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TELEMACHUS AND ULYSSES REMOVE THE ARMOUR—ULYSSES INTERVIEWS PENELOPE—EURYCLEA WASHES HIS FEET AND RECOGNISES THE SCAR ON HIS LEG—PENELOPE TELLS HER DREAM TO ULYSSES.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby with Minerva 's help he might be able to kill the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Presently he said to Telemachus," Telemachus, we must get the armour together and take it down inside.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Say that you have taken it to be out of the way of the smoke, inasmuch as it is no longer what it was when Ulysses went away, but has become soiled and begrimed with soot.


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Add to this more particularly that you are afraid Jove may set them on to quarrel over their wine, and that they may do each other some harm which may disgrace both banquet and wooing, for the sight of arms sometimes tempts people to use them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Telemachus approved of what his father had said, so he called nurse Euryclea and said," Nurse, shut the women up in their room, while I take the armour that my father left behind him down into the store room.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" "I wish, child," answered Euryclea," that you would take the management of the house into your own hands altogether, and look after all the property yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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"The stranger," said Telemachus," shall show me a light; when people eat my bread they must earn it, no matter where they come from.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then Ulysses and his son made all haste to take the helmets, shields, and spears inside; and Minerva went before them with a gold lamp in her hand that shed a soft and brilliant radiance, whereon Telemachus said," Father, my eyes behold a great marvel: the walls, with the rafters, crossbeams, and the supports on which they rest are all aglow as with a flaming fire.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" "Hush," answered Ulysses," hold your peace and ask no questions, for this is the manner of the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" On this Telemachus went by torchlight to the other side of the inner court, to the room in which he always slept.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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There he lay in his bed till morning, while Ulysses was left in the cloister pondering on the means whereby with Minerva 's help he might be able to kill the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then Penelope came down from her room looking like Venus or Diana, and they set her a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver and ivory near the fire in her accustomed place.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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It had been made by Icmalius and had a footstool all in one piece with the seat itself; and it was covered with a thick fleece: on this she now sat, and the maids came from the women 's room to join her.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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They set about removing the tables at which the wicked suitors had been dining, and took away the bread that was left, with the cups from which they had drunk.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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They emptied the embers out of the braziers, and heaped much wood upon them to give both light and heat; but Melantho began to rail at Ulysses a second time and said," Stranger, do you mean to plague us by hanging about the house all night and spying upon the women?


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Be off, you wretch, outside, and eat your supper there, or you shall be driven out with a firebrand.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Is it because I am not clean, and my clothes are all in rags, and because I am obliged to go begging about after the manner of tramps and beggars generally?


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I too was a rich man once, and had a fine house of my own; in those days I gave to many a tramp such as I now am, no matter who he might be nor what he wanted.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I had any number of servants, and all the other things which people have who live well and are accounted wealthy, but it pleased Jove to take all away from me; therefore, woman, beware lest you too come to lose that pride and place in which you now wanton above your fellows; have a care lest you get out of favour with your mistress, and lest Ulysses should come home, for there is still a chance that he may do so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Moreover, though he be dead as you think he is, yet by Apollo 's will he has left a son behind him, Telemachus, who will note anything done amiss by the maids in the house, for he is now no longer in his boyhood.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Penelope heard what he was saying and scolded the maid," Impudent baggage," said she," I see how abominably you are behaving, and you shall smart for it.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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You knew perfectly well, for I told you myself, that I was going to see the stranger and ask him about my husband, for whose sake I am in such continual sorrow.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Then she said to her head waiting woman Eurynome," Bring a seat with a fleece upon it, for the stranger to sit upon while he tells his story, and listens to what I have to say.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Eurynome brought the seat at once and set a fleece upon it, and as soon as Ulysses had sat down Penelope began by saying," Stranger, I shall first ask you who and whence are you?


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Your fame reaches the firmament of heaven itself; you are like some blameless king, who upholds righteousness, as the monarch over a great and valiant nation: the earth yields its wheat and barley, the trees are loaded with fruit, the ewes bring forth lambs, and the sea abounds with fish by reason of his virtues, and his people do good deeds under him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Nevertheless, as I sit here in your house, ask me some other question and do not seek to know my race and family, or you will recall memories that will yet more increase my sorrow.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I am full of heaviness, but I ought not to sit weeping and wailing in another person 's house, nor is it well to be thus grieving continually.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I shall have one of the servants or even yourself complaining of me, and saying that my eyes swim with tears because I am heavy with wine.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Then Penelope answered," Stranger, heaven robbed me of all beauty, whether of face or figure, when the Argives set sail for Troy and my dear husband with them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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If he were to return and look after my affairs I should be both more respected and should show a better presence to the world.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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As it is, I am oppressed with care, and with the afflictions which heaven has seen fit to heap upon me.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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The chiefs from all our islands— Dulichium, Same, and Zacynthus, as also from Ithaca itself, are wooing me against my will and are wasting my estate.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I can therefore show no attention to strangers, nor suppliants, nor to people who say that they are skilled artisans, but am all the time brokenhearted about Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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In the first place heaven put it in my mind to set up a great tambourframe in my room, and to begin working upon an enormous piece of fine needlework.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then I said to them,' Sweethearts, Ulysses is indeed dead, still, do not press me to marry again immediately ;wait— for I would not have my skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have finished making a pall for the hero Laertes, to be ready against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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This was what I said, and they assented; whereon I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I fooled them in this way for three years without their finding it out, but as time wore on and I was now in my fourth year, in the waning of moons, and many days had been accomplished, those good for nothing hussies my maids betrayed me to the suitors, who broke in upon me and caught me; they were very angry with me, so I was forced to finish my work whether I would or no.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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My parents are putting great pressure upon me, and my son chafes at the ravages the suitors are making upon his estate, for he is now old enough to understand all about it and is perfectly able to look after his own affairs, for heaven has blessed him with an excellent disposition.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Still, notwithstanding all this, tell me who you are and where you come from— for you must have had father and mother of some sort; you can not be the son of an oak or of a rock.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, since you persist in asking me about my family, I will answer, no matter what it costs me: people must expect to be pained when they have been exiles as long as I have, and suffered as much among as many peoples.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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There is a fair and fruitful island in mid ocean called Crete; it is thickly peopled and there are ninety cities in it: the people speak many different languages which overlap one another, for there are Achaeans, brave Eteocretans, Dorians of threefold race, and noble Pelasgi.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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There is a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned who every nine years had a conference with Jove himself.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Idomeneus sailed for Troy, and I, who am the younger, am called Aethon; my brother, however, was at once the older and the more valiant of the two; hence it was in Crete that I saw Ulysses and showed him hospitality, for the winds took him there as he was on his way to Troy, carrying him out of his course from cape Malea and leaving him in Amnisus off the cave of Ilithuia, where the harbours are difficult to enter and he could hardly find shelter from the winds that were then raging.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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As soon as he got there he went into the town and asked for Idomeneus, claiming to be his old and valued friend, but Idomeneus had already set sail for Troy some ten or twelve days earlier, so I took him to my own house and showed him every kind of hospitality, for I had abundance of everything.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Moreover, I fed the men who were with him with barley meal from the public store, and got subscriptions of wine and oxen for them to sacrifice to their heart 's content.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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They stayed with me twelve days, for there was a gale blowing from the North so strong that one could hardly keep one 's feet on land.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I suppose some unfriendly god had raised it for them, but on the thirteenth day the wind dropped, and they got away.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Many a plausible tale did Ulysses further tell her, and Penelope wept as she listened, for her heart was melted.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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As the snow wastes upon the mountain tops when the winds from South East and West have breathed upon it and thawed it till the rivers run bank full with water, even so did her cheeks overflow with tears for the husband who was all the time sitting by her side.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses felt for her and was sorry for her, but he kept his eyes as hard as horn or iron without letting them so much as quiver, so cunningly did he restrain his tears.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then, when she had relieved herself by weeping, she turned to him again and said:" Now, stranger, I shall put you to the test and see whether or no you really did entertain my husband and his men, as you say you did.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Tell me, then, how he was dressed, what kind of a man he was to look at, and so also with his companions.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Twenty years are come and gone since he left my home, and went elsewhither; but I will tell you as well as I can recollect.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses wore a mantle of purple wool, double lined, and it was fastened by a gold brooch with two catches for the pin.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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On the face of this there was a device that shewed a dog holding a spotted fawn between his fore paws, and watching it as it lay panting upon the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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As for the shirt that he wore next his skin, it was so soft that it fitted him like the skin of an onion, and glistened in the sunlight to the admiration of all the women who beheld it.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart, that I do not know whether Ulysses wore these clothes when he left home, or whether one of his companions had given them to him while he was on his voyage; or possibly some one at whose house he was staying made him a present of them, for he was a man of many friends and had few equals among the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I myself gave him a sword of bronze and a beautiful purple mantle, double lined, with a shirt that went down to his feet, and I sent him on board his ship with every mark of honour.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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He had a servant with him, a little older than himself, and I can tell you what he was like; his shoulders were hunched he was dark, and he had thick curly hair.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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His name was Eurybates, and Ulysses treated him with greater familiarity than he did any of the others, as being the most likeminded with himself.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Penelope was moved still more deeply as she heard the indisputable proofs that Ulysses laid before her; and when she had again found relief in tears she said to him," Stranger, I was already disposed to pity you, but henceforth you shall be honoured and made welcome in my house.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I took them out of the store room and folded them up myself, and I gave him also the gold brooch to wear as an ornament.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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It was by an ill fate that he ever set out for that detested city whose very name I can not bring myself even to mention."


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, do not disfigure yourself further by grieving thus bitterly for your loss, though I can hardly blame you for doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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A woman who has loved her husband and borne him children, would naturally be grieved at losing him, even though he were a worse man than Ulysses, who they say was like a god.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I will hide nothing from you, and can say with perfect truth that I have lately heard of Ulysses as being alive and on his way home; he is among the Thesprotians, and is bringing back much valuable treasure that he has begged from one and another of them; but his ship and all his crew were lost as they were leaving the Thrinacian island, for Jove and the sungod were angry with him because his men had slaughtered the sungod 's cattle, and they were all drowned to a man.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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But Ulysses stuck to the keel of the ship and was drifted on to the land of the Phaeacians, who are near of kin to the immortals, and who treated him as though he had been a god, giving him many presents, and wishing to escort him home safe and sound.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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In fact Ulysses would have been here long ago, had he not thought better to go from land to land gathering wealth; for there is no man living who is so wily as he is; there is no one can compare with him.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Pheidon king of the Thesprotians told me all this, and he swore to me— making drinkofferings in his house as he did so— that the ship was by the water side and the crew found who would take Ulysses to his own country.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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He sent me off first, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheatgrowing island of Dulichium, but he showed me all the treasure Ulysses had got together, and he had enough lying in the house of king Pheidon to keep his family for ten generations; but the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove 's mind from the high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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So you may know he is safe and will be here shortly; he is close at hand and can not remain away from home much longer; nevertheless I will confirm my words with an oath, and call Jove who is the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, as also that hearth of Ulysses to which I have now come, that all I have spoken shall surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses will return in this self same year; with the end of this moon and the beginning of the next he will be here.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" "May it be even so," answered Penelope;" if your words come true you shall have such gifts and such good will from me that all who see you shall congratulate you; but I know very well how it will be.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses will not return, neither will you get your escort hence, for so surely as that Ulysses ever was ,there are now no longer any such masters in the house as he was, to receive honourable strangers or to further them on their way home.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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And now, you maids, wash his feet for him, and make him a bed on a couch with rugs and blankets, that he may be warm and quiet till morning.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Then, at day break wash him and anoint him again, that he may sit in the cloister and take his meals with Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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It shall be the worse for any one of these hateful people who is uncivil to him; like it or not, he shall have no more to do in this house.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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For how, sir, shall you be able to learn whether or no I am superior to others of my sex both in goodness of heart and understanding, if I let you dine in my cloisters squalid and ill clad?


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Men live but for a little season; if they are hard, and deal hardly, people wish them ill so long as they are alive, and speak contemptuously of them when they are dead, but he that is righteous and deals righteously, the people tell of his praise among all lands, and many shall call him blessed.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" Ulysses answered," Madam, I have foresworn rugs and blankets from the day that I left the snowy ranges of Crete to go on shipboard.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Nor, again, do I like having my feet washed; I shall not let any of the young hussies about your house touch my feet; but, if you have any old and respectable woman who has gone through as much trouble as I have, I will allow her to wash them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" To this Penelope said," My dear sir, of all the guests who ever yet came to my house there never was one who spoke in all things with such admirable propriety as you do.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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There happens to be in the house a most respectable old woman— the same who received my poor dear husband in her arms the night he was born, and nursed him in infancy.


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"Come here," said she," Euryclea, and wash your master 's agemate; I suppose Ulysses ' hands and feet are very much the same now as his are, for trouble ages all of us dreadfully fast.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" On these words the old woman covered her face with her hands; she began to weep and made lamentation saying," My dear child, I can not think whatever I am to do with you.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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No one in the whole world ever burned him more thigh bones, nor gave him finer hecatombs when you prayed you might come to a green old age yourself and see your son grow up to take after you: yet see how he has prevented you alone from ever getting back to your own home.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I have no doubt the women in some foreign palace which Ulysses has got to are gibing at him as all these sluts here have been gibing at you.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I do not wonder at your not choosing to let them wash you after the manner in which they have insulted you; I will wash your feet myself gladly enough, as Penelope has said that I am to do so; I will wash them both for Penelope 's sake and for your own, for you have raised the most lively feelings of compassion in my mind; and let me say this moreover, which pray attend to; we have had all kinds of strangers in distress come here before now, but I make bold to say that no one ever yet came who was so like Ulysses in figure, voice, and feet as you are."


title: homer-odyssey_19
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"Those who have seen us both," answered Ulysses," have always said we were wonderfully like each other, and now you have noticed it too."


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Then the old woman took the cauldron in which she was going to wash his feet, and poured plenty of cold water into it, adding hot till the bath was warm enough.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Ulysses sat by the fire, but ere long he turned away from the light, for it occurred to him that when the old woman had hold of his leg she would recognise a certain scar which it bore, whereon the whole truth would come out.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mt. Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolycus— who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world— and with the sons of Autolycus.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Mercury himself had endowed him with this gift, for he used to burn the thigh bones of goats and kids to him, so he took pleasure in his companionship.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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It happened once that Autolycus had gone to Ithaca and had found the child of his daughter just born.


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As soon as he had done supper Euryclea set the infant upon his knees and said," Autolycus, you must find a name for your grandson; you greatly wished that you might have one." "Soninlaw and daughter," replied Autolycus," call the child thus: I am highly displeased with a large number of people in one place and another, both men and women; so name the child' Ulysses,' or the child of anger.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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When he grows up and comes to visit his mother 's family on Mt. Parnassus, where my possessions lie, I will make him a present and will send him on his way rejoicing.


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" Ulysses, therefore, went to Parnassus to get the presents from Autolycus, who with his sons shook hands with him and gave him welcome.


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His grandmother Amphithea threw her arms about him, and kissed his head, and both his beautiful eyes, while Autolycus desired his sons to get dinner ready, and they did as he told them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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They brought in a five year old bull, flayed it, made it ready and divided it into joints; these they then cut carefully up into smaller pieces and spitted them; they roasted them sufficiently and served the portions round.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied; but when the sun set and it came on dark, they went to bed and enjoyed the boon of sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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When the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, the sons of Autolycus went out with their hounds hunting, and Ulysses went too.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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They climbed the wooded slopes of Parnassus and soon reached its breezy upland valleys; but as the sun was beginning to beat upon the fields, freshrisen from the slow still currents of Oceanus, they came to a mountain dell.


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The dogs were in front searching for the tracks of the beast they were chasing, and after them came the sons of Autolycus, among whom was Ulysses, close behind the dogs, and he had a long spear in his hand.


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Here was the lair of a huge boar among some thick brushwood, so dense that the wind and rain could not get through it, nor could the sun 's rays pierce it, and the ground underneath lay thick with fallen leaves.


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The boar heard the noise of the men 's feet, and the hounds baying on every side as the huntsmen came up to him, so he rushed from his lair, raised the bristles on his neck, and stood at bay with fire flashing from his eyes.


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Ulysses was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.


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As for the boar, Ulysses hit him on the right shoulder, and the point of the spear went right through him, so that he fell groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.


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The sons of Autolycus busied themselves with the carcass of the boar, and bound Ulysses ' wound; then, after saying a spell to stop the bleeding, they went home as fast as they could.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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But when Autolycus and his sons had thoroughly healed Ulysses, they made him some splendid presents, and sent him back to Ithaca with much mutual good will.


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When he got back, his father and mother were rejoiced to see him, and asked him all about it, and how he had hurt himself to get the scar; so he told them how the boar had ripped him when he was out hunting with Autolycus and his sons on Mt. Parnassus.


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As soon as Euryclea had got the scarred limb in her hands and had well hold of it, she recognised it and dropped the foot at once.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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The leg fell into the bath, which rang out and was overturned, so that all the water was spilt on the ground; Euryclea 's eyes between her joy and her grief filled with tears, and she could not speak, but she caught Ulysses by the beard and said," My dear child, I am sure you must be Ulysses himself, only I did not know you till I had actually touched and handled you.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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" As she spoke she looked towards Penelope, as though wanting to tell her that her dear husband was in the house, but Penelope was unable to look in that direction and observe what was going on, for Minerva had diverted her attention; so Ulysses caught Euryclea by the throat with his right hand and with his left drew her close to him, and said," Nurse, do you wish to be the ruin of me, you who nursed me at your own breast, now that after twenty years of wandering I am at last come to my own home again?


title: homer-odyssey_19
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Since it has been borne in upon you by heaven to recognise me, hold your tongue, and do not say a word about it to any one else in the house, for if you do I tell you— and it shall surely be— that if heaven grants me to take the lives of these suitors, I will not spare you, though you are my own nurse, when I am killing the other women.


title: homer-odyssey_19
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I will hold my tongue like a stone or a piece of iron; furthermore let me say, and lay my saying to your heart, when heaven has delivered the suitors into your hand, I will give you a list of the women in the house who have been illbehaved, and of those who are guiltless."


title: homer-odyssey_19
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And Ulysses answered," Nurse, you ought not to speak in that way; I am well able to form my own opinion about one and all of them; hold your tongue and leave everything to heaven.


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" As he said this Euryclea left the cloister to fetch some more water, for the first had been all spilt; and when she had washed him and anointed him with oil, Ulysses drew his seat nearer to the fire to warm himself, and hid the scar under his rags.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Then Penelope began talking to him and said: "Stranger, I should like to speak with you briefly about another matter.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
As for myself, heaven has given me a life of such unmeasurable woe, that even by day when I am attending to my duties and looking after the servants, I am still weeping and lamenting during the whole time; then, when night comes, and we all of us go to bed, I lie awake thinking, and my heart becomes a prey to the most incessant and cruel tortures.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
As the dun nightingale, daughter of Pandareus, sings in the early spring from her seat in shadiest covert hid, and with many a plaintive trill pours out the tale how by mishap she killed her own child Itylus, son of king Zethus, even so does my mind toss and turn in its uncertainty whether I ought to stay with my son here, and safeguard my substance, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house, out of regard to public opinion and the memory of my late husband, or whether it is not now time for me to go with the best of these suitors who are wooing me and making me such magnificent presents.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
As long as my son was still young, and unable to understand, he would not hear of my leaving my husband 's house, but now that he is full grown he begs and prays me to do so, being incensed at the way in which the suitors are eating up his property.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
I have twenty geese about the house that eat mash out of a trough and of which I am exceedingly fond.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Presently he soared off into the sky, and left them lying dead about the yard; whereon I wept in my dream till all my maids gathered round me, so piteously was I grieving because the eagle had killed my geese.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.'


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Be of good courage,' he said,' daughter of Icarius; this is no dream, but a vision of good omen that shall surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
The geese are the suitors, and I am no longer an eagle, but your own husband, who am come back to you, and who will bring these suitors to a disgraceful end.'


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
" "This dream, Madam," replied Ulysses," can admit but of one interpretation, for had not Ulysses himself told you how it shall be fulfilled?


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
And Penelope answered," Stranger, dreams are very curious and unaccountable things, and they do not by any means invariably come true.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
There are two gates through which these unsubstantial fancies proceed; the one is of horn, and the other ivory.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Those that come through the gate of ivory are fatuous, but those from the gate of horn mean something to those that see them.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
I do not think, however, that my own dream came through the gate of horn, though I and my son should be most thankful if it proves to have done so.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Furthermore I say— and lay my saying to your heart— the coming dawn will usher in the illomened day that is to sever me from the house of Ulysses, for I am about to hold a tournament of axes.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
My husband used to set up twelve axes in the court, one in front of the other, like the stays upon which a ship is built; he would then go back from them and shoot an arrow through the whole twelve.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
I shall make the suitors try to do the same thing, and whichever of them can string the bow most easily, and send his arrow through all the twelve axes, him will I follow, and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly and so abounding in wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Then Ulysses answered," Madam, wife of Ulysses, you need not defer your tournament, for Ulysses will return ere ever they can string the bow, handle it how they will, and send their arrows through the iron.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
" To this Penelope said," As long, sir, as you will sit here and talk to me, I can have no desire to go to bed.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
Still, people can not do permanently without sleep, and heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
I will therefore go upstairs and recline upon that couch which I have never ceased to flood with my tears from the day Ulysses set out for the city with a hateful name.


title: homer-odyssey_19
sentence:
" She then went upstairs to her own room, not alone, but attended by her maidens, and when there, she lamented her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyelids.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Achilles is reconciled with Agamemnon, puts on the armour which Vulcan had made him, and goes out to fight.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armour that the god had given her.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Many also of his followers were weeping round him, but when the goddess came among them she clasped his hand in her own, saying," My son, grieve as we may we must let this man lie, for it is by heaven 's will that he has fallen; now, therefore, accept from Vulcan this rich and goodly armour, which no man has ever yet borne upon his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The Myrmidons were struck with awe, and none dared look full at it, for they were afraid; but Achilles was roused to still greater fury, and his eyes gleamed with a fierce light, for he was glad when he handled the splendid present which the god had made him.


title: homer-iliad_19
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Then, as soon as he had satisfied himself with looking at it, he said to his mother," Mother, the god has given me armour, meet handiwork for an immortal and such as noone living could have fashioned; I will now arm, but I much fear that flies will settle upon the son of Menoetius and breed worms about his wounds, so that his body, now he is dead, will be disfigured and the flesh will rot.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I will find means to protect him from the swarms of noisome flies that prey on the bodies of men who have been killed in battle.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Call, therefore, the Achaean heroes in assembly; unsay your anger against Agamemnon; arm at once, and fight with might and main.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" As she spoke she put strength and courage into his heart, and she then dropped ambrosia and red nectar into the wounds of Patroclus, that his body might suffer no change.


title: homer-iliad_19
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On this even those who as yet had stayed always at the ships, the pilots and helmsmen, and even the stewards who were about the ships and served out rations, all came to the place of assembly because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from fighting.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Two sons of Mars, Ulysses and the son of Tydeus, came limping, for their wounds still pained them; nevertheless they came, and took their seats in the front row of the assembly.


title: homer-iliad_19
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Last of all came Agamemnon, king of men, he too wounded, for Coon son of Antenor had struck him with a spear in battle.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
When the Achaeans were got together Achilles rose and said," Son of Atreus, surely it would have been better alike for both you and me, when we two were in such high anger about Briseis, surely it would have been better, had Diana 's arrow slain her at the ships on the day when I took her after having sacked Lyrnessus.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
It has been well for Hector and the Trojans, but the Achaeans will long indeed remember our quarrel.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I put it from me: I dare not nurse it for ever; therefore, bid the Achaeans arm forthwith that I may go out against the Trojans, and learn whether they will be in a mind to sleep by the ships or no.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Danaan heroes," said he," servants of Mars, it is well to listen when a man stands up to speak, and it is not seemly to interrupt him, or it will go hard even with a practised speaker.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Often have the Achaeans spoken to me of this matter and upbraided me, but it was not I that did it: Jove, and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had been awarded to him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove 's daughters, shuts men 's eyes to their destruction.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
"Time was when she fooled Jove himself, who they say is greatest whether of gods or men; for Juno, woman though she was, beguiled him on the day when Alcmena was to bring forth mighty Hercules in the fair city of Thebes.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
He told it out among the gods saying,' Hear me, all gods and goddesses, that I may speak even as I am minded; this day shall an Ilithuia, helper of women who are in labour, bring a man child into the world who shall be lord over all that dwell about him who are of my blood and lineage.'


