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The Old Dramatists

BEN JONSON'S WORKS. | Wich Notes Citi! and
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THE

WHOLE WORKS

or

PRINCE OF POETS.
In his Iliads, and
Odyfseys.

Zranslated according to the Greek.
By
Geo. Chapman.

De Ili: et Odyss :

“Omnia ab his, et in his sunt omnia: sive beati
Te decor eloquii, seu rerum pondera tangunt.”
ANGEL: Pot.

ad

2. G4¢1070

TO MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN ON
HIS TRANSLATION OF
HOMER'S WORKS

retreat,
INTO. he, to his own sense

ENGLISH METRE.* And comments on him better than

‘Tuov of Homer "twere no fanit 13| Any "could do, for which (with Homer)

Hits the translation, thine the original, yi
Did we nt now ‘twas done by thee ao | Wi 7H honour to his memory. |

well
‘Thou makest Homer Homer's self excel.
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO
‘CHAPMAN'S HOMER.

‘Muce have I travell’d in the realms of
many goodly states and kingdoms

HOMER'S ILIADS,

raven Bookes of the Hliades of Homere, Prince of Poets, Translated according t
Grecke, in iudgement of his best Commentaries by George Guapman Gent. “Seribendi 1
sapere tat & principinm &. ‘ons, London, Printed by John Windet, and are to be solde a
‘signe of the Crosse-Keyes, ncare Paules Wharfle. 1398." (4to.)

“ Achilles Shie’d,_ Translated as the other seven Bookes of Homer, out of his Eight
‘booke of Iiades. By Georre Chapman Gent. London. Imprinted by John Windet, and are
sold at Paules Wharf, at the signe of the Crosse Keyes. 1598." (4to.)

“ Homer Prince of Poets, translated according to the Greeke in twelue Bookes of his 1
By Geo: Chapman. At London printed for Samuel Macham.” (uo date.) Sm. folio.

“The 1 iads of Homer Prince 0) Poets, Neuer before in any language truely trans
‘With a Coment upon some ot his chiefe places ; Donne according to the Greeke by Geo: Chay

At London printed for Nathaniell Butter.” [fol

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‘grew.
For wrong in which Bacides* so raves,

That goddes Thetis, from her throne of waves
Ascending heaven, of Jove assistance won,

To the Grecks by ab «nce of her 108,
And make the general him-clf repent

To wrong <0 much his army's ornament.

‘This found by Juno, she with Jove contends ;
Till Valean, wath heaven's cup, the quarrel ends,

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

Alpha the praver of Chryses sings =
banyan + the strife of kings,

AcHILtes' baneful wrath resound, O God-
dass, that imposed

Infinite sorrows on the Grecks, and many
brave souls losed

From breasts heroic ; sent them far to that

Betwixt Atrides, king
\ ed gave Eris thei \d, and
‘What is their command,

j Oped that fighting vein? ;

Jove's and Latona’s son ; who fired against
the king of men,

For contumely shown his priest, infectious
sickness sent

men, and Thetis’

'
To plague the army, ard to death by

troops the s went.

Occasion'd thus / Chryscsg the priest, came
ts the flent fo buy,

unvalued price, his daugh-

ter liberty.

Bt

* Avscides, sarname of Ackilles, being the
ild of acs.

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘The golden re and the crown of
Phoebus in his hands

Proposing ; and made suit tll, but most
‘to the commands

Of both th’ Atrides, who most ruled.
“Great Atreus’ sons,” said he,

And all ye well-greaved Greeks, tlie Gods,
whose habitations be

In heaygnly hou:es, your powers
with Priam’s razed town,

‘And grant ye happy conduct home! To
win which wish‘d renown

Of Jove, by honouring his son, far-shooting
Phoebus, deign

For these fit pre ents to dissolve the ran-
somable chain

Of my loved daugliter's servitude.” ‘The
Greeks entirely gave!

Glad acclamations, tor sign that their de-
sires would nave

thy returning feet

Let ever vis.t us again ; lest nor thy god-
head's crown,

Nor sceptre, save thee! Her thou scck’st
I still wil! hold mine own,

Till age deflower her. In our ccurt at
Argos, far tiansferr'd

From her loved country, she shall ply her

| web, and sve prepared*

With all fit ornaments my bed,
me then no more,

But, if thou wilt be safe, be gone.” This
said, the ora beat shore,

| Cbeying’ his histh will, the priest trod off
with hate and fear,

And, walking silent, ill he left far off his
encmies’ ear ;

Incense

See my fod maa

h signifies Vented
side opprstte to
fe; which ‘yet others
translate capestentem ef adernantem; which,
nce it shows best to a reader, | follow.

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

of fight, the],
+ In whose toils

and honour
Tf not, aE veces ‘that coun-

feasts still. = Brut if
that these moods build upon,
in thy nerves, God gave thee it ; and
| £0 'tis not thine own,
ot ects bate Wet then Rs

could see.
Ne tuning ack bis eye, amare
Yet Salt hs he knew her by her @

nd
seaig of Jupiter,
Why, comest thou? 10 behold his
that boasts

whose alfects
Seanl beastly ince tp, both,
And erse eantenton draw no
use words, and such #8 may
De titer fa bis pide it J | 0

: Kingdom
| i : +] Shait
feenecs st —
! (a senime oh cour With
‘None sate when he rose, none delay'd the
Pot met with bien, and

his throne.
Juno ignorant, when she
Of this high threatening made her fear,
silent she sate down,
Humbling ber great hewt. All the Ge
wen; and straight her in court of Jove did frown
jeeth init, that wrought | At this offencé given
Who was’ that i .
counsellor paisa in his mother's eae, this con
5 : :

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If thus for mortals ye fall out.

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What thou utter’d? When did 1
time inqui

re,
Or sift thy counsels? " Passing close
Rliteeteke ee es

Is served with such care, that I fear you

‘can scarce vouch the decd .

‘Your hard condition, though these |
behold It, and this heart

to think it, “Tis a task

other
he took sne by the beel,
‘And harl'd me ont of heaven. All d
-was in falling down ;

H THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS

”

“Down jump’d be from his chariot; dowa| made Achilles or Diomed blubber, or sob,

'd his foe as light ;
And ay cu poms facing rock, cat of

you see that crying in these

t fowls (which is like tears in
softness or faint-
ive of hardiness
courage, . Nor must
we be so gross to imagine that Homer

&c., but, in the very point and sting of
their unvented anger, shed a few violent
and secthing-over tears, What ass-like
impudence is it then for any merely vain-
glorious and selfloving pu, that every-
where may read these inimitable touches
of ‘our, Homer's mastery, anywhere, to
oppose his arrogant and ignorant castiga-
ons, when he should rather (with his mech
better understander Spondanus) submit
where [he oversees him faulty, and say
thus ; “ Quia tu tamen he- voluisti, sacto-
sancte tuze authoritati ;.. me nihil de-
trabetur,”

TME END OF THE FIRST BOGK.

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Now hear me, then,

‘Their et “pone

hath won them all to her

ANOTHER ARGUMENT. Fix in thy mind this, nor forget £6 give
action, when

Sweet sleep shall leave thee. ‘Thus
Petesinveice ord were. Tied vd it the ing of of men

et
fn the next day old Priam’s town;
soowing west vikin

egoeat halk wos theca; TY [And went to Beet. And now great ea
Jano’: won 7 now went to now)
eee ‘To Jove, and ul Gods, bringing tig
‘> Jove, 1
the Vision straight fulGle ; when Agamemnon calld

‘The ships ceach’é, and Atrides’ tent, in| His beralds, charging them aloud to ¢
whieks he found him instant court

eee dans || Seat tas oe at
yeti lates oy Ac ona mn divine,
For guard committed, and whese tife

stands bound to so much care.

‘THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

; then cut him wp: his thighs (in

ibb'd with: fat,

Atcides, most graced, King of men,

now no more words allow,

Nor more defer the deed Jove yows. Let
‘summon now"

J to arms
‘Greeks ; they cail'd ; the
he answer'd Geir alarms,
about the king all

their
a in ites Ga a With

Great Pr Boch ght sel) sust ‘s
Never corropesty ged alu with
fever it with ser-

pents forged of g as

| As many as Reficed'to make an kundred
fringes, worth

=| A tndeod oth, evety make all spraw!-
‘ing, all set forth

With wondrous spirit. ‘Through the host
with this the Goddess ran,

In fury, sting round et eyes, and
furouh’d every baa

‘Wihih strength, excl a! to arms, and
fight incessant.

Now liked fas loved eau like the wars,

yn And as beta

wige wood, on the heights of bills, that
far off hurls i bis light;

'So the Aivine brass shined on these, thus

“the air reach’d
the flood.
[Catter:fa'an ‘Asian mead, Socks of the
airy brood,
Cranes, geese, oF long need swans, here
re, proud of their pinions fly,
‘And in thelr falls Jay ot such throats, that
with their spiritful ery
meadow shrieks again ; so here, these
many-nation’ roca
Flow'd over the Scamandrian field, trom
tents and ships ; the din
‘Was dreadful, that ‘the feet of men and
horse beat out of earth.
And in the flourishing mead they stood,
thick as the odorous

‘Who near Eubcea’s blessed soil their
habitations

had,
y Abants, who their seats
Sees

hearts. -
Fosty black men of war did sail in this] Pu

's
‘The soldiers that in Athens dwelt, a city

ius, whom Jove-sprang
‘Tellus brought out

in her rich fane, and,

Four-score black ships did follow th
‘The men fair Mycene held,

Of dulls’and lambs Yh’ Arhenian youths |

him with offerings there ;
theus, Petews son, had their
care;

horsemen and for targeteers none
could with him compaze,
‘Nor put them into better place, to hurt or)
But Nestor (Jor he elder was) with him did)
‘With bim came fifty sable sail. And out
ast hia tae ht ar bil, at wis
ve
Tit Atheuinny did

Toget heir of M

‘The famous soldier Diomed of all was held
by fr.

1 “Thuyon, neat Alpe flood, and
in Theyon, near Alpheus’ flood, and A
fall of ai

her with Kuryal Mecigteus, is
The King of Tawonides; past whom, in| Than that Prcran
‘of war,

iy apes hua
Bereft his eyesight, and his song, th
the ear en

‘THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

night. he id him a ficet,

nced then
By other sons and nephews of th’ Alden
Hai bi exlo came to Rhodes, driven is
‘with tempests rude.

the king ;
‘Nirtus was the fairest man that to fair
caine

'd for general frame
tren thi wasnt Gt Yor war, and
Aherefore few did guide,

Who did in Cope yen od Gaye.
[soils,
Inca ait his town, and in Calydua’s

‘old Anuptius did guide to|

mot a ‘Thessalus, derived

of ay that dwelt in Phylace, and
The wor Ce and the soll that sheep
Hn, Anton bat by ea and Pies
gener ae he tived, the worthy
Wren now’ now the ble earth detains ; bis
He wots! leit In Phylace, and tis half
finish'd house +
A fatal Dardan first his life, of all the
Aaife was leaping trons Iie stp yet were
his men unlett
Without a chief; for though they wish'd to
have ho other man
‘But good Irotesilaus their gulde, Podarces
To them (Iphitis' som, the son of
Moat ich tn sheep, and brother to short-

lived Protesi
Of younger ange i and less strong ; yet

‘Twico-twenty jetty sails with him the swell-
‘ing stream
‘Bu those that did in Phere Gell, at the,
Ta ete. and in Glaphyra, taolcus builded.
Inti eit Pergamus did through
With old Admet .
Sek tender son, Eutnelus,
Alon, . ee fairest child of all his
‘The walders that before the M
thone’s vales did hold, gated
Be flowery Melibor, and Ollson
Duke Philoctetes governed, in darts of

By tormpeai ae Peepers

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

Priam, thou art always pleased with | The Aphnii, Lycaon’s son, whom
advice, ‘gave his bow,
peat Prince Pandarus, did lead to Geld. Whe
‘war doth rise Adrestinus owe,
Apesus’ city, Pigne, and mount Tereitts,

Adrestus and stout Amphius led ; who dik
"0

on
In number like Autumous' leaves, or like
‘the marine

sand,
| All round about the walls to use a
Hector, 1 charge thee most, this
charge to .
A multitude remain in Troy, will fight for

Priam’s
Ot otter ands tnd Iangages; let evry

uous flood of Hell
», pontenciosed.
Euphemus, the Ciconian troops, it
command dis;

crooked bows do bend;
| From Axius, out of Amydon, be had the
in command,
From Axius, whose most beauteous
still overflows the land.
Pylemen with the well-arm'd heart,

ies, where the race of males ft
is bred.

le, doth
she Spartan Lin.

Sfeun are

engagements dare.
And as, upon a hill’ the south |
[ana soos sep tops tho sou

lich wellarm'd, his tongue
voked the best of Grecian hearts

faced Paris 30 exposed to his
thinted wreak,

we —
‘Shi in his beauties._, Which beheld
— j, HeTet go
‘This bitter check at him: “.

noblest state,
‘The nuptial honour! which 1 wish,
cause it were a fate e

‘Woven for herself; it shined lke fire,
ich, and full of size,
work of

‘desire in ber;
serve the which she hied,

excellence.
‘Thus went she forth, and took with

Where Priam sat, to see the fight, with
his ors 5

ice ee
Ye x he of and is
fet knows he every sort of sleight,

‘dame,

For, yo ‘wise thaeus to Troy
a

weave west sae to whom

ils remove We for. anything, or wr
But whon the prudeat Spe to his
counsels his

rise,
He stood little bh
His ee

(wrathful
Like one that ‘vainly a affect Mf
‘Aod frantic ashy Jung him) you would

None thenceforth might contend with him,
hough nought sdmiced fr tow.”

‘The third man, aged Priam mark’d, was

‘Telumon,

‘And now the other Achive dukes I generally

All which 1 know, and all thelr names
could make thee quickly learn,
Two princes of the people yet, I nowhere

Pegi, and) force ‘of band;
both at a burehen bred ;
My natural brothers either here they have

From ioe Sp ly Sparta, of, or, arrived seh the

[shame to
nifeeniof utcay' Rb ean ta bese afl
‘Nor so; for holy ‘Tellus’ womb inclosed.
those: pre dod
Tn y loved soil. The voice-
ful heralds then
The firm agrecment of the Gods through
all the city ring ;
wo lambs, and spirit-refreshing wine (the
fruit of earth) they bring,
Within ime bottle closed ; Idaens

Rise, for the sco pwr of id
the wel ai
‘brassammd Greeks none,
Pn ee be eee ae et Oa ee

Helen's sake,
‘With long-arm'd lances ; and the man that

‘The woman and the wealth she broaght,
shall follow to his at

and firm leagues ;

shail dwell,

they, that do in

he
Astenot calles who inmanty wacunts to

bis royal

And, Guegh the Scsean ports to feld,
the horse they drive.

‘And when at them of Tro ened Greece the

lords artis
‘rom horse, ‘on Troy well-feeding soil,
vertwist bo

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ut that, in ti
3 vlan seacicl fo
Bd break the string, with which was}
that which the needle wore,
And was the tough thong of a steer;
90 the victor's
Was, for so full a man-at-arms, onl)

cast among his 5
fe complains ; Who scrambled, and took 't up.
That any now, or any one of all the brood} shouts. Again then he intends

‘To force the life-bloed of bis f

men
‘To live hereafter, may with fear from all] om him amain,
offence abstain, biker me javelin; when the Q
lowers

&
Frits

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Nor out of friendship fout of doubt) di
they conceal his sight,
All hated him so like their deaths, an
bi despite.

treasure
Restore to us, and pay the mulet, that
rour vows is du,
‘Yield us an honour'd recompense, and,
that should accrue

render it,
here be memorized.” ‘Tt
else thought fit,

sculfuse imbrem, immensasve gramdin
vel nivers: preparisg, or going abe
those moist impressions in the

present act Le
fuediately and rest rabidly,
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yes!

3 TUE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

squirting their poison through the eyes of | can worthily

translate any worthy poet,

my fenders this shall appear to all com-| And since the translation ite, and my
petent apprehensions, I have followed the | notes (being impartially conferred) amply
original with authentical expositions, | approve this, I will still be confident in the

accord
word in his place, though I differ therein

to the signification of the | worth of my pains, how idly and unworthi
Es place tough’ der teres | soorer I be Cenad.” Aschthas tothe ta

thus to the last

utterly from others; I have rendered all| twelve books (leaving other horrible errors
things of importance with answerable life| in bis other interpreters unmoved) with
and height to my author, though with| those free feet that entered me, I haste,
some periphrasis, without which no man| sure of nothing but my labour,

‘THE END OF THE THIRD BOOK.

i
quick, and make | So will the othor Gods agres, and we shal
‘all be strong.
L hope thy weath and | And first (for this late plot) with speed Ie
rest 5 Pallas go among :

that nought | The Trojans, and some one of them enti

* to break the truce, -

our future jars. In this| By offering in some treacherous wound #!

E

Es
He

honour'd Greeks abuse

:

bn
:
4
i
Ee

ake alt
eres ag soe How tend not be-| Some mean by which the men of Ts
[Abdwhat Walms at; but give way, when Ms
Which now Tigao ‘willingly, although charged he her wit
ice l us he her

‘against my will a hae before, in haste abound,

mot beneath the ample sun, and | Who cast herself from all the heights,

Deaven's starcbearing bill, which steep heaven is crown

4 town of exathly meno honowy’d

+ nor of earth's kings ax

er gal.
Dread Juno, with the cow's fair eyes, re-
3" Three towns there are

the mralkiede. of Troy
now put on the grace
we Laodocis the flower of

Fe aes ane and yet
renown’
hat was Hin P

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
they age wish of many nights, but | stall to sandy Angos turn with
cei
for horse that draw the | And all the Grecks will call for home ;
Priam and race
Will flame in. glory; Helena, untoueh’
‘solid thigh dia swits, cursed fates shall lay ; t
© Menelaus, down thy calves and ankles | Thy sepulchre be trodden down ; the pri
honour'd wound. ‘Troy desire
| tosulting on it, * Thus, © thus, tet Ag
‘mmemnon’s ire
‘blood descend. F
with the like dismay was)
100,

Ke
th’ arrow’s stale without, and

take me quick to death.”
shall this ever chance,” said t
“and therefore be of cheer,
Lest all the army, led by you, your pas
thi he was slain, pit fn fear,
He gri brother by the hand, and | The arrow fell in no such place as de
dag he would ‘could enter at,
Which sigh the whole hast took from him, | My girdle, curets doubled here, and
‘fooet-tytated

Applying balms to case hy pals and sc

festore thee sound,
This said, divine Talthybius be call’d, 3
‘bade bim haste
Machaon (Asculapius’ son, who mos
‘With physie's sovereign remedies)
Z 's ies) to co
nad lend ie hand

4
E
E

r
a

He beard, and bested instantly, and ¢
his eyes about

?
it
ie

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

with their ‘chariots
whieh he choosed
best and

the revenge it craves ;
Assuring them that Troy in fate must have
the worse at last,
first, und ‘gaisst a truce. they lvurt,
‘where they have a
‘This comfuct and advice did fit Atcides’

i] on and shun
Confusion, lest their horsemanship
run

‘tis much better so. :
And with this discipline,” sxid he," ¢
form, these minds, this trust,
sand towns

Thus and Jong inured
ibisold toan did exhort
And thes Atrides likewise took in wondi

‘equal name,
T must not cheer; nay, I disclaim all my
‘command of i
Yourselves command with such frne minds,
‘and make your soldiers show,
‘As you nor 1 led, but themselves. Owould
our Jove,
Mineva, and the God of light, would all
our bodies mcrre

wish, O Atrous’ son,
shows |I were as young as when I slew t

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,
thence he went, brie pee ob eR
Untoseh’d ; our fathers perishing 1
ple Miers

rank-rode
seat a fo dae foe, in
1 foe, in some
‘well-chosen

Thus, from his chariot, amply ara‘, by
jump'd down to the

‘The armour of the angry king 30 |
dic

ia, biomed, instant

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Wit it ny

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they had one in ther choice
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when, quitting bi
He closed wih him;

losed eyes
By either other, drown'd in dust;
round about the plain, [did hotly reig
All hid with slanghter’d. carensses,

the sight, from of | To ke ‘oft fave
10}
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‘THE END OF THE FOURTH BOOK.

arknea.erooke fhrough him;
soldiers t
tide Menelaus slew, 23 ho before him
eeertiies cis ob rophicn, that was
‘3 hunesman bred ;
A sit | hantsman, for his skal] Diana's

leach,
‘Ava toade btn able with his dar tally
‘All sorts of subtlest savages, which many a

Bred for him, and he much preserved, and
Bal not tae ce aalightiag: Queen tought
i
him to shun this art >
Nor all bis biting so far of, the mastery
His nck {t, and he fell upon his
His bedy’s ruin, and his arms, so sounded
‘That his affrighted horse flew off, and loft

io, Uke ise
io nie tacoma ed
ne'er was wife,
Yet Goddess of good housewives, held in
For ko al he wit things tat grace
‘And baving power to giveitall,thecunaing
se
his sire, built ships, and made
win the practice it required, the frame
Hebuilt tal A Alexander's ships, that anthor’d
OF all the Trojans and his own, because be
now
‘The oracles advising Troy ({or fear of over-
throw)

sharp head did advance,
It cleft the organ of bis apetehy and tht
iron, cold as

. sim
His fury that you could not Imow whose
side bad interest
In hisfree labours, Greece ot Troy but as
doleet and sudden let down
Hs from i ic Shower
Aalied ni farriveetie ervey Sapate, 000 a0

His natural channel; that besides both

the fir
Semen oe hay Hout in his way, and
whole squadrons yield.

all the whiczing of the daris, to find
the Lycian knight,
Lyenoris gon, whom having found, be

tus bespake the peer
“© Pandarus, where's now thy bow?|
‘arrows where?

