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title: homer-iliad_10
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" With these words he took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree, and they marked the place by pulling up reeds and gathering boughs of tamarisk that they might not miss it as they came back through the flying hours of darkness.


title: homer-iliad_10
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The two then went onwards amid the fallen armour and the blood, and came presently to the company of Thracian soldiers, who were sleeping, tired out with their day 's toil; their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them all orderly in three rows, and each man had his yoke of horses beside him.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Rhesus was sleeping in the middle, and hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Ulysses from some way off saw him and said," This, Diomed, is the man, and these are the horses about which Dolon whom we killed told us.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Do your very utmost; dally not about your armour, but loose the horses at once— or else kill the men yourself, while I see to the horses." Thereon Minerva put courage into the heart of Diomed, and he smote them right and left.


title: homer-iliad_10
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They made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about, and the earth was red with their blood.


title: homer-iliad_10
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As a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds them without their shepherd, so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve.


title: homer-iliad_10
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As he killed them Ulysses came and drew them aside by their feet one by one, that the horses might go forward freely without being frightened as they passed over the dead bodies, for they were not yet used to them.


title: homer-iliad_10
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When the son of Tydeus came to the king, he killed him too( which made thirteen), as he was breathing hard, for by the counsel of Minerva an evil dream, the seed of Oeneus, hovered that night over his head.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Meanwhile Ulysses untied the horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off, striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_10
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He was doubting whether to take the chariot in which the king 's armour was lying, and draw it out by the pole, or to lift the armour out and carry it off; or whether again, he should not kill some more Thracians.


title: homer-iliad_10
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While he was thus hesitating Minerva came up to him and said," Get back, Diomed, to the ships or you may be driven thither, should some other god rouse the Trojans." Diomed knew that it was the goddess, and at once sprang upon the horses.


title: homer-iliad_10
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He was angry with her, and coming to the host of the Trojans he roused Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus.


title: homer-iliad_10
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He started up out of his sleep and saw that the horses were no longer in their place, and that the men were gasping in their deathagony; on this he groaned aloud, and called upon his friend by name.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Then the whole Trojan camp was in an uproar as the people kept hurrying together, and they marvelled at the deeds of the heroes who had now got away towards the ships.


title: homer-iliad_10
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When they reached the place where they had killed Hector 's scout, Ulysses stayed his horses, and the son of Tydeus, leaping to the ground, placed the bloodstained spoils in the hands of Ulysses and remounted: then he lashed the horses onwards, and they flew forward nothing loth towards the ships as though of their own free will.


title: homer-iliad_10
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My friends," said he," princes and counsellors of the Argives, shall I guess right or wrong?—but I must say what I think: there is a sound in my ears as of the tramp of horses.


title: homer-iliad_10
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I hope it may be Diomed and Ulysses driving in horses from the Trojans, but I much fear that the bravest of the Argives may have come to some harm at their hands."


title: homer-iliad_10
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He had hardly done speaking when the two men came in and dismounted, whereon the others shook hands right gladly with them and congratulated them.


title: homer-iliad_10
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I am well conversant with the Trojans, for old warrior though I am I never hold back by the ships, but I never yet saw or heard of such horses as these are.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Surely some god must have met you and given them to you, for you are both of you dear to Jove, and to Jove 's daughter Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_10
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" And Ulysses answered," Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, heaven, if it so will, can give us even better horses than these, for the gods are far mightier than we are.


title: homer-iliad_10
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Hard by the ships we took a thirteenth man— a scout whom Hector and the other Trojans had sent as a spy upon our ships.


title: homer-iliad_10
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" He laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch, while the other Achaeans followed him gladly.


title: homer-iliad_10
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When they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tydeus, they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger, where the steeds of Diomed stood eating their sweet corn, but Ulysses hung the bloodstained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship, that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_10
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As for themselves, they went into the sea and washed the sweat from their bodies, and from their necks and thighs.


title: homer-iliad_10
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When the seawater had taken all the sweat from off them, and had refreshed them, they went into the baths and washed themselves.


title: homer-iliad_10
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After they had so done and had anointed themselves with oil, they sat down to table, and drawing from a full mixingbowl, made a drinkoffering of wine to Minerva.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_10
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"'Stay where you are, then,' answered I,' eating and drinking at the ship, but I must go, for I am most urgently bound to do so.' "With this I left the ship and went up inland.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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Shall we take their horses out, or tell them to find friends elsewhere as they best can?" Menelaus was very angry and said," Eteoneus, son of Boethous, you never used to be a fool, but now you talk like a simpleton.


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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A maidservant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands; and she drew a clean table beside them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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So the maids went out, carrying a torch, and made the beds, to which a manservant presently conducted the strangers.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
sentence:
Tell me, therefore, for the gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me in this way, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home.' "'Stranger,' replied she,' I will make it all quite clear to you.


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
sentence:
He will also tell you, if you so will, all that has been going on at your house both good and bad, while you have been away on your long and dangerous journey.' "'Can you show me,' said I,' some stratagem by means of which I may catch this old god without his suspecting it and finding me out?


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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"When the child of morning rosyfingered Dawn appeared, I took the three men on whose prowess of all kinds I could most rely, and went along by the seaside, praying heartily to heaven.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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What do you want?' "'You know that yourself, old man,' I answered,' you will gain nothing by trying to put me off.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die in Argos, but the gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_04
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Does he want to die without leaving any one behind him to keep up his name?" "I do not know," answered Medon," whether some god set him on to it, or whether he went on his own impulse to see if he could find out if his father was dead, or alive and on his way home.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses, for she had heard Jove 's message.


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


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As for the day time, he spent it on the rocks and on the sea shore, weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea.


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


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


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


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


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


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" Calypso smiled at this and caressed him with her hand:" You know a great deal," said she," but you are quite wrong here.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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When the child of morning rosyfingered Dawn appeared, Ulysses put on his shirt and cloak, while the goddess wore a dress of a light gossamer fabric, very fine and graceful, with a beautiful golden girdle about her waist and a veil to cover her head.


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So she gave him a great bronze axe that suited his hands; it was sharpened on both sides, and had a beautiful olivewood handle fitted firmly on to it.


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


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Then, when she had shown him where the best trees grew, Calypso went home, leaving him to cut them, which he soon finished doing.


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


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


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


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He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood.


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By and by Calypso brought him some linen to make the sails, and he made these too, excellently, making them fast with braces and sheets.


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In four days he had completed the whole work, and on the fifth Calypso sent him from the island after washing him and giving him some clean clothes.


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


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Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder.


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


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Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.


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


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


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" Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident, stirred it round in the sea, and roused the rage of every wind that blows till earth, sea, and sky were hidden in cloud, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.


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Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up, so that Ulysses ' heart began to fail him."


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How black is Jove making heaven with his clouds, and what a sea the winds are raising from every quarter at once.


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


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" As he spoke a sea broke over him with such terrific fury that the raft reeled again, and he was carried overboard a long way off.


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


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


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


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The sea took the raft and tossed it about as Autumn winds whirl thistledown round and round upon a road.


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It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once.


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Seeing in what great distress Ulysses now was, she had compassion upon him, and, rising like a seagull from the waves, took her seat upon the raft.


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


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And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it.


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As soon as you touch land take it off, throw it back as far as you can into the sea, and then go away again."


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Alas," he said to himself in his dismay," this is only some one or other of the gods who is luring me to ruin by advising me to quit my raft.


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At any rate I will not do so at present, for the land where she said I should be quit of all troubles seemed to be still a good way off.


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


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


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


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King Neptune watched him as he did so, and wagged his head, muttering to himself and saying," There now, swim up and down as you best can till you fall in with wellto-


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


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


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


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When, however, he got within earshot, he began to hear the surf thundering up against the rocks, for the swell still broke against them with a terrific roar.


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


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


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rocky and surfbeaten, the rocks are smooth and rise sheer from the sea, with deep water close under them so that I can not climb out for want of foot hold.


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


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If, on the other hand, I swim further in search of some shelving beach or harbour, a hurricane may carry me out to sea again sorely against my will, or heaven may send some great monster of the deep to attack me; for Amphitrite breeds many such, and I know that Neptune is very angry with me." While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him and took him with such force against the rocks that he would have been smashed and torn to pieces if Minerva had not shown him what to do.


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


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Here poor Ulysses would have certainly perished even in spite of his own destiny, if Minerva had not helped him to keep his wits about him.


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


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


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He felt that there was a current, so he prayed inwardly and said: "Hear me, O King, whoever you may be, and save me from the anger of the seagod Neptune, for I approach you prayerfully.


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


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


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


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


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


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In the end he deemed it best to take to the woods, and he found one upon some high ground not far from the water.


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There he crept beneath two shoots of olive that grew from a single stock— the one an ungrafted sucker, while the other had been grafted.


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No wind, however squally, could break through the cover they afforded, nor could the sun 's rays pierce them, nor the rain get through them, so closely did they grow into one another.


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


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


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


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


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


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When we got there we beached the ship, took the sheep out of her, and went along by the waters of Oceanus till we came to the place of which Circe had told us.


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


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


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I also particularly promised that Teiresias should have a black sheep to himself, the best in all my flocks.


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


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


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"The first ghost that came was that of my comrade Elpenor, for he had not yet been laid beneath the earth.


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I was very sorry for him, and cried when I saw him:' Elpenor,' said I,' how did you come down here into this gloom and darkness?


title: homer-odyssey_11
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You have got here on foot quicker than I have with my ship.' "'Sir,' he answered with a groan,' it was all bad luck, and my own unspeakable drunkenness.


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


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


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


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


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


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He knew me and said,' Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, why, poor man, have you left the light of day and come down to visit the dead in this sad place?


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


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"So I drew back, and sheathed my sword, whereon when he had drank of the blood he began with his prophecy.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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All that I have said will come true].' "'This,' I answered,' must be as it may please heaven, but tell me and tell me and tell me true, I see my poor mother 's ghost close by us; she is sitting by the blood without saying a word, and though I am her own son she does not remember me and speak to me; tell me, Sir, how I can make her know me.' "'That,' said he,' I can soon do.


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_11
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Are you all this time trying to find your way home from Troy, and have you never yet got back to Ithaca nor seen your wife in your own house?' "'Mother,' said I,' I was forced to come here to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_11
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If we could throw our arms around one another we might find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows even in the house of Hades; does Proserpine want to lay a still further load of grief upon me by mocking me with a phantom only?' "'My son,' she answered,' most illfated of all mankind, it is not Proserpine that is beguiling you, but all people are like this when they are dead.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_11
sentence:
" And Ulysses answered," King Alcinous, if you were to bid me to stay here for a whole twelve months, and then speed me on my way, loaded with your noble gifts, I should obey you gladly and it would redound greatly to my advantage, for I should return fullerhanded to my own people, and should thus be more respected and beloved by all who see me when I get back to Ithaca." "Ulysses," replied Alcinous," not one of us who sees you has any idea that you are a charlatan or a swindler.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_11
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Did Neptune raise his winds and waves against you when you were at sea, or did your enemies make an end of you on the main land when you were cattlelifting or sheepstealing, or while they were fighting in defence of their wives and city?' "'Ulysses,' he answered,' noble son of Laertes, I was not lost at sea in any storm of Neptune 's raising, nor did my foes despatch me upon the mainland, but Aegisthus and my wicked wife were the death of me between them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
It was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helen 's being restored to Menelaus, for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus; and now Agamemnon took his two sons, both in the same chariot, trying to bring their horses to a stand— for they had lost hold of the reins and the horses were mad with fear.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
Our father Antimachus has great store of gold, bronze, and wrought iron, and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of our being alive at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
" With such piteous words and tears did they beseech the king, but they heard no pitiful answer in return.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
"If," said Agamemnon," you are sons of Antimachus, who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaus and Ulysses, who had come to you as envoys, should be killed and not suffered to return, you shall now pay for the foul iniquity of your father.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
" As he spoke he felled Pisander from his chariot to the earth, smiting him on the chest with his spear, so that he lay face uppermost upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
Hippolochus fled, but him too did Agamemnon smite; he cut off his hands and his head— which he sent rolling in among the crowd as though it were a ball.


title: homer-iliad_11
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There he let them both lie, and wherever the ranks were thickest thither he flew, while the other Achaeans followed.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in rout before them, and slew them; horsemen did the like by horsemen, and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As when some mighty forest is all ablaze— the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame— even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atreus, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were lying on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle; but the son of Atreus sped onwards, calling out lustily to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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They flew on by the tomb of old Ilus, son of Dardanus, in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild figtree making always for the city— the son of Atreus still shouting, and with hands all bedrabbled in gore; but when they had reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, there they halted and waited for the others to come up.


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Meanwhile the Trojans kept on flying over the middle of the plain like a herd of cows maddened with fright when a lion has attacked them in the dead of night— he springs on one of them, seizes her neck in the grip of his strong teeth and then laps up her blood and gorges himself upon her entrails— even so did King Agamemnon son of Atreus pursue the foe, ever slaughtering the hindmost as they fled pellmell before him.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Many a man was flung headlong from his chariot by the hand of the son of Atreus, for he wielded his spear with fury.


title: homer-iliad_11
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But when he was just about to reach the high wall and the city, the father of gods and men came down from heaven and took his seat, thunderbolt in hand, upon the crest of manyfountained Ida.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Go," said he," fleet Iris, and speak thus to Hector— say that so long as he sees Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, he is to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will I vouchsafe him strength to slay till he reach the ships and night falls at the going down of the sun.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Down she went to strong Ilius from the crests of Ida, and found Hector son of Priam standing by his chariot and horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Then she said," Hector son of Priam, peer of gods in counsel, father Jove has sent me to bear you this message— so long as you see Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, you are to keep aloof and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle, but when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will Jove vouchsafe you strength to slay till you reach the ships, and till night falls at the going down of the sun.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" When she had thus spoken Iris left him, and Hector sprang full armed from his chariot to the ground, brandishing his spear as he went about everywhere among the host, cheering his men on to fight, and stirring the dread strife of battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The Trojans then wheeled round, and again met the Achaeans, while the Argives on their part strengthened their battalions.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The battle was now in array and they stood face to face with one another, Agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Tell me now ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon?


title: homer-iliad_11
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It was Iphidamas son of Antenor, a man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace, the mother of sheep.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Cisses, his mother 's father, brought him up in his own house when he was a child— Cisses, father to fair Theano.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When he reached manhood, Cisses would have kept him there, and was for giving him his daughter in marriage, but as soon as he had married he set out to fight the Achaeans with twelve ships that followed him: these he had left at Percote and had come on by land to Ilius.


