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title: homer-odyssey_14
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He sent me off however before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheatgrowing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to King Acastus.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"These men hatched a plot against me that would have reduced me to the very extreme of misery, for when the ship had got some way out from land they resolved on selling me as a slave.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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They stripped me of the shirt and cloak that I was wearing, and gave me instead the tattered old clouts in which you now see me; then, towards nightfall, they reached the tilled lands of Ithaca, and there they bound me with a strong rope fast in the ship, while they went on shore to get supper by the sea side.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But the gods soon undid my bonds for me, and having drawn my rags over my head I slid down the rudder into the sea, where I struck out and swam till I was well clear of them, and came ashore near a thick wood in which I lay concealed.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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They were very angry at my having escaped and went searching about for me, till at last they thought it was no further use and went back to their ship.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The gods, having hidden me thus easily, then took me to a good man 's door— for it seems that I am not to die yet awhile.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Poor unhappy stranger, I have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting, but that part about Ulysses is not right; and you will never get me to believe it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The gods one and all of them detest him, or they would have taken him before Troy, or let him die with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes and his son would have been heir to his renown, but now the storm winds have spirited him away we know not whither.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"As for me I live out of the way here with the pigs, and never go to the town unless when Penelope sends for me on the arrival of some news about Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king 's absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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For my own part I have never cared about asking anyone else since the time when I was taken in by an Aetolian, who had killed a man and come a long way till at last he reached my station, and I was very kind to him.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He said he had seen Ulysses with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has brought you to my door, do not try to flatter me in this way with vain hopes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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It is not for any such reason that I shall treat you kindly, but only out of respect for Jove the god of hospitality, as fearing him and pitying you.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" Ulysses answered," I see that you are of an unbelieving mind; I have given you my oath, and yet you will not credit me ;let us then make a bargain, and call all the gods in heaven to witness it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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If your master comes home, give me a cloak and shirt of good wear, and send me to Dulichium where I want to go; but if he does not come as I say he will, set your men on to me, and tell them to throw me from yonder precipice, as a warning to tramps not to go about the country telling lies."


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"And a pretty figure I should cut then," replied Eumaeus," both now and hereafter, if I were to kill you after receiving you into my hut and showing you hospitality.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" Thus did they converse, and presently the swineherds came up with the pigs, which were then shut up for the night in their styes, and a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven into them.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But Eumaeus called to his men and said," Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought in a fine fat five year old boar pig, and set it at the altar.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig 's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Then they cut it up, and Eumaeus began by putting raw pieces from each joint on to some of the fat; these he sprinkled with barley meal, and laid upon the embers; they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces upon the spits and roasted them till they were done; when they had taken them off the spits they threw them on to the dresser in a heap.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He gave Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a mark of especial honour, and Ulysses was much pleased.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"I hope, Eumaeus," said he," that Jove will be as well disposed towards you as I am, for the respect you are showing to an outcast like myself.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Eat, my good fellow, and enjoy your supper, such as it is.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" As he spoke he cut off the first piece and offered it as a burnt sacrifice to the immortal gods; then he made them a drinkoffering, put the cup in the hands of Ulysses, and sat down to his own portion.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Mesaulius brought them their bread; the swineherd had brought this man on his own account from among the Taphians during his master 's absence, and had paid for him with his own money without saying anything either to his mistress or Laertes.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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They then laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, and when they had had enough to eat and drink, Mesaulius took away what was left of the bread, and they all went to bed after having made a hearty supper.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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It poured without ceasing, and the wind blew strong from the West, which is a wet quarter ,so Ulysses thought he would see whether Eumaeus, in the excellent care he took of him, would take off his own cloak and give it him, or make one of his men give him one."


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Listen to me," said he," Eumaeus and the rest of you; when I have said a prayer I will tell you something.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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It is the wine that makes me talk in this way; wine will make even a wise man fall to singing; it will make him chuckle and dance and say many a word that he had better leave unspoken; still, as I have begun, I will go on.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Menelaus and Ulysses were the leaders, but I was in command also, for the other two would have it so.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When we had come up to the wall of the city we crouched down beneath our armour and lay there under cover of the reeds and thick brushwood that grew about the swamp.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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It came on to freeze with a North wind blowing; the snow fell small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were coated thick with rime.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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The others had all got cloaks and shirts, and slept comfortably enough with their shields about their shoulders, but I had carelessly left my cloak behind me, not thinking that I should be too cold, and had gone off in nothing but my shirt and shield.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When the night was twothirds through and the stars had shifted their places, I nudged Ulysses who was close to me with my elbow, and he at once gave me his ear.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"'Ulysses,' said I,' this cold will be the death of me, for I have no cloak; some god fooled me into setting off with nothing on but my shirt, and I do not know what to do.' "Ulysses, who was as crafty as he was valiant, hit upon the following plan:


title: homer-odyssey_14
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We are a long way from the ships; I wish some one would go down and tell Agamemnon to send us up more men at once.'


title: homer-odyssey_14
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"On this Thoas son of Andraemon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now people look down upon me because my clothes are shabby."


title: homer-odyssey_14
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And Eumaeus answered," Old man, you have told us an excellent story, and have said nothing so far but what is quite satisfactory; for the present, therefore, you shall want neither clothing nor anything else that a stranger in distress may reasonably expect, but tomorrow morning you have to shake your own old rags about your body again, for we have not many spare cloaks nor shirts up here, but every man has only one.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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When Ulysses ' son comes home again he will give you both cloak and shirt, and send you wherever you may want to go.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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" With this he got up and made a bed for Ulysses by throwing some goatskins and sheepskins on the ground in front of the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs, so he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was glad to see that he looked after his property during his master 's absence.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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He also took the skin of a large and well fed goat, and a javelin in case of attack from men or dogs.


title: homer-odyssey_14
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Thus equipped he went to his rest where the pigs were camping under an overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the North wind.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA—SPEECHES OF TELEMACHUS AND OF THE SUITORS—TELEMACHUS MAKES HIS PREPARATIONS AND STARTS FOR PYLOS WITH MINERVA DISGUISED AS MENTOR.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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He at once sent the criers round to call the people in assembly, so they called them and the people gathered thereon; then, when they were got together, he went to the place of assembly spear in hand— not alone, for his two hounds went with him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and when he took his place in his father 's seat even the oldest councillors made way for him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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His son Antiphus had gone with Ulysses to Ilius, land of noble steeds, but the savage Cyclops had killed him when they were all shut up in the cave, and had cooked his last dinner for him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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He had three sons left, of whom two still worked on their father 's land, while the third, Eurynomus, was one of the suitors; nevertheless their father could not get over the loss of Antiphus, and was still weeping for him when he began his speech.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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From the day Ulysses left us there has been no meeting of our councillors until now; who then can it be, whether old or young, that finds it so necessary to convene us?


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Has he got wind of some host approaching, and does he wish to warn us, or would he speak upon some other matter of public moment?


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" Telemachus took this speech as of good omen and rose at once, for he was bursting with what he had to say.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Then, turning to Aegyptius," Sir," said he," it is I, as you will shortly learn, who have convened you, for it is I who am the most aggrieved.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I have not got wind of any host approaching about which I would warn you, nor is there any matter of public moment on which I would speak.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The first of these is the loss of my excellent father, who was chief among all you here present, and was like a father to every one of you; the second is much more serious, and ere long will be the utter ruin of my estate.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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They are afraid to go to her father Icarius, asking him to choose the one he likes best, and to provide marriage gifts for his daughter, but day by day they keep hanging about my father 's house, sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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No estate can stand such recklessness; we have now no Ulysses to ward off harm from our doors, and I can not hold my own against them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I shall never all my days be as good a man as he was, still I would indeed defend myself if I had power to do so, for I can not stand such treatment any longer; my house is being disgraced and ruined.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I pray you by Jove and Themis, who is the beginning and the end of councils,[ do not] hold back, my friends, and leave me singlehanded— unless it be that my brave father Ulysses did some wrong to the Achaeans which you would now avenge on me, by aiding and abetting these suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Moreover, if I am to be eaten out of house and home at all, I had rather you did the eating yourselves, for I could then take action against you to some purpose, and serve you with notices from house to house till I got paid in full, whereas now I have no remedy.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Every one was very sorry for him, but they all sat still and no one ventured to make him an angry answer, save only Antinous, who spoke thus:


title: homer-odyssey_02
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This three years past, and close on four, she had been driving us out of our minds, by encouraging each one of us, and sending him messages without meaning one word of what she says.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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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_02
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Sweet hearts,' said she,' Ulysses is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait— for I would not have skill in needlework perish unrecorded— till I have completed a pall for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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"This was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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She fooled us in this way for three years and we never found her out, but as time wore on and she was now in her fourth year, 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.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The suitors, therefore, make you this answer, that both you and the Achaeans may understand—'Send your mother away, and bid her marry the man of her own and of her father 's choice'; for I do not know what will happen if she goes on plaguing us much longer with the airs she gives herself on the score of the accomplishments Minerva has taught her, and because she is so clever.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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It was not fair of her to treat us in that way, and as long as she continues in the mind with which heaven has now endowed her, so long shall we go on eating up your estate; and I do not see why she should change ,for she gets all the honour and glory, and it is you who pay for it, not she.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Understand, then, that we will not go back to our lands, neither here nor elsewhere, till she has made her choice and married some one or other of us.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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It will be hard on me if I have to pay Icarius the large sum which I must give him if I insist on sending his daughter back to him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Not only will he deal rigorously with me, but heaven will also punish me; for my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her; besides, it would not be a creditable thing to do, and I will have nothing to say to it.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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If you choose to take offence at this, leave the house and feast elsewhere at one another 's houses at your own cost turn and turn about.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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If, on the other hand, you elect to persist in spunging upon one man, heaven help me, but Jove shall reckon with you in full, and when you fall in my father 's house there shall be no man to avenge you." As he spoke Jove sent two eagles from the top of the mountain, and they flew on and on with the wind, sailing side by side in their own lordly flight.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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When they were right over the middle of the assembly they wheeled and circled about, beating the air with their wings and glaring death into the eyes of them that were below; then, fighting fiercely and tearing at one another, they flew off towards the right over the town.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The people wondered as they saw them, and asked each other what all this might be; whereon Halitherses, who was the best prophet and reader of omens among them, spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying: "Hear me, men of Ithaca, and I speak more particularly to the suitors, for I see mischief brewing for them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Ulysses is not going to be away much longer; indeed he is close at hand to deal out death and destruction, not on them alone, but on many another of us who live in Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Let the suitors do so of their own accord; it will be better for them, for I am not prophesying without due knowledge; everything has happened to Ulysses as I foretold when the Argives set out for Troy, and he with them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I said that after going through much hardship and losing all his men he should come home again in the twentieth year and that no one would know him; and now all this is coming true.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" Eurymachus son of Polybus then said," Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I can read these omens myself much better than you can; birds are always flying about in the sunshine somewhere or other, but they seldom mean anything.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Ulysses has died in a far country, and it is a pity you are not dead along with him, instead of prating here about omens and adding fuel to the anger of Telemachus which is fierce enough as it is.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I suppose you think he will give you something for your family, but I tell you— and it shall surely be— when an old man like you, who should know better, talks a young one over till he becomes troublesome, in the first place his young friend will only fare so much the worse— he will take nothing by it, for the suitors will prevent this— and in the next, we will lay a heavier fine, sir, upon yourself than you will at all like paying, for it will bear hardly upon you.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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As for Telemachus, I warn him in the presence of you all to send his mother back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts so dear a daughter may expect.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Till then we shall go on harassing him with our suit; for we fear no man, and care neither for him, with all his fine speeches, nor for any fortunetelling of yours.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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We shall go back and continue to eat up Telemachus 's estate without paying him, till such time as his mother leaves off tormenting us by keeping us day after day on the tiptoe of expectation, each vying with the other in his suit for a prize of such rare perfection.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Besides we can not go after the other women whom we should marry in due course, but for the way in which she treats us.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" Then Telemachus said," Eurymachus, and you other suitors, I shall say no more, and entreat you no further, for the gods and the people of Ithaca now know my story.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Give me, then, a ship and a crew of twenty men to take me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta and to Pylos in quest of my father who has so long been missing.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Some one may tell me something, or( and people often hear things in this way) some heavensent message may direct me.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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If I can hear of him as alive and on his way home I will put up with the waste you suitors will make for yet another twelve months.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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If on the other hand I hear of his death, I will return at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make my mother marry again.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" With these words he sat down, and Mentor who had been a friend of Ulysses, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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He, then, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: "Hear me, men of Ithaca, I hope that you may never have a kind and welldisposed ruler any more, nor one who will govern you equitably; I hope that all your chiefs henceforward may be cruel and unjust, for there is not one of you but has forgotten Ulysses, who ruled you as though he were your father.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I am not half so angry with the suitors, for if they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their hearts, and wager their heads that Ulysses will not return, they can take the high hand and eat up his estate, but as for you others I am shocked at the way in which you all sit still without even trying to stop such scandalous goings on— which you could do if you chose, for you are many and they are few.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying," Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us?


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Even though Ulysses himself were to set upon us while we are feasting in his house, and do his best to oust us, his wife, who wants him back so very badly, would have small cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon his own head if he fought against such great odds.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Now, therefore, do you people go about your business, and let his father 's old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all— which I do not think he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes and tells him something.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own abode, while the suitors returned to the house of Ulysses.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Then Telemachus went all alone by the sea side, washed his hands in the grey waves, and prayed to Minerva.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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"Hear me," he cried," you god who visited me yesterday, and bade me sail the seas in search of my father who has so long been missing.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I would obey you, but the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked suitors, are hindering me that I can not do so."


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Telemachus," said she," if you are made of the same stuff as your father you will be neither fool nor coward henceforward, for Ulysses never broke his word nor left his work half done.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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If, then, you take after him, your voyage will not be fruitless, but unless you have the blood of Ulysses and of Penelope in your veins I see no likelihood of your succeeding.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better; still, as you are not going to be either fool or coward henceforward, and are not entirely without some share of your father 's wise discernment, I look with hope upon your undertaking.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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But mind you never make common cause with any of those foolish suitors, for they have neither sense nor virtue, and give no thought to death and to the doom that will shortly fall on one and all of them, so that they shall perish on the same day.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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As for your voyage, it shall not be long delayed; your father was such an old friend of mine that I will find you a ship, and will come with you myself.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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There are many ships in Ithaca both old and new; I will run my eye over them for you and will choose the best; we will get her ready and will put out to sea without delay.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" Thus spoke Minerva daughter of Jove, and Telemachus lost no time in doing as the goddess told him.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Antinous came up to him at once and laughed as he took his hand in his own, saying," Telemachus, my fine fireeater, bear no more ill blood neither in word nor deed, but eat and drink with us as you used to do.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The Achaeans will find you in everything— a ship and a picked crew to boot— so that you can set sail for Pylos at once and get news of your noble father.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" "Antinous," answered Telemachus," I can not eat in peace, nor take pleasure of any kind with such men as you are.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Now that I am older and know more about it, I am also stronger, and whether here among this people, or by going to Pylos, I will do you all the harm I can.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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I shall go, and my going will not be in vain— though, thanks to you suitors ,I have neither ship nor crew of my own, and must be passenger not captain.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Meanwhile the others went on getting dinner ready about the buildings jeering at him tauntingly as they did so.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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"Telemachus," said one youngster," means to be the death of us; I suppose he thinks he can bring friends to help him from Pylos, or again from Sparta, where he seems bent on going.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Or will he go to Ephyra as well, for poison to put in our wine and kill us?" Another said," Perhaps if Telemachus goes on board ship, he will be like his father and perish far from his friends.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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In this case we should have plenty to do, for we could then divide up his property amongst us: as for the house we can let his mother and the man who marries her have that.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious storeroom where his father 's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Here, too, there was a store of fragrant olive oil, while casks of old, wellripened wine, unblended and fit for a god to drink, were ranged against the wall in case Ulysses should come home again after all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The room was closed with wellmade doors opening in the middle; moreover the faithful old housekeeper Euryclea, daughter of Ops the son of Pisenor, was in charge of everything both night and day.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Telemachus called her to the storeroom and said: "Nurse, draw me off some of the best wine you have, after what you are keeping for my father 's own drinking, in case, poor man, he should escape death, and find his way home again after all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Let me have twelve jars, and see that they all have lids; also fill me some wellsewn leathern bags with barley meal— about twenty measures in all.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" When Euryclea heard this she began to cry, and spoke fondly to him, saying," My dear child, what ever can have put such notion as that into your head?


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Your poor father is dead and gone in some foreign country nobody knows where, and as soon as your back is turned these wicked ones here will be scheming to get you put out of the way, and will share all your possessions among themselves; stay where you are among your own people, and do not go wandering and worrying your life out on the barren ocean.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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" "Fear not, nurse," answered Telemachus," my scheme is not without heaven 's sanction; but swear that you will say nothing about all this to my mother, till I have been away some ten or twelve days, unless she hears of my having gone, and asks you; for I do not want her to spoil her beauty by crying.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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The old woman swore most solemnly that she would not, and when she had completed her oath, she began drawing off the wine into jars, and getting the barley meal into the bags, while Telemachus went back to the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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She went also to Noemon son of Phronius, and asked him to let her have a ship— which he was very ready to do.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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When the sun had set and darkness was over all the land, she got the ship into the water, put all the tackle on board her that ships generally carry, and stationed her at the end of the harbour.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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She caused their drink to fuddle them, and made them drop their cups from their hands, so that instead of sitting over their wine, they went back into the town to sleep, with their eyes heavy and full of drowsiness.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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"Telemachus," said she," the men are on board and at their oars, waiting for you to give your orders, so make haste and let us be off.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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When they got to the ship they found the crew waiting by the water side, and Telemachus said," Now my men, help me to get the stores on board; they are all put together in the cloister, and my mother does not know anything about it, nor any of the maid servants except one.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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When they had brought the things as he told them, Telemachus went on board, Minerva going before him and taking her seat in the stern of the vessel, while Telemachus sat beside her.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Minerva sent them a fair wind from the West that whistled over the deep blue waves whereon Telemachus told them to catch hold of the ropes and hoist sail, and they did as he told them.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank, raised it, and made it fast with the forestays; then they hoisted their white sails aloft with ropes of twisted ox hide.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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As the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.


title: homer-odyssey_02
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Then they made all fast throughout the ship, filled the mixing bowls to the brim, and made drink offerings to the immortal gods that are from everlasting, but more particularly to the greyeyed daughter of Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak, for they had sent the men out with the pigs.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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When Telemachus came up, the dogs did not bark but fawned upon him ,so Ulysses, hearing the sound of feet and noticing that the dogs did not bark, said to Eumaeus: "Eumaeus, I hear footsteps; I suppose one of your men or some one of your acquaintance is coming here, for the dogs are fawning upon him and not barking.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years ' absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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He embraced him, kissed him all over as though he had come back from the dead, and spoke fondly to him saying: "So you are come, Telemachus, light of my eyes that you are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Come in, my dear child, and sit down, that I may have a good look at you now you are home again; it is not very often you come into the country to see us herdsmen; you stick pretty close to the town generally.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" "So be it, old friend," answered Telemachus," but I am come now because I want to see you, and to learn whether my mother is still at her old home or whether some one else has married her, so that the bed of Ulysses is without bedding and covered with cobwebs."