Eiteiiian cea tx ell var inet bat given

the palm to theo :
Nor in the sunloved Lycian greens, that
Lrverl our

reso 0
Tiook forth myself, The re
fd down

Uke slave
Am come to @ TH, confident ia nothi
Thal lag ah: me. Two shafts

Brest princes, but of both 1
ther slew

wife's, my cat ieee towers,
Lat ny srager ake this hen, ifto

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘Minerva led it to his faco, which at his eye | Of her that made it, witls his lance, arm’d
mn Jess with steel than, ee
is re arate sain sont a do
in fight.
‘his great patroness, nor, she thal
razeth towns,
Bellona, but a Goddess weak, and foe to
‘ever charm’d his tongue. men's renowns :
Zneas with his shield and lance, leapt | Her, through & world of fight pursued,
to his friend, last he overtook,
‘And, thrusting up his rathless lance,
‘he strook:

“The muse peer thi
ot
for Row'd tr ingot Bloed
as flows in ‘Gods,

‘Away flew Venus then,
And afer her cried Diomed

‘80 hot assail)
‘Her dear-loved issue from the field. ‘Then
Sthenelus in haste,
Rememt what bis friend advised,
the press made fast h
His own horse to their chariot, and pre- adewy
sently laid hand: (command. | Brake swift-foot Iris to her aid, from
the pk Larrea horse Atneas did the darts that hissd
5 E> ‘
“Spot i

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Soaes Re rs is Bones! stain, ad
vot aa fight,
ves

death fewer liveries gi
Than life, or than where Fame’s negtect

Tight neither doth the body Gras

ices tee tad bath sereantns
Hie aid, and sil through the troops a

‘That Rete uamdard-oexee a, renowa’d
ncas friend,

‘Pergasides, whom all the Trojans

‘As he were one of Priam's sons, his mind

‘And to the fist fight, where they lay, a
force é

nor] Who was to make the slaughter good, be

might have strew'd the sands.
Ansshas i Nextors 30, observing he

To fego 8 combat of sock odda, and

darts advanced, and shook,

And both pitch’d in full stand of charge ;
when suddenly the look,

‘Of Anchisiadies took note of Nestor’s valiant

son,
Im full ‘charge too; which, two to one,
sre mae Venow fsfve shan
t ca u were
soldier well- a

From fickle Chance, and made his mind
resolve to right his friend

‘With that blood he could surest draw,
‘Then dik

gave to Te
Tahonour'd nuptials eras from whom
‘Boasts to have
well,

‘Yet he gave taunts for thanks, and
sc bis oath, Le

his horse,
fore both oar father's arg,
justice, might enforce

on thee imposed.”
wiht, be threw an ashen dart ; and

wounded.
lon's Javelin drew

eh eseieao Pal Ih Poe And left

id bone,
ead Fan trong; but

The dart yet vexd vim bite, whieh
should have been pull'd out,
But edie one “en % much, 50

‘Anda exch ad fal of cause to ily
his own d
"Twas held enough, ty both falf'n, that Bot
were nobly carried thence.
Knew th’ events of both, and The
That ic ‘should “soape ;
enemy amt
a twofold

Hs eagle Siesta fe stout

Oridcis te reac wreak oa hit rea, Fate
conclude this strife,

lid Revenge extend
Her full power on the multitude
@ newer miss
Halius, Chromius,

ene this grace might | Hi

rig!
To all 4 srl gives no word ; bu

From tis] Witt all 3 diel pe he Ors

shed in floods their lives,
re ‘Saspedon ; bot what

Of following the common cause, be |
this prince alone

, since “twas Jus
Sarpedan's mea.
elves, and forced Bim o

‘The bth batch of Jupiter,

'
‘hela tin er asks Pelagon,
most loved, most truc,
watoreed fe ‘oom his malmed thigh ;
which

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

horse of heaven at

y-neighix we
Ane at roy; where, broke incur

the two.

their force,

‘Scamander and bright Simois, Saturnia

'd het horse,

thie

HE

Use yeto honour? All he time the great
lea

‘Was conversant in arms, your foes durst
Wathoat ttt foe ch they fear’
it their 7 $0 much they fear’
his lance that all controll,
And now out-may to your fleet.”
‘This did with shame make bold

The general spirit and power of Greece;
when, with particular note
OF their disgrace, Athenian made Tydeus’

issue hot.
‘She found him at his chariot, rufreshing o!

Tyieus exampled

heart might have declined,
‘With which they welcomed him, be
2

‘The trial I made like a man, and their so
feasts refused.
Yet, when I set thee on, thou faint'st ;

Afmid, or slothfal, or else both ;
forth renounce all thought

‘That ever thou wert Tydeus" son.”
answer'd her: “1 know

80 THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,
On my hurt ; and, could life give| Being bore to any other God, thou hadst
way to death in me, Sen throws from heaven

Or had my feet not fetch’d me off, heaps

of mortalit;

Had kept me consort." Jupiter, with a
contracted brow,

‘Thus answer'd Mars: ‘Thou many minds,

inconstant changeling thou,
Sit not complaining thus by me, whom
most of all the
Inhabiting the starry bill, I hate; no
‘od

periods
| Being set to thy enntentions, brawls, Sights,

and pitching fields ;

Just of thy mother Juno's moods, stiff-
neck'd, and never yields,

Though I correct her still, and chide, nor
can forbear offence,

Though to her son; this wound I know
tastes of her insolence ;

Bat I will prove more natural; thou shalt

cured, because
‘Thou comest of me, but hadst thou been so
cross to sacred laws,

Long since as low as Tartars, beneath the
giants di
‘This said, hee his wound in charge
ne ee ers
Such sovereign medicines, that as soon the
pain was

Even so soon his wound's parted sides
lose in his recure j ia
For he,

garments,
saalag Bi i into
So, baving, from the of
having, fro spoils of men, made
Juno and Pallas reascend the starry court
of Jove,

‘THE END OF THE VIFTH BOOK,

5)

THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘a
(finals fe at teal rae ‘Sprung

icone should grant, and Render ‘him victor. Then be gave
second conqt vs Ba
"ig, ince ella et repartee Againat the. fa famous Selyml, when
himself woul
how it should ‘be run; he

Ld

oF

And set agatnst kim ; for ison, Tsand
in a stife

a sal fsa a and life
Against the valiant
Leodamia, being

‘And this firm bosom, bet my fate; and
Fate, whose wings can fy?
ateconio ‘Once born,

ert: | Go Norse, td wt ty ousewifery on these

such narrow

iat day all won mine eyes ;
ad ne cars inst
eaens agai

ovine non, ad
In dancin, ce inact Logs vats
living uy
na a ¢ other bench of Gods: #0
infused

ve ft

Soul” 2 this fafant, now set down this
blessing on his st

Lat his renown be clear as mine ; equal

his strength in war;
‘And talus his reign 30 strong tn Troy, that
aoe
His facts this fame, when, rich inspolls, he
leaves the conquerd field
Sown wih is slangh

extremes of thot

And drive war from them with thy maids;
keep them from doing nought.

‘These will be nothing ; leave the cares of
war to men, and me

Ta whom, of all the Ilion race, they tke
thelr highest degree.”

every
yhtering Hector’s house seon
, her many women there
Wept, all to see ber: in his life great
Ptectors funerals were
Never look'd any eye of thcirs to see their
Tord safe hor

Seaped fom the gripes and powers of
And now was Pans come
From bis is high towers ; who made no stay,
when once he bad put on
His richest armour, but flew forth ; the
flints he trod apon

win a se proud
Vith fullgiven mangers, long tied ep,
meg, bil steel toca) eet
He breaks from stable, runs ihe field, and
with an ample stro
Measures the centre, ele, and lifts aloft
his wanton bead,

eee eee eins

And found bis noble brother ‘pear the
Him, thus

‘THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS. or

‘And that I come not as, you wih.” He To thy ablty. My bear i in my mind's

Be confident ; for not myself, nor any ‘When Troy (out of her much distress, she
‘and her friends have kad
Reproe i tes the wor of fp tea, By thy procurement) doth deprave thy

Ash on eal fg of hi for thou | Br Tereatter we

an r int come, hereafter we shall calm these

ast steagih as touch hard conceits of theirs,

As serves to execute a mind very impor-| When, from their ports the foe expulsed,
tant ; bat high Jove to them hath given

‘Thy strength too readily files off, enough Wish'd peace, and us free sacrifice to all
‘will fs not pat Powers of heaven,”

‘THE END OF THE SIXTH BOOK,

THE SEVENTH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT.

bby Hiclenus’ advice, doth seek
combat on the boldest Groeke

‘high pede

Ss eantat erect

eget er asec
a ada castsc ves hous

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

In Ex, Prinm's
Combats with Ajax Telamon.

‘Tats said, braye Hector through the ports,
ne bringing kalgt,
resolved

See lish’d cars,

Jong led from thei 6
‘Their weoried arms, dssolvet with tol,

King Avtithous’ hapless son, that did tn
Ama dwell,

‘Menesthius, whose renowned sire a club

‘And of Phylomedusa gat, that had her

‘This slnnghterd inue, Hector’s dart
strook Eioneus dead ;

Bench i good steel Gasquet pec

comet pi sti ton, that le the

Iphil ous-Desiadés with sodden javel
nin an

OF HOMER'S ILIADS.*

As be horse ;
Sinionitecen ‘his
Andere tate, in Tablng Gown, his

jans" victory.
these
abd fax owes son ethos?
in contention thus, do thy

this to
ar pee our strength)

To whom, if he can scape with life, Ive will
be glad to bow.’
irew his brother from his will, who
yielded, knowing it true,
a epee tookebis arms; when
Nestor did pur
‘Tlie mnie raproot he sx 00 S008, and thus

supplied bis turn =
Coty pont pee’ “ this! How will
Old Peleus tial good ‘king wil weep, that

y counsellor,
of the Myrmidons, who much |

me for

THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Lycurgus ever after wore; bat, when be

aged grew,
Baforeed to keep his house, thelr
use be d fae ered ‘well 5
On a mighty Hreutors limi his soldier,
these arms he ehatlenged all,
in arms excel

ene
All shook, on stood dismay’, none durst
verse champion make.
Yet = same forward mind of mine, of
holes, would undertake
To fight with all 7 confidence

youngest cuem} ‘with him,
Of ali the army we conduct ; A
Minorca made me so renown'd, and that

{Later his bg allay on earth, extended

hhere and there, leverywhere.
As it were cavetous to the centre
O that my youth were nowas fresh, and all

30 Wad the heralds band,
Pee eee “Pydeus’ ton, may ou

Cregeen inset that rates the
rine sai onic ‘old Nestor mix'd the to
foremost

ww at Fd esa, ‘i

FR ze #
it ib

H
i

mall,
h's mouth with

himself, black death

, Rot me >
‘call'd all our Achive peers to
station-fight, “twas he :
If he first cease, T gladly yield," Great
Hector then began :
“Ajax, since Jove, to thy big form,
made thee 34 strong a maan,
‘And gnve thee skill to use thy strength, #0
much, that for thy spear
‘Thon art most excellent of Grecos, now
let us fight forbear.
Herealier we shall war again, Ul Jove cur
herald be,

‘And grace with conquest whieh the will ;
eres tonight, and we,

Go thou and comfort all thy fleet, all friends
‘and men of thine,

‘As Tin Troy my favourers, who in the fane

divine
‘Have offer'd orisons for me ; and come, lot

‘Thus thelr high
‘Those that, encountering, were such foes,
i friends.

‘Telamon was given
A tals welkgloned waist.*
‘Hector went to Troy,

And then, in pieces cut, on spits th
feasted every Hiss

Which neatly ‘crowd, “they drew it off
‘work done, they fell to feast ;
All hac enou bat Telamon, the ki

8 THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
a
‘May see the imminent black end of Priam's] On which {tl ate! fd; and
empery.” ted
the Greeks did all admire,
‘Then said the king:

hear'st in him the voice entire
Of all our peers, to answer thee, for that of

eos Greeks
‘They shal be ail consumed with fre, To Coe
‘witness which T cite

work
done.
‘oxen in their tents,
strength with food revived,
When out of Lemnos a great floct
odorous wine arrived,
Sent, by Bunens, Jason's son, bo

THE EIGHTH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT,

ie purpose, hia command, by Iris
Then game tho silent ever,
Mestor charged fires should consume the

rks in darkness took euspected fight.
ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

Jn Theta, Council have,
Traya ebotomt, Gorin Hocto’s tava

‘Tue cheerful Lady of the light, deck’
in ber saffron robe,

‘assembled by his wil,
op ofall cs opi heights, that erown

Ol
and all the Gods gave ear:
*" Hear how I stand incli
Sa God opted r

Bat all give suffag alge sue a that py ed i may

Wha God soewerl shall id endedsont to
Or Troy ar Grewe, wih wournls (0 heaven

shamed, shall renscend ;
Or, with him his ‘offence, TR est
him down as a
Tastaras the, brood of night, where
Barathrum® doth stec;
Seay in his foundent sinks, where is
Ad gates fron the piace, for dept, as
As heaven for beight oa the earth ;
trom thence
past all the Gods,
sovereign eminence.
Se and see: let down
And at Met all de "Belties: their utmeat
strengths const;

math this ikewie his place,

a Fe

OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

To draw me to the earth feom heaven ¢
never shall prevail,

‘Though, with your most contention, y
die my state assail,

all to re
the earth itself, and sens,
shall enforced be ;
‘Then will 1 to Olympus’ top our virtuo
engine bind,
And by it everything shall hang, by

highest. king,
know we the excess

‘We ®eods must mourn, since they mm
fall beneath so hard a fate ;

“The fetal eriben oft of thy wrath, and
their shames be

mold ; and golden nts shined
(On tis rich shoulders ;n his hand eto
a prolden x
Divine!

a rohit ‘and altars sweet;

THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

ab i he fell to earth, back
Hisstrength and soul were both dissolved,

‘Hostor had deep remorse
OF his mishap: pays eee Bin, se for

Nor ing his steeds did want a guide ; for
Ler ne roms
fo did. from

beth ped shh acl one catty

Immartial tinion, since, to stand
hou hadst no heart.”

Nor canst thou scale our turrets’ topa, nai
lend the wives to fleet

‘OF valiant men, that wife-like fear'st mj
advorse charge to meet.’

‘This two ways moved him ; atill to fly,

‘of turn his horse and fight.

:| Thrice thrust he forward to asstult, and

every time the fri
Of Jove's fell cokes draye him buck,
hich he for

wi

(To shew the change of
should vietors shine.

‘Then Hector comforted his men : “All mj
adventurous

Be mon, and, of your
think of the honour'd ends.

now bene

horse did strike. ce
‘The fair reins fell from Nestor's hands, who

did in fear entreat [fury's heat
lides into ep to turn
“For know’st thou not,” said he, “
aid is not supplied from Jove?
This day he wil give fame t6 ‘Troy, which

Hector will control

My valoue with hs waunts in Toy, that 1
‘Witt his approssi; which when beboass,

cant Devout ie quick."
Though Hector should report thee fain
and amorous of thy ease,
The Dinas at the Trojan wires, would
im

greedy pursuit make,
fa on ars that rade alr sigh :
Hector did exclaim :

when their fleet I reach,
Memory to all the world a
fire teach,

aor Grecks shall choke."
Space horse:

be,
eegus thon (20,
iets: woniby recompense, for
much choice of meat,

Burson ond abe $0 your swiftest speed, th

‘The “Suekd of ok old Nels, which Far
lifts to the skies,

Even to ‘the Wea! telling it to be

‘THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

ey flew: whom when
(bet mear th Tdalinn springs)

Hi pees leased, eae, that hath

i impress
‘With horrid thunder 5 iat cay maid ey
know when to address
Arins “gainst her father. For my wife, she
“Teer be to interrupt whatever I
it her use to in
intend.""

Iris, on this, left Ida's hills, and up t°
lew,
wen-gates the Goddesses, and
‘thus their haste withdrew :

‘ut threats” and will perform,
in pieoes your swift horse beneath
their i coth okes,

His “ondi u — ‘shall imprint in

Tn toa fall springa yo shall not cure dat
(Thy Saab ‘pond bbe taught to ka
jam. inerva) & to know
"for what, and when,
Thou dost against thy father fight ; for
mes

But (not where humours only rule, in

beyond their
For, Juno, she offends ‘him not, nor vexeth
im so much,
For an her a, to cron ‘fils will, her

The a it of ‘Steve | in nis she only doth

Bees ese hess, though
Ld ieves or inonnset! u
eer the less her fact, an

Pacild facit quod semper faci.

But thou him,
st wom be eeousasio oa

pride
In thy bold bosom, desperate
seriously thou dare
Lift thy snwieldly lance “gainst Jove, as
thy pretences are.”
She left them, and Saturnia said: “Ay
hou seed of fave,
joe we will no more unfit come

either host
As he thinks. ‘fittest for them both, and

her rich-maned horse resign’d,

Who them ¢' immortal mangers bound;
the chariot they inclined

Beneath the walls of heaven ; and
they In g0 cee thrones

See Deities, replete with

Join | in he bright-wheel'd chariot, his

Mts
Great Neptune loosed his horse, his car
upon the altar pla
And heavenly-tnea coverings did round
bout it cast,
The 'Farscer used Be of gold:

the lye Olymny
Beneath is feet his wife, and maid,

part tele places took,
Nor any word afforded him :
their thoughts, and said

he knew

As all my all means urged
could have sustain'd the war,
Not all the host of Deities should
retired my hand
From vow'd inflictions on the Greeks
touch less you two withstand.
saw the fight, muct
there,

108 THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Ibis m3 iting trust In Jore, and | And fasten'd by their chariots; when
any wort [ps y ‘others brought from town
That 1 d1ahall now expalse these dogs fatea| ut ‘cheep. and oxen, intanty, bread,
ur abodes, |" wine; and hewed down
Who bring ostents of destiny, and black Hisge store of wood. The winds trans
ieeir threatening Acet. fed into the friendly sky
But this nigh let us hold strong guards: Their seppee’s savour ; to the which they
to-morrow we will meet | sat delightfally,
[With fierce-made war) before their ships, | And spent all night in open Seld ; fires
and THmake known to all | gg fond aboat them shined,
If strong Tyides from their ships can! As when about the silver moon, when air
wade me to their wal, | ta foes from wind
1 cin pierce him with my sword, and And sari shine clear, to whose sweet
fores his blood; y, Le a | ‘beams, high prospects, and the brows
The wished morn shall shew his power, | Of all stcep hills and pinnacles, thrust up
ibe ean shun his fol | themscives for shows,
Trunning on him with my lance, I think, | And ever: the lowly valleys joy to glitter in
when their sight,
He ball ie wounded with the first, and When the unmeasured firmatnent bursts to
by him many frends. disclove her light,
© that 1 were ax sure to live immortal, And all the signs {a heaven are een, that
susan glad the shepherd's heart ;
No tales with increasing years, but So many fires disclosed their beams, made
evermore the Trojan part,
Adored ike, Pallax, or the Sun, as all Before the face of Tia, and her bright |
doubts die in turrets show'd.,
‘That heaven's next tight shall be the last) A thousand courts of guard kept fires, and
the Greeks shall ¢ every guard allow'd

‘Thig, speech all "Trejons did applaud :' Fly stout men, by whom thele hose eat
plete nich severly, Andi it wan expe the si
Their sweating horse, w! all wi lly expect ver~

headstalls they reposed, throm

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE ARGUMENT. For which be drew you to these fells, but
< yorsr white comntry’s shame,
alerts bapciew fight) Sch had been huge to bear the mpe of

rats te diasias vo divine « dame,
Fras eT Vase atin’ | Made to despite of our revenge, Awd yet
‘not thar hod moved

may become me,
King, in this pier ta i

Be not displeased thes for thysef didst
not ; for
broadly misreport

forth,
\blore,

f
le

My valour frst of all the host, as of a man
i|S0 sow, with ft occasion given, I first
blame thee

afraid.
Satun’s son hath given incon
stant spirits to thee, 3

A

e
Bi i
i

‘And, all, i
Bot wih a seqperes Sovcragn peach de
{To ‘elds thee), he thought wot best. sh
‘0
‘breast should be ended. y

ile

te

now engnged)’ Ba] Mycenien iflba enow side neat, that
‘Brought thee to this woe :
hath draws $0 | The rest of Grocon will stay, nor stir ull
Teother’s wreak, were| WW fal renicoor Hf not, but (best 6X
‘their home)"