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Swear me, O Olympian, swear me a great oath, that he who shall this day fall between the feet of a woman, shall be lord over all that dwell about him who are of your blood and lineage.'


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
"Thus she spoke, and Jove suspected her not, but swore the great oath, to his much ruing thereafter.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then she went to tell Jove the son of Saturn, and said,' Father Jove, lord of the lightning— I have a word for your ear.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; it is well, therefore, that he should reign over the Argives.'


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
"On this Jove was stung to the very quick, and in his rage he caught Folly by the hair, and swore a great oath that never should she again invade starry heaven and Olympus, for she was the bane of all.


title: homer-iliad_19
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Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven so that she fell on to the fields of mortal men; and he was ever angry with her when he saw his son groaning under the cruel labours that Eurystheus laid upon him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Even so did I grieve when mighty Hector was killing the Argives at their ships, and all the time I kept thinking of Folly who had so baned me.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I was blind, and Jove robbed me of my reason; I will now make atonement, and will add much treasure by way of amends.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I will give you all that Ulysses offered you yesterday in your tents: or if it so please you, wait, though you would fain fight at once, and my squires shall bring the gifts from my ship, that you may see whether what I give you is enough."


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
And Achilles answered," Son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, you can give such gifts as you think proper, or you can withhold them: it is in your own hands.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Let us now set battle in array; it is not well to tarry talking about trifles, for there is a deed which is as yet to do.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Achilles shall again be seen fighting among the foremost, and laying low the ranks of the Trojans: bear this in mind each one of you when he is fighting.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" Then Ulysses said," Achilles, godlike and brave, send not the Achaeans thus against Ilius to fight the Trojans fasting, for the battle will be no brief one, when it is once begun, and heaven has filled both sides with fury; bid them first take food both bread and wine by the ships, for in this there is strength and stay.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
No man can do battle the livelong day to the going down of the sun if he is without food; however much he may want to fight his strength will fail him before he knows it; hunger and thirst will find him out, and his limbs will grow weary under him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
But a man can fight all day if he is full fed with meat and wine; his heart beats high, and his strength will stay till he has routed all his foes; therefore, send the people away and bid them prepare their meal; King Agamemnon will bring out the gifts in presence of the assembly, that all may see them and you may be satisfied.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Moreover let him swear an oath before the Argives that he has never gone up into the couch of Briseis, nor been with her after the manner of men and women; and do you, too, show yourself of a gracious mind; let Agamemnon entertain you in his tents with a feast of reconciliation, that so you may have had your dues in full.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
As for you, son of Atreus, treat people more righteously in future; it is no disgrace even to a king that he should make amends if he was wrong in the first instance.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" And King Agamemnon answered," Son of Laertes, your words please me well, for throughout you have spoken wisely.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I will swear as you would have me do; I do so of my own free will, neither shall I take the name of heaven in vain.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Let, then, Achilles wait, though he would fain fight at once, and do you others wait also, till the gifts come from my tent and we ratify the oath with sacrifice.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Thus, then, do I charge you: take some noble young Achaeans with you, and bring from my tents the gifts that I promised yesterday to Achilles, and bring the women also; furthermore let Talthybius find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Jove and to the sun.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" Then said Achilles," Son of Atreus, king of men Agamemnon, see to these matters at some other season, when there is breathing time and when I am calmer.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Would you have men eat while the bodies of those whom Hector son of Priam slew are still lying mangled upon the plain?


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Let the sons of the Achaeans, say I, fight fasting and without food, till we have avenged them; afterwards at the going down of the sun let them eat their fill.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
As for me, Patroclus is lying dead in my tent, all hacked and hewn, with his feet to the door, and his comrades are mourning round him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Therefore I can take thought of nothing save only slaughter and blood and the rattle in the throat of the dying.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" Ulysses answered," Achilles, son of Peleus, mightiest of all the Achaeans, in battle you are better than I, and that more than a little, but in counsel I am much before you, for I am older and of greater knowledge.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Fighting is a thing of which men soon surfeit, and when Jove, who is war 's steward, weighs the upshot, it may well prove that the straw which our sickles have reaped is far heavier than the grain.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
It may not be that the Achaeans should mourn the dead with their bellies; day by day men fall thick and threefold continually; when should we have respite from our sorrow?


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Let us mourn our dead for a day and bury them out of sight and mind, but let those of us who are left eat and drink that we may arm and fight our foes more fiercely.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
In that hour let no man hold back, waiting for a second summons; such summons shall bode ill for him who is found lagging behind at our ships; let us rather sally as one man and loose the fury of war upon the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" When he had thus spoken he took with him the sons of Nestor, with Meges son of Phyleus, Thoas, Meriones, Lycomedes son of Creontes, and Melanippus, and went to the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The word was not sooner said than the deed was done: they brought out the seven tripods which Agamemnon had promised, with the twenty metal cauldrons and the twelve horses; they also brought the women skilled in useful arts, seven in number, with Briseis, which made eight.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Ulysses weighed out the ten talents of gold and then led the way back, while the young Achaeans brought the rest of the gifts, and laid them in the middle of the assembly.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The son of Atreus drew the knife which he wore by the scabbard of his mighty sword, and began by cutting off some bristles from the boar, lifting up his hands in prayer as he did so.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying," I call Jove the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor otherwise, but that she has remained in my tents inviolate.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
If I swear falsely may heaven visit me with all the penalties which it metes out to those who perjure themselves.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" He cut the boar 's throat as he spoke, whereon Talthybius whirled it round his head, and flung it into the wide sea to feed the fishes.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then Achilles also rose and said to the Argives," Father Jove, of a truth you blind men 's eyes and bane them.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The son of Atreus had not else stirred me to so fierce an anger, nor so stubbornly taken Briseis from me against my will.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Briseis, fair as Venus, when she saw the mangled body of Patroclus, flung herself upon it and cried aloud, tearing her breast, her neck, and her lovely face with both her hands.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Beautiful as a goddess she wept and said," Patroclus, dearest friend, when I went hence I left you living; I return, O prince, to find you dead; thus do fresh sorrows multiply upon me one after the other.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
I saw him to whom my father and mother married me, cut down before our city, and my three own dear brothers perished with him on the selfsame day; but you, Patroclus, even when Achilles slew my husband and sacked the city of noble Mynes, told me that I was not to weep, for you said you would make Achilles marry me, and take me back with him to Phthia, we should have a wedding feast among the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
You were always kind to me and I shall never cease to grieve for you." She wept as she spoke, and the women joined in her lamentmaking as though their tears were for Patroclus, but in truth each was weeping for her own sorrows.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The elders of the Achaeans gathered round Achilles and prayed him to take food, but he groaned and would not do so.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
"I pray you," said he," if any comrade will hear me, bid me neither eat nor drink, for I am in great heaviness, and will stay fasting even to the going down of the sun.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" On this he sent the other princes away, save only the two sons of Atreus and Ulysses, Nestor, Idomeneus, and the knight Phoenix, who stayed behind and tried to comfort him in the bitterness of his sorrow: but he would not be comforted till he should have flung himself into the jaws of battle, and he fetched sigh on sigh, thinking ever of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then he said— "Hapless and dearest comrade, you it was who would get a good dinner ready for me at once and without delay when the Achaeans were hasting to fight the Trojans; now, therefore, though I have meat and drink in my tents, yet will I fast for sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Grief greater than this I could not know, not even though I were to hear of the death of my father, who is now in Phthia weeping for the loss of me his son, who am here fighting the Trojans in a strange land for the accursed sake of Helen, nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more— he who is being brought up in Scyros— if indeed Neoptolemus is still living.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Till now I made sure that I alone was to fall here at Troy away from Argos, while you were to return to Phthia, bring back my son with you in your own ship, and show him all my property, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house— for Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" He wept as he spoke, and the elders sighed in concert as each thought on what he had left at home behind him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The son of Saturn looked down with pity upon them, and said presently to Minerva," My child, you have quite deserted your hero; is he then gone so clean out of your recollection?


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
There he sits by the ships all desolate for the loss of his dear comrade, and though the others are gone to their dinner he will neither eat nor drink.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Meanwhile the Achaeans were arming throughout the host, and when Minerva had dropped nectar and ambrosia into Achilles so that no cruel hunger should cause his limbs to fail him, she went back to the house of her mighty father.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Thick as the chill snowflakes shed from the hand of Jove and borne on the keen blasts of the north wind, even so thick did the gleaming helmets, the bossed shields, the strongly plated breastplates, and the ashen spears stream from the ships.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
The sheen pierced the sky, the whole land was radiant with their flashing armour, and the sound of the tramp of their treading rose from under their feet.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
In the midst of them all Achilles put on his armour; he gnashed his teeth, his eyes gleamed like fire, for his grief was greater than he could bear.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Thus, then, full of fury against the Trojans, did he don the gift of the god, the armour that Vulcan had made him.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
First he put on the goodly greaves fitted with ancleclasps, and next he did on the breastplate about his chest.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
He slung the silverstudded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then took up the shield so great and strong that shone afar with a splendour as of the moon.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
As the light seen by sailors from out at sea, when men have lit a fire in their homestead high up among the mountains, but the sailors are carried out to sea by wind and storm far from the haven where they would be— even so did the gleam of Achilles ' wondrous shield strike up into the heavens.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
He lifted the redoubtable helmet, and set it upon his head, from whence it shone like a star, and the golden plumes which Vulcan had set thick about the ridge of the helmet, waved all around it.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then Achilles made trial of himself in his armour to see whether it fitted him, so that his limbs could play freely under it, and it seemed to buoy him up as though it had been wings.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
He also drew his father 's spear out of the spearstand, a spear so great and heavy and strong that none of the Achaeans save only Achilles had strength to wield it; this was the spear of Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mt. Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Automedon and Alcimus busied themselves with the harnessing of his horses; they made the bands fast about them, and put the bit in their mouths, drawing the reins back towards the chariot.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full armour, resplendent as the sungod Hyperion.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then with a loud voice he chided with his father 's horses saying," Xanthus and Balius, famed offspring of Podarge— this time when we have done fighting be sure and bring your driver safely back to the host of the Achaeans, and do not leave him dead on the plain as you did Patroclus."


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Then fleet Xanthus answered under the yoke— for whitearmed Juno had endowed him with human speech— and he bowed his head till his mane touched the ground as it hung down from under the yokeband."


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Dread Achilles," said he," we will indeed save you now, but the day of your death is near, and the blame will not be ours, for it will be heaven and stern fate that will destroy you.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
Neither was it through any sloth or slackness on our part that the Trojans stripped Patroclus of his armour; it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector .


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
We two can fly as swiftly as Zephyrus who they say is fleetest of all winds; nevertheless it is your doom to fall by the hand of a man and of a god.


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
" When he had thus said the Erinyes stayed his speech, and Achilles answered him in great sadness, saying," Why, O Xanthus, do you thus foretell my death?


title: homer-iliad_19
sentence:
You need not do so, for I well know that I am to fall here, far from my dear father and mother; none the more, however, shall I stay my hand till I have given the Trojans their fill of fighting.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
THE GHOSTS OF THE SUITORS IN HADES—ULYSSES AND HIS MEN GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES—THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA COME OUT TO ATTACK ULYSSES, BUT MINERVA CONCLUDES A PEACE.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
Then Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men 's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases; with this he roused the ghosts and led them, while they followed whining and gibbering behind him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
As bats fly squealing in the hollow of some great cave, when one of them has fallen out of the cluster in which they hang, even so did the ghosts whine and squeal as Mercury the healer of sorrow led them down into the dark abode of death.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
Here they found the ghost of Achilles son of Peleus, with those of Patroclus, Antilochus, and Ajax, who was the finest and handsomest man of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus himself.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
They gathered round the ghost of the son of Peleus, and the ghost of Agamemnon joined them, sorrowing bitterly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
Round him were gathered also the ghosts of those who had perished with him in the house of Aegisthus; and the ghost of Achilles spoke first.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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"Son of Atreus," it said," we used to say that Jove had loved you better from first to last than any other hero, for you were captain over many and brave men, when we were all fighting together before Troy; yet the hand of death, which no mortal can escape, was laid upon you all too early.


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Better for you had you fallen at Troy in the heyday of your renown, for the Achaeans would have built a mound over your ashes, and your son would have been heir to your good name, whereas it has now been your lot to come to a most miserable end." "Happy son of Peleus," answered the ghost of Agamemnon," for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body.


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We fought the whole of the livelong day, nor should we ever have left off if Jove had not sent a hurricane to stay us.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Your mother, when she heard, came with her immortal nymphs from out of the sea, and the sound of a great wailing went forth over the waters so that the Achaeans quaked for fear.


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They would have fled panicstricken to their ships had not wise old Nestor whose counsel was ever truest checked them saying,' Hold, Argives, fly not sons of the Achaeans, this is his mother coming from the sea with her immortal nymphs to view the body of her son.'


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The daughters of the old man of the sea stood round you weeping bitterly, and clothed you in immortal raiment.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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The nine muses also came and lifted up their sweet voices in lament— calling and answering one another; there was not an Argive but wept for pity of the dirge they chaunted.


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Days and nights seven and ten we mourned you, mortals and immortals, but on the eighteenth day we gave you to the flames, and many a fat sheep with many an ox did we slay in sacrifice around you.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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You were burnt in raiment of the gods, with rich resins and with honey, while heroes, horse and foot, clashed their armour round the pile as you were burning, with the tramp as of a great multitude.


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But when the flames of heaven had done their work, we gathered your white bones at daybreak and laid them in ointments and in pure wine.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Your mother brought us a golden vase to hold them— gift of Bacchus, and work of Vulcan himself; in this we mingled your bleached bones with those of Patroclus who had gone before you, and separate we enclosed also those of Antilochus, who had been closer to you than any other of your comrades now that Patroclus was no more.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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"Over these the host of the Argives built a noble tomb, on a point jutting out over the open Hellespont, that it might be seen from far out upon the sea by those now living and by them that shall be born hereafter.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Your mother begged prizes from the gods, and offered them to be contended for by the noblest of the Achaeans.


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You must have been present at the funeral of many a hero, when the young men gird themselves and make ready to contend for prizes on the death of some great chieftain, but you never saw such prizes as silverfooted Thetis offered in your honour; for the gods loved you well.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Thus even in death your fame, Achilles, has not been lost, and your name lives evermore among all mankind.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
" Thus did they converse, and presently Mercury came up to them with the ghosts of the suitors who had been killed by Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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The ghost of Agamemnon recognised Amphimedon son of Melaneus, who lived in Ithaca and had been his host, so it began to talk to him.


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"Amphimedon," it said," what has happened to all you fine young men— all of an age too— that you are come down here under the ground?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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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 mainland when you were cattlelifting or sheepstealing, or while fighting in defence of their wives and city?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Do you not remember how I came to your house with Menelaus, to persuade Ulysses to join us with his ships against Troy?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" And the ghost of Amphimedon answered," Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king of men, I remember everything that you have said, and will tell you fully and accurately about the way in which our end was brought about.


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Ulysses had been long gone, and we were courting his wife, who did not say point blank that she would not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end, for she meant to compass our destruction: this, then, was the trick she played us.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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She set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.'


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Sweethearts,' said she,' Ulysses is indeed dead, still, do not press me to marry again immediately ;wait— for I would not have my skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have completed a pall for the hero Laertes, against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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This is what she said, and we assented; whereupon we could see her working upon her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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She fooled us in this way for three years without our finding it out, but as time wore on and she was now in her fourth year, in the waning of moons and many days had been accomplished, one of her maids who knew what she was doing told us, and we caught her in the act of undoing her work, so she had to finish it whether she would or no; and when she showed us the robe she had made, after she had had it washed its splendour was as that of the sun or moon.


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Thither presently came also his son, returning from a voyage to Pylos, and the two came to the town when they had hatched their plot for our destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Telemachus came first, and then after him, accompanied by the swineherd, came Ulysses, clad in rags and leaning on a staff as though he were some miserable old beggar.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He came so unexpectedly that none of us knew him, not even the older ones among us, and we reviled him and threw things at him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He endured both being struck and insulted without a word, though he was in his own house; but when the will of Aegisbearing Jove inspired him, he and Telemachus took the armour and hid it in an inner chamber, bolting the doors behind them.


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Then he cunningly made his wife offer his bow and a quantity of iron to be contended for by us illfated suitors; and this was the beginning of our end, for not one of us could string the bow— nor nearly do so.


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When it was about to reach the hands of Ulysses, we all of us shouted out that it should not be given him, no matter what he might say, but Telemachus insisted on his having it.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Then he stood on the floor of the cloister and poured his arrows on the ground, glaring fiercely about him.


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First he killed Antinous, and then, aiming straight before him, he let fly his deadly darts and they fell thick on one another.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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It was plain that some one of the gods was helping them, for they fell upon us with might and main throughout the cloisters, and there was a hideous sound of groaning as our brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with our blood.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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This, Agamemnon, is how we came by our end, and our bodies are lying still uncared for in the house of Ulysses, for our friends at home do not yet know what has happened, so that they can not lay us out and wash the black blood from our wounds, making moan over us according to the offices due to the departed.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" "Happy Ulysses, son of Laertes," replied the ghost of Agamemnon," you are indeed blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord as Penelope the daughter of Icarius.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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The fame, therefore, of her virtue shall never die, and the immortals shall compose a song that shall be welcome to all mankind in honour of the constancy of Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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How far otherwise was the wickedness of the daughter of Tyndareus who killed her lawful husband; her song shall be hateful among men, for she has brought disgrace on all womankind even on the good ones.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Meanwhile Ulysses and the others passed out of the town and soon reached the fair and welltilled farm of Laertes, which he had reclaimed with infinite labour.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Here was his house, with a leanto running all round it, where the slaves who worked for him slept and sat and ate, while inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his countryfarm.


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When Ulysses got there, he said to his son and to the other two: "Go to the house, and kill the best pig that you can find for dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Meanwhile I want to see whether my father will know me, or fail to recognise me after so long an absence.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" He then took off his armour and gave it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who went straight on to the house, while he turned off into the vineyard to make trial of his father.


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As he went down into the great orchard, he did not see Dolius, nor any of his sons nor of the other bondsmen, for they were all gathering thorns to make a fence for the vineyard, at the place where the old man had told them; he therefore found his father alone, hoeing a vine.


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He had on a dirty old shirt, patched and very shabby; his legs were bound round with thongs of oxhide to save him from the brambles, and he also wore sleeves of leather; he had a goat skin cap on his head, and was looking very woebegone.


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When Ulysses saw him so worn, so old and full of sorrow, he stood still under a tall pear tree and began to weep.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He doubted whether to embrace him, kiss him, and tell him all about his having come home, or whether he should first question him and see what he would say.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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In the end he deemed it best to be crafty with him, so in this mind he went up to his father, who was bending down and digging about a plant.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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"I see, sir," said Ulysses," that you are an excellent gardener— what pains you take with it, to be sure.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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There is not a single plant, not a fig tree, vine, olive, pear, nor flower bed, but bears the trace of your attention.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I trust, however, that you will not be offended if I say that you take better care of your garden than of yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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It can not be because you are idle that your master takes such poor care of you, indeed your face and figure have nothing of the slave about them, and proclaim you of noble birth.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I should have said that you were one of those who should wash well, eat well, and lie soft at night as old men have a right to do; but tell me, and tell me true, whose bondman are you, and in whose garden are you working?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I met a man just now who said so, but he was a dull fellow, and had not the patience to hear my story out when I was asking him about an old friend of mine, whether he was still living, or was already dead and in the house of Hades.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Believe me when I tell you that this man came to my house once when I was in my own country and never yet did any stranger come to me whom I liked better.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I received him hospitably, making him welcome to all the abundance of my house, and when he went away I gave him all customary presents.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I gave him twelve light cloaks, and as many pieces of tapestry; I also gave him twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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To all this I added four good looking women skilled in all useful arts, and I let him take his choice."


title: homer-odyssey_24
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His father shed tears and answered," Sir, you have indeed come to the country that you have named, but it is fallen into the hands of wicked people.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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If you could have found your friend here alive in Ithaca, he would have entertained you hospitably and would have requited your presents amply when you left him— as would have been only right considering what you had already given him.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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But tell me, and tell me true, how many years is it since you entertained this guest— my unhappy son, as ever was?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He has perished far from his own country; the fishes of the sea have eaten him, or he has fallen a prey to the birds and wild beasts of some continent.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Neither his mother, nor I his father, who were his parents, could throw our arms about him and wrap him in his shroud, nor could his excellent and richly dowered wife Penelope bewail her husband as was natural upon his death bed, and close his eyes according to the offices due to the departed.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Or were you a passenger on some other man 's ship, and those who brought you here have gone on their way and left you?" "I will tell you everything," answered Ulysses," quite truly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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My own name is Eperitus; heaven drove me off my course as I was leaving Sicania, and I have been carried here against my will.


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As for my ship it is lying over yonder, off the open country outside the town, and this is the fifth year since Ulysses left my country.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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The birds all flew on our right hands, and both he and I rejoiced to see them as we parted, for we had every hope that we should have another friendly meeting and exchange presents.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He filled both hands with the dust from off the ground and poured it over his grey head, groaning heavily as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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The heart of Ulysses was touched, and his nostrils quivered as he looked upon his father; then he sprang towards him, flung his arms about him and kissed him, saying," I am he, father, about whom you are asking— I have returned after having been away for twenty years.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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But cease your sighing and lamentation— we have no time to lose, for I should tell you that I have been killing the suitors in my house, to punish them for their insolence and crimes.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" "If you really are my son Ulysses," replied Laertes," and have come back again, you must give me such manifest proof of your identity as shall convince me.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" "First observe this scar," answered Ulysses," which I got from a boar 's tusk when I was hunting on Mt. Parnassus.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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You and my mother had sent me to Autolycus, my mother 's father, to receive the presents which when he was over here he had promised to give me.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Furthermore I will point out to you the trees in the vineyard which you gave me, and I asked you all about them as I followed you round the garden.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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You gave me thirteen pear trees, ten apple trees, and forty fig trees; you also said you would give me fifty rows of vines; there was corn planted between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the heat of heaven has been laid heavy upon them.


