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Apollonius Rhodius archæology art monuments artist Autotype beautiful beneath British Museum cave Charybdis chiton chlamys Circe comrades of Odysseus curious Cyclops daughter decorated depicted Dionysiac Elpenor Esquiline Etruscan Eurylochus evil figured in Plate flocks funeral Galatea giant Glaucus goddess gods Greek Vase Hades head Herakles Hermes hero Hesiod holds Homer inscription LÆSTRYGONES Læstrygonian land landscape later days lekythos Lesche lyre maiden mighty monster Muses myth mythology oars Odysseus painting Pausanias Persephone picture poet Polygnotus Polyphemus Pompeian Wall-Painting Prokris right hand rock Roman sacred Satyr scene Scylla seated seems ship Sirens soul spake sphendone stands strange sword Teiresias tells thee thou tion turn to Plate vase-painting wears wine Zeus γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπ ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ μὲν οἱ οὐ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 110 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 92 - Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, nay, trouble not thyself for want of a guide, by thy ship abiding; but set up the mast and spread abroad the white sails, and sit thee down, and the breeze of the north wind will bear thy vessel on her way.
Page 99 - There Perimedes and Eurylochus held the victims; but I drew my sharp sword from my thigh, and dug a pit, as it were a cubit in length and breadth, and about it poured a drink offering to all the dead, first with mead and thereafter with sweet wine, and for the third time with water.
Page 186 - like a cauldron on a great fire, she would seethe up through all her troubled deeps, and, overhead, the spray fell on the tops of either cliff. But oft as she gulped down the salt sea-water, within she was all plain to see through her troubled deeps; and the rock around roared horribly, and beneath
Page 62 - All around the palace mountain-bred wolves and lions were roaming, whom she herself had bewitched with evil drugs that she gave them. Yet the beasts did not set on my men, but lo, they ramped about them and fawned on them, wagging their long tails! And as when dogs fawn about their lord when he
Page 64 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig. Howbeit, with the gods all things are possible.
Page 64 - strange and terrible creatures. So they stood at the outer gate of the fair-tressed goddess, and within they heard Circe singing in a sweet voice, as she fared to and fro before the great web imperishable, such as is the handiwork of goddesses, fine of woof and full of grace and splendour.
Page 15 - But the Cyclops, groaning and travailing in pain, groped with his hands and lifted away the stone from the door of the cave, and himself sat in the entry, with arms outstretched to catch, if he might, any one that- was going forth with his sheep, so witless, methinks, did he hope to find me.
Page 6 - Then, verily, I stood by the Cyclops and spake to him, holding in my hands an ivy bowl of the dark wine. "' Cyclops, take and drink wine after thy feast of man's meat, that thou mayest know what manner of drink this was that our ship held. And lo ! I was bringing it thee as a
Page 5 - come to these thy knees, if perchance thou wilt give us a stranger's gift, or make any present, as is the due of strangers. Nay, lord, have regard to the gods, for we are thy suppliants and Zeus is the avenger of suppliants and sojourners.