;
i
b

:

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘Will put on wings to fly with thee; myself|
WP debt fermetog favouring Jove) we!
home Ts

i toes, Aad wand on strom

is there any o1

, oF contradlet et thy speech ; and

hast not

we must frther . Thou'rt

and weil might st aie
still T yield thy

degree

them to our king; since well

become

in question, and refute in:

ca far) will

ee
a

i

H

ee

ese :
And therefore in pees Peace, and
home-flight, we

And in the royal right of

Nor shail sand with las than right, that
they invited be
To bby thee ; all thy tents are amply
stored with wine,
Brought daily in Grotk ships from Thrace ;
and to # race of thine
All necessaries thou hast fit, and store of
men to wait ;
‘And, many mecting Giere, thou mayst
hear every man’s conceit,
And take the best, It much concerns all
Greeks to use advice —_ [our enemies
Of gravest natures, since so near our ships
lave lighted such a sort, of fies, with
what man is joy'd?
Look, how all bear therssives this night
30 live, or be destroy'd.”
tnd follows his advice.
vas appointed then
Seven captains of the watch, who forth
did march with all their men.
‘The first was famous Thrasymed, adviceful
Nestor’ M

jerion ;
mighty

ipyrus; and lovel
{an Nundred soldiers led,

Old Creon’s joy. ‘These seven bold lords
In every sever company, and every man
is

Some on the rampire’s top, and

gome amidst the dike,
took,
[sufficient
Ievled all the peers of Greece, And. food
before them, and the peers ap

their ands 10,
‘Hunger and thirst being qui juench’d,
“i counsel = they alt, a 7
‘And first spake Nestor, who they thought
of late advised so

After grave, and ighuy wise, who thus

‘The empire of so many men, and puts into
thy hand ‘mayst well command

A seeptre, and chid. laws, that tho

And counsel all men under thee, [Tt th

‘And prince ‘and on them let these
Rioters wa
Grave Odins and ‘Come, lords,
Make pore our he and with sweet
words | mind,
‘Which we Deny he kn of Gods may
Alia hisses ‘and on theit hanel
Specs ad on i
The ous eon cps oF eel wine to
But having sterificed, and drunk to every
man’s content,
With many notes by Nestor given, the

‘went.
“phydetaden defer jures used, he did

prepare tI
But most Ulysses, for his grace did not so
lyse, grace

‘Such rites beseem a eemeenrrs and
Nestor urged these,
‘That theie most honours might reflect en-

it along the shore, and pray’d the
Ton thet ean ats Bi ny Py’
In brackish chains, they might not fall,
Dut bow his mighty
The guarier of ‘the ‘Sitons they

ferend hi
Delighted with th sola harp, which

‘With works conceited, Girough the verge;
the bawdrick that embraced

His lofty neck was silver twist; this. when
his hand laid waste

Aatlon's city, he did choose a his especist

i forwards pres,
fownd UN
And cod aviowe Tieir sudden sight bia
fniration bred,
Whowitt ie harp and all arose; so did

Mi son
‘When he bebeld them: thelr receipt
Achilles thes
+Health to my lords: right welcome
men, assure yourselves ye be :
‘Though some neces, | know, doth make
you visit me,

‘THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Pe erery man mala proct,
‘These are my best-csteemed frlends, and
underneath my roof,
Patroclas did his deoe friend's wall; and
he that did desire
‘To cheer the lords, come faint from fight,
eet on a blazing fire
A great brass pot, and into it a chine of

mutton put
And fat Fost fh, | Automedon bald

which the ares bee pai
peels Leen ga coals, to make

‘Then sprinkled it with sacred salt, and
it fom the racks.
This ss and on dresser set, his frien:

takes

Bread in fair baskets ; which set on, Achilles
brought the meat, [seat

And to divinest Ithacus took his

Upon the bench. ‘Then did he will bi
friend to sa

‘Who cast sweet incense inthe fire toa the

cities.

of meat,
‘Whe Jate auppid at Atrides' tent, thong
for thy love wo eat
Of many things, whereof a part would make
& complete feast.
Nor can we joy In these kind ites, that
ave our bearts
© prince, with fear of water ie
male a question now,
If we ean save our fleet oF not, unless
seif endow
Thy No

wars with none fortitude,
and her cor
Bold of Phe k = i me pc ‘thelr tenty

14

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Bat if thy hate to him be more than his
Yet iy all ihe ‘other Grecks, in such
‘extreme distress,
‘Who with religion honour thee ; and to
their desy m
bring ; and

a ecught not
‘one, equal to him in fight.”
Switrloot, aces 1 » Divine
‘Tis rete 7 ‘ost be be short, and show
mat place hal

Thy ae us Sree sng nought but

Eaublad to my 1 TY “fated heart, hat tn |

the rest 1

helt sat esate ear, to free
their own
‘And my iver sao ‘behired with thank-

Fer sever had T bench that ever fold the ly
;| Cut a dike ey pei with ple, broad

and of
And cannot

of be enjoy, who here

Set fast,
Yet mine he forceth ; only T sit wich my
loss disgraced.

» | But so he gain a lovely dame, to be bis
bed's delight,
{tts enough for what came ele do
Grecks and Trojans fight?
‘Why brought he hither such an host?
‘was it not for a. dame
For airtaird fielen? And doth love
alone the hearts inflame
OF the Atrides to their wives, of all the
men that move?
discreet and honest mind cares for
fivate love,
as they ; 08 I myself loved Brtscis
as my life, for my wife.
Although my captive, and had will to take
Whom since he foreed, preventing me, ia
vain he shall prolong
Hopes to appease me, te know well the
deepness of my wrot

But, good Cis ‘with thyself, and al
otbor kin, om

not fie Aah
Without EST, bat ta

the
Or tthe ly Uh of Jor, come back

tim jove
been} oe sae launch my fleet, an
Whi = tt thou Wit uae 9 thy sight,
worth )

‘The one, that, if I here remain t‘assist our

My safe Feuen sall neve Ie, my fame
aball nover dic
Obtain success, much of my
{ive many days
his approach, an

ra advise others to
‘For, the height of Mion you never
Jove with his hand protecteth {t, and
ane soldiers bo

mor steer course:
ST beitok goods if not, 11

use no
Seca at bis cera ; and
Phoenix, full of fears ony
would

Troy,
‘Since thou art angry, U sy son, how shall
Tafter be ice
thom ty 0 I father sent xs ond
whom € sent xs onderer
‘of thy force, (thee for this course,
When to Aides from his court he. left

0 rencren’
J al wach Tas sc by Bm, ¢ Isruct
thea #3

F
uf

ifs

2
if

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Who was the fair Amyntor calf, sur-

‘named Ormenides,*

And for a Cae harlot’s sake, that
his affects coul

Contemn'd zy batecine ts elaeas
ceaseless

rt her
cooverting it to com-
At last Iwas content to prove todo my

And nome my se love; who
Parsui te wih anya cue abd tothe

No dame might love, aor bring me seed
the deities

Toast tl
homme oy father's uns we drank ex

wine.
Nino nig sighs they goaded Suarded_ me by teen,
(One in the porch of hs set bal ad in
the portal one,
Before my chamber ; ‘but when day beneath
shone,

the tenth night
I brake my chamber’s thick-framed

Greece then,
I fled to Phthia, te of sheep and came
PA
beartye and fu 0s
ae any sire = oly sn Wh when his
And bot wi ret posesion tere

He made me rich, and to my charge dit

iat tS sue pura pon

her furious birth,

pat by lige taal:

jone impressian

‘Til te high famets where be Tay, and his
sie shook

Binding soem, who Noe (orcad

ismay,

Along al a Then his wife, in pitiful

im, weeping telling him the

By all the clara howe town the 65ceiy
Yad rd;

Men slaughter: children bondslaves
made; sweet ladies forced with last ;

tdaed hs body viet freed
th’ Aitolians’ woes,

not disengage

‘Theis lives for gifs, heir, gits he lort.
But for my sake, dear

Doiustton borane oar taltia ba theoe
extremes descend,

Ere thou assist us; be not so by thy i

a ee or honour, twee shame
‘our navy burn’
‘And then come wilh thy dine ald. For
offer'd presents,

presents, come,
heard, emnet oe on yen honour thee, as of.

te won eto fr

‘Thou wit be nothing o renown’, though
thou repel the
Achilles Sonera the last part of this
oration thus +
“Phomnix, renown'd and reverend, the

‘honours on us

We need not. Jove doth honour me, and
to my ‘sees,

And will, whiles I retain a spirit, or can
comtnand my kaces.

‘Then do not thon with tears and woes im-

‘THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

appeased be,

But grows more wrathful, prising light thy
offer'd gifts and thee,

And wills thee to consult with us, and
take some other course

To save our army and our fleet, and says,
with all his force,

The morn shall light him on his way to
Phthia's wished soil,

For never shall high-seated Troy be sack’d
with all our toil ;

Jove holds his hand ‘twixt us and it
soldiers gather heart.

Thus he replies, which Ajax here can
equally impart,

And both these heralds: Phcenix stays,
for so was his desire,

To go with him, if he thought good ; if
not, he might retire.”

All wonder'd he should be so stern ; at last
bold Diomed spake :

“ Would God, Atrides, thy request were

yet to undertake ;

|
the

‘YHER END OF THE NINTH BOOM.

And all thy gifts unoffer'd him, he's proud
enough beside,

But this ambassage thou hast sent will
make him burst with pride.

But lot us suffer him to stay, or go, at his
desire,

Fight when his stomach serves him best,
or when Jove shall inspire.

Meanwhile, our watch being strongly held,
Tet us a little rest

After our food; strength lives by both,
and virtue is their guest.

‘Then, when the rosy-finger'd Morn holds

Bring forth thy host all; and

ing thy host, eocoamage all:
Ee thou first in fight.”
‘The kings admired the fortitude, that

so divinely moved

The skilful horseman, Diomed, and his
advice approved.

"Then with their nightly sacrifice each took

his several tent,

Where all received the sovereign gifts soft
‘Somnus did present. es

3 THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S I1.1ADS,

ee and yet I fear the deep-

ness
Ere it be razed out’ of our thoughts, will

years withstand,
Bat brie, hie thee to thy ships, and

‘With warlike Ajax; I will haste to grave
him to rise, and give the sacred
For they will ly embrace incitement

at
‘And'now is son thelr captain fs, and
idomen’s good friend,
whose discharge we did

1» to
commend.’

Lest otherwise we fail to meet, for many a
different way
Lies! bah our aprinan host. Speak

Command on watch, from skre to.son

t

Familliarly, and with eens Pes, exciting
eurhority:

Not with ‘wnseasoo'd violence. of

‘We must our patience exercise,

‘ourselves with them,

Jove in our births combined such cares to
cither's diadem.”

‘Thus he dismiss'd him, knowing well his
charge before :

Filmes to Nestor, whom he found in bed
within his tent

Byhim I das xis bung, ls shea,
a

His shining casque, his arming waist; in
these he led the Hearts

Seeairer ee

He guy sel fom hsb, when to

watchf
Untimely feet ay BT
omit road approach ; he

mit gs che tee ee

work

He a oe Neleides, grave
of our

Jove afeteth most
‘Ofall the wretched men that live; and will,
whilst any breath

Gives motion to my tolled limbs, and bears
‘mo up from death.

I walk the round thus, sines sweet sleep
‘eannot inclase mine eyes,

Nor shut theee organs care breaks ope for

My fear it vehement for the Greeks ; my
beat, the fount of heats
made cold, with-

re are my sinews strook with
trembling ; every:
ot wt my iy ay at tiny

But, if thou 0 Schur ot ay eaeces eta

(Sines ce nelther thou thyself canst sloep),
ther 5
‘walk with me the round ;

Tn way whereof we may confer, and look
to-every guard ;

Lest watching long, and weariness with
Inbouring so hard,

Drown their oppressed memories of what
they hawe in charge.

The iberty we give the foe, alas, is over

‘Their camp is almost mix’d with ours, and
we have forth no spies

oud | To learn their drifts ; who are oe
{his night intend surprise.’

let good
fs not bound to perfect all

ove not bound to

fat Hm conden gen, his though

are much four aid

Wh fear leat ur citreas incl Astle v5

And therefore will. not tempt his fate, nor
ours, with further pride.

But £ will gladly follow thee, and stir up
more beside ;

Tydides, famous for his lance; Ulysses,
Telamon,

‘And bold Phyleus’ valiant heir. Or else, if
any one

Would haste to call king Idomen, and
Ajax, since their sail

And at every breach of air, envious
of all that moves;

eee “the ravenous beast
sta thro

th the hilly groves
‘Then men andl dogs stand on their guards,

und mighty tumults make,

Sleep wanting weight to close one wink ;
‘so did the captains

‘That cen oe watch = whole ud night,

tntentive
Converted to the eoeny's tents, that they
raha to surprise ; which

Se he eho pass'd the dike,
Bren al he kag at ha ora alto

‘And with them went Meriones, and Nes- |The two

‘consultation,
to

remains
‘hat wiley os old mid and view

Pare peek oetaoa: & apecore Eazy -Thos wrong’
y

near th’ ulznost tents, oF:
estate

of an mea canopied with heaven, and
terery man of name
To all this host shall honour him with an

have heart $0 well inclined

‘To work this stratagem on ‘Troy? yes, 1
have such a mind,

Yet, i some other er prince would join, more

itis srecpaben' tape: oa exploit:

two may together see

{One ge going b before another sit) sly danger

his course,
Yet iene ae himself, which

‘This ler every man assumed; all would
vith Diomed 52 [too
érion, and Menelnus
But Nestors son enforoed ie mudh 7 and
hardy Ithacus,
Who had to every ventarous deed « mind

Arona al thee ths spake th King

ides, most
Choose thy associate Setny: Aimed she

For use is iene extremes.

Teast Bt 10, nH wa thee,
ups & greater Kit

re, choosing one
peers wi :

judgment leave
How room 0 much truth forget Ulysses

‘That bears 1 miod so most exempt, and
vigorous in th’ effect
al bigh labours, and a man Palas doth
‘We shall return through buraing fire, if 1
He strength nt course, with
E #0 tm a
connsels 30 di

oth to be eateem'd a lover of

ld not be rode
Bp any other an thasihe ; but he for ever
ee ees Ser es B60,
Thus pwore be, and forswore himself; yet
made base

Dolon bold ;
‘Who on his shoulders hung his bow, and

id about him fold
A white wolf’
weasels’ skins did arm
His weasel's head, then took his dart, and
never turn’d to harm
The ‘Greeks with thelr related drifts; but
the troops

pe esas 'T know not well, if be A
De used as,

Bent to our ff or come to rob the
Bute ale com a little further

‘be overgone
‘And then purme bin. wie chance, tbat
By his more swiftness, unge him still to run

our fleet,
he scape us to the town) still Tet
meet
” Thus stepp'd

Fail turning: him, as be
fog neat
Hiscorer, till he airoost mix'd_ with their

courts of guard.

Then Pallas prompted Diomed, lest his
Ibe worth’s reward

shouldbe impaled if any man did waunt

Tis sword fa him, nod he be eall'd bat
second tn his death.
he, threatening with his Iance :
ir stay, of this comes on,
And Jong thot, canst wot fon before thou

‘Ths ike he thir his javelin forth;
‘which mid as would
Above his right arm making way, the pile

stuck in Me mould.
Ho stay'd and trembled, and his toeth did
chatter in bis hend.
They came in Blowing, seized him fast ;
weeping, offe
wealthy ransom for his Me, und told
them he bad bras
Much gol, and iron,"that ft for use in

y labours was,
From whee Tic beaps bis father would a
‘wondrous portion give,
4 at the great Achaia feet, he heard his

Ulysses bade him cheer his hows “Think
‘not of death,” said.

be,
“But tell us true, why cunn’st thou forth
when others sleeplag be?
Is it to spall the carcasses? or art thou

rifts? or of thyelf eck’st
some wish'd event ?”

eourse for

“J As all dismay'd with
wearied with the

For which exploit,

ror Mis BB aed

ze
i

if

i?

BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS. 197
nin'd no Rhesus, Ejoncus' son, commands

A
Worst ;
‘d wi

}, who hath steeds

shaped j exceeds
is atte Gr eeiaoes tae Tae Eh

chariot is with gold
‘And pallid silver’ richly framed, and
wondrous to behold ;

the | His great and golden armour és not fit a

mun should wear,
But for immortal shoulders framed : come
then, and quickly bear
Your hi Prisoner to flost ; or leave
iri gen cole ata ene teas
your and rich reture:
‘my relation sound,”

other | About our ships. or do-us scathe i plain
{ey barns.”

and in | But,

ith us:

SPP take thy tk

if take thy life, no way ca wo repent

th this, as Dofon reach'd his hand to

ues jant’s pst,

And stroke the beard of Diomed, be strook
his neck athwart

With his forced sword, and both the nerves
he did in suoder wound,

And suddenly his bead, deceived, fell

‘ng of the grousd,

weasel’s helm they took, his bow, his
wolf's skin, and bes lance,

Which to Minerva Ithacus did znalcely

advance,
‘With lifted arm into the air; and to ber

Now to the

beds, conduct ms still.”
‘With this, be bung them wp aloft upon

tamarisk bough

‘As eyeful trophies, and the sprigs that did
‘about it grow

He pevined from the leavy arms, to make
iteasler wiew’d

‘Whea they should hastily retire, and be

pursued.
went they through black blood and
05)
‘preseedly aspi

128

‘THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘Thelr arms lay by, and triple ranks they,
colonia ition:
cohge Cee pe et lett
who, in a fatal
Lay in the midst; their chariot horse, ax
lows were,
Fed ee
their
‘Stood next him, to the hinder part of his
rich chariot tied.
eee erm a rca
‘The horse whom we slew,

Dolan,
Romectycoyihy noe ile ane ae
Now me

‘mest ait for hee

Uly
beaks | Tydides

ie
PERE he

SE

In this contention with himself, Minerva
did suggest
‘And bade bim think of his retreat ; lest
their it

res

Some other God should stir the foe, and
Sead hit back distnay’d.