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He threw his arms about him, and Ulysses had to support him, or he would have gone off into a swoon; but as soon as he came to, and was beginning to recover his senses, he said," O father Jove, then you gods are still in Olympus after all, if the suitors have really been punished for their insolence and folly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Nevertheless, I am much afraid that I shall have all the townspeople of Ithaca up here directly, and they will be sending messengers everywhere throughout the cities of the Cephallenians.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" Ulysses answered," Take heart and do not trouble yourself about that, but let us go into the house hard by your garden.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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I have already told Telemachus, Philoetius, and Eumaeus to go on there and get dinner ready as soon as possible."


title: homer-odyssey_24
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When they got there they found Telemachus with the stockman and the swineherd cutting up meat and mixing wine with water.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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She put him on a good cloak, and Minerva came up to him and gave him a more imposing presence, making him taller and stouter than before.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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When he came back his son was surprised to see him looking so like an immortal, and said to him," My dear father, some one of the gods has been making you much taller and betterlooking.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" Laertes answered," Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I were the man I was when I ruled among the Cephallenians, and took Nericum, that strong fortress on the foreland.


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If I were still what I then was and had been in our house yesterday with my armour on, I should have been able to stand by you and help you against the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Thus did they converse; but the others, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, left off working, and took each his proper place on the benches and seats.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Then they began eating; by and by old Dolius and his sons left their work and came up, for their mother, the Sicel woman who looked after Laertes now that he was growing old, had been to fetch them.


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When they saw Ulysses and were certain it was he, they stood there lost in astonishment; but Ulysses scolded them good naturedly and said," Sit down to your dinner, old man, and never mind about your surprise; we have been wanting to begin for some time and have been waiting for you."


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Sir," said he, seizing his master 's hand and kissing it at the wrist," we have long been wishing you home: and now heaven has restored you to us after we had given up hoping.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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But tell me, does Penelope already know of your return, or shall we send some one to tell her?" "Old man," answered Ulysses," she knows already, so you need not trouble about that.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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"On this he took his seat, and the sons of Dolius gathered round Ulysses to give him greeting and embrace him one after the other; then they took their seats in due order near Dolius their father.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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While they were thus busy getting their dinner ready, Rumour went round the town, and noised abroad the terrible fate that had befallen the suitors; as soon, therefore, as the people heard of it they gathered from every quarter, groaning and hooting before the house of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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They took the dead away, buried every man his own, and put the bodies of those who came from elsewhere on board the fishing vessels, for the fishermen to take each of them to his own place.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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They then met angrily in the place of assembly, and when they were got together Eupeithes rose to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He was overwhelmed with grief for the death of his son Antinous, who had been the first man killed by Ulysses, so he said, weeping bitterly," My friends, this man has done the Achaeans great wrong.


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He took many of our best men away with him in his fleet, and he has lost both ships and men; now, moreover, on his return he has been killing all the foremost men among the Cephallenians.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Let us be up and doing before he can get away to Pylos or to Elis where the Epeans rule, or we shall be ashamed of ourselves for ever afterwards.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Every one was astonished at seeing them, but they stood in the middle of the assembly, and Medon said," Hear me, men of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
This god appeared, now in front of him encouraging him, and now going furiously about the court and attacking the suitors whereon they fell thick on one another.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" On this pale fear laid hold of them, and old Halitherses, son of Mastor, rose to speak, for he was the only man among them who knew both past and future; so he spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying, "Men of Ithaca, it is all your own fault that things have turned out as they have; you would not listen to me, nor yet to Mentor, when we bade you check the folly of your sons who were doing much wrong in the wantonness of their hearts— wasting the substance and dishonouring the wife of a chieftain who they thought would not return.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Do not go out against Ulysses, or you may find that you have been drawing down evil on your own heads.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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But the rest stayed where they were, for the speech of Halitherses displeased them, and they sided with Eupeithes; they therefore hurried off for their armour, and when they had armed themselves, they met together in front of the city, and Eupeithes led them on in their folly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He thought he was going to avenge the murder of his son, whereas in truth he was never to return, but was himself to perish in his attempt.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
Then Minerva said to Jove," Father, son of Saturn, king of kings, answer me this question— What do you propose to do?


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Now that Ulysses is revenged, let them swear to a solemn covenant, in virtue of which he shall continue to rule, while we cause the others to forgive and forget the massacre of their sons and brothers.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
" This was what Minerva was already eager to bring about, so down she darted from off the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Now when Laertes and the others had done dinner, Ulysses began by saying," Some of you go out and see if they are not getting close up to us."


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Standing on the threshold he could see them all quite near, and said to Ulysses," Here they are, let us put on our armour at once.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
" They put on their armour as fast as they could— that is to say Ulysses, his three men, and the six sons of Dolius.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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When they had all put on their armour, they opened the gate and sallied forth, Ulysses leading the way.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Ulysses was glad when he saw her, and said to his son Telemachus," Telemachus, now that you are about to fight in an engagement, which will show every man 's mettle, be sure not to disgrace your ancestors, who were eminent for their strength and courage all the world over.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" "You say truly, my dear father," answered Telemachus," and you shall see, if you will, that I am in no mind to disgrace your family.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
" On this Minerva came close up to him and said," Son of Arceisius—-best friend I have in the world— pray to the blueeyed damsel, and to Jove her father; then poise your spear and hurl it.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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" As she spoke she infused fresh vigour into him, and when he had prayed to her he poised his spear and hurled it.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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He hit Eupeithes ' helmet, and the spear went right through it, for the helmet stayed it not, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Meantime Ulysses and his son fell upon the front line of the foe and smote them with their swords and spears; indeed, they would have killed every one of them, and prevented them from ever getting home again, only Minerva raised her voice aloud, and made every one pause."


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Men of Ithaca," she cried," cease this dreadful war, and settle the matter at once without further bloodshed.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
" On this pale fear seized every one; they were so frightened that their arms dropped from their hands and fell upon the ground at the sound of the goddess ' voice, and they fled back to the city for their lives.


title: homer-odyssey_24
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Then the son of Saturn sent a thunderbolt of fire that fell just in front of Minerva, so she said to Ulysses," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, stop this warful strife, or Jove will be angry with you." Thus spoke Minerva, and Ulysses obeyed her gladly.


title: homer-odyssey_24
sentence:
Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
The grief of Achilles over Patroclus—The visit of Thetis to Vulcan and the armour that he made for Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too surely true."


title: homer-iliad_18
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Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart," why are the Achaeans again scouring the plain and flocking towards the ships?


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
Heaven grant the gods be not now bringing that sorrow upon me of which my mother Thetis spoke, saying that while I was yet alive the bravest of the Myrmidons should fall before the Trojans, and see the light of the sun no longer.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
I fear the brave son of Menoetius has fallen through his own daring and yet I bade him return to the ships as soon as he had driven back those that were bringing fire against them, and not join battle with Hector."


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
As he was thus pondering, the son of Nestor came up to him and told his sad tale, weeping bitterly the while."


title: homer-iliad_18
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Patroclus has fallen, and a fight is raging about his naked body— for Hector holds his armour." A dark cloud of grief fell upon Achilles as he listened.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He filled both hands with dust from off the ground, and poured it over his head, disfiguring his comely face, and letting the refuse settle over his shirt so fair and new.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
Then Achilles gave a loud cry and his mother heard him as she was sitting in the depths of the sea by the old man her father, whereon she screamed, and all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her.


title: homer-iliad_18
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There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and darkeyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous seanymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa.


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There were also Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia and Amatheia of the lovely locks, with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea.


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The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.


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I bore him fair and strong, hero among heroes, and he shot up as a sapling; I tended him as a plant in a goodly garden, and sent him with his ships to Ilius to fight the Trojans, but never shall I welcome him back to the house of Peleus.


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So long as he lives to look upon the light of the sun he is in heaviness, and though I go to him I can not help him.


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Nevertheless I will go, that I may see my dear son and learn what sorrow has befallen him though he is still holding aloof from battle.


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" She left the cave as she spoke, while the others followed weeping after, and the waves opened a path before them.


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When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came up out of the sea in a long line on to the sands, at the place where the ships of the Myrmidons were drawn up in close order round the tents of Achilles.


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His mother went up to him as he lay groaning; she laid her hand upon his head and spoke piteously, saying," My son, why are you thus weeping?


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Surely Jove has granted you the prayer you made him, when you lifted up your hands and besought him that the Achaeans might all of them be pent up at their ships, and rue it bitterly in that you were no longer with them.


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" Achilles groaned and answered," Mother, Olympian Jove has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfilment of my prayer, but what boots it to me, seeing that my dear comrade Patroclus has fallen— he whom I valued more than all others, and loved as dearly as my own life?


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I have lost him; aye, and Hector when he had killed him stripped the wondrous armour, so glorious to behold, which the gods gave to Peleus when they laid you in the couch of a mortal man.


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Would that you were still dwelling among the immortal seanymphs, and that Peleus had taken to himself some mortal bride.


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For now you shall have grief infinite by reason of the death of that son whom you can never welcome home— nay, I will not live nor go about among mankind unless Hector fall by my spear, and thus pay me for having slain Patroclus son of Menoetius.


title: homer-iliad_18
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" Thetis wept and answered," Then, my son, is your end near at hand— for your own death awaits you full soon after that of Hector." Then said Achilles in his great grief," I would die here and now, in that I could not save my comrade.


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Return to my own land I shall not, and I have brought no saving neither to Patroclus nor to my other comrades of whom so many have been slain by mighty Hector; I stay here by my ships a bootless burden upon the earth, I, who in fight have no peer among the Achaeans, though in council there are better than I. Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart— which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.


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And yet— so be it, for it is over; I will force my soul into subjection as I needs must; I will go; I will pursue Hector who has slain him whom I loved so dearly, and will then abide my doom when it may please Jove and the other gods to send it.


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Even Hercules, the best beloved of Jove— even he could not escape the hand of death, but fate and Juno 's fierce anger laid him low, as I too shall lie when I am dead if a like doom awaits me.


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Till then I will win fame, and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow; thus shall they know that he who has held aloof so long will hold aloof no longer.


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It is well to save your comrades from destruction, but your armour is in the hands of the Trojans; Hector bears it in triumph upon his own shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Full well I know that his vaunt shall not be lasting, for his end is close at hand ;go not, however, into the press of battle till you see me return hither; tomorrow at break of day I shall be here, and will bring you goodly armour from King Vulcan.


title: homer-iliad_18
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" On this she left her brave son, and as she turned away she said to the seanymphs her sisters," Dive into the bosom of the sea and go to the house of the old sea-


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Tell him everything; as for me, I will go to the cunning workman Vulcan on high Olympus, and ask him to provide my son with a suit of splendid armour.


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" When she had so said, they dived forthwith beneath the waves, while silverfooted Thetis went her way that she might bring the armour for her son.


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Thus, then, did her feet bear the goddess to Olympus, and meanwhile the Achaeans were flying with loud cries before murderous Hector till they reached the ships and the Hellespont, and they could not draw the body of Mars 's servant Patroclus out of reach of the weapons that were showered upon him, for Hector son of Priam with his host and horsemen had again caught up to him like the flame of a fiery furnace; thrice did brave Hector seize him by the feet, striving with might and main to draw him away and calling loudly on the Trojans, and thrice did the two Ajaxes, clothed in valour as with a garment, beat him from off the body; but all undaunted he would now charge into the thick of the fight, and now again he would stand still and cry aloud, but he would give no ground.


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As upland shepherds that can not chase some famished lion from a carcase, even so could not the two Ajaxes scare Hector son of Priam from the body of Patroclus.


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And now he would even have dragged it off and have won imperishable glory, had not Iris fleet as the wind, winged her way as messenger from Olympus to the son of Peleus and bidden him arm.


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She came secretly without the knowledge of Jove and of the other gods, for Juno sent her, and when she had got close to him she said," Up, son of Peleus, mightiest of all mankind; rescue Patroclus about whom this fearful fight is now raging by the ships.


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Men are killing one another, the Danaans in defence of the dead body, while the Trojans are trying to hale it away, and take it to windy Ilius: Hector is the most furious of them all; he is for cutting the head from the body and fixing it on the stakes of the wall.


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Up, then, and bide here no longer; shrink from the thought that Patroclus may become meat for the dogs of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_18
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" And Achilles said," Iris, which of the gods was it that sent you to me?" Iris answered," It was Juno the royal spouse of Jove, but the son of Saturn does not know of my coming, nor yet does any other of the immortals who dwell on the snowy summits of Olympus."


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My mother forbade me to arm till I should see her come, for she promised to bring me goodly armour from Vulcan; I know no man whose arms I can put on, save only the shield of Ajax son of Telamon, and he surely must be fighting in the front rank and wielding his spear about the body of dead Patroclus." Iris said," We know that your armour has been taken, but go as you are; go to the deep trench and show yourself before the Trojans, that they may fear you and cease fighting.


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Thus will the fainting sons of the Achaeans gain some brief breathingtime, which in battle may hardly be.


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But Achilles dear to Jove arose, and Minerva flung her tasselled aegis round his strong shoulders; she crowned his head with a halo of golden cloud from which she kindled a glow of gleaming fire.


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As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea— all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beaconfires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them— even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench, going beyond the wall— but he did not join the Achaeans for he heeded the charge which his mother laid upon him.


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Ringing as the note of a trumpet that sounds alarm then the foe is at the gates of a city, even so brazen was the voice of the son of Aeacus, and when the Trojans heard its clarion tones they were dismayed; the horses turned back with their chariots for they boded mischief, and their drivers were awestruck by the steady flame which the greyeyed goddess had kindled above the head of the great son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Thrice did Achilles raise his loud cry as he stood by the trench, and thrice were the Trojans and their brave allies thrown into confusion; whereon twelve of their noblest champions fell beneath the wheels of their chariots and perished by their own spears.


title: homer-iliad_18
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The Achaeans to their great joy then drew Patroclus out of reach of the weapons, and laid him on a litter: his comrades stood mourning round him, and among them fleet Achilles who wept bitterly as he saw his true comrade lying dead upon his bier.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then Juno sent the busy sun, loth though he was, into the waters of Oceanus; so he set, and the Achaeans had rest from the tug and turmoil of war.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Now the Trojans when they had come out of the fight, unyoked their horses and gathered in assembly before preparing their supper.


title: homer-iliad_18
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They kept their feet, nor would any dare to sit down, for fear had fallen upon them all because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from battle.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Polydamas son of Panthous was first to speak, a man of judgement, who alone among them could look both before and after.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He was comrade to Hector, and they had been born upon the same night; with all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:— "Look to it well, my friends; I would urge you to go back now to your city and not wait here by the ships till morning, for we are far from our walls.


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So long as this man was at enmity with Agamemnon the Achaeans were easier to deal with, and I would have gladly camped by the ships in the hope of taking them; but now I go in great fear of the fleet son of Peleus; he is so daring that he will never bide here on the plain whereon the Trojans and Achaeans fight with equal valour, but he will try to storm our city and carry off our women.


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The darkness of night will for a time stay the son of Peleus, but if he find us here in the morning when he sallies forth in full armour, we shall have knowledge of him in good earnest.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Glad indeed will he be who can escape and get back to Ilius, and many a Trojan will become meat for dogs and vultures


title: homer-iliad_18
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If we do as I say, little though we may like it, we shall have strength in counsel during the night, and the great gates with the doors that close them will protect the city.


title: homer-iliad_18
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At dawn we can arm and take our stand on the walls; he will then rue it if he sallies from the ships to fight us.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He will go back when he has given his horses their fill of being driven all whithers under our walls, and will be in no mind to try and force his way into the city.


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ere he do so." Hector looked fiercely at him and answered," Polydamas, your words are not to my liking in that you bid us go back and be pent within the city.


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In the olddays the city of Priam was famous the whole world over for its wealth of gold and bronze, but our treasures are wasted out of our houses, and much goods have been sold away to Phrygia and fair Meonia, for the hand of Jove has been laid heavily upon us.


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Now, therefore, that the son of scheming Saturn has vouchsafed me to win glory here and to hem the Achaeans in at their ships, prate no more in this fool 's wise among the people.


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You will have no man with you; it shall not be; do all of you as I now say;—take your suppers in your companies throughout the host, and keep your watches and be wakeful every man of you.


title: homer-iliad_18
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If any Trojan is uneasy about his possessions, let him gather them and give them out among the people.


title: homer-iliad_18
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At daybreak we will arm and fight about the ships; granted that Achilles has again come forward to defend them, let it be as he will, but it shall go hard with him.


title: homer-iliad_18
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" Thus spoke Hector; and the Trojans, fools that they were, shouted in applause, for Pallas Minerva had robbed them of their understanding.


title: homer-iliad_18
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They took their supper throughout the host, and meanwhile through the whole night the Achaeans mourned Patroclus, and the son of Peleus led them in their lament.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He laid his murderous hands upon the breast of his comrade, groaning again and again as a bearded lion when a man who was chasing deer has robbed him of his young in some dense forest; when the lion comes back he is furious, and searches dingle and dell to track the hunter if he can find him, for he is mad with rage— even so with many a sigh did Achilles speak among the Myrmidons saying," Alas!


title: homer-iliad_18
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vain were the words with which I cheered the hero Menoetius in his own house; I said that I would bring his brave son back again to Opoeis after he had sacked Ilius and taken his share of the spoils— but Jove does not give all men their heart 's desire.


title: homer-iliad_18
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The same soil shall be reddened here at Troy by the blood of us both, for I too shall never be welcomed home by the old knight Peleus, nor by my mother Thetis, but even in this place shall the earth cover me.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Nevertheless, O Patroclus, now that I am left behind you, I will not bury you, till I have brought hither the head and armour of mighty Hector who has slain you.


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Twelve noble sons of Trojans will I behead before your bier to avenge you; till I have done so you shall lie as you are by the ships, and fair women of Troy and Dardanus, whom we have taken with spear and strength of arm when we sacked men 's goodly cities, shall weep over you both night and day."


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then Achilles told his men to set a large tripod upon the fire that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Thereon they set a tripod full of bath water on to a clear fire: they threw sticks on to it to make it blaze, and the water became hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod.


title: homer-iliad_18
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When the water in the cauldron was boiling they washed the body, anointed it with oil, and closed its wounds with ointment that had been kept nine years.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then they laid it on a bier and covered it with a linen cloth from head to foot, and over this they laid a fair white robe.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then Jove said to Juno his sisterwife," So, Queen Juno, you have gained your end, and have roused fleet Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_18
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May not a man though he be only mortal and knows less than we do, do what he can for another person?


title: homer-iliad_18
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And shall not I— foremost of all goddesses both by descent and as wife to you who reign in heaven— devise evil for the Trojans if I am angry with them?"


title: homer-iliad_18
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Meanwhile Thetis came to the house of Vulcan, imperishable, starbespangled, fairest of the abodes in heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god 's own hands.


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She found him busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work, for he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by the wall of his house, and he set wheels of gold under them all that they might go of their own selves to the assemblies of the gods, and come back again— marvels indeed to see.


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They were finished all but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was hammering at the rivets.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Charis, of graceful headdress, wife to the farfamed lame god, came towards her as soon as she saw her, and took her hand in her own, saying," Why have you come to our house, Thetis, honoured and ever welcome— for you do not visit us often?


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" The goddess led the way as she spoke, and bade Thetis sit on a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver; there was a footstool also under her feet.


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Then she called Vulcan and said," Vulcan, come here, Thetis wants you"; and the farfamed lame god answered," Then it is indeed an august and honoured goddess who has come here; she it was that took care of me when I was suffering from the heavy fall which I had through my cruel mother 's anger— for she would have got rid of me because I was lame.


title: homer-iliad_18
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It would have gone hardly with me had not Eurynome, daughter of the everencircling waters of Oceanus, and Thetis, taken me to their bosom.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Nine years did I stay with them, and many beautiful works in bronze, brooches, spiral armlets, cups, and chains, did I make for them in their cave, with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed ever past it; and no one knew, neither of gods nor men, save only Thetis and Eurynome who took care of me.


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If, then, Thetis has come to my house I must make her due requital for having saved me; entertain her, therefore, with all hospitality, while I put by my bellows and all my tools.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then he took a sponge and washed his face and hands, his shaggy chest and brawny neck; he donned his shirt, grasped his strong staff, and limped towards the door.


title: homer-iliad_18
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There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason, voice also and strength, and all the learning of the immortals; these busied themselves as the king bade them, while he drew near to Thetis, seated her upon a goodly seat, and took her hand in his own, saying," Why have you come to our house, Thetis honoured and ever welcome— for you do not visit us often?


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Say what you want, and I will do it for you at once if I can, and if it can be done at all." Thetis wept and answered," Vulcan, is there another goddess in Olympus whom the son of Saturn has been pleased to try with so much affliction as he has me?


title: homer-iliad_18
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Me alone of the marine goddesses did he make subject to a mortal husband, Peleus son of Aeacus, and sorely against my will did I submit to the embraces of one who was but mortal, and who now stays at home worn out with age.


title: homer-iliad_18
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I tended him as a plant in a goodly garden and sent him with his ships to Ilius to fight the Trojans, but never shall I welcome him back to the house of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_18
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So long as he lives to look upon the light of the sun, he is in heaviness, and though I go to him I can not help him; King Agamemnon has made him give up the maiden whom the sons of the Achaeans had awarded him, and he wastes with sorrow for her sake.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then the Trojans hemmed the Achaeans in at their ships ' sterns and would not let them come forth; the elders, therefore, of the Argives besought Achilles and offered him great treasure, whereon he refused to bring deliverance to them himself, but put his own armour on Patroclus and sent him into the fight with much people after him.


title: homer-iliad_18
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All day long they fought by the Scaean gates and would have taken the city there and then, had not Apollo vouchsafed glory to Hector and slain the valiant son of Menoetius after he had done the Trojans much evil.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Therefore I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may be pleased to provide my son, whose end is near at hand, with helmet and shield, with goodly greaves fitted with ancleclasps, and with a breastplate, for he lost his own when his true comrade fell at the hands of the Trojans, and he now lies stretched on earth in the bitterness of his soul."


title: homer-iliad_18
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And Vulcan answered," Take heart, and be no more disquieted about this matter; would that I could hide him from death 's sight when his hour is come, so surely as I can find him armour that shall amaze the eyes of all who behold it.


title: homer-iliad_18
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" When he had so said he left her and went to his bellows, turning them towards the fire and bidding them do their office.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Twenty bellows blew upon the meltingpots, and they blew blasts of every kind, some fierce to help him when he had need of them, and others less strong as Vulcan willed it in the course of his work.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He threw tough copper into the fire, and tin, with silver and gold; he set his great anvil on its block, and with one hand grasped his mighty hammer while he took the tongs in the other.


title: homer-iliad_18
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First he shaped the shield so great and strong, adorning it all over and binding it round with a gleaming circuit in three layers; and the baldric was made of silver.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He wrought the earth, the heavens, and the sea; the moon also at her full and the untiring sun, with all the signs that glorify the face of heaven— the Pleiads, the Hyads, huge Orion, and the Bear, which men also call the Wain and which turns round ever in one place, facing Orion, and alone never dips into the stream of Oceanus.


title: homer-iliad_18
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In the one were weddings and weddingfeasts, and they were going about the city with brides whom they were escorting by torchlight from their chambers.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Loud rose the cry of Hymen, and the youths danced to the music of flute and lyre, while the women stood each at her house door to see them.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Meanwhile the people were gathered in assembly, for there was a quarrel, and two men were wrangling about the bloodmoney for a man who had been killed, the one saying before the people that he had paid damages in full, and the other that he had not been paid.


