken by the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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She had so much way upon her that she ran half her own length on to the shore; when, however, they had landed, the first thing they did was to lift Ulysses with his rug and linen sheet out of the ship, and lay him down upon the sand still fast asleep.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then they took out the presents which Minerva had persuaded the Phaeacians to give him when he was setting out on his voyage homewards.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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They put these all together by the root of the olive tree, away from the road, for fear some passer by might come and steal them before Ulysses awoke; and then they made the best of their way home again.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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But Neptune did not forget the threats with which he had already threatened Ulysses, so he took counsel with Jove."


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Father Jove," said he," I shall no longer be held in any sort of respect among you gods, if mortals like the Phaeacians, who are my own flesh and blood, show such small regard for me.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I did not say that he should never get home at all, for I knew you had already nodded your head about it, and promised that he should do so; but now they have brought him in a ship fast asleep and have landed him in Ithaca after loading him with more magnificent presents of bronze, gold, and raiment than he would ever have brought back from Troy, if he had had his share of the spoil and got home without misadventure."


title: homer-odyssey_13
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As regards mortals, however, if any of them is indulging in insolence and treating you disrespectfully, it will always rest with yourself to deal with him as you may think proper, so do just as you please.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" "I should have done so at once," replied Neptune," if I were not anxious to avoid anything that might displease you; now, therefore, I should like to wreck the Phaeacian ship as it is returning from its escort.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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This will stop them from escorting people in future; and I should also like to bury their city under a huge mountain." "My good friend," answered Jove," I should recommend you at the very moment when the people from the city are watching the ship on her way, to turn it into a rock near the land and looking like a ship.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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When earthencircling Neptune heard this he went to Scheria where the Phaeacians live, and stayed there till the ship, which was making rapid way, had got close in.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then he went up to it, turned it into stone, and drove it down with the flat of his hand so as to root it in the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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The Phaeacians then began talking among themselves, and one would turn towards his neighbour, saying," Bless my heart, who is it that can have rooted the ship in the sea just as she was getting into port?


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alcinous said," I remember now the old prophecy of my father.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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He said that Neptune would be angry with us for taking every one so safely over the sea, and would one day wreck a Phaeacian ship as it was returning from an escort, and bury our city under a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Now therefore let us all do as I say; in the first place we must leave off giving people escorts when they come here, and in the next let us sacrifice twelve picked bulls to Neptune that he may have mercy upon us, and not bury our city under the high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Thus did the chiefs and rulers of the Phaeacians pray to king Neptune, standing round his altar; and at the same time Ulysses woke up once more upon his own soil.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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He had been so long away that he did not know it again; moreover, Jove 's daughter Minerva had made it a foggy day, so that people might not know of his having come, and that she might tell him everything without either his wife or his fellow citizens and friends recognising him until he had taken his revenge upon the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Everything, therefore, seemed quite different to him— the long straight tracks, the harbours, the precipices, and the goodly trees, appeared all changed as he started up and looked upon his native land.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I wish I had staid over there with the Phaeacians; or I could have gone to some other great chief who would have been good to me and given me an escort.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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As it is I do not know where to put my treasure, and I can not leave it here for fear somebody else should get hold of it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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In good truth the chiefs and rulers of the Phaeacians have not been dealing fairly by me, and have left me in the wrong country; they said they would take me back to Ithaca and they have not done so :may Jove the protector of suppliants chastise them, for he watches over everybody and punishes those who do wrong.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" He counted his goodly coppers and cauldrons, his gold and all his clothes, but there was nothing missing; still he kept grieving about not being in his own country, and wandered up and down by the shore of the sounding sea bewailing his hard fate.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then Minerva came up to him disguised as a young shepherd of delicate and princely mien, with a good cloak folded double about her shoulders; she had sandals on her comely feet and held a javelin in her hand.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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"My friend," said he," you are the first person whom I have met with in this country; I salute you, therefore, and beg you to be well disposed towards me.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Protect these my goods, and myself too, for I embrace your knees and pray to you as though you were a god.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" Minerva answered," Stranger, you must be very simple, or must have come from somewhere a long way off, not to know what country this is.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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It is rugged and not a good driving country, but it is by no means a bad island for what there is of it.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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It grows any quantity of corn and also wine, for it is watered both by rain and dew; it breeds cattle also and goats; all kinds of timber grow here, and there are watering places where the water never runs dry; so, sir, the name of Ithaca is known even as far as Troy, which I understand to be a long way off from this Achaean country.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" Ulysses was glad at finding himself, as Minerva told him, in his own country, and he began to answer, but he did not speak the truth, and made up a lying story in the instinctive wiliness of his heart.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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"I heard of Ithaca," said he," when I was in Crete beyond the seas, and now it seems I have reached it with all these treasures.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I have left as much more behind me for my children, but am flying because I killed Orsilochus son of Idomeneus, the fleetest runner in Crete.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I killed him because he wanted to rob me of the spoils I had got from Troy with so much trouble and danger both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea; he said I had not served his father loyally at Troy as vassal, but had set myself up as an independent ruler, so I lay in wait for him with one of my followers by the road side, and speared him as he was coming into town from the country.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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It was a very dark night and nobody saw us; it was not known, therefore, that I had killed him, but as soon as I had done so I went to a ship and besought the owners, who were Phoenicians, to take me on board and set me in Pylos or in Elis where the Epeans rule, giving them as much spoil as satisfied them.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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They meant no guile, but the wind drove them off their course, and we sailed on till we came hither by night.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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It was all we could do to get inside the harbour, and none of us said a word about supper though we wanted it badly, but we all went on shore and lay down just as we were.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I was very tired and fell asleep directly, so they took my goods out of the ship, and placed them beside me where I was lying upon the sand.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then she took the form of a woman, fair, stately, and wise," He must be indeed a shifty lying fellow," said she," who could surpass you in all manner of craft even though you had a god for your antagonist.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Dare devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again?