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When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the girdle below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the girdle, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver and was turned aside as though it had been lead: King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with the fury of a lion; he then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamas by striking him on the neck.


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So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellowcitizens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundredhead of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Agamemnon son of Atreus then despoiled him, and carried off his armour into the host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When noble Coon, Antenor 's eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Unseen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who was trying to drag off the body of his brother— his father 's son— by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronzeshod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thus did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As long as the blood still welled warm from his wound Agamemnon went about attacking the ranks of the enemy with spear and sword and with great handfuls of stone, but when the blood had ceased to flow and the wound grew dry, the pain became great.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As the sharp pangs which the Eilithuiae, goddesses of childbirth, daughters of Juno and dispensers of cruel pain, send upon a woman when she is in labour— even so sharp were the pangs of the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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With a loud clear voice he shouted to the Danaans," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Jove has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Their chests were white with foam and their bellies with dust, as they drew the wounded king out of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When Hector saw Agamemnon quit the field, he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanian warriors, be men, my friends, and acquit yourselves in battle bravely; their best man has left them, and Jove has vouchsafed me a great triumph; charge the foe with your chariots that you may win still greater glory.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Full of hope he plunged in among the foremost, and fell on the fight like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep blue waters into fury.


title: homer-iliad_11
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What, then is the full tale of those whom Hector son of Priam killed in the hour of triumph which Jove then vouchsafed him?


title: homer-iliad_11
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First Asaeus, Autonous, and Opites; Dolops son of Clytius, Opheltius and Agelaus; Aesymnus, Orus and Hipponous steadfast in battle; these chieftains of the Achaeans did Hector slay, and then he fell upon the rank and file.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury— the waves of the sea roll high, and the spray is flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind— even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_11
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All had then been lost and no help for it, and the Achaeans would have fled pellmell to their ships, had not Ulysses cried out to Diomed," Son of Tydeus, what has happened to us that we thus forget our prowess?


title: homer-iliad_11
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Come, my good fellow, stand by my side and help me, we shall be shamed for ever if Hector takes the ships."


title: homer-iliad_11
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And Diomed answered," Come what may, I will stand firm; but we shall have scant joy of it, for Jove is minded to give victory to the Trojans rather than to us.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" With these words he struck Thymbraeus from his chariot to the ground, smiting him in the left breast with his spear, while Ulysses killed Molion who was his squire.


title: homer-iliad_11
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These they let lie, now that they had stopped their fighting; the two heroes then went on playing havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend the hounds that hunt them.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thus did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector.


title: homer-iliad_11
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They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of Merops of Percote, who excelled all others in the arts of divination.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He had forbidden his sons to go to the war, but they would not obey him, for fate lured them to their fall.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Diomed son of Tydeus slew them both and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses killed Hippodamus and Hypeirochus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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And now the son of Saturn as he looked down from Ida ordained that neither side should have the advantage, and they kept on killing one another.


title: homer-iliad_11
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His squire was in charge of it at some distance and he was fighting on foot among the foremost until he lost his life.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Hector soon marked the havoc Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomed was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses who was beside him," Great Hector is bearing down upon us and we shall be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He had aimed at Hector 's head near the top of his helmet, but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was untouched, for the spear was stayed by the visored helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Hector sprang back with a great bound under cover of the ranks; he fell on his knees and propped himself with his brawny hand leaning on the ground, for darkness had fallen on his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The son of Tydeus having thrown his spear dashed in among the foremost fighters, to the place where he had seen it strike the ground; meanwhile Hector recovered himself and springing back into his chariot mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life.


title: homer-iliad_11
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But Diomed made at him with his spear and said," Dog, you have again got away though death was close on your heels.


title: homer-iliad_11
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you go into battle ,has again saved you, nevertheless I will meet you and make an end of you hereafter, if there is any god who will stand by me too and be my helper.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the son of Paeon, but Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilus son of Dardanus, a ruler in days of old.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Diomed had taken the cuirass from off the breast of Agastrophus, his heavy helmet also, and the shield from off his shoulders, when Paris drew his bow and let fly an arrow that sped not from his hand in vain, but pierced the flat of Diomed 's right foot, going right through it and fixing itself in the ground.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thereon Paris with a hearty laugh sprang forward from his hidingplace, and taunted him saying," You are wounded— my arrow has not been shot in vain; would that it had hit you in the belly and killed you, for thus the Trojans, who fear you as goats fear a lion, would have had a truce from evil.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" Diomed all undaunted answered," Archer, you who without your bow are nothing, slanderer and seducer, if you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armour, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead.


title: homer-iliad_11
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A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound; when I wound a man though I but graze his skin it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low.


title: homer-iliad_11
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His wife will tear her cheeks for grief and his children will be fatherless: there will he rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him."


title: homer-iliad_11
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Under this cover he sat down to draw the arrow from his foot, and sharp was the pain he suffered as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Then he sprang on to his chariot and bade the charioteer drive him to the ships, for he was sick at heart.


title: homer-iliad_11
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It is ill if I turn and fly before these odds, but it will be worse if I am left alone and taken prisoner, for the son of Saturn has struck the rest of the Danaans with panic.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" While he was thus in two minds, the ranks of the Trojans advanced and hemmed him in, and bitterly did they come to rue it.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As hounds and lusty youths set upon a wild boar that sallies from his lair whetting his white tusks— they attack him from every side and can hear the gnashing of his jaws, but for all his fierceness they still hold their ground— even so furiously did the Trojans attack Ulysses.


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First he sprang spear in hand upon Deiopites and wounded him on the shoulder with a downward blow; then he killed Thoon and Ennomus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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After these he struck Chersidamas in the loins under his shield as he had just sprung down from his chariot; so he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in the hollow of his hand.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Socus, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Ulysses he said," Farfamed Ulysses, insatiable of craft and toil, this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hippasus and stripped them of their armour, or you shall fall before my spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The spear went through the shield and passed on through his richly wrought cuirass, tearing the flesh from his side, but Pallas Minerva did not suffer it to pierce the entrails of the hero.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Ulysses knew that his hour was not yet come, but he gave ground and said to Socus," Wretch, you shall now surely die.


title: homer-iliad_11
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You have stayed me from fighting further with the Trojans, but you shall now fall by my spear, yielding glory to myself, and your soul to Hades of the noble steeds." Socus had turned in flight, but as he did so, the spear struck him in the back midway between the shoulders, and went right through his chest.


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He fell heavily to the ground and Ulysses vaunted over him saying," O Socus, son of Hippasus tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you and you have not escaped him: poor wretch, not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the ravening vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings and devour you.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" So saying he drew Socus 's heavy spear out of his flesh and from his shield, and the blood welled forth when the spear was withdrawn so that he was much dismayed.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When the Trojans saw that Ulysses was bleeding they raised a great shout and came on in a body towards him; he therefore gave ground, and called his comrades to come and help him.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thrice did he cry as loudly as man can cry, and thrice did brave Menelaus hear him; he turned, therefore, to Ajax who was close beside him and said," Ajax, noble son of Telamon, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off and were worsting him while he is singlehanded.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Let us make our way through the throng; it will be well that we defend him ;I fear he may come to harm for all his valour if he be left without support, and the Danaans would miss him sorely.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The Trojans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcase of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow— the stag has fled at full speed so long as his blood was warm and his strength has lasted, but when the arrow has overcome him, the savage jackals devour him in the shady glades of the forest.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Then heaven sends a fierce lion thither, whereon the jackals fly in terror and the lion robs them of their prey— even so did Trojans many and brave gather round crafty Ulysses, but the hero stood at bay and kept them off with his spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Ajax then came up with his shield before him like a wall, and stood hard by, whereon the Trojans fled in all directions.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven— many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea— even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.


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Hector did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the river Scamander, where the carnage was thickest and the warcry loudest round Nestor and brave Idomeneus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Among these Hector was making great slaughter with his spear and furious driving, and was destroying the ranks that were opposed to him; still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexandrus husband of lovely Helen stayed the prowess of Machaon, shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triplebarbed arrow.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The Achaeans were in great fear that as the fight had turned against them the Trojans might take him prisoner, and Idomeneus said to Nestor," Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, mount your chariot at once; take Machaon with you and drive your horses to the ships as fast as you can.


title: homer-iliad_11
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A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" Nestor knight of Gerene did as Idomeneus had counselled; he at once mounted his chariot, and Machaon son of the famed physician Aesculapius, went with him.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He lashed his horses and they flew onward nothing loth towards the ships, as though of their own free will.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Then Cebriones seeing the Trojans in confusion said to Hector from his place beside him," Hector, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in pellmell rout, they and their horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Ajax son of Telamon is driving them before him; I know him by the breadth of his shield: let us turn our chariot and horses thither, where horse and foot are fighting most desperately, and where the cry of battle is loudest.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" With this he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full speed among the Achaeans and Trojans, over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen: the axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail round the car was covered with splashes both from the horses ' hoofs and from the tyres of the wheels.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Hector tore his way through and flung himself into the thick of the fight, and his presence threw the Danaans into confusion, for his spear was not long idle; nevertheless though he went among the ranks with sword and spear, and throwing great stones, he avoided Ajax son of Telamon, for Jove would have been angry with him if he had fought a better man than himself.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Then father Jove from his high throne struck fear into the heart of Ajax, so that he stood there dazed and threw his shield behind him— looking fearfully at the throng of his foes as though he were some wild beast, and turning hither and thither but crouching slowly backwards.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As peasants with their hounds chase a lion from their stockyard, and watch by night to prevent his carrying off the pick of their herd— he makes his greedy spring, but in vain, for the darts from many a strong hand fall thick around him, with burning brands that scare him for all his fury, and when morning comes he slinks foiled and angry away— even so did Ajax, sorely against his will, retreat angrily before the Trojans, fearing for the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn— boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they can not hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field— even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Now and again he would turn and show fight, keeping back the battalions of the Trojans, and then he would again retreat; but he prevented any of them from making his way to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Singlehanded he stood midway between the Trojans and Achaeans: the spears that sped from their hands stuck some of them in his mighty shield, while many, though thirsting for his blood, fell to the ground ere they could reach him to the wounding of his fair flesh.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Now when Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon saw that Ajax was being overpowered by the rain of arrows, he went up to him and hurled his spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Eurypylus sprang upon him, and stripped the armour from his shoulders; but when Alexandrus saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh; the arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh; he drew back, therefore, under cover of his comrades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Danaans," My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rally to the defence of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Even so did he cry when he was wounded; thereon the others came near, and gathered round him, holding their shields upwards from their shoulders so as to give him cover.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Meanwhile the mares of Neleus, all in a lather with sweat, were bearing Nestor out of the fight, and with him Machaon shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Achilles saw and took note, for he was standing on the stern of his ship watching the hard stress and struggle of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He called from the ship to his comrade Patroclus, who heard him in the tent and came out looking like Mars himself— here indeed was the beginning of the ill that presently befell him. "


title: homer-iliad_11
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And Achilles answered," Noble son of Menoetius, man after my own heart, I take it that I shall now have the Achaeans praying at my knees, for they are in great straits; go, Patroclus, and ask Nestor who it is that he is bearing away wounded from the field; from his back I should say it was Machaon son of Aesculapius, but I could not see his face for the horses went by me at full speed."


title: homer-iliad_11
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Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him, and set off running by the ships and tents of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire, Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Fair Hecamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess; she was daughter of wise Arsinous, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in counsel.


title: homer-iliad_11
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First she set for them a fair and wellmade table that had feet of cyanus; on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barleymeal.


title: homer-iliad_11
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There was also a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily.


title: homer-iliad_11
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In this the woman, as fair as a goddess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat 's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barleymeal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When they had done so and had thus quenched their thirst, they fell talking with one another, and at this moment Patroclus appeared at the door.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When the old man saw him he sprang from his seat, seized his hand, led him into the tent, and bade him take his place among them; but Patroclus stood where he was and said," Noble sir, I may not stay, you can not persuade me to come in; he that sent me is not one to be trifled with, and he bade me ask who the wounded man was whom you were bearing away from the field.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He recks not of the dismay that reigns in our host; our most valiant chieftains lie disabled, brave Diomed, son of Tydeus, is wounded; so are Ulysses and Agamemnon; Eurypylus has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field— he too wounded with an arrow.


title: homer-iliad_11
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As for me, I have no strength nor stay in me any longer; would that I were still young and strong as in the days when there was a fight between us and the men of Elis about some cattleraiding.


title: homer-iliad_11
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I then killed Itymoneus, the valiant son of Hypeirochus, a dweller in Elis, as I was driving in the spoil; he was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defence of his cows, so he fell and the country people around him were in great fear.


title: homer-iliad_11
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We drove off a vast quantity of booty from the plain, fifty herds of cattle and as many flocks of sheep; fifty droves also of pigs, and as many widespreading flocks of goats.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Of horses, moreover, we seized a hundred and fifty, all of them mares, and many had foals running with them.


title: homer-iliad_11
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All these did we drive by night to Pylus, the city of Neleus, taking them within the city; and the heart of Neleus was glad in that I had taken so much, though it was the first time I had ever been in the field.


title: homer-iliad_11
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At daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in Elis to whom there was a debt owing should come; and the leading Pylians assembled to divide the spoils.


title: homer-iliad_11
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There were many to whom the Epeans owed chattels, for we men of Pylus were few and had been oppressed with wrong; in former years Hercules had come, and had laid his hand heavy upon us, so that all our best men had perished.


title: homer-iliad_11
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My father chose a herd of cattle and a great flock of sheep— three hundred in all— and he took their shepherds with him, for there was a great debt due to him in Elis, to wit four horses, winners of prizes.


title: homer-iliad_11
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They and their chariots with them had gone to the games and were to run for a tripod, but King Augeas took them, and sent back their driver grieving for the loss of his horses.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Neleus was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he divided the rest, that no man might have less than his full share.


