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Achaians Achilles Agamemnon Aias Aineias Alexandros amid answered Antilochos Argives armour arms Athene Atreides Atreus bade battle beheld beneath beside breast bronze chariot comrades counsel Danaans dart daughter dead dear death Diomedes drave dread earth Eëtion Epeians Eurypylos fain fair father Zeus fell fight fleet gave glancing helm glorious goddess godlike gods goodly great-hearted hands hath hearken heaven Hector Hephaistos Hera hither hollow ships honour horses host Idomeneus Ilios immortal Kronos lest lord loud war-cry Lykians Menelaos Menoitios Meriones midst mighty Nestor noble Achilles Odysseus Olympus Patroklos Peleus Poseidon Priam renowned Sarpedon shield shoulders Skamandros slain slay slew smitten smote sons sore sorrow soul spake spear steeds stood straightway swift swift ships sword Telamonian Aias Teukros thee thereof thine thou art throng thy heart Trojans Troy twain Tydeus unto valour verily wall warrior wilt winged words wise wounded wrath wroth Zeus
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Page 124 - Nay, Hector, thou art to me father and lady mother, yea and brother, even as thou art my goodly husband. Come now, have pity and abide here upon the tower, lest thou make thy child an orphan and thy wife a widow.
Page 125 - V ea of a surety I know this in heart and soul ; the day shall come for holy Ilios to be laid low, and Priam and the folk of Priam of the good ashen spear.
Page 414 - ... pressing hard on the men he slew; and the black earth ran with blood. For even as when one yoketh wide-browed bulls to tread white barley in a stablished threshing-floor, and quickly is it trodden out beneath the feet of the loud-lowing bulls, thus beneath great-hearted Achilles his whole-hooved horses trampled corpses and shields together; and with blood all the axletree below was sprinkled and the rims that ran around the car, for blood-drops from the horses' hooves splashed them, and blood-drops...
Page 15 - Now when they had prayed and sprinkled the barley-meal they first drew back the bull's head and cut his throat and flayed him, and cut slices from the thighs and wrapped them in fat, making a double fold, and laid raw collops thereon. And these they burnt on cleft wood stript of leaves, and spitted the vitals and held them over Hephaistos
Page 2 - Apollo heard him, and came down from the peaks of Olympus wroth at heart, bearing on his shoulders his bow and covered quiver. And the arrows clanged upon his shoulders in his wrath, as the god moved; and he descended like to night. Then he sate him aloof from the ships, and let an arrow fly ; and there was heard a dread clanging of the silver bow. First did he assail the mules and fleet dogs, but afterward, aiming at the men his piercing dart, he smote; and the pyres of the dead burnt continually...
Page 289 - Tell me now, ye Muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon? It was Iphidamas, son of Antenor, a man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace, the mother of sheep. Cisses, his...
Page 118 - So now he smiled and gazed at his boy silently, and Andromache stood by his side weeping, and clasped her hand in his, and spake and called upon his name.
Page 27 - But whatever man of the people he saw and found him shouting, him he drave with his sceptre and chode him .with loud words : " Good sir, sit still and hearken to the words of others that are thy betters ; but thou art no warrior, and a weakling, never reckoned whether in battle or in council.
Page 383 - Furthermore he set in the shield a soft fresh-ploughed field, rich tilth and wide, the third time ploughed; and many ploughers therein drave their yokes to and fro as they wheeled about. Whensoever they •came to the boundary of the field and turned, then would a man come to each and give into his hands a goblet of sweet wine, while others would be turning back along the furrows, fain to reach the boundary of the deep tilth. And die field grew black behind and seemed as it were a-ploughing, albeit...
Page 115 - Hippolochos' glorious son made answer to him: "Great-hearted Tydeides, why enquirest thou of my generation? Even as are the generations of leaves such are those likewise of men; the leaves that be the wind scattereth on the earth, and the forest buddeth and putteth forth more again, when the season of spring is at hand; so of the generations of men one putteth forth and another ceaseth.