Homer and the Iliad [tr. in verse, with notes] by J.S. Blackie, Volume 3Edmonston and Douglas, 1866 |
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Achæan Achilles Æneas Ajax Antilochus Apollo Argive arms Asius Atrides Automedon battle beneath beside blood brass brave breast breath brine chief clan comrades corpse coursers crew Cteatus dart dead dear dear-loved death didst divine doth drave drew Epeius eyes eyne fair fate fear fell fierce fight flame flew fling flood fray godlike gods gory Greeks hand hast hath heart Hephæstus Herè hero hero's Idomeneus Jove Jove's king knees lance limbs Lycian maid Mars Menelaus Merion mighty mortal Myrmidons Nestor's o'er Oïleus Patroclus Peleus Pelides Phthian pierced plain Polydamas Poseidon Priam rattling round Sarpedon seized shaft shalt shield shining ships sire slain slew smote sorrow soul spake spear spoke stand steeds stirred stood stout Hector strength strife strong sway swift tear Telamonian Telamonian Ajax tent Teucer thee Thetis thine thou Trojan Troy wail ween weeping wight winged word wrath
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Page 368 - A stout old stem fixed in the "round, which stands full six feet high, Of oak or pine, not rotted by the rain, but sound and dry ; Against the stem lean two white stones, one upon either side, Where meet two roads, and close by runs the race-course sweeping wide, » Whether these stones were raised to mark where some old chieftain died, Or served for goal in olden times on this same racing ground ; Here hath Achilles fixed the goal, the circling course to bound. Close to this stem drive thou thy...
Page 356 - Patroclus' shade — how like to him in stature tall And mildly beaming eye — beside me, as I slept, did stand, And with his well-known voice gave me full many a dear command ! Thus he ; and in the chiefs awoke anew the fount of sorrow. And, as they wept and wailed, uprose the rosy -fingered Morrow, And shone upon the corpse.
Page 284 - Hath yoked, to tread white barley on the floor of a wealthy wight, The strong-hoofed bellowing brutes tramp out the grain with labour light ; So, as the fierce Achilles drives, his clattering coursers tread On corpses, casques, and shining...
Page 125 - Ln midst of whom up stood the godlike swift Achilles then, Stirring the steeds, and all the crew of stout shield-bearing men. Five times ten ships Achilles owned that swiftly ploughed the brine, And fifty men in each good ship obeyed the chief divine. 17° Five captains over all he placed, who each with due control Led on their several bands ; himself was lord to sway the whole. One band Menestheus led, whose mail with various shimmer glows, Son of Spercheius, whose strong flood from rainy Jove down...
Page 356 - Without such spur my hand will stir thy bidding to fulfil. But come thou near, and let me feel, though the embrace be brief, Once more thy brother's arm, and let us sate our souls with grief ! He spake ; and stretched his hand to seize the hand of his comrade true ; In vain : he might not grasp the shade ; away like smoke it flew,lU° And gibbered 'neath the ground.
Page 127 - And they their ranks more closely massed, stirred by the godlike king. As when a cunning builder well-hewn stones hath nicely joined, Tier above tier, in a palace wall, to bar the whistling wind, So helm to helm was closely pressed, and bossy shield to shield, And man to man was tightly packed o'er all the bristling field ; VOL.