title: homer-iliad_11
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"Thus did we order all things, and offer sacrifices to the gods throughout the city; but three days afterwards the Epeans came in a body, many in number, they and their chariots, in full array, and with them the two Moliones in their armour, though they were still lads and unused to fighting.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Now there is a certain town, Thryoessa, perched upon a rock on the river Alpheus, the border city of Pylus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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This they would destroy, and pitched their camp about it, but when they had crossed their whole plain, Minerva darted down by night from Olympus and bade us set ourselves in array; and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Neleus would not let me arm, and hid my horses, for he said that as yet I could know nothing about war ;nevertheless Minerva so ordered the fight that, all on foot as I was, I fought among our mounted forces and vied with the foremost of them.


title: homer-iliad_11
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There is a river Minyeius that falls into the sea near Arene, and there they that were mounted( and I with them) waited till morning, when the companies of foot soldiers came up with us in force.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thence in full panoply and equipment we came towards noon to the sacred waters of the Alpheus, and there we offered victims to almighty Jove, with a bull to Alpheus, another to Neptune, and a herdheifer to Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_11
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After this we took supper in our companies, and laid us down to rest each in his armour by the river.


title: homer-iliad_11
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"The Epeans were beleaguering the city and were determined to take it, but ere this might be there was a desperate fight in store for them.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When the sun 's rays began to fall upon the earth we joined battle, praying to Jove and to Minerva, and when the fight had begun, I was the first to kill my man and take his horses— to wit the warrior Mulius.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He was soninlaw to Augeas, having married his eldest daughter, goldenhaired Agamede, who knew the virtues of every herb which grows upon the face of the earth.


title: homer-iliad_11
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I speared him as he was coming towards me, and when he fell headlong in the dust, I sprang upon his chariot and took my place in the front ranks.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The Epeans fled in all directions when they saw the captain of their horsemen( the best man they had) laid low, and I swept down on them like a whirlwind, taking fifty chariots— and in each of them two men bit the dust, slain by my spear.


title: homer-iliad_11
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I should have even killed the two Moliones, sons of Actor, unless their real father, Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist and borne them out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thereon Jove vouchsafed the Pylians a great victory, for we chased them far over the plain, killing the men and bringing in their armour, till we had brought our horses to Buprasium, rich in wheat, and to the Olenian rock, with the hill that is called Alision, at which point Minerva turned the people back.


title: homer-iliad_11
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There I slew the last man and left him; then the Achaeans drove their horses back from Buprasium to Pylos and gave thanks to Jove among the gods, and among mortal men to Nestor.


title: homer-iliad_11
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"Such was I among my peers, as surely as ever was, but Achilles is for keeping all his valour for himself; bitterly will he rue it hereafter when the host is being cut to pieces.


title: homer-iliad_11
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My good friend, did not Menoetius charge you thus, on the day when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon?


title: homer-iliad_11
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Ulysses and I were in the house, inside, and heard all that he said to you; for we came to the fair house of Peleus while beating up recruits throughout all Achaea, and when we got there we found Menoetius and yourself, and Achilles with you.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The old knight Peleus was in the outer court, roasting the fat thighbones of a heifer to Jove the lord of thunder; and he held a gold chalice in his hand from which he poured drinkofferings of wine over the burning sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_11
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You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When we had satisfied ourselves with meat and drink, I said my say and urged both of you to join us.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Old Peleus bade his son Achilles fight ever among the foremost and outvie his peers, while Menoetius the son of Actor spoke thus to you:' My son,' said he,' Achilles is of nobler birth than you are, but you are older than he, though he is far the better man of the two.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Thus did your father charge you, but you have forgotten; nevertheless, even now, say all this to Achilles if he will listen to you.


title: homer-iliad_11
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If, however, he is fearful about some oracle, or if his mother has told him something from Jove, then let him send you, and let the rest of the Myrmidons follow with you, if perchance you may bring light and saving to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_11
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And let him send you into battle clad in his own armour, that the Trojans may mistake you for him and leave off fighting; the sons of the Achaeans may thus have time to get their breath, for they are hard pressed and there is little breathing time in battle.


title: homer-iliad_11
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You, who are fresh, might easily drive a tired enemy back to his walls and away from the tents and ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
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" With these words he moved the heart of Patroclus, who set off running by the line of the ships to Achilles, descendant of Aeacus.


title: homer-iliad_11
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When he had got as far as the ships of Ulysses, where was their place of assembly and court of justice, with their altars dedicated to the gods, Eurypylus son of Euaemon, met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_11
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Sweat rained from his head and shoulders, and black blood welled from his cruel wound, but his mind did not wander.


title: homer-iliad_11
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The son of Menoetius when he saw him had compassion upon him and spoke piteously saying," O unhappy princes and counsellors of the Danaans, are you then doomed to feed the hounds of Troy with your fat, far from your friends and your native land?


title: homer-iliad_11
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Say, noble Eurypylus, will the Achaeans be able to hold great Hector in check, or will they fall now before his spear?" Wounded Eurypylus made answer," Noble Patroclus, there is no hope left for the Achaeans but they will perish at their ships.


title: homer-iliad_11
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All they that were princes among us are lying struck down and wounded at the hands of the Trojans, who are waxing stronger and stronger.


title: homer-iliad_11
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But save me and take me to your ship; cut out the arrow from my thigh; wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, most righteous of all the centaurs.


title: homer-iliad_11
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For of the physicians Podalirius and Machaon, I hear that the one is lying wounded in his tent and is himself in need of healing, while the other is fighting the Trojans upon the plain."


title: homer-iliad_11
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I am on my way to bear a message to noble Achilles from Nestor of Gerene, bulwark of the Achaeans, but even so I will not be unmindful of your distress.


title: homer-iliad_11
sentence:
" With this he clasped him round the middle and led him into the tent, and a servant, when he saw him, spread bullockskins on the ground for him to lie on.


title: homer-iliad_11
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He laid him at full length and cut out the sharp arrow from his thigh; he washed the black blood from the wound with warm water; he then crushed a bitter herb, rubbing it between his hands, and spread it upon the wound; this was a virtuous herb which killed all pain; so the wound presently dried and the blood left off flowing.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The exploits of Diomed, who, though wounded by Pandarus, continues fighting—He kills Pandarus and wounds AEneas—Venus rescues AEneas, but being wounded by Diomed, commits him to the care of Apollo and goes to Olympus, where she is tended by her mother Dione—Mars encourages the Trojans, and AEneas returns to the fight cured of his wound—Minerva and Juno help the Achaeans, and by the advice of the former Diomed wounds Mars, who returns to Olympus to get cured.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory.


title: homer-iliad_05
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She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus— even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurlyburly of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Now there was a certain rich and honourable man among the Trojans, priest of Vulcan, and his name was Dares.


title: homer-iliad_05
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These two came forward from the main body of Trojans, and set upon Diomed, he being on foot, while they fought from their chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When they were close up to one another, Phegeus took aim first, but his spear went over Diomed 's left shoulder without hitting him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Diomed then threw, and his spear sped not in vain, for it hit Phegeus on the breast near the nipple, and he fell from his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Idaeus did not dare to bestride his brother 's body, but sprang from the chariot and took to flight, or he would have shared his brother 's fate; whereon Vulcan saved him by wrapping him in a cloud of darkness, that his old father might not be utterly overwhelmed with grief; but the son of Tydeus drove off with the horses, and bade his followers take them to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The Trojans were scared when they saw the two sons of Dares, one of them in fright and the other lying dead by his chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Minerva, therefore, took Mars by the hand and said," Mars, Mars, bane of men, bloodstained stormer of cities, may we not now leave the Trojans and Achaeans to fight it out, and see to which of the two Jove will vouchsafe the victory?


title: homer-iliad_05
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" So saying, she drew Mars out of the battle, and set him down upon the steep banks of the Scamander.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The spear of Agamemnon caught him on the broad of his back, just as he was turning in flight; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Mighty Idomeneus speared him on the right shoulder as he was mounting his chariot, and the darkness of death enshrouded him as he fell heavily from the car.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The squires of Idomeneus spoiled him of his armour, while Menelaus, son of Atreus, killed Scamandrius the son of Strophius, a mighty huntsman and keen lover of the chase.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but neither she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Meriones then killed Phereclus the son of Tecton, who was the son of Hermon, a man whose hand was skilled in all manner of cunning workmanship, for Pallas Minerva had dearly loved him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He it was that made the ships for Alexandrus, which were the beginning of all mischief, and brought evil alike both on the Trojans and on Alexandrus himself; for he heeded not the decrees of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The point of the spear went through the bone into the bladder, and death came upon him as he cried aloud and fell forward on his knees.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Meges, moreover, slew Pedaeus, son of Antenor, who, though he was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children, for the love she bore her husband.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The son of Phyleus got close up to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck: it went under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and fell dead in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_05
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And Eurypylus, son of Euaemon, killed Hypsenor, the son of noble Dolopion, who had been made priest of the river Scamander, and was honoured among the people as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Eurypylus gave him chase as he was flying before him, smote him with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong hand from off it.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The bloody hand fell to the ground, and the shades of death, with fate that no man can withstand, came over his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man 's hand has reclaimed— even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving the Trojans pellmell before him, he aimed an arrow and hit the front part of his cuirass near the shoulder: the arrow went right through the metal and pierced the flesh, so that the cuirass was covered with blood.


title: homer-iliad_05
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On this the son of Lycaon shouted in triumph," Knights Trojans, come on; the bravest of the Achaeans is wounded, and he will not hold out much longer if King Apollo was indeed with me when I sped from Lycia hither."


title: homer-iliad_05
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Thus did he vaunt; but his arrow had not killed Diomed, who withdrew and made for the chariot and horses of Sthenelus, the son of Capaneus. "


title: homer-iliad_05
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Dear son of Capaneus," said he," come down from your chariot, and draw the arrow out of my shoulder.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" Sthenelus sprang from his chariot, and drew the arrow from the wound, whereon the blood came spouting out through the hole that had been made in his shirt.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then Diomed prayed, saying," Hear me, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear 's throw of that man and kill him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He has been too quick for me and has wounded me; and now he is boasting that I shall not see the light of the sun much longer."


title: homer-iliad_05
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Thus he prayed, and Pallas Minerva heard him; she made his limbs supple and quickened his hands and his feet.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then she went up close to him and said," Fear not, Diomed, to do battle with the Trojans, for I have set in your heart the spirit of your knightly father Tydeus.


title: homer-iliad_05
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If, then, any other god comes here and offers you battle, do not fight him; but should Jove 's daughter Venus come, strike her with your spear and wound her.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" When she had said this Minerva went away, and the son of Tydeus again took his place among the foremost fighters, three times more fierce even than he had been before.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He was like a lion that some mountain shepherd has wounded, but not killed, as he is springing over the wall of a sheepyard to attack the sheep.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but can not defend his flock, so he takes shelter under cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panicstricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheepyard wall.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He killed Astynous, and Hypeiron shepherd of his people, the one with a thrust of his spear, which struck him above the nipple, the other with a swordcut on the collarbone, that severed his shoulder from his neck and back.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He let both of them lie, and went in pursuit of Abas and Polyidus, sons of the old reader of dreams Eurydamas: they never came back for him to read them any more dreams, for mighty Diomed made an end of them.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He then gave chase to Xanthus and Thoon, the two sons of Phaenops, both of them very dear to him, for he was now worn out with age, and begat no more sons to inherit his possessions.


title: homer-iliad_05
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But Diomed took both their lives and left their father sorrowing bitterly, for he nevermore saw them come home from battle alive, and his kinsmen divided his wealth among themselves.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He sprang upon them as a lion fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a coppice.


title: homer-iliad_05
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For all their vain struggles he flung them both from their chariot and stripped the armour from their bodies.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When Aeneas saw him thus making havoc among the ranks, he went through the fight amid the rain of spears to see if he could find Pandarus.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he said," Pandarus, where is now your bow, your winged arrows, and your renown as an archer, in respect of which no man here can rival you nor is there any in Lycia that can beat you?


title: homer-iliad_05
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Lift then your hands to Jove and send an arrow at this fellow who is going so masterfully about, and has done such deadly work among the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He has killed many a brave man— unless indeed he is some god who is angry with the Trojans about their sacrifices, and and has set his hand against them in his displeasure.


title: homer-iliad_05
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It is possible that he may be a god, but if he is the man I say he is, he is not making all this havoc without heaven 's help, but has some god by his side who is shrouded in a cloud of darkness, and who turned my arrow aside when it had hit him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I have taken aim at him already and hit him on the right shoulder; my arrow went through the breastpiece of his cuirass; and I made sure I should send him hurrying to the world below, but it seems that I have not killed him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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In my father 's stables there are eleven excellent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be illfed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.


title: homer-iliad_05
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These it seems, are of no use, for I have already hit two chieftains, the sons of Atreus and of Tydeus, and though I drew blood surely enough, I have only made them still more furious.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in Hector 's service, and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may some one cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire— such pranks as it plays me.


title: homer-iliad_05
sentence:
Things will not mend till we two go against this man with chariot and horses and bring him to a trial of arms.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Mount my chariot, and note how cleverly the horses of Tros can speed hither and thither over the plain in pursuit or flight.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Take hold, then, of the whip and reins while I stand upon the car to fight, or else do you wait this man 's onset while I look after the horses." "Aeneas," replied the son of Lycaon," take the reins and drive; if we have to fly before the son of Tydeus the horses will go better for their own driver.


title: homer-iliad_05
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If they miss the sound of your voice when they expect it they may be frightened, and refuse to take us out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, saw them coming and said to Diomed," Diomed, son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, I see two heroes speeding towards you, both of them men of might the one a skilful archer, Pandarus son of Lycaon, the other, Aeneas, whose sire is Anchises, while his mother is Venus.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Diomed looked angrily at him and answered:" Talk not of flight, for I shall not listen to you: I am of a race that knows neither flight nor fear, and my limbs are as yet unwearied.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I am in no mind to mount, but will go against them even as I am; Pallas Minerva bids me be afraid of no man, and even though one of them escape, their steeds shall not take both back again.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I say further, and lay my saying to your heart —if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Aeneas ' horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.


title: homer-iliad_05
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They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun.


title: homer-iliad_05
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King Anchises stole the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon 's knowledge, and they bore him six foals.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" Thus did they converse, but the other two had now driven close up to them, and the son of Lycaon spoke first. "


title: homer-iliad_05
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Great and mighty son," said he," of noble Tydeus, my arrow failed to lay you low, so I will now try with my spear.


title: homer-iliad_05
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It struck the shield of the son of Tydeus; the bronze point pierced it and passed on till it reached the breastplate.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Thereon the son of Lycaon shouted out and said," You are hit clean through the belly; you will not stand out for long, and the glory of the fight is mine.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" But Diomed all undismayed made answer," You have missed, not hit, and before you two see the end of this matter one or other of you shall glut toughshielded Mars with his blood.


title: homer-iliad_05
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It went crashing in among his white teeth; the bronze point cut through the root of his tongue, coming out under his chin, and his glistening armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Aeneas sprang from his chariot armed with shield and spear, fearing lest the Achaeans should carry off the body.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He bestrode it as a lion in the pride of strength, with shield and spear before him and a cry of battle on his lips resolute to kill the first that should dare face him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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But the son of Tydeus caught up a mighty stone, so huge and great that as men now are it would take two to lift it; nevertheless he bore it aloft with ease unaided, and with this he struck Aeneas on the groin where the hip turns in the joint that is called the" cupbone. "


title: homer-iliad_05
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The stone crushed this joint, and broke both the sinews, while its jagged edges tore away all the flesh.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The hero fell on his knees, and propped himself with his hand resting on the ground till the darkness of night fell upon his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
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And now Aeneas, king of men, would have perished then and there, had not his mother, Jove 's daughter Venus, who had conceived him by Anchises when he was herding cattle, been quick to mark, and thrown her two white arms about the body of her dear son.


title: homer-iliad_05
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She protected him by covering him with a fold of her own fair garment, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He made his own horses fast, away from the hurlyburly, by binding the reins to the rim of the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When he had so done he gave them over to his chosen comrade Deipylus, whom he valued above all others as the one who was most likeminded with himself, to take them on to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He then remounted his own chariot, seized the reins, and drove with all speed in search of the son of Tydeus.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess, spear in hand, for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities, and when at last after a long chase he caught her up, he flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate hand.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The point tore through the ambrosial robe which the Graces had woven for her, and pierced the skin between her wrist and the palm of her hand, so that the immortal blood, or ichor, that flows in the veins of the blessed gods, came pouring from the wound; for the gods do not eat bread nor drink wine, hence they have no blood such as ours, and are immortal.