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Each was trying to make his own case good, and the people took sides, each man backing the side that he had taken; but the heralds kept them back, and the elders sate on their seats of stone in a solemn circle, holding the staves which the heralds had put into their hands.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Then they rose and each in his turn gave judgement, and there were two talents laid down, to be given to him whose judgement should be deemed the fairest.


title: homer-iliad_18
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About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour, and they were divided whether to sack it, or to spare it and accept the half of what it contained.


title: homer-iliad_18
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But the men of the city would not yet consent, and armed themselves for a surprise; their wives and little children kept guard upon the walls, and with them were the men who were past fighting through age; but the others sallied forth with Mars and Pallas Minerva at their head— both of them wrought in gold and clad in golden raiment, great and fair with their armour as befitting gods, while they that followed were smaller.


title: homer-iliad_18
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When they reached the place where they would lay their ambush, it was on a riverbed to which live stock of all kinds would come from far and near to water; here, then, they lay concealed, clad in full armour.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Some way off them there were two scouts who were on the lookout for the coming of sheep or cattle, which presently came, followed by two shepherds who were playing on their pipes, and had not so much as a thought of danger.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Meanwhile the besiegers, when they heard much noise among the cattle as they sat in council, sprang to their horses, and made with all speed towards them; when they reached them they set battle in array by the banks of the river, and the hosts aimed their bronzeshod spears at one another.


title: homer-iliad_18
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With them were Strife and Riot, and fell Fate who was dragging three men after her, one with a fresh wound, and the other unwounded, while the third was dead, and she was dragging him along by his heel: and her robe was bedrabbled in men 's blood.


title: homer-iliad_18
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They went in and out with one another and fought as though they were living people haling away one another 's dead.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Each time that they turned on reaching the headland a man would come up to them and give them a cup of wine, and they would go back to their furrows looking forward to the time when they should again reach the headland.


title: homer-iliad_18
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The part that they had ploughed was dark behind them, so that the field, though it was of gold, still looked as if it were being ploughed— very curious to behold.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He wrought also a field of harvest corn, and the reapers were reaping with sharp sickles in their hands.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.


title: homer-iliad_18
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There were three binders, and behind them there were boys who gathered the cut corn in armfuls and kept on bringing them to be bound: among them all the owner of the land stood by in silence and was glad.


title: homer-iliad_18
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The servants were getting a meal ready under an oak, for they had sacrificed a great ox, and were busy cutting him up, while the women were making a porridge of much white barley for the labourers ' dinner.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He ran a ditch of dark metal all round it, and fenced it with a fence of tin; there was only one path to it, and by this the vintagers went when they would gather the vintage.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Youths and maidens all blithe and full of glee, carried the luscious fruit in plaited baskets; and with them there went a boy who made sweet music with his lyre, and sang the Linossong with his clear boyish voice.


title: homer-iliad_18
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He made the cows of gold and tin, and they lowed as they came full speed out of the yards to go and feed among the waving reeds that grow by the banks of the river.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Along with the cattle there went four shepherds, all of them in gold, and their nine fleet dogs went with them.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Two terrible lions had fastened on a bellowing bull that was with the foremost cows, and bellow as he might they haled him, while the dogs and men gave chase: the lions tore through the bull 's thick hide and were gorging on his blood and bowels, but the herdsmen were afraid to do anything, and only hounded on their dogs; the dogs dared not fasten on the lions but stood by barking and keeping out of harm 's way.


title: homer-iliad_18
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The god wrought also a pasture in a fair mountain dell, and a large flock of sheep, with a homestead and huts, and sheltered sheepfolds.


title: homer-iliad_18
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Hereon there danced youths and maidens whom all would woo, with their hands on one another 's wrists.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
The girls were crowned with garlands, while the young men had daggers of gold that hung by silver baldrics; sometimes they would dance deftly in a ring with merry twinkling feet, as it were a potter sitting at his work and making trial of his wheel to see whether it will run, and sometimes they would go all in line with one another, and much people was gathered joyously about the green.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
Then when he had fashioned the shield so great and strong, he made a breastplate also that shone brighter than fire.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
He made a helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it; and he made greaves also of beaten tin.


title: homer-iliad_18
sentence:
Lastly, when the famed lame god had made all the armour, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles; whereon she darted like a falcon from the snowy summits of Olympus and bore away the gleaming armour from the house of Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
THE FIGHT WITH IRUS—ULYSSES WARNS AMPHINOMUS—PENELOPE GETS PRESENTS FROM THE SUITORS—THE BRAZIERS—ULYSSES REBUKES EURYMACHUS.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.


title: homer-odyssey_18
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This man had no strength nor stay in him, but he was a great hulking fellow to look at; his real name, the one his mother gave him, was Arnaeus, but the young men of the place called him Irus because he used to run errands for any one who would send him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Do you not see that they are all giving me the wink, and wanting me to turn you out by force ,only I do not like to do so?


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Ulysses frowned on him and said," My friend, I do you no manner of harm; people give you a great deal, but I am not jealous.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
There is room enough in this doorway for the pair of us, and you need not grudge me things that are not yours to give.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
You seem to be just such another tramp as myself, but perhaps the gods will give us better luck by and by.


title: homer-odyssey_18
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Do not, however, talk too much about fighting or you will incense me, and old though I am, I shall cover your mouth and chest with blood.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I have a good mind to lay both hands about you, and knock your teeth out of your head like so many boar 's tusks.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Thus roundly did they rate one another on the smooth pavement in front of the doorway and when Antinous saw what was going on he laughed heartily and said to the others," This is the finest sport that you ever saw; heaven never yet sent anything like it into this house.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Listen to me," said Antinous," there are some goats ' paunches down at the fire, which we have filled with blood and fat, and set aside for supper; he who is victorious and proves himself to be the better man shall have his pick of the lot; he shall be free of our table and we will not allow any other beggar about the house at all."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The others all agreed, but Ulysses, to throw them off the scent, said," Sirs, an old man like myself, worn out with suffering, can not hold his own against a young one; but my irrepressible belly urges me on, though I know it can only end in my getting a drubbing.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
You must swear, however that none of you will give me a foul blow to favour Irus and secure him the victory.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" They swore as he told them, and when they had completed their oath Telemachus put in a word and said," Stranger, if you have a mind to settle with this fellow, you need not be afraid of any one here.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I am host, and the other chiefs, Antinous and Eurymachus, both of them men of understanding, are of the same mind as I am."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Every one assented, and Ulysses girded his old rags about his loins, thus baring his stalwart thighs, his broad chest and shoulders, and his mighty arms; but Minerva came up to him and made his limbs even stronger still.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The suitors were beyond measure astonished, and one would turn towards his neighbour saying," The stranger has brought such a thigh out of his old rags that there will soon be nothing left of Irus."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Irus began to be very uneasy as he heard them, but the servants girded him by force, and brought him[ into the open part of the court] in such a fright that his limbs were all of a tremble.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Antinous scolded him and said," You swaggering bully, you ought never to have been born at all if you are afraid of such an old broken down creature as this tramp is.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I say, therefore— and it shall surely be— if he beats you and proves himself the better man, I shall pack you off on board ship to the mainland and send you to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" This frightened Irus still more, but they brought him into the middle of the court, and the two men raised their hands to fight.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Then Ulysses considered whether he should let drive so hard at him as to make an end of him then and there, or whether he should give him a lighter blow that should only knock him down; in the end he deemed it best to give the lighter blow for fear the Achaeans should begin to suspect who he was.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Then they began to fight, and Irus hit Ulysses on the right shoulder; but Ulysses gave Irus a blow on the neck under the ear that broke in the bones of his skull, and the blood came gushing out of his mouth; he fell groaning in the dust, gnashing his teeth and kicking on the ground, but the suitors threw up their hands and nearly died of laughter, as Ulysses caught hold of him by the foot and dragged him into the outer court as far as the gatehouse.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Sit here," said he," and keep the dogs and pigs off; you are a pitiful creature, and if you try to make yourself king of the beggars any more you shall fare still worse.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Then he threw his dirty old wallet, all tattered and torn over his shoulder with the cord by which it hung, and went back to sit down upon the threshold; but the suitors went within the cloisters, laughing and saluting him," May Jove, and all the other gods," said they," grant you whatever you want for having put an end to the importunity of this insatiable tramp.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
We will take him over to the mainland presently, to king Echetus, who kills every one that comes near him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Ulysses hailed this as of good omen, and Antinous set a great goat 's paunch before him filled with blood and fat.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Amphinomus took two loaves out of the breadbasket and brought them to him, pledging him as he did so in a golden goblet of wine. "


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Good luck to you," he said," father stranger, you are very badly off at present, but I hope you will have better times by and by.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" To this Ulysses answered," Amphinomus, you seem to be a man of good understanding, as indeed you may well be, seeing whose son you are.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I know all about it, for I was a rich man once, and did much wrong in the stubbornness of my pride, and in the confidence that my father and my brothers would support me; therefore let a man fear God in all things always, and take the good that heaven may see fit to send him without vain glory.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Consider the infamy of what these suitors are doing; see how they are wasting the estate, and doing dishonour to the wife, of one who is certain to return some day, and that, too, not long hence.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Nay, he will be here soon; may heaven send you home quietly first that you may not meet with him in the day of his coming, for once he is here the suitors and he will not part bloodlessly.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" With these words he made a drinkoffering, and when he had drunk he put the gold cup again into the hands of Amphinomus, who walked away serious and bowing his head, for he foreboded evil.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
But even so he did not escape destruction, for Minerva had doomed him to fall by the hand of Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Then Minerva put it into the mind of Penelope to show herself to the suitors, that she might make them still more enamoured of her, and win still further honour from her son and husband.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
So she feigned a mocking laugh and said," Eurynome, I have changed my mind, and have a fancy to show myself to the suitors although I detest them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
"My dear child," answered Eurynome," all that you have said is true, go and tell your son about it, but first wash yourself and anoint your face.


title: homer-odyssey_18
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Do not go about with your cheeks all covered with tears; it is not right that you should grieve so incessantly; for Telemachus, whom you always prayed that you might live to see with a beard, is already grown up." "I know, Eurynome," replied Penelope," that you mean well, but do not try and persuade me to wash and to anoint myself, for heaven robbed me of all my beauty on the day my husband sailed; nevertheless, tell Autonoe and Hippodamia that I want them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
They must be with me when I am in the cloister; I am not going among the men alone; it would not be proper for me to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
In the meantime Minerva bethought her of another matter, and sent Penelope off into a sweet slumber; so she lay down on her couch and her limbs became heavy with sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
She washed her face with the ambrosial loveliness that Venus wears when she goes dancing with the Graces; she made her taller and of a more commanding figure, while as for her complexion it was whiter than sawn ivory.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
When Minerva had done all this she went away, whereon the maids came in from the women 's room and woke Penelope with the sound of their talking.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
"What an exquisitely delicious sleep I have been having," said she, as she passed her hands over her face," in spite of all my misery.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I wish Diana would let me die so sweetly now at this very moment, that I might no longer waste in despair for the loss of my dear husband, who possessed every kind of good quality and was the most distinguished man among the Achaeans.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" With these words she came down from her upper room, not alone but attended by two of her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearingposts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a staid maid servant on either side of her.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
As they beheld her the suitors were so overpowered and became so desperately enamoured of her, that each one prayed he might win her for his own bed fellow.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
"Telemachus," said she, addressing her son," I fear you are no longer so discreet and well conducted as you used to be.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
When you were younger you had a greater sense of propriety; now, however, that you are grown up, though a stranger to look at you would take you for the son of a well to do father as far as size and good looks go ,your conduct is by no means what it should be.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
What is all this disturbance that has been going on, and how came you to allow a stranger to be so disgracefully illtreated?


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" "I am not surprised, my dear mother, at your displeasure," replied Telemachus," I understand all about it and know when things are not as they should be, which I could not do when I was younger; I can not, however, behave with perfect propriety at all times.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
First one and then another of these wicked people here keeps driving me out of my mind, and I have no one to stand by me.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
After all, however, this fight between Irus and the stranger did not turn out as the suitors meant it to do, for the stranger got the best of it.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers of yours, some inside the house and some out; and I wish they might all be as limp as Irus is over yonder in the gate of the outer court.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
See how he nods his head like a drunken man; he has had such a thrashing that he can not stand on his feet nor get back to his home, wherever that may be, for he has no strength left in him.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Eurymachus then came up and said," Queen Penelope, daughter of Icarius, if all the Achaeans in Iasian Argos could see you at this moment, you would have still more suitors in your house by tomorrow morning, for you are the most admirable woman in the whole world both as regards personal beauty and strength of understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" To this Penelope replied," Eurymachus, heaven robbed me of all my beauty whether of face or figure when the Argives set sail for Troy and my dear husband with them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
If he were to return and look after my affairs, I should both be more respected and show a better presence to the world.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
My husband foresaw it all, and when he was leaving home he took my right wrist in his hand—'Wife,' he said,' we shall not all of us come safe home from Troy, for the Trojans fight well both with bow and spear.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
They are excellent also at fighting from chariots, and nothing decides the issue of a fight sooner than this.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I know not, therefore, whether heaven will send me back to you, or whether I may not fall over there at Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Take care of my father and mother as at present, and even more so during my absence, but when you see our son growing a beard, then marry whom you will, and leave this your present home.'


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Jove has taken from me all hope of happiness.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
When men are courting a woman who they think will be a good wife to them and who is of noble birth, and when they are each trying to win her for himself, they usually bring oxen and sheep to feast the friends of the lady, and they make her magnificent presents, instead of eating up other people 's property without paying for it.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" This was what she said, and Ulysses was glad when he heard her trying to get presents out of the suitors, and flattering them with fair words which he knew she did not mean.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Then Antinous said," Queen Penelope, daughter of Icarius, take as many presents as you please from any one who will give them to you; it is not well to refuse a present; but we will not go about our business nor stir from where we are, till you have married the best man among us whoever he may be."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Eurymachus immediately brought her a magnificent chain of gold and amber beads that gleamed like sunlight.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Eurydamas 's two men returned with some earrings fashioned into three brilliant pendants which glistened most beautifully; while king Pisander son of Polyctor gave her a necklace of the rarest workmanship, and every one else brought her a beautiful present of some kind.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
They danced and sang till it grew dark; they then brought in three braziers to give light, and piled them up with chopped firewood very old and dry, and they lit torches from them, which the maids held up turn and turn about.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Then Ulysses said: "Maids, servants of Ulysses who has so long been absent, go to the queen inside the house; sit with her and amuse her, or spin, and pick wool.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The maids looked at one another and laughed, while pretty Melantho began to gibe at him contemptuously.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
She was daughter to Dolius, but had been brought up by Penelope, who used to give her toys to play with, and looked after her when she was a child; but in spite of all this she showed no consideration for the sorrows of her mistress, and used to misconduct herself with Eurymachus, with whom she was in love.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
You seem to have lost your wits because you beat the tramp Irus; take care that a better man than he does not come and cudgel you about the head till he pack you bleeding out of the house." "Vixen," replied Ulysses, scowling at her," I will go and tell Telemachus what you have been saying, and he will have you torn limb from limb."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
But Ulysses took his stand near the burning braziers, holding up torches and looking at the people— brooding the while on things that should surely come to pass.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
It is not for nothing that this man has come to the house of Ulysses; I believe the light has not been coming from the torches, but from his own head— for his hair is all gone, every bit of it.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Then turning to Ulysses he said," Stranger, will you work as a servant, if I send you to the wolds and see that you are well paid?


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Not you; for you have got into bad ways, and do not want to work; you had rather fill your belly by going round the country begging.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" "Eurymachus," answered Ulysses," if you and I were to work one against the other in early summer when the days are at their longest— give me a good scythe, and take another yourself, and let us see which will last the longer or mow the stronger, from dawn till dark when the mowing grass is about.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
Or if you will plough against me, let us each take a yoke of tawny oxen, wellmated and of great strength and endurance :turn me into a four acre field, and see whether you or I can drive the straighter furrow.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
If, again, war were to break out this day, give me a shield, a couple of spears and a helmet fitting well upon my temples— you would find me foremost in the fray, and would cease your gibes about my belly.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
You are insolent and cruel, and think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
If Ulysses comes to his own again, the doors of his house are wide, but you will find them narrow when you try to fly through them.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
He scowled at him and cried," You wretch, I will soon pay you out for daring to say such things to me, and in public too.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
With this he caught hold of a footstool, but Ulysses sought protection at the knees of Amphinomus of Dulichium, for he was afraid.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The stool hit the cupbearer on his right hand and knocked him down: the man fell with a cry flat on his back, and his winejug fell ringing to the ground.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The suitors in the covered cloister were now in an uproar, and one would turn towards his neighbour, saying," I wish the stranger had gone somewhere else, bad luck to him, for all the trouble he gives us.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
We can not permit such disturbance about a beggar; if such ill counsels are to prevail we shall have no more pleasure at our banquet.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
I do not wish to drive any of you away, but you have had your suppers, and the sooner you all go home to bed the better."


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
The suitors bit their lips and marvelled at the boldness of his speech; but Amphinomus the son of Nisus, who was son to Aretias, said," Do not let us take offence; it is reasonable, so let us make no answer.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
As for the stranger, let us leave Telemachus to deal with him, for it is to his house that he has come.


title: homer-odyssey_18
sentence:
" Thus did he speak, and his saying pleased them well, so Mulius of Dulichium, servant to Amphinomus, mixed them a bowl of wine and water and handed it round to each of them man by man, whereon they made their drinkofferings to the blessed gods: Then, when they had made their drinkofferings and had drunk each one as he was minded, they took their several ways each of them to his own abode.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
There they made ready their supper, and then bethought them of the blessed boon of sleep; but Achilles still wept for thinking of his dear comrade, and sleep, before whom all things bow, could take no hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
This way and that did he turn as he yearned after the might and manfulness of Patroclus; he thought of all they had done together, and all they had gone through both on the field of battle and on the waves of the weary sea.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
As he dwelt on these things he wept bitterly and lay now on his side, now on his back, and now face downwards, till at last he rose and went out as one distraught to wander upon the seashore.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Then, when he saw dawn breaking over beach and sea, he yoked his horses to his chariot, and bound the body of Hector behind it that he might drag it about.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Thrice did he drag it round the tomb of the son of Menoetius, and then went back into his tent, leaving the body on the ground full length and with its face downwards.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
But Apollo would not suffer it to be disfigured, for he pitied the man, dead though he now was; therefore he shielded him with his golden aegis continually, that he might take no hurt while Achilles was dragging him.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Thus shamefully did Achilles in his fury dishonour Hector; but the blessed gods looked down in pity from heaven, and urged Mercury, slayer of Argus, to steal the body.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
All were of this mind save only Juno, Neptune, and Jove 's greyeyed daughter, who persisted in the hate which they had ever borne towards Ilius with Priam and his people; for they forgave not the wrong done them by Alexandrus in disdaining the goddesses who came to him when he was in his sheepyards, and preferring her who had offered him a wanton to his ruin.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
When, therefore, the morning of the twelfth day had now come, Phoebus Apollo spoke among the immortals saying," You gods ought to be ashamed of yourselves; you are cruel and hardhearted.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
And now dare you not rescue even his dead body, for his wife to look upon, with his mother and child, his father Priam, and his people, who would forthwith commit him to the flames, and give him his due funeral rites?


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
He is like some savage lion that in the pride of his great strength and daring springs upon men 's flocks and gorges on them.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Even so has Achilles flung aside all pity, and all that conscience which at once so greatly banes yet greatly boons him that will heed it.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
A man may lose one far dearer than Achilles has lost— a son, it may be, or a brother born from his own mother 's womb; yet when he has mourned him and wept over him he will let him bide, for it takes much sorrow to kill a man; whereas Achilles, now that he has slain noble Hector, drags him behind his chariot round the tomb of his comrade.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
It were better of him, and for him, that he should not do so, for brave though he be we gods may take it ill that he should vent his fury upon dead clay.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
This were well," she cried," O lord of the silver bow, if you would give like honour to Hector and to Achilles; but Hector was mortal and suckled at a woman 's breast, whereas Achilles is the offspring of a goddess whom I myself reared and brought up.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
I married her to Peleus, who is above measure dear to the immortals; you gods came all of you to her wedding; you feasted along with them yourself and brought your lyre— false, and fond of low company, that you have ever been." Then said Jove," Juno, be not so bitter.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Their honour shall not be equal, but of all that dwell in Ilius, Hector was dearest to the gods, as also to myself, for his offerings never failed me.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Never was my altar stinted of its dues, nor of the drinkofferings and savour of sacrifice which we claim of right.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
I shall therefore permit the body of mighty Hector to be stolen; and yet this may hardly be without Achilles coming to know it, for his mother keeps night and day beside him.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Let some one of you, therefore, send Thetis to me, and I will impart my counsel to her, namely that Achilles is to accept a ransom from Priam, and give up the body."


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Down she plunged into the dark sea midway between Samos and rocky Imbrus; the waters hissed as they closed over her, and she sank into the bottom as the lead at the end of an oxhorn, that is sped to carry death to fishes.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
She found Thetis sitting in a great cave with the other seagoddesses gathered round her; there she sat in the midst of them weeping for her noble son who was to fall far from his own land, on the rich plains of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
" The goddess took her dark veil, than which there can be no robe more sombre, and went forth with fleet Iris leading the way before her.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
The waves of the sea opened them a path, and when they reached the shore they flew up into the heavens, where they found the allseeing son of Saturn with the blessed gods that live for ever assembled near him.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Juno then placed a fair golden cup in her hand, and spoke to her in words of comfort, whereon Thetis drank and gave her back the cup; and the sire of gods and men was the first to speak.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
"So, goddess," said he," for all your sorrow, and the grief that I well know reigns ever in your heart, you have come hither to Olympus, and I will tell you why I have sent for you.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
This nine days past the immortals have been quarrelling about Achilles waster of cities and the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
The gods would have Mercury slayer of Argus steal the body, but in furtherance of our peace and amity henceforward, I will concede such honour to your son as I will now tell you.