He knew the voice, took horse, and fled
the ‘Trojans’ heaveuly aid,

Apollo with the silver bow, stood. no blind

sentinel

‘To their secure and drowsy host, but did
discover well

Minerva following Diomed ; and, angry

with bis act,
of Ilion he enter’d, ond

in Of the king, ® coun~
Uhrace, [the devert place,
Hippocoon ; who when be rose
here Rhesus’ horse did wse to stand,
‘and th” other dismal harms,
Men struggling with the pangs of death,
be shniekd out thick alarms,

‘gather'd, and admired

Id perform such harmful fnets,
and yet be safe retired.
Now, coming where they slew the scout,
righted, and. tbe polls,

ted, and the 5; mung on

the tamarisk reeds, =~
He took and gave to ithacus, and up be

come
All, with en
heaven th

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘THE ARGUMENT,

LrarDes iis other of name
t rier men ‘aga Hee dh inane

corinne 7 Tech

fe

Sega
and king Diom

resi i so skirminh

er acct

ANOTHER ARGUMENT,

ts the General,

da
Tn agit dhe worthest man ofa

Upon, Ulysses" huge black bark, that id
‘Asnldst toe feet, fom whence Her sound

might ring on serery sh i
Both to the tents of elation, and th’
authors of their smarts,
Who held, for fortitude and force, the
‘nary's utmost

thunder’d the Orthian
High, and with horror, throu
all the Grecian throng.
Her verse with spirits Tivincible did all
their bressts inspire,
Blew out all darkness from their fimbs, and
set their bearts on fre
And

jess, trated there,
nthe ears of

Atrides summon'd all to arms, to arms
himself disposed.
First om his legs he put bright greaves, with
silver buttons closed ;
‘Then with rich cuirass arm’d his breast,
which Cingras bestow'd
To ratlly bis royal guest ;
‘Cyprus flowd
‘Th’ urfbounded fame of those designs the
Grecks proposed for ‘roy,
And therefore gave he nea Pe ee
wish'd his purpose joy
‘Tes rows of amure mix dit black, twelve
olden ice the sun,
ten of tin, in Beaten puths, did
through this armour run, a
Cone dT aes that like
thyee rainbows
‘Such as Jove af fea i in clouds, when
wonders are di
About his shoulders Tung ‘his sword;
wast nstoal the heliow hilt
‘as fashion'd all with shining bars, ex-
ceccling richly gil ‘
scabbard was of silver plate, with
golden hangers
‘Then took he up te wel weighty shield, that
round about him cast

for even to

‘ed 10

Wound on hi arm, his ample shield:
in it there was woven,

An anire dragon, curd in folds, from
whose one neck was eloven

‘Throe heads contorted is an orb, “Ther
placed be on his head

His four-plamed easgue; and in bis hands

Iwo darts be manay
Arm'd with bright steel that biased te

ly was bitter war more sweet a
‘Than any choice in hollow keels to
thelr native climes, et

heaven. Then Juno, and the maid

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

And as a lion having found the furrow
of a hind,
‘Where she hath pine ‘two little twins, at
will and exve tb rind
‘el js sath tn his solid jaws, and
crusheth into
iaibee ea ise dara, though

escent,

But “ted themselves before the Greek:
and where these two were slain,

Pisander and Hippolochus (not able to
restrain

‘Their headst

‘being from their hands let fall

‘Were he by thelr unruly guides

f

Saree begat them both, Antimachus
O

Rich, and of Helen's love, and
ees wis gel

Jouteittion shoud be ade of Mene-

egy fered with his ravish'd queen, by

mnder's
Atrides, Non-like, did charge his sons, who
‘ell ay chariot, and besought
ir 5
their de

to ete
ing Antimachus his sons, their
father would afford [house did hoard

jonourable [decreed,
Toe lie Fes on in cot ad
To render ‘Helen and her weal!

t attain

horse, the ip teins | Even

‘The most due motion en ene

for bis shameful

This said, in poor Pisander’s breast he

watt This wrealeful dct, x
10 ‘spread th’ oppressed earth;
his brother crouch’d for dread,

And, as he lay, the angry Ring eat off bis
‘arms a

And Tot him Uke & football lie for every
man to spurn. {his valour turn,

Then to th* extromest heat of fight he did

And led a multitude of Greeks, where foot

hter'd horse. Need feather'd
flight, the batter’d centre
Tn clouds of dust about their ears, raised
from the horses’ hooves,
‘That beat a thunder out of earth as horrible
as Jove's,
‘The king, persuading speedy chace, gave
his persuasions way
‘With his own valour, slaughtering still.
‘Asin a stormy day
Tn thick-sot woods ravenous fire wraps in
his fierce repair
‘The shaken trees, and by the roots doth
toss them into air;
30 beneath Atrides’ sword flew up
“Troy's flying heels,
Their horse drew empty chariots, and
sought their thundering wheels
Some fresh directors through the field,
‘where least the pursuit drives,
‘Thick fell the Trojans, much more sweet
to vultures than their wives,
‘Then Jove drew Hector from the darts,
from dust, from death and blood,
And from the tumult ; still the

to the it stood,
i" monument, In midst of all

‘Ti at ota Tas
t!
‘They reach'd the wild fig tre, and long’d
Ma snake telc town fuels theld.
‘Yet there they rested not; the king still
cried, * Pursue, pursue,"
wowed hands did blood

Bat when they came to Sea's ports, and
to the beech of Jore,

troKe
Who should outlook his mate amazed;
through all the field they thed.
And as a lion, when the night becomes
‘most deaf and dead,
heeds,

5 and | Invades
on es ee ee
‘My brother and wise [thacus, ambassadors | His

‘Think what itis to be renown’d, be soldiers
all of name,
Ones eer

recian faces delve your one-
dead ¢ “hosted vient wees
made Iphidamas the block, and cut | And faz above their best be best, and glorify
off Coon’s head. your deedls.”
Thus asa dog-given hunter sets upon a
His white-tooth'd hounds, puffs, shouts,
breathes terms,and on hisemprese |

AM his wild art to make them pinch ; 40
che ac

did approve his princely
As wher pts ae
mm an
J touring da, let pangs
wwii tbe die iyoe, that male the

Assweus, and Autonous, Opys, and Clytus’
Prince Dolops, and the honour'd sire of

Opheltes, next, and strong Hij
st
Bh ena tone eco

As when ogesy tee ye edi
os
‘herself new born: what
mforts will redound ;
So Agamemnon did sustain the torment of

‘Then sshtyeheared and to fleet bade
haste his charioteer,
But first pour'd out his highest voice to
car:
ices and Tenders of the Grecks,
‘brave friends, now from our fleet not Laertes’ son
Do you * il net me boisterous sway. Jove Suir'd up the apt of Domed, with this
meet im

me
lustrate Jector, leave that 1} ** what do susti
tmte Mesto nor give leave that ‘Tye, what do we iain, forgetting
Power ; my wound | St

a to endure a customary

Aight,
‘That tredy to To lear stil and but
srtres wine ees ert
To bea thal wowndsorercgn apart the He answer'd: "Tam bent to stay, and
Sprinkliog nj th powerless with um, Bot oc: deltsto proms en Wil prod
if our deli men
but short and vain,

136 THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

“You
‘ldcbuird Toren
sig rompgntelt yo that bunt and

Dur th ‘ou ut st and In in arms with me, ter
{little sulle

Peary ear Cosh is Ot Beem,

so abborr'd

So, to samt the Joveloved Greek, the
Titans did accord,

And he made through them: first be
hart, upon his shoulder blade,

‘As| Deiops, & blameless man at arms ;
sent to endless shade

‘Thoon and Eunoinus; and strook the strong
Chersidamas,

As from bis chariot he leap'd down,
beneath bis targe of brass ;

‘Whe fel and eraw!'d upon che earth with
his sustaining palms,

And left the fight: nor yet his lance left
dealing martial alms,

Bat Socus’ brother by both sides, young
Carops, did impress.

‘Then princely Socus to bis ald made
brotherly access,
, comming near, spake in his change:

“Oo ertes’ son,

Insatiate in sly stratagems, and labours

never don

lone,
| ‘This ae ‘or thou shalt boast to kill the

This royal chariot 1

‘And with direction to the fleet did charge:
thls charioteer.

Now was Ulysses desolate, fear madeno| 0

us ‘spake to ls mighty, mind :
+ What doth my state sustain ?

If 1 should fly this odds in fear, that thus
comes:

‘who sieged him round with

‘As when 8 crew of gallant watch the wild
muse of a boar,
‘Their dogs put after in full ery, he rusheth

And re th ara, oF hel a oy

‘This sald, he threw quite through his
shield bis fell and well-driven lance,

Which held way through his cuirasses, and
on his ribs a glance,

Plowing Oe fab alongst his sides; but

{inowing well
All foward passage to bis Ulysses,
‘The wound tindeasly (setting back his foot

to form his stand)

‘Thus spake to : “© thou wretch,

thy death is in this band,

‘That stay'st victory OB B trey. and
where thy

In doubtful terms (or hborthat) this shall
thy life invade,’

~_ frighted Socus to retreat, and, in

his faint reverse,
‘The lance betwixt bis shoulders fell, and
through his breast ‘rnd the
fell he sound the king thus
Baya with his an
You that make by birth the
two Hilppasides,
Now may your house and you perceive
death can outily the Ayer.
Ah wretch, ‘scape my
vows, Old Hij hy sire,
‘Nor thy well ‘@ mother’s hands, in
Saal elv which lies ‘wrth inp elie ie

‘THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF fOMER'S ILIADS.

ions drove,
And made him shun who shunn'd himself:
‘he ceased from fight amazed,
Cast aa ets = yn es shield, and
Line oon py ad a, feo k'd on himself in
tract retreat
Aah Se ae
aUitcte, Hxeayer of hoes ta 1s
threaves: es
hase a Hon skulking near,
Loth he should taint the well-prized fat of
any stall-fed steer,
Consuing al the Sight In watch, be
of his
ron, Bok thrust off, so thick

Teel tactile iain

For fear their fleet should be inflamed,
his ewoln heart did go.
Aswhen a dull mill ass comes near a
goodly field of corn,
‘Kept from the birds by children's cries, the
, and simply he

And|so kept oy on hs way? nor would
oral har vet ‘pursuits, that still did

with si ange Linces, Bt, ‘at last, when
their cur-like presumes
urged the more forborne, his spirits

their fumes,
jen td active strength, turn’d

hore-troops ‘that were new made fn,
ae *ovtes ‘whom the ight grew fell: ~
y degrees be stole retreat, yet
such pulssant
That none could Jet fleet, In
both the
He stood, and fond ‘stroo, hands received
sharp javelin on bis shields
Where many stuck, thrown on before,
many fell short in tld,
Ere the white body they could reach, and
stuck, as tel

on placed his flesh,

to \.

is peril plerced now

Thi of Eu Evemon's
eyes of prince Eurypylus, Evemon’

te blood
‘that makes te lier: 08 the tart, out
gush his vital flood.
made in, and eased his shoulders
ch Pats Paris secing, be drew bis bow, and
irew
wes the harms

ee | Ae ee ee oe
‘broke, and

‘many wands are
‘od he et roving ‘ass doth with
Not tL his

ie Mere teh ent
So the huge son of Telamon amongst

showers of
‘scorm’d to fly as

Ajax his

‘Thea stood he Bre Grmly wi with is rend, re
tiring their retire,

‘And thus both hosts indifferent jota'd, the

‘bot as fire,
Now Neleides’ sweating steeds

Deonsft Bim snd his bar Bess
“a intend ‘intend, =

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As sacrifice to destiny, Hypirochus’ strong
son,
dwelt ft and first in.
‘That dwelt in Ells, and fought our
We proclaimed foes, a won-|

drous wealthy boot,
ereencerce be hats, fell breath-

a; many men th
oat ming cu sgh thoy spi

On though but few. 1
atts fw 2

was it that made so proud the

‘base Epeian bands,
ip iiaie ares pelgsbcars, being oppress’d,
Avent of ene forms a mighty flock

My sire selected, and made choice of| There made

for their
‘spoil he eull'd three

‘The EBans ought him infinite, most plagued | Th

cof all the rest.

det .sn eppetnicl ree, ‘The prise
Was a ‘gis th threefoot umn; Augeas

al ena wal ard ae
‘keeper sorrowing

ee
‘Then both for

For our rich conquest. The third day
ensulog our return

‘The Elians fiew on us in heaps; their
general leaders were

The two Molines, two boys, untrained in

the foar
Of horrid war, or use of strength.
certain oi [confi

Fe oy Olympus = night, and arm’d
us instant Pa

Nor muster'd sho unwilling men, nor un

My sire yet would not let me arm, but hid
away my horse,

Esteeming me no soldier yet ; yet shined 1
‘nothing less

Amongst our gallants, though on foot ;
Mineeva's mightiness

Led me to fight, a

soldier's worth

ere falls foto sea, and is
‘crook d course doth frame

Clore to Arena, and is call. bright

‘Minyseus' stream.

we balla snd there the sun

pean wee on. By fery noo we
of frat A eae did

[eae Ipheus, wi Jove we
And to the azure God, that rules the under

We asp ie set a bull ¢
Ando the Soeeyid Maid we bared a

Of sx Nos ? Tell
2 Na i Troy’ m

oh
HF ny ace be sam, of if Bs rather

N brought hi ‘some instinct fr
Stal tate is ie castes

‘command to thee of all his

Let him

yeni [our confusions,
And yield by that means some repulie 13
‘Adorning thee in his bright arm, that bis

make the thee thought imsel, al
ba de i tie

‘That yo lide we muy ease oUF over.
charged

‘Draw some breath, not expire it all. The
Soa bat felony stants
his labours; and

They es
their
‘This moved the good Patroclus’ mind ;

who me his utmost haste
vis —

ose past
(At which, their markets were dispoved,
cls, and martial courts,
‘And where (o th" altars of the Gods they|
made divine resorts)
He met renown'd: Eurypytas, Evemon's

nob
Maing, is thigh hort with a shaft, the
iquid sweat did ru
ra from his shoulders and his brows,

Forth tt ‘towal his incl blood, yet still
his mind was sound.

His sight in kind | Patroctus’ breast to
sacred

pit
And
ay thes bas mourn’ a2
+ Ah wretched progeny of Greece, princes,
‘Was it your fates to nourish beasts, and
stretch (he outcast wings

fierce, and icy given, : hi
ly from our tents and fleet may to | Needs
walls be driven,”

Do yet the "Greeks withstand his foros,
‘Fhom yet n foros ean
Dopey thrown m to eeath by

Divine Patroctas,” he replied, “*no more
can Greece adi
Dasecuive weapons Y But tofleet they head

For those that to this hour have held our
fleet from hostile
And are the bulwarks of our host, lie
wounded at their tents,
And Troy's unvanquishable power, sill as
It tails, augments.
But take me to thy black-stemn'd ship, save
me, and from my thigh
Cut out this arrow ; and the blood, that
is engored and dry,
warm water from the wound |
wean gentle salves sori,
Haaiek mgm asen
th taught thee surgery,
Whom, of all Centaurs the most jist,
Chiron did institute, prosecute,
Thus to thy honourable hands my exse £
Sines our physicians cannot help: Machaoa
fand patient ;
himself being. leech
field, the sharp

When ‘hiss done, I will not leave thy tor~
‘This said, achwart his he cast,

beneath his breast, his arm,

And nobly heipid him to his tent. His
servanis, seeing his harm, ee

Dispread ox-hides upon the earth, w)
‘Machaon lay. [clearly wash'd away

Patroclus cut out the sharp shaft, a1

With lukewarm water the black blood ;
then ‘twixt his bands he bruised

A sharp and mitigatory root ; which whea
‘he had inf

Into the coe well-cleansed wound the
‘pains be felt before

Were well, and instamily allay'd; the
wound did bleed no more.

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘THE ARGUMENT.
‘Tae Trojans at the treoch their powers ca-

ree Ven Sel a hal prema.
foecet dows

tems and ships, that, broken, and un-
fankipsy whic ons horeacena
ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

MY works the all the grace,
‘Aad doth the | fort deface.

PATROCLUS thus employ’d in cure of burt
‘are all for other wounds doubly

pay
, then the rest
bome to their country turn'd,
tenth year of their wars at ‘Troy, and
Troy was sack’d and burw'd,
And then the Gods fell $a fink tt then
they their powers employ
Fo ruin their work, and leh less of that
than they of Troy.
Neptune and Phorbus tumbled down, from
Aa tnsnastion of a floods, that then
8 inundation of al that thence
the broad sea fills
On their huge rampire; in one plot, all
thesc together roard, [the adored,
Rhesus, Heptaporus, Rodius, Seamander
Caresus, Simois, Grenicus, Asepus; of

them all

Apollo open'd the rough mouths, and
made their Tusty fall

Ravish the dusty champian, where many

a helm and shield,

And half, face of men were strew'd:
and, that all these might yield

Full tritvute to the heavenly work, Neptune
and Phebus wou

Jove to unburthen the black wombs of
clouds, fill'd by the sun,

‘And pour them into all their streams, that
quickly they might send

‘The hage wall swimming to the sea. Nine
ays their lights did spend

To nights in tempests ; and when all their
uimost depth had made,

Jove, Phacbus, Neptune, all came down,
and all in state did wade

To ruin of that impious fort,
Neptune went before,

Wrought with his trident, amd the stones,
trunks, roots of trees, be tore

Out of oe ‘rampére ; tens'id thew all into
t

ty
Even all the proud tol of the Greek, with
which they dust coalroat
to-be shenned Deities, and not a stone
‘4

Great

earth were

remaun’
Of ail their Boge foundations, all with the
t plain’,

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

A See ore EE Seat Ng
floods
re whose vaults:

aa
an ares sy pouriag on of

nm
lorious heart ht appalt'd, and
ing forth pie Goe

To pass the dike: wih, being 20 deen,
Soret
yeni as at Pape Bre setied

i, yet still standoff: | (Their
think

‘The passage safe; or, if it were, ‘twas less
‘tafe for retreat,

and much

Shy oes

‘Than give the enemy, And yet, if Jove

Dr Genes aha etiath eedios bermre

That we ‘reel; : them thus, and
cehisee par

I would with all 9 wish th’ assault,

dike [our Bost is like
that| We shal tie situgeting. ud a man of al
To live and ‘back the news. And

grace

And then they ‘fan nat bear our charge,
rai somes aball Be ded
in their lives’ = iis.
pitt ei
‘Who first obey a it, and full-arm’d betook
him to the ground.
‘And then all left their chariots when be

To Saar directors to be kept, in all procinct

of war,

Thor, sad on that side of thee And
thus the rest

Tha at Taher Tegiments they all thelr

Each regi regiment allow’d three chiefs; of all
which even the pride

fire

eaten through the wall)
ich baserdous desice - ‘
‘That t a ae once but fight at fleet.

ith Hector ins wi

were

Polydamas, and Ce ‘who was his

‘But Hector found that ea 2 worse.
Chiefs of the second band.

‘Were Paris, and Alcathous, Agenor. ‘The
command

‘The third shalanx had, was given to
th’ angur 68,

Deiphobus, that god-like man, and mighty

ius,
Even Asitis Hyrtacides, that from Arisba

The Seen te roam
wide ae Seles Bow

fad

Hi

H

is
E

nest
‘cranny of a bill) when for
peer cere lel are angry ty 92 dig
They Ay eh em strike and sting, and
ir holl

Who, though they could not clear their

blights, yet were ther friends thus far,

Stil to uphold the betier sort; for thea did
rolypoet

asus, whose helm was

tea Ru eae the pile drave
in blood drowaid, and the man,

‘Will not be beaten, ut defend their labou's
and (His keen

fruit, brood ;
No more will these be from thelr por, but
(Ahi bat ag al) orb our

all His doie ston prac, could not
firm Jove persuad
Wao for the fener Cone stood, and,

t his singular brat
uston dion Hector that day's fame, et
and these behave
Themes os sohiy tthe ports: bat
And alongst the stony wall, sole f
ston force,
nat force aad forts,
in contention "twixt both hosts, it

‘were no casy thing,
Had’ the bosomn of a God, ‘to tune to Life

‘The “Proje fought of themgels
‘not a
fre from beaven was Grown

‘Their forces to abide the field, whom harsh

tchless
And’ flow & si i th wondrous spirit
ani at
Greeks’ wll wen, 10 fre thle fleet
But, having pass the dike,
And willing Sie
lid sti

necessity.
{To save his ape abel Bring them |

home) and their good forts’ supply,

Apta ad rem comparatin.