title: homer-odyssey_16
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"She is still at the house," replied Eumaeus," grieving and breaking her heart, and doing nothing but weep, both night and day continually.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Ulysses rose from his seat to give him place as he entered, but Telemachus checked him;" Sit down, stranger," said he," I can easily find another seat, and there is one here who will lay it for me.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" Ulysses went back to his own place, and Eumaeus strewed some green brushwood on the floor and threw a sheepskin on top of it for Telemachus to sit upon.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Then the swineherd brought them platters of cold meat, the remains from what they had eaten the day before, and he filled the bread baskets with bread as fast as he could.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Then they laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus said to Eumaeus," Old friend, where does this stranger come from?


title: homer-odyssey_16
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How did his crew bring him to Ithaca, and who were they?—for assuredly he did not come here by land.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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At this moment he is running away from a Thesprotian ship, and has taken refuge at my station, so I will put him into your hands.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Do whatever you like with him, only remember that he is your suppliant." "I am very much distressed," said Telemachus," by what you have just told me.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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My mother can not make up her mind whether to stay where she is and look after the house out of respect for public opinion and the memory of her husband, or whether the time is now come for her to take the best man of those who are wooing her, and the one who will make her the most advantageous offer; still, as the stranger has come to your station I will find him a cloak and shirt of good wear, with a sword and sandals, and will send him wherever he wants to go.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Or if you like you can keep him here at the station, and I will send him clothes and food that he may be no burden on you and on your men; but I will not have him go near the suitors, for they are very insolent, and are sure to ill treat him in a way that would greatly grieve me; no matter how valiant a man may be he can do nothing against numbers, for they will be too strong for him."


title: homer-odyssey_16
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I am much shocked about what you have said about the insolent way in which the suitors are behaving in despite of such a man as you are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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May you not complain of your brothers— for it is to these that a man may look for support, however great his quarrel may be?


title: homer-odyssey_16
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I wish I were as young as you are and in my present mind; if I were son to Ulysses, or, indeed, Ulysses himself, I would rather some one came and cut my head off, but I would go to the house and be the bane of every one of these men.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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If they were too many for me— I being singlehanded— I would rather die fighting in my own house than see such disgraceful sights day after day, strangers grossly maltreated, and


title: homer-odyssey_16
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men dragging the women servants about the house in an unseemly way, wine drawn recklessly, and bread wasted all to no purpose for an end that shall never be accomplished."


title: homer-odyssey_16
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There is no enmity between me and my people, nor can I complain of brothers, to whom a man may look for support however great his quarrel may be.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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I am myself the only son of Ulysses who left me behind him when he went away, so that I have never been of any use to him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Hence it comes that my house is in the hands of numberless marauders; for the chiefs from all the neighbouring islands, Dulichium, Same, Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying court to my mother, who will neither say point blank that she will not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end, so they are making havoc of my estate, and before long will do so with myself into the bargain.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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But do you, old friend Eumaeus, go at once and tell Penelope that I am safe and have returned from Pylos.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Tell it to herself alone, and then come back here without letting any one else know, for there are many who are plotting mischief against me.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" "I understand and heed you," replied Eumaeus;" you need instruct me no further, only as I am going that way say whether I had not better let poor Laertes know that you are returned.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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He used to superintend the work on his farm in spite of his bitter sorrow about Ulysses, and he would eat and drink at will along with his servants; but they tell me that from the day on which you set out for Pylos he has neither eaten nor drunk as he ought to do, nor does he look after his farm, but sits weeping and wasting the flesh from off his bones."


title: homer-odyssey_16
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"More 's the pity," answered Telemachus," I am sorry for him, but we must leave him to himself just now.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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If people could have everything their own way, the first thing I should choose would be the return of my father; but go, and give your message; then make haste back again, and do not turn out of your way to tell Laertes.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Tell my mother to send one of her women secretly with the news at once, and let him hear it from her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" Thus did he urge the swineherd; Eumaeus, therefore, took his sandals, bound them to his feet, and started for the town.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Minerva watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman— fair, stately, and wise.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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"Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, it is now time for you to tell your son: do not keep him in the dark any longer, but lay your plans for the destruction of the suitors, and then make for the town.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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First she threw a fair clean shirt and cloak about his shoulders; then she made him younger and of more imposing presence; she gave him back his colour, filled out his cheeks, and let his beard become dark again.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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His son was astounded when he saw him, and turned his eyes away for fear he might be looking upon a god.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" As he spoke he kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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But Telemachus could not yet believe that it was his father, and said: "You are not my father, but some god is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter; no mortal man could of himself contrive to do as you have been doing, and make yourself old and young at a moment 's notice, unless a god were with him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" Ulysses answered," Telemachus, you ought not to be so immeasurably astonished at my being really here.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Such as I am, it is I, who after long wandering and much hardship have got home in the twentieth year to my own country.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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What you wonder at is the work of the redoubtable goddess Minerva, who does with me whatever she will, for she can do what she pleases.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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At one moment she makes me like a beggar, and the next I am a young man with good clothes on my back; it is an easy matter for the gods who live in heaven to make any man look either rich or poor.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Thus piteously did they weep, and the sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Telemachus had not suddenly said," In what ship, my dear father, did your crew bring you to Ithaca?


title: homer-odyssey_16
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They took me over the sea while I was fast asleep, and landed me in Ithaca, after giving me many presents in bronze, gold, and raiment.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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These things by heaven 's mercy are lying concealed in a cave, and I am now come here on the suggestion of Minerva that we may consult about killing our enemies.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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First, therefore, give me a list of the suitors, with their number, that I may learn who, and how many, they are.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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I can then turn the matter over in my mind, and see whether we two can fight the whole body of them ourselves, or whether we must find others to help us.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" To this Telemachus answered," Father, I have always heard of your renown both in the field and in council, but the task you talk of is a very great one: I am awed at the mere thought of it; two men can not stand against many and brave ones.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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There are not ten suitors only, nor twice ten, but ten many times over; you shall learn their number at once.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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There are fiftytwo chosen youths from Dulichium, and they have six servants; from Same there are twentyfour; twenty young Achaeans from Zacynthus, and twelve from Ithaca itself, all of them well born.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
" "Listen to me," replied Ulysses," and think whether Minerva and her father Jove may seem sufficient, or whether I am to try and find some one else as well.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" "Those whom you have named," answered Telemachus," are a couple of good allies, for though they dwell high up among the clouds they have power over both gods and men.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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" "These two," continued Ulysses," will not keep long out of the fray, when the suitors and we join fight in my house.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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If you see them ill treating me, steel your heart against my sufferings; even though they drag me feet foremost out of the house, or throw things at me, look on and do nothing beyond gently trying to make them behave more reasonably; but they will not listen to you, for the day of their reckoning is at hand.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart; when Minerva shall put it in my mind, I will nod my head to you, and on seeing me do this you must collect all the armour that is in the house and hide it in the strong store room.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Make some excuse when the suitors ask you why you are removing it ;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.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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But leave a sword and a spear apiece for yourself and me, and a couple of oxhide shields so that we can snatch them up at any moment; Jove and Minerva will then soon quiet these people.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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There is also another matter; if you are indeed my son and my blood runs in your veins, let no one know that Ulysses is within the house— neither Laertes, nor yet the swineherd, nor any of the servants, nor even Penelope herself.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Let you and me exploit the women alone, and let us also make trial of some other of the men servants, to see who is on our side and whose hand is against us.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
" "Father," replied Telemachus," you will come to know me by and by, and when you do you will find that I can keep your counsel.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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It will take us a long time to go the round of the farms and exploit the men, and all the time the suitors will be wasting your estate with impunity and without compunction.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Prove the women by all means, to see who are disloyal and who guiltless, but I am not in favour of going round and trying the men.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
" Thus did they converse, and meanwhile the ship which had brought Telemachus and his crew from Pylos had reached the town of Ithaca.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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When they had come inside the harbour they drew the ship on to the land; their servants came and took their armour from them, and they left all the presents at the house of Clytius.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Then they sent a servant to tell Penelope that Telemachus had gone into the country, but had sent the ship to the town to prevent her from being alarmed and made unhappy.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
This servant and Eumaeus happened to meet when they were both on the same errand of going to tell Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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When they reached the House, the servant stood up and said to the queen in the presence of the waiting women," Your son, Madam, is now returned from Pylos"; but Eumaeus went close up to Penelope, and said privately all that her son had bidden him tell her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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When he had given his message he left the house with its outbuildings and went back to his pigs again.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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The suitors were surprised and angry at what had happened, so they went outside the great wall that ran round the outer court, and held a council near the main entrance.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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"My friends," said he," this voyage of Telemachus 's is a very serious matter; we had made sure that it would come to nothing.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Now, however, let us draw a ship into the water, and get a crew together to send after the others and tell them to come back as fast as they can.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
" He had hardly done speaking when Amphinomus turned in his place and saw the ship inside the harbour, with the crew lowering her sails, and putting by their oars; so he laughed, and said to the others," We need not send them any message, for they are here.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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The crew then drew the ship on shore; their servants took their armour from them, and they went up in a body to the place of assembly, but they would not let any one old or young sit along with them, and Antinous, son of Eupeithes, spoke first.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
We kept a succession of scouts upon the headlands all day long, and when the sun was down we never went on shore to sleep, but waited in the ship all night till morning in the hope of capturing and killing him; but some god has conveyed him home in spite of us.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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He must not escape us; our affair is never likely to come off while he is alive, for he is very shrewd, and public feeling is by no means all on our side.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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We must make haste before he can call the Achaeans in assembly; he will lose no time in doing so, for he will be furious with us, and will tell all the world how we plotted to kill him, but failed to take him.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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The people will not like this when they come to know of it; we must see that they do us no hurt, nor drive us from our own country into exile.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Then we can divide up his property amongst us, and let his mother and the man who marries her have the house.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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If this does not please you, and you wish Telemachus to live on and hold his father 's property, then we must not gather here and eat up his goods in this way, but must make our offers to Penelope each from his own house, and she can marry the man who will give the most for her, and whose lot it is to win her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors from the wheatgrowing and well grassed island of Dulichium; his conversation, moreover, was more agreeable to Penelope than that of any of the other suitors, for he was a man of good natural disposition. "


title: homer-odyssey_16
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My friends," said he, speaking to them plainly and in all honestly," I am not in favour of killing Telemachus.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Let us first take counsel of the gods, and if the oracles of Jove advise it, I will both help to kill him myself, and will urge everyone else to do so; but if they dissuade us, I would have you hold your hands."


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
Thus did he speak, and his words pleased them well ,so they rose forthwith and went to the house of Ulysses, where they took their accustomed seats.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
She knew of the plot against Telemachus, for the servant Medon had overheard their counsels and had told her; she went down therefore to the court attended by 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 rebuked Antinous saying: "Antinous, insolent and wicked schemer, they say you are the best speaker and counsellor of any man your own age in Ithaca, but you are nothing of the kind.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Madman, why should you try to compass the death of Telemachus, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is Jove himself?


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
Do you not remember how your father fled to this house in fear of the people, who were enraged against him for having gone with some Taphian pirates and plundered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us?


title: homer-odyssey_16
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They wanted to tear him in pieces and eat up everything he had, but Ulysses stayed their hands although they were infuriated, and now you devour his property without paying for it, and break my heart by wooing his wife and trying to kill his son.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
" To this Eurymachus son of Polybus answered," Take heart, Queen Penelope daughter of Icarius, and do not trouble yourself about these matters.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
The man is not yet born, nor never will be, who shall lay hands upon your son Telemachus, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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I say— and it shall surely be— that my spear shall be reddened with his blood; for many a time has Ulysses taken me on his knees, held wine up to my lips to drink, and put pieces of meat into my hands.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Therefore Telemachus is much the dearest friend I have, and has nothing to fear from the hands of us suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
In the evening Eumaeus got back to Ulysses and his son, who had just sacrificed a young pig of a year old and were helping one another to get supper ready; Minerva therefore came up to Ulysses, turned him into an old man with a stroke of her wand, and clad him in his old clothes again, for fear that the swineherd might recognise him and not keep the secret, but go and tell Penelope.


title: homer-odyssey_16
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Have the suitors returned, or are they still waiting over yonder, to take me on my way home?" "I did not think of asking about that," replied Eumaeus," when I was in the town.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
I met a man sent by those who had gone with you to Pylos, and he was the first to tell the news to your mother, but I can say what I saw with my own eyes; I had just got on to the crest of the hill of Mercury above the town when I saw a ship coming into harbour with a number of men in her.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
Then, when they had finished their work and the meal was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share so that all were satisfied.


title: homer-odyssey_16
sentence:
As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, they laid down to rest and enjoyed the boon of sleep.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Fire being now thrown on the ship of Protesilaus, Patroclus fights in the armour of Achilles—He drives the Trojans back, but is in the end killed by Euphorbus and Hector.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Then Patroclus drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls over the ledges of a high precipice.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
When Achilles saw him thus weeping he was sorry for him and said," Why, Patroclus, do you stand there weeping like some silly child that comes running to her mother, and begs to be taken up and carried— she catches hold of her mother 's dress to stay her though she is in a hurry, and looks tearfully up until her mother carries her— even such tears, Patroclus, are you now shedding.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
They tell me Menoetius son of Actor is still alive, as also Peleus son of Aeacus, among the Myrmidons— men whose loss we two should bitterly deplore; or are you grieving about the Argives and the way in which they are being killed at the ships, through their own highhanded doings?


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Then, O knight Patroclus, with a deep sigh you answered," Achilles, son of Peleus, foremost champion of the Achaeans, do not be angry, but I weep for the disaster that has now befallen the Argives.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Brave Diomed son of Tydeus has been hit with a spear, while famed Ulysses and Agamemnon have received swordwounds; Eurypylus again has been struck with an arrow in the thigh; skilled apothecaries are attending to these heroes, and healing them of their wounds; are you still, O Achilles, so inexorable?


title: homer-iliad_16
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May it never be my lot to nurse such a passion as you have done, to the baning of your own good name.


title: homer-iliad_16
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You know no pity; knight Peleus was not your father nor Thetis your mother, but the grey sea bore you and the sheer cliffs begot you, so cruel and remorseless are you.


title: homer-iliad_16
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If however you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or if your mother Thetis has told you something from the mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Myrmidons with me, if I may bring deliverance to the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Let me moreover wear your armour; the Trojans may thus mistake me for you and quit the field, so that the hardpressed sons of the Achaeans may have breathing time— which while they are fighting may hardly be.


title: homer-iliad_16
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I know no prophesyings which I am heeding, nor has my mother told me anything from the mouth of Jove, but I am cut to the very heart that one of my own rank should dare to rob me because he is more powerful than I am.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The girl whom the sons of the Achaeans chose for me, whom I won as the fruit of my spear on having sacked a city— her has King Agamemnon taken from me as though I were some common vagrant.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Still, let bygones be bygones: no man may keep his anger for ever; I said I would not relent till battle and the cry of war had reached my own ships; nevertheless, now gird my armour about your shoulders, and lead the Myrmidons to battle, for the dark cloud of Trojans has burst furiously over our fleet; the Argives are driven back on to the beach, cooped within a narrow space, and the whole people of Troy has taken heart to sally out against them, because they see not the visor of my helmet gleaming near them.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Had they seen this, there would not have been a creek nor grip that had not been filled with their dead as they fled back again.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Diomed son of Tydeus no longer wields his spear to defend the Danaans, neither have I heard the voice of the son of Atreus coming from his hated head, whereas that of murderous Hector rings in my cars as he gives orders to the Trojans, who triumph over the Achaeans and fill the whole plain with their cry of battle.


title: homer-iliad_16
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But even so, Patroclus, fall upon them and save the fleet, lest the Trojans fire it and prevent us from being able to return.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Do, however, as I now bid you, that you may win me great honour from all the Danaans, and that they may restore the girl to me again and give me rich gifts into the bargain.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Though Juno 's thundering husband should put triumph within your reach, do not fight the Trojans further in my absence, or you will rob me of glory that should be mine.


title: homer-iliad_16
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And do not for lust of battle go on killing the Trojans nor lead the Achaeans on to Ilius, lest one of the everliving gods from Olympus attack you— for Phoebus Apollo loves them well :return when you have freed the ships from peril, and let others wage war upon the plain.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that not a single man of all the Trojans might be left alive, nor yet of the Argives, but that we two might be alone left to tear aside the mantle that veils the brow of Troy."


title: homer-iliad_16
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But Ajax could no longer hold his ground for the shower of darts that rained upon him; the will of Jove and the javelins of the Trojans were too much for him; the helmet that gleamed about his temples rang with the continuous clatter of the missiles that kept pouring on to it and on to the cheekpieces that protected his face.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Moreover his left shoulder was tired with having held his shield so long, yet for all this, let fly at him as they would, they could not make him give ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He could hardly draw his breath, the sweat rained from every pore of his body, he had not a moment 's respite, and on all sides he was beset by danger upon danger.


title: homer-iliad_16
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And now, tell me, O Muses that hold your mansions on Olympus, how fire was thrown upon the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Ajax, therefore, had now nothing but a headless spear, while the bronze point flew some way off and came ringing down on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Ajax knew the hand of heaven in this, and was dismayed at seeing that Jove had now left him utterly defenceless and was willing victory for the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Therefore he drew back, and the Trojans flung fire upon the ship which was at once wrapped in flame.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The fire was now flaring about the ship 's stern, whereon Achilles smote his two thighs and said to Patroclus," Up, noble knight, for I see the glare of hostile fire at our fleet; up, lest they destroy our ships, and there be no way by which we may retreat.


title: homer-iliad_16
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First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancleclasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of the son of Aeacus, richly inlaid and studded.


title: homer-iliad_16
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On his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought, with a crest of horsehair that nodded menacingly above it.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He grasped two redoubtable spears that suited his hands, but he did not take the spear of noble Achilles, so stout and strong, for none other of the Achaeans could wield it, though Achilles could do so easily.


title: homer-iliad_16
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This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus, wherewith to deal out death among heroes.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He bade Automedon yoke his horses with all speed ,for he was the man whom he held in honour next after Achilles, and on whose support in battle he could rely most firmly.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Automedon therefore yoked the fleet horses Xanthus and Balius, steeds that could fly like the wind: these were they whom the harpy Podarge bore to the west wind, as she was grazing in a meadow by the waters of the river Oceanus.


title: homer-iliad_16
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In the side traces he set the noble horse Pedasus, whom Achilles had brought away with him when he sacked the city of Eetion, and who, mortal steed though he was, could take his place along with those that were immortal.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meanwhile Achilles went about everywhere among the tents, and bade his Myrmidons put on their armour.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a homed stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood— they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter ;they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them— even so did the leaders and counsellors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Menesthius of the gleaming corslet, son to the river Spercheius that streams from heaven, was captain of the first company.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus bore him to everflowing Spercheius— a woman mated with a god— but he was called son of Borus son of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore— Mercury, giver of all good— went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.


title: homer-iliad_16
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When Ilithuia goddess of the pains of childbirth brought him to the light of day, and he saw the face of the sun, mighty Echecles son of Actor took the mother to wife, and gave great wealth to gain her, but her father Phylas brought the child up, and took care of him, doting as fondly upon him as though he were his own son.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The third company was led by Pisander son of Maemalus, the finest spearman among all the Myrmidons next to Achilles ' own comrade Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.


title: homer-iliad_16
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When Achilles had chosen his men and had stationed them all with their captains, he charged them straitly saying," Myrmidons, remember your threats against the Trojans while you were at the ships in the time of my anger, and you were all complaining of me.'


title: homer-iliad_16
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Cruel son of Peleus,' you would say,' your mother must have suckled you on gall, so ruthless are you.


title: homer-iliad_16
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You keep us here at the ships against our will; if you are so relentless it were better we went home over the sea.'