title: homer-odyssey_13
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We will say no more, however, about this, for we can both of us deceive upon occasion— you are the most accomplished counsellor and orator among all mankind, while I for diplomacy and subtlety have no equal among the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Did you not know Jove 's daughter Minerva— me, who have been ever with you, who kept watch over you in all your troubles, and who made the Phaeacians take so great a liking to you?


title: homer-odyssey_13
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And now, again, I am come here to talk things over with you, and help you to hide the treasure I made the Phaeacians give you; I want to tell you about the troubles that await you in your own house; you have got to face them, but tell no one, neither man nor woman, that you have come home again.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
" And Ulysses answered," A man, goddess, may know a great deal, but you are so constantly changing your appearance that when he meets you it is a hard matter for him to know whether it is you or not.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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This much, however, I know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we Achaeans were fighting before Troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of Priam, and heaven dispersed us— from that day, Minerva, I saw no more of you, and can not ever remember your coming to my ship to help me in a difficulty; I had to wander on sick and sorry till the gods delivered me from evil and I reached the city of the Phaeacians, where you encouraged me and took me into the town.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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And now, I beseech you in your father 's name, tell me the truth, for I do not believe I am really back in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" "You are always taking something of that sort in your head," replied Minerva," and that is why I can not desert you in your afflictions; you are so plausible, shrewd and shifty.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Any one but yourself on returning from so long a voyage would at once have gone home to see his wife and children, but you do not seem to care about asking after them or hearing any news about them till you have exploited your wife, who remains at home vainly grieving for you, and having no peace night or day for the tears she sheds on your behalf.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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As for my not coming near you, I was never uneasy about you, for I was certain you would get back safely though you would lose all your men, and I did not wish to quarrel with my uncle Neptune, who never forgave you for having blinded his son.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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This is the haven of the old merman Phorcys, and here is the olive tree that grows at the head of it;[ near it is the cave sacred to the Naiads; here too is the overarching cavern in which you have offered many an acceptable hecatomb to the nymphs, and this is the wooded mountain Neritum.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil; he lifted up his hands and prayed to the nymphs, saying," Naiad nymphs, daughters of Jove, I made sure that I was never again to see you, now therefore I greet you with all loving salutations, and I will bring you offerings as in the old days, if Jove 's redoubtable daughter will grant me life, and bring my son to manhood.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" "Take heart, and do not trouble yourself about that," rejoined Minerva," let us rather set about stowing your things at once in the cave, where they will be quite safe.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Therewith she went down into the cave to look for the safest hiding places, while Ulysses brought up all the treasure of gold, bronze, and good clothing which the Phaeacians had given him.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then the two sat down by the root of the great olive, and consulted how to compass the destruction of the wicked suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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"Ulysses," said Minerva," noble son of Laertes, think how you can lay hands on these disreputable people who have been lording it in your house these three years, courting your wife and making wedding presents to her, while she does nothing but lament your absence, giving hope and sending encouraging messages to every one of them, but meaning the very opposite of all she says.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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" And Ulysses answered," In good truth, goddess, it seems I should have come to much the same bad end in my own house as Agamemnon did, if you had not given me such timely information.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Stand by my side and put your courage into my heart as on the day when we loosed Troy 's fair diadem from her brow.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Help me now as you did then, and I will fight three hundred men, if you, goddess, will be with me." "Trust me for that," said she," I will not lose sight of you when once we set about it, and I imagine that some of those who are devouring your substance will then bespatter the pavement with their blood and brains.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
I will begin by disguising you so that no human being shall know you; I will cover your body with wrinkles; you shall lose all your yellow hair; I will clothe you in a garment that shall fill all who see it with loathing; I will blear your fine eyes for you, and make you an unseemly object in the sight of the suitors, of your wife, and of the son whom you left behind you.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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Then go at once to the swineherd who is in charge of your pigs; he has been always well affected towards you, and is devoted to Penelope and your son; you will find him feeding his pigs near the rock that is called Raven by the fountain Arethusa, where they are fattening on beechmast and spring water after their manner.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Stay with him and find out how things are going, while I proceed to Sparta and see your son, who is with Menelaus at Lacedaemon, where he has gone to try and find out whether you are still alive."