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Venus screamed aloud, and let her son fall, but Phoebus Apollo caught him in his arms, and hid him in a cloud of darkness, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him; and Diomed shouted out as he left her," Daughter of Jove, leave war and battle alone, can you not be contented with beguiling silly women?


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" The goddess went dazed and discomfited away, and Iris, fleet as the wind, drew her from the throng, in pain and with her fair skin all besmirched.


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She found fierce Mars waiting on the left of the battle, with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud; whereon she fell on her knees before her brother and implored him to let her have his horses. "


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Dear brother," she cried," save me, and give me your horses to take me to Olympus where the gods dwell.


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She mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart, while Iris sat beside her and took the reins in her hand.


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She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling.


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There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying," Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?"


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And laughterloving Venus answered," Proud Diomed, the son of Tydeus, wounded me because I was bearing my dear son Aeneas, whom I love best of all mankind, out of the fight.


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The war is no longer one between Trojans and Achaeans, for the Danaans have now taken to fighting with the immortals." "Bear it, my child," replied Dione," and make the best of it.


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We dwellers in Olympus have to put up with much at the hands of men, and we lay much suffering on one another.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.


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Mars would have then perished had not fair Eeriboea, stepmother to the sons of Aloeus, told Mercury, who stole him away when he was already wellnigh worn out by the severity of his bondage.


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Juno, again, suffered when the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a threebarbed arrow, and nothing could assuage her pain.


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So, also, did huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegisbearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly.


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Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould.


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And now Minerva has egged this son of Tydeus on against yourself, fool that he is for not reflecting that no man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.


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Let, then, the son of Tydeus see that he does not have to fight with one who is stronger than you are.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then shall his brave wife Aegialeia, daughter of Adrestus, rouse her whole house from sleep, wailing for the loss of her wedded lord, Diomed the bravest of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" So saying, she wiped the ichor from the wrist of her daughter with both hands, whereon the pain left her, and her hand was healed.


title: homer-iliad_05
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But Minerva and Juno, who were looking on, began to taunt Jove with their mocking talk, and Minerva was first to speak. "


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Father Jove," said she," do not be angry with me, but I think the Cyprian must have been persuading some one of the Achaean women to go with the Trojans of whom she is so very fond, and while caressing one or other of them she must have torn her delicate hand with the gold pin of the woman 's brooch.


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Attend, henceforth, to your own delightful matrimonial duties, and leave all this fighting to Mars and to Minerva."


title: homer-iliad_05
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Not one whit did he fear the mighty god ,so set was he on killing Aeneas and stripping him of his armour.


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Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay him, and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield.


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When he was coming on for the fourth time, as though he were a god, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said," Take heed, son of Tydeus, and draw off; think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth can not hold their own with the immortals.


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" The son of Tydeus then gave way for a little space, to avoid the anger of the god, while Apollo took Aeneas out of the crowd and set him in sacred Pergamus, where his temple stood.


title: homer-iliad_05
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There, within the mighty sanctuary, Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold, while Apollo of the silver bow fashioned a wraith in the likeness of Aeneas, and armed as he was.


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Round this the Trojans and Achaeans hacked at the bucklers about one another 's breasts, hewing each other 's round shields and light hidecovered targets.


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Then Phoebus Apollo said to Mars," Mars, Mars, bane of men, bloodstained stormer of cities, can you not go to this man, the son of Tydeus, who would now fight even with father Jove, and draw him out of the battle?


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He first went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist, and afterwards sprang upon me too, as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" He then took his seat on the top of Pergamus, while murderous Mars went about among the ranks of the Trojans, cheering them on, in the likeness of fleet Acamas chief of the Thracians."


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You used to say that though you had neither people nor allies you could hold the town alone with your brothers and brothersinlaw.


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I see not one of them here; they cower as hounds before a lion; it is we, your allies, who bear the brunt of the battle.


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I have come from afar, even from Lycia and the banks of the river Xanthus, where I have left my wife, my infant son, and much wealth to tempt whoever is needy; nevertheless, I head my Lycian soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder, while you look on, without even bidding your men stand firm in defence of their wives.


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See that you fall not into the hands of your foes as men caught in the meshes of a net, and they sack your fair city forthwith.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Keep this before your mind night and day, and beseech the captains of your allies to hold on without flinching, and thus put away their reproaches from you.


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He sprang from his chariot clad in his suit of armour, and went about among the host brandishing his two spears, exhorting the men to fight and raising the terrible cry of battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then they rallied and again faced the Achaeans, but the Argives stood compact and firm, and were not driven back.


title: homer-iliad_05
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As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some goodly threshingfloor, when men are winnowing— while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaffheaps grow whiter and whiter— even so did the Achaeans whiten in the dust which the horses ' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them back to battle, and they bore down with might upon the foe.


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Fierce Mars, to help the Trojans, covered them in a veil of darkness, and went about everywhere among them, inasmuch as Phoebus Apollo had told him that when he saw Pallas Minerva leave the fray he was to put courage into the hearts of the Trojans —for it was she who was helping the Danaans.


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Then Apollo sent Aeneas forth from his rich sanctuary, and filled his heart with valour, whereon he took his place among his comrades, who were overjoyed at seeing him alive, sound, and of a good courage; but they could not ask him how it had all happened, for they were too busy with the turmoil raised by Mars and by Strife, who raged insatiably in their midst.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The two Ajaxes, Ulysses and Diomed, cheered the Danaans on, fearless of the fury and onset of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions— even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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My friends," said he," quit yourselves like brave men, and shun dishonour in one another 's eyes amid the stress of battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
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They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name."


title: homer-iliad_05
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As he spoke he hurled his spear and hit one of those who were in the front rank, the comrade of Aeneas, Deicoon son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans held in no less honour than the sons of Priam, for he was ever quick to place himself among the foremost.


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The spear of King Agamemnon struck his shield and went right through it, for the shield stayed it not.


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It drove through his belt into the lower part of his belly, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Their father was a rich man who lived in the strong city of Phere and was descended from the river Alpheus, whose broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians.


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The river begat Orsilochus, who ruled over much people and was father to Diocles, who in his turn begat twin sons, Crethon and Orsilochus, well skilled in all the arts of war.


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These, when they grew up, went to Ilius with the Argive fleet in the cause of Menelaus and Agamemnon sons of Atreus, and there they both of them fell.


title: homer-iliad_05
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As two lions whom their dam has reared in the depths of some mountain forest to plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they get killed by the hand of man, so were these two vanquished by Aeneas, and fell like high pinetrees to the ground.


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Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandishing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were setting their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Aeneas, bold though he was, drew back on seeing the two heroes side by side in front of him, so they drew the bodies of Crethon and Orsilochus to the ranks of the Achaeans and committed the two poor fellows into the hands of their comrades.


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Menelaus struck him on the collarbone as he was standing on his chariot, while Antilochus hit his charioteer and squire Mydon, the son of Atymnius, who was turning his horses in flight.


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He hit him with a stone upon the elbow, and the reins, enriched with white ivory, fell from his hands into the dust.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Antilochus rushed towards him and struck him on the temples with his sword, whereon he fell head first from the chariot to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
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There he stood for a while with his head and shoulders buried deep in the dust— for he had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as Antilochus lashed them and drove them off to the host of the Achaeans.


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But Hector marked them from across the ranks, and with a loud cry rushed towards them, followed by the strong battalions of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.


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As a man crossing a wide plain is dismayed to find himself on the brink of some great river rolling swiftly to the sea— he sees its boiling waters and starts back in fear— even so did the son of Tydeus give ground.


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Some god is ever by his side to protect him, and now Mars is with him in the likeness of mortal man.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Keep your faces therefore towards the Trojans, but give ground backwards, for we dare not fight with gods.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" As he spoke the Trojans drew close up, and Hector killed two men, both in one chariot, Menesthes and Anchialus, heroes well versed in war.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Ajax son of Telamon pitied them in their fall; he came close up and hurled his spear, hitting Amphius the son of Selagus, a man of great wealth who lived in Paesus and owned much corngrowing land, but his lot had led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons.


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Ajax struck him in the belt; the spear pierced the lower part of his belly, and he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Then Ajax ran towards him to strip him of his armour, but the Trojans rained spears upon him, many of which fell upon his shield.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He planted his heel upon the body and drew out his spear, but the darts pressed so heavily upon him that he could not strip the goodly armour from his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The Trojan chieftains, moreover, many and valiant, came about him with their spears, so that he dared not stay; great, brave and valiant though he was, they drove him from them and he was beaten back.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Presently the strong hand of fate impelled Tlepolemus, the son of Hercules, a man both brave and of great stature, to fight Sarpedon; so the two, son and grandson of great Jove, drew near to one another, and Tlepolemus spoke first.


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"Sarpedon," said he," councillor of the Lycians, why should you come skulking here you who are a man of peace?


title: homer-iliad_05
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They lie who call you son of aegisbearing Jove, for you are little like those who were of old his children.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Far other was Hercules, my own brave and lionhearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilius and made a wilderness of her highways.


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For all your strength, and all your coming from Lycia, you will be no help to the Trojans but will pass the gates of Hades vanquished by my hand.


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" And Sarpedon, captain of the Lycians, answered," Tlepolemus, your father overthrew Ilius by reason of Laomedon 's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.


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You shall yield glory to myself, and your soul to Hades of the noble steeds." Thus spoke Sarpedon, and Tlepolemus upraised his spear.


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They threw at the same moment, and Sarpedon struck his foe in the middle of his throat; the spear went right through, and the darkness of death fell upon his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Tlepolemus 's spear struck Sarpedon on the left thigh with such force that it tore through the flesh and grazed the bone, but his father as yet warded off destruction from him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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His comrades bore Sarpedon out of the fight, in great pain by the weight of the spear that was dragging from his wound.


title: homer-iliad_05
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They were in such haste and stress as they bore him that no one thought of drawing the spear from his thigh so as to let him walk uprightly.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Meanwhile the Achaeans carried off the body of Tlepolemus, whereon Ulysses was moved to pity, and panted for the fray as he beheld them.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it was not decreed, however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, therefore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.


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He killed Coeranus, Alastor, Chromius, Alcandrus, Halius, Noemon, and Prytanis, and would have slain yet more, had not great Hector marked him, and sped to the front of the fight clad in his suit of mail, filling the Danaans with terror.


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Sarpedon was glad when he saw him coming, and besought him, saying," Son of Priam, let me not be here to fall into the hands of the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Help me, and since I may not return home to gladden the hearts of my wife and of my infant son, let me die within the walls of your city.


title: homer-iliad_05
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" Hector made him no answer, but rushed onward to fall at once upon the Achaeans and kill many among them.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Pelagon, his friend and comrade, drew the spear out of his thigh, but Sarpedon fainted and a mist came over his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Presently he came to himself again, for the breath of the north wind as it played upon him gave him new life, and brought him out of the deep swoon into which he had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Meanwhile the Argives were neither driven towards their ships by Mars and Hector, nor yet did they attack them; when they knew that Mars was with the Trojans they retreated, but kept their faces still turned towards the foe.


title: homer-iliad_05
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They were valiant Teuthras, and Orestes the renowned charioteer, Trechus the Aetolian warrior, Oenomaus, Helenus the son of Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle, who was possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian lake with the other Boeotians who lived near him, owners of a fertile country.


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Now when the goddess Juno saw the Argives thus falling, she said to Minerva," Alas, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, unweariable, the promise we made Menelaus that he should not return till he had sacked the city of Ilius will be of no effect if we let Mars rage thus furiously.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Hebe with all speed fitted on the eightspoked wheels of bronze that were on either side of the iron axletree.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The felloes of the wheels were of gold, imperishable, and over these there was a tire of bronze, wondrous to behold.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The car itself was made with plaited bands of gold and silver, and it had a double toprail running all round it.


title: homer-iliad_05
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From the body of the car there went a pole of silver, on to the end of which she bound the golden yoke, with the bands of gold that were to go under the necks of the horses Then Juno put her steeds under the yoke, eager for battle and the warcry.


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Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered vesture, made with her own hands, on to her father 's threshold, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.


title: homer-iliad_05
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She threw her tasselled aegis about her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Strength, and Panic whose blood runs cold; moreover there was the head of the dread monster Gorgon, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegisbearing Jove.


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On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind— decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.


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Juno lashed the horses on, and the gates of heaven bellowed as they flew open of their own accord— gates over which the Hours preside, in whose hands are Heaven and Olympus, either to open the dense cloud that hides them, or to close it.