title: homer-iliad_16
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The hour is now come for those high feats of arms that you have so long been pining for, therefore keep high hearts each one of you to do battle with the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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" With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and they serried their companies yet more closely when they heard the words of their king.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As the stones which a builder sets in the wall of some high house which is to give shelter from the winds— even so closely were the helmets and bossed shields set against one another.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Shield pressed on shield, helm on helm, and man on man; so close were they that the horsehair plumes on the gleaming ridges of their helmets touched each other as they bent their heads.


title: homer-iliad_16
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In front of them all two men put on their armour— Patroclus and Automedon— two men, with but one mind to lead the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Then Achilles went inside his tent and opened the lid of the strong chest which silverfooted Thetis had given him to take on board ship, and which she had filled with shirts, cloaks to keep out the cold, and good thick rugs.


title: homer-iliad_16
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In this chest he had a cup of rare workmanship, from which no man but himself might drink, nor would he make offering from it to any other god save only to father Jove.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He took the cup from the chest and cleansed it with sulphur; this done he rinsed it clean water, and after he had washed his hands he drew wine.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Then he stood in the middle of the court and prayed, looking towards heaven, and making his drinkoffering of wine; nor was he unseen of Jove whose joy is in thunder."


title: homer-iliad_16
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King Jove," he cried," lord of Dodona, god of the Pelasgi, who dwellest afar, you who hold wintry Dodona in your sway, where your prophets the Selli dwell around you with their feet unwashed and their couches made upon the ground— if you heard me when I prayed to you aforetime, and did me honour while you sent disaster on the Achaeans, vouchsafe me now the fulfilment of yet this further prayer.


title: homer-iliad_16
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I shall stay here where my ships are lying, but I shall send my comrade into battle at the head of many Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Grant, O allseeing Jove, that victory may go with him; put your courage into his heart that Hector may learn whether my squire is man enough to fight alone, or whether his might is only then so indomitable when I myself enter the turmoil of war.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Afterwards when he has chased the fight and the cry of battle from the ships, grant that he may return unharmed, with his armour and his comrades, fighters in close combat."


title: homer-iliad_16
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He granted that Patroclus should thrust back war and battle from the ships, but refused to let him come safely out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_16
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When he had made his drinkoffering and had thus prayed, Achilles went inside his tent and put back the cup into his chest.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Then he again came out, for he still loved to look upon the fierce fight that raged between the Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meanwhile the armed band that was about Patroclus marched on till they sprang high in hope upon the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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They came swarming out like wasps whose nests are by the roadside, and whom silly children love to tease, whereon any one who happens to be passing may get stung— or again, if a wayfarer going along the road vexes them by accident, every wasp will come flying out in a fury to defend his little ones— even with such rage and courage did the Myrmidons swarm from their ships, and their cry of battle rose heavenwards.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus called out to his men at the top of his voice," Myrmidons, followers of Achilles son of Peleus, be men my friends, fight with might and with main, that we may win glory for the son of Peleus, who is far the foremost man at the ships of the Argives— he, and his close fighting followers.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The son of Atreus King Agamemnon will thus learn his folly in showing no respect to the bravest of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The ships rang again with the cry which the Achaeans raised, and when the Trojans saw the brave son of Menoetius and his squire all gleaming in their armour, they were daunted and their battalions were thrown into confusion, for they thought the fleet son of Peleus must now have put aside his anger, and have been reconciled to Agamemnon; every one, therefore, looked round about to see whither he might fly for safety.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus first aimed a spear into the middle of the press where men were packed most closely, by the stern of the ship of Protesilaus.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He hit Pyraechmes who had led his Paeonian horsemen from the Amydon and the broad waters of the river Axius; the spear struck him on the right shoulder, and with a groan he fell backwards in the dust; on this his men were thrown into confusion, for by killing their leader, who was the finest soldier among them, Patroclus struck panic into them all.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He thus drove them from the ship and quenched the fire that was then blazing— leaving the halfburnt ship to lie where it was.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The Trojans were now driven back with a shout that rent the skies, while the Danaans poured after them from their ships, shouting also without ceasing.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As when Jove, gatherer of the thundercloud, spreads a dense canopy on the top of some lofty mountain, and all the peaks, the jutting headlands, and forest glades show out in the great light that flashes from the bursting heavens, even so when the Danaans had now driven back the fire from their ships, they took breath for a little while; but the fury of the fight was not yet over, for the Trojans were not driven back in utter rout, but still gave battle, and were ousted from their ground only by sheer fighting.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The fight then became more scattered, and the chieftains killed one another when and how they could.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The valiant son of Menoetius first drove his spear into the thigh of Areilycus just as he was turning round; the point went clean through, and broke the bone so that he fell forward.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meanwhile Menelaus struck Thoas in the chest, where it was exposed near the rim of his shield, and he fell dead.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The son of Phyleus saw Amphiclus about to attack him, and ere he could do so took aim at the upper part of his thigh, where the muscles are thicker than in any other part; the spear tore through all the sinews of the leg, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Of the sons of Nestor one, Antilochus, speared Atymnius, driving the point of the spear through his throat, and down he fell.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Maris then sprang on Antilochus in handtohand fight to avenge his brother, and bestrode the body spear in hand; but valiant Thrasymedes was too quick for him, and in a moment had struck him in the shoulder


title: homer-iliad_16
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ere he could deal his blow; his aim was true, and the spear severed all the muscles at the root of his arm, and tore them right down to the bone, so he fell heavily to the ground and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Thus did these two noble comrades of Sarpedon go down to Erebus slain by the two sons of Nestor; they were the warrior sons of Amisodorus, who had reared the invincible Chimaera, to the bane of many.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Ajax son of Oileus sprang on Cleobulus and took him alive as he was entangled in the crush; but he killed him then and there by a swordblow on the neck.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The sword reeked with his blood, while dark death and the strong hand of fate gripped him and closed his eyes.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Lycon struck the plumed crest of Peneleos ' helmet but his sword broke at the hilt, while Peneleos smote Lycon on the neck under the ear.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The blade sank so deep that the head was held on by nothing but the skin, and there was no more life left in him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meriones gave chase to Acamas on foot and caught him up just as he was about to mount his chariot; he drove a spear through his right shoulder so that he fell headlong from the car, and his eyes were closed in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Idomeneus speared Erymas in the mouth; the bronze point of the spear went clean through it beneath the brain, crashing in among the white bones and smashing them up.


title: homer-iliad_16
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His teeth were all of them knocked out and the blood came gushing in a stream from both his eyes; it also came gurgling up from his mouth and nostrils, and the darkness of death enfolded him round about.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As ravening wolves seize on kids or lambs, fastening on them when they are alone on the hillsides and have strayed from the main flock through the carelessness of the shepherd— and when the wolves see this they pounce upon them at once because they can not defend themselves— even so did the Danaans now fall on the Trojans, who fled with illomened cries in their panic and had no more fight left in them.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meanwhile great Ajax kept on trying to drive a spear into Hector, but Hector was so skilful that he held his broad shoulders well under cover of his oxhide shield, ever on the lookout for the whizzing of the arrows and the heavy thud of the spears.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He well knew that the fortunes of the day had changed, but still stood his ground and tried to protect his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As when a cloud goes up into heaven from Olympus, rising out of a clear sky when Jove is brewing a gale— even with such panic stricken rout did the Trojans now fly, and there was no order in their going.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Hector 's fleet horses bore him and his armour out of the fight, and he left the Trojan host penned in by the deep trench against their will.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Many a yoke of horses snapped the pole of their chariots in the trench and left their master 's car behind them.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus gave chase, calling impetuously on the Danaans and full of fury against the Trojans, who, being now no longer in a body, filled all the ways with their cries of panic and rout; the air was darkened with the clouds of dust they raised, and the horses strained every nerve in their flight from the tents and ships towards the city.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus kept on heading his horses wherever he saw most men flying in confusion, cheering on his men the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Chariots were being smashed in all directions, and many a man came tumbling down from his own car to fall beneath the wheels of that of Patroclus, whose immortal steeds, given by the gods to Peleus, sprang over the trench at a bound as they sped onward.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He was intent on trying to get near Hector, for he had set his heart on spearing him, but Hector 's horses were now hurrying him away.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and driving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven— all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men— even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.


title: homer-iliad_16
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They were doing their best to reach the city, but he would not let them, and bore down on them between the river and the ships and wall.


title: homer-iliad_16
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First he hit Pronous with a spear on the chest where it was exposed near the rim of his shield, and he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Next he sprang on Thestor son of Enops, who was sitting all huddled up in his chariot, for he had lost his head and the reins had been torn out of his hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus went up to him and drove a spear into his right jaw; he thus hooked him by the teeth and the spear pulled him over the rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line— even so with his spear did he pull Thestor all gaping from his chariot; he then threw him down on his face and he died while falling.


title: homer-iliad_16
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On this, as Erylaus was on coming to attack him, he struck him full on the head with a stone, and his brains were all battered inside his helmet, whereon he fell headlong to the ground and the pangs of death took hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Then he laid low, one after the other, Erymas, Amphoterus, Epaltes, Tlepolemus, Echius son of Damastor, Pyris, Ipheus, Euippus and Polymelus son of Argeas.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Now when Sarpedon saw his comrades, men who wore ungirdled tunics, being overcome by Patroclus son of Menoetius, he rebuked the Lycians saying.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Show your mettle; I will myself meet this man in fight and learn who it is that is so masterful; he has done us much hurt, and has stretched many a brave man upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
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" He sprang from his chariot as he spoke, and Patroclus, when he saw this, leaped on to the ground also.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The two then rushed at one another with loud cries like eaglebeaked crooktaloned vultures that scream and tear at one another in some high mountain fastness.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The son of scheming Saturn looked down upon them in pity and said to Juno who was his wife and sister," Alas, that it should be the lot of Sarpedon whom I love so dearly to perish by the hand of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
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I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia, or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Menoetius."


title: homer-iliad_16
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I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, that if you send Sarpedon safely to his own home, some other of the gods will be also wanting to escort his son out of battle, for there are many sons of gods fighting round the city of Troy, and you will make every one jealous.


title: homer-iliad_16
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If, however, you are fond of him and pity him, let him indeed fall by the hand of Patroclus, but as soon as the life is gone out of him, send Death and sweet Sleep to bear him off the field and take him to the broad lands of Lycia, where his brothers and his kinsmen will bury him with mound and pillar, in due honour to the dead.


title: homer-iliad_16
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" The sire of gods and men assented, but he shed a rain of blood upon the earth in honour of his son whom Patroclus was about to kill on the rich plain of Troy far from his home.


title: homer-iliad_16
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When they were now come close to one another Patroclus struck Thrasydemus, the brave squire of Sarpedon, in the lower part of the belly, and killed him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Sarpedon then aimed a spear at Patroclus and missed him, but he struck the horse Pedasus in the right shoulder, and it screamed aloud as it lay, groaning in the dust until the life went out of it.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The other two horses began to plunge; the pole of the chariot cracked and they got entangled in the reins through the fall of the horse that was yoked along with them; but Automedon knew what to do; without the loss of a moment he drew the keen blade that hung by his sturdy thigh and cut the third horse adrift; whereon the other two righted themselves, and pulling hard at the reins again went together into battle.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Sarpedon now took a second aim at Patroclus, and again missed him, the point of the spear passed over his left shoulder without hitting him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus then aimed in his turn, and the spear sped not from his hand in vain, for he hit Sarpedon just where the midriff surrounds the everbeating heart.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He fell like some oak or silver poplar or tall pine to which woodmen have laid their axes upon the mountains to make timber for shipbuilding— even so did he lie stretched at full length in front of his chariot and horses, moaning and clutching at the bloodstained dust.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As when a lion springs with a bound upon a herd of cattle and fastens on a great black bull which dies bellowing in its clutches— even so did the leader of the Lycian warriors struggle in death as he fell by the hand of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He called on his trusty comrade and said," Glaucus, my brother, hero among heroes, put forth all your strength, fight with might and main, now if ever quit yourself like a valiant soldier.


title: homer-iliad_16
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First go about among the Lycian captains and bid them fight for Sarpedon; then yourself also do battle to save my armour from being taken.


title: homer-iliad_16
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My name will haunt you henceforth and for ever if the Achaeans rob me of my armour now that I have fallen at their ships.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus planted his heel on his breast and drew the spear from his body, whereon his senses came out along with it, and he drew out both spearpoint and Sarpedon 's soul at the same time.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Hard by the Myrmidons held his snorting steeds, who were wild with panic at finding themselves deserted by their lords.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He had to support his arm with his other hand, being in great pain through the wound which Teucer 's arrow had given him when Teucer was defending the wall as he, Glaucus, was assailing it.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Therefore he prayed to fardarting Apollo saying," Hear me O king from your seat, may be in the rich land of Lycia, or may be in Troy, for in all places you can hear the prayer of one who is in distress, as I now am.


title: homer-iliad_16
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I have a grievous wound; my hand is aching with pain, there is no staunching the blood, and my whole arm drags by reason of my hurt, so that I can not grasp my sword nor go among my foes and fight them, though our prince, Jove 's son Sarpedon, is slain.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Jove defended not his son, do you, therefore, O king, heal me of my wound, ease my pain and grant me strength both to cheer on the Lycians and to fight along with them round the body of him who has fallen."


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Glaucus perceived this, and was thankful that the mighty god had answered his prayer; forthwith, therefore, he went among the Lycian captains, and bade them come to fight about the body of Sarpedon.


title: homer-iliad_16
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From these he strode on among the Trojans to Polydamas son of Panthous and Agenor; he then went in search of Aeneas and Hector, and when he had found them he said," Hector, you have utterly forgotten your allies, who languish here for your sake far from friends and home while you do nothing to support them.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Sarpedon leader of the Lycian warriors has fallen— he who was at once the right and might of Lycia; Mars has laid him low by the spear of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Stand by him, my friends, and suffer not the Myrmidons to strip him of his armour, nor to treat his body with contumely in revenge for all the Danaans whom we have speared at the ships.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" As he spoke the Trojans were plunged in extreme and ungovernable grief; for Sarpedon, alien though he was, had been one of the main stays of their city, both as having much people with him, and himself the foremost among them all.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Led by Hector, who was infuriated by the fall of Sarpedon, they made instantly for the Danaans with all their might, while the undaunted spirit of Patroclus son of Menoetius cheered on the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Ajaxes," said he," may it now please you to show yourselves the men you have always been, or even better— Sarpedon is fallen— he who was first to overleap the wall of the Achaeans; let us take the body and outrage it ;let us strip the armour from his shoulders, and kill his comrades if they try to rescue his body.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" He spoke to men who of themselves were full eager; both sides, therefore, the Trojans and Lycians on the one hand, and the Myrmidons and Achaeans on the other, strengthened their battalions, and fought desperately about the body of Sarpedon, shouting fiercely the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Mighty was the din of their armour as they came together, and Jove shed a thick darkness over the fight, to increase the toil of the battle over the body of his son.


title: homer-iliad_16
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At first the Trojans made some headway against the Achaeans, for one of the best men among the Myrmidons was killed, Epeigeus, son of noble Agacles who had erewhile been king in the good city of Budeum; but presently, having killed a valiant kinsman of his own, he took refuge with Peleus and Thetis, who sent him to Ilius the land of noble steeds to fight the Trojans under Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Hector now struck him on the head with a stone just as he had caught hold of the body, and his brains inside his helmet were all battered in, so that he fell face foremost upon the body of Sarpedon, and there died.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Patroclus was enraged by the death of his comrade, and sped through the front ranks as swiftly as a hawk that swoops down on a flock of daws or starlings.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Even so swiftly, O noble knight Patroclus, did you make straight for the Lycians and Trojans to avenge your comrade.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Forthwith he struck Sthenelaus the son of Ithaemenes on the neck with a stone, and broke the tendons that join it to the head and spine.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As far as a man can throw a javelin when competing for some prize, or even in battle— so far did the Trojans now retreat before the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Glaucus, captain of the Lycians, was the first to rally them, by killing Bathycles son of Chalcon who lived in Hellas and was the richest man among the Myrmidons.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Glaucus turned round suddenly, just as Bathycles who was pursuing him was about to lay hold of him, and drove his spear right into the middle of his chest, whereon he fell heavily to the ground, and the fall of so good a man filled the Achaeans with dismay, while the Trojans were exultant, and came up in a body round the corpse.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Meriones then killed a helmed warrior of the Trojans, Laogonus son of Onetor, who was priest of Jove of Mt. Ida, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meriones struck him under the jaw and ear, so that life went out of him and the darkness of death laid hold upon him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Aeneas then aimed a spear at Meriones, hoping to hit him under the shield as he was advancing, but Meriones saw it coming and stooped forward to avoid it, whereon the spear flew past him and the point stuck in the ground, while the buttend went on quivering till Mars robbed it of its force.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Aeneas was angry and said," Meriones, you are a good dancer, but if I had hit you my spear would soon have made an end of you.


title: homer-iliad_16
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" And Meriones answered," Aeneas, for all your bravery, you will not be able to make an end of every one who comes against you.


title: homer-iliad_16
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You are only a mortal like myself, and if I were to hit you in the middle of your shield with my spear, however strong and selfconfident you may be, I should soon vanquish you, and you would yield your life to Hades of the noble steeds.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" On this the son of Menoetius rebuked him and said," Meriones, hero though you be, you should not speak thus; taunting speeches, my good friend, will not make the Trojans draw away from the dead body; some of them must go under ground first; blows for battle, and words for council; fight, therefore, and say nothing.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As the sound of woodcutters in some forest glade upon the mountains— and the thud of their axes is heard afar— even such a din now rose from earthclash of bronze armour and of good oxhide shields, as men smote each other with their swords and spears pointed at both ends.


title: homer-iliad_16
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A man had need of good eyesight now to know Sarpedon, so covered was he from head to foot with spears and blood and dust.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Men swarmed about the body, as flies that buzz round the full milkpails in spring when they are brimming with milk— even so did they gather round Sarpedon; nor did Jove turn his keen eyes away for one moment from the fight, but kept looking at it all the time, for he was settling how best to kill Patroclus, and considering whether Hector should be allowed to end him now in the fight round the body of Sarpedon, and strip him of his armour, or whether he should let him give yet further trouble to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
In the end, he deemed it best that the brave squire of Achilles son of Peleus should drive Hector and the Trojans back towards the city and take the lives of many.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
First, therefore, he made Hector turn fainthearted, whereon he mounted his chariot and fled, bidding the other Trojans fly also, for he saw that the scales of Jove had turned against him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Neither would the brave Lycians stand firm; they were dismayed when they saw their king lying struck to the heart amid a heap of corpses— for when the son of Saturn made the fight wax hot many had fallen above him.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The Achaeans, therefore stripped the gleaming armour from his shoulders and the brave son of Menoetius gave it to his men to take to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Then Jove lord of the stormcloud said to Apollo," Dear Phoebus, go, I pray you, and take Sarpedon out of range of the weapons; cleanse the black blood from off him, and then bear him a long way off where you may wash him in the river, anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him in immortal raiment; this done, commit him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who will carry him straightway to the rich land of Lycia, where his brothers and kinsmen will inter him, and will raise both mound and pillar to his memory, in due honour to the dead.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Apollo obeyed his father 's saying, and came down from the heights of Ida into the thick of the fight; forthwith he took Sarpedon out of range of the weapons, and then bore him a long way off, where he washed him in the river, anointed him with ambrosia and clothed him in immortal raiment; this done, he committed him to the arms of the two fleet messengers, Death, and Sleep, who presently set him down in the rich land of Lycia.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Meanwhile Patroclus, with many a shout to his horses and to Automedon, pursued the Trojans and Lycians in the pride and foolishness of his heart.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Had he but obeyed the bidding of the son of Peleus, he would have escaped death and have been scatheless; but the counsels of Jove pass man 's understanding; he will put even a brave man to flight and snatch victory from his grasp, or again he will set him on to fight, as he now did when he put a high spirit into the heart of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Who then first, and who last, was slain by you, O Patroclus, when the gods had now called you to meet your doom?


