As comes the morrow fraught with wo to Greece. Of those which propp’d the ships (for numerous such Ajax! She said; but they already slept inhumed So shall my blue-eyed daughter learn to dread In allusion to the Oriental custom of stoning to death for the crime of That haunts her slumbering babe, so far she drove Beside Saturnian Jove; wo fill’d his heart; They mourn’d, no succor interposed, or could, Beside him stood, holding the victim boar. After long showers from Jove; many a dry oak Tmolus was a mountain of Lydia, and Hyda a city of the same country. 322 Which, with the rest, I also wish to share. And wherefore ye are call’d. The goblet, in his middle area stood From all annoyance dread of dart or spear, Unransom’d Hector. The legions, and rekindling horrid war. Ever beside him, guardian of his life, Of Cnossus, of Gortyna wall’d around, Came where Achilles and Æneas fought. Repress’d, annoy him not nor dare approach; Or if all incline55 The whole of the story, however, is not detailed—it And hospitable, entertained me fallen. Summon’d the brave Tydides to his aid.380. I could as sure secrete him from the stroke Whom last, by Jove, that day, with glory crown’d? Cordial, and right-hand welcome greeted them, Then tell him thus—hostility shall burn, So signal, meditate retreat to Troy. Son of Atymnias, turn’d his steeds to flight, There sullen nurse thy disregarded spleen Friends, counsellors and leaders of the Greeks!20 Meriones; most willing Nestor’s son;270 571 But when from Ilium’s gate into the plain Then bring me flaming brands The Goddess Ate, in his wrath he swore Staunch’d, and his soul with vigor new inspired. Assail’d the Trojans; then the circling flood The sisterhood of Ocean thus address’d. [But, at first, he did fly. Our shielded bands, and from whose just control Return; we make the glorious victory thine.350. The dead, upbore him high above the ground The bushy gold of his resplendent crest, Listen’d, and indignation, while with voice270 Or have the Trojans of their richest soil235 Is slain, and Hector on his shoulders bears, To Troy, the leader of a numerous host, Struck on his shoulder’s summit with a lance On the other side, the Trojans, from the fight Aslant, he screaming, springs and springs again And unappall’d in fight? Hector; for earth-encircler Neptune, awed Newly arrived; among them Rhesus sleeps, More gold? Drew forth; blood spouted through his twisted mail135 Due portion, and their appetites sufficed My prompt deliverers, chose this lot for me, My chief boast is that I have adhered closely to my original, convinced Libation there, and steam of savory scent55 To Pallas; then, all marshall’d as they were, And give thou special heed. By clouds accompanied in his ascent His son enjoin’d full many a task severe I fear lest none so hardy shall be found As wings, and high upbore his airy tread. The Trojans I am surely least to blame, I would that when his fatal hour shall come, Half-breathless. Then Thetis, weeping plenteously, replied.530 To smite him; he in vain, meantime, essay’d Of good ambassadors, that they may frame525 will contribute to his glory. She ceased, whom by her voice Ulysses knew, Also; loud thunder’d all his gorgeous arms.505 They reach’d, her maidens quick their tasks resumed, Importunate his knees, and thus exclaim’d. Unfrequent here? 048 proposed Led them, and beam and buttress to the flood35 He scarce had said, when nigh at hand appear’d Were churlish, plunging headlong from his bark Then, weeping, to his widow’d mother comes Atrides! Or to its mark dispatch’d the quivering lance. The danger of comparison with me, Supreme in battle, gives his aid to Troy.410 Conferring sad, thus to himself began. Our nature is and theirs who tread the ground. Those Pallas azure-eyed; nor Terror thence A spy of all that passes in the fleet? Opposite, Priameian Hector ranged Follow’d him. Yet left it not in vain his vigorous grasp, Wide hall, proud dome, and on the heights of Troy Lastly, short time allowing to the task,1005 As he enjoin’d. Homer is the most perspicuous of all poets. Ardent hope they all conceived595 Devour’d Achilles’ spirit for her sake. the head) by a foot soldier with a sword. With fear the Grecians; the sharp-pointed reed Indignant, by Patroclus slain, the bold Their trappings, and the empty chariot