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Through these the goddesses drove their obedient steeds, and found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the topmost ridges of Olympus.


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how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he has destroyed to my great grief, and without either right or reason, while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and setting this unrighteous madman on to do further mischief.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I hope, Father Jove, that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of the battle."


title: homer-iliad_05
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As far as a man can see when he looks out upon the sea from some high beacon, so far can the loudneighing horses of the gods spring at a single bound.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When they reached Troy and the place where its two flowing streams Simois and Scamander meet, there Juno stayed them and took them from the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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She hid them in a thick cloud, and Simois made ambrosia spring up for them to eat; the two goddesses then went on, flying like turtledoves in their eagerness to help the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When they came to the part where the bravest and most in number were gathered about mighty Diomed, fighting like lions or wild boars of great strength and endurance, there Juno stood still and raised a shout like that of brazenvoiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together. "


title: homer-iliad_05
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Argives," she cried;" shame on cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; as long as Achilles was fighting, if his spear was so deadly that the Trojans dared not show themselves outside the Dardanian gates, but now they sally far from the city and fight even at your ships." With these words she put heart and soul into them all, while Minerva sprang to the side of the son of Tydeus, whom she found near his chariot and horses, cooling the wound that Pandarus had given him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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For the sweat caused by the hand that bore the weight of his shield irritated the hurt: his arm was weary with pain, and he was lifting up the strap to wipe away the blood.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The goddess laid her hand on the yoke of his horses and said," The son of Tydeus is not such another as his father.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Tydeus was a little man, but he could fight, and rushed madly into the fray even when I told him not to do so.


title: homer-iliad_05
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When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.


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I stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus."


title: homer-iliad_05
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Diomed answered," I know you, goddess, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, and will hide nothing from you.


title: homer-iliad_05
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I am only following your own instructions; you told me not to fight any of the blessed gods; but if Jove 's daughter Venus came into battle I was to wound her with my spear.


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Therefore I am retreating, and bidding the other Argives gather in this place, for I know that Mars is now lording it in the field." "Diomed, son of Tydeus," replied Minerva," man after my own heart, fear neither Mars nor any other of the immortals, for I will befriend you.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Nay, drive straight at Mars, and smite him in close combat; fear not this raging madman, villain incarnate, first on one side and then on the other.


title: homer-iliad_05
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But now he was holding talk with Juno and myself, saying he would help the Argives and attack the Trojans; nevertheless he is with the Trojans, and has forgotten the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_05
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In a second he was on the ground, whereupon the goddess mounted the car and placed herself by the side of Diomed.


title: homer-iliad_05
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The oaken axle groaned aloud under the burden of the awful goddess and the hero; Pallas Minerva took the whip and reins, and drove straight at Mars.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Bloody Mars was stripping him of his armour, and Minerva donned the helmet of Hades, that he might not see her ;when, therefore, he saw Diomed, he made straight for him and let Periphas lie where he had fallen.


title: homer-iliad_05
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As soon as they were at close quarters he let fly with his bronze spear over the reins and yoke, thinking to take Diomed 's life, but Minerva caught the spear in her hand and made it fly harmlessly over the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Diomed then threw, and Pallas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars 's stomach where his undergirdle went round him.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Mars roared as loudly as nine or ten thousand men in the thick of a fight, and the Achaeans and Trojans were struck with panic, so terrible was the cry he raised.


title: homer-iliad_05
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As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow after heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens.


title: homer-iliad_05
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With all speed he reached high Olympus, home of the gods, and in great pain sat down beside Jove the son of Saturn.


title: homer-iliad_05
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He showed Jove the immortal blood that was flowing from his wound, and spoke piteously, saying," Father Jove, are you not angered by such doings?


title: homer-iliad_05
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We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another 's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind.


title: homer-iliad_05
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We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter.


title: homer-iliad_05
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First he went up to the Cyprian and wounded her in the hand near her wrist, and then he sprang upon me too as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_05
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Had I not run for it I must either have lain there for long enough in torments among the ghastly corpses, or have been eaten alive with spears till I had no more strength left in me.


title: homer-iliad_05
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You have the intolerable and stubborn spirit of your mother Juno: it is all I can do to manage her, and it is her doing that you are now in this plight :still, I can not let you remain longer in such great pain; you are my own offspring, and it was by me that your mother conceived you; if, however, you had been the son of any other god, you are so destructive that by this time you should have been lying lower than the Titans.


title: homer-iliad_05
sentence:
" He then bade Paeeon heal him, whereon Paeeon spread painkilling herbs upon his wound and cured him, for he was not of mortal mould.


title: homer-iliad_05
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As the juice of the figtree curdles milk, and thickens it in a moment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Paeeon cure fierce Mars.


title: homer-iliad_05
sentence:
Then Hebe washed him, and clothed him in goodly raiment, and he took his seat by his father Jove all glorious to behold.


title: homer-iliad_05
sentence:
But Juno of Argos and Minerva of Alalcomene, now that they had put a stop to the murderous doings of Mars, went back again to the house of Jove.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_15
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When they saw it they were glad, and their hearts took comfort within them ,whereon Pisistratus said," Tell me, Menelaus, has heaven sent this omen for us or for you?" Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said," I will read this matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it will come to pass.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_15
sentence:
Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and sell you for whatever your master gave them?" "Stranger," replied Eumaeus," as regards your question: sit still, make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_01
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Forthwith men servants poured water over their hands, maids went round with the breadbaskets, pages filled the mixingbowls with wine and water, and they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles—Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans—Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant 's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
"Sons of Atreus," he cried," and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. "


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
"Hear me," he cried," O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thighbones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans." Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly— moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their deaththroes and had compassion upon zthem.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
"Son of Atreus," said he," I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams( for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilius, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus:— "Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in subjection.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
A plain man can not stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Danaan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth— no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
The god," he said," is angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest 's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.


title: homer-iliad_01
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He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.


title: homer-iliad_01
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His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said," Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.


title: homer-iliad_01
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You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses.


title: homer-iliad_01
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I have set my heart on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one.


title: homer-iliad_01
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" And Achilles answered," Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize?


title: homer-iliad_01
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Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we can not disallow the awards that have been made already.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?


title: homer-iliad_01
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Let the Achaeans find me a prize in fair exchange to my liking, or I will come and take your own, or that of Ajax or of Ulysses; and he to whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming.


title: homer-iliad_01
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But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the anger of the god.


title: homer-iliad_01
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They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
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for your pleasure, not ours— to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_01
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You forget this, and threaten to rob me of the prize for which I have toiled, and which the sons of the Achaeans have given me.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.


title: homer-iliad_01
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When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you.


title: homer-iliad_01
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I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me."


title: homer-iliad_01
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The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.


title: homer-iliad_01
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While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scabbard, Minerva came down from heaven( for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Let me tell you— and it shall surely be— he shall pay for this insolence with his life." And Minerva said," I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you— and it shall surely be— that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.


title: homer-iliad_01
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" He stayed his hand on the silver hilt of his sword, and thrust it back into the scabbard as Minerva bade him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Winebibber," he cried," with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our chosen men in ambuscade.


title: homer-iliad_01
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You devour your people, for you are king over a feeble folk; otherwise, son of Atreus, henceforward you would insult no man.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath— nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains— for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven— so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" With this the son of Peleus dashed his goldbestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Then uprose smoothtongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third.


title: homer-iliad_01
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With all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:— "Of a truth," he said," a great sorrow has befallen the Achaean land.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Moreover I have been the familiar friend of men even greater than you are, and they did not disregard my counsels.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_01
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These were the mightiest men ever born upon this earth: mightiest were they, and when they fought the fiercest tribes of mountain savages they utterly overthrew them.


title: homer-iliad_01
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I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_01
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You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
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" And Agamemnon answered," Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and master: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Granted that the gods have made him a great warrior, have they also given him the right to speak with railing?" Achilles interrupted him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Furthermore I say— and lay my saying to your heart— I shall fight neither you nor any man about this girl, for those that take were those also that gave.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
When they had quarrelled thus angrily, they rose, and broke up the assembly at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
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The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen.


title: homer-iliad_01
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But the son of Atreus bade the people purify themselves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the seashore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven.


title: homer-iliad_01
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But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates. "


title: homer-iliad_01
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Go," said he," to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus; take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither; if he will not give her I shall come with others and take her— which will press him harder.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_01
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They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said," Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon 's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achaeans may fight by their ships in safety."


title: homer-iliad_01
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He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans— and the woman was loth to go.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters.


title: homer-iliad_01
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He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother," Mother ,"he cried," you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said," My son, why are you weeping?


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant 's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs.


title: homer-iliad_01
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"On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
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At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Ofttimes in my father 's house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Saturn from ruin, when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds.


title: homer-iliad_01
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It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundredhanded monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat allglorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the seashore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blindness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.


title: homer-iliad_01
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For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.


title: homer-iliad_01
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When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship 's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooringstones and made fast the hawsers.


title: homer-iliad_01
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They then got out upon the seashore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father. "


title: homer-iliad_01
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Chryses," said he," King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_01
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" So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god.


title: homer-iliad_01
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They washed their hands and took up the barleymeal to sprinkle over the victims, while Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf."


title: homer-iliad_01
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Hear me," he cried," O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
When they had done praying and sprinkling the barleymeal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them.


title: homer-iliad_01
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They cut out the thighbones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with fivepronged spits in their hands.


title: homer-iliad_01
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When the thighbones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_01
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As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixingbowl with wine and water and handed it round, after giving every man his drinkoffering.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_01
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As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.


title: homer-iliad_01
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When they reached the widestretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships.


title: homer-iliad_01
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He went not to the honourable assembly, and sallied not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the warcry.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Thetis was not unmindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.


title: homer-iliad_01
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She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying:— "Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time. "


title: homer-iliad_01
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Incline your head," said she," and promise me surely, or else deny me— for you have nothing to fear— that I may learn how greatly you disdain me.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" At this Jove was much troubled and answered," I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is always railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
" As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled.


title: homer-iliad_01
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When the pair had thus laid their plans, they parted— Jove to his house, while the goddess quitted the splendour of Olympus, and plunged into the depths of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
But Juno, when she saw him, knew that he and the old merman 's daughter, silverfooted Thetis, had been hatching mischief, so she at once began to upbraid him."


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
You are always settling matters in secret behind my back, and have never yet told me, if you could help it, one word of your intentions.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Still, I have a strong misgiving that the old merman 's daughter Thetis has been talking you over, for she was with you and had hold of your knees this selfsame morning.


title: homer-iliad_01
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I believe, therefore, that you have been promising her to give glory to Achilles, and to kill much people at the ships of the Achaeans." "Wife," said Jove," I can do nothing


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Granted that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.


title: homer-iliad_01
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"It will be intolerable," said he," if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Let me then advise my mother— and she must herself know that it will be better— to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us."


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixingbowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him bustling about the heavenly mansion.


title: homer-iliad_01
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Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every one had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another.


title: homer-iliad_01
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But when the sun 's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them.


title: homer-iliad_01
sentence:
So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
But when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set stakes, and many had fallen by the hands of the Danaans, the Trojans made a halt on reaching their chariots, routed and pale with fear.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
Jove now woke on the crests of Ida, where he was lying with goldenthroned Juno by his side, and starting to his feet he saw the Trojans and Achaeans, the one thrown into confusion, and the others driving them pellmell before them with King Neptune in their midst.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He saw Hector lying on the ground with his comrades gathered round him, gasping for breath, wandering in mind and vomiting blood, for it was not the feeblest of the Achaeans who struck him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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"I see, Juno," said he," you mischiefmaking trickster, that your cunning has stayed Hector from fighting and has caused the rout of his host.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
I am in half a mind to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the fruits of your scurvy knavery.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
I fastened two anvils on to your feet, and bound your hands in a chain of gold which none might break, and you hung in mid air among the clouds.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold till he came fainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests; but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
" Juno trembled as he spoke, and said," May heaven above and earth below be my witnesses, with the waters of the river Styx— and this is the most solemn oath that a blessed god can take— nay, I swear also by your own almighty head and by our bridal bed— things over which I could never possibly perjure myself— that Neptune is not punishing Hector and the Trojans and helping the Achaeans through any doing of mine; it is all of his own mere motion because he was sorry to see the Achaeans hard pressed at their ships: if I were advising him, I should tell him to do as you bid him.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
" The sire of gods and men smiled and answered," If you, Juno, were always to support me when we sit in council of the gods, Neptune, like it or no, would soon come round to your and my way of thinking.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
If, then, you are speaking the truth and mean what you say, go among the rank and file of the gods, and tell Iris and Apollo lord of the bow, that I want them— Iris, that she may go to the Achaean host and tell Neptune to leave off fighting and go home, and Apollo, that he may send Hector again into battle and give him fresh strength; he will thus forget his present sufferings, and drive the Achaeans back in confusion till they fall among the ships of Achilles son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
Achilles will then send his comrade Patroclus into battle, and Hector will kill him in front of Ilius after he has slain many warriors, and among them my own noble son Sarpedon.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
Achilles will kill Hector to avenge Patroclus, and from that time I will bring it about that the Achaeans shall persistently drive the Trojans back till they fulfil the counsels of Minerva and take Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_15
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But I will not stay my anger, nor permit any god to help the Danaans till I have accomplished the desire of the son of Peleus, according to the promise I made by bowing my head on the day when Thetis touched my knees and besought me to give him honour.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
Swift as the thought of one whose fancy carries him over vast continents, and he says to himself," Now I will be here, or there," and he would have all manner of things— even so swiftly did Juno wing her way till she came to high Olympus and went in among the gods who were gathered in the house of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
sentence:
When they saw her they all of them came up to her, and held out their cups to her by way of greeting.


title: homer-iliad_15
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She let the others be, but took the cup offered her by lovely Themis, who was first to come running up to her. "


title: homer-iliad_15
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Lead the gods to table, where you and all the immortals can hear the wicked designs which he has avowed.