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Go, then, to the host and lay these commands upon him; say that the gods are angry with him, and that I am myself more angry than them all, in that he keeps Hector at the ships and will not give him up.


title: homer-iliad_24
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At the same time I will send Iris to great Priam to bid him go to the ships of the Achaeans, and ransom his son, taking with him such gifts for Achilles as may give him satisfaction.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" Silverfooted Thetis did as the god had told her, and forthwith down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.


title: homer-iliad_24
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She went to her son 's tents where she found him grieving bitterly, while his trusty comrades round him were busy preparing their morning meal, for which they had killed a great woolly sheep.


title: homer-iliad_24
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His mother sat down beside him and caressed him with her hand saying," My son, how long will you keep on thus grieving and making moan?


title: homer-iliad_24
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You are gnawing at your own heart, and think neither of food nor of woman 's embraces; and yet these too were well, for you have no long time to live, and death with the strong hand of fate are already close beside you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Now, therefore, heed what I say, for I come as a messenger from Jove; he says that the gods are angry with you, and himself more angry than them all, in that you keep Hector at the ships and will not give him up.


title: homer-iliad_24
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If Olympian Jove of his own motion thus commands me, let him that brings the ransom bear the body away.


title: homer-iliad_24
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"Go," said he," fleet Iris, from the mansions of Olympus, and tell King Priam in Ilius, that he is to go to the ships of the Achaeans and free the body of his dear son.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He is to take such gifts with him as shall give satisfaction to Achilles, and he is to go alone, with no other Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive his mules and waggon, and bring back the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Let him have no thought nor fear of death in his heart, for we will send the slayer of Argus to escort him, and bring him within the tent of Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Achilles will not kill him nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy.


title: homer-iliad_24
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His sons were seated round their father in the outer courtyard, and their raiment was wet with tears: the old man sat in the midst of them with his mantle wrapped close about his body, and his head and neck all covered with the filth which he had clutched as he lay grovelling in the mire.


title: homer-iliad_24
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His daughters and his sons ' wives went wailing about the house, as they thought of the many and brave men who lay dead, slain by the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_24
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The messenger of Jove stood by Priam and spoke softly to him, but fear fell upon him as she did so. "


title: homer-iliad_24
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The lord of Olympus bids you go and ransom noble Hector, and take with you such gifts as shall give satisfaction to Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You are to go alone, with no Trojan, save only some honoured servant who may drive your mules and waggon, and bring back to the city the body of him whom noble Achilles has slain.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You are to have no thought, nor fear of death, for Jove will send the slayer of Argus to escort you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When he has brought you within Achilles ' tent, Achilles will not kill you nor let another do so, for he will take heed to his ways and sin not, and he will entreat a suppliant with all honourable courtesy.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
" Iris went her way when she had thus spoken, and Priam told his sons to get a mulewaggon ready, and to make the body of the waggon fast upon the top of its bed.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then he went down into his fragrant storeroom, highvaulted, and made of cedarwood, where his many treasures were kept, and he called Hecuba his wife. "


title: homer-iliad_24
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Wife," said he," a messenger has come to me from Olympus, and has told me to go to the ships of the Achaeans to ransom my dear son, taking with me such gifts as shall give satisfaction to Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" His wife cried aloud as she heard him, and said," Alas, what has become of that judgement for which you have been ever famous both among strangers and your own people?


title: homer-iliad_24
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How can you venture alone to the ships of the Achaeans, and look into the face of him who has slain so many of your brave sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
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You must have iron courage, for if the cruel savage sees you and lays hold on you, he will know neither respect nor pity.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Let us then weep Hector from afar here in our own house, for when I gave him birth the threads of overruling fate were spun for him that dogs should eat his flesh far from his parents, in the house of that terrible man on whose liver I would fain fasten and devour it.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Thus would I avenge my son, who showed no cowardice when Achilles slew him, and thought neither of flight nor of avoiding battle as he stood in defence of Trojan men and Trojan women.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
" Then Priam said," I would go, do not therefore stay me nor be as a bird of ill omen in my house, for you will not move me.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Had it been some mortal man who had sent me some prophet or priest who divines from sacrifice —I should have deemed him false and have given him no heed; but now I have heard the goddess and seen her face to face, therefore I will go and her saying shall not be in vain.


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If it be my fate to die at the ships of the Achaeans even so would I have it; let Achilles slay me, if I may but first have taken my son in my arms and mourned him to my heart 's comforting."


title: homer-iliad_24
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He took also twelve cloaks of single fold, twelve rugs, twelve fair mantles, and an equal number of shirts.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He weighed out ten talents of gold, and brought moreover two burnished tripods, four cauldrons, and a very beautiful cup which the Thracians had given him when he had gone to them on an embassy; it was very precious, but he grudged not even this, so eager was he to ransom the body of his son.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Is it a small thing, think you, that the son of Saturn has sent this sorrow upon me, to lose the bravest of my sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
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Nay, you shall prove it in person, for now he is gone the Achaeans will have easier work in killing you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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As for me, let me go down within the house of Hades, ere mine eyes behold the sacking and wasting of the city.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then he called to his sons, upbraiding Helenus, Paris, noble Agathon, Pammon, Antiphonus, Polites of the loud battlecry, Deiphobus, Hippothous, and Dius.


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Come to me at once," he cried," worthless sons who do me shame; would that you had all been killed at the ships rather than Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Miserable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy— noble Nestor, Troilus the dauntless charioteer, and Hector who was a god among men, so that one would have thought he was son to an immortal— yet there is not one of them left.


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Liars, and light of foot, heroes of the dance, robbers of lambs and kids from your own people, why do you not get a waggon ready for me at once, and put all these things upon it that I may set out on my way?" Thus did he speak, and they feared the rebuke of their father.


title: homer-iliad_24
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They took the muleyoke from the peg on which it hung, a yoke of boxwood with a knob on the top of it and rings for the reins to go through.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then they brought a yokeband eleven cubits long, to bind the yoke to the pole; they bound it on at the far end of the pole, and put the ring over the upright pin making it fast with three turns of the band on either side the knob, and bending the thong of the yoke beneath it.


title: homer-iliad_24
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This done, they brought from the storechamber the rich ransom that was to purchase the body of Hector, and they set it all orderly on the waggon; then they yoked the strong harnessmules which the Mysians had on a time given as a goodly present to Priam; but for Priam himself they yoked horses which the old king had bred, and kept for his own use.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then Hecuba came to them all sorrowful, with a golden goblet of wine in her right hand, that they might make a drinkoffering before they set out.


title: homer-iliad_24
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She stood in front of the horses and said," Take this, make a drinkoffering to father Jove, and since you are minded to go to the ships in spite of me, pray that you may come safely back from the hands of your enemies.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Pray to the son of Saturn lord of the whirlwind, who sits on Ida and looks down over all Troy, pray him to send his swift messenger on your right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to him of all birds, that you may see it with your own eyes and trust it as you go forth to the ships of the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_24
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If allseeing Jove will not send you this messenger, however set upon it you may be ,I would not have you go to the ships of the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_24
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And Priam answered," Wife, I will do as you desire me; it is well to lift hands in prayer to Jove, if so be he may have mercy upon me.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" With this the old man bade the servingwoman pour pure water over his hands, and the woman came, bearing the water in a bowl.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He washed his hands and took the cup from his wife; then he made the drinkoffering and prayed, standing in the middle of the courtyard and turning his eyes to heaven."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Father Jove," he said," that rulest from Ida, most glorious and most great, grant that I may be received kindly and compassionately in the tents of Achilles; and send your swift messenger upon my right hand, the bird of omen which is strongest and most dear to you of all birds, that I may see it with my own eyes and trust it as I go forth to the ships of the Danaans."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Forthwith he sent an eagle, the most unerring portent of all birds that fly, the dusky hunter that men also call the Black Eagle.


title: homer-iliad_24
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His wings were spread abroad on either side as wide as the wellmade and wellbolted door of a rich man 's chamber.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He came to them flying over the city upon their right hands, and when they saw him they were glad and their hearts took comfort within them.


title: homer-iliad_24
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The old man made haste to mount his chariot, and drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Before him went the mules drawing the fourwheeled waggon, and driven by wise Idaeus; behind these were the horses, which the old man lashed with his whip and drove swiftly through the city, while his friends followed after, wailing and lamenting for him as though he were on his road to death.


title: homer-iliad_24
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As soon as they had come down from the city and had reached the plain, his sons and sonsinlaw who had followed him went back to Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_24
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But Priam and Idaeus as they showed out upon the plain did not escape the ken of allseeing Jove, who looked down upon the old man and pitied him; then he spoke to his son Mercury and said," Mercury, for it is you who are the most disposed to escort men on their way, and to hear those whom you will hear, go, and so conduct Priam to the ships of the Achaeans that no other of the Danaans shall see him nor take note of him until he reach the son of Peleus."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea; 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 till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_24
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To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the heyday of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Now when Priam and Idaeus had driven past the great tomb of Ilius, they stayed their mules and horses that they might drink in the river, for the shades of night were falling, when, therefore, Idaeus saw Mercury standing near them he said to Priam," Take heed, descendant of Dardanus; here is matter which demands consideration.


title: homer-iliad_24
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I see a man who I think will presently fall upon us; let us fly with our horses, or at least embrace his knees and implore him to take compassion upon us?" When he heard this the old man 's heart failed him, and he was in great fear; he stayed where he was as one dazed, and the hair stood on end over his whole body; but the bringer of good luck came up to him and took him by the hand, saying," Whither, father, are you thus driving your mules and horses in the dead of night when other men are asleep?


title: homer-iliad_24
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Should some one of them see you bearing so much treasure through the darkness of the flying night, what would not your state then be?


title: homer-iliad_24
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You are no longer young, and he who is with you is too old to protect you from those who would attack you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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For myself, I will do you no harm, and I will defend you from any one else, for you remind me of my own father."


title: homer-iliad_24
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And Priam answered," It is indeed as you say, my dear son; nevertheless some god has held his hand over me, in that he has sent such a wayfarer as yourself to meet me so opportunely; you are so comely in mien and figure, and your judgement is so excellent that you must come of blessed parents."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then said the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," Sir, all that you have said is right; but tell me and tell me true, are you taking this rich treasure to send it to a foreign people where it may be safe, or are you all leaving strong Ilius in dismay now that your son has fallen who was the bravest man among you and was never lacking in battle with the Achaeans?"


title: homer-iliad_24
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And Priam said," Who are you, my friend, and who are your parents, that you speak so truly about the fate of my unhappy son?


title: homer-iliad_24
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" The slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, answered him," Sir, you would prove me, that you question me about noble Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Many a time have I set eyes upon him in battle when he was driving the Argives to their ships and putting them to the sword.


title: homer-iliad_24
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We stood still and marvelled, for Achilles in his anger with the son of Atreus suffered us not to fight.


title: homer-iliad_24
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I am a Myrmidon, and my father 's name is Polyctor: he is a rich man and about as old as you are; he has six sons besides myself, and I am the seventh.


title: homer-iliad_24
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I am now come from the ships on to the plain, for with daybreak the Achaeans will set battle in array about the city.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" Then answered Priam," If you are indeed the squire of Achilles son of Peleus, tell me now the whole truth.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Is my son still at the ships, or has Achilles hewn him limb from limb, and given him to his hounds?" "Sir," replied the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," neither hounds nor vultures have yet devoured him; he is still just lying at the tents by the ship of Achilles, and though it is now twelve days that he has lain there, his flesh is not wasted nor have the worms eaten him although they feed on warriors.


title: homer-iliad_24
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At daybreak Achilles drags him cruelly round the sepulchre of his dear comrade, but it does him no hurt.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You should come yourself and see how he lies fresh as dew, with the blood all washed away, and his wounds every one of them closed though many pierced him with their spears.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Such care have the blessed gods taken of your brave son, for he was dear to them beyond all measure.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" The old man was comforted as he heard him and said," My son, see what a good thing it is to have made due offerings to the immortals; for as sure as that he was born my son never forgot the gods that hold Olympus, and now they requite it to him even in death.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Accept therefore at my hands this goodly chalice; guard me and with heaven 's help guide me till I come to the tent of the son of Peleus." Then answered the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian," Sir, you are tempting me and playing upon my youth, but you shall not move me, for you are offering me presents without the knowledge of Achilles whom I fear and hold it great guilt to defraud, lest some evil presently befall me; but as your guide I would go with you even to Argos itself, and would guard you so carefully whether by sea or land, that no one should attack you through making light of him who was with you."


title: homer-iliad_24
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The bringer of good luck then sprang on to the chariot, and seizing the whip and reins he breathed fresh spirit into the mules and horses.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When they reached the trench and the wall that was before the ships, those who were on guard had just been getting their suppers, and the slayer of Argus threw them all into a deep sleep.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then he drew back the bolts to open the gates, and took Priam inside with the treasure he had upon his waggon.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Ere long they came to the lofty dwelling of the son of Peleus for which the Myrmidons had cut pine and which they had built for their king; when they had built it they thatched it with coarse tussockgrass which they had mown out on the plain, and all round it they made a large courtyard, which was fenced with stakes set close together.


title: homer-iliad_24
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The gate was barred with a single bolt of pine which it took three men to force into its place, and three to draw back so as to open the gate, but Achilles could draw it by himself.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Mercury opened the gate for the old man, and brought in the treasure that he was taking with him for the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then he sprang from the chariot on to the ground and said," Sir, it is I, immortal Mercury, that am come with you, for my father sent me to escort you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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I will now leave you, and will not enter into the presence of Achilles, for it might anger him that a god should befriend mortal men thus openly.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Go you within, and embrace the knees of the son of Peleus: beseech him by his father, his lovely mother, and his son; thus you may move him.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Priam sprang from his chariot to the ground, leaving Idaeus where he was, in charge of the mules and horses.


title: homer-iliad_24
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There he found him with his men seated at a distance from him: only two, the hero Automedon, and Alcimus of the race of Mars, were busy in attendance about his person, for he had but just done eating and drinking, and the table was still there.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
King Priam entered without their seeing him, and going right up to Achilles he clasped his knees and kissed the dread murderous hands that had slain so many of his sons.


title: homer-iliad_24
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As when some cruel spite has befallen a man that he should have killed some one in his own country, and must fly to a great man 's protection in a land of strangers, and all marvel who see him, even so did Achilles marvel as he beheld Priam.


title: homer-iliad_24
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The others looked one to another and marvelled also, but Priam besought Achilles saying," Think of your father, O Achilles like unto the gods, who is such even as I am, on the sad threshold of old age.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
It may be that those who dwell near him harass him, and there is none to keep war and ruin from him.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Yet when he hears of you being still alive, he is glad, and his days are full of hope that he shall see his dear son come home to him from Troy; but I, wretched man that I am, had the bravest in all Troy for my sons, and there is not one of them left.


title: homer-iliad_24
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I had fifty sons when the Achaeans came here; nineteen of them were from a single womb, and the others were borne to me by the women of my household.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Hector, him who was alone left, him who was the guardian of the city and ourselves, him have you lately slain; therefore I am now come to the ships of the Achaeans to ransom his body from you with a great ransom.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable, for I have steeled myself as no man yet has ever steeled himself before me, and have raised to my lips the hand of him who slew my son." Thus spoke Priam, and the heart of Achilles yearned as he bethought him of his father.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
The two wept bitterly— Priam, as he lay at Achilles ' feet, weeping for Hector, and Achilles now for his father and now for Patroclus, till the house was filled with their lamentation.


title: homer-iliad_24
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But when Achilles was now sated with grief and had unburthened the bitterness of his sorrow, he left his seat and raised the old man by the hand, in pity for his white hair and beard; then he said," Unhappy man, you have indeed been greatly daring; how could you venture to come alone to the ships of the Achaeans, and enter the presence of him who has slain so many of your brave sons?


title: homer-iliad_24
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You must have iron courage: sit now upon this seat, and for all our grief we will hide our sorrows in our hearts, for weeping will not avail us.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow; on the floor of Jove 's palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He for whom Jove the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Even so did it befall Peleus; the gods endowed him with all good things from his birth upwards, for he reigned over the Myrmidons excelling all men in prosperity and wealth, and mortal though he was they gave him a goddess for his bride.


title: homer-iliad_24
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But even on him too did heaven send misfortune, for there is no race of royal children born to him in his house, save one son who is doomed to die all untimely; nor may I take care of him now that he is growing old, for I must stay here at Troy to be the bane of you and your children.


title: homer-iliad_24
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They say that in wealth and plenitude of offspring you surpassed all that is in Lesbos, the realm of Makar to the northward, Phrygia that is more inland, and those that dwell upon the great Hellespont; but from the day when the dwellers in heaven sent this evil upon you, war and slaughter have been about your city continually.


title: homer-iliad_24
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And Priam answered," O king, bid me not be seated, while Hector is still lying uncared for in your tents, but accept the great ransom which I have brought you, and give him to me at once that I may look upon him.


title: homer-iliad_24
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May you prosper with the ransom and reach your own land in safety, seeing that you have suffered me to live and to look upon the light of the sun.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
" Achilles looked at him sternly and said," Vex me, sir, no longer; I am of myself minded to give up the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Moreover I know well, O Priam, and you can not hide it, that some god has brought you to the ships of the Achaeans, for else, no man however strong and in his prime would dare to come to our host; he could neither pass our guard unseen, nor draw the bolt of my gates thus easily; therefore, provoke me no further, lest I sin against the word of Jove, and suffer you not, suppliant though you are, within my tents.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then the son of Peleus sprang like a lion through the door of his house, not alone, but with him went his two squires Automedon and Alcimus who were closer to him than any others of his comrades now that Patroclus was no more.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
These unyoked the horses and mules, and bade Priam 's herald and attendant be seated within the house.


title: homer-iliad_24
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They lifted the ransom for Hector 's body from the waggon, but they left two mantles and a goodly shirt, that Achilles might wrap the body in them when he gave it to be taken home.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then he called to his servants and ordered them to wash the body and anoint it, but he first took it to a place where Priam should not see it, lest if he did so, he should break out in the bitterness of his grief, and enrage Achilles, who might then kill him and sin against the word of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When the servants had washed the body and anointed it, and had wrapped it in a fair shirt and mantle, Achilles himself lifted it on to a bier, and he and his men then laid it on the waggon.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He cried aloud as he did so and called on the name of his dear comrade," Be not angry with me, Patroclus," he said," if you hear even in the house of Hades that I have given Hector to his father for a ransom.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Achilles then went back into the tent and took his place on the richly inlaid seat from which he had risen, by the wall that was at right angles to the one against which Priam was sitting. "


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Sir," he said," your son is now laid upon his bier and is ransomed according to desire; you shall look upon him when you take him away at daybreak; for the present let us prepare our supper.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Even lovely Niobe had to think about eating, though her twelve children— six daughters and six lusty sons— had been all slain in her house.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
Apollo killed the sons with arrows from his silver bow, to punish Niobe, and Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto; she said Leto had borne two children only, whereas she had herself borne many— whereon the two killed the many.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Nine days did they lie weltering, and there was none to bury them, for the son of Saturn turned the people into stone; but on the tenth day the gods in heaven themselves buried them, and Niobe then took food, being worn out with weeping.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
They say that somewhere among the rocks on the mountain pastures of Sipylus, where the nymphs live that haunt the river Achelous, there, they say, she lives in stone and still nurses the sorrows sent upon her by the hand of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Therefore, noble sir, let us two now take food; you can weep for your dear son hereafter as you are bearing him back to Ilius— and many a tear will he cost you.


title: homer-iliad_24
sentence:
" With this Achilles sprang from his seat and killed a sheep of silvery whiteness, which his followers skinned and made ready all in due order.


title: homer-iliad_24
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They cut the meat carefully up into smaller pieces, spitted them, and drew them off again when they were well roasted.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Automedon brought bread in fair baskets and served it round the table, while Achilles dealt out the meat, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.


title: homer-iliad_24
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As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Priam, descendant of Dardanus, marvelled at the strength and beauty of Achilles for he was as a god to see, and Achilles marvelled at Priam as he listened to him and looked upon his noble presence.


title: homer-iliad_24
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And now, O king," he said," take me to my couch that we may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of sleep.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Never once have my eyes been closed from the day your hands took the life of my son; I have grovelled without ceasing in the mire of my stableyard, making moan and brooding over my countless sorrows.


title: homer-iliad_24
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" As he spoke Achilles told his men and the womenservants to set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Priam and Idaeus to wear.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then Achilles said laughingly to Priam," Dear sir, you shall lie outside, lest some counsellor of those who in due course keep coming to advise with me should see you here in the darkness of the flying night, and tell it to Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_24
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And now tell me and tell me true, for how many days would you celebrate the funeral rites of noble Hector?


title: homer-iliad_24
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" And Priam answered," Since, then, you suffer me to bury my noble son with all due rites, do thus, Achilles, and I shall be grateful.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You know how we are pent up within our city; it is far for us to fetch wood from the mountain, and the people live in fear.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Nine days, therefore, will we mourn Hector in my house; on the tenth day we will bury him and there shall be a public feast in his honour; on the eleventh we will build a mound over his ashes, and on the twelfth, if there be need, we will fight."


title: homer-iliad_24
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" As he spoke he laid his hand on the old man 's right wrist, in token that he should have no fear; thus then did Priam and his attendant sleep there in the forecourt, full of thought, while Achilles lay in an inner room of the house, with fair Briseis by his side.


title: homer-iliad_24
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And now both gods and mortals were fast asleep through the livelong night, but upon Mercury alone, the bringer of good luck, sleep could take no hold for he was thinking all the time how to get King Priam away from the ships without his being seen by the strong force of sentinels.


title: homer-iliad_24
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He hovered therefore over Priam 's head and said," Sir, now that Achilles has spared your life, you seem to have no fear about sleeping in the thick of your foes.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You have paid a great ransom, and have received the body of your son; were you still alive and a prisoner the sons whom you have left at home would have to give three times as much to free you; and so it would be if Agamemnon and the other Achaeans were to know of your being here." When he heard this the old man was afraid and roused his servant.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Mercury then yoked their horses and mules, and drove them quickly through the host so that no man perceived them.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When they came to the ford of eddying Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, Mercury went back to high Olympus, and dawn in robe of saffron began to break over all the land.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Priam and Idaeus then drove on toward the city lamenting and making moan, and the mules drew the body of Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
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No one neither man nor woman saw them, till Cassandra, fair as golden Venus standing on Pergamus, caught sight of her dear father in his chariot, and his servant that was the city 's herald with him.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then she saw him that was lying upon the bier, drawn by the mules, and with a loud cry she went about the city saying," Come hither Trojans, men and women, and look on Hector; if ever you rejoiced to see him coming from battle when he was alive, look now on him that was the glory of our city and all our people.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Hector 's wife and his mother were the first to mourn him: they flew towards the waggon and laid their hands upon his head, while the crowd stood weeping round them.


title: homer-iliad_24
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They would have stayed before the gates, weeping and lamenting the livelong day to the going down of the sun, had not Priam spoken to them from the chariot and said," Make way for the mules to pass you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When they had borne the body within the house they laid it upon a bed and seated minstrels round it to lead the dirge, whereon the women joined in the sad music of their lament.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Foremost among them all Andromache led their wailing as she clasped the head of mighty Hector in her embrace. "


title: homer-iliad_24
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Husband," she cried," you have died young, and leave me in your house a widow; he of whom we are the illstarred parents is still a mere child, and I fear he may not reach manhood.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Ere he can do so our city will be razed and overthrown, for you who watched over it are no more— you who were its saviour, the guardian of our wives and children.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Our women will be carried away captives to the ships, and I among them; while you, my child, who will be with me will be put to some unseemly tasks, working for a cruel master.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Or, may be, some Achaean will hurl you( O miserable death) from our walls, to avenge some brother, son, or father whom Hector slew; many of them have indeed bitten the dust at his hands, for your father 's hand in battle was no light one.


title: homer-iliad_24
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You have left, O Hector, sorrow unutterable to your parents, and my own grief is greatest of all, for you did not stretch forth your arms and embrace me as you lay dying, nor say to me any words that might have lived with me in my tears night and day for evermore."


title: homer-iliad_24
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So long as you were alive the gods loved you well, and even in death they have not been utterly unmindful of you; for when Achilles took any other of my sons, he would sell him beyond the seas, to Samos Imbrus or rugged Lemnos; and when he had slain you too with his sword, many a time did he drag you round the sepulchre of his comrade— though this could not give him life— yet here you lie all fresh as dew, and comely as one whom Apollo has slain with his painless shafts."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Thus did she too speak through her tears with bitter moan, and then Helen for a third time took up the strain of lamentation. "


title: homer-iliad_24
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Hector," said she," dearest of all my brothersinlaw— for I am wife to Alexandrus who brought me hither to Troy— would that I had died ere he did so —twenty years are come and gone since I left my home and came from over the sea, but I have never heard one word of insult or unkindness from you.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When another would chide with me, as it might be one of your brothers or sisters or of your brothers ' wives, or my motherinlaw— for Priam was as kind to me as though he were my own father— you would rebuke and check them with words of gentleness and goodwill.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Therefore my tears flow both for you and for my unhappy self, for there is no one else in Troy who is kind to me, but all shrink and shudder as they go by me."