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
First Adrestus, Autonous, Echeclus, Perimus the son of Megas, Epistor and Melanippus; after these he killed Elasus, Mulius, and Pylartes.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
The sons of the Achaeans would now have taken Troy by the hands of Patroclus, for his spear flew in all directions, had not Phoebus Apollo taken his stand upon the wall to defeat his purpose and to aid the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Thrice did Patroclus charge at an angle of the high wall, and thrice did Apollo beat him back, striking his shield with his own immortal hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
When Patroclus was coming on like a god for yet a fourth time, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said," Draw back, noble Patroclus, it is not your lot to sack the city of the Trojan chieftains, nor yet will it be that of Achilles who is a far better man than you are."


title: homer-iliad_16
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Meanwhile Hector was waiting with his horses inside the Scaean gates, in doubt whether to drive out again and go on fighting, or to call the army inside the gates.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As he was thus doubting Phoebus Apollo drew near him in the likeness of a young and lusty warrior Asius, who was Hector 's uncle, being own brother to Hecuba, and son of Dymas who lived in Phrygia by the waters of the river Sangarius; in his likeness Jove 's son Apollo now spoke to Hector saying," Hector, why have you left off fighting?


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Drive straight towards Patroclus, if so be that Apollo may grant you a triumph over him, and you may rule him.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" With this the god went back into the hurlyburly, and Hector bade Cebriones drive again into the fight.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Apollo passed in among them, and struck panic into the Argives, while he gave triumph to Hector and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Patroclus then sprang from his chariot to the ground, with a spear in his left hand, and in his right a jagged stone as large as his hand could hold.


title: homer-iliad_16
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He stood still and threw it, nor did it go far without hitting some one; the cast was not in vain, for the stone struck Cebriones, Hector 's charioteer, a bastard son of Priam, as he held the reins in his hands.


title: homer-iliad_16
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The stone hit him on the forehead and drove his brows into his head for the bone was smashed, and his eyes fell to the ground at his feet.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Over him did you then vaunt, O knight Patroclus, saying," Bless my heart, how active he is, and how well he dives.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
If we had been at sea this fellow would have dived from the ship 's side and brought up as many oysters as the whole crew could stomach, even in rough water, for he has dived beautifully off his chariot on to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" As he spoke he flung himself on Cebriones with the spring, as it were, of a lion that while attacking a stockyard is himself struck in the chest, and his courage is his own bane— even so furiously, O Patroclus, did you then spring upon Cebriones.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
As two lions fight fiercely on some high mountain over the body of a stag that they have killed, even so did these two mighty warriors, Patroclus son of Menoetius and brave Hector, hack and hew at one another over the corpse of Cebriones.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Hector would not let him go when he had once got him by the head, while Patroclus kept fast hold of his feet, and a fierce fight raged between the other Danaans and Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
As the east and south wind buffet one another when they beat upon some dense forest on the mountains— there is beech and ash and spreading cornel; the top of the trees roar as they beat on one another, and one can hear the boughs cracking and breaking— even so did the Trojans and Achaeans spring upon one another and lay about each other, and neither side would give way.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Many a pointed spear fell to ground and many a winged arrow sped from its bowstring about the body of Cebriones; many a great stone, moreover, beat on many a shield as they fought around his body, but there he lay in the whirling clouds of dust, all huge and hugely, heedless of his driving now.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
So long as the sun was still high in mid heaven the weapons of either side were alike deadly, and the people fell; but when he went down towards the time when men loose their oxen, the Achaeans proved to be beyond all forecast stronger, so that they drew Cebriones out of range of the darts and tumult of the Trojans, and stripped the armour from his shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Then Patroclus sprang like Mars with fierce intent and a terrific shout upon the Trojans, and thrice did he kill nine men; but as he was coming on like a god for a time, then, O Patroclus, was the hour of your end approaching, for Phoebus fought you in fell earnest.


title: homer-iliad_16
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Patroclus did not see him as he moved about in the crush, for he was enshrouded in thick darkness, and the god struck him from behind on his back and his broad shoulders with the flat of his hand, so that his eyes turned dizzy.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Phoebus Apollo beat the helmet from off his head, and it rolled rattling off under the horses ' feet, where its horsehair plumes were all begrimed with dust and blood.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Never indeed had that helmet fared so before, for it had served to protect the head and comely forehead of the godlike hero Achilles.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
The bronzeshod spear, so great and so strong, was broken in the hand of Patroclus, while his shield that covered him from head to foot fell to the ground as did also the band that held it, and Apollo undid the fastenings of his corslet.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
On this his mind became clouded; his limbs failed him, and he stood as one dazed; whereon Euphorbus son of Panthous a Dardanian, the best spearman of his time, as also the finest horseman and fleetest runner, came behind him and struck him in the back with a spear, midway between the shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
This man as soon as ever he had come up with his chariot had dismounted twenty men, so proficient was he in all the arts of war— he it was, O knight Patroclus, that first drove a weapon into you, but he did not quite overpower you.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Euphorbus then ran back into the crowd, after drawing his ashen spear out of the wound; he would not stand firm and wait for Patroclus, unarmed though he now was, to attack him; but Patroclus unnerved, alike by the blow the god had given him and by the spearwound, drew back under cover of his men in fear for his life.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Hector on this, seeing him to be wounded and giving ground, forced his way through the ranks, and when close up with him struck him in the lower part of the belly with a spear, driving the bronze point right through it, so that he fell heavily to the ground to the great grief of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_16
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As when a lion has fought some fierce wildboar and worsted him— the two fight furiously upon the mountains over some little fountain at which they would both drink, and the lion has beaten the boar till he can hardly breathe— even so did Hector son of Priam take the life of the brave son of Menoetius who had killed so many, striking him from close at hand, and vaunting over him the while.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
" Patroclus," said he," you deemed that you should sack our city, rob our Trojan women of their freedom, and carry them off in your ships to your own country.


title: homer-iliad_16
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I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Poor wretch, Achilles with all his bravery availed you nothing; and yet I ween when you left him he charged you straitly saying,' Come not back to the ships, knight Patroclus, till you have rent the bloodstained shirt of murderous Hector about his body.'


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Then, as the life ebbed out of you, you answered, O knight Patroclus:" Hector, vaunt as you will, for Jove the son of Saturn and Apollo have vouchsafed you victory; it is they who have vanquished me so easily, and they who have stripped the armour from my shoulders; had twenty such men as you attacked me, all of them would have fallen before my spear.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Fate and the son of Leto have overpowered me, and among mortal men Euphorbus; you are yourself third only in the killing of me.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aeacus."


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
When he had thus spoken his eyes were closed in death, his soul left his body and flitted down to the house of Hades, mourning its sad fate and bidding farewell to the youth and vigor of its manhood.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Dead though he was, Hector still spoke to him saying," Patroclus, why should you thus foretell my doom?


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
Who knows but Achilles, son of lovely Thetis, may be smitten by my spear and die before me?" As he spoke he drew the bronze spear from the wound, planting his foot upon the body, which he thrust off and let lie on its back.


title: homer-iliad_16
sentence:
He then went spear in hand after Automedon, squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, for he longed to lay him low, but the immortal steeds which the gods had given as a rich gift to Peleus bore him swiftly from the field.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Jove sends a lying dream to Agamemnon, who thereon calls the chiefs in assembly, and proposes to sound the mind of his army—In the end they march to fight—Catalogue of the Achaean and Trojan forces.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it," Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word for word as I now bid you.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said:— "You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Hear me at once, for I come as a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
He thought that on that same day he was to take the city of Priam, but he little knew what was in the mind of Jove, who had many another hardfought fight in store alike for Danaans and Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Then presently he woke, with the divine message still ringing in his ears; so he sat upright, and put on his soft shirt so fair and new, and over this his heavy cloak.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and slung his silverstudded sword about his shoulders; then he took the imperishable staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
But first he summoned a meeting of the elders at the ship of Nestor king of Pylos, and when they were assembled he laid a cunning counsel before them.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
"My friends," said he," I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor 's.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
It hovered over my head and said,' You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Hear me at once, for I am a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
But it will be well that I should first sound them, and to this end I will tell them to fly with their ships; but do you others go about among the host and prevent their doing so."


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
He then sat down, and Nestor the prince of Pylos with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:" My friends," said he," princes and councillors of the Argives, if any other man of the Achaeans had told us of this dream we should have declared it false, and would have had nothing to do with it.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
But he who has seen it is the foremost man among us; we must therefore set about getting the people under arms.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
" With this he led the way from the assembly, and the other sceptred kings rose with him in obedience to the word of Agamemnon; but the people pressed forward to hear.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the widewatered shore, while among them ran Wildfire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Thus they gathered in a pellmell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty charioteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam 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_02
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_02
sentence:
It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered— the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cupbearer.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Nine of Jove 's years are gone; the timbers of our ships have rotted; their tackling is sound no longer.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Our wives and little ones at home look anxiously for our coming, but the work that we came hither to do has not been done.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Now, therefore, let us all do as I say: let us sail back to our own land, for we shall not take Troy.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
" With these words he moved the hearts of the multitude, so many of them as knew not the cunning counsel of Agamemnon.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven 's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
They cheered each other on to draw the ships into the sea; they cleared the channels in front of them; they began taking away the stays from underneath them, and the welkin rang with their glad cries, so eager were they to return.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
But Juno said to Minerva," Alas, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Argives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, and in a moment she was at the ships of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
He had not as yet laid a hand upon his ship, for he was grieved and sorry; so she went close up to him and said," Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way?


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
His servant Eurybates, a man of Ithaca, who waited on him, took charge of the cloak, whereon Ulysses went straight up to Agamemnon and received from him his ancestral, imperishable staff.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
You do not yet know the full mind of Agamemnon; he was sounding us, and ere long will visit the Achaeans with his displeasure.


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We were not all of us at the council to hear what he then said; see to it lest he be angry and do us a mischief; for the pride of kings is great, and the hand of Jove is with them.


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" But when he came across any common man who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying," Sirrah, hold your peace, and listen to better men than yourself.


title: homer-iliad_02
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You are a coward and no soldier; you are nobody either in fight or council; we can not all be kings; it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme— one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the sceptre of sovereignty over you all.


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" Thus masterfully did he go about among the host, and the people hurried back to the council from their tents and ships with a sound as the thunder of surf when it comes crashing down upon the shore, and all the sea is in an uproar.


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The rest now took their seats and kept to their own several places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue— a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in authority, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in a laugh.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He was the ugliest man of all those that came before Troy— bandylegged, lame of one foot, with his two shoulders rounded and hunched over his chest.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Achilles and Ulysses hated him worst of all, for it was with them that he was most wo nt to wrangle; now, however, with a shrill squeaky voice he began heaping his abuse on Agamemnon.


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The Achaeans were angry and disgusted, yet none the less he kept on brawling and bawling at the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner?


title: homer-iliad_02
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Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any service to him or no.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Achilles is a much better man than he is, and see how he has treated him— robbing him of his prize and keeping it himself.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Achilles takes it meekly and shows no fight; if he did, son of Atreus, you would never again insult him.


title: homer-iliad_02
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We do not yet know how things are going to be, nor whether the Achaeans are to return with good success or evil.


title: homer-iliad_02
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I tell you, therefore— and it shall surely be— that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assembly till you go blubbering back to the ships."


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The golden sceptre raised a bloody weal on his back, so he sat down frightened and in pain, looking foolish as he wiped the tears from his eyes.


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The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour saying," Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow 's mouth from prating further.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Then Ulysses rose, sceptre in hand, and Minerva in the likeness of a herald bade the people be still, that those who were far off might hear him and consider his council.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He therefore with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:— "King Agamemnon, the Achaeans are for making you a byword among all mankind.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They forget the promise they made you when they set out from Argos, that you should not return till you had sacked the town of Troy, and, like children or widowed women, they murmur and would set off homeward.


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A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I can not, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay— therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.


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"All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_02
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We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine planetree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Then we saw a prodigy; for Jove sent a fearful serpent out of the ground, with bloodred stains upon its back, and it darted from under the altar on to the planetree.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about lamenting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming.


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Then, when he had eaten both the sparrow and her young, the god who had sent him made him become a sign; for the son of scheming Saturn turned him into stone, and we stood there wondering at that which had come to pass.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven.'


title: homer-iliad_02
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Jove has sent us this sign, long in coming, and long ere it be fulfilled, though its fame shall last for ever.


title: homer-iliad_02
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As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'


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Shall our counsels be flung into the fire, with our drinkofferings and the right hands of fellowship wherein we have put our trust?


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Stand, therefore, son of Atreus, by your own steadfast purpose; lead the Argives on to battle, and leave this handful of men to rot, who scheme, and scheme in vain, to get back to Argos ere they have learned whether Jove be true or a liar.


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For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans.


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He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.


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Nevertheless, if any man is in such haste to be at home again, let him lay his hand to his ship that he may meet his doom in the sight of all.


title: homer-iliad_02
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But, O king, consider and give ear to my counsel, for the word that I say may not be neglected lightly.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Divide your men, Agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another.


title: homer-iliad_02
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If you do this, and if the Achaeans obey you, you will find out who, both chiefs and peoples, are brave, and who are cowards; for they will vie against the other.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Thus you shall also learn whether it is through the counsel of heaven or the cowardice of man that you shall fail to take the town."


title: homer-iliad_02
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Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Whet well your spears; see well to the ordering of your shields; give good feeds to your horses, and look your chariots carefully over, that we may do battle the livelong day; for we shall have no rest, not for a moment, till night falls to part us.


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The bands that bear your shields shall be wet with the sweat upon your shoulders, your hands shall weary upon your spears, your horses shall steam in front of your chariots, and if I see any man shirking the fight, or trying to keep out of it at the ships, there shall be no help for him, but he shall be a prey to dogs and vultures.


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As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quarter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships.


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There they lighted their fires at their tents and got dinner, offering sacrifice every man to one or other of the gods, and praying each one of them that he might live to come out of the fight.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Agamemnon, king of men, sacrificed a fat fiveyearold bull to the mighty son of Saturn, and invited the princes and elders of his host.


title: homer-iliad_02
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First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Ulysses, peer of gods in counsel; but Menelaus came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.


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They stood round the bull with the barleymeal in their hands, and Agamemnon prayed, saying," Jove, most glorious, supreme, that dwellest in heaven, and ridest upon the stormcloud, grant that the sun may not go down, nor the night fall, till the palace of Priam is laid low, and its gates are consumed with fire.


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Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him."


title: homer-iliad_02
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When they had done praying and sprinkling the barleymeal upon the victim, they drew back its head, killed it, and then flayed it.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They cut out the thighbones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set pieces of raw meat on the top of them.


title: homer-iliad_02
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These they burned upon the split logs of firewood, but they spitted the inward meats, and held them in the flames to cook.


title: homer-iliad_02
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When the thighbones were burned, and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.


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King Agamemnon," said he," let us not stay talking here, nor be slack in the work that heaven has put into our hands.


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Let the heralds summon the people to gather at their several ships; we will then go about among the host, that we may begin fighting at once.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The chiefs about the son of Atreus chose their men and marshalled them, while Minerva went among them holding her priceless aegis that knows neither age nor death.


title: homer-iliad_02
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From it there waved a hundred tassels of pure gold, all deftly woven, and each one of them worth a hundred oxen.


title: homer-iliad_02
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With this she darted furiously everywhere among the hosts of the Achaeans, urging them forward, and putting courage into the heart of each, so that he might fight and do battle without ceasing.


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As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven.


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They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming.


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Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses.


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As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman 's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune.


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As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me— for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report— who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans?


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As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegisbearing Jove, were to recount them to me.


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These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoenus, Scolus, and the highlands of Eteonus, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mycalessus.


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They also held Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae; and they had Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon; Ocalea and the strong fortress of Medeon; Copae, Eutresis, and Thisbe the haunt of doves; Coronea, and the pastures of Haliartus; Plataea and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon the sea.


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From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.


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Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars, led the people that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus the realm of Minyas.


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Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus; for she had gone with Mars secretly into an upper chamber, and he had lain with her.


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These were they that held Cyparissus, rocky Pytho, holy Crisa, Daulis, and Panopeus; they also that dwelt in Anemorea and Hyampolis, and about the waters of the river Cephissus, and Lilaea by the springs of the Cephissus; with their chieftains came forty ships, and they marshalled the forces of the Phoceans, which were stationed next to the Boeotians, on their left.


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He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans.


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These dwelt in Cynus, Opous, Calliarus, Bessa, Scarphe, fair Augeae, Tarphe, and Thronium about the river Boagrius.


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The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rockperched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes.


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With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears.


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And they that held the strong city of Athens, the people of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove 's daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary.


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The men of Argos, again, and those who held the walls of Tiryns, with Hermione, and Asine upon the gulf; Troezene, Eionae, and the vineyard lands of Epidaurus; the Achaean youths, moreover, who came from Aegina and Mases; these were led by Diomed of the loud battlecry, and Sthenelus son of famed Capaneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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With them in command was Euryalus, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but Diomed was chief over them all.


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Those who held the strong city of Mycenae, rich Corinth and Cleonae; Orneae, Araethyrea, and Licyon, where Adrastus reigned of old; Hyperesia, high Gonoessa, and Pellene; Aegium and all the coastland round about Helice; these sent a hundred ships under the command of King Agamemnon, son of Atreus.


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His force was far both finest and most numerous, and in their midst was the king himself, all glorious in his armour of gleaming bronze— foremost among the heroes, for he was the greatest king, and had most men under him.


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And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battlecry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The men of Pylos and Arene, and Thryum where is the ford of the river Alpheus; strong Aipy, Cyparisseis, and Amphigenea; Pteleum, Helos, and Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daughters of aegisbearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.


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Many Arcadians, good soldiers, came in each one of them, but Agamemnon found them the ships in which to cross the sea, for they were not a people that occupied their business upon the waters.


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The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the seashore, the rock Olene and Alesium.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Their captains were Amphimachus and Thalpius— the one, son of Cteatus, and the other, of Eurytus— both of the race of Actor.


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And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Ulysses led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians, who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon, for the great king Oeneus had now no sons living, and was himself dead, as was also goldenhaired Meleager, who had been set over the Aetolians to be their king.


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The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the wellwalled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of Phaestus and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, a man both brave and large of stature, brought nine ships of lordly warriors from Rhodes.


title: homer-iliad_02
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These dwelt in Rhodes which is divided among the three cities of Lindus, Ielysus, and Cameirus, that lies upon the chalk.


title: homer-iliad_02
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These were commanded by Tlepolemus, son of Hercules by Astyochea, whom he had carried off from Ephyra, on the river Selleis, after sacking many cities of valiant warriors.


title: homer-iliad_02
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When Tlepolemus grew up, he killed his father 's uncle Licymnius, who had been a famous warrior in his time, but was then grown old.


title: homer-iliad_02
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On this he built himself a fleet, gathered a great following, and fled beyond the sea, for he was menaced by the other sons and grandsons of Hercules.


title: homer-iliad_02
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After a voyage, during which he suffered great hardship, he came to Rhodes, where the people divided into three communities, according to their tribes, and were dearly loved by Jove, the lord of gods and men; wherefore the son of Saturn showered down great riches upon them.