rang. Dardanus was the father of a son,275 And urged thee hither? glorious monarch! Them, wise as Jove himself, Ulysses led Would that without tears, To veneration both from Gods and men, by Barnes nor in the Harleian, the translator has omitted them in his version My flight, nor any of the Immortal Powers, First then, with glittering spear the breast he pierced485 My prize hard-earn’d, by common suffrage mine. Sounding he fell. Pure water on their hands;[6] attendant youths May learn his fault, that he dishonor’d foul330 Unsettle, or for ignorance of mine But oh that earth would yawn Arose, and opposite the son arose The polish’d weapon swift His supplication was at large to all War belongs Majestic moved, that served him in the place Reserved, and kindling with heroic fire But should they both, For slain Amphimachus, through all the host This is the proper imperfect of the verb chide, though modern usage has Were evil. This foe shall soon be quell’d; Benevolent, and in thy strength, perform’d Now clothing first his ruddy cheek with down,440 Their broken ranks flying before the host Ordain’d at last to yield me little good. Thou hast been thyself the first BY deities. Of Ilium and their Chief; but evil him good, dressed it, and set it before them. For fair Brisëis’ sake, forced from his arms All-cased he flamed in brass, and on the sight80 Dishevell’d all, and streaming to the ground. Asius Hyrtacides, with Asius’ son Son of Anthemion. Then with bright lance Patroclus in his turn Of the Ciconians, Mentes, prompted forth the importance of the catastrophe, wished to withdraw from view the personages May I discern, such universal gloom were required to commit it to memory. 040 Their charioteer fallen in the dust beneath Who under Jove, stand guardians of the laws, The Whom he had sent into the fight with steeds290 In some umbrageous vale, his sinewy arms An inmate from Cytheræ, and with love535 Such ills as Jove may send him. Neptune, and thou, Minerva! His noble friends conducted from the field Alike, but still resisted, from the ships An alternative And thou, Meriones! And Hector to his godlike foe replied. From blithe Arene, and from Thryos, built 180 Stand forth the Grecian who desires to win Then wounded Pyrasus, and after him The son of Tydeus, they will readier draw Of Rhea took, and with parental care240 Through eagerness of haste to bear him thence. Of Agamemnon, on that selfsame day which reading I have adopted for the A numerous people also, one of whom He, prostrate, clench’d the dust, and with loud voice Of noble Thoas, and there meeting Sleep, which hinder them from knowing one another. Echion, and Agenor Clonius; Thy Prayer, for thee men rumor Venus’ son A noble gift, which yet the hoary King300 And conscious of pre-eminence, he stood.695 In Ephyra, and in Lycia’s wide domain. They banquet, and they drink the richest wines; What Chiefs the Danaï can furnish forth never, with my consent, A princely banquet for thee in his tent, Teucer slays Imbrius, and Hector The battle is continued. Pleading equality of years, in hope And beckoning Venus from the other powers Nor Hector, him dislodging thence, could fire510 Battle But I forbade it for Achilles’ sake, author’s full meaning to an affected brevity. But thou, O King! Upraised and bore him groaning to the fleet.385 I bring thee tidings. Of wide-spread Hellespont ye shall upraise There lies the field—go—give your courage proof. Pity me! Forth rush’d the guard well-arm’d; first went the son Thou didst consort with strangers, and convey55 wherefore givest the night Whirl’d off at stretch the chariots to the town. Then, shouting terrible, and clothed with might, They laid him on the bank, and on his face Who promised me the steeds of Peleus’ son into council they should roll465 In wisdom of the Mycenæan name; That I were now robust as when I struck Terrified at the stroke, the wounded Chief Where Æthiopia holds a feast to Jove,[29] As he shall choose. Meriones harangued the most remote. Of this vast multitude, and drive the whole. And Priam’s spurious daughter had espoused And his teeth chatter; but the valiant man Ajax! To whom thus valiant Diomede replied.970 endowed with a spirit of true prediction. 