: ‘THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

|

yb ae aa

whom md made not good his place; and
thus they all sorts moved :
“'O countrymen, now need in aid would
‘have excess be spent, {excellent,
‘Theexcellent must be admired, the meanest
‘The worst aoe Ta changing war all

‘should not
Nor any idle; which to know fits all, lest
‘Hector strike

are is Gither snatch a prey,

‘Through all the freight, and the wall ;
potatered ince he did et {osind as he,

hers as great as he in mame, as great in
i f to Glaucus

at we boucer a sien
‘Than other men of Lycia, in place ; with

greater store
OF meats and caps; with goadlier roots;

More lands and a Geert bores 30 much wealth,
that court snd country talks

ith | Of us and our possessions, and every way
‘we BO,
‘hat|Gase ou us as we were thelr Gods? This

now betwixt us stands,
val ap to their walls." To
tte and as high, with
an: inoes + ,
caren eat and is moved to white

embrace
sides cover'd earth with stones, 0
both for tife contend,

heaves sreat Contr gh Jove, tad
the forest's king when he on

where we dwell is $0 ;
The shores of Xanthus ting of this; and
shall we not ex:
‘As much in merit as in noise? Come, be
‘we great in deed
As well as look ; shine not in gold, but fn
‘That fei hes ‘d Lyelans
80 Obr neat-arm’ may say;
“See, these are right ve
Our kings, our rulers; these deserve to eat
and drink the bes
‘These govern not inglotiously ; these, thus
exceed the rest,
Do more than Ty command todo’ O
friend, if keeping bac
Would keep een oer: us, and death,
‘and that we might not wrack
In this life's human sea at all, but that de
forring now
‘We shunn'd death ever, nor would I half
‘this vain valour show,
folly $0, fo wish thee to
But Sines ‘we must go, though not here ;
nd that. Besldes the ehence ae
Proposed now, there are ite fates
‘other sorts in death,
Which, neither to be fled nor soaped, a
man must sink beneath ; i
Come, try we, if this sort be ours, and
either render thus

3] Glon

‘This motion Glaucus shifted not, but
without words ot

lioagie ier “bath mighty troop of

; exe tty Be Ea pipe
&

THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE ARGUMENT.

array Oe glty of the Grectey bard p pet ples
‘Calehas, th’ Ajaces doth:
te “SR
pu onal forces, and doth 5
., Fair Dei

di
eset penta pores sismaya,

Hector, and his host, thas |The
Achive fleet,

rn sg oa id resounding shot
here. and resounding shosts;
SE Sea oe hope cheerd ns

took much rith to see the Grovks

Of his immortal moving feet, Three steps
he only took,

Before he far-off Atgas reach'd; but, with
the fourth, it hook

With bis dread entry. In the depth of
those seas he did hold

His bright and glotious palace, built of
never-rusting gold

And there arrived, be put in coach his
brazen-footed steeds,
‘All gokden-maned and paced with wings

‘and all in golden weed:

He clothed himself. The golden scourge,
most tly done,

He took, and. moonted to his seat ; and

then’ the begun
To * te Bis chariot through the waves.
in er inde, and kaw

For een and, bis horse so swift
and light
The wer aaieeee’ of bras no drop of
fear tea (ses Aasdhless ecxtbens brought
their king to th’ Achive a
“Twist th’ Imber clifls and Tenedos, a
in cavern a
Into the breast, and there.
His forward steeds, took t them from coach,
and heavenly fodder laid
Tn reach before them ; ped hooves he
ms nor dissolved, to make
them Girmly hold
A fit a their king ; who went

to th’
Which, like to tempests or hae flames,

ee raesta ta He Hector’s like com-

To take Bi Bie Greek, fleet ee Prise,
all the Greeks destroy,
bgt circler of the ‘earth, with

‘The Gi Fi
‘erat an tr a
‘Tesemblance,

and, of a
‘Ajaces first bespake, =

THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

We Peery ‘Rot cease — ourselves.
Nhat eae too, Apt to regina are all
Yet gue oll oftheir god inds,
you, mi
geod, in you quite
in others, though Selemewennion
Nace it etd con gh with
ano that fli
Or leaves the
fae pgrm
And you, otal too, maintain
win ii ht of spleen. ;
it, out, ate from my heart;
sierra ¥ ye

nas Tine alo ee repre-
oAliere reins ti 101 for

Amb oe YOUrflet, great
‘maintain?

sation firm ; whom Mars himself,

had he

sets men on:

For now the best were chosen out, and they
received ch’ advance

Of Hector cin men 9 full, that lance

in either’
Binmes al olnt to cess thee sand,
ances stood, thrust out so thick by

ight ns you donow. The| Wh

on,
nor Jove's Maid that aval

So Hector, hereto broated thren 19 go

tn blood,
And’ ech the Grecian ships and tet,
‘without belng once
ut hen ‘he fal foto th “he eta the
Grecians did maintain,
‘And that they fought upon the square, he
jood as fetter d then ;

and
jose both ends hurt, that they repell'd
his worst ; and he converts
Hiss threats, by all means, to retreats; yet
Gaiy t esomenpe te behind ; and thi
nyt encourage thee us
en inspired

those mm
! Dardanians! jeeal Atl
aS friends, stand close

tree
ith ine all strengths and minds he
but young Deiphobos
% son, amongst them all was
virtuous.

ef
er bare him hisround sie, trip
tly through
coverd with his shield ; and
i Merioucs

Charged wath a glierig dart, that took
bull-bide orby shield,

A a but in the top itself did
piecemeal yicld, saad

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Abodes that ever run before tempest and
men

‘dct
By his good friced Meriones yet near his
tent; to whom

sloth.
He answer'd; Only for a dart, he that
retreat did make,
(Were peer obs ‘bim at his tent) for, that he

On proud Deiphobus his shield. ‘Is one
dart all?” sald

“Take one and twenty, if thou like, for in
my tent they be ;

‘They stazed there shir
jook t}

the guise
Of one that loves bis tet, or Gghts afar off| But

with his foe ;
Bat since I ove ht, therefore doth my
martial star

my own ;
For ever in the foreencat
fight, when mae ret

this perhaps mi
Be hid ees ba thou know’, and i

Since there the Gerful and the firm will, as
they are,

‘Toefl rag Ht sha, and Tests

Nori fi Sint capable of th ambush

On his bent baunches; Baif his height
scarce seen above the ground,

= pee = Deer)

‘The coldness of it kes im gute
half shakes out his toeth ;

Where men of valour neither fear, nor
ever change thete I

From lodging th’ asebush tif It rise ; but,
‘sins there must be stro

fighting in the prease,
Thou shouldst rcp am sure the

ing
. | When thou ne (Gl the first, and

before him, thou

better
Marsewift Meriones, with

haste, a brazen,
Took from his sane, aad overtook, most

careful of hewary [harmful Mar,
Idomeneus. And fa field, as
‘And Terror. hls Beloved sou, that without

THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

eyoneus, 1 polly
Thy living ‘virtues, a thou io, bao al
perfeet the brave vow
‘Thou madest to Priam, for the wife he
Promised to bestow.
pe merees sacaly tare Rise his. weeds
we assure thee here,
thee for thy princely wife the
st deat

this
‘And rage d him through the fervent fight;
in whieh did
>. Hocime on
fo (so closely evermore
HG horse, that on his Shoulders breathed ;
them to his lord; who

re desire
‘but he strook first, and

‘The spirit of his charioteer, Test be
should in oe

‘The victor to his spoil, he durst not
rive from 1)
His bane and chariot; and 0. pleased,

chip hey ox rb
‘Aailicchan, Dea Ths fear he reach’ him

The richly builded chariot, chere labouring
out hi
Tho horse ‘Anulocbus took off; when,
for this event,
hobus drew passing near, and at the
or

ictor sent
A shining javelin; which he

shann'd, with gath
is body in hs asound sels at whose

top, with @ sound,
7 Yet seizing there, it did not

‘a | From He that wing’d it, bis strong hand

still drave it mortally
‘On prince Hypienor it did piece his ive,

Iris eins i pect: Ka shrunk Knees sub

mitted him to death.

‘The joy ete it, though it be now entering
the strong gate
of ae Pluto, since this band hath sent
mati

nobly born
Mastor, bearing him to fleet, and did es
tremely

ly mourn,
Idomeneus sunk not yet, but held
ies entire,

desi
To hide more Trojans in dim night, oF
himself in
‘Of his loved countrymen. And then Alcs
thous pre]
Work for bis valour, offering fate is ow

A heros, and had grace to be th
ae

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THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

But two of them, past all the rest, hac
desfre to shed
‘The ‘of either; Idomen, and Cy-
Aeneas first bestow'd rf lance, which ¢h’
ny
trembling in the ground
Dogeedy discharged at him, had no
cma ‘entrails found, in which
His lle to his fall; his palms tore
ga pie" ora pal

jamming
fiersee tht stepp'd in, and ke
his: oe ts

But rns, 1
rear tiorbo wits Sorts, : md
‘And now the long toil of the fight had

speat his vigorous
made them less cap 6 ald the foe

‘that should adi
Or, when himself aanend again, to run} U;
and fetch his

And therefore in isi ‘fights of stand be

‘spent the cruel day.
When, age ce from the slain,

Tohis alin at the in , whom he|
Big ja 16

But then be lost bis envy too, His lance
deadly took
hus, the son of Mars

his shoulder:
The violent head, and down he fell, Nor
Rg he ep
ie eases see tain waa

vith golden clouds ; Jove's

Nees

‘Sat

counsel had shi ace

Both hiim and all the ‘Gods from that
timne’s equal task,

Meera about Ascalaphus, strife set.

Deiphobus

uite through

I, but

Front but the 15¥, part: of Bis arm ‘tls And

Ba ets friends. Deiphobus, faint with
cl
the blood’s excess:

N
forced from him, bat in-
iw

By his kind brother by both sides, Polites,
till they gat
His horse and chariot that were still set

And set a mighty, “fight ‘on foot. When
‘next, Anchises’ son
Aphareus Caletorides, that ran upon him,

strook
Just in the throne with bis keen lance; and
straight his head forsook
His upright carriage; and tus shied, his
elm, and all, with bi

Pell to the earth ‘where ruinous denth
ace pest

and, with

all the world farewell.

Antiochus rush'd nimbly in, and, looking
mand, mad

which affair his round-

mies
their lances, thundering on his
anced tae,
‘his flesh. The God
hs ie earth took cl ee
Of Nestor's son and kept bim site
never was [ance
ots amongnt te thicket foes his
Observing ever when he might, far off, oF

And witching Asiut" son, fa prease he

spied him, and did send,

Close coming on, n dart at
in midst bis shield,

In which the sharp head of the lance the
bluo-hair'd God made yield,

yield
fot pleased to yield his pupil's Wife; fo
Whove shield half the dart
Stuck lke # truncheon born’d with fire;
‘on earth lay th’ other part.
10 better end of all, retired in

fear of worse,
But him Meriones pursued ; and bis lance
found full course:

To th’ other's life. Tt wounded him be-
‘wnt the prigy penta

, that smote

162

es begga ai nor had himself the

But tok i to Ca Se
every side a glance,

Tat yi aes should dart, But

Sent after bim a brazen lanes, that ran his
sage head

‘Through bis tight hip, and all along the

THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘Where on the gray sa's shore were drain
Seas Sit

Sweatt ‘the bone: it settled him, and set Tr

oe iit
gp gto abs nts; and

‘on the earth, whlch his black
blood tmbrued, and low'd away.
His cone the Puphlagonians did, sadly

Reposed 1h is! rich chariot, to ‘snered
‘The king his father fllowing, alssolved in
sine tears,
sd no ‘wreak sought’ for his slain eon.
But, at his slaughterers
Incense Pais pent a lance, since he had

been a
‘To many Paphiagonians; and through the

prease it press’
Thats sex 5 corak ‘augur’s zon, that did
for wealth excel,
well ;
‘Whi, tioned be i knew his harmful fate,
his ship ascend ;
His fatber PPolyldus, at would tell ims

‘Would either selze him at his house, upon
a

head ;
t whom was Menestheus chief,
Phidias followed
Stichlus and Bias, huge ia strength, Th

Amon;

Oileus by his brother's side stood close,
and would not thenes =
te

For any moment of that time.
through fil
sr ae draw a mais plovgh, a
yields
His Sire labour, all heads coved
close to exrth they

‘The fallow with their ef eal till out
sweat

begins to to flow,

‘The streteh'd yokes crek, and yet at Ia
the furrow forth Is driven

So toughly stood these to their task,
made their work as even.

‘That, when Lares a!
labour flow'd, woul

at last,
‘when swift Oii
Analigesing et oe le and war's =

aThb lanes ber cot kee choake ren
ere!
fortunes out. Night

i oe they fest ef fo;

came to a pat were,
Tn their fit place, a5 confident as those
t $0.

ught s0 atar
And ae their foes s0 thick with st

that these were they that
The" Trojan — at and then, fl
brave arm’ did make

AnBE,T0w Wor Tootars) be intends

‘THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

Avot nh Poisons Ses and ea-ike|

Palmus, Morus that Hippotion

did t,
And om Acai’ wealthy fields but even | Stand

the day
Arie Gee that with their aid they:

received from thence.
with these,
"us stood, and bold

Cebriones,
And then the doubt that in advice Poly~
‘Fo fight or fly, Jove took away, and all to
it Le
‘And as the floods of troubled air to pitchy
storms increase
‘That after thunder sweeps the fields, and | The
ravish up the seas,
Encountering with abborred roars, when
Boil i ony an cadlessly one after
So rank'd nnd guarded th’ Hians mareh’d ;
some now, more now, and then
‘More upon mor, in shining steel ; now
ins, then their men.
And Hector, like man-killing Mars, ad-
His hn

vanced before them all,
fe Fora target before him, through

Come nearer. Not art's want in war
‘us thus navy-bound,

c ands,
to spoil ; and
thy couplers ne ‘%e
aL goed against oor ransck'd et

(Gur bends Su tale a, tad Bet towecs
from all their heights pull down.
Aud | ast tl thn, Se drew on, wher,
ing, « shalt
To ioevats find all the Gods to make thy

Confirm’'d as soon as spoke. Jove's bird,
The night fad of tek boot whona wi
it hand of their host ; whese
high acclamations strook “2

ios, what

|As surely were the son of Jove, and of
‘great Juno born,
Adorn‘ ke Pala, and the God that lifts

As this ha oy ‘ha ‘bring’ harmful light to atl
; and thou
If wou daresd stand this lance, the earth
before the ships shalt strow,
‘Thy bosom torn up, and the dogs, with all
” the fowl of Trey,

ed his| Be satiate with thy fat and flesh.” This

plume orrid
(All hid ida, ti wee shield) he
every troop assay'd
For fa ae ait despite stood firm
Which when be va, and kept more off,
stalking th

ths roe en,
‘And thus him: “0 good man,
why ‘st thou thus our men?

aid, with shouting Joy
His fint troops follow’d ; and the last their
shouts with shouts repelld.
Greece answerd all, nor could her spirits
all show rest conceal'd,
‘And to 40 infise a eight all acclamations

They Tea the lours, stuck about:
‘the unreach’d throne of Jove.

COMMENTARIUS.

tite iustriae
"hacropdyen, Lote wer

typologan Mtanraies Valle, and

Eobamus, He ie {eho 1 think translated
into hexmyeters

prose] take dyavée, the epithet to “Ieee
alas fore esion ss ealed, and “Teee
Larne SPiur re transixicn,
at gua sine ullis divitiis equine victitat

¢ intending gens Ageveram, which

Sostood old Nestor in debate, twothoughts
at once on win,
In his discourse, if frst to take direct course

to the king,

Or to the multitude in fight. At last he did
‘con

To visit Agamemnon first, Mean time

both hosts imbracd
Thelr steel in. porta blood,

ANOTHER ARGUMENT,
‘and bed, heaven's:
in ion aleep, and bod, Weg

Nor wine, nor feasts, could lay their soft
or daieson old Nestor’s com
whith, though not gr st, it yet sufficed to.
% it yet
hide thes, though thetrvmen
‘Were something straited ; for whose scope,
in — Poa —_ ba
They drew tt rough the spacious
‘shore, one by another still,
all the bosom of the strand their sable
Ever tl they ook tp all che space st
:
boxn the prementore.
‘These ki like Nestor, in desire to know

swells
(bere will stay,
‘Till on it air casts one firm wind, and then
‘it rolls away ;

‘The glorious ‘of the Greeks ; which

So, on the Want T's s
Andes ad reine, tor his And i cs
en haar spear. We nee ee

‘Are such as you may well endure, since | A
foeing derived from kings,

‘And’ kings not poor nor virtueless) you | #
cannot hold me base,

Nor scorn my words, which off, though
true, im mean men moet

However, they are these in short: Let us
be sora at fight,

passing fitly stand

With stern Achilles’ wreakful spirit, that
the can stand astern

His ship, and both in fight and death the
Grecian scorn,

den

re
if

i

—————— ee
oa oo ay Away, I| Thou lacquey'st here?” Her studied fraud,

Per he enjoln'd, in all, and
Joy,
all th’ infernal Gods, surnam’d
Pri enol
‘The cath thus taken, both took way, and
‘made thelr quick 4
‘To Ida from the town, and isle, all hid in

there Somnus stay'd,
sould ses

replied : '* My journey now

ae el eos coos tat

where in right Towe

All kindness to the Siro of gods, and our

mou

‘That nursed and kept me curiously in court
(since both have been

Long time at discord) my desire Is to

hearts ;

‘atone their

m at the foot of it; for they
must taste. ir fill
Of travail with me, and must draw my
conch through earth and sexs,
Whose farintended reach, respect, and
care not to displease
‘Thy Rises, made me not attempt, without
‘the Soud-compelling God her guile ia
<i
this sort did receive :
“Juno, thou shalt have after leave, but, ere
‘so far thou ant,
Convert we our kin ts to lowe, that
now doth way
Circle with victory my powers, nor yet with
_ any dame, bovain 86 inflame
Woman, or goddess, did his fires my
Asnow with thee. Not when it loved the

is 80. MCFOUS
Ixiot's wife fad, that brought forth the
wise Pirithous }

that

‘surprised me with her sight,

Who the divine-soul'd Rhadami
Silos brought to light ;

Nor oemele, that bore to me the joy of
moral men,

‘The sprighly Bacchus; nor the dame that
‘Thebes renowned then,

Alemena, that bore Hercules ; Latona, so

renow
Queen: Ceres, ‘with the golden hair; nor
thy fair eyes did wound
‘My entrails €o such depth as now with
thirst of amorous ease.’
‘Thecunning damescem'd much incensed,
and said = *' What words are these,
‘Unsufferable Saturn's son? What! here!

fn Tae bean
Desirest thon this? how fits it us? or
what if in the sight

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
inst fio Rap ee Oa

settling

Ad we for ol bythe roots ends
from the'earth an oa
sulphur

ibs
casting with the blow a strong | From

‘unsavoury smoke,
eee

no hing game)
ectorsihigee
esp eels he fl vey De

hale him off,
'd on darts in storms, to
Bat oa 1d hurt the people's guid
‘none cou! ! 's guide,
nor stir him from his grouri

renown’
apie ne ‘Vonus’ son, and wise
ineglective was
Rasta his rescue, and the rest. No one
of Hector safety. All their shields, they
uch’ about him close,

‘him, to his
jot,
And bore him mourning towards Troy.

Gut when the flood they got
aly Kans, that ‘wan got by death-

frone,

it they of ‘their

with much more cheer the foe.
far first, Olliades began the

‘A mighy sia with Bis And | His
‘Panthacdes seized

Boren en strook it through,
ee jess there ;

For which te isslnly raged, ‘and cried

*Panchus? ‘son, I think,

m
ive his ghost,
the Grecians stomach'a much ;

cn,

Which heer son, yealiniag, scaped,

Arcillochos, eee whom heaven
did destinate

To that stern end ; 'twixt neck and bead
‘angle velin wrought his ar an the
vas In at the uf int
back long bon ptm

ised outweigh'd all
ibs, and sttook
His feels up, so that ag and face the

let thy prophetic
ad das ‘truth, f this man

‘do not wel
beat mh Protbeoan T conceive, no one
That tether he wa base nso ong

is face ;
Antena ce or The Ne 2 shoul be

yet.

Barotius, dragging bim to spoll ; and. tha
pret engeae

"0 Greeks, even

; alain i in by hf rhe n
rest wreak'd in his fane.

THe beat past pale and dike, and
eo
Al to fear-driven all, and
ns men dismay. z
‘Then Jove on Ida's top awaked, rose from
Saturnia’s si
Stood up, and look’d upon the war; and

all
Since be bad seen it; th’ Iians now in

the
look’d
of pity ; cm bis wife with horrible

To whom he said: “O thou in ill most
All arts and comments that exceed 'st! not

Recor trom fh, but with his
ie om fats, a men, to

And et thee mercilessly hang from our re=
arate ont all the gods fa
‘8 vapours ;

‘great Olympus given =
To Mines atu hes, ae (ough all
None darst dissolve thes, for these hands
Thy Yen} baa heeding thrown him off
en ong row ‘im

i northern flaws, thou
shipwrack’dst Hercules,
id tows him to the Coan shore, that
thou shouldst tempe
‘My wrath’s importance, wl

1 Greed my son, and set him safe in Argos,
Trac of horse.

by

ited the offending queen, who

in stabs coven,

Her kind snkindness : *' Witness earth,
and heaven so far diffissed,

‘Thou Flood whose silent gliding waves the

(whieh is Ue preatse nd oath,
r ye great’st wert oath,
that any God nas

with

any God cam swear)
‘Thy sacred head; those secret joys, that
(By nice Toor ahi swore) that be
never
wea sakes the at on
fot wrong to
ous aren naa Grecks, theie
ny
fleet befag nests lost}
Relieved Coy hard condition, yet utterly
By his free mind ; which since f see ls so
offensive beld
To thy high pleasare, I will now advise
not to tread
Bat where
.