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And Nireus brought three ships from Syme— Nireus, who was the handsomest man that came up under Ilius of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus— but he was a man of no substance, and had but a small following.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Those again who held Pelasgic Argos, Alos, Alope, and Trachis; and those of Phthia and Hellas the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, Hellenes, and Achaeans; these had fifty ships, over which Achilles was in command.


title: homer-iliad_02
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But they now took no part in the war, inasmuch as there was no one to marshal them; for Achilles stayed by his ships, furious about the loss of the girl Briseis, whom he had taken from Lyrnessus at his own great peril, when he had sacked Lyrnessus and Thebe, and had overthrown Mynes and Epistrophus, sons of king Evenor, son of Selepus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Of these brave Protesilaus had been captain while he was yet alive, but he was now lying under the earth.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sorrow, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achaeans upon the soil of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were not without a leader, for Podarces, of the race of Mars, marshalled them; he was son of Iphiclus, rich in sheep, who was the son of Phylacus, and he was own brother to Protesilaus, only younger, Protesilaus being at once the elder and the more valiant.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And those that held Pherae by the Boebean lake, with Boebe, Glaphyrae, and the populous city of Iolcus, these with their eleven ships were led by Eumelus, son of Admetus, whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias.


title: homer-iliad_02
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And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meliboea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oarsmen all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake.


title: homer-iliad_02
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But his people, though they felt his loss were not leaderless, for Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Those, again, of Tricca and the stony region of Ithome, and they that held Oechalia, the city of Oechalian Eurytus, these were commanded by the two sons of Aesculapius, skilled in the art of healing, Podalirius and Machaon.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The men, moreover, of Ormenius, and by the fountain of Hypereia, with those that held Asterius, and the white crests of Titanus, these were led by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon, and with them there came forty ships.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Those that held Argissa and Gyrtone, Orthe, Elone, and the white city of Oloosson, of these brave Polypoetes was leader.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself, for Hippodameia bore him to Pirithous on the day when he took his revenge on the shaggy mountain savages and drove them from Mt. Pelion to the Aithices.


title: homer-iliad_02
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But Polypoetes was not sole in command, for with him was Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona, and held the lands round the lovely river Titaresius, which sends its waters into the Peneus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They do not mingle with the silver eddies of the Peneus, but flow on the top of them like oil; for the Titaresius is a branch of dread Orcus and of the river Styx.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Who, then, O Muse, was the foremost, whether man or horse, among those that followed after the sons of Atreus?


title: homer-iliad_02
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Apollo, of the silver bow, had bred them in Perea— both of them mares, and terrible as Mars in battle.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles ' anger lasted, for Achilles excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The chariots were housed under cover, but their owners, for lack of leadership, wandered hither and thither about the host and went not forth to fight.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Thus marched the host like a consuming fire, and the earth groaned beneath them when the lord of thunder is angry and lashes the land about Typhoeus among the Arimi, where they say Typhoeus lies.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They were gathered in assembly, old and young, at Priam 's gates, and Iris came close up to Priam, speaking with the voice of Priam 's son Polites, who, being fleet of foot, was stationed as watchman for the Trojans on the tomb of old Aesyetes, to look out for any sally of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_02
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In his likeness Iris spoke, saying," Old man, you talk idly, as in time of peace, while war is at hand.


title: homer-iliad_02
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There are many allies dispersed about the city of Priam from distant places and speaking divers tongues.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Therefore, let each chief give orders to his own people, setting them severally in array and leading them forth to battle."


title: homer-iliad_02
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The men flew to arms; all the gates were opened, and the people thronged through them, horse and foot, with the tramp as of a great multitude.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Priam 's son, great Hector of the gleaming helmet, commanded the Trojans, and with him were arrayed by far the greater number and most valiant of those who were longing for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They that dwelt in Telea under the lowest spurs of Mt. Ida, men of substance, who drink the limpid waters of the Aesepus, and are of Trojan blood— these were led by Pandarus son of Lycaon, whom Apollo had taught to use the bow.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They that held Adresteia and the land of Apaesus, with Pityeia, and the high mountain of Tereia— these were led by Adrestus and Amphius, whose breastplate was of linen.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He told them not to take part in the war, but they gave him no heed, for fate lured them to destruction.


title: homer-iliad_02
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They that dwelt about Percote and Practius, with Sestos, Abydos, and Arisbe —these were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, a brave commander— Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whom his powerful dark bay steeds, of the breed that comes from the river Selleis, had brought from Arisbe.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Hippothous led the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa— Hippothous, and Pylaeus of the race of Mars, two sons of the Pelasgian Lethus, son of Teutamus.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Acamas and the warrior Peirous commanded the Thracians and those that came from beyond the mighty stream of the Hellespont.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Pyraechmes led the Paeonian archers from distant Amydon, by the broad waters of the river Axius, the fairest that flow upon the earth.


title: homer-iliad_02
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The Paphlagonians were commanded by stouthearted Pylaemanes from Enetae, where the mules run wild in herds.


title: homer-iliad_02
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These were they that held Cytorus and the country round Sesamus, with the cities by the river Parthenius, Cromna, Aegialus, and lofty Erithini.


title: homer-iliad_02
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Odius and Epistrophus were captains over the Halizoni from distant Alybe, where there are mines of silver.


title: homer-iliad_02
sentence:
Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans. Phorcys, again, and noble Ascanius led the Phrygians from the far country of Ascania, and both were eager for the fray.


title: homer-iliad_02
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These held Miletus and the wooded mountain of Phthires, with the water of the river Maeander and the lofty crests of Mt. Mycale.


title: homer-iliad_02
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He came into the fight with gold about him, like a girl; fool that he was, his gold was of no avail to save him, for he fell in the river by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and Achilles bore away his gold.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Alexandria, also called Paris, challenges Menelaus—Helen and Priam view the Achaeans from the wall—The covenant—Paris and Menelaus fight, and Paris is worsted—Venus carries him off to save him—Scene between him and Helen.


title: homer-iliad_03
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When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_03
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As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountain tops, bad for shepherds but better than night for thieves, and a man can see no further than he can throw a stone, even so rose the dust from under their feet as they made all speed over the plain.


title: homer-iliad_03
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On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight.


title: homer-iliad_03
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Menelaus saw him thus stride out before the ranks, and was glad as a hungry lion that lights on the carcase of some goat or horned stag, and devours it there and then, though dogs and youths set upon him.


title: homer-iliad_03
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Even thus was Menelaus glad when his eyes caught sight of Alexandrus, for he deemed that now he should be revenged.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Alexandrus quailed as he saw Menelaus come forward, and shrank in fear of his life under cover of his men.


title: homer-iliad_03
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As one who starts back affrighted, trembling and pale, when he comes suddenly upon a serpent in some mountain glade, even so did Alexandrus plunge into the throng of Trojan warriors, terrorstricken at the sight of the son of Atreus.


title: homer-iliad_03
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"Paris," said he," evilhearted Paris, fair to see, but womanmad, and false of tongue, would that you had never been born, or that you had died unwed.


title: homer-iliad_03
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Will not the Achaeans mock at us and say that we have sent one to champion us who is fair to see but who has neither wit nor courage?


title: homer-iliad_03
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Did you not from your a far country carry off a lovely woman wedded among a people of warriors— to bring sorrow upon your father, your city, and your whole country, but joy to your enemies, and hangdog shamefacedness to yourself?


title: homer-iliad_03
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And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen?


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Where indeed would be your lyre and your lovetricks, your comely locks and your fair favour, when you were lying in the dust before him?


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The Trojans are a weakkneed people, or ere this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done them."


title: homer-iliad_03
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You are hard as the axe which a shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his liking.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Still, taunt me not with the gifts that golden Venus has given me; they are precious; let not a man disdain them, for the gods give them where they are minded, and none can have them for the asking.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
If you would have me do battle with Menelaus, bid the Trojans and Achaeans take their seats, while he and I fight in their midst for Helen and all her wealth.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying," Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak." They ceased taking aim and were still, whereon Hector spoke."


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Hear from my mouth," said he," Trojans and Achaeans, the saying of Alexandrus, through whom this quarrel has come about.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
He bids the Trojans and Achaeans lay their armour upon the ground, while he and Menelaus fight in the midst of you for Helen and all her wealth.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" Thus he spoke, and they all held their peace, till Menelaus of the loud battlecry addressed them."


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
I deem that the parting of Achaeans and Trojans is at hand, as well it may be, seeing how much have suffered for my quarrel with Alexandrus and the wrong he did me.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Moreover, you shall bid Priam come, that he may swear to the covenant himself; for his sons are highhanded and ill to trust, and the oaths of Jove must not be transgressed or taken in vain.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Young men 's minds are light as air, but when an old man comes he looks before and after, deeming that which shall be fairest upon both sides." The Trojans and Achaeans were glad when they heard this, for they thought that they should now have rest.


title: homer-iliad_03
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They backed their chariots toward the ranks, got out of them, and put off their armour, laying it down upon the ground; and the hosts were near to one another with a little space between them.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Hector sent two messengers to the city to bring the lambs and to bid Priam come, while Agamemnon told Talthybius to fetch the other lamb from the ships, and he did as Agamemnon had said.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Meanwhile Iris went to Helen in the form of her sisterinlaw, wife of the son of Antenor, for Helicaon, son of Antenor, had married Laodice, the fairest of Priam 's daughters.


title: homer-iliad_03
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She found her in her own room, working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Mars had made them fight for her sake.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Iris then came close up to her and said," Come hither, child, and see the strange doings of the Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Till now they have been warring upon the plain, mad with lust of battle, but now they have left off fighting, and are leaning upon their shields, sitting still with their spears planted beside them.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Alexandrus and Menelaus are going to fight about yourself, and you are to be the wife of him who is the victor." Thus spoke the goddess, and Helen 's heart yearned after her former husband, her city, and her parents.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
She threw a white mantle over her head, and hurried from her room, weeping as she went, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids, Aethrae, daughter of Pittheus, and Clymene.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When they saw Helen coming towards the tower, they said softly to one another," Small wonder that Trojans and Achaeans should endure so much and so long, for the sake of a woman so marvellously and divinely lovely.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Still, fair though she be, let them take her and go, or she will breed sorrow for us and for our children after us."


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
My child," said he," take your seat in front of me that you may see your former husband, your kinsmen and your friends.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
"Sir," answered Helen," father of my husband, dear and reverend in my eyes, would that I had chosen death rather than to have come here with your son, far from my bridal chamber, my friends, my darling daughter, and all the companions of my girlhood.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
As for your question, the hero of whom you ask is Agamemnon, son of Atreus, a good king and a brave soldier, brotherinlaw as surely as that he lives, to my abhorred and miserable self.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" The old man next looked upon Ulysses;" Tell me," he said," who is that other, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, but broader across the chest and shoulders?


title: homer-iliad_03
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His armour is laid upon the ground, and he stalks in front of the ranks as it were some great woolly ram ordering his ewes."


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When they stood up in presence of the assembled Trojans, Menelaus was the broader shouldered, but when both were seated Ulysses had the more royal presence.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
After a time they delivered their message, and the speech of Menelaus ran trippingly on the tongue; he did not say much, for he was a man of few words, but he spoke very clearly and to the point, though he was the younger man of the two; Ulysses, on the other hand, when he rose to speak, was at first silent and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground.


title: homer-iliad_03
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There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory— one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like."


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Priam then caught sight of Ajax and asked," Who is that great and goodly warrior whose head and broad shoulders tower above the rest of the Argives?"


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
"That," answered Helen," is huge Ajax, bulwark of the Achaeans, and on the other side of him, among the Cretans, stands Idomeneus looking like a god, and with the captains of the Cretans round him.


title: homer-iliad_03
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I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Either they have not left Lacedaemon, or else, though they have brought their ships, they will not show themselves in battle for the shame and disgrace that I have brought upon them.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy oathofferings through the city— two lambs and a goatskin of wine, the gift of earth; and Idaeus brought the mixing bowl and the cups of gold.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
He went up to Priam and said," Son of Laomedon, the princes of the Trojans and Achaeans bid you come down on to the plain and swear to a solemn covenant.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
We are to swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby we others shall dwell here in Troy, while the Achaeans return to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" The old man trembled as he heard, but bade his followers yoke the horses, and they made all haste to do so.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When they reached the ranks of the Trojans and Achaeans they left the chariot, and with measured pace advanced into the space between the hosts.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The attendants brought on the oathofferings and mixed the wine in the mixingbowls; they poured water over the hands of the chieftains, and the son of Atreus drew the dagger that hung by his sword, and cut wool from the lambs ' heads; this the menservants gave about among the Trojan and Achaean princes, and the son of Atreus lifted up his hands in prayer. "


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Father Jove," he cried," that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, witness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
If Alexandrus kills Menelaus, let him keep Helen and all her wealth, while we sail home with our ships; but if Menelaus kills Alexandrus, let the Trojans give back Helen and all that she has; let them moreover pay such fine to the Achaeans as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among those that shall be born hereafter.


title: homer-iliad_03
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And if Priam and his sons refuse such fine when Alexandrus has fallen, then will I stay here and fight on till I have got satisfaction.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" As he spoke he drew his knife across the throats of the victims, and laid them down gasping and dying upon the ground, for the knife had reft them of their strength.


title: homer-iliad_03
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Then they poured wine from the mixingbowl into the cups, and prayed to the everlasting gods, saying, Trojans and Achaeans among one another," Jove, most great and glorious, and ye other everlasting gods, grant that the brains of them who shall first sin against their oaths— of them and their children— may be shed upon the ground even as this wine, and let their wives become the slaves of strangers.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Then Priam, descendant of Dardanus, spoke, saying," Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, I will now go back to the windbeaten city of Ilius: I dare not with my own eyes witness this fight between my son and Menelaus, for Jove and the other immortals alone know which shall fall.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Hector and Ulysses measured the ground, and cast lots from a helmet of bronze to see which should take aim first.


title: homer-iliad_03
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Meanwhile the two hosts lifted up their hands and prayed saying," Father Jove, that rulest from Ida, most glorious in power, grant that he who first brought about this war between us may die, and enter the house of Hades, while we others remain at peace and abide by our oaths.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" Great Hector now turned his head aside while he shook the helmet, and the lot of Paris flew out first.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The others took their several stations, each by his horses and the place where his arms were lying, while Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, put on his goodly armour.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancleclasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of his brother Lycaon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silverstudded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield.


title: homer-iliad_03
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On his comely head he set his helmet, wellwrought, with a crest of horsehair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When they had thus armed, each amid his own people, they strode fierce of aspect into the open space, and both Trojans and Achaeans were struck with awe as they beheld them.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
They stood near one another on the measured ground, brandishing their spears, and each furious against the other.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Alexandrus aimed first, and struck the round shield of the son of Atreus, but the spear did not pierce it, for the shield turned its point.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
King Jove," he said," grant me revenge on Alexandrus who has wronged me; subdue him under my hand that in ages yet to come a man may shrink from doing ill deeds in the house of his host.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Through shield and cuirass it went, and tore the shirt by his flank, but Alexandrus swerved aside, and thus saved his life.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven," Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" With this he flew at Alexandrus, caught him by the horsehair plume of his helmet, and began dragging him towards the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The strap of the helmet that went under his chin was choking him, and Menelaus would have dragged him off to his own great glory had not Jove 's daughter Venus been quick to mark and to break the strap of oxhide, so that the empty helmet came away in his hand.


title: homer-iliad_03
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This he flung to his comrades among the Achaeans, and was again springing upon Alexandrus to run him through with a spear, but Venus snatched him up in a moment( as a god can do), hid him under a cloud of darkness, and conveyed him to his own bedchamber.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Then she went to call Helen, and found her on a high tower with the Trojan women crowding round her.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
She took the form of an old woman who used to dress wool for her when she was still in Lacedaemon, and of whom she was very fond.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Thus disguised she plucked her by perfumed robe and said," Come hither; Alexandrus says you are to go to the house; he is on his bed in his own room, radiant with beauty and dressed in gorgeous apparel.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
No one would think he had just come from fighting, but rather that he was going to a dance, or had done dancing and was sitting down.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When she marked the beautiful neck of the goddess, her lovely bosom, and sparkling eyes, she marvelled at her and said," Goddess, why do you thus beguile me?


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Are you going to send me afield still further to some man whom you have taken up in Phrygia or fair Meonia?


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Go sit with Alexandrus yourself; henceforth be goddess no longer ;never let your feet carry you back to Olympus; worry about him and look after him till he make you his wife, or, for the matter of that, his slave— but me?


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
" Venus was very angry, and said," Bold hussy, do not provoke me; if you do, I shall leave you to your fate and hate you as much as I have loved you.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
She wrapped her mantle about her and went in silence, following the goddess and unnoticed by the Trojan women.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
When they came to the house of Alexandrus the maidservants set about their work, but Helen went into her own room, and the laughterloving goddess took a seat and set it for her facing Alexandrus.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
On this Helen, daughter of aegisbearing Jove, sat down, and with eyes askance began to upbraid her husband.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
"So you are come from the fight," said she;" would that you had fallen rather by the hand of that brave man who was my husband.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Go, then, and challenge him again— but I should advise you not to do so, for if you are foolish enough to meet him in single combat, you will soon fall by his spear.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
This time, with the help of Minerva, Menelaus has vanquished me; another time I may myself be victor, for I too have gods that will stand by me.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Never yet was I so passionately enamoured of you as at this moment— not even when I first carried you off from Lacedaemon and sailed away with you— not even when I had converse with you upon the couch of love in the island of Cranae was I so enthralled by desire of you as now. "


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
Thus they laid themselves on the bed together; but the son of Atreus strode among the throng, looking everywhere for Alexandrus, and no man, neither of the Trojans nor of the allies, could find him.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
If they had seen him they were in no mind to hide him, for they all of them hated him as they did death itself.


title: homer-iliad_03
sentence:
The victory has been with Menelaus; therefore give back Helen with all her wealth, and pay such fine as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among them that shall be born hereafter.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
Brave Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
He held his round shield and his spear in front of him, resolute to kill any who should dare face him.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
But the son of Panthous had also noted the body, and came up to Menelaus saying," Menelaus, son of Atreus, draw back, leave the body, and let the bloodstained spoils be.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
I was first of the Trojans and their brave allies to drive my spear into Patroclus, let me, therefore, have my full glory among the Trojans, or I will take aim and kill you.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
The pard is not more bold, nor the lion nor savage wildboar, which is fiercest and most dauntless of all creatures, than are the proud sons of Panthous.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
Yet Hyperenor did not see out the days of his youth when he made light of me and withstood me, deeming me the meanest soldier among the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_17
sentence:
Even so shall I make an end of you too, if you withstand me; get you back into the crowd and do not face me, or it shall be worse for you.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" Euphorbus would not listen, and said," Now indeed, Menelaus, shall you pay for the death of my brother over whom you vaunted, and whose wife you widowed in her bridal chamber, while you brought grief unspeakable on his parents.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I shall comfort these poor people if I bring your head and armour and place them in the hands of Panthous and noble Phrontis.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" As he spoke he struck Menelaus full on the shield, but the spear did not go through, for the shield turned its point.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Menelaus then took aim, praying to father Jove as he did so; Euphorbus was drawing back, and Menelaus struck him about the roots of his throat, leaning his whole weight on the spear, so as to drive it home.