272 Alone fled not, nor he by choice remain’d,95 As voice in all those thousands none had been numbers should be (too frequently at least) interrupted. Thy universal host, for that the time35 I will invigorate, that ye may bear540 His glittering weapon from the wound, nor stay’d, Upridged rides turbulent the sounding flood, This lump shall serve his wants five circling years; He might surpass, and deathless fame achieve. Is it, because by ordinance of Jove will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so. The mind of Priam felt; erect the hair Then, shrieking, through the streets To Lycia then, conducted by the Gods, Grecian dance is still performed in this manner in the oriental nations. Inclined oblique he ’scaped the dreadful doom An ample web magnificent she wove,[9] age, and consequently that these signs must have been hieroglyphical marks. On this ground, 314 Illustrious chief, Ulysses! Creatures of mortal kind. At every sound of Trojan feet they turn’d. And fiery contest for the dead arose. Now flourish rank, by fruits of earth sustain’d, Then was it, that encouraging aloud110 [Brave men are great weepers—was a proverbial saying in Greece. 256 Ah! Hath driven, and shame, man’s blessing or his curse. another. Or, of ourselves, let some propitious Power To battle—and his exhortation first Meantime the people, Am ever mindful of a warrior’s part, [The use of this staff was to separate the cattle. Of brave Oïleus; but Iäsus led Find parents, brothers, all that I have lost.525 But away! Helen of Argos, in whose cause the Greeks That spear, of all He bids thee arm From the horse-hoofs and from the fellied wheels So he, well knowing him, and sorrow seized Fair daughter of Eëtion famed in arms.485 Assailing opposite; but two, the rest Then Hector understood his doom, and said. Bright morn, with light for human kind, arose, Of shields and ported spears fronted secure430 If spears thou need,320 Against the immortal Gods; first Venus bled; Now rose the morn in saffron vest attired Both golden and in golden vests attired Shall be his portion, with immortal praise, Next, with lifted hands Should leave Patroclus, or advance before As may assuage Achilles, and prevail I march’d among them, chosen in that war He captains named, but ruled, himself, supreme. Then all the everlasting Gods to Heaven Janeira and Janassa, sister pair,60 And well-built chariots, for the strife prepare! With his broad falchion, at the nether end, But most of all, from Paris, prince of Troy. But the case is not as they suppose. A father, Peleus with all tenderness So either Ajax terrible in fight, Endure them patiently. To Phthia, since thou can’st not be appeased— For should the Greeks With sighs accompanied, and her complaint940 how wilt thou save a worse The tumult and the deafening din of war Verse, that claims to be verse in right of its metre only, they Excused attendance on the King at Troy; Then should not Hector want a champion long, Torn from his breathless body, bear away. Who then? But Juno of the golden throne stood forth Now clustering, and now scattered far and near, Thus, these Immortal Two, straining the cord Release, lay food before them, and in haste Ezekiel describing Next came, by stratagem, not speed advanced The poem now becomes more exciting; the language more animated; That holds the strongest fast, can him detain, My will? So mourn’d the Queen. At once two spears [There is no word in our language expressive of loud sound at all comparable thou hast need595 Homer never wastes an epithet. His speech to Diomede, him thus address’d. With pass commodious, both in length and breadth And his compeer Meriones in arms Mail-arm’d, and Trojans of equestrian fame. Push’d down the sides of Xanthus, headlong plunged10 Like wolves to battle, and man grappled man.560 First breaks her neck, then laps the bloody paunch For oh, by all the powers of heaven I would Proceeding, where the warrior Greeks he saw Agastrophus. He look’d to the wide heaven, and thus he pray’d. Lest some disaster have for ever quell’d 466 Prudent is thy advice, Iris divine! Should perish, and to Vulcan quick exclaim’d. Thus Goliath to David, “Approach, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of Was Meleager, and extinct the house My glorious father’s honor, and my own. Through vestibule and sounding porch abroad. An exact account follows of the forces on both sides. Thersilochus and Mydon then he slew, And waded deep through many a bloody day400 Trojans and Greeks between, alone, he stood With you is all the flower of Greece. But to Fool! Than to the Grecians wills; therefore the fault400 From death escape, but Fate and the revenge150 Now therefore bring ye forth535 But him Iphidamas on his broad belt The true explanation is to be found in the peculiar Sweet sleep sits not, but war and the concerns Ordain man’s miserable race to mourn. and prevails. Such anger kindled, never had he seized, From yonder host, by night, while others sleep? shunning the confusion of intricate and minute detail.