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
'd to hear her so submiss, and | My vow's made of late:
0 My [hia and,

prove the mean to greet
‘Thee with thy wish, for then the eyes of
anata eacites, (so near him prease
Made witness of the general i, tht doth
ill make his own partioutar look out,
and by Seqrees [no extremitios
‘Abate his wrath, Bat thongt himself for
Will seem reflected ; yet his friend may get
of him the grace’
‘To help his country in his arms; and he
shall make

For his full with his death, which

Shall be well forerun; ;

1 will first renown his life with
Sebeer coat bib dace

5 q

wreak,

Hector shal a
Ending his evlix® ‘Then, at once, out shall
Gere. ‘ehilies
Of Geree Achilles: nd, with that, the
flight now felt shall turn,
And then last, tlt in wrathful flames the
ion burn.
rave Meath
take his fill
Achilles
ter for di friend ;
rm Heapresleagbier Cieowa
anger: these facts
make fully known bed

* "Bading his endi* in the folin—Eo.

with:

“imend, akd ts Oljunen Bev,
But, as the mind of such a man that hath

And Tike the banqeet's azbiter sbsooget th
ni l juet's th"
‘The o> m i thom all,
wel amon]
tow bad hs actions are
Nor are all here, nor anywhere, mortals,
Extinay Seared wih that fos ong hough
nt
Tne at a phe
Be =e spleens at Jove eat
wr) jore | Ml
Bae itd tak tral froba fe tpe or
‘over her black
Her es was not clear’d ;
‘passion’s throes
Broo forth in spite, being ately choot 8s
in what are Wo

1 he sits far off,
Nor moves, but says be knows bis serength,
to all degrees compares

‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

seinen fom fights 2 © DS
{rer Sgr vlan

th’ ample seas ;

he threatens

the Queen of
‘Vulcan, he will elder spare high
Tlion, or not race

love discern'd him gone,
flo's service he enpiy and said:
“Loved Phat

brought
| and F, “now itt carthshaking god
fod of under-grounds. The} hath taken sea, and so
sword eiereny Shrunk from the horrors I denounced ;
Dbetwis ‘every one his King- which standing, he, and all
lities |The under-seate
black lot ; Jevis fer the princi- Saturn's fall,
toa barn ail the sky and donds, | Had
sorted out. ‘The earth
And high Olympus common are, and due for them, aad me "tis bes, that
‘6 birth, thus they fly th’ extreme,
‘That had not pasyd us without sweat,
Now then, in thy hands take
My adder‘ringod nfhighting shel, which
ria eo ‘such terror

fear shake the Greeks to fight,
ea Se ea add t ae
iby far-off shootog Gk God, that this

Of famous Hector be recured, and quickly
all the Greeks

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‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘The iron both des as they jlnd. Out

‘Some falling short, but other some found
butts in breasts and hearts,
As long as Phoobus held but out his
ee oad
dans flew ‘raging elther way, and
both wars #20

‘He meets his death ; nor in the Sire of holy
His rete or His sister's hands shall
His fhe yb but, without, thethroats
sr Thistaid, the scourge
his forward horses draye

Through every orders 90d, with tim, all
whipt their chariots or

His see tim}

att Coe out hunderag cow as

of neat,

Or wea Hake Sec bi oe, and

r ek of sheep, being

Tn some black midnight, suddenly, and not
2

ines | Makes wit

Tn Phylace ; the other led th’ Athenian
‘bands, his sire
a Bucolus his son. Mecistheus |

arch’
a be march’ d,
(Without all labour) wi
ull, with his own,

ddows,
his feet, the dike;

to try one's forse)

‘A man could messure. | Into this they
pour'd whole troops as fast

As slamerous ; Phorbus sill, befor, fora

tumbled down their wall,
And look how ensely any boy, upon
ebb'd shore,
alittle sand. a, toy, a x

exsely madeat te
‘Thus stood they driven up at their fleet ;
where each Heard other's thought,
Exhorted, pasting humbly pray'd, all, all

the it
(With hands held up to. heaven) for help :
“mongst all, the good old man,
Grave Nestor, for his counsels call'd. the
Iv

18
Stood near him and disatcd a shaft,
Testes enor only on, soung Ces
ot
Of the renowm’d Polydamas, tho bridle in
his hand,
As he was ‘his horse, to please the

igh com
Of Hector and his Trojan
bring him (oe re
Made greatest tum 3 but strife,
LWrooght oot what sight or wishes helg'd
it not what sight or "a;
for, turning back his look,
Bis ncek the shaft came
and
and

hariot, Panthus’ son made all

loose career; disposing them
Protiaon’s son,
Astynous, with speclal charge, to keep
them ever on,
And in bis sight. So pi amongst

the foremost went. ‘eucer sent :

At Hector then another shaft, incensed

‘Which, had it bithim, sure had hurt, and,
had it hurt

the earth Ww
Atal which Teucer stood amazed, and to
his brother cried :
gy | without all doubt, our
loth deride

friends ; and | Uj

‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘That without labour at the least (though
we prove worser men]

Troy may not brag it took our ships,
‘Come, mind our business, then.”
‘This said, he hasted to his tent, left

shafts and bow,
his donble double shield did on
is shoulders throws x
mourd head
Ppelnet, thickly-plumed, a
And then his strong and well-piled lance
in bis fair bond assumed,
Return'd ; and boldly took his place, by
his great brother's side.
‘When Hector saw his arrows broke, out
to his friends he cried ;
"O friends, be yet more comforted; I
saw the hands of Jove
Break the great Grecian archer's shafts.
"Tis easy to approve
‘That Jove's power is direct with men; as
Weil in those set high [suddenly,
‘Upon the sudden, as in those depres’d as
And those not put in state at all, As now
he takes away
Strength from the Grecks, and gives ft us ;
use it, and assay
With join'd bands this approached fleet.
Ifany bravely buy
Ris fame or fate with wounds or death, in
‘Jove's name let him dic.
Who for his country suffers death, sustains
‘no shameful thing ;
‘His wife im honour shall survive, his
progeny shall spring
In enciless summers ; and their roofs with
patrimony swell
And all this, though, with alll their freight,
ha

the Greek ships we repel
‘His friends oro got ee bo
. strong Ajax stirr’d bis friends =
+0 Gress,” sald he, “what shame ls this,
that no man more defends
His fame and safety, than to live, and thus
be forced to shrink :
Now either save your fleet, or die; unless
t

perceives not every

How Hector heartens up his men; and
hath his firebands here

Now ready to inflame our fleet? he doth
pot | them |

186

For Menalippus, that mare son of great
‘As bmvely be put forth to we ee
mgs Sees oF ta Senet, Eis reas
and life va
And then, mach ike an eager hound, east
lun bythe her, hat had let his covert
then but new,
‘The. great in-wat-Antilochas, © Mena-

ny tora toes for But thy

orn for

Sati oan ports 4
Hector ; who all haste made
‘and made fly

nillochs; although Jn war he were at

But as some wild beast, having done some

shrewd tar (either ill’

‘The herdsman, or the herdsman dog) | Or nowhere

and skulks: aaey before
‘d multitude makes in; 80
jestor’s son forbore,
pate horrid. cries, both

'd his breast
h all "fens ena it then.
on the s!
wa lions rush'd, and
knew they did em;
jove's high will ;

who si hi pt nfl
wench’d the Grecians”; onerenown'd,
‘shamed,

other

For Hector's glory stil he stood, and ever
‘went about

‘To make him cast the fleet such fire, as
eect aces Rice

Heard Thetis’ petition ; and wish'd In
any wise

‘The splendour of the’ buming ships might
satiate his

From him yet the ‘was then to be
‘on Troy confe

bent ant dal S X iven the Greeks ; which

With such ‘tddition Eas his spirit, the spirit

To bor th Bt, at of tlt was hot

But now oo fared like Mars himself, so

male teeirt about his

eee AN Goa deep? his
eyes were overcome

‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘With fervour, and resembled flames, set
of by his dark brows,
site his bright helm
is throws 5
i¢ sphere of star, to

his state put bis ay

Andail the blaze af both the hosts confined
in him alone,

And all this was, since after this he had
not long to live,

This lightning flew before his dew, which
Pallas was to give

{Asmall time thence, and now prepared)
beneath the violence leminence

or ut Pelides. In meam time, his present

Thought all thiags under it; and he, still

here he saw the stands,
OF greatest strength and bravest arm'd,
there there be would prove his bands,
ne | to break through,

‘Dut that bas ass 'd all his power,

Although his will ware past all theirs, they
stood him Like a tower,

Conjlt'd so frm, that a3 rock, excending
high and great,

And ae ‘heat the hoa hoary sea, benrs

t

Of Bighvoled winds and ‘hitlows boge,
‘beiched on It by the storms ;

So stood the Greeks great Hectot’s charge,
Ber stirred their battellous forms.

it in fire borne for the fleet) still

troop;
5 ike a wave, high raived,
that then doth stoop
the clouds ; grows, as it stoops,
with storms, then down doth come
And cul ship, when all he side ave bid
in brackish oa
Strong, gales still mging tn er sails, her
sailors’ minds dismay’¢
but little from their lives : #0

‘baneful king of beasts, leapt
Fed in the meadows of a fen,
he meadows of a fen, exceeding
“mongst whom (their
herdsmen wanting
To fight with ons, forthe price of a Black
fe

Cased ‘unt sorecind san, at length

down in the midst
And all he ret TE ae
‘oom oo Gineos wae ‘WHS gone ; y

THE FIFTEENTH ROOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Both ships and lives of all the Greeks : and
thus, snlike affects
Bred the strenity in bth, Great Hector

His against the fist near ship.
pmo ait that ai botk that brought
Protesilaus to those wars, and now herself

‘With wnany Grek 3 and ‘Trojan lives; all
Ona flew avotber pean and close the

‘Was pitch’d on both parts, Not a shaft,
or far-off striking: dart
_ne fight fll out,

spears wil
‘Were thien the weapons ; fair short swords,
with ine hilts still worn,
Had use tn like sort; of which last, ye
he have sumbers view'd
dissolved arms from their hands,
‘as many dows-right hew'd
From off their shoulders as they fought,
their bawdricks cut in twain. ‘

van,
stern, and held {t there, and.
wwe this command =

From such a day as makes amends, for all
Sysapeayg!

By whose blest we tae thove ships, | AN

To such « taziness and fear; they would
nat let me end

Our lingering bones; and charge thas
home ; but keep home and defend.

Aod s they reled the men I led, But
though Jove then withheld

‘The hatches to 2 seat beneath, of seven
foot long, but thought

Tt was ity le to scape; he sat yet
where he fought,

And Ea “t out lances thick as bail, at ald

en that assay
To fret the Kyau with whom he found his
hands so
‘That on his soldiers’ x he cried: “O.

kind.

‘We are, I tell you, in 9 ficlds ; have
nought but seas behind,

And foes before ; ee from Greece ;

"out his darts :

(Cone et pe amd with fr, on

his fleree dart he di
t pleased Hector made him mad:
n ‘it his thanks would eam ;

Of which twelve men, hjs moat resol
“ay dead before his aoe ps

190

headlongly driven, flow Juno. As we often
sce witha clap of thunder doves or other
fowls driven headlong from thelr seats, not
in direct flight, but as they would break
heir necks with a kind of recling ; weuavie
ved of pate oF wa siglfy

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Which commentors thus understand z

‘There were some men that never died, as
Chiron,
and in

Tithon the husband of Aurora,
Giagcus made & sea-ged,

Holy Writ (an Spondants pleaseth 10 mix
them) Enoch nnd Elias ; but because these

| few were freed from death, Mars must not

enforced and gy parting from Jove,
and doing his charge distractedly. “This
another can give better. let
it, and take it. But in infinite
pitas is this diving port thus pro;
faned, which for the extreme labour 1
eannot yet peas at.

Difficite ext, it it @
hard thing a ‘Minerva to Mars, when
she answers his anger for the slaughter of
his som Ascalaphus} for.
generation and birth of alt:

fave t0 deliver the| rest
suc from death,

TNE END OF THE

look that at bes were. But this inter-
pretation, I think, will to all men
Et first slght both idiculous and profane:
Homer making Minerva only jest at Mars
here (as she doth in other places) bidding
him not storm that his son should be slain
more than better born, stronger, and
worthier men; for Joue should’ have
enough to do (or it were hard for Fore)
40 free all men from death that art un-
willing to die, This mine, with the

rest; the other others; accept which you
please.

FIFTEENTH BOOK.

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

“O Peleus’ son (thou strongest Greek
by all degrees that lives)
addi tO
ty gives.
‘Our greatest Greeks lie at their ships sore
wounded ; 11
King, Agamemnon, Diomed, and good
urypylus ;
But these much-medicine-knowing men,
physicians, can recure,
‘Thou yet unmedicinable still, though thy

all endure.
from such wrath

our

derivest 1

What so declined thee? It thy mind shins
adased bp thy eundska quency kava
foresc

ny
‘And therefore thou forvakest thy friends,
Jet me go case thelr moams

hat tare hy sreachesorat
ve
T.ahon the fight for oracles, or what exy

193

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Should from his equal take his right, since
he exceeds in power.
‘Th, at hs wrone, is sil my grief. He

he
Anat metiea tage fugitive, an inmate in

That is no city lbertine, nor capable of
their gown.
‘But bear we this as out of date; ‘tis past,

anger in
T have my wil
As wells our grest king of men for 1 did
Tout now,
off my disdain till, as it falls
Tine ras of te Keoek’d at my flee, and
told me in their eries

T was reveaged, and had my wish of all my |

“egies this repeat enough. ‘Take thou
farne-blazed arms,
And ay fhhity Myrnidons lead to
bot alarms.
Whole cious of Trojans ercle us with
hhatefual emi
“The Grosks shut in a litle shore, a sort of

ey fr alent Died

His ig is there hat the dest
out of our fleet ;
Nor from that ead of enmity, can my
hearers meet

Pe meet Jay on th
‘on thee
To each ican ot, at ‘thy ruled band

On aa oo panes cllbeos, and forced

yem from our fleet.
with nich grace if the god of sounds*
kind egression greet,
Retire, and be not tempted on (with pride
to ser thy hand
Rain slanghter'd carcasses on earth) to run
forth thy command
As far as Hlioo, lest the gods, that favour
‘Troy, come forth
To thy encounter, for the Sun much loves
it; and my worth,
In what thou suffer’st, will be wrong’d,
that E would lot my friend
Assume an action of such weight without
me; and transcend
His friend's prescription, Do tot thea
affeot a further
jan 1 may strengt! Let the rest,
Wwhea thou Bast done this fight,
Perform the rest. O. would to ce thou
vailas, and thou Sun,
‘That not a man housed underneath those
towers of Ilion,
Nor any one of all the Grecks, how infinit
asum

‘seaping death, i
os thundering ona
(Of every stone stuck in the walls of this se

“Thos pale they oaly ewbst thampalvay
‘and now the foe no more

The Trojan
and with Joves il rel x
His) ers were cl iis ic
iid desfoning Dlows abides
His plume, and head-ornaments, €0

His arm arm yet biter up his shield,
“They coull noe ot stir Tin frown ‘We stn

although he wrought it out
With short respirings; and with
that ceateless flow’

ur'd on: with whose d

14
‘That fall from heaven, and good to drink
was hus delightful

thius
A-woman mixing with a) ‘Yet Borns
bore the same me dame,
ing the
was

tes to Meath be
a mighty dower
eed deaseat

Of Perieres. The next man, eae

‘THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIAD,

For my eh tumour, fom the fight, re
iber them as these :
«Thaw crad sou of Réeas, whoen abe tit
Tules the meas
Pe ore eS Des mel en cost

(One eads against our’ wild froas fights

we will ot be eoatrolld,
eee oe poe ber for home, be-

regiment,
Was strong Eudorus, brought to life by ei

‘one ‘a maid,
Bright Pellets, Phylay 3d, but had the
‘wanton play'd
Mercury ; who (fired
eye,
{in the quire of ber that
makes ies
In amorous, anting, and «ib beat the
crooked bow of gold)
Stole to hier bed in that chaste room, that
Pheobe chaste

hy
with
As she was sit

Her second sei fecing her with gitts of

bit
<eeene

Polymels’y son ‘obtain'd ex-
(aad Genet oe tarehal beta ging jad Of his
natural race
ee ‘The third chief was
Pisandras, who in skill of darts obtain'd
supremest praine
Of all the Myrmidons, except their lord's
Phoonix had.
‘The fifth, =
Son of Lacroes, gad much famed, All
by the mighty son of royal

me for wrath
To be a Yeuind so from oa: Now
if spleens may bathe
Inert raed tices great works yo wish'd;
now, he that can employ

“aia i oeirentey
ot weather, and even then, if any

[This work was brought to, these men’
thinds, accanding to the rate,

woughe-on speech
ip made valour’s sting,
And ticked te targets bead, x0
‘their helmets th
That shields propy'd shields, helms he
nock’d, and men encourazed men,
Puree tnd antuoadea G0 State

196
In bis from bis
in ins powerless arm, and

‘THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Ajax Olliades did take Cleobulus alive,
Invading him stay'd by the press and at
‘him then let
his short
whose blood the steel ;
And cold Death with a violent fare his
sable eyes did sel,
__| Peneleus, and ‘Lycon cust together off their

darts ;
*) Bom ‘miss‘d, and both together then went
wits thelr swords ; in

Lightener st
ee
All prominent foreheads, forests, towers, he

land temples cheer the sight:
So clear these Greeks this Trojan cloud,

‘To thet inclusions + nor did ‘Troy, though
RE rate eet tee tSisahip ces
are mewiabdae’: Patro-

Bs dart the bone did

Then
clus in

‘break, and
a

rma ai Ap is bent at Bin, pre
His « Ya extreme part, phere (of maz)
isa modetes "Os
The nerves torn with his lance’s pile, and
closed his eyes.
cere pab pay ee a ma
mn,
His ie tree gts, and Tote bs ie.
At young
him
‘The brother to to, Antiochus; hls eager

ail the
‘Tas mmuacles of his arm cut out andstiver'd
Night cloed his oe his liveiess corse his

Ana Be td

in bcthecr bands, did

cut it thoroy;
His head bung
swift Me

feriones,
Parsuing flying Acamas, just as he got
access
To horse and chariot, overtook, and strook
him such a blow
ft anoule, tit be felt his
~er earth; life it hi limbs, and
possess’
sei Bir arn dart at Erymas ad-

Y Acamas, he fled; it eut the
id bones

iano dartopen stocd)
spirit. ‘Thus had death
mn chief

‘estorides, wit
nius’ brother, flew; and at served

198

“O shame!

‘Two minds
wish

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

aad
50)
distract
him

to

spun.

Why fly yo?" then be cried, | And
enow

my son
man, shold eut a] Wheo

we; iff should now

ch ruled his,

chariotesr, brave Thrasymed ; whom
in his belly's cim
Patroclis woamdal with his tince, and
endless ended him,
And then another act of name foreran
his princely fare,
His first Iance missing, he Tet By a second

‘obey’d, and went foraright.
‘And then the royal combatants fought for
Be) final

took
ez, empry way. But no
Pagel terre nbs al
tas bet bis 1, that om the
breast did light
Of his brave foo s where lif's strings close
bout the solid heart,

then left their part,
And let him fall; when like an oak, a |

stretch’d his for
Before his horse and chariot,
i ia heaps,

‘d jaws, the brave

er tDoexcn poe yellow bull, drives all the
2 goody drives: all
‘awn his anconquer'e

power;

east sig H
So sa ‘endemeath this prince
Calf'd Ginnous to him, hhis dear friend, and
‘aid: “ Now, friend, thy hands
Much daty owe fo Sght and arms; now
Thy hearin tn ach band 40 approve that
srtin muct
war isbarmful ; now
How active all thy forces are, this one
Fi Or at must show,
our Took
round, and Dos tou ig
And ll exhort 15 stam Me endo, boat
And speod thyself thy steel for me ; forbe

Of all thy i to by last h deat
c oat
‘Sy buck deren ee

And. shined for wealth and happiness
the Myrmidon:

amongst:
; | His besom’s tidst ‘the javelin strook, bis

even to tou
jfajartl ne oe om
much,
‘s hand ; it cut his

aut,

for iin 0 sain, abther

[in the neck

fag Hector's he let ly, that dusted
thenelaus ; thrust his
first, and did break

‘The nerves in sunder with his fall : off felt

the too,
sta a tw ry

man can throw
of in the wars to shed

Chaleon’s son; be did
dwell,

fall gat earth with

‘The Grecks gricvedl, and the Trojans joy'd,
for $0 renowm'd a man ;

About whom stood the Grecians firm. And
then the death began

On Troy's side by Meriones; he slew one

great in war,
hp Onetor’s son, the cone of
in th’ Edavan bill. Betwixt his is ew
‘The dart stuck fast, and loosed his soul

tad mists of hate and fear
ioeding De him. Anchises’ son despatch’d

[At bold Merlones | and hoped to mike an
‘equal chance

He lay 30 close, But he discern, and
made his body yield
So low, that over Tint ew, and trembling

wis which nafaemade Iequench bis thirst
the head could wound
Notte boy ‘and yet thrown from ne’

the worse

ft tured ‘Tom, earth, and look’d awry.
Eneas let it stand,

Much angry at the vain event, and told
Meriones

good, it cann

The streagth of ‘of others with ie nor

But ben my bee tal touch at thee, with

al

Death will share with fe thy life's powers
thy confidence can shan

No more than mine what his right elaims."
‘Mencetius’ noble son

The ake th’ 1d, with

nor make sw

these our coupterbraves?

‘We mast enforce the binding earth, to hold
them in her graves.