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The point went clean through his neck, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
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His hair which was like that of the Graces, and his locks so deftly bound in bands of silver and gold, were all bedrabbled with blood.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As one who has grown a fine young olive tree in a clear space where there is abundance of water— the plant is full of promise, and though the winds beat upon it from every quarter it puts forth its white blossoms till the blasts of some fierce hurricane sweep down upon it and level it with the ground— even so did Menelaus strip the fair youth Euphorbus of his armour after he had slain him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Or as some fierce lion upon the mountains in the pride of his strength fastens on the finest heifer in a herd as it is feeding— first he breaks her neck with his strong jaws, and then gorges on her blood and entrails; dogs and shepherds raise a hue and cry against him, but they stand aloof and will not come close to him, for they are pale with fear— even so no one had the courage to face valiant Menelaus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The son of Atreus would have then carried off the armour of the son of Panthous with ease, had not Phoebus Apollo been angry, and in the guise of Mentes chief of the Cicons incited Hector to attack him. "


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector," said he," you are now going after the horses of the noble son of Aeacus, but you will not take them; they can not be kept in hand and driven by mortal man, save only by Achilles, who is son to an immortal mother.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Meanwhile Menelaus son of Atreus has bestridden the body of Patroclus and killed the noblest of the Trojans, Euphorbus son of Panthous, so that he can fight no more.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The god then went back into the toil and turmoil, but the soul of Hector was darkened with a cloud of grief; he looked along the ranks and saw Euphorbus lying on the ground with the blood still flowing from his wound, and Menelaus stripping him of his armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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On this he made his way to the front like a flame of fire, clad in his gleaming armour, and crying with a loud voice.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I may not let the Trojans take the armour of Patroclus who has fallen fighting on my behalf, lest some Danaan who sees me should cry shame upon me.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Still if for my honour 's sake I fight Hector and the Trojans singlehanded, they will prove too many for me, for Hector is bringing them up in force.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Yet, if I could find Ajax, the two of us would fight Hector and heaven too, if we might only save the body of Patroclus for Achilles son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" While he was thus in two minds, the Trojans came up to him with Hector at their head; he therefore drew back and left the body, turning about like some bearded lion who is being chased by dogs and men from a stockyard with spears and hue and cry, whereon he is daunted and slinks sulkily off— even so did Menelaus son of Atreus turn and leave the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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When among the body of his men, he looked around for mighty Ajax son of Telamon, and presently saw him on the extreme left of the fight, cheering on his men and exhorting them to keep on fighting, for Phoebus Apollo had spread a great panic among them.


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He ran up to him and said," Ajax, my good friend, come with me at once to dead Patroclus, if so be that we may take the body to Achilles— as for his armour, Hector already has it.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" These words stirred the heart of Ajax, and he made his way among the front ranks, Menelaus going with him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector had stripped Patroclus of his armour, and was dragging him away to cut off his head and take the body to fling before the dogs of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_17
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But Ajax came up with his shield like wall before him, on which Hector withdrew under shelter of his men, and sprang on to his chariot, giving the armour over to the Trojans to take to the city, as a great trophy for himself; Ajax, therefore, covered the body of Patroclus with his broad shield and bestrode him; as a lion stands over his whelps if hunters have come upon him in a forest when he is with his little ones— in the pride and fierceness of his strength he draws his knit brows down till they cover his eyes— even so did Ajax bestride the body of Patroclus, and by his side stood Menelaus son of Atreus, nursing great sorrow in his heart.


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Think how you may now save your town and citadel by the hands of your own people born in Ilius; for you will get no Lycians to fight for you, seeing what thanks they have had for their incessant hardships.


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Are you likely, sir, to do anything to help a man of less note, after leaving Sarpedon, who was at once your guest and comrade in arms, to be the spoil and prey of the Danaans?


title: homer-iliad_17
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So long as he lived he did good service both to your city and yourself; yet you had no stomach to save his body from the dogs.


title: homer-iliad_17
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If the Trojans had any of that daring fearless spirit which lays hold of men who are fighting for their country and harassing those who would attack it, we should soon bear off Patroclus into Ilius.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Could we get this dead man away and bring him into the city of Priam, the Argives would readily give up the armour of Sarpedon, and we should get his body to boot.


title: homer-iliad_17
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For he whose squire has been now killed is the foremost man at the ships of the Achaeans— he and his closefighting followers.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Nevertheless you dared not make a stand against Ajax, nor face him, eye to eye, with battle all round you, for he is a braver man than you are.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I have held you so far as a man of more understanding than any in all Lycia, but now I despise you for saying that I am afraid of Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I fear neither battle nor the din of chariots, but Jove 's will is stronger than ours; Jove at one time makes even a strong man draw back and snatches victory from his grasp, while at another he will set him on to fight.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Come hither then, my friend, stand by me and see indeed whether I shall play the coward the whole day through as you say, or whether I shall not stay some even of the boldest Danaans from fighting round the body of Patroclus." As he spoke he called loudly on the Trojans saying," Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, be men, my friends, and fight might and main, while I put on the goodly armour of Achilles, which I took when I killed Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" With this Hector left the fight, and ran full speed after his men who were taking the armour of Achilles to Troy, but had not yet got far.


title: homer-iliad_17
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His own he sent to the strong city of Ilius and to the Trojans, while he put on the immortal armour of the son of Peleus, which the gods had given to Peleus, who in his age gave it to his son; but the son did not grow old in his father 's armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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When Jove, lord of the stormcloud, saw Hector standing aloof and arming himself in the armour of the son of Peleus, he wagged his head and muttered to himself saying," A! poor wretch, you arm in the armour of a hero, before whom many another trembles, and you reck nothing of the doom that is already close upon you.


title: homer-iliad_17
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You have killed his comrade so brave and strong, but it was not well that you should strip the armour from his head and shoulders.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I do indeed endow you with great might now, but as against this you shall not return from battle to lay the armour of the son of Peleus before Andromache." The son of Saturn bowed his portentous brows, and Hector fitted the armour to his body, while terrible Mars entered into him, and filled his whole body with might and valour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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With a shout he strode in among the allies, and his armour flashed about him so that he seemed to all of them like the great son of Peleus himself.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He went about among them and cheered them on— Mesthles, Glaucus, Medon, Thersilochus, Asteropaeus, Deisenor and Hippothous, Phorcys, Chromius and Ennomus the augur.


title: homer-iliad_17
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All these did he exhort saying," Hear me, allies from other cities who are here in your thousands, it was not in order to have a crowd about me that I called you hither each from his several city, but that with heart and soul you might defend the wives and little ones of the Trojans from the fierce Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Therefore turn, and charge at the foe, to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans, and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him one half of the spoils while I keep the other.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" When he had thus spoken they charged full weight upon the Danaans with their spears held out before them, and the hopes of each ran high that he should force Ajax son of Telamon to yield up the body— fools that they were, for he was about to take the lives of many.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Then Ajax said to Menelaus," My good friend Menelaus, you and I shall hardly come out of this fight alive.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I am less concerned for the body of Patroclus, who will shortly become meat for the dogs and vultures of Troy, than for the safety of my own head and yours.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector has wrapped us round in a storm of battle from every quarter, and our destruction seems now certain.


title: homer-iliad_17
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My friends," he cried," princes and counsellors of the Argives, all you who with Agamemnon and Menelaus drink at the public cost, and give orders each to his own people as Jove vouchsafes him power and glory, the fight is so thick about me that I can not distinguish you severally; come on, therefore, every man unbidden, and think it shame that Patroclus should become meat and morsel for Trojan hounds.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" Fleet Ajax son of Oileus heard him and was first to force his way through the fight and run to help him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As a great wave that comes thundering in at the mouth of some heavenborn river, and the rocks that jut into the sea ring with the roar of the breakers that beat and buffet them— even with such a roar did the Trojans come on; but the Achaeans in singleness of heart stood firm about the son of Menoetius, and fenced him with their bronze shields.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Jove, moreover, hid the brightness of their helmets in a thick cloud, for he had borne no grudge against the son of Menoetius while he was still alive and squire to the descendant of Aeacus; therefore he was loth to let him fall a prey to the dogs of his foes the Trojans, and urged his comrades on to defend him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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But the Achaeans did not lose it long, for Ajax, foremost of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus alike in stature and prowess, quickly rallied them and made towards the front like a wild boar upon the mountains when he stands at bay in the forest glades and routs the hounds and lusty youths that have attacked him— even so did Ajax son of Telamon passing easily in among the phalanxes of the Trojans, disperse those who had bestridden Patroclus and were most bent on winning glory by dragging him off to their city.


title: homer-iliad_17
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At this moment Hippothous brave son of the Pelasgian Lethus, in his zeal for Hector and the Trojans, was dragging the body off by the foot through the press of the fight, having bound a strap round the sinews near the ancle; but a mischief soon befell him from which none of those could save him who would have gladly done so, for the son of Telamon sprang forward and smote him on his bronzecheeked helmet.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The plumed headpiece broke about the point of the weapon, struck at once by the spear and by the strong hand of Ajax, so that the bloody brain came oozing out through the crestsocket.


title: homer-iliad_17
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His strength then failed him and he let Patroclus ' foot drop from his hand, as he fell full length dead upon the body; thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector then took aim at Ajax with a spear, but he saw it coming and just managed to avoid it; the spear passed on and struck Schedius son of noble Iphitus, captain of the Phoceans, who dwelt in famed Panopeus and reigned over much people; it struck him under the middle of the collarbone the bronze point went right through him, coming out at the bottom of his shoulderblade, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Ajax in his turn struck noble Phorcys son of Phaenops in the middle of the belly as he was bestriding Hippothous, and broke the plate of his cuirass; whereon the spear tore out his entrails and he clutched the ground in his palm as he fell to earth.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector and those who were in the front rank then gave ground, while the Argives raised a loud cry of triumph, and drew off the bodies of Phorcys and Hippothous which they stripped presently of their armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The Trojans would now have been worsted by the brave Achaeans and driven back to Ilius through their own cowardice, while the Argives, so great was their courage and endurance, would have achieved a triumph even against the will of Jove, if Apollo had not roused Aeneas, in the likeness of Periphas son of Epytus, an attendant who had grown old in the service of Aeneas ' aged father, and was at all times devoted to him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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In his likeness, then, Apollo said," Aeneas, can you not manage, even though heaven be against us, to save high Ilius?


title: homer-iliad_17
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I have known men, whose numbers, courage, and selfreliance have saved their people in spite of Jove, whereas in this case he would much rather give victory to us than to the Danaans, if you would only fight instead of being so terribly afraid.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" Aeneas knew Apollo when he looked straight at him, and shouted to Hector saying," Hector and all other Trojans and allies, shame on us if we are beaten by the Achaeans and driven back to Ilius through our own cowardice.


title: homer-iliad_17
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ere they bear away dead Patroclus to the ships." As he spoke he sprang out far in front of the others, who then rallied and again faced the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Aeneas speared Leiocritus son of Arisbas, a valiant follower of Lycomedes, and Lycomedes was moved with pity as he saw him fall; he therefore went close up, and speared Apisaon son of Hippasus shepherd of his people in the liver under the midriff, so that he died; he had come from fertile Paeonia and was the best man of them all after Asteropaeus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Asteropaeus flew forward to avenge him and attack the Danaans, but this might no longer be, inasmuch as those about Patroclus were well covered by their shields, and held their spears in front of them, for Ajax had given them strict orders that no man was either to give ground, or to stand out before the others, but all were to hold well together about the body and fight hand to hand.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Thus did huge Ajax bid them, and the earth ran red with blood as the corpses fell thick on one another alike on the side of the Trojans and allies, and on that of the Danaans; for these last, too, fought no bloodless fight though many fewer of them perished, through the care they took to defend and stand by one another.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Thus did they fight as it were a flaming fire; it seemed as though it had gone hard even with the sun and moon, for they were hidden over all that part where the bravest heroes were fighting about the dead son of Menoetius, whereas the other Danaans and Achaeans fought at their ease in full daylight with brilliant sunshine all round them, and there was not a cloud to be seen neither on plain nor mountain.


title: homer-iliad_17
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These last moreover would rest for a while and leave off fighting, for they were some distance apart and beyond the range of one another 's weapons, whereas those who were in the thick of the fray suffered both from battle and darkness.


title: homer-iliad_17
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All the best of them were being worn out by the great weight of their armour, but the two valiant heroes, Thrasymedes and Antilochus, had not yet heard of the death of Patroclus, and believed him to be still alive and leading the van against the Trojans; they were keeping themselves in reserve against the death or rout of their own comrades, for so Nestor had ordered when he sent them from the ships into battle.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Thus through the livelong day did they wage fierce war, and the sweat of their toil rained ever on their legs under them, and on their hands and eyes, as they fought over the squire of the fleet son of Peleus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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It was as when a man gives a great oxhide all drenched in fat to his men, and bids them stretch it; whereon they stand round it in a ring and tug till the moisture leaves it, and the fat soaks in for the many that pull at it, and it is well stretched— even so did the two sides tug the dead body hither and thither within the compass of but a little space— the Trojans steadfastly set on dragging it into Ilius, while the Achaeans were no less so on taking it to their ships; and fierce was the fight between them.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Not Mars himself the lord of hosts, nor yet Minerva, even in their fullest fury could make light of such a battle.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Meanwhile Achilles did not know that he had fallen, for the fight was under the wall of Troy a long way off the ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He had no idea, therefore, that Patroclus was dead, and deemed that he would return alive as soon as he had gone close up to the gates.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He knew that he was not to sack the city neither with nor without himself, for his mother had often told him this when he had sat alone with her, and she had informed him of the counsels of great Jove.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Now, however, she had not told him how great a disaster had befallen him in the death of the one who was far dearest to him of all his comrades.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The others still kept on charging one another round the body with their pointed spears and killing each other.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Then would one say," My friends, we can never again show our faces at the ships— better, and greatly better, that earth should open and swallow us here in this place, than that we should let the Trojans have the triumph of bearing off Patroclus to their city.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" The Trojans also on their part spoke to one another saying," Friends, though we fall to a man beside this body, let none shrink from fighting."


title: homer-iliad_17
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The horses of the descendant of Aeacus stood out of the fight and wept when they heard that their driver had been laid low by the hand of murderous Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Automedon, valiant son of Diores, lashed them again and again; many a time did he speak kindly to them, and many a time did he upbraid them, but they would neither go back to the ships by the waters of the broad Hellespont, nor yet into battle among the Achaeans; they stood with their chariot stock still, as a pillar set over the tomb of some dead man or woman, and bowed their heads to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hot tears fell from their eyes as they mourned the loss of their charioteer, and their noble manes drooped all wet from under the yokestraps on either side the yoke.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He wagged his head, and muttered to himself, saying," Poor things, why did we give you to King Peleus who is a mortal, while you are yourselves ageless and immortal?


title: homer-iliad_17
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for of all creatures that live and move upon the earth there is none so pitiable as he is— still, Hector son of Priam shall drive neither you nor your chariot.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Furthermore I will give you strength of heart and limb to bear Automedon safely to the ships from battle, for I shall let the Trojans triumph still further, and go on killing till they reach the ships; whereon night shall fall and darkness overshadow the land.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" As he spoke he breathed heart and strength into the horses so that they shook the dust from out of their manes, and bore their chariot swiftly into the fight that raged between Trojans and Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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In and out, and here and there, full speed he dashed amid the throng of the Trojans, but for all the fury of his pursuit he killed no man, for he could not wield his spear and keep his horses in hand when alone in the chariot; at last, however, a comrade, Alcimedon, son of Laerces son of Haemon caught sight of him and came up behind his chariot. "


title: homer-iliad_17
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Automedon," said he," what god has put this folly into your heart and robbed you of your right mind, that you fight the Trojans in the front rank singlehanded?


title: homer-iliad_17
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He who was your comrade is slain, and Hector plumes himself on being armed in the armour of the descendant of Aeacus."


title: homer-iliad_17
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Automedon son of Diores answered," Alcimedon, there is no one else who can control and guide the immortal steeds so well as you can, save only Patroclus— while he was alive— peer of gods in counsel.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" Alcimedon sprang on to the chariot, and caught up the whip and reins, while Automedon leaped from off the car.


title: homer-iliad_17
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When Hector saw him he said to Aeneas who was near him," Aeneas, counsellor of the mailclad Trojans, I see the steeds of the fleet son of Aeacus come into battle with weak hands to drive them.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I am sure, if you think well, that we might take them; they will not dare face us if we both attack them.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" The valiant son of Anchises was of the same mind, and the pair went right on, with their shoulders covered under shields of tough dry oxhide, overlaid with much bronze.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Chromius and Aretus went also with them, and their hearts beat high with hope that they might kill the men and capture the horses— fools that they were, for they were not to return scatheless from their meeting with Automedon, who prayed to father Jove and was forthwith filled with courage and strength abounding.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He turned to his trusty comrade Alcimedon and said," Alcimedon, keep your horses so close up that I may feel their breath upon my back; I doubt that we shall not stay Hector son of Priam till he has killed us and mounted behind the horses; he will then either spread panic among the ranks of the Achaeans, or himself be killed among the foremost.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" On this he cried out to the two Ajaxes and Menelaus," Ajaxes captains of the Argives, and Menelaus, give the dead body over to them that are best able to defend it, and come to the rescue of us living; for Hector and Aeneas who are the two best men among the Trojans, are pressing us hard in the full tide of war.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Nevertheless the issue lies on the lap of heaven, I will therefore hurl my spear and leave the rest to Jove.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" He poised and hurled as he spoke, whereon the spear struck the round shield of Aretus, and went right through it for the shield stayed it not, so that it was driven through his belt into the lower part of his belly.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As when some sturdy youth, axe in hand, deals his blow behind the horns of an ox and severs the tendons at the back of its neck so that it springs forward and then drops, even so did Aretus give one bound and then fall on his back the spear quivering in his body till it made an end of him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector then aimed a spear at Automedon but he saw it coming and stooped forward to avoid it, so that it flew past him and the point stuck in the ground, while the buttend went on quivering till Mars robbed it of its force.


title: homer-iliad_17
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They would then have fought hand to hand with swords had not the two Ajaxes forced their way through the crowd when they heard their comrade calling, and parted them for all their fury— for Hector, Aeneas, and Chromius were afraid and drew back, leaving Aretus to lie there struck to the heart.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Automedon, peer of fleet Mars, then stripped him of his armour and vaunted over him saying," I have done little to assuage my sorrow for the son of Menoetius, for the man I have killed is not so good as he was.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" As he spoke he took the bloodstained spoils and laid them upon his chariot; then he mounted the car with his hands and feet all steeped in gore as a lion that has been gorging upon a bull.


title: homer-iliad_17
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And now the fierce groanful fight again raged about Patroclus, for Minerva came down from heaven and roused its fury by the command of farseeing Jove, who had changed his mind and sent her to encourage the Danaans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As when Jove bends his bright bow in heaven in token to mankind either of war or of the chill storms that stay men from their labour and plague the flocks— even so, wrapped in such radiant raiment, did Minerva go in among the host and speak man by man to each.


title: homer-iliad_17
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First she took the form and voice of Phoenix and spoke to Menelaus son of Atreus, who was standing near her."


title: homer-iliad_17
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Menelaus," said she," it will be shame and dishonour to you, if dogs tear the noble comrade of Achilles under the walls of Troy.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" Menelaus answered," Phoenix, my good old friend, may Minerva vouchsafe me strength and keep the darts from off me, for so shall I stand by Patroclus and defend him; his death has gone to my heart, but Hector is as a raging fire and deals his blows without ceasing, for Jove is now granting him a time of triumph.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Therefore she put strength into his knees and shoulders, and made him as bold as a fly, which, though driven off will yet come again and bite if it can, so dearly does it love man 's blood— even so bold as this did she make him as he stood over Patroclus and threw his spear.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector held him in the highest honour for he was his comrade and boon companion; the spear of Menelaus struck this man in the girdle just as he had turned in flight, and went right through him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Whereon he fell heavily forward, and Menelaus son of Atreus drew off his body from the Trojans into the ranks of his own people.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Apollo then went up to Hector and spurred him on to fight, in the likeness of Phaenops son of Asius who lived in Abydos and was the most favoured of all Hector 's guests.