title: homer-iliad_15
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"Fools that we are," she cried," to be thus madly angry with Jove; we keep on wanting to go up to him and stay him by force or by persuasion, but he sits aloof and cares for nobody, for he knows that he is much stronger than any other of the immortals.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Make the best, therefore, of whatever ills he may choose to send each one of you; Mars, I take it, has had a taste of them already, for his son Ascalaphus has fallen in battle— the man whom of all others he loved most dearly and whose father he owns himself to be.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" When he heard this Mars smote his two sturdy thighs with the flat of his hands, and said in anger," Do not blame me, you gods that dwell in heaven, if I go to the ships of the Achaeans and avenge the death of my son, even though it end in my being struck by Jove 's lightning and lying in blood and dust among the corpses.


title: homer-iliad_15
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On this, Jove would have been roused to still more fierce and implacable enmity against the other immortals, had not Minerva, alarmed for the safety of the gods, sprung from her seat and hurried outside.


title: homer-iliad_15
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She tore the helmet from his head and the shield from his shoulders, and she took the bronze spear from his strong hand and set it on one side; then she said to Mars," Madman, you are undone; you have ears that hear not, or you have lost all judgement and understanding; have you not heard what Juno has said on coming straight from the presence of Olympian Jove?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Do you wish to go through all kinds of suffering before you are brought back sick and sorry to Olympus, after having caused infinite mischief to all us others?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Jove would instantly leave the Trojans and Achaeans to themselves; he would come to Olympus to punish us, and would grip us up one after another, guilty or not guilty.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Therefore lay aside your anger for the death of your son; better men than he have either been killed already or will fall hereafter, and one can not protect every one 's whole family." With these words she took Mars back to his seat.


title: homer-iliad_15
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"Jove," she said to them," desires you to go to him at once on Mt. Ida; when you have seen him you are to do as he may then bid you.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" Thereon Juno left them and resumed her seat inside, while Iris and Apollo made all haste on their way.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When they reached manyfountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, they found Jove seated on topmost Gargarus with a fragrant cloud encircling his head as with a diadem.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They stood before his presence, and he was pleased with them for having been so quick in obeying the orders his wife had given them.


title: homer-iliad_15
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If he takes no heed and disobeys me, let him consider well whether he is strong enough to hold his own against me if I attack him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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I am older and much stronger than he is; yet he is not afraid to set himself up as on a level with myself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas, even so did she wing her way till she came close up to the great shaker of the earth.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then she said," I have come, O darkhaired king that holds the world in his embrace, to bring you a message from Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He bids you leave off fighting, and either join the company of the gods or go down into the sea; if, however, you take no heed and disobey him, he says he will come down here and fight you.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He would have you keep out of his reach, for he is older and much stronger than you are, and yet you are not afraid to set yourself up as on a level with himself, of whom all the other gods stand in awe."


title: homer-iliad_15
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strong as Jove may be, he has said more than he can do if he has threatened violence against me, who am of like honour with himself.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Jove; but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all.


title: homer-iliad_15
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For all his strength, let him keep to his own third share and be contented without threatening to lay hands upon me as though I were nobody.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" Iris fleet as the wind then answered," Am I really, Neptune, to take this daring and unyielding message to Jove, or will you reconsider your answer?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Sensible people are open to argument, and you know that the Erinyes always range themselves on the side of the older person.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Nevertheless it cuts me to the very heart that any one should rebuke so angrily another who is his own peer, and of like empire with himself.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Now, however, I will give way in spite of my displeasure; furthermore let me tell you, and I mean what I say— if contrary to the desire of myself, Minerva driver of the spoil, Juno, Mercury, and King Vulcan, Jove spares steep Ilius, and will not let the Achaeans have the great triumph of sacking it, let him understand that he will incur our implacable resentment.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then Jove said to Apollo," Go, dear Phoebus, to Hector, for Neptune who holds the earth in his embrace has now gone down under the sea to avoid the severity of my displeasure.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Had he not done so those gods who are below with Saturn would have come to hear of the fight between us.


title: homer-iliad_15
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It is better for both of us that he should have curbed his anger and kept out of my reach, for I should have had much trouble with him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Take, then, your tasselled aegis, and shake it furiously, so as to set the Achaean heroes in a panic; take, moreover, brave Hector, O Far-


title: homer-iliad_15
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Darter, into your own care, and rouse him to deeds of daring, till the Achaeans are sent flying back to their ships and to the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" Apollo obeyed his father 's saying, and left the crests of Ida, flying like a falcon, bane of doves and swiftest of all birds.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He found Hector no longer lying upon the ground, but sitting up, for he had just come to himself again.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He knew those who were about him, and the sweat and hard breathing had left him from the moment when the will of aegisbearing Jove had revived him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Apollo stood beside him and said," Hector son of Priam, why are you so faint, and why are you here away from the others?


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Has any mishap befallen you?" Hector in a weak voice answered," And which, kind sir, of the gods are you, who now ask me thus?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Do you not know that Ajax struck me on the chest with a stone as I was killing his comrades at the ships of the Achaeans, and compelled me to leave off fighting?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then King Apollo said to him," Take heart; the son of Saturn has sent you a mighty helper from Ida to stand by you and defend you, even me, Phoebus Apollo of the golden sword, who have been guardian hitherto not only of yourself but of your city.


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And as a horse, stabled and fullfed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to the place where he is wo nt to take his bath in the river— he tosses his head, and his mane streams over his shoulders as in all the pride of his strength he flies full speed to the pastures where the mares are feeding— even so Hector, when he heard what the god said, urged his horsemen on, and sped forward as fast as his limbs could take him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat— he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they can not find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase— even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then spoke Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Aetolians, a man who could throw a good throw, and who was staunch also in close fight, while few could surpass him in debate when opinions were divided.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He then with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:" What, in heaven 's name, do I now see?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Every one made sure he had been killed by Ajax son of Telamon, but it seems that one of the gods has again rescued him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He has killed many of us Danaans already, and I take it will yet do so, for the hand of Jove must be with him or he would never dare show himself so masterful in the forefront of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let us order the main body of our forces to fall back upon the ships, but let those of us who profess to be the flower of the army stand firm, and see whether we can not hold Hector back at the point of our spears as soon as he comes near us; I conceive that he will then think better of it before he tries to charge into the press of the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_15
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Those who were about Ajax and King Idomeneus, the followers moreover of Teucer, Meriones, and Meges peer of Mars called all their best men about them and sustained the fight against Hector and the Trojans, but the main body fell back upon the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He bore aloft the terrible aegis with its shaggy fringe, which Vulcan the smith had given Jove to strike terror into the hearts of men.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Many a spear sped from strong hands and fastened in the bodies of many a valiant warrior, while others fell to earth midway, before they could taste of man 's fair flesh and glut themselves with blood.


title: homer-iliad_15
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So long as Phoebus Apollo held his aegis quietly and without shaking it, the weapons on either side took effect and the people fell, but when he shook it straight in the face of the Danaans and raised his mighty battlecry their hearts fainted within them and they forgot their former prowess.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As when two wild beasts spring in the dead of night on a herd of cattle or a large flock of sheep when the herdsman is not there— even so were the Danaans struck helpless, for Apollo filled them with panic and gave victory to Hector and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector killed Stichius and Arcesilaus, the one, leader of the Boeotians, and the other, friend and comrade of Menestheus.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country, for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Polydamas killed Mecisteus, and Polites Echius, in the front of the battle, while Agenor slew Clonius.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Paris struck Deiochus from behind in the lower part of the shoulder, as he was flying among the foremost, and the point of the spear went clean through him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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While they were spoiling these heroes of their armour, the Achaeans were flying pellmell to the trench and the set stakes, and were forced back within their wall.


title: homer-iliad_15
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If I see any man keeping back on the other side the wall away from the ships I will have him killed: his kinsmen and kinswomen shall not give him his dues of fire, but dogs shall tear him in pieces in front of our city." As he spoke he laid his whip about his horses ' shoulders and called to the Trojans throughout their ranks; the Trojans shouted with a cry that rent the air, and kept their horses neck and neck with his own.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Phoebus Apollo went before, and kicked down the banks of the deep trench into its middle so as to make a great broad bridge, as broad as the throw of a spear when a man is trying his strength.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He kicked down the wall of the Achaeans as easily as a child who playing on the seashore has built a house of sand and then kicks it down again and destroys it— even so did you, O Apollo, shed toil and trouble upon the Argives, filling them with panic and confusion.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Thus then were the Achaeans hemmed in at their ships, calling out to one another and raising their hands with loud cries every man to heaven.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Nestor of Gerene, tower of strength to the Achaeans, lifted up his hands to the starry firmament of heaven, and prayed more fervently than any of them."


title: homer-iliad_15
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Father Jove," said he," if ever any one in wheatgrowing Argos burned you fat thighbones of sheep or heifer and prayed that he might return safely home, whereon you bowed your head to him in assent, bear it in mind now, and suffer not the Trojans to triumph thus over the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As a wave breaking over the bulwarks of a ship when the sea runs high before a gale— for it is the force of the wind that makes the waves so great— even so did the Trojans spring over the wall with a shout, and drive their chariots onwards.


title: homer-iliad_15
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the Trojans from their chariots, and the Achaeans climbing up into their ships and wielding the long pikes that were lying on the decks ready for use in a seafight, jointed and shod with bronze.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Now Patroclus, so long as the Achaeans and Trojans were fighting about the wall, but were not yet within it and at the ships, remained sitting in the tent of good Eurypylus, entertaining him with his conversation and spreading herbs over his wound to ease his pain.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When, however, he saw the Trojans swarming through the breach in the wall, while the Achaeans were clamouring and struck with panic, he cried aloud, and smote his two thighs with the flat of his hands.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Eurypylus," said he in his dismay," I know you want me badly, but I can not stay with you any longer, for there is hard fighting going on; a servant shall take care of you now, for I must make all speed to Achilles, and induce him to fight if I can; who knows but with heaven 's help I may persuade him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The Achaeans stood firm and resisted the attack of the Trojans, yet though these were fewer in number, they could not drive them back from the ships, neither could the Trojans break the Achaean ranks and make their way in among the tents and ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As a carpenter 's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship 's timber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts— even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector could not force Ajax back and fire the ship, nor yet could Ajax drive Hector from the spot to which heaven had brought him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then Ajax struck Caletor son of Clytius in the chest with a spear as he was bringing fire towards the ship.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When Hector saw his cousin fallen in front of the ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a jot, but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of his armour now that he has fallen.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lycophron a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera, but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector 's spear struck him on the head below the ear, and he fell headlong from the ship 's prow on to the ground with no life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Ajax shook with rage and said to his brother," Teucer, my good fellow, our trusty comrade the son of Mastor has fallen, he came to live with us from Cythera and whom we honoured as much as our own parents.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector has just killed him; fetch your deadly arrows at once and the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you."


title: homer-iliad_15
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Forthwith he showered his arrows on the Trojans, and hit Cleitus the son of Pisenor, comrade of Polydamas the noble son of Panthous, with the reins in his hands as he was attending to his horses; he was in the middle of the very thickest part of the fight, doing good service to Hector and the Trojans, but evil had now come upon him, and not one of those who were fain to do so could avert it, for the arrow struck him on the back of the neck.


title: homer-iliad_15
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King Polydamas saw what had happened, and was the first to come up to the horses; he gave them in charge to Astynous son of Protiaon, and ordered him to look on, and to keep the horses near at hand.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Teucer then aimed another arrow at Hector, and there would have been no more fighting at the ships if he had hit him and killed him then and there: Jove, however, who kept watch over Hector, had his eyes on Teucer, and deprived him of his triumph, by breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim; on this the arrow went astray and the bow fell from his hands.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Teucer shook with anger and said to his brother," Alas, see how heaven thwarts us in all we do; it has broken my bowstring and snatched the bow from my hand, though I strung it this selfsame morning that it might serve me for many an arrow.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" Ajax son of Telamon answered," My good fellow, let your bow and your arrows be, for Jove has made them useless in order to spite the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Take your spear, lay your shield upon your shoulder, and both fight the Trojans yourself and urge others to do so.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They may be successful for the moment but if we fight as we ought they will find it a hard matter to take the ships."


title: homer-iliad_15
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He hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders, and on his comely head he set his helmet well wrought with a crest of horsehair that nodded menacingly above it; he grasped his redoubtable bronzeshod spear, and forthwith he was by the side of Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When Hector saw that Teucer 's bow was of no more use to him, he shouted out to the Trojans and Lycians," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, be men, my friends, and show your mettle here at the ships, for I see the weapon of one of their chieftains made useless by the hand of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
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It is easy to see when Jove is helping people and means to help them still further, or again when he is bringing them down and will do nothing for them; he is now on our side, and is going against the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_15
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If any of you is struck by spear or sword and loses his life, let him die; he dies with honour who dies fighting for his country; and he will leave his wife and children safe behind him, with his house and allotment unplundered if only the Achaeans can be driven back to their own land, they and their ships."


title: homer-iliad_15
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Ajax on the other side exhorted his comrades saying," Shame on you Argives, we are now utterly undone, unless we can save ourselves by driving the enemy from our ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Can you not hear him cheering on his whole host to fire our fleet, and bidding them remember that they are not at a dance but in battle?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Our only course is to fight them with might and main; we had better chance it, life or death, once for all, than fight long and without issue hemmed in at our ships by worse men than ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector then killed Schedius son of Perimedes, leader of the Phoceans, and Ajax killed Laodamas captain of foot soldiers and son to Antenor.


title: homer-iliad_15
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When Meges saw this he sprang upon him, but Polydamas crouched down, and he missed him, for Apollo would not suffer the son of Panthous to fall in battle; but the spear hit Croesmus in the middle of his chest, whereon he fell heavily to the ground, and Meges stripped him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_15
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At that moment the valiant soldier Dolops son of Lampus sprang upon Lampus was son of Laomedon and noted for his valour, while his son Dolops was versed in all the ways of war.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He then struck the middle of the son of Phyleus ' shield with his spear, setting on him at close quarters, but his good corslet made with plates of metal saved him; Phyleus had brought it from Ephyra and the river Selleis, where his host, King Euphetes, had given it him to wear in battle and protect him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then Meges struck the topmost crest of Dolops 's bronze helmet with his spear and tore away its plume of horsehair, so that all newly dyed with scarlet as it was it tumbled down into the dust.


title: homer-iliad_15
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While he was still fighting and confident of victory, Menelaus came up to help Meges, and got by the side of Dolops unperceived; he then speared him in the shoulder, from behind, and the point, driven so furiously, went through into his chest, whereon he fell headlong.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The two then made towards him to strip him of his armour, but Hector called on all his brothers for help, and he especially upbraided brave Melanippus son of Hiketaon, who erewhile used to pasture his herds of cattle in Percote before the war broke out; but when the ships of the Danaans came, he went back to Ilius, where he was eminent among the Trojans, and lived near Priam who treated him as one of his own sons.