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then King Priam spoke to them saying," Bring wood, O Trojans, to the city, and fear no cunning ambush of the Argives, for Achilles when he dismissed me from the ships gave me his word that they should not attack us until the morning of the twelfth day.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Nine days long did they bring in great heaps of wood, and on the morning of the tenth day with many tears they took brave Hector forth, laid his dead body upon the summit of the pile, and set the fire thereto.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then when the child of morning, rosyfingered dawn, appeared on the eleventh day, the people again assembled, round the pyre of mighty Hector.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When they were got together, they first quenched the fire with wine wherever it was burning, and then his brothers and comrades with many a bitter tear gathered his white bones, wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together.


title: homer-iliad_24
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Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it keeping guard on every side lest the Achaeans should attack them before they had finished.


title: homer-iliad_24
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When they had heaped up the barrow they went back again into the city, and being well assembled they held high feast in the house of Priam their king.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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Though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Dardanians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low." So saying he turned the horses back through the thick of the battle, and with a cry that rent the air the Trojans and Hector rained their darts after them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
sentence:
When they had fled through the set stakes and trench and many Achaeans had been laid low at the hands of the Trojans, they halted at their ships, calling upon one another and praying every man instantly as they lifted up their hands to the gods; but Hector wheeled his horses this way and that, his eyes glaring like those of Gorgo or murderous Mars. Juno when she saw them had pity upon them, and at once said to Minerva," Alas, child of aegisbearing Jove,


title: homer-iliad_08
sentence:
shall you and I take no more thought for the dying Danaans, though it be the last time we ever do so?


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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" Thus did she speak and whitearmed Juno, daughter of great Saturn, obeyed her words; she set about harnessing her goldbedizened steeds, while Minerva daughter of aegisbearing Jove flung her richly vesture, made with her own hands, on to the threshold of her father, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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He is less hurt and angry with Juno, for whatever he says she always contradicts him but you, bold hussy ,will you really dare to raise your huge spear in defiance of Jove?" With this she left them, and Juno said to Minerva," Of a truth, child of aegisbearing Jove, I am not for fighting men 's battles further in defiance of Jove.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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and it would have surely been— I should have struck you with lightning, and your chariots would never have brought you back again to Olympus." Minerva and Juno groaned in spirit as they sat side by side and brooded mischief for the Trojans.


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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You may go on and on till you get there, and I shall not care one whit for your displeasure; you are the greatest vixen living." Juno made him no answer.


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_08
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Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and greybearded men are to camp upon its heavenbuilt walls.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
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ULYSSES CANNOT SLEEP—PENELOPE'S PRAYER TO DIANA—THE TWO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN—EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS ARRIVE—THE SUITORS DINE—CTESIPPUS THROWS


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
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This is your house: your wife is safe inside it, and so is your son who is just such a young man as any father may be proud of." "Goddess," answered Ulysses," all that you have said is true, but I am in some doubt as to how I shall be able to kill these wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always are.


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
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But go to sleep; it is a very bad thing to lie awake all night, and you shall be out of your troubles before long." As she spoke she shed sleep over his eyes, and then went back to Olympus.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
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These he let feed about the premises, and then he said goodhumouredly to Ulysses," Stranger, are the suitors treating you any better now, or are they as insolent as ever?" "May heaven," answered Ulysses," requite to them the wickedness with which they deal highhandedly in another man 's house without any sense of shame.


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
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You beg without any sense of decency: are there not feasts elsewhere among the Achaeans, as well as here?" Ulysses made no answer, but bowed his head and brooded.


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
sentence:
Poor fellow, he looks as if he had been some great man, but the gods give sorrow to whom they will— even to kings if it so pleases them." As he spoke he went up to Ulysses and saluted him with his right hand;" Good day to you, father stranger," said he," you seem to be very poorly off now, but I hope you will have better times by and by.


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
sentence:
My position is intolerable, and I should long since have run away and put myself under the protection of some other chief, only that I believe my poor master will yet return, and send all these suitors flying out of the house." "Stockman," answered Ulysses," you seem to be a very welldisposed person, and I can see that you are a man of sense.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_20
sentence:
If Jove had let us we should have put a stop to his brave talk ere now." Thus spoke Antinous, but Telemachus heeded him not.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Now when the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the Phaeacian place of assembly, which was near the ships.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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When they got there they sat down side by side on a seat of polished stone, while Minerva took the form of one of Alcinous' servants, and went round the town in order to help Ulysses to get home.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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She went up to the citizens, man by man, and said," Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, come to the assembly all of you and listen to the stranger who has just come off a long voyage to the house of King Alcinous; he looks like an immortal god.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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" With these words she made them all want to come, and they flocked to the assembly till seats and standing room were alike crowded.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Every one was struck with the appearance of Ulysses, for Minerva had beautified him about the head and shoulders, making him look taller and stouter than he really was, that he might impress the Phaeacians favourably as being a very remarkable man, and might come off well in the many trials of skill to which they would challenge him.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Then, when they were got together, Alcinous spoke: "Hear me," said he," aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, that I may speak even as I am minded.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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This stranger, whoever he may be, has found his way to my house from somewhere or other either East or West.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Let us then get one ready for him, as we have done for others before him; indeed, no one who ever yet came to my house has been able to complain of me for not speeding on his way soon enough.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Let us draw a ship into the sea— one that has never yet made a voyage— and man her with two and fifty of our smartest young sailors.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Then when you have made fast your oars each by his own seat, leave the ship and come to my house to prepare a feast.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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I am giving these instructions to the young men who will form the crew, for as regards you aldermen and town councillors, you will join me in entertaining our guest in the cloisters.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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I can take no excuses, and we will have Demodocus to sing to us; for there is no bard like him whatever he may choose to sing about.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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" Alcinous then led the way, and the others followed after, while a servant went to fetch Demodocus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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The fiftytwo picked oarsmen went to the sea shore as they had been told, and when they got there they drew the ship into the water, got her mast and sails inside her, bound the oars to the tholepins with twisted thongs of leather, all in due course, and spread the white sails aloft.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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They moored the vessel a little way out from land, and then came on shore and went to the house of King Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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The out houses yards, and all the precincts were filled with crowds of men in great multitudes both old and young; and Alcinous killed them a dozen sheep, eight full grown pigs, and two oxen.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodocus, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He hung the lyre for him on a peg over his head, and showed him where he was to feel for it with his hands.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He also set a fair table with a basket of victuals by his side, and a cup of wine from which he might drink whenever he was so disposed.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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The company then laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, but as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, the muse inspired Demodocus to sing the feats of heroes, and more especially a matter that was then in the mouths of all men, to wit, the quarrel between Ulysses and Achilles, and the fierce words that they heaped on one another as they sat together at a banquet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Thus sang the bard, but Ulysses drew his purple mantle over his head and covered his face, for he was ashamed to let the Phaeacians see that he was weeping.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drinkoffering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodocus to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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No one noticed his distress except Alcinous, who was sitting near him, and heard the heavy sighs that he was heaving.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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So he at once said," Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, we have had enough now, both of the feast, and of the minstrelsy that is its due accompaniment; let us proceed therefore to the athletic sports, so that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as boxers, wrestlers, jumpers, and runners.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
A servant hung Demodocus 's lyre on its peg for him, led him out of the cloister, and set him on the same way as that along which all the chief men of the Phaeacians were going to see the sports; a crowd of several thousands of people followed them, and there were many excellent competitors for all the prizes.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Acroneos, Ocyalus, Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, Anchialus, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus, Thoon, Anabesineus, and Amphialus son of Polyneus son of Tecton.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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There was also Euryalus son of Naubolus, who was like Mars himself, and was the best looking man among the Phaeacians except Laodamas.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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The course was set out for them from the starting post, and they raised a dust upon the plain as they all flew forward at the same moment.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Clytoneus came in first by a long way; he left every one else behind him by the length of the furrow that a couple of mules can plough in a fallow field.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Amphialus excelled all the others in jumping, while at throwing the disc there was no one who could approach Elatreus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Alcinous 's son Laodamas was the best boxer, and he it was who presently said, when they had all been diverted with the games ,"Let us ask the stranger whether he excels in any of these sports; he seems very powerfully built; his thighs, calves, hands, and neck are of prodigious strength, nor is he at all old, but he has suffered much lately, and there is nothing like the sea for making havoc with a man, no matter how strong he is."


title: homer-odyssey_08
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"You are quite right, Laodamas," replied Euryalus," go up to your guest and speak to him about it yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" When Laodamas heard this he made his way into the middle of the crowd and said to Ulysses," I hope, Sir, that you will enter yourself for some one or other of our competitions if you are skilled in any of them— and you must have gone in for many a one before now.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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There is nothing that does any one so much credit all his life long as the showing himself a proper man with his hands and feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Your return home will not be long delayed, for the ship is already drawn into the water, and the crew is found.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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my mind is set rather on cares than contests; I have been through infinite trouble, and am come among you now as a suppliant, praying your king and people to further me on my return home.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" Then Euryalus reviled him outright and said," I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports that men generally delight in.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" "For shame, Sir," answered Ulysses, fiercely," you are an insolent fellow— so true is it that the gods do not grace all men alike in speech, person, and understanding.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
One man may be of weak presence, but heaven has adorned this with such a good conversation that he charms every one who sees him; his honeyed moderation carries his hearers with him so that he is leader in all assemblies of his fellows, and wherever he goes he is looked up to.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Your illjudged remarks have made me exceedingly angry, and you are quite mistaken, for I excel in a great many athletic exercises ;indeed, so long as I had youth and strength, I was among the first athletes of the age.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Now, however, I am worn out by labour and sorrow, for I have gone through much both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea; still, in spite of all this I will compete, for your taunts have stung me to the quick.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" So he hurried up without even taking his cloak off, and seized a disc, larger, more massive and much heavier than those used by the Phaeacians when discthrowing among themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Then, swinging it back, he threw it from his brawny hand, and it made a humming sound in the air as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
The Phaeacians quailed beneath the rushing of its flight as it sped gracefully from his hand, and flew beyond any mark that had been made yet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
A blind man, Sir," said she," could easily tell your mark by groping for it— it is so far ahead of any other.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
You may make your mind easy about this contest, for no Phaeacian can come near to such a throw as yours.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" Ulysses was glad when he found he had a friend among the lookerson, so he began to speak more pleasantly. "


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Young men," said he," come up to that throw if you can, and I will throw another disc as heavy or even heavier.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
If anyone wants to have a bout with me let him come on, for I am exceedingly angry; I will box, wrestle, or run, I do not care what it is, with any man of you all except Laodamas, but not with him because I am his guest, and one can not compete with one 's own personal friend.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
At least I do not think it a prudent or a sensible thing for a guest to challenge his host 's family at any game, especially when he is in a foreign country.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He will cut the ground from under his own feet if he does; but I make no exception as regards any one else, for I want to have the matter out and know which is the best man.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
In battle I am always the first to bring a man down with my arrow, no matter how many more are taking aim at him alongside of me.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Philoctetes was the only man who could shoot better than I could when we Achaeans were before Troy and in practice.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
I far excel every one else in the whole world, of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth, but I should not like to shoot against the mighty dead, such as Hercules, or Eurytus the Oechalian— men who could shoot against the gods themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
This in fact was how Eurytus came prematurely by his end, for Apollo was angry with him and killed him because he challenged him as an archer.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Running is the only point in respect of which I am afraid some of the Phaeacians might beat me, for I have been brought down very low at sea; my provisions ran short, and therefore I am still weak.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" They all held their peace except King Alcinous, who began," Sir, we have had much pleasure in hearing all that you have told us, from which I understand that you are willing to show your prowess, as having been displeased with some insolent remarks that have been made to you by one of our athletes, and which could never have been uttered by any one who knows how to talk with propriety.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
I hope you will apprehend my meaning, and will explain to any one of your chief men who may be dining with yourself and your family when you get home, that we have an hereditary aptitude for accomplishments of all kinds.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
We are not particularly remarkable for our boxing, nor yet as wrestlers, but we are singularly fleet of foot and are excellent sailors.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and dancing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths, and good beds, so now, please, some of you who are the best dancers set about dancing, that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as sailors, runners, dancers, and minstrels.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king 's house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Presently the servant came back with Demodocus 's lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Meanwhile the bard began to sing the loves of Mars and Venus, and how they first began their intrigue in the house of Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Mars made Venus many presents, and defiled King Vulcan 's marriage bed, so the sun, who saw what they were about, told Vulcan.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Vulcan was very angry when he heard such dreadful news, so he went to his smithy brooding mischief, got his great anvil into its place, and began to forge some chains which none could either unloose or break, so that they might stay there in that place.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
When he had finished his snare he went into his bedroom and festooned the bedposts all over with chains like cobwebs; he also let many hang down from the great beam of the ceiling.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
As soon as he had spread the chains all over the bed, he made as though he were setting out for the fair state of Lemnos, which of all places in the world was the one he was most fond of.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
But Mars kept no blind look out, and as soon as he saw him start, hurried off to his house, burning with love for Venus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Now Venus was just come in from a visit to her father Jove, and was about sitting down when Mars came inside the house, and said as he took her hand in his own," Let us go to the couch of Vulcan :he is not at home, but is gone off to Lemnos among the Sintians, whose speech is barbarous.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" She was nothing loth, so they went to the couch to take their rest, whereon they were caught in the toils which cunning Vulcan had spread for them, and could neither get up nor stir hand or foot, but found too late that they were in a trap.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Then Vulcan came up to them, for he had turned back before reaching Lemnos, when his scout the sun told him what was going on.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He was in a furious passion, and stood in the vestibule making a dreadful noise as he shouted to all the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
"Father Jove," he cried," and all you other blessed gods who live for ever, come here and see the ridiculous and disgraceful sight that I will show you.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
She is in love with Mars, who is handsome and clean built, whereas I am a cripple— but my parents are to blame for that, not I; they ought never to have begotten me.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
They are very fond of one another, but I do not think they will lie there longer than they can help, nor do I think that they will sleep much ;there, however, they shall stay till her father has repaid me the sum I gave him for his baggage of a daughter, who is fair but not honest.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo, but the goddesses staid at home all of them for shame.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Then the givers of all good things stood in the doorway, and the blessed gods roared with inextinguishable laughter, as they saw how cunning Vulcan had been, whereon one would turn towards his neighbour saying: "Ill deeds do not prosper, and the weak confound the strong.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
See how limping Vulcan, lame as he is, has caught Mars who is the fleetest god in heaven; and now Mars will be cast in heavy damages."


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Thus did they converse, but King Apollo said to Mercury," Messenger Mercury, giver of good things, you would not care how strong the chains were, would you, if you could sleep with Venus?" "King Apollo," answered Mercury," I only wish I might get the chance, though there were three times as many chains— and you might look on, all of you, gods and goddesses, but I would sleep with her if I could.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" The immortal gods burst out laughing as they heard him, but Neptune took it all seriously, and kept on imploring Vulcan to set Mars free again."


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Let him go," he cried," and I will undertake, as you require, that he shall pay you all the damages that are held reasonable among the immortal gods."


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
"Do not," replied Vulcan," ask me to do this; a bad man 's bond is bad security; what remedy could I enforce against you if Mars should go away and leave his debts behind him along with his chains?


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" Thereon he loosed the bonds that bound them, and as soon as they were free they scampered off, Mars to Thrace and laughterloving Venus to Cyprus and to Paphos, where is her grove and her altar fragrant with burnt offerings.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Here the Graces bathed her, and anointed her with oil of ambrosia such as the immortal gods make use of, and they clothed her in raiment of the most enchanting beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
So they took a red ball which Polybus had made for them, and one of them bent himself backwards and threw it up towards the clouds, while the other jumped from off the ground and caught it with ease before it came down again.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Then Ulysses said: "King Alcinous, you said your people were the nimblest dancers in the world, and indeed they have proved themselves to be so.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
The king was delighted at this, and exclaimed to the Phaeacians," Aldermen and town councillors, our guest seems to be a person of singular judgement; let us give him such proof of our hospitality as he may reasonably expect.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
There are twelve chief men among you, and counting myself there are thirteen; contribute, each of you, a clean cloak, a shirt, and a talent of fine gold; let us give him all this in a lump down at once, so that when he gets his supper he may do so with a light heart.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" As he spoke he placed the sword in the hands of Ulysses and said," Good luck to you, father stranger; if anything has been said amiss may the winds blow it away with them, and may heaven grant you a safe return, for I understand you have been long away from home, and have gone through much hardship.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" To which Ulysses answered," Good luck to you too my friend, and may the gods grant you every happiness.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" With these words he girded the sword about his shoulders and towards sundown the presents began to make their appearance, as the servants of the donors kept bringing them to the house of King Alcinous; here his sons received them, and placed them under their mother 's charge.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
"Wife," said he, turning to Queen Arete," Go, fetch the best chest we have, and put a clean cloak and shirt in it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Also, set a copper on the fire and heat some water; our guest will take a warm bath; see also to the careful packing of the presents that the noble Phaeacians have made him; he will thus better enjoy both his supper and the singing that will follow.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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I shall myself give him this golden goblet— which is of exquisite workmanship— that he may be reminded of me for the rest of his life whenever he makes a drink offering to Jove, or to any of the gods."


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Then Arete told her maids to set a large tripod upon the fire as fast as they could, whereon they set a tripod full of bath water on to a clear fire; they threw on sticks to make it blaze, and the water became hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Meanwhile Arete brought a magnificent chest from her own room, and inside it she packed all the beautiful presents of gold and raiment which the Phaeacians had brought.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
"See to the lid yourself, and have the whole bound round at once, for fear any one should rob you by the way when you are asleep in your ship."


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
When Ulysses heard this he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He was very glad of a warm bath, for he had had no one to wait upon him ever since he left the house of Calypso, who as long as he remained with her had taken as good care of him as though he had been a god.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
When the servants had done washing and anointing him with oil, and had given him a clean cloak and shirt, he left the bath room and joined the guests who were sitting over their wine.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Lovely Nausicaa stood by one of the bearingposts supporting the roof of the cloister, and admired him as she saw him pass. "


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Farewell stranger," said she," do not forget me when you are safe at home again, for it is to me first that you owe a ransom for having saved your life.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
" And Ulysses said," Nausicaa, daughter of great Alcinous, may Jove the mighty husband of Juno, grant that I may reach my home; so shall I bless you as my guardian angel all my days, for it was you who saved me." When he had said this, he seated himself beside Alcinous.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
A servant led in the favourite bard Demodocus, and set him in the midst of the company, near one of the bearingposts supporting the cloister, that he might lean against it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Then Ulysses cut off a piece of roast pork with plenty of fat( for there was abundance left on the joint) and said to a servant," Take this piece of pork over to Demodocus and tell him to eat it; for all the pain his lays may cause me I will salute him none the less; bards are honoured and respected throughout the world, for the muse teaches them their songs and loves them.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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The servant carried the pork in his fingers over to Demodocus, who took it and was very much pleased.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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They then laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had to eat and drink, Ulysses said to Demodocus," Demodocus, there is no one in the world whom I admire more than I do you.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
You must have studied under the Muse, Jove 's daughter, and under Apollo, so accurately do you sing the return of the Achaeans with all their sufferings and adventures.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Now, however, change your song and tell us of the wooden horse which Epeus made with the assistance of Minerva, and which Ulysses got by stratagem into the fort of Troy after freighting it with the men who afterwards sacked the city.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
If you will sing this tale aright I will tell all the world how magnificently heaven has endowed you.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
The bard inspired of heaven took up the story at the point where some of the Argives set fire to their tents and sailed away while others, hidden within the horse were waiting with Ulysses in the Trojan place of assembly.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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For the Trojans themselves had drawn the horse into their fortress, and it stood there while they sat in council round it, and were in three minds as to what they should do.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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Some were for breaking it up then and there; others would have it dragged to the top of the rock on which the fortress stood, and then thrown down the precipice; while yet others were for letting it remain as an offering and propitiation for the gods.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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And this was how they settled it in the end, for the city was doomed when it took in that horse, within which were all the bravest of the Argives waiting to bring death and destruction on the Trojans.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He sang how they overran the city hither and thither and ravaged it, and how Ulysses went raging like Mars along with Menelaus to the house of Deiphobus.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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It was there that the fight raged most furiously, nevertheless by Minerva 's help he was victorious.


title: homer-odyssey_08
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He wept as a woman weeps when she throws herself on the body of her husband who has fallen before his own city and people, fighting bravely in defence of his home and children.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
She screams aloud and flings her arms about him as he lies gasping for breath and dying, but her enemies beat her from behind about the back and shoulders, and carry her off into slavery, to a life of labour and sorrow, and the beauty fades from her cheeks— even so piteously did Ulysses weep, but none of those present perceived his tears except Alcinous, who was sitting near him, and could hear the sobs and sighs that he was heaving.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
The king, therefore, at once rose and said: "Aldermen and town councillors of the Phaeacians, let Demodocus cease his song, for there are those present who do not seem to like it.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
From the moment that we had done supper and Demodocus began to sing, our guest has been all the time groaning and lamenting.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
He is evidently in great trouble, so let the bard leave off, that we may all enjoy ourselves, hosts and guest alike.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
This will be much more as it should be, for all these festivities, with the escort and the presents that we are making with so much good will are wholly in his honour, and any one with even a moderate amount of right feeling knows that he ought to treat a guest and a suppliant as though he were his own brother.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
"Therefore, Sir, do you on your part affect no more concealment nor reserve in the matter about which I shall ask you; it will be more polite in you to give me a plain answer; tell me the name by which your father and mother over yonder used to call you, and by which you were known among your neighbours and fellowcitizens.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
There is no one, neither rich nor poor, who is absolutely without any name whatever, for people 's fathers and mothers give them names as soon as they are born.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
For the Phaeacians have no pilots; their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want ;they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Still I do remember hearing my father say that Neptune was angry with us for being too easygoing in the matter of giving people escorts.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
He said that one of these days he should wreck a ship of ours as it was returning from having escorted some one and bury our city under a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
This is what my father used to say, but whether the god will carry out his threat or no is a matter which he will decide for himself.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Tell us of the peoples themselves, and of their cities— who were hostile, savage and uncivilised, and who, on the other hand, hospitable and humane.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
Tell us also why you are made so unhappy on hearing about the return of the Argive Danaans from Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
The gods arranged all this, and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about.