title: homer-iliad_17
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In his likeness Apollo said," Hector, who of the Achaeans will fear you henceforward now that you have quailed before Menelaus who has ever been rated poorly as a soldier?


title: homer-iliad_17
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Yet he has now got a corpse away from the Trojans singlehanded, and has slain your own true comrade, a man brave among the foremost, Podes son of Eetion.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he made his way to the front clad in full armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Thereon the son of Saturn seized his bright tasselled aegis, and veiled Ida in cloud: he sent forth his lightnings and his thunders, and as he shook his aegis he gave victory to the Trojans and routed the Achaeans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The panic was begun by Peneleos the Boeotian, for while keeping his face turned ever towards the foe he had been hit with a spear on the upper part of the shoulder; a spear thrown by Polydamas had grazed the top of the bone, for Polydamas had come up to him and struck him from close at hand.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Then Hector in close combat struck Leitus son of noble Alectryon in the hand by the wrist, and disabled him from fighting further.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He looked about him in dismay, knowing that never again should he wield spear in battle with the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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While Hector was in pursuit of Leitus, Idomeneus struck him on the breastplate over his chest near the nipple; but the spear broke in the shaft, and the Trojans cheered aloud.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Hector then aimed at Idomeneus son of Deucalion as he was standing on his chariot, and very narrowly missed him, but the spear hit Coiranus, a follower and charioteer of Meriones who had come with him from Lyctus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Idomeneus had left the ships on foot and would have afforded a great triumph to the Trojans if Coiranus had not driven quickly up to him, he therefore brought life and rescue to Idomeneus, but himself fell by the hand of murderous Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
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For Hector hit him on the jaw under the ear; the end of the spear drove out his teeth and cut his tongue in two pieces, so that he fell from his chariot and let the reins fall to the ground.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Meriones gathered them up from the ground and took them into his own hands, then he said to Idomeneus," Lay on, till you get back to the ships, for you must see that the day is no longer ours.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Ajax and Menelaus noted how Jove had turned the scale in favour of the Trojans, and Ajax was first to speak."


title: homer-iliad_17
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All their weapons strike home; no matter whether it be a brave man or a coward that hurls them, Jove speeds all alike, whereas ours fall each one of them without effect.


title: homer-iliad_17
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What, then, will be best both as regards rescuing the body, and our return to the joy of our friends who will be grieving as they look hitherwards; for they will make sure that nothing can now check the terrible hands of Hector, and that he will fling himself upon our ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
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I wish that some one would go and tell the son of Peleus at once, for I do not think he can have yet heard the sad news that the dearest of his friends has fallen.


title: homer-iliad_17
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But I can see not a man among the Achaeans to send, for they and their chariots are alike hidden in darkness.


title: homer-iliad_17
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O father Jove, lift this cloud from over the sons of the Achaeans; make heaven serene, and let us see; if you will that we perish, let us fall at any rate by daylight.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Forthwith he chased away the cloud of darkness, so that the sun shone out and all the fighting was revealed.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Ajax then said to Menelaus," Look, Menelaus, and if Antilochus son of Nestor be still living, send him at once to tell Achilles that by far the dearest to him of all his comrades has fallen." Menelaus heeded his words and went his way as a lion from a stockyard— the lion is tired of attacking the men and hounds, who keep watch the whole night through and will not let him feast on the fat of their herd.


title: homer-iliad_17
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In his lust of meat he makes straight at them but in vain, for darts from strong hands assail him, and burning brands which daunt him for all his hunger, so in the morning he slinks sulkily away— even so did Menelaus sorely against his will leave Patroclus, in great fear lest the Achaeans should be driven back in rout and let him fall into the hands of the foe.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He charged Meriones and the two Ajaxes straitly saying," Ajaxes and Meriones, leaders of the Argives, now indeed remember how good Patroclus was; he was ever courteous while alive, bear it in mind now that he is dead.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" With this Menelaus left them, looking round him as keenly as an eagle, whose sight they say is keener than that of any other bird— however high he may be in the heavens, not a hare that runs can escape him by crouching under bush or thicket, for he will swoop down upon it and make an end of it— even so, O Menelaus ,did your keen eyes range round the mighty host of your followers to see if you could find the son of Nestor still alive.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Presently Menelaus saw him on the extreme left of the battle cheering on his men and exhorting them to fight boldly.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Menelaus went up to him and said," Antilochus, come here and listen to sad news, which I would indeed were untrue.


title: homer-iliad_17
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You must see with your own eyes that heaven is heaping calamity upon the Danaans, and giving victory to the Trojans.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Run instantly to the ships and tell Achilles, that he may come to rescue the body and bear it to the ships.


title: homer-iliad_17
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For a long time he was speechless; his eyes filled with tears and he could find no utterance, but he did as Menelaus had said, and set off running as soon as he had given his armour to a comrade, Laodocus, who was wheeling his horses round, close beside him.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Nor were you, O Menelaus, minded to succour his harassed comrades, when Antilochus had left the Pylians— and greatly did they miss him— but he sent them noble Thrasymedes, and himself went back to Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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He came running up to the two Ajaxes and said," I have sent Antilochus to the ships to tell Achilles, but rage against Hector as he may, he can not come, for he can not fight without armour.


title: homer-iliad_17
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What then will be our best plan both as regards rescuing the dead, and our own escape from death amid the battlecries of the Trojans?" Ajax answered," Menelaus, you have said well: do you, then, and Meriones stoop down, raise the body, and bear it out of the fray, while we two behind you keep off Hector and the Trojans, one in heart as in name, and long used to fighting side by side with one another.


title: homer-iliad_17
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" On this Menelaus and Meriones took the dead man in their arms and lifted him high aloft with a great effort.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The Trojan host raised a hue and cry behind them when they saw the Achaeans bearing the body away, and flew after them like hounds attacking a wounded boar at the loo of a band of young huntsmen.


title: homer-iliad_17
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For a while the hounds fly at him as though they would tear him in pieces, but now and again he turns on them in a fury, scaring and scattering them in all directions— even so did the Trojans for a while charge in a body, striking with sword and with spears pointed at both the ends, but when the two Ajaxes faced them and stood at bay, they would turn pale and no man dared press on to fight further about the dead.


title: homer-iliad_17
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The battle raged round them like fierce flames that when once kindled spread like wildfire over a city, and the houses fall in the glare of its burning— even such was the roar and tramp of men and horses that pursued them as they bore Patroclus from the field.


title: homer-iliad_17
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Or as mules that put forth all their strength to draw some beam or great piece of ship 's timber down a rough mountaintrack, and they pant and sweat as they go— even so did Menelaus and pant and sweat as they bore the body of Patroclus.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As some wooded mountainspur that stretches across a plain will turn water and check the flow even of a great river, nor is there any stream strong enough to break through it— even so did the two Ajaxes face the Trojans and stem the tide of their fighting though they kept pouring on towards them and foremost among them all was Aeneas son of Anchises with valiant Hector.


title: homer-iliad_17
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As a flock of daws or starlings fall to screaming and chattering when they see a falcon, foe to all small birds, come soaring near them, even so did the Achaean youth raise a babel of cries as they fled before Aeneas and Hector, unmindful of their former prowess.


title: homer-iliad_17
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In the rout of the Danaans much goodly armour fell round about the trench, and of fighting there was no end.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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TELEMACHUS AND HIS MOTHER MEET—ULYSSES AND EUMAEUS COME DOWN TO THE TOWN, AND ULYSSES IS INSULTED BY MELANTHIUS—HE IS RECOGNISED BY THE DOG ARGOS—HE IS INSULTED AND PRESENTLY STRUCK BY ANTINOUS WITH A STOOL—PENELOPE DESIRES THAT HE SHALL BE SENT TO HER.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited his hands, for he wanted to go into the city.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Old friend," said he to the swineherd," I will now go to the town and show myself to my mother, for she will never leave off grieving till she has seen me.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As for this unfortunate stranger, take him to the town and let him beg there of any one who will give him a drink and a piece of bread.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then Ulysses said," Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Therefore let this man do as you have just told him, and take me to the town as soon as I have had a warm by the fire, and the day has got a little heat in it.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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My clothes are wretchedly thin, and this frosty morning I shall be perished with cold, for you say the city is some way off.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When he reached home he stood his spear against a bearingpost of the cloister, crossed the stone floor of the cloister itself, and went inside.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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She was putting the fleeces on to the seats, and she burst out crying as she ran up to him; all the other maids came up too, and covered his head and shoulders with their kisses.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Penelope came out of her room looking like Diana or Venus, and wept as she flung her arms about her son.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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She kissed his forehead and both his beautiful eyes," Light of my eyes," she cried as she spoke fondly to him," so you are come home again; I made sure I was never going to see you any more.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" "Do not scold me, mother," answered Telemachus," nor vex me, seeing what a narrow escape I have had, but wash your face, change your dress, go upstairs with your maids, and promise full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if Jove will only grant us our revenge upon the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I sent him on with my crew, and told Piraeus to take him home and look after him till I could come for him myself.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" She heeded her son 's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Telemachus went through, and out of, the cloisters spear in hand— not alone, for his two fleet dogs went with him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father 's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then Piraeus came up with Theoclymenus, whom he had escorted through the town to the place of assembly, whereon Telemachus at once joined them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Piraeus was first to speak:" Telemachus," said he," I wish you would send some of your women to my house to take away the presents Menelaus gave you.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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If the suitors kill me in my own house and divide my property among them, I would rather you had the presents than that any of those people should get hold of them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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If on the other hand I managed to kill them, I shall be much obliged if you will kindly bring me my presents.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When they got there they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats, went into the baths, and washed themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When the maids had washed and anointed them, and had given them cloaks and shirts, they took their seats at table.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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A maid servant then brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands; and she drew a clean table beside them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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An upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Opposite them sat Penelope, reclining on a couch by one of the bearingposts of the cloister, and spinning.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then they laid their hands on the good things that were before them, and as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Penelope said: "Telemachus, I shall go upstairs and lie down on that sad couch, which I have not ceased to water with my tears, from the day Ulysses set out for Troy with the sons of Atreus.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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You failed, however, to make it clear to me before the suitors came back to the house, whether or no you had been able to hear anything about the return of your father.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
"We went to Pylos and saw Nestor, who took me to his house and treated me as hospitably as though I were a son of his own who had just returned after a long absence; so also did his sons; but he said he had not heard a word from any human being about Ulysses, whether he was alive or dead.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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There I saw Helen, for whose sake so many, both Argives and Trojans, were in heaven 's wisdom doomed to suffer.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Menelaus asked me what it was that had brought me to Lacedaemon, and I told him the whole truth, whereon he said,' So, then, these cowards would usurp a brave man 's bed?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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A hind might as well lay her newborn young in the lair of a lion, and then go off to feed in the forest or in some grassy dell.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The lion, when he comes back to his lair, will make short work with the pair of them, and so will Ulysses with these suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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By father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, if Ulysses is still the man that he was when he wrestled with Philomeleides in Lesbos, and threw him so heavily that all the Greeks cheered him— if he is still such, and were to come near these suitors, they would have a short shrift and a sorry wedding.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As regards your question, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but what the old man of the sea told me, so much will I tell you in full.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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He said he could see Ulysses on an island sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso, who was keeping him prisoner, and he could not reach his home, for he had no ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.'


title: homer-odyssey_17
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This was what Menelaus told me, and when I had heard his story I came away; the gods then gave me a fair wind and soon brought me safe home again.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then Theoclymenus said to her: "Madam, wife of Ulysses, Telemachus does not understand these things; listen therefore to me, for I can divine them surely, and will hide nothing from you.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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May Jove the king of heaven be my witness, and the rites of hospitality, with that hearth of Ulysses to which I now come, that Ulysses himself is even now in Ithaca, and, either going about the country or staying in one place, is enquiring into all these evil deeds and preparing a day of reckoning for the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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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.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs, or aiming with spears at a mark on the levelled ground in front of the house, and behaving with all their old insolence.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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But when it was now time for dinner, and the flock of sheep and goats had come into the town from all the country round, with their shepherds as usual, then Medon, who was their favourite servant, and who waited upon them at table, said," Now then, my young masters, you have had enough sport, so come inside that we may get dinner ready.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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In the meantime Ulysses and the swineherd were about starting for the town, and the swineherd said," Stranger, I suppose you still want to go to town today, as my master said you were to do; for my own part I should have liked you to stay here as a station hand, but I must do as my master tells me, or he will scold me later on, and a scolding from one 's master is a very serious thing.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Let us be going, but if you have a stick ready cut, let me have it to walk with, for you say the road is a very rough one.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" As he spoke he threw his shabby old tattered wallet over his shoulders, by the cord from which it hung, and Eumaeus gave him a stick to his liking.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The two then started, leaving the station in charge of the dogs and herdsmen who remained behind; the swineherd led the way and his master followed after, looking like some broken down old tramp as he leaned upon his staff, and his clothes were all in rags.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When they had got over the rough steep ground and were nearing the city, they reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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There was a grove of waterloving poplars planted in a circle all round it, and the clear cold water came down to it from a rock high up while above the fountain there was an altar to the nymphs, at which all wayfarers used to sacrifice.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
Here Melanthius son of Dolius overtook them as he was driving down some goats, the best in his flock, for the suitors ' dinner, and there were two shepherds with him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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A fellow like this never won a prize for anything in his life, but will go about rubbing his shoulders against every man 's door post, and begging, not for swords and cauldrons like a man, but only for a few scraps not worth begging for.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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If you would give him to me for a hand on my station, he might do to clean out the folds, or bring a bit of sweet feed to the kids, and he could fatten his thighs as much as he pleased on whey; but he has taken to bad ways and will not go about any kind of work; he will do nothing but beg victuals all the town over, to feed his insatiable belly.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I say, therefore— and it shall surely be— if he goes near Ulysses ' house he will get his head broken by the stools they will fling at him, till they turn him out.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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For a moment he doubted whether or no to fly at Melanthius and kill him with his staff, or fling him to the ground and beat his brains out; he resolved, however, to endure it and keep himself in check, but the swineherd looked straight at Melanthius and rebuked him, lifting up his hands and praying to heaven as he did so.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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"Fountain nymphs," he cried," children of Jove, if ever Ulysses burned you thigh bones covered with fat whether of lambs or kids, grant my prayer that heaven may send him home.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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He would soon put an end to the swaggering threats with which such men as you go about insulting people— gadding all over the town while your flocks are going to ruin through bad shepherding.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Some day or other I will put you on board ship and take you to a foreign country, where I can sell you and pocket the money you will fetch.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
I wish I were as sure that Apollo would strike Telemachus dead this very day, or that the suitors would kill him, as I am that Ulysses will never come home again.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" With this he left them to come on at their leisure, while he went quickly forward and soon reached the house of his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When he got there he went in and took his seat among the suitors opposite Eurymachus, who liked him better than any of the others.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
The servants brought him a portion of meat, and an upper woman servant set bread before him that he might eat.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Presently Ulysses and the swineherd came up to the house and stood by it, amid a sound of music, for Phemius was just beginning to sing to the suitors.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then Ulysses took hold of the swineherd 's hand, and said: "Eumaeus, this house of Ulysses is a very fine place.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The outer court has a wall with battlements all round it; the doors are double folding, and of good workmanship; it would be a hard matter to take it by force of arms.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I perceive, too, that there are many people banqueting within it, for there is a smell of roast meat, and I hear a sound of music, which the gods have made to go along with feasting."


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
Then Eumaeus said," You have perceived aright, as indeed you generally do; but let us think what will be our best course.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Will you go inside first and join the suitors, leaving me here behind you, or will you wait here and let me go in first?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I have been so much buffeted about in war and by sea that I am casehardened, and this too may go with the rest.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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But a man can not hide away the cravings of a hungry belly; this is an enemy which gives much trouble to all men; it is because of this that ships are fitted out to sail the seas, and to make war upon other people.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" As they were thus talking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
This was Argos, whom Ulysses had bred before setting out for Troy, but he had never had any work out of him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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In the old days he used to be taken out by the young men when they went hunting wild goats, or deer, or hares, but now that his master was gone he was lying neglected on the heaps of mule and cow dung that lay in front of the stable doors till the men should come and draw it away to manure the great close; and he was full of fleas.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As soon as he saw Ulysses standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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When Ulysses saw the dog on the other side of the yard, he dashed a tear from his eyes without Eumaeus seeing it, and said: "Eumaeus, what a noble hound that is over yonder on the manure heap: his build is splendid; is he as fine a fellow as he looks, or is he only one of those dogs that come begging about a table, and are kept merely for show?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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There was not a wild beast in the forest that could get away from him when he was once on its tracks.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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But now he has fallen on evil times, for his master is dead and gone, and the women take no care of him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Servants never do their work when their master 's hand is no longer over them, for Jove takes half the goodness out of a man when he makes a slave of him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the cloister where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Telemachus saw Eumaeus long before any one else did, and beckoned him to come and sit beside him; so he looked about and saw a seat lying near where the carver sat serving out their portions to the suitors; he picked it up, brought it to Telemachus 's table, and sat down opposite him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Immediately afterwards Ulysses came inside, looking like a poor miserable old beggar, leaning on his staff and with his clothes all in rags.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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He sat down upon the threshold of ashwood just inside the doors leading from the outer to the inner court, and against a bearingpost of cypresswood which the carpenter had skilfully planed, and had made to join truly with rule and line.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
Telemachus took a whole loaf from the breadbasket, with as much meat as he could hold in his two hands, and said to Eumaeus," Take this to the stranger, and tell him to go the round of the suitors, and beg from them; a beggar must not be shamefaced.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" So Eumaeus went up to him and said," Stranger, Telemachus sends you this, and says you are to go the round of the suitors begging, for beggars must not be shamefaced.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
" Ulysses answered," May King Jove grant all happiness to Telemachus, and fulfil the desire of his heart." Then with both hands he took what Telemachus had sent him, and laid it on the dirty old wallet at his feet.


title: homer-odyssey_17
sentence:
The suitors applauded the bard, whereon Minerva went up to Ulysses and prompted him to beg pieces of bread from each one of the suitors, that he might see what kind of people they were, and tell the good from the bad; but come what might she was not going to save a single one of them.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Ulysses, therefore, went on his round, going from left to right, and stretched out his hands to beg as though he were a real beggar.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Some of them pitied him, and were curious about him, asking one another who he was and where he came from; whereon the goatherd Melanthius said," Suitors of my noble mistress, I can tell you something about him, for I have seen him before.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Do you think it a small thing that such people gather here to waste your master 's property— and must you needs bring this man as well?"