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do you take no note of the death of your kinsman, and do you not see how they are trying to take Dolops 's armour?


title: homer-iliad_15
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Follow me; there must be no fighting the Argives from a distance now, but we must do so in close combat till either we kill them or they take the high wall of Ilius and slay her people."


title: homer-iliad_15
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My friends," he cried," be men, and fear dishonour; quit yourselves in battle so as to win respect from one another.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Men who respect each other 's good opinion are less likely to be killed than those who do not, but in flight there is neither gain nor glory."


title: homer-iliad_15
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They laid his words to heart and hedged the ships as with a wall of bronze, while Jove urged on the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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"Antilochus," said he," you are young and there is none of the Achaeans more fleet of foot or more valiant than you are.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" He hurried away when he had thus spurred Antilochus, who at once darted out from the front ranks and aimed a spear, after looking carefully round him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The Trojans fell back as he threw, and the dart did not speed from his hand without effect, for it struck Melanippus the proud son of Hiketaon in the breast by the nipple as he was coming forward, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Antilochus sprang upon him as a dog springs on a fawn which a hunter has hit as it was breaking away from its covert, and killed it.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Even so, O Melanippus, did stalwart Antilochus spring upon you to strip you of your armour; but noble Hector marked him, and came running up to him through the thick of the battle.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Antilochus, brave soldier though he was, would not stay to face him, but fled like some savage creature which knows it has done wrong, and flies, when it has killed a dog or a man who is herding his cattle, before a body of men can be gathered to attack it.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Even so did the son of Nestor fly, and the Trojans and Hector with a cry that rent the air showered their weapons after him; nor did he turn round and stay his flight till he had reached his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The Trojans, fierce as lions, were still rushing on towards the ships in fulfilment of the behests of Jove who kept spurring them on to new deeds of daring, while he deadened the courage of the Argives and defeated them by encouraging the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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For he meant giving glory to Hector son of Priam, and letting him throw fire upon the ships, till he had fulfilled the unrighteous prayer that Thetis had made him; Jove, therefore, bided his time till he should see the glare of a blazing ship.


title: homer-iliad_15
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From that hour he was about so to order that the Trojans should be driven back from the ships and to vouchsafe glory to the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_15
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With this purpose he inspired Hector son of Priam, who was eager enough already, to assail the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
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His fury was as that of Mars, or as when a fire is raging in the glades of some dense forest upon the mountains; he foamed at the mouth, his eyes glared under his terrible eyebrows, and his helmet quivered on his temples by reason of the fury with which he fought.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Jove from heaven was with him, and though he was but one against many, vouchsafed him victory and glory; for he was doomed to an early death, and already Pallas Minerva was hurrying on the hour of his destruction at the hands of the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Now, however, he kept trying to break the ranks of the enemy wherever he could see them thickest, and in the goodliest armour; but do what he might he could not break through them, for they stood as a tower foursquare, or as some high cliff rising from the grey sea that braves the anger of the gale, and of the waves that thunder up against it.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As when a wave, raised mountain high by wind and storm, breaks over a ship and covers it deep in foam, the fierce winds roar against the mast, the hearts of the sailors fail them for fear, and they are saved but by a very little from destruction— even so were the hearts of the Achaeans fainting within them.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Or as a savage lion attacking a herd of cows while they are feeding by thousands in the lowlying meadows by some widewatered shore— the herdsman is at his wit 's end how to protect his herd and keeps going about now in the van and now in the rear of his cattle, while the lion springs into the thick of them and fastens on a cow so that they all tremble for fear— even so were the Achaeans utterly panicstricken by Hector and father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Nevertheless Hector only killed Periphetes of Mycenae; he was son of Copreus who was wo nt to take the orders of King Eurystheus to mighty Hercules, but the son was a far better man than the father in every way; he was fleet of foot, a valiant warrior, and in understanding ranked among the foremost men of Mycenae.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He it was who then afforded Hector a triumph, for as he was turning back he stumbled against the rim of his shield which reached his feet, and served to keep the javelins off him.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He tripped against this and fell face upward, his helmet ringing loudly about his head as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector saw him fall and ran up to him; he then thrust a spear into his chest, and killed him close to his own comrades.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They had now reached the ships and the prows of those that had been drawn up first were on every side of them, but the Trojans came pouring after them.


title: homer-iliad_15
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The Argives were driven back from the first row of ships, but they made a stand by their tents without being broken up and scattered; shame and fear restrained them.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They kept shouting incessantly to one another, and Nestor of Gerene, tower of strength to the Achaeans, was loudest in imploring every man by his parents, and beseeching him to stand firm.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Think, all of you, on your children, your wives, your property, and your parents whether these be alive or dead.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Minerva lifted the thick veil of darkness from their eyes, and much light fell upon them, alike on the side of the ships and on that where the fight was raging.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They could see Hector and all his men, both those in the rear who were taking no part in the battle, and those who were fighting by the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Ajax could not bring himself to retreat along with the rest, but strode from deck to deck with a great seapike in his hands twelve cubits long and jointed with rings.


title: homer-iliad_15
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As a man skilled in feats of horsemanship couples four horses together and comes tearing full speed along the public way from the country into some large town— many both men and women marvel as they see him for he keeps all the time changing his horse, springing from one to another without ever missing his feet while the horses are at a gallop— even so did Ajax go striding from one ship 's deck to another, and his voice went up into the heavens.


title: homer-iliad_15
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He kept on shouting his orders to the Danaans and exhorting them to defend their ships and tents; neither did Hector remain within the main body of the Trojan warriors, but as a dun eagle swoops down upon a flock of wildfowl feeding near a river— geese, it may be, or cranes, or longnecked swans— even so did Hector make straight for a darkprowed ship, rushing right towards it; for Jove with his mighty hand impelled him forward, and roused his people to follow him.


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You would have thought the men were coming on fresh and unwearied, so fiercely did they fight; and this was the mind in which they were —the Achaeans did not believe they should escape destruction but thought themselves doomed, while there was not a Trojan but his heart beat high with the hope of firing the ships and putting the Achaean heroes to the sword.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Then Hector seized the stern of the good ship that had brought Protesilaus to Troy, but never bore him back to his native land.


title: homer-iliad_15
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They did not fight at a distance with bows and javelins, but with one mind hacked at one another in close combat with their mighty swords and spears pointed at both ends; they fought moreover with keen battleaxes and with hatchets.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Many a good stout blade hilted and scabbarded with iron, fell from hand or shoulder as they fought, and the earth ran red with blood.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Hector, when he had seized the ship, would not loose his hold but held on to its curved stern and shouted to the Trojans," Bring fire, and raise the battlecry all of you with a single voice.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Now has Jove vouchsafed us a day that will pay us for all the rest; this day we shall take the ships which came hither against heaven 's will, and which have caused us such infinite suffering through the cowardice of our councillors, who when I would have done battle at the ships held me back and forbade the host to follow me; if Jove did then indeed warp our judgements, himself now commands me and cheers me on.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" As he spoke thus the Trojans sprang yet more fiercely on the Achaeans, and Ajax no longer held his ground, for he was overcome by the darts that were flung at him, and made sure that he was doomed.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Therefore he left the raised deck at the stern, and stepped back on to the sevenfoot bench of the oarsmen.


title: homer-iliad_15
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Here he stood on the lookout, and with his spear held back any Trojan whom he saw bringing fire to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_15
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My friends," he cried," Danaan heroes, servants of Mars, be men my friends, and fight with might and with main.


title: homer-iliad_15
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There is no strong city within reach, whence we may draw fresh forces to turn the scales in our favour.


title: homer-iliad_15
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" As he spoke he wielded his spear with still greater fury, and when any Trojan made towards the ships with fire at Hector 's bidding, he would be on the lookout for him, and drive at him with his long spear.


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


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


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


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I will go at once to the lookout station and see what it is all about." As he spoke he took up the shield of his son Thrasymedes that was lying in his tent, all gleaming with bronze, for Thrasymedes had taken his father 's shield; he grasped his redoubtable bronzeshod spear, and as soon as he was outside saw the disastrous rout of the Achaeans who, now that their wall was overthrown, were flying pellmell before the Trojans.


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


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


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


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


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The kings, leaning on their spears, were coming out to survey the fight, being in great anxiety, and when old Nestor met them they were filled with dismay.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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You must yourselves have heard whether these things are true or no; therefore when I say well despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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With this she anointed her delicate skin, and then she plaited the fair ambrosial locks that flowed in a stream of golden tresses from her immortal head.


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


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


title: homer-iliad_14
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My dear child," said she," will you do what I am going to ask of you, or will you refuse me because you are angry at my being on the Danaan side, while you are on the Trojan?" Jove 's daughter Venus answered," Juno, august queen of goddesses, daughter of mighty Saturn, say what you want, and I will do it for you at once, if I can, and if it can be done at all.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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When she came to Athos she went on over the waves of the sea till she reached Lemnos, the city of noble Thoas.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_14
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Presently they reached manyfountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Lectum where they left the sea to go on by land, and the tops of the trees of the forest soughed under the going of their feet.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Here Sleep halted, and ere Jove caught sight of him he climbed a lofty pinetree— the tallest that reared its head towards heaven on all Ida.


title: homer-iliad_14
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He hid himself behind the branches and sat there in the semblance of the sweetsinging bird that haunts the mountains and is called Chalcis by the gods, but men call it Cymindis.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Juno then went to Gargarus, the topmost peak of Ida, and Jove, driver of the clouds, set eyes upon her.


title: homer-iliad_14
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As soon as he did so he became inflamed with the same passionate desire for her that he had felt when they had first enjoyed each other 's embraces, and slept with one another without their dear parents knowing anything about it.


title: homer-iliad_14
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He went up to her and said," What do you want that you have come hither from Olympus— and that too with neither chariot nor horses to convey you?" Then Juno told him a lying tale and said," I am going to the world 's end, to visit Oceanus, from whom all we gods proceed, and mother Tethys; they received me into their house, took care of me, and brought me up.


title: homer-iliad_14
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I must go and see them that I may make peace between them: they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long time.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The horses that will take me over land and sea are stationed on the lowermost spurs of manyfountained Ida, and I have come here from Olympus on purpose to consult you.


title: homer-iliad_14
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I was afraid you might be angry with me later on, if I went to the house of Oceanus without letting you know.


title: homer-iliad_14
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" And Jove said," Juno, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus— for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself— not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintilyancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Then there was the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus: there was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lionhearted son Hercules, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind.


title: homer-iliad_14
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There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself— but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.


title: homer-iliad_14
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It would be such a scandal that when I had risen from your embraces I could never show myself inside your house again; but if you are so minded, there is a room which your son Vulcan has made me, and he has given it good strong doors; if you would so have it, let us go thither and lie down.


title: homer-iliad_14
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" And Jove answered," Juno, you need not be afraid that either god or man will see you, for I will enshroud both of us in such a dense golden cloud, that the very sun for all his bright piercing beams shall not see through it.


title: homer-iliad_14
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" With this the son of Saturn caught his wife in his embrace; whereon the earth sprouted them a cushion of young grass, with dewbespangled lotus, crocus, and hyacinth, so soft and thick that it raised them well above the ground.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Here they laid themselves down and overhead they were covered by a fair cloud of gold, from which there fell glittering dewdrops.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Thus, then, did the sire of all things repose peacefully on the crest of Ida, overcome at once by sleep and love, and he held his spouse in his arms.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Meanwhile Sleep made off to the ships of the Achaeans, to tell earthencircling Neptune, lord of the earthquake.


title: homer-iliad_14
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When he had found him he said," Now, Neptune, you can help the Danaans with a will, and give them victory though it be only for a short time while Jove is still sleeping.


title: homer-iliad_14
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I have sent him into a sweet slumber, and Juno has beguiled him into going to bed with her." Sleep now departed and went his ways to and fro among mankind, leaving Neptune more eager than ever to help the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_14
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He darted forward among the first ranks and shouted saying," Argives, shall we let Hector son of Priam have the triumph of taking our ships and covering himself with glory?


title: homer-iliad_14
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This is what he says that he shall now do, seeing that Achilles is still in dudgeon at his ship; we shall get on very well without him if we keep each other in heart and stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Let us each take the best and largest shield we can lay hold of, put on our helmets, and sally forth with our longest spears in our hands; I will lead you on, and Hector son of Priam, rage as he may, will not dare to hold out against us.


title: homer-iliad_14
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If any good staunch soldier has only a small shield, let him hand it over to a worse man, and take a larger one for himself.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The son of Tydeus, Ulysses, and Agamemnon, wounded though they were, set the others in array, and went about everywhere effecting the exchanges of armour; the most valiant took the best armour, and gave the worse to the worse man.


title: homer-iliad_14
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In his strong hand he grasped his terrible sword, keen of edge and flashing like lightning; woe to him who comes across it in the day of battle; all men quake for fear and keep away from it.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Thereon Neptune and Hector waged fierce war on one another— Hector on the Trojan and Neptune on the Argive side.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Mighty was the uproar as the two forces met; the sea came rolling in towards the ships and tents of the Achaeans, but waves do not thunder on the shore more loudly when driven before the blast of Boreas, nor do the flames of a forest fire roar more fiercely when it is well alight upon the mountains, nor does the wind bellow with ruder music as it tears on through the tops of when it is blowing its hardest, than the terrible shout which the Trojans and Achaeans raised as they sprang upon one another.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The spear struck him where two bands passed over his chest— the band of his shield and that of his silverstudded sword— and these protected his body.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Hector was angry that his spear should have been hurled in vain, and withdrew under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_14
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As he was thus retreating, Ajax son of Telamon, struck him with a stone, of which there were many lying about under the men 's feet as they fought— brought there to give support to the ships ' sides as they lay on the shore.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Ajax caught up one of them and struck Hector above the rim of his shield close to his neck; the blow made him spin round like a top and reel in all directions.


title: homer-iliad_14
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As an oak falls headlong when uprooted by the lightning flash of father Jove, and there is a terrible smell of brimstone— no man can help being dismayed if he is standing near it, for a thunderbolt is a very awful thing— even so did Hector fall to earth and bite the dust.