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
a soninlaw or fatherinlaw— which are the nearest relations a man has outside his own flesh and blood?


title: homer-odyssey_08
sentence:
or was it some brave and kindlynatured comrade— for a good friend is as dear to a man as his own brother?"


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_20
sentence:
Bring, therefore, your spear to bear upon him, and let him not scare you with his taunts and menaces." As he spoke he put courage into the heart of the shepherd of his people, and he strode in full armour among the ranks of the foremost fighters.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_20
sentence:
With these words the darkhaired god led the way to the high earthbarrow of Hercules, built round solid masonry, and made by the Trojans and Pallas Minerva for him to fly to when the seamonster was chasing him from the shore on to the plain.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_20
sentence:
For now indeed has Jove hated the blood of Priam, while Aeneas shall reign over the Trojans, he and his children 's children that shall be born hereafter." Then answered Juno," Earthshaker, look to this matter yourself, and consider concerning Aeneas, whether you will save him, or suffer him, brave though he be, to fall by the hand of Achilles son of Peleus.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_20
sentence:
I will go up against him though his hands be as fire— though his hands be fire and his strength iron." Thus urged the Trojans lifted up their spears against the Achaeans, and raised the cry of battle as they flung themselves into the midst of their ranks.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
And Ulysses answered," King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a bard with such a divine voice as this man has.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There is nothing better or more delightful than when a whole people make merry together, with the guests sitting orderly to listen, while the table is loaded with bread and meats, and the cupbearer draws wine and fills his cup for every man.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Now, however, since you are inclined to ask the story of my sorrows, and rekindle my own sad memories in respect of them, I do not know how to begin, nor yet how to continue and conclude my tale, for the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Firstly, then, I will tell you my name that you too may know it, and one day, if I outlive this time of sorrow, may become my guests though I live so far away from all of you.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I am Ulysses son of Laertes, renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety, so that my fame ascends to heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I live in Ithaca, where there is a high mountain called Neritum, covered with forests; and not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one another— Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island of Zacynthus.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It lies squat on the horizon, all highest up in the sea towards the sunset, while the others lie away from it towards dawn.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It is a rugged island, but it breeds brave men, and my eyes know none that they better love to look upon.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
The goddess Calypso kept me with her in her cave, and wanted me to marry her, as did also the cunning Aeaean goddess Circe; but they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Now, however, I will tell you of the many hazardous adventures which by Jove 's will I met with on my return from Troy.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We took their wives and also much booty, which we divided equitably amongst us, so that none might have reason to complain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I then said that we had better make off at once, but my men very foolishly would not obey me, so they staid there drinking much wine and killing great numbers of sheep and oxen on the sea shore.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
These were more in number, and stronger, and they were more skilled in the art of war, for they could fight, either from chariots or on foot as the occasion served; in the morning, therefore, they came as thick as leaves and bloom in summer, and the hand of heaven was against us, so that we were hard pressed.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
They set the battle in array near the ships, and the hosts aimed their bronzeshod spears at one another.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
So long as the day waxed and it was still morning, we held our own against them, though they were more in number than we; but as the sun went down, towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Cicons got the better of us, and we lost half a dozen men from every ship we had; so we got away with those that were left.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Thence we sailed onward with sorrow in our hearts, but glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades, nor did we leave till we had thrice invoked each one of the poor fellows who had perished by the hands of the Cicons.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then Jove raised the North wind against us till it blew a hurricane, so that land and sky were hidden in thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We let the ships run before the gale, but the force of the wind tore our sails to tatters, so we took them down for fear of shipwreck, and rowed our hardest towards the land.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There we lay two days and two nights suffering much alike from toil and distress of mind, but on the morning of the third day we again raised our masts, set sail, and took our places, letting the wind and steersmen direct our ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I should have got home at that time unharmed had not the North wind and the currents been against me as I was doubling Cape Malea, and set me off my course hard by the island of Cythera.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotuseaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid day meal on the shore near the ships.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
They started at once, and went about among the Lotuseaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotuseaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"We sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Now the Cyclopes neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbours.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Now off their harbour there lies a wooded and fertile island not quite close to the land of the Cyclopes, but still not far.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It is overrun with wild goats, that breed there in great numbers and are never disturbed by foot of man; for sportsmen— who as a rule will suffer so much hardship in forest or among mountain precipices— do not go there, nor yet again is it ever ploughed or fed down, but it lies a wilderness untilled and unsown from year to year, and has no living thing upon it but only goats.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
For the Cyclopes have no ships, nor yet shipwrights who could make ships for them; they can not therefore go from city to city, or sail over the sea to one another 's country as people who have ships can do; if they had had these they would have colonised the island for it is a very good one, and would yield everything in due season.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There are meadows that in some places come right down to the sea shore, well watered and full of luscious grass; grapes would do there excellently; there is level land for ploughing, and it would always yield heavily at harvest time, for the soil is deep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There is a good harbour where no cables are wanted, nor yet anchors, nor need a ship be moored, but all one has to do is to beach one 's vessel and stay there till the wind becomes fair for putting out to sea again.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
At the head of the harbour there is a spring of clear water coming out of a cave, and there are poplars growing all round it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Here we entered, but so dark was the night that some god must have brought us in, for there was nothing whatever to be seen.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
A thick mist hung all round our ships; the moon was hidden behind a mass of clouds so that no one could have seen the island if he had looked for it, nor were there any breakers to tell us we were close in shore before we found ourselves upon the land itself; when, however, we had beached the ships, we took down the sails, went ashore and camped upon the beach till daybreak.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"When the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn appeared, we admired the island and wandered all over it, while the nymphs Jove 's daughters roused the wild goats that we might get some meat for our dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
On this we fetched our spears and bows and arrows from the ships, and dividing ourselves into three bands began to shoot the goats.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Heaven sent us excellent sport; I had twelve ships with me, and each ship got nine goats, while my own ship had ten; thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we ate and drank our fill, and we had plenty of wine left, for each one of us had taken many jars full when we sacked the city of the Cicons, and this had not yet run out.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
While we were feasting we kept turning our eyes towards the land of the Cyclopes, which was hard by, and saw the smoke of their stubble fires.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We could almost fancy we heard their voices and the bleating of their sheep and goats, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped down upon the beach, and next morning I called a council.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"'Stay here, my brave fellows,' said I,' all the rest of you, while I go with my ship and exploit these people myself: I want to see if they are uncivilised savages, or a hospitable and humane race.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
' "I went on board, bidding my men to do so also and loose the hawsers; so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"I told my men to draw the ship ashore, and stay where they were, all but the twelve best among them, who were to go along with myself.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I also took a goatskin of sweet black wine which had been given me by Maron, son of Euanthes, who was priest of Apollo the patron god of Ismarus, and lived within the wooded precincts of the temple.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When we were sacking the city we respected him, and spared his life, as also his wife and child; so he made me some presents of great value— seven talents of fine gold, and a bowl of silver, with twelve jars of sweet wine, unblended, and of the most exquisite flavour.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Not a man nor maid in the house knew about it, but only himself, his wife, and one housekeeper: when he drank it he mixed twenty parts of water to one of wine, and yet the fragrance from the mixingbowl was so exquisite that it was impossible to refrain from drinking.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I filled a large skin with this wine, and took a wallet full of provisions with me, for my mind misgave me that I might have to deal with some savage who would be of great strength, and would respect neither right nor law.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"We soon reached his cave, but he was out shepherding, so we went inside and took stock of all that we could see.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another; as for his dairy, all the vessels, bowls, and milk pails into which he milked, were swimming with whey.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When they saw all this, my men begged me to let them first steal some cheeses, and make off with them to the ship; they would then return, drive down the lambs and kids, put them on board and sail away with them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It would have been indeed better if we had done so but I would not listen to them, for I wanted to see the owner himself, in the hope that he might give me a present.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"We lit a fire, offered some of the cheeses in sacrifice, ate others of them, and then sat waiting till the Cyclops should come in with his sheep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When he came, he brought in with him a huge load of dry firewood to light the fire for his supper, and this he flung with such a noise on to the floor of his cave that we hid ourselves for fear at the far end of the cavern.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Meanwhile he drove all the ewes inside, as well as the shegoats that he was going to milk, leaving the males, both rams and hegoats, outside in the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then he rolled a huge stone to the mouth of the cave— so huge that two and twenty strong fourwheeled waggons would not be enough to draw it from its place against the doorway.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When he had so done he sat down and milked his ewes and goats, all in due course, and then let each of them have her own young.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
He curdled half the milk and set it aside in wicker strainers, but the other half he poured into bowls that he might drink it for his supper.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When he had got through with all his work, he lit the fire, and then caught sight of us, whereon he said: "'Strangers, who are you?


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Are you traders, or do you sail the sea as rovers, with your hands against every man, and every man 's hand against you?' "We were frightened out of our senses by his loud voice and monstrous form, but I managed to say,' We are Achaeans on our way home from Troy, but by the will of Jove, and stress of weather, we have been driven far out of our course.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We are the people of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, who has won infinite renown throughout the whole world, by sacking so great a city and killing so many people.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We therefore humbly pray you to show us some hospitality, and otherwise make us such presents as visitors may reasonably expect.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
May your excellency fear the wrath of heaven, for we are your suppliants, and Jove takes all respectable travellers under his protection, for he is the avenger of all suppliants and foreigners in distress.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"To this he gave me but a pitiless answer,' Stranger,' said he,' you are a fool, or else you know nothing of this country.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We Cyclopes do not care about Jove or any of your blessed gods, for we are ever so much stronger than they.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I shall not spare either yourself or your companions out of any regard for Jove, unless I am in the humour for doing so.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Was it round the point, or is she lying straight off the land?' "He said this to draw me out, but I was too cunning to be caught in that way, so I answered with a lie;' Neptune,' said I,' sent my ship on to the rocks at the far end of your country, and wrecked it.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We were driven on to them from the open sea, but I and those who are with me escaped the jaws of death.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"The cruel wretch vouchsafed me not one word of answer, but with a sudden clutch he gripped up two of my men at once and dashed them down upon the ground as though they had been puppies.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
He gobbled them up like a lion in the wilderness, flesh, bones, marrow, and entrails, without leaving anything uneaten.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As for us, we wept and lifted up our hands to heaven on seeing such a horrid sight, for we did not know what else to do; but when the Cyclops had filled his huge paunch, and had washed down his meal of human flesh with a drink of neat milk, he stretched himself full length upon the ground among his sheep, and went to sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I was at first inclined to seize my sword, draw it, and drive it into his vitals, but I reflected that if I did we should all certainly be lost, for we should never be able to shift the stone which the monster had put in front of the door.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"When the child of morning, rosyfingered dawn, appeared, he again lit his fire, milked his goats and ewes, all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; as soon as he had got through with all his work, he clutched up two more of my men, and began eating them for his morning 's meal.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Presently, with the utmost ease, he rolled the stone away from the door and drove out his sheep, but he at once put it back again— as easily as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As soon as he had done so he shouted, and cried' Shoo, shoo,' after his sheep to drive them on to the mountain; so I was left to scheme some way of taking my revenge and covering myself with glory.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"In the end I deemed it would be the best plan to do as follows: The Cyclops had a great club which was lying near one of the sheep pens; it was of green olive wood, and he had cut it intending to use it for a staff as soon as it should be dry.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
It was so huge that we could only compare it to the mast of a twentyoared merchant vessel of large burden, and able to venture out into open sea.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I went up to this club and cut off about six feet of it; I then gave this piece to the men and told them to fine it evenly off at one end, which they proceeded to do, and lastly I brought it to a point myself, charring the end in the fire to make it harder.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When I had done this I hid it under dung, which was lying about all over the cave, and told the men to cast lots which of them should venture along with myself to lift it and bore it into the monster 's eye while he was asleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
In the evening the wretch came back from shepherding, and drove his flocks into the cave— this time driving them all inside, and not leaving any in the yards; I suppose some fancy must have taken him, or a god must have prompted him to do so.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As soon as he had put the stone back to its place against the door, he sat down, milked his ewes and his goats all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; when he had got through with all this work, he gripped up two more of my men, and made his supper off them.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
So I went up to him with an ivywood bowl of black wine in my hands: "'Look here, Cyclops,' said I, you have been eating a great deal of man 's flesh, so take this and drink some wine, that you may see what kind of liquor we had on board my ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I was bringing it to you as a drinkoffering, in the hope that you would take compassion upon me and further me on my way home, whereas all you do is to go on ramping and raving most intolerably.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
You ought to be ashamed of yourself; how can you expect people to come see you any more if you treat them in this way?' "He then took the cup and drank.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We have wine even in this country, for our soil grows grapes and the sun ripens them, but this drinks like Nectar and Ambrosia all in one.' "I then gave him some more; three times did I fill the bowl for him, and three times did he drain it without thought or heed; then, when I saw that the wine had got into his head, I said to him as plausibly as I could:' Cyclops, you ask my name and I will tell it you; give me, therefore, the present you promised me; my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends have always called me.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"But the cruel wretch said,' Then I will eat all Noman 's comrades before Noman himself, and will keep Noman for the last.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Presently he turned sick, and threw up both wine and the gobbets of human flesh on which he had been gorging, for he was very drunk.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then I thrust the beam of wood far into the embers to heat it, and encouraged my men lest any of them should turn fainthearted.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When the wood, green though it was, was about to blaze, I drew it out of the fire glowing with heat, and my men gathered round me, for heaven had filled their hearts with courage.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We drove the sharp end of the beam into the monster 's eye, and bearing upon it with all my weight I kept turning it round and round as though I were boring a hole in a ship 's plank with an auger, which two men with a wheel and strap can keep on turning as long as they choose.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as we worked it round and round, so that the steam from the burning eyeball scalded his eyelids and eyebrows, and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it— for it is this that gives strength to the iron— and it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the Cyclops ' eye hiss round the beam of olive wood, and his hideous yells made the cave ring again.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We ran away in a fright, but he plucked the beam all besmirched with gore from his eye, and hurled it from him in a frenzy of rage and pain, shouting as he did so to the other Cyclopes who lived on the bleak headlands near him; so they gathered from all quarters round his cave when they heard him crying, and asked what was the matter with him.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"'What ails you, Polyphemus,' said they,' that you make such a noise, breaking the stillness of the night, and preventing us from being able to sleep?


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"But Polyphemus shouted to them from inside the cave,' Noman is killing me by fraud; no man is killing me by force.' "'Then,' said they,' if no man is attacking you, you must be ill; when Jove makes people ill, there is no help for it, and you had better pray to your father Neptune.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Then they went away, and I laughed inwardly at the success of my clever stratagem, but the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain, felt about with his hands till he found the stone and took it from the door; then he sat in the doorway and stretched his hands in front of it to catch anyone going out with the sheep, for he thought I might be foolish enough to attempt this.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"As for myself I kept on puzzling to think how I could best save my own life and those of my companions; I schemed and schemed, as one who knows that his life depends upon it, for the danger was very great.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
In the end I deemed that this plan would be the best; the male sheep were well grown, and carried a heavy black fleece, so I bound them noiselessly in threes together, with some of the withies on which the wicked monster used to sleep.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There was to be a man under the middle sheep, and the two on either side were to cover him, so that there were three sheep to each man.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As for myself there was a ram finer than any of the others, so I caught hold of him by the back, esconced myself in the thick wool under his belly, and hung on patiently to his fleece, face upwards, keeping a firm hold on it all the time.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Thus, then, did we wait in great fear of mind till morning came, but when the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, the male sheep hurried out to feed, while the ewes remained bleating about the pens waiting to be milked, for their udders were full to bursting; but their master in spite of all his pain felt the backs of all the sheep as they stood upright, without being sharp enough to find out that the men were underneath their bellies.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As the ram was going out, last of all, heavy with its fleece and with the weight of my crafty self, Polyphemus laid hold of it and said: "'My good ram, what is it that makes you the last to leave my cave this morning?


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
You are not wo nt to let the ewes go before you, but lead the mob with a run whether to flowery mead or bubbling fountain, and are the first to come home again at night; but now you lag last of all.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Is it because you know your master has lost his eye, and are sorry because that wicked Noman and his horrid crew has got him down in his drink and blinded him?


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
If you could understand and talk, you would tell me where the wretch is hiding, and I would dash his brains upon the ground till they flew all over the cave.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"As he spoke he drove the ram outside, but when we were a little way out from the cave and yards, I first got from under the ram 's belly, and then freed my comrades; as for the sheep, which were very fat, by constantly heading them in the right direction we managed to drive them down to the ship.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
The crew rejoiced greatly at seeing those of us who had escaped death, but wept for the others whom the Cyclops had killed.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
However, I made signs to them by nodding and frowning that they were to hush their crying, and told them to get all the sheep on board at once and put out to sea; so they went aboard, took their places, and smote the grey sea with their oars.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"'Cyclops,' said I,' you should have taken better measure of your man before eating up his comrades in your cave.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
You might have known that your sin would find you out, and now Jove and the other gods have punished you.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"He got more and more furious as he heard me, so he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of hitting the end of the rudder.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised carried us back towards the mainland, and forced us towards the shore.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
But I snatched up a long pole and kept the ship off, making signs to my men by nodding my head, that they must row for their lives, whereon they laid out with a will.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
When we had got twice as far as we were before, I was for jeering at the Cyclops again, but the men begged and prayed of me to hold my tongue.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"'Do not,' they exclaimed,' be mad enough to provoke this savage creature further; he has thrown one rock at us already which drove us back again to the mainland, and we made sure it had been the death of us; if he had then heard any further sound of voices he would have pounded our heads and our ship 's timbers into a jelly with the rugged rocks he would have heaved at us, for he can throw them a long way.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"But I would not listen to them, and shouted out to him in my rage,' Cyclops, if any one asks you who it was that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty, say it was the valiant warrior Ulysses, son of Laertes, who lives in Ithaca.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
There was a prophet here, at one time, a man both brave and of great stature, Telemus son of Eurymus, who was an excellent seer, and did all the prophesying for the Cyclopes till he grew old; he told me that all this would happen to me some day, and said I should lose my sight by the hand of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
I have been all along expecting some one of imposing presence and superhuman strength, whereas he turns out to be a little insignificant weakling, who has managed to blind my eye by taking advantage of me in my drink; come here, then, Ulysses, that I may make you presents to show my hospitality, and urge Neptune to help you forward on your journey— for Neptune and I are father and son.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Then I said,' I wish I could be as sure of killing you outright and sending you down to the house of Hades, as I am that it will take more than Neptune to cure that eye of yours.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"On this he lifted up his hands to the firmament of heaven and prayed, saying,' Hear me, great Neptune; if I am indeed your own true begotten son, grant that Ulysses may never reach his home alive; or if he must get back to his friends at last, let him do so late and in sore plight after losing all his men[ let him reach his home in another man 's ship and find trouble in his house.'


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then he picked up a rock much larger than the first, swung it aloft and hurled it with prodigious force.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
The sea quaked as the rock fell into it, and the wash of the wave it raised drove us onwards on our way towards the shore of the island.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"When at last we got to the island where we had left the rest of our ships, we found our comrades lamenting us, and anxiously awaiting our return.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
We ran our vessel upon the sands and got out of her on to the sea shore; we also landed the Cyclops ' sheep, and divided them equitably amongst us so that none might have reason to complain.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
As for the ram, my companions agreed that I should have it as an extra share; so I sacrificed it on the sea shore, and burned its thigh bones to Jove, who is the lord of all.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
But he heeded not my sacrifice, and only thought how he might destroy both my ships and my comrades.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
"Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun we feasted our fill on meat and drink, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped upon the beach.


title: homer-odyssey_09
sentence:
Then they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars; so we sailed on with sorrow in our hearts, but glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The fight between Achilles and the river Scamander—The gods fight among themselves—Achilles drives the Trojans within their gates.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Now when they came to the ford of the fullflowing river Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, Achilles cut their forces in two: one half he chased over the plain towards the city by the same way that the Achaeans had taken when flying panicstricken on the preceding day with Hector in full triumph; this way did they fly pellmell, and Juno sent down a thick mist in front of them to stay them.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The other half were hemmed in by the deep silvereddying stream, and fell into it with a great uproar.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The waters resounded, and the banks rang again, as they swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirling eddies.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As locusts flying to a river before the blast of a grass fire— the flame comes on and on till at last it overtakes them and they huddle into the water— even so was the eddying stream of Xanthus filled with the uproar of men and horses, all struggling in confusion before Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Forthwith the hero left his spear upon the bank, leaning it against a tamarisk bush, and plunged into the river like a god, armed with his sword only.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As when fish fly scared before a huge dolphin, and fill every nook and corner of some fair haven— for he is sure to eat all he can catch— even so did the Trojans cower under the banks of the mighty river, and when Achilles ' arms grew weary with killing them, he drew twelve youths alive out of the water, to sacrifice in revenge for Patroclus son of Menoetius.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He drew them out like dazed fawns, bound their hands behind them with the girdles of their own shirts, and gave them over to his men to take back to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus, as he was escaping out of the water; he it was whom he had once taken prisoner when he was in his father 's vineyard, having set upon him by night, as he was cutting young shoots from a wild figtree to make the wicker sides of a chariot.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Achilles then caught him to his sorrow unawares, and sent him by sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
But a guestfriend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum, and sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped and returned to his father 's house.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He had spent eleven days happily with his friends after he had come from Lemnos, but on the twelfth heaven again delivered him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send him to the house of Hades sorely against his will.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He was unarmed when Achilles caught sight of him, and had neither helmet nor shield; nor yet had he any spear, for he had thrown all his armour from him on to the bank, and was sweating with his struggles to get out of the river, so that his strength was now failing him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
If this man can come back alive after having been sold over into Lemnos, I shall have the Trojans also whom I have slain rising from the world below.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Could not even the waters of the grey sea imprison him, as they do many another whether he will or no?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
This time let him taste my spear, that I may know for certain whether mother earth who can keep even a strong man down, will be able to hold him, or whether thence too he will return.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
But Lycaon came up to him dazed and trying hard to embrace his knees, for he would fain live, not die.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Achilles thrust at him with his spear, meaning to kill him, but Lycaon ran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby the spear passed over his back, and stuck in the ground, hungering though it was for blood.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
With one hand he caught Achilles ' knees as he besought him, and with the other he clutched the spear and would not let it go.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
It was in your tents that I first broke bread on the day when you took me prisoner in the vineyard; after which you sold me away to Lemnos far from my father and my friends, and I brought you the price of a hundred oxen.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I have paid three times as much to gain my freedom; it is but twelve days that I have come to Ilius after much suffering, and now cruel fate has again thrown me into your hands.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Short of life indeed did my mother Laothoe bear me, daughter of aged Altes— of Altes who reigns over the warlike Lelegae and holds steep Pedasus on the river Satnioeis.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Priam married his daughter along with many other women and two sons were born of her, both of whom you will have slain.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Your spear slew noble Polydorus as he was fighting in the front ranks, and now evil will here befall me, for I fear that I shall not escape you since heaven has delivered me over to you.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart, spare me, for I am not of the same womb as Hector who slew your brave and noble comrade.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" With such words did the princely son of Priam beseech Achilles; but Achilles answered him sternly. "