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Who is likely to invite a stranger from a foreign country, unless it be one of those who can do public service as a seer, a healer of hurts, a carpenter, or a bard who can charm us with his singing?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Such men are welcome all the world over, but no one is likely to ask a beggar who will only worry him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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You are always harder on Ulysses ' servants than any of the other suitors are, and above all on me, but I do not care so long as Telemachus and Penelope are alive and here."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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But Telemachus said," Hush, do not answer him; Antinous has the bitterest tongue of all the suitors, and he makes the others worse.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" Then turning to Antinous he said," Antinous, you take as much care of my interests as though I were your son.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Never mind my mother, nor any of the other servants in the house; but I know you will not do what I say, for you are more fond of eating things yourself than of giving them to other people."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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If all the suitors were to give him as much as I will, he would not come here again for another three months.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" As he spoke he drew the stool on which he rested his dainty feet from under the table, and made as though he would throw it at Ulysses, but the other suitors all gave him something, and filled his wallet with bread and meat; he was about, therefore, to go back to the threshold and eat what the suitors had given him, but he first went up to Antinous and said: "Sir, give me something; you are not, surely, the poorest man here; you seem to be a chief, foremost among them all; therefore you should be the better giver, and I will tell far and wide of your bounty.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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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.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I stationed my ships in the river Aegyptus, and bade my men stay by them and keep guard over them, while I sent out scouts to reconnoitre from every point of vantage.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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"But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captives.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the warcry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with soldiers horse and foot, and with the gleam of armour.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The Egyptians killed many of us, and took the rest alive to do forced labour for them; as for myself, they gave me to a friend who met them, to take to Cyprus, Dmetor by name, son of Iasus, who was a great man in Cyprus.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Get out, into the open part of the court or I will give you Egypt and Cyprus over again for your insolence and importunity; you have begged of all the others, and they have given you lavishly, for they have abundance round them, and it is easy to be free with other people 's property when there is plenty of it.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" On this Ulysses began to move off, and said," Your looks, my fine sir, are better than your breeding; if you were in your own house you would not spare a poor man so much as a pinch of salt, for though you are in another man 's, and surrounded with abundance, you can not find it in you to give him even a piece of bread.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" This made Antinous very angry, and he scowled at him saying," You shall pay for this before you get clear of the court."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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With these words he threw a footstool at him, and hit him on the right shoulder blade near the top of his back.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Ulysses stood firm as a rock and the blow did not even stagger him, but he shook his head in silence as he brooded on his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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A man knows neither ache nor pain if he gets hit while fighting for his money, or for his sheep or his cattle; and even so Antinous has hit me while in the service of my miserable belly, which is always getting people into trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Still, if the poor have gods and avenging deities at all, I pray them that Antinous may come to a bad end before his marriage." "Sit where you are, and eat your victuals in silence, or be off elsewhere," shouted Antinous.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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"If you say more I will have you dragged hand and foot through the courts, and the servants shall flay you alive."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The other suitors were much displeased at this, and one of the young men said," Antinous, you did ill in striking that poor wretch of a tramp: it will be worse for you if he should turn out to be some god— and we know the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who righteously."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Meanwhile Telemachus was furious about the blow that had been given to his father, and though no tear fell from him, he shook his head in silence and brooded on his revenge.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Now when Penelope heard that the beggar had been struck in the banquetingcloister, she said before her maids," Would that Apollo would so strike you, Antinous," and her waiting woman Eurynome answered," If our prayers were answered not one of the suitors would ever again see the sun rise."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then Penelope said," Nurse I hate every single one of them, for they mean nothing but mischief, but I hate Antinous like the darkness of death itself.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Every one else has given him something to put in his wallet, but Antinous has hit him on the right shoulderblade with a footstool."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Thus did she talk with her maids as she sat in her own room, and in the meantime Ulysses was getting his dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then she called for the swineherd and said," Eumaeus, go and tell the stranger to come here, I want to see him and ask him some questions.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," If these Achaeans, Madam, would only keep quiet, you would be charmed with the history of his adventures.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I had him three days and three nights with me in my hut, which was the first place he reached after running away from his ship, and he has not yet completed the story of his misfortunes.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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If he had been the most heaventaught minstrel in the whole world, on whose lips all hearers hang entranced, I could not have been more charmed as I sat in my hut and listened to him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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He says there is an old friendship between his house and that of Ulysses, and that he comes from Crete where the descendants of Minos live, after having been driven hither and thither by every kind of misfortune; he also declares that he has heard of Ulysses as being alive and near at hand among the Thesprotians, and that he is bringing great wealth home with him.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As for the suitors, let them take their pleasure indoors or out as they will, for they have nothing to fret about.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Their corn and wine remain unwasted in their houses with none but servants to consume them, while they keep hanging about our house day after day sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Penelope laughed when she heard this, and said to Eumaeus," Go and call the stranger; did you not hear how my son sneezed just as I was speaking?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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This can only mean that all the suitors are going to be killed, and that not one of them shall escape.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart: if I am satisfied that the stranger is speaking the truth I shall give him a shirt and cloak of good wear.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" When Eumaeus heard this he went straight to Ulysses and said," Father stranger, my mistress Penelope, mother of Telemachus, has sent for you; she is in great grief, but she wishes to hear anything you can tell her about her husband, and if she is satisfied that you are speaking the truth, she will give you a shirt and cloak, which are the very things that you are most in want of.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As for bread, you can get enough of that to fill your belly, by begging about the town, and letting those give that will.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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I know all about her husband, and have been partner with him in affliction, but I am afraid of passing through this crowd of cruel suitors, for their pride and insolence reach heaven.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Just now, moreover, as I was going about the house without doing any harm, a man gave me a blow that hurt me very much, but neither Telemachus nor any one else defended me.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Let her give me a seat close up to the fire, for my clothes are worn very thin— you know they are, for you have seen them ever since I first asked you to help me —she can then ask me about the return of her husband.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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The swineherd went back when he heard this, and Penelope said as she saw him cross the threshold," Why do you not bring him here, Eumaeus?


title: homer-odyssey_17
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He asks you to wait till sundown, and it will be much better, madam, that you should have him all to yourself, when you can hear him and talk to him as you will."


title: homer-odyssey_17
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"The man is no fool," answered Penelope," it would very likely be as he says, for there are no such abominable people in the whole world as these men are." When she had done speaking Eumaeus went back to the suitors, for he had explained everything.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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Then he went up to Telemachus and said in his ear so that none could overhear him," My dear sir, I will now go back to the pigs, to see after your property and my own business.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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You will look to what is going on here, but above all be careful to keep out of danger, for there are many who bear you ill will.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" "Very well," replied Telemachus," go home when you have had your dinner, and in the morning come here with the victims we are to sacrifice for the day.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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" On this Eumaeus took his seat again, and when he had finished his dinner he left the courts and the cloister with the men at table, and went back to his pigs.


title: homer-odyssey_17
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As for the suitors, they presently began to amuse themselves with singing and dancing, for it was now getting on towards evening.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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but as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of Neleus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Neptune lord of the Earthquake.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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As they were eating the inward meats and burning the thigh bones[ on the embers] in the name of Neptune, Telemachus and his crew arrived, furled their sails, brought their ship to anchor, and went ashore.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Presently she said," Telemachus, you must not be in the least shy or nervous; you have taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried and how he came by his end; so go straight up to Nestor that we may see what he has got to tell us.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I have never yet been used to holding long conversations with people, and am ashamed to begin questioning one who is so much older than myself.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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" "Some things, Telemachus," answered Minerva," will be suggested to you by your own instinct, and heaven will prompt you further; for I am assured that the gods have been with you from the time of your birth until now."


title: homer-odyssey_03
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She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were assembled.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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There they found Nestor sitting with his sons, while his company round him were busy getting dinner ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits while other pieces were cooking.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When they saw the strangers they crowded round them, took them by the hand and bade them take their places.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Nestor 's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then he gave them their portions of the inward meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup, handing it to Minerva first, and saluting her at the same time.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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"Offer a prayer, sir," said he," to King Neptune, for it is his feast that you are joining; when you have duly prayed and made your drink offering, pass the cup to your friend that he may do so also.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Still he is younger than you are, and is much of an age with myself, so I will give you the precedence.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Minerva thought it very right and proper of him to have given it to herself first; she accordingly began praying heartily to Neptune. "


title: homer-odyssey_03
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O thou," she cried," that encirclest the earth, vouchsafe to grant the prayers of thy servants that call upon thee.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Lastly, grant Telemachus and myself a happy issue, in respect of the matter that has brought us in our ship to Pylos."


title: homer-odyssey_03
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By and by, when the outer meats were roasted and had been taken off the spits, the carvers gave every man his portion and they all made an excellent dinner.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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or do you sail the seas as rovers with your hand against every man, and every man 's hand against you?" Telemachus answered boldly, for Minerva had given him courage to ask about his father and get himself a good name.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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"Nestor," said he," son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name ,you ask whence we come, and I will tell you.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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We come from Ithaca under Neritum and the matter about which I would speak is of private not public import.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses, who is said to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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We know what fate befell each one of the other heroes who fought at Troy, but as regards Ulysses heaven has hidden from us the knowledge even that he is dead at all, for no one can certify us in what place he perished, nor say whether he fell in battle on the mainland, or was lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Therefore I am suppliant at your knees, if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller, for he was a man born to trouble.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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If my brave father Ulysses ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed among the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favour and tell me truly all." "My friend," answered Nestor," you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king Priam.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Our best men all of them fell there— Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus peer of gods in counsel, and my own dear son Antilochus, a man singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Though you were to stay here and question me for five years, or even six, I could not tell you all that the Achaeans suffered, and you would turn homeward weary of my tale before it ended.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Nine long years did we try every kind of stratagem, but the hand of heaven was against us; during all this time there was no one who could compare with your father in subtlety— if indeed you are his son— I can hardly believe my eyes— and you talk just like him too —no one would say that people of such different ages could speak so much alike.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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He and I never had any kind of difference from first to last neither in camp nor council, but in singleness of heart and purpose we advised the Argives how all might be ordered for the best.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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"When, however, we had sacked the city of Priam, and were setting sail in our ships as heaven had dispersed us, then Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage; for they had not all been either wise or understanding, and hence many came to a bad end through the displeasure of Jove 's daughter Minerva, who brought about a quarrel between the two sons of Atreus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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"The sons of Atreus called a meeting which was not as it should be, for it was sunset and the Achaeans were heavy with wine.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When they explained why they had called the people together, it seemed that Menelaus was for sailing homeward at once, and this displeased Agamemnon, who thought that we should wait till we had offered hecatombs to appease the anger of Minerva.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Fool that he was, he might have known that he would not prevail with her, for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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So the two stood bandying hard words, whereon the Achaeans sprang to their feet with a cry that rent the air, and were of two minds as to what they should do.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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But in the morning some of us drew our ships into the water and put our goods with our women on board, while the rest, about half in number, stayed behind with Agamemnon.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home; cruel Jove, however, did not yet mean that we should do so, and raised a second quarrel in the course of which some among us turned their ships back again, and sailed away under Ulysses to make their peace with Agamemnon; but I, and all the ships that were with me pressed forward, for I saw that mischief was brewing.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Later on Menelaus joined us at Lesbos, and found us making up our minds about our course— for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against the stormy headland of Mimas.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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So we asked heaven for a sign, and were shown one to the effect that we should be soonest out of danger if we headed our ships across the open sea to Euboea.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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This we therefore did, and a fair wind sprang up which gave us a quick passage during the night to Geraestus where we offered many sacrifices to Neptune for having helped us so far on our way.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Four days later Diomed and his men stationed their ships in Argos, but I held on for Pylos, and the wind never fell light from the day when heaven first made it fair for me.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I know neither who got home safely nor who were lost but, as in duty bound, I will give you without reserve the reports that have reached me since I have been here in my own house.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under Achilles ' son Neoptolemus; so also did the valiant son of Poias, Philoctetes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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No matter how far out of the world you live, you will have heard of Agamemnon and the bad end he came to at the hands of Aegisthus— and a fearful reckoning did Aegisthus presently pay.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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See what a good thing it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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You too, then— for you are a tall smartlooking fellow— show your mettle and make yourself a name in story.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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" "Nestor son of Neleus," answered Telemachus," honour to the Achaean name, the Achaeans applaud Orestes and his name will live through all time for he has avenged his father nobly.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Would that heaven might grant me to do like vengeance on the insolence of the wicked suitors, who are ill treating me and plotting my ruin; but the gods have no such happiness in store for me and for my father, so we must bear it as best we may." "My friend," said Nestor," now that you remind me, I remember to have heard that your mother has many suitors, who are ill disposed towards you and are making havoc of your estate.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
Who knows but what Ulysses may come back after all, and pay these scoundrels in full, either singlehanded or with a force of Achaeans behind him?


title: homer-odyssey_03
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If Minerva were to take as great a liking to you as she did to Ulysses when we were fighting before Troy( for I never yet saw the gods so openly fond of any one as Minerva then was of your father), if she would take as good care of you as she did of him, these wooers would soon some of them forget their wooing.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Heaven has a long arm if it is minded to save a man; and if it were me, I should not care how much I suffered before getting home, provided I could be safe when I was once there.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I would rather this, than get home quickly, and then be killed in my own house as Agamemnon was by the treachery of Aegisthus and his wife.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Still, death is certain, and when a man 's hour is come, not even the gods can save him, no matter how fond they are of him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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There is no chance of my father 's ever coming back; the gods have long since counselled his destruction.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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There is something else, however, about which I should like to ask Nestor, for he knows much more than any one else does.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
Was Menelaus away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhither among mankind, that Aegisthus took heart and killed Agamemnon?


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
" "I will tell you truly," answered Nestor," and indeed you have yourself divined how it all happened.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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If Menelaus when he got back from Troy had found Aegisthus still alive in his house, there would have been no barrow heaped up for him, not even when he was dead, but he would have been thrown outside the city to dogs and vultures, and not a woman would have mourned him, for he had done a deed of great wickedness; but we were over there, fighting hard at Troy, and Aegisthus, who was taking his ease quietly in the heart of Argos, cajoled Agamemnon 's wife Clytemnestra with incessant flattery.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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"At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; moreover there was a bard with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife; but when heaven had counselled her destruction, Aegisthus carried this bard off to a desert island and left him there for crows and seagulls to batten upon— after which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then he offered many burnt sacrifices to the gods, and decorated many temples with tapestries and gilding, for he had succeeded far beyond his expectations.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When we got to Sunium, which is the point of Athens, Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the steersman of Menelaus ' ship( and never man knew better how to handle a vessel in rough weather) so that he died then and there with the helm in his hand, and Menelaus, though very anxious to press forward, had to wait in order to bury his comrade and give him his due funeral rites.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Presently, when he too could put to sea again, and had sailed on as far as the Malean heads, Jove counselled evil against him and made it blow hard till the waves ran mountains high.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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There is a high headland hereabouts stretching out into the sea from a place called Gortyn, and all along this part of the coast as far as Phaestus the sea runs high when there is a south wind blowing, but after Phaestus the coast is more protected, for a small headland can make a great shelter.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Here this part of the fleet was driven on to the rocks and wrecked; but the crews just managed to save themselves.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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As for the other five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaus gathered much gold and substance among people of an alien speech.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
For seven years after he had killed Agamemnon he ruled in Mycene, and the people were obedient under him, but in the eighth year Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and killed the murderer of his father.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then he celebrated the funeral rites of his mother and of false Aegisthus by a banquet to the people of Argos, and on that very day Menelaus came home with as much treasure as his ships could carry.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
"Take my advice then, and do not go travelling about for long so far from home, nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your house; they will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been on a fool 's errand.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Still, I should advise you by all means to go and visit Menelaus, who has lately come off a voyage among such distant peoples as no man could ever hope to get back from, when the winds had once carried him so far out of his reckoning; even birds can not fly the distance in a twelvemonth, so vast and terrible are the seas that they must cross.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Go to him, therefore, by sea, and take your own men with you; or if you would rather travel by land you can have a chariot, you can have horses, and here are my sons who can escort you to Lacedaemon where Menelaus lives.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
" As he spoke the sun set and it came on dark, whereon Minerva said," Sir, all that you have said is well; now, however, order the tongues of the victims to be cut, and mix wine that we may make drinkofferings to Neptune, and the other immortals, and then go to bed, for it is bed time.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
Men servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixingbowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink offering; then they threw the tongues of the victims into the fire, and stood up to make their drink offerings.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
When they had made their offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded, Minerva and Telemachus were for going on board their ship, but Nestor caught them up at once and stayed them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
sentence:
"Heaven and the immortal gods," he exclaimed," forbid that you should leave my house to go on board of a ship.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Do you think I am so poor and short of clothes, or that I have so few cloaks and as to be unable to find comfortable beds both for myself and for my guests?


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Let me tell you I have store both of rugs and cloaks, and shall not permit the son of my old friend Ulysses to camp down on the deck of a ship— not while I live— nor yet will my sons after me, but they will keep open house as I have done.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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" Then Minerva answered," Sir, you have spoken well, and it will be much better that Telemachus should do as you have said; he, therefore, shall return with you and sleep at your house, but I must go back to give orders to my crew, and keep them in good heart.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus ' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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As for Telemachus, now that he is your guest, send him to Lacedaemon in a chariot, and let one of your sons go with him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Be pleased to also provide him with your best and fleetest horses." When she had thus spoken, she flew away in the form of an eagle, and all marvelled as they beheld it.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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My friend," said he," I see that you are going to be a great hero some day, since the gods wait upon you thus while you are still so young.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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This can have been none other of those who dwell in heaven than Jove 's redoubtable daughter, the Tritoborn, who shewed such favour towards your brave father among the Argives.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Holy queen," he continued," vouchsafe to send down thy grace upon myself, my good wife, and my children.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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In return, I will offer you in sacrifice a broadbrowed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and seats, he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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As he mixed the wine, he prayed much and made drink offerings to Minerva, daughter of Aegisbearing Jove.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then, when they had made their drink offerings and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the others went home to bed each in his own abode; but Nestor put Telemachus to sleep in the room that was over the gateway along with Pisistratus, who was the only unmarried son now left him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Now when the child of morning rosyfingered Dawn appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Here aforetime sat Neleus, peer of gods in counsel, but he was now dead, and had gone to the house of Hades; so Nestor sat in his seat sceptre in hand, as guardian of the public weal.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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His sons as they left their rooms gathered round him, Echephron, Stratius, Perseus, Aretus, and Thrasymedes; the sixth son was Pisistratus, and when Telemachus joined them they made him sit with them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday 's festivities.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Go, then, one or other of you to the plain, tell the stockman to look me out a heifer, and come on here with it at once.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Another must go to Telemachus ' ship, and invite all the crew, leaving two men only in charge of the vessel.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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The rest, stay all of you where you are; tell the maids in the house to prepare an excellent dinner, and to fetch seats, and logs of wood for a burnt offering.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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The heifer was brought in from the plain, and Telemachus 's crew came from the ship; the goldsmith brought the anvil, hammer, and tongs, with which he worked his gold, and Minerva herself came to accept the sacrifice.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then Stratius and Echephron brought her in by the horns; Aretus fetched water from the house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it, and in his other hand he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then Nestor began with washing his hands and sprinkling the barley meal, and he offered many a prayer to Minerva as he threw a lock from the heifer 's head upon the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice( she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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They cut out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with fivepronged spits in their hands.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When the thighs were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces on the spits and toasted them over the fire.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When she had washed him and anointed him with oil, she brought him a fair mantle and shirt and he looked like a god as he came from the bath and took his seat by the side of Nestor.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Nestor said," Sons, put Telemachus 's horses to the chariot that he may start at once.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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The housekeeper packed them up a provision of bread, wine, and sweet meats fit for the sons of princes.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Then Telemachus got into the chariot, while Pisistratus gathered up the reins and took his seat beside him.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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He lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth into the open country, leaving the high citadel of Pylos behind them.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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All that day did they travel, swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and darkness was over all the land.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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When the child of morning, rosyfingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse.


title: homer-odyssey_03
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Pisistratus lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth; presently they came to the corn lands of the open country, and in the course of time completed their journey, so well did their steeds take them.