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
Did you want him too to go sailing about amid all kinds of hardship while others are eating up his estate?


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
" Minerva answered," Never mind about him, I sent him that he might be well spoken of for having gone.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
He is in no sort of difficulty, but is staying quite comfortably with Menelaus, and is surrounded with abundance of every kind.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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The suitors have put out to sea and are lying in wait for him, for they mean to kill him before he can get home.


title: homer-odyssey_13
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I do not much think they will succeed, but rather that some of those who are now eating up your estate will first find a grave themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
" As she spoke Minerva touched him with her wand and covered him with wrinkles, took away all his yellow hair, and withered the flesh over his whole body; she bleared his eyes, which were naturally very fine ones; she changed his clothes and threw an old rag of a wrap about him, and a tunic, tattered, filthy, and begrimed with smoke; she also gave him an undressed deer skin as an outer garment, and furnished him with a staff and a wallet all in holes, with a twisted thong for him to sling it over his shoulder.


title: homer-odyssey_13
sentence:
When the pair had thus laid their plans they parted, and the goddess went straight to Lacedaemon to fetch Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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 sunrise as in other places.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
sentence:
"Then, when the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe 's house to fetch the body of Elpenor.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 terrorstruck.


title: homer-odyssey_12
sentence:
She has twelve misshapen 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
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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
sentence:
"'You will find the other rock lie lower, but they are so close together that there is not more than a bowshot between them.


title: homer-odyssey_12
sentence:
[A large fig tree in full leaf grows upon it], and under it lies the sucking whirlpool of Charybdis.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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?' "'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
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
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 sungod— seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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 sungod Hyperion by Neaera.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 sungod son of Hyperion.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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
sentence:
"'Come here,' they sang,' renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to our two voices.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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
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
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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
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"'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
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
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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
sentence:
"When we had passed the[ Wandering] rocks, with Scylla and terrible Charybdis, we reached the noble island of the sungod, where were the goodly cattle and sheep belonging to the sun Hyperion.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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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
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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 sungod.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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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 sungod, for it was here, she said, that our worst danger would lie.


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us obey the behests of night and prepare our supper here hard by the ship; tomorrow morning we will go on board again and put out to sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_12
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
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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_12
sentence:
"Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it.


title: homer-odyssey_12
sentence:
The men all fell into the sea; they were carried about in the water round the ship, looking like so many seagulls, but the god presently deprived them of all chance of getting home again.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_06
sentence:
Ask your father, therefore, to have a waggon and mules ready for us at daybreak, to take the rugs, robes, and girdles, and you can ride, too, which will be much pleasanter for you than walking, for the washingcisterns are some way from the town." When she had said this Minerva went away to Olympus, which they say is the everlasting home of the gods.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_06
sentence:
She got the linen folded and placed in the waggon, she then yoked the mules, and, as she took her seat, she called Ulysses:


title: homer-odyssey_06
sentence:
"Stranger," said she," rise and let us be going back to the town; I will introduce you at the house of my excellent father, where I can tell you that you will meet all the best people among the Phaeacians.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_06
sentence:
" His mother went into the house and called her waitingwomen who gathered the matrons throughout the city.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_04
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
sentence:
" Minerva and Juno muttered their discontent as they sat side by side hatching mischief for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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" 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
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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
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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
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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
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Equitable feasts were never wanting about my altar, nor the savour of burning fat, which is honour due to ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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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
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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
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" This was what Minerva was already eager to do, so down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrowhead was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a halfcircle 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
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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
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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
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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
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As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheekpiece 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
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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 arrowhead to the shaft were still outside the wound.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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The Trojans have trampled on their oaths and have wounded you; nevertheless the oath, the blood of lambs, the drinkofferings and the right hands of fellowship in which we have put our trust shall not be vain.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 bronzesmiths made me."