‘THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

le will war, wilt speak?
More ccunael, “Counsel, oes
‘Are tiv cds of wars and words. Tatk here,
the time in vain bestows.”
He said, and ted : and, nothing less for
(iis seen Soe a wich pach right)
fatworthy aressed.
‘And then. as iy ‘® sounding vale, near
a
make & far-heard noise, with

, chopping still,
o@, on blocks and trees ; so

keow him, and it fail :
might
its of his feet, his form
lies in

‘Was sent by pepe ‘Then Jorethus

charged :
+ Haste, honour'd Phacbus, let po more
Greek violence be done [able blood
Sarpedon ; bat bis corse of all the
ins purged, then carry him, far

Hience to some clear flood,

sweet Sleep and Death, commit
His princely person, that with speed they
ih may carry it

br
And tomb it in some monument, as Site a

prince's Hdalian bill,
_a Then few Apollo to the fight, from the

give his steeds [madly Be exceeds
Large reins, and all way to the chace ; 30
“The strict commission of his friend ; which
“had he kept, bad kept
A black death from him. But Jove’s mind

hath evermore outstept
‘The mind of man ; who both affrights, and
___ takes the (2 can justify,
From any hardiest hand with ease: which
himself commands him fight, as

ocean

[Autonous,

Of which Adrestus frst he slew, a2 next
Epistora, and Elases,

‘Swift Menalippus, Moting ; ail these were

han, he

raged so with his lance, [the llans,,

Af Phocbushad vot kept the tower.and belgid

Sustaising 1 thoughts ‘gninat the prince.
“Thrice to the prominence

or wall be bi yd;
Te eens

Objecting his all: sbield, with bis
reaistless:

Bat fourty. when, tike one of heaven, be
would have stirr’é his stand,

Toy
Even to the last beam of my life, their
And her pen of sand carom thee

Poor eh nr al ight ad
wretch ; nor mighty frien
afford thee ai any, 5 zs

‘Thou onl ey! iain
oN law payehm al whom, first, a

TAT ylp ZG ve wire, Re, ‘These last
verses in the original by many austere
ancients have suffered expunction, as being
unworthy the mouth of an hero, becanse
Nag Beg ard a attr ra

in

‘or laughed | ra

under their castigations, Achilles not out
of bis heart (which any tre eye may

it, SEaoKS a frolic and aii.

umour, being mexry wit ni
tm private, ‘which the ves following in
part expresseth :
“05 of phe rovatirs

Sic ki guide doerlge se oar mi

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Seog pa ml

mea,

Euphorbus, And fis one thing more
concerns thee; note it then ;

‘Thom shalt not long survive thyself ; nay,
now death calls for thee,

‘And violent fate: Achilles tance shall
‘take this good for me.”

‘Thus death join'd to his words his end ;

his soul took instant wing,

And to the house that hath no lights de-
scended, sorrowing

For his sad fate, to leave him young, and
in bis ablest age.

He dead, yet Hector ask’d him why, in that

Provent his death, and on his lance receive
his Intest light 2
‘Ts setting on bis side bis foot, be drew

His brazen lance, end upwards cat the

the
Woe ah fin the dat was bot, he
‘Automedon,
Divise guide of Achilles’ steeds, in great
' contention
To seize him too; but his so swift and
deathless horse, that fetch

Their gift to Peleus from the gods, soon |
Tapt him from his Teach.

COMMENTARIUS.

ives: inl only standing:
Foisctiely cn te gremune sad werd
anes ignorant of the sense and grace of

‘Another, most Ingenious and
Spaltefal imitation of the life and ridiculous
humour of Ajax 1 must needs note hera,
because it flies all his translators and
Interpreters, who take it merely for serious,
when it is apparently scoptical and
ridiculous, with which our author would
delight his understanding reader, and mix
‘with matter. He saith, that Hector

charged in Homer} and imagined strongly
the cating of Lance's head one

IF HOMER'S ILIADS. 905
off | Exstathius would doubt whether Sleepand
th carried 3

il

FETE

he would further note to us, that, from all
callech | the bitterest and deadliest conflicts and
| tyrannios of the world, Sleep and Death,
when thelr wort is done, deliver and
transfer men: @ little mocking witha) the
|vehoment and greedy prosecutions of
tyrants and soldiers against, or for that,
which two such deedless poor things take
j|from all their empery. And yet, against

Eustathins’ manner of slighting their powers,
what i there, of all things ‘belonging to
man, 30 powerlul over him 2s Death aad
Sleep? And hy, may not our, Homer

i

AT

besides personate Anger,
Sloth, &c.? Thus only where the mas
. }und soul of my most worthily reverenced
author abused,

iy

fi

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

THE ARGUMENT,
A persorvs faht stout Patroctar'corse

by Menclaux force,
jecter im th” armour of

slain, i
the wriving Trojans won,
aces making pou the after Beds
Make all the suljeetha ee book dehy,

ANOTHER ARGUMENT,
4a Ro the ventarows
A dsagticrous

hosts maintain
‘coudict for the alain,
Now could his slaughter rest conceal'd
from Menelass” ear ;

ic theirs, as any dam about ber

first
No eos ng wat tbe pain of binth would we

Nor Ht nt pba
eh healaleeetgtan
73 kin thus: “Atrides, cease, and
the slaughtered
‘With this om ‘spoil to the an, that
frst, of all our stare,
famous eek in fair fight, made
Stee Be ed to wear the good
A merrikernie ea lest thy life repay
oT To)
‘what his bath dowe, “f
‘man
peeled thy power to do, Not
<a,
Nor ts oi, nor boar, whose mind

| Shall ask

As Paothus® Progeny. But Hy
enor pelle SY De wile

ee Ford ol time bis youth when be

and calf me worst of
dees r chivalry,
And stood my worst, might teach ye all to
shun this sureuidrie ;
T think be came not safely hows (9 il ble

wife his acts. te exacts,
Nor less right Serkon: my equal
thou stay'st. Retire

| tale acts
A fool secs oought before “ts done, and
still too hate is wise.’
‘This moved not hit but to the worse ;
since it repew'd the sting

fo
A heavy widow, when ber joys of wedlock
searce had fe,
And bent’st our parents with bis grief ; all
which thou gloriest i,
Forespeaking #0 thy death, that now thelr
ief's exid shall begin.
To Panthus, and the saomy hand of
Vhrontes, L will tin
"Those arms nd that prod head of thise 5
‘and this Iaborious thing
no loog time to perform: noe
be ny weeds alone,

But their performance ; Strength, and

Fight. and ‘Terror thus sets on.
‘This taid, he strook his all-round sbiel

not shrink that, but his lance

‘That turn'd bead im it. Then the
assayd the seoond ehance ;

First praying to the king of gods; and
his dase entey gee

(the force mach driving Back bis fe) in
Jour pot of lls tlrroat,

should stay and be

AkORe Bete thine Coe
din may quickly win

Some sleight or ccher they mayne, many

‘Their wills of one, and all Troy comes ever

where Hector
But why, dear mind, dost thou thus talk?
when men dare set their heads

eibeverte

Le
ul!

The grudge of any Greck that sees T yield
to Hector,

Suill Syhting with a spirie from heaven,
Aap i cond

!

sure
him, and chen see if wetwo

‘ean procure
This corse’s freedom through all these. A
ttle then let rest
The body, and my mind be still; of two
I Se iceoneniee kunt of Troy
ad the
‘wore in with him, and be
Made stich a Hon like retreat, as when the
herdsmen

see
The oral savage, and come oo, with men,
H cries, and spears,
To Gee tate horned stall ; and then the

kingly heart he bears
Oink all his high disdain) falls off; so
from this odds of aid
‘The golden-hair'd Atrides Sed, and in bils
sireagth displayd
Wie] Upon his eft fand him te wid, ex-
tremely busied
About encoumping his men, to whom mn
exivease dreact
Apolio had infused. The king reach'd
Ajax instantly,
And maid: “Come, friend, Jet as two

(an
‘Had not, in
The

$F
g
ut

i

straight and gindly went ;
‘And then was ier aling ‘Off the body,
with intent

neu
rll
Hi
ii

Ajax bros

To bar all further spot; with that he had,
sure Hector thought

“Twas best to satisfy his spleen ; which
temper Ajax wrought

‘THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘his mere sight, and Hector fled ; §] rsa ok potas al wold you
the arms he sent to
To make bis ehzens fe, and pray| And foro Paroclus 1 your Troy. Ye
Jove send him joy. lear be
Ajax gather'd to the cores, and | fa ns iw tat of of all the Greeks is, for
hid it with his targe far best,
‘There sting dows as sure.a foot, 3,in the Andie the bs ata fing men; and
teoder charge therefore would at least
ac Ea ee Sinirg 6 Ben doth ; two hun-| Redeem Sarpedon’s arms ; nay him, whom
you have likewise lost, ‘andl cost
“To give him onset, thetr more force make ‘This body drayn to lion would after draw
the more austere, eee meee receeed but Ajax

tht ima i roar
rhe ct br this ght to ws

he trons down so low are darts
ifeerporec am To mix great Hocor with his men. And
So Ajax Tae and stood, and stay'd for You Tato Blame ye are,
fou.

fs choose foes underneath your strengths ;
Ww nd Hippolochides saw Ajax Ajax exceeds ye far.”
Hector look’d passing sour at this, and

The ty bane Hector, thus he chid ; “O answer'd : “ Why darest thou,
ily man at ans, {So under) talk above meso? Ofriend,
ht a Paris, why should fame make| thought till now
sich a Tape? ow Ble Frans eee Se a Se

for no a thank its drown'd,
Should he eternally fight here, nor any|Nor foros of chariots, Dut T fear a power
guard of thes. ite | much better seen
How wilt thou, ott that chon at sight of all war than all we that god,

off an ween
From our soils, when Vine prince, | Our victory Cas. lets conquest
o st Friern
To thee and taost deservedly, thou flew'st| At his free pleasure and with fear coaverts

from in his
And eft toll the Tust of Grovee? ©} Upon thes

spi
{tn a hag aE to Tes, and to Nota

thee ake thy sters parle
{Pa ent ot from dogs | 1f| To these of mine, and then be judge, how
Weill ates cia on If then sped th he Sy i lt, hots
fell take our 3 from e day in or
and let all sink to hell canst give
i, were our face turn’d. Did | To thy de Sets sprees then or ibe
rit breathe Grecian

up his spirit most,
's standard, you would see,|Whom, for the carriage of this prince,

‘that thou enforcest 30,
‘Wiet ite expen oe thas lives, have all |S. wake nor Stoop in Bi defence. You,

the honour'd laws friends, ye hear and know
Of such « dear confederacy kept to them |How much it fits ye to make good this

toa
Teprise the arms Sarpe- Pe ee ee oe eas pay

an
aaa deca an

‘of the hide they
may extend at

So here and there ‘Aid both parts hate the

And rough ‘ws x mit their sweat 5

Te sats wach te illon, the Grecians to] Wi
their fleet.

Acruel oh bang Lies stirr’d up, and such,

(That hore hurer of men) or she that
‘betters him,

Minerva, never so incensed, they could not
diisesteem.

So banofull a contention did Jove that day
extend

For his toa himself; since not
by him, as well

He Whew, it was to be subdued, His
mother

would tell
pate iced mighty I Jove ree Tare

events
‘The foes cleft one to other still, about

the overthrown.
His death with death infected both. Even
vate mould ay
Either to other : ** "Twere a shame, for us
to po our way,
Ai Dee Trojans bear Trey the peak

woh iether ick earth pep, and drink
Belity're sale "Ti 2h oct uch em

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

In these Immortal heewve-bred hone of
‘Whom Jn tye femoved from forth the fight)
‘eine

a sudden
Of good Patrocis’ death whose hands
Soy STE, Naren
‘And bitterly im. Nor ci
‘Automedon

any scanagy bred them stir; of use
to them,
Of ise his latest specch, as oft threats
never $0 extreme,
‘They neither tothe Hs Hellespont ‘would bear
1 NOE
But il'as any. toebeeoe ays his never-
stirred weight
On some good man of woman's grave for
‘Tites of funeral ;
So untemoved stood these steeds, their
ete to earth let fall, os aha
warm tears gushin eyes,
th passionate sr desire
+ | Of their kind

ee

ich the fire

Ofendless youth allotted them, fell through
the yoky sphere,

Rathfully and defiled. Jove saw

ir heavy cheer,

And, pitying them, spake to. his mind :

yy Poor wretched Beasts,” said he,

" gave we yout’ a mortal king, when
immorality m2
And vicapely of age 30 dignifies your
wast to haste the mies pour'd out on

Ofall te miverblest , things that breathe
and creep on earth,

No one more wretched is than man, And
for your deathless birth,

Hector must fail to rake you prise. Is't

And

gears,

Besides you, are too much forbim, Your
knees and spi

My care ef ou sali with strength, that
40 ye may sustain

Automedon, and bear him off. To M]
rhe tlwilgive [loads fet

ace of slaughter, till

TH Bhecbus guia the western 3

sered

U) a ee The
ip 3 strange

4
Aretus to Antomedon, who spoll'dhisarms,
- and said :

“A little this revives my life for him so

And noe ar bitter fight about

Patroclus
oocyte na Of toil enough ; which

Descunding from the cope of stars, dismiss'd| And took

Tolan CSE er ow, nett

His mind from what be beld of late, And
the purple

Jove bends at mortals, whea of war he will
the signal show,

Or make it a preage of cold, In such

“That men ere of thelr labours eased, but

and went
Amongst the Grectang, sir’ up all; but
‘breathed younger son 5
|
an
unwearied voice
“© Menelaus, much defame, and equal
Will touch at thee, if this true friend of
Aacides

ee ae Deael e: jan walls; and
‘bear theo

My income aod, in aid of good
Patroclus ;
His deatbalfigy mer moch, But yet, this

‘THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

bet pee on since she did all

In his For which grace

af

Which loves to bite $0, and dots bear man's
blood so much good will,

‘That still, though beaten from a man, she
flics upon hiss still;

‘With such a courige Pallas fill the black
parts near bis heart,

And then be hated to the slain, east off a
shining dart,

‘one Podes, that was heir to old

Ection,
8) Pek ka adm stremme ud by |
ntact Wat ant by Hector to, ng |

of ‘mnceting.| thy strength any more, when

By Meuclaus? who, before bo slew thy
fenelaus? who, before
friend, was tried

Now let some true fiend call to mind the
geatle aud sweet nature
Patroclus ; let him think, bow
ind to Lien
;. though now dead."
‘Thus urged the fhirbaird king, a

exting round his e7.*
when upen her wing
‘An eagle i, whom men affirm to have the
Oral, ais rc of fowls, and, though of
Seago wkinin bee Seary form of rumble
‘Alightioot ha whichstraght shes
it-foot hare, which sti LS
iusses, and strives her dead:
So doad thou strook’st thy chazge, O king,

tall war's thickets so
found’st thy

man, come here, ra thing

‘Which I wish never were to hear, I think
even thy eye sees

r= omnia

= a ae
therefore give thy spond
ois ret end 1 prov fe wil do

Tot ce ake penn of for Her

if to bear
His Sint ara ‘oma Antifochus was highly

sn ting fl of te i

ee ees eee vo So

Stuck la his bosom ; yet all this wrought
ta bint ag pepo

Of what Andes ave In charge ; but for
“That quiek effect

He gave eos his arms (his friend that

of isi toes a8 Ghen bls ce were
speedily applied

this sad message, which his eyes told all
the way io tears,

Nor would thy generous beast’ assist his
sore-charged solders

O Meselaus, in mean time, though le in
much distress ;

‘Thou sent'st them god-like Thrasymedte,
and madest thy kind regress

Back to Patroclus; where arrived, half
‘breathless thou didst say

To both th’ Ajaces; “I have sent this
messenger away

Toswift Achilles, who, T fear, will hardly
help us now,

‘Though mad with Hector; without arms
he canuot fight, ye know,

Let us then think of some best mean, both
how we may remove

The body, and get off ourselves from this

“voc! rove,
And fate of Trojans.” ** Bravely spoke at
all parts,” Ajax said,
“0 glorious son of Atress. ‘Take thou

then straight the deud,
And thou, Meriones ; we two, of one mind

will backe Ye sony, and on us receive
the wild-fire flame

‘That Hector’s rage trenthes after you,
bafore ft come a yo,

ing It.
Out shied the Trojans when they stn
to

borne
od rusted on. As at any
Swine ibe wee
A kennel of the

any boar, gush
et and. sorest

bitten hounds
Before ther youthful huntsmen haste, and
coxgerly a [affected spew ;
Pursues, as if they were asured of their
But when the savage, in his strength as
confident as they,

Turns head them, back
ah ye hag they fy,
Troy pur awhile, Laying

‘But when th’ Ajsens ta ‘ord 0 ‘on them, and
made their stand, their

) valce, hearts
eed

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

changing rack'd
Oat ta psig oody Keng or as Th
act

their drivers to all haste;
oe aga ‘on the core, i
both th’ Aptoes at their backs, who

turn'd the force.

Nor can Lye the confernce

a ae tems n sod tae version af eel
curb’ the prides

‘Of all the Trojans ; yet all held the prersuit
in his strength, (Venus, who at length

‘Their chiets being Hector, and the son of

Put all the youth of Greece besides

i
hit,

them here and there,

and | About, and in the dike; amd yet, the war
‘concludes not here,

COMMENTARIUS.

Hey Deco Boeiqy

Eobanus thus in verse -—

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘and therefore cites him upon this

confidentia, oF eudacis
for @pdies which acon of
‘se not the end, and yet cite all to
shew how such great clerks arw perplexed,
and abuse Hamer, as not being asfvs com-
for want of which

Fein all all oof sgl ing and language
cannot

eerie} iy ere tee chen geapalsd

4 "Or eierés, &. Veluti agnile, The
Homer makes with Menelaus is here
‘confirmed honed in another

Fesemb! intentionally to a
leeorern tecnehs Sis occurs wibx be
‘useth the word eagle; as in all other places
‘where he presents bim (bciny so csainest a

Place | person) be hides Dis sioplicty with some

studow of glory or other. ‘The circum
stances making it clear, being here, and In
divers other places, wiade a messenger [ro
Ajax and others to call such aad tech to
their aid ; which was unfit for a man of his
place, if be bad been in magnanimity and
valour equal, or any thing near

confirm bis lmperisction therein

other places, he ts called padBente eixeyrig,
mollis deflator ; amt therefore was fittest to
be employed to call up those that were
hardier and abler. Is going about which
business, Homer shews how be looked
about, leering like a harefinder; for to
make st simply a simile Stusteating the
state of his addeess in that base affair had

neither wit nor decorum. Both which

being at thelr beight in the other sense
(beexuse our Homes was their great master
to all accomplishment) ket none detract 1
miserably from him as to take thiv others
Wise than a continuance of bis iromy.

‘THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK,

236

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

hee feet ; and call'd
former sacra

OF some grace that hie art might grant
* Thatis to me,” said be,
"Tamighy gd mos overcame hat

“brought me forth
Deni duere tae. sway ¢ and then,

T been much dist
Had Thetis aad Buryoors a clihe's liver

whicl
uameasured oosan
Was ever besting; my abode known not

But Thats and Eurynome, abd they would
see me still ;

smarstaing with foam, th’ fF

— a
Ct eater foe a
F For win fat © frei que
“Por
1 Tenoard ith thy that
crew wi
3 our rz state,
Perforn'd, ote Kindness? Speak thy

thoughts, ry suit can be po more
‘Thue my mind gives me charge to grast,

scacnymphs, to = man
shes ee area hee Hag
hele 9 + sndlal agninas the free

‘and be worn to bis Soot whb seek EI
him another ill <

Nes riowes 1 xe him more
And all that short life he hath sp

ajo THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

reader if the two last conversions do any- of doy, which signifieth veld2, and
thing near express the conceit of Homer, | which is emulatio: of of tym
or if they bear any grace worth the signifi- ‘which signifies amulor, To this effect
cation of his words, and the sense of his’ then (saith Homer, in this simile)—as a
illustration ; whose intent was not to ex- | voice that works a terror, carrying an eary
ress the clearness or shrillness of his voice | with it, sounds to a city besieged when the
in itself, but the envious terror it wrought ' trumpet of a dreadful and mind. i
in the Trojans—deGian burh not signifying | encmy summons it, (for 30 Byfur maps

in this place clara, of cogmite facilis ws, |iovéwr signifies ; Ovsopaieris si ab
but emulanda vox; spigot signifying | mum destruens, being a com} bai,
wem valdd emulamur, aut valde cmu- | which signifies destruo, and which is

dus, though these interpreters would | animus,)—that is, when the parle comes
rather receiverit here for deiples, verso 8 in after the trumpet’s sound, uttering the
&, ut sit clarus, illustris, &c.' But how | resolution of the dreadful ener
silly a curiosity is it to alter the word upon | ‘The further application of this yey
ignorance of the signification it hath in | out by mischance,
his place : the word épisvter being a com

‘TUE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK

At he took into his hands the rich
Ait of the cod,

7 and mast pever deal
Wit arms agate, Now wit arm; yet
‘po honotis
ANOTHER ARGUMENT. My fend forgotien, I uth fea Mat wits
asia neki coe seca.

‘Tw morn’ arose, and from the ocran, in | AD

oat himsett | From his friend's : h 5

the cart’s op aboold sain tt

Heavy consorts to] His slamghter'd body, it sboaid tll rest
ound, and rather bold

ff

a

‘with the weight of | And summea'd. all th’ herole Greeks, with
F ‘all hat spent before
H lag de oon le dim, the mas
ers, pots.
; Achilies yet, as soom | Victlers, and all. All, when they saw

summon 30,
Froas his eyes, as if) Swarm'd to the cumeci, having tong left
rose,

233
OU SED ee ai ee
; and both these

‘utterance

‘Was Thetis’ son, who rose and said:
“ Aurides, not this

Conferr'd most profit to us both, when both,
‘our

‘Consumed us s0, and for a wench, whom,

us,
when I choosed for prise,
Tn laying Lyrmessus’ ruin’d walls amongst

| Are aul

Bia?
ral
bi

bid
his heart down to his knees in

i

THE NINETEENTH COOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘By uproar, in their too much care of hear
ing. of foree,

Must lose some’ words: for hard it i, fm
me

t auditors may there
Lose fittest words ; and
‘orator fit ear.