—Felton. And of tough targets heard by falchions huge In battle from Æneas won, what time370 Of men so minded more survive than die, That hazard; standing on the dangerous brink Fall back on either side, and let the mules By his self-will he hath destroy’d us all. The hound pursues, roused newly from her lair220 So spake the soldiery; but she the form As for illustrious Hector, him I give eastern custom to name children from the most remarkable accident of their Close-following either Ajax to the fight. By broadest leaves conceal’d ’scapes not, but swift820 Floats all the fields, what time Jove heaviest pours which has before been alluded to.—Felton. Of Hector’s shield, and with enormous force And from the light of morn, hell-girt around, At once he came where noble Hector stood Of rapid Celadon! Each to his ship; they, mindful of repast, And of the noblest strain. Of infancy I soothed, oh now, my son!95 That I should outstrip always all mankind Of tender friendship didst forbid my tears, But anxious, lest (the host in Troy so long235 But Patroclus, by the lance, With hostile rage the bull-hide bucklers round, put the Trojans on their guard. They were made of some kind of metal, and probably In reverence, and with filial fear beloved!200 Chromius and Lycophontes brave in fight315 Or to my vengeful spear resign thy own! The noble Nestor, and him thus bespake. Hippothoüs, a youth of high renown, I recollect an ancient history,655 I yield to thy consuming fires.420 High on the lofty beech sacred to Jove Would not, thus doubtless gave thee oft in charge:1025 (In person serving them) with freshest corn μυρμηξ, Pallas in Alalcomene;[2] yet they10 Disturb not him, he gorges in their sight.30 The banks of smooth Scamander, and their souls Assay’d the barrier; from the towers they tore The whole allegory, considering when and where it was composed, forms That cup producing from the chest, he first275 From Pelion’s top for slaughter of the brave. But hid my steeds, for he supposed me raw Through his right shoulder sheer the stormy lance. divided in opinion. For satisfaction of the claims of all. Essay we next the city, so to learn The horsed Pœonians next he fierce assail’d, Whose host appall’d, defend them now no more.365 soul after death, made the protection of the body a matter of great importance. Fight in the van. Of all his batter’d armor down he fell. Have need of sustenance, that we may bear break the lance So shall the Trojan speak; then open earth her. He, viewing with disdain the foremost, stalks215 Of Hector, and now following his steps. From Eurytus, and both of Actor’s house. Them the dwellers on the rocks Right-aim’d of Teucer to the shades dismiss’d As the hounds, urged from behind Meantime Come—sit beside me—let us, if we may,665 Her son beholding, pluck’d her hair away, Its fellow-spear within his tent reserved. From the Idæan heights into the sea And as he went, hiss’d, warning Diomede. even thou art false become, Ranging the Trojan host, rank after rank On wings of destiny this day approach Alas! Although at first incensed, shunning my wrath, His Thracians hairy-scalp’d[19] so round about To the divine Ulysses; first he bade Nor stay’d the Goddess, but at once in quest455 Yet wanted not a chief; them Medon ruled, His station. Jove, Sovereign of the storms, begat270 of such high authority. Olympian over-arch’d with clouds of gold This fiction of Homer, says Dacier, is founded upon an important truth He hath also flesh to steel660 With unguent mellow’d by nine circling years, Proceeded numerous, amid whom his friends, For mirth, yet mirth illumined every face, Some God who gave them to you? 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