title: homer-iliad_14
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His spear fell from his hand, but his shield and helmet were made fast about his body, and his bronze armour rang about him.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The sons of the Achaeans came running with a loud cry towards him, hoping to drag him away, and they showered their darts on the Trojans, but none of them could wound him before he was surrounded and covered by the princes Polydamas, Aeneas, Agenor, Sarpedon captain of the Lycians, and noble Glaucus.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Of the others, too, there was not one who was unmindful of him, and they held their round shields over him to cover him.


title: homer-iliad_14
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His comrades then lifted him off the ground and bore him away from the battle to the place where his horses stood waiting for him at the rear of the fight with their driver and the chariot; these then took him towards the city groaning and in great pain.


title: homer-iliad_14
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When they reached the ford of the fair stream of Xanthus, begotten of Immortal Jove, they took him from off his chariot and laid him down on the ground; they poured water over him, and as they did so he breathed again and opened his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Then kneeling on his knees he vomited blood, but soon fell back on to the ground, and his eyes were again closed in darkness for he was still stunned by the blow.


title: homer-iliad_14
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When the Argives saw Hector leaving the field, they took heart and set upon the Trojans yet more furiously.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Ajax fleet son of Oileus began by springing on Satnius son of Enops, and wounding him with his spear: a fair naiad nymph had borne him to Enops as he was herding cattle by the banks of the river Satnioeis.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The son of Oileus came up to him and struck him in the flank so that he fell, and a fierce fight between Trojans and Danaans raged round his body.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Polydamas son of Panthous drew near to avenge him, and wounded Prothoenor son of Areilycus on the right shoulder; the terrible spear went right through his shoulder, and he clutched the earth as he fell in the dust.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Polydamas vaunted loudly over him saying," Again I take it that the spear has not sped in vain from the strong hand of the son of Panthous; an Argive has caught it in his body, and it will serve him for a staff as he goes down into the house of Hades."


title: homer-iliad_14
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Ajax son of Telamon was more angry than any, for the man had fallen close beside him; so he aimed at Polydamas as he was retreating, but Polydamas saved himself by swerving aside and the spear struck Archelochus son of Antenor, for heaven counselled his destruction; it struck him where the head springs from the neck at the top joint of the spine, and severed both the tendons at the back of the head.


title: homer-iliad_14
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His head, mouth, and nostrils reached the ground long before his legs and knees could do so, and Ajax shouted to Polydamas saying," Think, Polydamas, and tell me truly whether this man is not as well worth killing as Prothoenor was: he seems rich, and of rich family, a brother, it may be, or son of the knight Antenor, for he is very like him."


title: homer-iliad_14
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Acamas then bestrode his brother 's body and wounded Promachus the Boeotian with his spear, for he was trying to drag his brother 's body away.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Acamas vaunted loudly over him saying," Argive archers, braggarts that you are, toil and suffering shall not be for us only, but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves.


title: homer-iliad_14
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See how Promachus now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother 's blood has not been long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house behind him to avenge his fall.


title: homer-iliad_14
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He sprang towards Acamas, but Acamas did not stand his ground, and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flockmaster Phorbas, whom Mercury had favoured and endowed with greater wealth than any other of the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Ilioneus was his only son, and Peneleos now wounded him in the eye under his eyebrows, tearing the eyeball from its socket: the spear went right through the eye into the nape of the neck, and he fell, stretching out both hands before him.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Peneleos then drew his sword and smote him on the neck, so that both head and helmet came tumbling down to the ground with the spear still sticking in the eye; he then held up the head, as though it had been a poppyhead, and showed it to the Trojans, vaunting over them as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_14
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"Trojans," he cried," bid the father and mother of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house, for the wife also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never be gladdened by the coming of her dear husband— when we Argives return with our ships from Troy.


title: homer-iliad_14
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" As he spoke fear fell upon them, and every man looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Tell me now, O Muses that dwell on Olympus, who was the first of the Argives to bear away bloodstained spoils after Neptune lord of the earthquake had turned the fortune of war.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Antilochus killed Phalces and Mermerus, while Meriones slew Morys and Hippotion, Teucer also killed Prothoon and Periphetes.


title: homer-iliad_14
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The son of Atreus then wounded Hyperenor shepherd of his people, in the flank, and the bronze point made his entrails gush out as it tore in among them; on this his life came hurrying out of him at the place where he had been wounded, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_14
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Ajax son of Oileus killed more than any other, for there was no man so fleet as he to pursue flying foes when Jove had spread panic among them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track up through the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain till he reached the place where Minerva had said that he would find the swineherd, who was the most thrifty servant he had.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He found him sitting in front of his hut, which was by the yards that he had built on a site which could be seen from far.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He had made them spacious and fair to see, with a free run for the pigs all round them; he had built them during his master 's absence, of stones which he had gathered out of the ground, without saying anything to Penelope or Laertes, and he had fenced them on top with thorn bushes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Outside the yard he had run a strong fence of oaken posts, split, and set pretty close together, while inside he had built twelve styes near one another for the sows to lie in.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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There were fifty pigs wallowing in each stye, all of them breeding sows; but the boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had to send them the best he had continually.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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There were three hundred and sixty boar pigs, and the herdsman 's four hounds, which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Three of his men were out herding the pigs in one place or another, and he had sent the fourth to town with a boar that he had been forced to send the suitors that they might sacrifice it and have their fill of meat.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When the hounds saw Ulysses they set up a furious barking and flew at him, but Ulysses was cunning enough to sit down and loose his hold of the stick that he had in his hand: still, he would have been torn by them in his own homestead had not the swineherd dropped his ox hide, rushed full speed through the gate of the yard and driven the dogs off by shouting and throwing stones at them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Then he said to Ulysses," Old man, the dogs were likely to have made short work of you, and then you would have got me into trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The gods have given me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost the best of masters, and am in continual grief on his account.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I have to attend swine for other people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But come inside, and when you have had your fill of bread and wine, tell me where you come from, and all about your misfortunes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He strewed a good thick bed of rushes upon the floor, and on the top of this he threw the shaggy chamois skin— a great thick one— on which he used to sleep by night.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Ulysses was pleased at being made thus welcome, and said" May Jove, sir, and the rest of the gods grant you your heart 's desire in return for the kind way in which you have received me.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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You must take what you can get and be thankful, for servants live in fear when they have young lords for their masters; and this is my misfortune now, for heaven has hindered the return of him who would have been always good to me and given me something of my own— a house, a piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else that a liberal master allows a servant who has worked hard for him, and whose labour the gods have prospered as they have mine in the situation which I hold.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen 's whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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It was this matter that took my master to Ilius, the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans in the cause of king Agamemnon.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" As he spoke he bound his girdle round him and went to the styes where the young sucking pigs were penned.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He singed them, cut them up, and spitted them; when the meat was cooked he brought it all in and set it before Ulysses, hot and still on the spit, whereon Ulysses sprinkled it over with white barley meal.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivywood, and taking a seat opposite Ulysses told him to begin.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The fat pigs have to go to the suitors, who eat them up without shame or scruple; but the blessed gods love not such shameful doings, and respect those who do what is lawful and right.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Even the fierce freebooters who go raiding on other people 's land, and Jove gives them their spoil— even they, when they have filled their ships and got home again live consciencestricken, and look fearfully for judgement; but some god seems to have told these people that Ulysses is dead and gone; they will not, therefore, go back to their own homes and make their offers of marriage in the usual way, but waste his estate by force, without fear or stint.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Not a day or night comes out of heaven, but they sacrifice not one victim nor two only, and they take the run of his wine, for he was exceedingly rich.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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No other great man either in Ithaca or on the mainland is as rich as he was; he had as much as twenty men put together.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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There are twelve herds of cattle upon the main land, and as many flocks of sheep, there are also twelve droves of pigs, while his own men and hired strangers feed him twelve widely spreading herds of goats.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Here in Ithaca he runs even large flocks of goats on the far end of the island, and they are in the charge of excellent goat herds.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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As for myself, I am in charge of the pigs that you see here, and I have to keep picking out the best I have and sending it to them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
" This was his story, but Ulysses went on eating and drinking ravenously without a word, brooding his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When he had eaten enough and was satisfied, the swineherd took the bowl from which he usually drank, filled it with wine, and gave it to Ulysses, who was pleased, and said as he took it in his hands," My friend, who was this master of yours that bought you and paid for you, so rich and so powerful as you tell me?


title: homer-odyssey_14
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You say he perished in the cause of King Agamemnon; tell me who he was, in case I may have met with such a person.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Jove and the other gods know, but I may be able to give you news of him, for I have travelled much." Eumaeus answered," Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses ' wife and son to believe his story.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Nevertheless, tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their mouths full of lies, and not a word of truth; every one who finds his way to Ithaca goes to my mistress and tells her falsehoods, whereon she takes them in, makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions, crying all the time as women will when they have lost their husbands.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But the wolves and birds of prey have long since torn Ulysses to pieces, or the fishes of the sea have eaten him, and his bones are lying buried deep in sand upon some foreign shore; he is dead and gone, and a bad business it is for all his friends— for me especially; go where I may I shall never find so good a master, not even if I were to go home to my mother and father where I was bred and born.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I do not so much care, however, about my parents now, though I should dearly like to see them again in my own country; it is the loss of Ulysses that grieves me most; I can not speak of him without reverence though he is here no longer, for he was very fond of me, and took such care of me that wherever he may be I shall always honour his memory.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" "My friend," replied Ulysses," you are very positive, and very hard of belief about your master 's coming home again, nevertheless I will not merely say, but will swear, that he is coming.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Do not give me anything for my news till he has actually come, you may then give me a shirt and cloak of good wear if you will.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I am in great want, but I will not take anything at all till then, for I hate a man, even as I hate hell fire, who lets his poverty tempt him into lying.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I swear by king Jove, by the rites of hospitality, and by that hearth of Ulysses to which I have now come, that all will surely happen as I have said it will.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Ulysses will return in this self same year; with the end of this moon and the beginning of the next he will be here to do vengeance on all those who are ill treating his wife and son.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
" To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Do not keep on reminding me of all this; it always pains me when any one speaks about my honoured master.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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As for your oath we will let it alone, but I only wish he may come, as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
I am terribly unhappy too about this same boy of his; he was running up fast into manhood, and bade fare to be no worse man, face and figure, than his father, but some one, either god or man, has been unsettling his mind, so he has gone off to Pylos to try and get news of his father, and the suitors are lying in wait for him as he is coming home, in the hope of leaving the house of Arceisius without a name in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But let us say no more about him, and leave him to be taken, or else to escape if the son of Saturn holds his hand over him to protect him.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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And now, old man, tell me your own story; tell me also, for I want to know, who you are and where you come from.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in, how crew brought you to Ithaca, and from what country they professed to come— for you can not have come by land.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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If there were meat and wine enough, and we could stay here in the hut with nothing to do but to eat and drink while the others go to their work, I could easily talk on for a whole twelve months without ever finishing the story of the sorrows with which it has pleased heaven to visit me.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
"I am by birth a Cretan; my father was a well to do man, who had many sons born in marriage, whereas I was the son of a slave whom he had purchased for a concubine; nevertheless, my father Castor son of Hylax( whose lineage I claim, and who was held in the highest honour among the Cretans for his wealth, prosperity, and the valour of his sons) put me on the same level with my brothers who had been born in wedlock.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When, however, death took him to the house of Hades, his sons divided his estate and cast lots for their shares, but to me they gave a holding and little else; nevertheless, my valour enabled me to marry into a rich family, for I was not given to bragging, or shirking on the field of battle.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
It is all over now; still, if you look at the straw you can see what the ear was, for I have had trouble enough and to spare.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Mars and Minerva made me doughty in war; when I had picked my men to surprise the enemy with an ambuscade I never gave death so much as a thought, but was the first to leap forward and spear all whom I could overtake.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Such was I in battle, but I did not care about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those who would bring up children.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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My delight was in ships, fighting, javelins, and arrows— things that most men shudder to think of; but one man likes one thing and another another, and this was what I was most naturally inclined to.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Before the Achaeans went to Troy, nine times was I in command of men and ships on foreign service, and I amassed much wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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and I became a great man among the Cretans, but when Jove counselled that terrible expedition, in which so many perished, the people required me and Idomeneus to lead their ships to Troy, and there was no way out of it, for they insisted on our doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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There we fought for nine whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city of Priam and sailed home again as heaven dispersed us.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I spent but one month happily with my children, wife, and property, and then I conceived the idea of making a descent on Egypt, so I fitted out a fine fleet and manned it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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For six days I and my men made feast, and I found them many victims both for sacrifice to the gods and for themselves, but on the seventh day we went on board and set sail from Crete with a fair North wind behind us though we were going down a river.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Nothing went ill with any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board, but sat where we were and let the ships go as the wind and steersmen took them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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On the fifth day we reached the river Aegyptus; there I stationed my ships in the river, bidding my men stay by them and keep guard over them while I sent out scouts to reconnoitre from every point of vantage.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
"But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war cry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam of armour.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Then Jove spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Jove, however, put it in my mind to do thus— and I wish I had died then and there in Egypt instead, for there was much sorrow in store for me— I took off my helmet and shield and dropped my spear from my hand; then I went straight up to the king 's chariot, clasped his knees and kissed them, whereon he spared my life, bade me get into his chariot, and took me weeping to his own home.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Many made at me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me in their fury, but the king protected me, for he feared the wrath of Jove the protector of strangers, who punishes those who do evil.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
"I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me something; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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I stayed there for a whole twelve months, but at the end of that time when months and days had gone by till the same season had come round again, he set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on a pretence that I was to take a cargo along with him to that place, but really that he might sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
"The ship ran before a fresh North wind till we had reached the sea that lies between Crete and Libya; there, however, Jove counselled their destruction, for as soon as we were well out from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky, he raised a black cloud over our ship and the sea grew dark beneath it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts and the ship went round and round and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
The men fell all 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_14
sentence:
Jove, however, sent the ship 's mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
There Pheidon king of the Thesprotians entertained me hospitably without charging me anything at all— for his son found me when I was nearly dead with cold and fatigue, whereon he raised me by the hand, took me to his father 's house and gave me clothes to wear.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
"There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
There was enough to keep his family for ten generations, so much had he left in the house of king Pheidon.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove 's mind from the god 's high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret.


title: homer-odyssey_14
sentence:
Moreover the king swore in my presence, making drinkofferings in his own house as he did so, that the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country.