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Until Patroclus fell I preferred to give the Trojans quarter, and sold beyond the sea many of those whom I had taken alive; but now not a man shall live of those whom heaven delivers into my hands before the city of Ilius— and of all Trojans it shall fare hardest with the sons of Priam.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I am son to a noble father, and have a goddess for my mother, but the hands of doom and death overshadow me all as surely.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The day will come, either at dawn or dark, or at the noontide, when one shall take my life also in battle, either with his spear, or with an arrow sped from his bow.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He loosed his hold of the spear, and held out both hands before him; but Achilles drew his keen blade, and struck him by the collarbone on his neck; he plunged his twoedged sword into him to the very hilt, whereon he lay at full length on the ground, with the dark blood welling from him till the earth was soaked.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then Achilles caught him by the foot and flung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him the while, and saying," Lie there among the fishes, who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay you on any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
There shall the fishes feed on the fat of Lycaon as they dart under the dark ripple of the waters— so perish all of you till we reach the citadel of strong Ilius— you in flight, and I following after to destroy you.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The river with its broad silver stream shall serve you in no stead, for all the bulls you offered him and all the horses that you flung living into his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
None the less miserably shall you perish till there is not a man of you but has paid in full for the death of Patroclus and the havoc you wrought among the Achaeans whom you have slain while I held aloof from battle.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" So spoke Achilles, but the river grew more and more angry, and pondered within himself how he should stay the hand of Achilles and save the Trojans from disaster.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He was son to the broad river Axius and Periboea eldest daughter of Acessamenus; for the river had lain with her.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Asteropaeus stood up out of the water to face him with a spear in either hand, and Xanthus filled him with courage, being angry for the death of the youths whom Achilles was slaying ruthlessly within his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I am from the fertile land of far Paeonia, captain of the Paeonians, and it is now eleven days that I am at Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles ' shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point; with the other spear he grazed the elbow of Achilles ' right arm drawing dark blood, but the spear itself went by him and fixed itself in the ground, foiled of its bloody banquet.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then Achilles, fain to kill him, hurled his spear at Asteropaeus, but failed to hit him and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Asteropaeus vainly tried to draw Achilles ' spear out of the bank by main force; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw it out, and thrice he had to leave off trying; the fourth time he tried to bend and break it, but ere he could do so Achilles smote him with his sword and killed him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He struck him in the belly near the navel, so that all his bowels came gushing out on to the ground, and the darkness of death came over him as he lay gasping.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then Achilles set his foot on his chest and spoiled him of his armour, vaunting over him and saying," Lie there— begotten of a river though you be, it is hard for you to strive with the offspring of Saturn 's son.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Therefore as Jove is mightier than any river that flows into the sea, so are his children stronger than those of any river whatsoever.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Moreover you have a great river hard by if he can be of any use to you, but there is no fighting against Jove the son of Saturn, with whom not even King Achelous can compare, nor the mighty stream of deepflowing Oceanus, from whom all rivers and seas with all springs and deep wells proceed; even Oceanus fears the lightnings of great Jove, and his thunder that comes crashing out of heaven.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" With this he drew his bronze spear out of the bank, and now that he had killed Asteropaeus, he let him lie where he was on the sand, with the dark water flowing over him and the eels and fishes busy nibbling and gnawing the fat that was about his kidneys.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then he went in chase of the Paeonians, who were flying along the bank of the river in panic when they saw their leader slain by the hands of the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slain yet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken to him from out the deep waters saying," Achilles, if you excel all in strength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with you to protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to you to destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream, and do your grim work on land.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
My fair waters are now filled with corpses, nor can I find any channel by which I may pour myself into the sea for I am choked with dead, and yet you go on mercilessly slaying.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" Achilles answered," So be it, Scamander, Jovedescended; but I will never cease dealing out death among the Trojans, till I have pent them up in their city, and made trial of Hector face to face, that I may learn whether he is to vanquish me, or I him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
But the river said to Apollo," Surely, son of Jove, lord of the silver bow, you are not obeying the commands of Jove who charged you straitly that you should stand by the Trojans and defend them, till twilight fades, and darkness is over the earth."


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Meanwhile Achilles sprang from the bank into mid stream, whereon the river raised a high wave and attacked him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He swelled his stream into a torrent, and swept away the many dead whom Achilles had slain and left within his waters.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
These he cast out on to the land, bellowing like a bull the while, but the living he saved alive, hiding them in his mighty eddies.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The great and terrible wave gathered about Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, so that he could not keep his feet; he caught hold of a great elmtree, but it came up by the roots, and tore away the bank, damming the stream with its thick branches and bridging it all across; whereby Achilles struggled out of the stream, and fled full speed over the plain, for he was afraid.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
But the mighty god ceased not in his pursuit, and sprang upon him with a darkcrested wave, to stay his hands and save the Trojans from destruction.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The son of Peleus darted away a spear 's throw from him; swift as the swoop of a black huntereagle which is the strongest and fleetest of all birds, even so did he spring forward, and the armour rang loudly about his breast.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As one who would water his garden leads a stream from some fountain over his plants, and all his ground— spade in hand he clears away the dams to free the channels, and the little stones run rolling round and round with the water as it goes merrily down the bank faster than the man can follow— even so did the river keep catching up with Achilles albeit he was a fleet runner, for the gods are stronger than men.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As often as he would strive to stand his ground, and see whether or no all the gods in heaven were in league against him, so often would the mighty wave come beating down upon his shoulders, and he would have to keep flying on and on in great dismay; for the angry flood was tiring him out as it flowed past him and ate the ground from under his feet.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then the son of Peleus lifted up his voice to heaven saying," Father Jove, is there none of the gods who will take pity upon me, and save me from the river?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I blame none of the other dwellers on Olympus so severely as I do my dear mother, who has beguiled and tricked me.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
She told me I was to fall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo; would that Hector, the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me; then should I fall a hero by the hand of a hero; whereas now it seems that I shall come to a most pitiable end, trapped in this river as though I were some swineherd 's boy, who gets carried down a torrent while trying to cross it during a storm.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva came up to him in the likeness of two men, and took him by the hand to reassure him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
"Son of Peleus," said he," be not so exceeding fearful; we are two gods, come with Jove 's sanction to assist you, I, and Pallas Minerva.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
It is not your fate to perish in this river; he will abate presently as you will see; moreover we strongly advise you, if you will be guided by us, not to stay your hand from fighting till you have pent the Trojan host within the famed walls of Ilius— as many of them as may escape.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" When they had so said they went back to the other immortals, but Achilles strove onward over the plain, encouraged by the charge the gods had laid upon him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
All was now covered with the flood of waters, and much goodly armour of the youths that had been slain was rifting about, as also many corpses, but he forced his way against the stream, speeding right onwards, nor could the broad waters stay him, for Minerva had endowed him with great strength.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Nevertheless Scamander did not slacken in his pursuit, but was still more furious with the son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He lifted his waters into a high crest and cried aloud to Simois saying," Dear brother, let the two of us unite to save this man, or he will sack the mighty city of King Priam, and the Trojans will not hold out against him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Help me at once; fill your streams with water from their sources, rouse all your torrents to a fury; raise your wave on high, and let snags and stones come thundering down you that we may make an end of this savage creature who is now lording it as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Nothing shall serve him longer, not strength nor comeliness, nor his fine armour, which forsooth shall soon be lying low in the deep waters covered over with mud.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I will wrap him in sand, and pour tons of shingle round him, so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather his bones for the silt in which I shall have hidden him, and when they celebrate his funeral they need build no barrow.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" On this he upraised his tumultuous flood high against Achilles, seething as it was with foam and blood and the bodies of the dead.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The dark waters of the river stood upright and would have overwhelmed the son of Peleus, but Juno, trembling lest Achilles should be swept away in the mighty torrent, lifted her voice on high and called out to Vulcan her son. "


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Crookfoot," she cried," my child, be up and doing, for I deem it is with you that Xanthus is fain to fight; help us at once, kindle a fierce fire; I will then bring up the west and the white south wind in a mighty hurricane from the sea, that shall bear the flames against the heads and armour of the Trojans and consume them, while you go along the banks of Xanthus burning his trees and wrapping him round with fire.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Let him not turn you back neither by fair words nor foul, and slacken not till I shout and tell you.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" On this Vulcan kindled a fierce fire, which broke out first upon the plain and burned the many dead whom Achilles had killed and whose bodies were lying about in great numbers; by this means the plain was dried and the flood stayed.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As the north wind, blowing on an orchard that has been sodden with autumn rain, soon dries it, and the heart of the owner is glad— even so the whole plain was dried and the dead bodies were consumed.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He burned the elms the willows and the tamarisks, the lotus also, with the rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks of the river.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
The eels and fishes that go darting about everywhere in the water, these, too, were sorely harassed by the flames that cunning Vulcan had kindled, and the river himself was scalded, so that he spoke saying," Vulcan, there is no god can hold his own against you.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
As a cauldron upon a large fire boils when it is melting the lard of some fatted hog, and the lard keeps bubbling up all over when the dry faggots blaze under it— even so were the goodly waters of Xanthus heated with the fire till they were boiling.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
He could flow no longer but stayed his stream, so afflicted was he by the blasts of fire which cunning Vulcan had raised.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then he prayed to Juno and besought her saying," Juno, why should your son vex my stream with such especial fury?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Furthermore I swear never again will I do anything to save the Trojans from destruction, not even when all Troy is burning in the flames which the Achaeans will kindle.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" As soon as Juno heard this she said to her son Vulcan," Son Vulcan, hold now your flames; we ought not to use such violence against a god for the sake of mortals.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" When she had thus spoken Vulcan quenched his flames, and the river went back once more into his own fair bed.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Xanthus was now beaten, so these two left off fighting, for Juno stayed them though she was still angry; but a furious quarrel broke out among the other gods, for they were of divided counsels.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
They fell on one another with a mighty uproar— earth groaned, and the spacious firmament rang out as with a blare of trumpets.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Jove heard as he was sitting on Olympus, and laughed for joy when he saw the gods coming to blows among themselves.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Why, vixen," said he," have you again set the gods by the ears in the pride and haughtiness of your heart?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Have you forgotten how you set Diomed son of Tydeus on to wound me, and yourself took visible spear and drove it into me to the hurt of my fair body?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" As he spoke he struck her on the terrible tasselled aegis— so terrible that not even can Jove 's lightning pierce it.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
She drew back and with her strong hand seized a stone that was lying on the plain— great and rugged and black— which men of old had set for the boundary of a field.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Nine roods did he cover in his fall, and his hair was all soiled in the dust, while his armour rang rattling round him.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
But Minerva laughed and vaunted over him saying," Idiot, have you not learned how far stronger I am than you, but you must still match yourself against me?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Thus do your mother 's curses now roost upon you, for she is angry and would do you mischief because you have deserted the Achaeans and are helping the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
" She then turned her two piercing eyes elsewhere, whereon Jove 's daughter Venus took Mars by the hand and led him away groaning all the time, for it was only with great difficulty that he had come to himself again.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
When Queen Juno saw her, she said to Minerva," Look, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, unweariable, that vixen Venus is again taking Mars through the crowd out of the battle; go after her at once.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Minerva sped after Venus with a will, and made at her, striking her on the bosom with her strong hand so that she fell fainting to the ground, and there they both lay stretched at full length.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Then Minerva vaunted over her saying," May all who help the Trojans against the Argives prove just as redoubtable and stalwart as Venus did when she came across me while she was helping Mars.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Meanwhile King Neptune turned to Apollo saying," Phoebus, why should we keep each other at arm 's length?


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
it is not well, now that the others have begun fighting; it will be disgraceful to us if we return to Jove 's bronzefloored mansion on Olympus without having fought each other; therefore come on, you are the younger of the two, and I ought not to attack you, for I am older and have had more experience.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
Idiot, you have no sense, and forget how we two alone of all the gods fared hardly round about Ilius when we came from Jove 's house and worked for Laomedon a whole year at a stated wage and he gave us his orders.


title: homer-iliad_21
sentence:
I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable, while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida.


title: homer-iliad_21
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When, however, the glad hours brought round the time of payment, mighty Laomedon robbed us of all our hire and sent us off with nothing but abuse.


title: homer-iliad_21
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He tried, moreover, to cut off the ears of both of us, so we went away in a rage, furious about the payment he had promised us, and yet withheld; in spite of all this, you are now showing favour to his people, and will not join us in compassing the utter ruin of the proud Trojans with their wives and children.


title: homer-iliad_21
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" And King Apollo answered," Lord of the earthquake, you would have no respect for me if I were to fight you about a pack of miserable mortals, who come out like leaves in summer and eat the fruit of the field, and presently fall lifeless to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_21
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But his sister the huntress Diana, patroness of wild beasts, was very angry with him and said," So you would fly, FarDarter, and hand victory over to Neptune with a cheap vaunt to boot.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Never let me again hear you bragging in my father 's house, as you have often done in the presence of the immortals, that you would stand up and fight with Neptune.


title: homer-iliad_21
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You will find it better to chase wild beasts and deer upon the mountains than to fight those who are stronger than you are.


title: homer-iliad_21
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If you would try war, do so, and find out by pitting yourself against me, how far stronger I am than you are.


title: homer-iliad_21
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" She caught both Diana 's wrists with her left hand as she spoke, and with her right she took the bow from her shoulders, and laughed as she beat her with it about the ears while Diana wriggled and writhed under her blows.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Her swift arrows were shed upon the ground, and she fled weeping from under Juno 's hand as a dove that flies before a falcon to the cleft of some hollow rock, when it is her good fortune to escape.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Then the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, said to Leto," Leto, I shall not fight you; it is ill to come to blows with any of Jove 's wives.


title: homer-iliad_21
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" Leto then gathered up Diana 's bow and arrows that had fallen about amid the whirling dust, and when she had got them she made all haste after her daughter.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Diana had now reached Jove 's bronzefloored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father, while her ambrosial raiment was quivering all about her.


title: homer-iliad_21
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The son of Saturn drew her towards him, and laughing pleasantly the while began to question her saying," Which of the heavenly beings, my dear child, has been treating you in this cruel manner, as though you had been misconducting yourself in the face of everybody?"


title: homer-iliad_21
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and the faircrowned goddess of the chase answered," It was your wife Juno, father, who has been beating me; it is always her doing when there is any quarrelling among the immortals."


title: homer-iliad_21
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Thus did they converse, and meanwhile Phoebus Apollo entered the strong city of Ilius, for he was uneasy lest the wall should not hold out and the Danaans should take the city then and there, before its hour had come; but the rest of the everliving gods went back, some angry and some triumphant to Olympus, where they took their seats beside Jove lord of the storm cloud, while Achilles still kept on dealing out death alike on the Trojans and on their horses.


title: homer-iliad_21
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As when the smoke from some burning city ascends to heaven when the anger of the gods has kindled it— there is then toil for all, and sorrow for not a few— even so did Achilles bring toil and sorrow on the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Old King Priam stood on a high tower of the wall looking down on huge Achilles as the Trojans fled panicstricken before him, and there was none to help them.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Presently he came down from off the tower and with many a groan went along the wall to give orders to the brave warders of the gate.


title: homer-iliad_21
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"Keep the gates," said he," wide open till the people come flying into the city, for Achilles is hard by and is driving them in rout before him.


title: homer-iliad_21
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As soon as our people are inside and in safety, close the strong gates for I fear lest that terrible man should come bounding inside along with the others.


title: homer-iliad_21
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" As he spoke they drew back the bolts and opened the gates, and when these were opened there was a haven of refuge for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Right for the city and the high wall, parched with thirst and grimy with dust, still they fied on, with Achilles wielding his spear furiously behind them.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Then had the sons of the Achaeans taken the lofty gates of Troy if Apollo had not spurred on Agenor, valiant and noble son to Antenor.


title: homer-iliad_21
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He put courage into his heart, and stood by his side to guard him, leaning against a beech tree and shrouded in thick darkness.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Alas," said he to himself in his dismay," if I fly before mighty Achilles, and go where all the others are being driven in rout, he will none the less catch me and kill me for a coward.


title: homer-iliad_21
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How would it be were I to let Achilles drive the others before him, and then fly from the wall to the plain that is behind Ilius till I reach the spurs of Ida and can hide in the underwood that is thereon?


title: homer-iliad_21
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Like enough he would see me as I am hurrying from the city over the plain, and would speed after me till he had caught me— I should stand no chance against him, for he is mightiest of all mankind.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Life is the same in one and all, and men say that he is but mortal despite the triumph that Jove son of Saturn vouchsafes him.


title: homer-iliad_21
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As a leopardess that bounds from out a thick covert to attack a hunter— she knows no fear and is not dismayed by the baying of the hounds; even though the man be too quick for her and wound her either with thrust or spear, still, though the spear has pierced her she will not give in till she has either caught him in her grip or been killed outright— even so did noble Agenor son of Antenor refuse to fly till he had made trial of Achilles, and took aim at him with his spear, holding his round shield before him and crying with a loud voice."


title: homer-iliad_21
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Of a truth," said he," noble Achilles, you deem that you shall this day sack the city of the proud Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Fool, there will be trouble enough yet before it, for there is many a brave man of us still inside who will stand in front of our dear parents with our wives and children, to defend Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_21
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" As he spoke his strong hand hurled his javelin from him, and the spear struck Achilles on the leg beneath the knee; the greave of newly wrought tin rang loudly, but the spear recoiled from the body of him whom it had struck, and did not pierce it, for the god 's gift stayed it.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Achilles in his turn attacked noble Agenor, but Apollo would not vouchsafe him glory, for he snatched Agenor away and hid him in a thick mist, sending him out of the battle unmolested.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Then he craftily drew the son of Peleus away from going after the host, for he put on the semblance of Agenor and stood in front of Achilles, who ran towards him to give him chase and pursued him over the corn lands of the plain, turning him towards the deep waters of the river Scamander.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Apollo ran but a little way before him and beguiled Achilles by making him think all the time that he was on the point of overtaking him.


title: homer-iliad_21
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Meanwhile the rabble of routed Trojans was thankful to crowd within the city till their numbers thronged it; no longer did they dare wait for one another outside the city walls, to learn who had escaped and who were fallen in fight, but all whose feet and knees could still carry them poured pellmell into the town.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_09
sentence:
Menservants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixingbowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drinkoffering; then, when they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the envoys set out from the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus; and Nestor, looking first to one and then to another, but most especially at Ulysses, was instant with them that they should prevail with the noble son of Peleus.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_09
sentence:
They bade him choose fifty ploughgates, the most fertile in the plain of Calydon, the onehalf vineyard and the other open ploughland.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_09
sentence:
We are with you as messengers from the host of the Danaans, and would fain he held nearest and dearest to yourself of all the Achaeans." "Ajax," replied Achilles," noble son of Telamon, you have spoken much to my liking, but my blood boils when I think it all over, and remember how the son of Atreus treated me with contumely as though I were some vile tramp, and that too in the presence of the Argives.


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-iliad_09
sentence:
"Tell me, Ulysses," said he," will he save the ships from burning, or did he refuse, and is he still furious?" Ulysses answered," Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, Achilles will not be calmed, but is more fiercely angry than ever, and spurns both you and your gifts.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
THE TRIAL OF THE AXES, DURING WHICH ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS Minerva now put it in Penelope 's mind to make the suitors try their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among themselves, as a means of bringing about their destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
She went upstairs and got the storeroom key, which was made of bronze and had a handle of ivory; she then went with her maidens into the storeroom at the end of the house, where her husband 's treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were kept, and where was also his bow, and the quiver full of deadly arrows that had been given him by a friend whom he had met in Lacedaemon— Iphitus the son of Eurytus.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
The two fell in with one another in Messene at the house of Ortilochus, where Ulysses was staying in order to recover a debt that was owing from the whole people; for the Messenians had carried off three hundred sheep from Ithaca, and had sailed away with them and with their shepherds.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
In quest of these Ulysses took a long journey while still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on a mission to recover them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Iphitus had gone there also to try and get back twelve brood mares that he had lost, and the mule foals that were running with them.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
These mares were the death of him in the end, for when he went to the house of Jove 's son, mighty Hercules, who performed such prodigies of valour, Hercules to his shame killed him, though he was his guest, for he feared not heaven 's vengeance, nor yet respected his own table which he had set before Iphitus, but killed him in spite of everything, and kept the mares himself.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
It was when claiming these that Iphitus met Ulysses, and gave him the bow which mighty Eurytus had been used to carry, and which on his death had been left by him to his son.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Ulysses gave him in return a sword and a spear, and this was the beginning of a fast friendship, although they never visited at one another 's houses, for Jove 's son Hercules killed Iphitus ere they could do so.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
This bow, then, given him by Iphitus, had not been taken with him by Ulysses when he sailed for Troy; he had used it so long as he had been at home, but had left it behind as having been a keepsake from a valued friend.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Penelope presently reached the oak threshold of the storeroom; the carpenter had planed this duly, and had drawn a line on it so as to get it quite straight; he had then set the door posts into it and hung the doors.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
She loosed the strap from the handle of the door, put in the key, and drove it straight home to shoot back the bolts that held the doors; these flew open with a noise like a bull bellowing in a meadow, and Penelope stepped upon the raised platform, where the chests stood in which the fair linen and clothes were laid by along with fragrant herbs: reaching thence, she took down the bow with its bow case from the peg on which it hung.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
She sat down with it on her knees, weeping bitterly as she took the bow out of its case, and when her tears had relieved her, she went to the cloister where the suitors were, carrying the bow and the quiver, with the many deadly arrows that were inside it.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Along with her came her maidens, bearing a chest that contained much iron and bronze which her husband had won as prizes.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
When she reached the suitors, she stood by one of the bearingposts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a maid on either side of her.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Then she said: "Listen to me you suitors, who persist in abusing the hospitality of this house because its owner has been long absent, and without other pretext than that you want to marry me; this, then, being the prize that you are contending for, I will bring out the mighty bow of Ulysses, and whomsoever of you shall string it most easily and send his arrow through each one of twelve axes, him will I follow and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly, and so abounding in wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
" As she spoke, she told Eumaeus to set the bow and the pieces of iron before the suitors, and Eumaeus wept as he took them to do as she had bidden him.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
"You country louts," said he," silly simpletons; why should you add to the sorrows of your mistress by crying in this way?


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
She has enough to grieve her in the loss of her husband; sit still, therefore, and eat your dinners in silence, or go outside if you want to cry, and leave the bow behind you.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
We suitors shall have to contend for it with might and main, for we shall find it no light matter to string such a bow as this is.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
There is not a man of us all who is such another as Ulysses; for I have seen him and remember him, though I was then only a child.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
" This was what he said, but all the time he was expecting to be able to string the bow and shoot through the iron, whereas in fact he was to be the first that should taste of the arrows from the hands of Ulysses, whom he was dishonouring in his own house— egging the others on to do so also.


title: homer-odyssey_21
sentence:
Here is my dear and excellent mother saying she will quit this house and marry again, yet I am laughing and enjoying myself as though there were nothing happening.