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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" He then said to Talthybius," Talthybius, tell Machaon, son to the great physician, Aesculapius, to come and see Menelaus immediately.


title: homer-iliad_04
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Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay, and to his own great glory.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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Some Trojan or Lycian archer has wounded him with an arrow to our dismay and to his own great glory.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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He undid the burnished belt, and beneath this the cuirass and the belt of mail which the bronzesmiths 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
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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
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You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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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
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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?" Thus did he go about giving his orders among the ranks.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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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
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When the princes are mixing my choicest wines in the mixingbowls, 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
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Urge on the other Achaeans, that we may join battle at once, for the Trojans have trampled upon their covenants.


title: homer-iliad_04
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Death and destruction shall be theirs, seeing they have been the first to break their oaths and to attack us.


title: homer-iliad_04
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" The son of Atreus went on, glad at heart, till he came upon the two Ajaxes arming themselves amid a host of footsoldiers.


title: homer-iliad_04
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As when a goatherd 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
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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
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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." 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
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He placed his knights with their chariots and horses in the front rank, while the footsoldiers, brave men and many, whom he could trust, were in the rear.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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"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
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"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
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" 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
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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
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The wielding of the spear I leave to those who are younger and stronger than myself." 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
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Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephallenians round him; they had not yet heard the battlecry, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The men of Mycenae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable omens.


title: homer-iliad_04
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When they had got as far the deepmeadowed and rushgrown 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
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Stranger though he was, he knew no fear on finding himself singlehanded 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
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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
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His son can talk more glibly, but he can not fight as his father did." 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
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We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took sevengated 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
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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
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" 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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The bossed shields beat one upon another, and there was a tramp as of a great multitude— deathcry and shout of triumph of slain and slayers, and the earth ran red with blood.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
sentence:
First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.


title: homer-iliad_04
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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
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But his purpose was not for long; Agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronzeshod spear— for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield— and thus he perished.


title: homer-iliad_04
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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Thereon darkness veiled his eyes, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_04
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
sentence:
Moreover, Achilles, the son of lovely Thetis, is not fighting, but is nursing his anger at the ships."


title: homer-iliad_04
sentence:
Thus spoke the mighty god, crying to them from the city, while Jove 's redoubtable daughter, the Tritoborn, went about among the host of the Achaeans, and urged them forward whenever she beheld them slackening.


title: homer-iliad_04
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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-iliad_10
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
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
sentence:
As when fair Juno 's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail or snow when the snowflakes 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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"Wait," answered King Agamemnon," for there are so many paths about the camp that we might miss one another.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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" With these instructions he sent his brother on his way, and went on to Nestor shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The enemy is encamped hard and we know not but he may attack us by night." 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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" "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
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He buckled on his purple coat, of two thicknesses, large, and of a rough shaggy texture, grasped his redoubtable bronzeshod spear, and wended his way along the line of the Achaean ships.


title: homer-iliad_10
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First he called loudly to Ulysses peer of gods in counsel and woke him, for he was soon roused by the sound of the battlecry.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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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
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Come with me and let us wake some other, who may advise well with us whether we shall fight or fly." On this Ulysses went at once into his tent, put his shield about his shoulders and came out with them.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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.


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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.


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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?" 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"Watch on, my children," said he," and let not sleep get hold upon you, lest our enemies triumph over us.


title: homer-iliad_10
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" With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council.


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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.


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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.


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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 clangatherings." They all held their peace, but Diomed of the loud warcry 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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" "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
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The stars have gone forward, twothirds of the night are already spent, and the third is alone left us.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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 skullcap and is a common headgear.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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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
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He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guestgift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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Ulysses was glad when he heard it and prayed to Minerva:" Hear me," he cried," daughter of aegisbearing 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." Then Diomed of the loud warcry 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
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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
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Even so guide me and guard me now, and in return I will offer you in sacrifice a broadbrowed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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 bloodstained bodies of them that had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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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
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" 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
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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
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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." 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dolon suspected nothing and soon passed them, but when he had got about as far as the distance by which a muleplowed furrow exceeds one that has been ploughed by oxen( for mules can plow fallow land quicker than oxen)


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of welltrained 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
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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
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He stood stock still, trembling and in great fear; his teeth chattered, and he turned pale with fear.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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." "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
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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
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Or did you come here of your own mere notion?" Dolon answered, his limbs trembling beneath him:" Hector, with his vain flattering promises, lured me from my better judgement.


title: homer-iliad_10
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He said he would give me the horses of the noble son of Peleus and his bronzebedizened 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
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" 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
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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
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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
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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
sentence:
To the seaward lie the Carians, the Paeonian bowmen, the Leleges, the Cauconians, and the noble Pelasgi.


title: homer-iliad_10
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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" 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
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
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 sleepingground of the Thracians.