My main end then, to satisfy Pelides with

My ‘words. shalt mice ae
‘Yet T wish, the court

Shall bear direction.
Wout give Rt speech shall need
fould give fit ear; my
“attention ofall,
peers of Grorce much
my forcing of the prise

blamed m:
i | Due to Achilles ; of which act, sot T, bat

od Jove hitself, and black Eran (that
A Jove himself, ar cl
ere take wets Se :
Betwixt us and our actions done, both by
her power and wil)
. What could T do then?
‘The very day and hour
Of our debate, that fury stole fn that act
And mare fall thi done by strife
more 5 things are :
that ancient sel of Jove,
Ate, that hurts all, fects all: ber feet
are soft, and move
‘Not on the earth, they bear her still aloft
"s heads, and there

men's ‘ane
ee hurts them. Nor was I alone

Jove, best of men and gods, hath been.
Jott Oe Miata nes

her fetiers: no, she made a woman
put them on;
For when Alcmena was to vent the foros

tn well-walld Thebos, thus Jove triumph'd:
Heln golsant goddess
‘The words my joys urged: In this day,
pain
labouring women, shall produce j
the light of men a

A that all his ibour
es en ee ea ate

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

I saw before our gates extinguish’d ;

oopepoped

‘Three of my worthy brothers’ lives, in one
womb generate,

Felt ail in that black day of death. And
when Achilles’ hand

‘Had slain all these, and rased the town

tame Ape giets ted)
caiise ing griefs present
thou took’st all

On thy aga to convert to Joy as

he that hurt should heal, and
attain. he, make thy friend,
Brave captain that thog wert, supply my

vowed husband's
And me tich Phthia celebrate, amongst his

pila ben for which grace,
juets ; whicl
swith these mest worthy moana
I never shall be satiate, thou ever be
ae {with one sweet mind.
rer delightsome, one sweet grace fed si
‘Thus spake she weeping ; and with er,
did th’ other ladies moan
Patroclus’ fortunes in pretext, but in sad
truth thelr own.
About

them

(stil tebe poids eid ih) any
friend were

OF ai his dearest, they would cease, and
offer him no

| for before the sun
[th' extremity,
tof that day sustain
resolute grief and
fasting, he die 3
1 Ie at

Tdomencan sad bie fled, aid Pion,

these remaln’d

Endeavouring comfort, but no thought of

Norcal ‘a ‘That that day's bloody fight had

Reweniber’sometaigy of hs end, whose
good was all

his
Their Rte oe the “diligent fashion of

renew'e
In that eopeaad “Thou,” said he,
“when this speed was pursued

Trojans, evermore apposedst
peneet,

* Nestor.

‘Thou madest all meat sweet. Then the war

vd

For which ty ready food T fy, andoa thy
longings feed.

Nothing could more sflict me; Fame
relating the foul i

Of my dear father's si iter, blood drawn
from my sole son's

No more could wound me. "Cursed man,
that in this foreiga part

(For hateful Helen) my true love, my
country, sire, and son,

T thus should part with, Seyros* now
gives education,

© Neopiolemus, to thee, ving yet; from
whence

T hoped, dear friend, thy longer life safely
return'd from

And my ite quiting thine, had power to

ship him home, and show

His young eyes Phi, subjects, court;
iny father being 1

Dead, or most short Sed troublous age

Remembering who they left at home All
whore so staan tears
Jove ene

Be neti rere he thus bespake Minerva :

Now, Aart thou hast quite forgot. ,
ts Achilles’
Banga in thee? prostrate’ i most

me ill-fare,
He lies before his high-sail'd fleet, for his
drad friend ; the rest
Are reegihenIng them with meat, but be
ely opptes’d
With hear fasting. Go thy ways, and
to his breast insti [ro itt
Red nectar and ambrosia, that fast procure
To bis near enterprise,” This spur he
add: od to the free,
ras with a voice that stirieks
that tike needles priek’d, she
rough all the stars,
pchans, all whose tents were
now All'd for the wars ;

* Scynas was an ise in the sea JEzeum. where
Achilles hinsself vs beonght up, as yell ax Ins
om,

298

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Moe. I know myself, it is my

te
‘Phas far from Phihia ; yet that Fate shall
fail to vent her gall,

ere oy thousands." These words
Revell to horrid deeds

Gave dreadful aad feethright made
fly bis one-hooved steeds.

COMMENTARIUS.

1 Rebpoe droquaedne, Be.

Apres ret
machention Jevigus Saliger® he seal gre | fee

fie a A rowe amt the Swe.
it is the end of Agamemnon's specch in |
this book lysses, and promisoth
that Sac to Sond and the Sun at the
reconciliation of himself and Achilles,
Our Soe peg (Eustathius and Spon-

‘no means allow the

Homer's

#0 fierce a beast to Jove as a’ bonr, he says,
and cites Natalis, lib. i, cap.

says Homer in this place

Takes a tame sow sacrificed to Jove. who
‘was as tamely and simply deceived as the
rest, Enstathins’ reason for it is, that rr

momnon takes at this sterifice to satisfy
Achilles, that he hath not touched Briseis,
4s concerning a woman, very fitly is a sow
hare merificed. aS this seems to Spon-
ridiculous (as E hope you

conczive,

nuate that as this sow,

from Vesus, $0

‘tempted the dishonor of Beiscis, And
‘peradventure, says Spondanus, you cam
hot thisk of a better exposition ; when @
worse cannot be conjectured, cunless that
of Eustathius, as 1 hope you will cheney
grant me when you hear but minc, whi
is this: ‘The sacrifice is not made by Aga-
memnon for any resemblance or

it hath to the lady now to be

(ich singe these clerk

iherenk,
and that their wraths were now absolutely
appeased, Agamemnon thought fit a boar
(being the most wruthful of nil beasts)
should be sierifiesd to Jove ;_ intima
hat, im that they ced tl
to Jupiter, and’ beesane Mond.
Rad. thas i the crigtodl: Word preserved
|which (together with the sacred sense of
our Homer) ia a thousand ceber e
suffers mont igsorant and barbarous vio
Hence. But here (being weaty both
Sung bay ond my bbe a cia
come, I will end my poor Comment ;
holding it not-altogether unfle, with this
Siaieslons contention of our Commentors
a litte to quicken you, and some.
ig probable that their sesh u
Write & accompanied wilt thowsasst other
errors in matter of oor divine Homer's

| aepah, and gravity which, will sot open

waar os

‘THE END OF THE

itself to the curious austerity of

ig ats bur Galy ws tin accel an Seca
ingenuous soul of our thrice-sacred

| ‘our Pooay.

THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE ARGUMENT.

fan, all the gots descend
or

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.
‘Strife stirs in beaves ;

‘THE Greeks thes arm'd, and made in-
satzate with desire of fight,

Abost thee, Peleus’ son, the foe, in ground
of preatest:

fy Vulcan, sat. Even
came,
ah :
Nor esr he rt wt unwilling car

Hils high intention for the foat ; Ibe thought

Ww yor na ekg Simes, Te

vas near out in Bimes, To
him the Thunderer :

“Thou kaow’st this council by the rest of

those fore

‘That stilt Inclined me; my cares stil must

the distress

sucoser

Of Troy; though is the mosth of Fate,
yet vow I Bot fo stir

(Ove step from off this top of hearem, but
all th’ affair refer

'To anyone, Here I'll hold state, and

Of anes tas Help whom
eather's yo please;
for ‘tis aswered that Troy

Not ove day's condlict cam sestain against
Aacides,

If Heaven oppose not. His mere looks
threw darts eoow t i

Thelr powers with teenie tat when
lows, sent from his fiery tmnt,

(Fhtice heat by stixghtor of bis fiend)
shall alas countermand:

ns trembling with his sight ; so
rah ied, and Mats no

jecroe
at thelr troops, the
fight
The Dame,* that

in peace and war,

OF fiuman fier "Gainst the god,
‘whase empire is ih fire,

‘The watery godhead, that great flood, to
shew whose peer entire

J dire with Heet

init stood i poss

To gat Mas wih he Blood of in. ay
‘at Aacides

| aplio set “Anchises' son ; but frst he di

where Simois pours on
‘His silver current at the foot of high Calli-

lon,

And thus the blest gods both sides urged ;
they all stood in the mids,

And brake contention to the hosts, And
‘over all their heads

‘The in king in abhorred claps his
funder rattled out. =

Amore than natural in him, aod
salt hoe alt eased

rarency fly out those threals that late
in
orthy’ ‘gh wi ccidee? Thy tongue

cae aerate
yuuntas much."

Neptune toss'd the earth ;| i

the mountalns round about
and shook their heads ;
pe cartajuaien felt,

at ber roots, and all nt

ison the sa Be iMecyal King, that al
was,
And expt let aged from his throne, cried
out,

dings shook and cried,
When this bla ‘Dattle of the gods was

ning : thus array’
joni

; | Averting death on
a ing

Mere nt the, ast nt ht with bim
that still hath gods to

Sie cares, and giving

80 end
But with | the ends of men, IM God like |

fortane in the fight
‘Would give my forces_not with ease wing’d:
victory should Tight

‘THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Prepare resctanos, but af last, when any

charge hime with his dart, he
=a

Lasheth his strenguh up, sides and thighs From

srazidled with stripes to learn

ars
neon: AcbENes, coming on to meet

Anchises’
‘Both near, Reis thus inquired : “* Why
‘atand'st thou thus.

And, for my ah acpi
his throoe thy prise.

srl = ‘sons to second him, fst then

¢ piece of land, {victorious hand

Past others ft to sot and sow, thot thy

‘The Diians offer for my head? 1 hope that

prise will prove
No- ey. fet pe Once, T think, my
Sati javelin drove,
With terror, those thoughts from your
spleen. | Retain'st thou not the time,
Wheo em th’ Idaean hill I took thee
with the crime
Of runaway? thy oxen left? and when
‘hots hadst no face
‘That I could see ; thy knoes bereft it, and

Lymessus was
ial for cae Then tar aa, #8,
jowe and Pallas’ help}, and took the

a » ic con uant
prisoners; but Jove

reel

fot that
words can pure ike ‘en
Myst resist,

ag
In this incleceney,

And we ut Greed but we keow well
what stoz ‘put ont,

{Tops govt to pat True wo roe, Our
parents ring wbowr

The words sound tosom, and by fame
ine ignites are

ro both oor kncwlesgen by sight neither
‘oeerkerat eae

famous Peleus ; the sen eymph, that

hath the lovely tress,

‘Thetls, thy mother; 1 myself fica may
site to

Gres ould Anais ‘tho that holds the
Py

My mother, Ad of te ts gt

|For thele loved issue; 1 ties or at aa
ish, unworthy dares

Are not enough to part our powers ; for if
thy spirits want

pe ee ty ee

‘Toset up all rests for my fe, TU loesly

qwolet' many wil contin) my mee Bs
doud-etcm cinding Jove

ia *t built Dardanis

of spread not yet these fields ;
ay those fale th halls

fo wth gat

Of ving murtals; tm his feu he fed Ores
Au neighing by their tender fons of which |
twice

By lofty Boreas, their dams loved by him
‘as they fed,
Bie Nog sae tears So
And slept ag
snd slept with th
colts had

pace so swift, they ras
les of corn-cars, mor bent

young ‘bred,
Hus, Finer Avarams, and
‘The fairest

rhe gots
feat

was he
that did so much neglect
1y good and thee

ae thy fight with Thetis’ son, who in
immortal rates

aera cee ees a thee? Here-
fer, lest, past fates,
Hal'be ‘thy headlong Dome, retire, make
bold stand ney

Where be advaneeth. But his fate once
satisfied, then bear

Tow

all this act conceal
From vex'd ‘Achiles who again had clear
Tight from the skies,
And, much disdaining’ the escape, said :
“Oye geds, mine eyes
Discov, smeles: my lance submitted,

At areas t Sot it with desire of his con-
fusion |

#Encas sure was loved of heaven, 1
‘bt his vaunt from thence

Lilow d from glory. Let him go, no} This, temper
‘more experience

Will bis mind i for of my hands, he
files them ow 50 clear, s!

And all thelr stre: to th’ utmost nerve

my angry
Thus be excited. Hector then as much
tives to advance
of his men, adding threats, a
ieming be would stand

sa “no hand
bas great hearts, brave Tans, for Pe-
Jeus talking
with Saf god sich, tat Sat
when thelr spear pat on,
The work runs ii. ir strength exceeds
mortality #9 far,
And they may malie works crow their
IS; which holds
Achilles makes: his hace have bounds ;

A ee: Nike ie, though re te hs raging

burning a flew in his strength.”
ae he incited his ;

py
‘The man t!

sous enn but In press
and in thy strength i

"| His

junequall

a aes
On Mis Diary os, one man
immortal and a god, not war's

could chase, and

jut what @ man may execute, that all
8 rs wi expean,

the snowy
Of Tmolus, in the wealthy tows of {iia,

46

‘That yet beat ir heart on thine, if a
yet in my on my

just maintain
My equal Gtor, Tn mean
T

me, my anger
a then laid he at

Grae Daneies: Philetor’s son; and

wa com Dardaous and strong

Wise "Bos sos, he hurd from horse; of |
one victorious

With his close “pword, ‘the other's life he
lance,

on. Down he fell, and
He ould net kil him, but take ruth, as

‘That he himself was,
to him to bear

Aruthful mind; he well might know,
could not fashion him

In ruth’s soft mould ; he had no spirit to
brook that Interim

0 poor fool, to sue

Temorsefal men,
Gentle and affable; but fierce at all times,

he
would have made a prayer,
so Bogy'd his kaa.
He cowld not quit him; till at Inst his
sword was fain to free
His fetter'a knees that made a vent for his
white liver’s blood
That cansed suet ptfal affets; of which
a flood

pour’
About his eens which it 411d, even iL
it drown'd his ©

And all sense fit Forth then flew

|
His

tol
Eabectos then, Agonar’s 500, Be strcok,

THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

Of his then lnbouring brain let owt his

soul to fixed! fate,
And gave cold eutry to black death, Deu-
calion then had state

In Sen Ga! Meet ah where the nerves
it,

Down to his Raa hls spear’s steel plereed,
and brought such pain to &

As a = jointly; Whom. he saw before

fainting [so that off ics

‘And in his felt, ‘in a Mroke, laid on

His head. One of the twice-twelve bones,
_ that all the backbone make,

birth
Of Piseus abel mss the Bote oly

whose force
Quite tumbled him from chariot, Tn turn=
ing back the horea,

he| Their guider /Areithous received another

janes
‘That threw him to his lord. No end was
PT hed the mischance
caterd. But as fire, fall'n in a
flash from heaven,
Tnflames the high woods of dry hills, and
‘Through al the spvan deepe and
¢ sylvan ¢ raves,
“tll down goes everyabere
‘The aie hill; so every way Achilles
and his
‘Congemed the champain, the black earth
flow'd with the weins he tore.
And look how oxen, yoko’ and drives
about the cireular floor
Of some fair barn, tread suddenly the thick
sheaves thin of com,
And all the com consumed with chaff ; so
mix'd and overborne,
Beneath Achilles’ eo horse, shields,
and men lay trod
ist nck Cearstwheelh ail
spatierd with the blood

| Hurl'd from the steeds’ hooves and
strakes.

THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘Then on the shore the Worthy bid and
left his horrid lamoe
Amids tamazisks, and sprite-like did
with bis sword advance
‘Up to the river; ill affairs took up bis
Foe ions bala Fi
"or Troy's engagements ;
Gouked anak ee
A most um noise was made, with
those be put to swrard,
(Ot grosma and ouscries The flood blush'd,
to be so mmch engored
With sech base souls, Andias small fish
the swift-fon'd dalphia fly,
Filling the Geop péts im the ports, of whose
Clase strength they lie,
And there be swallows them ia shoals; $0
| here, to rocks.and holes
About the food, the Trojans fled; and
there most lost their souls :
Bren ui be tired his Szaghtoross arm,
elve fair young priscew t
He chose of all to take alive, to have them
Ia toes Sioee widens cin okieeeaet
that most solemn re
erent te for his fiend,

|As any bind calves. All their hands he
By :

their own girdles worn upom their
rich weeds, and resign'd

‘Their persons to his Myrmidons to bear to
fleet ; and be

Plunged In the stream again to take more
work of tragedy.

‘The green arms ofa wis Ggr-tres, to make
to pat
Tm naves of his new chariot. An {1 then,

Stole oa him in Achilles’ shape, who took
ising, till in swarms all him ten

THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Pe eee Sear ee
Arisba, whence he fled,
Aa wun i thers cour; eleen

Amatee Mie ends; the twelth God
thrust his hapless head again
In f bands of stern Afacides, who now
must send him slain
To Pinto’s court, and ‘gainst his will.
, when Achilles

Him, knew,
Naked of helmet, shield, sword, lance (at |1

which for ease he threw:
To ae ae being overcome with sweat, and

Bg Bree) i storm, an

Py was sold in

Of allan toratthis‘Trey, and that (that
many a man doth
From his loved country) bars not him.
Come then, he now shal taste
Pelias, and try if steel will

As ofher forcunes, or kind earth can any

On his aly person, Eben arms have
spe Herew =!

His Sep thus: ered while he stood | And

to see if he, he

Would eer Aight (w (which first he thought)
‘but when

He was deseried, and flight was vain, fear
ful, he made more nigh,

With purpose to embrace his knees, and

ra much to fly

His ‘back fate and abborred death by
coming in.

Obese a hie and dup he raised is
ance as he would th

‘And thes Lycacn elose ran to, (ell on. his

breast, took

and
(Gane knees ; Soe ‘on earth

lance hard, and

part with nN
tz area, ;

Foch orgy ated: now

fa poor suppliant fr thy rath; and Tam
Worthy thy ruth, © Jove's Beloved, First
series

hour my mi
Fell into any 1 tasted

call my brea
By thy gilt since = Q since that. Nour that
‘surpri

Fier font the fair wood my sad feet, far
allies,

and, "twas thine,

‘bundred oxen's prise
‘To make my Fantom + for which new T
___ thrice the worth will raise

Ta th ioe set Seay pine thee my
fe again.
baer etry oes Ree ieee aaa

silver flood.

And ruled She was ke Lele Whose seed
{as many more)

King Priam’ married, and begot the god-
like Polyds

"here Tmet with tee,

I could not scape thee ; yet give ear, and
aud thy mind toi

1 told my bith to intimate, though one sre

mi t not into light

friend,
me then, but let

oa"

on
Of Polydore excuse my life. Fer half our
bred {is forfeit

Brother to sa tere

Focueaeied ruth nor price to me, till
that solemnity,

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THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘For both his hands were dexterous. One

mae isd adi it iat
Even to the Sat eid te Himself | Great

Sopdet bore
bis eneny wih hs sword His foe!

To py fet since 525 thrice he pluck’d, |

His Somer pend the fourth pluck, he’
and meant to break
‘The an plant But, ere tak ty Achilles’
sword did chock <

He eT] bengoor py bis entrails} All

epatimacertipesre tdangerc ia

Uh yy verse head

Again Jor Sons, although a Hood were

Thy Ft <n, batt may aunt a
From Jare es
Informal aes to Jor, and Tt

Thunder-roioed

‘that only murm:

‘With carth and water 23 they run with
tribute to the

deo far jst foods; | Gulf fat
gover pe

‘Thus ) a ie

Did shoal, to nibble at the fat which Ni
‘This for himself: now to his men, the well-
"rode Pasons, did,
all which cold fear
shook into flight, to see
|] Their captain stan : at whose
aged flew
‘And’ then fl all Weaey Poesshas Myton,
. ona Ins,
And on these many more had fall's, unless
of aman, and in a

sweet kidneys: hid
4) His rage contend
mazed Bight,
as much ent
—— #nlus, Mnems, Ther
9 for pie Past all,

dati es ie i pace ot Make

Ta the Geld Int thy

Not ar ee ly Sweet streams choke
with mortality

Of men slain by thee, Corcases 50 slat so glut

‘To a (eee service,
field-acts ran hi

commana assuage,
1124 Seamanden: my koe wrath?” Tit
‘never leat

re pursed
Proud lion's slaugbters it this baad tn
her filed walls conclude

all floods, all the sea, all founts,
wells, all desps Inmorous,
their 7 yet even he fears

Upon nt
Totrghe Apol, teling him be was

350

THE TWENTY-FIRST ROOK OF HOMERS: TLIADS.

Be mled rye he oeaeh egre)
ot hy hand aa

From patting es allt iat

indi
Upon the Tj A311 the walls of haughty Le

Tiion
Conclude alt in a Sepennie flight.
whee thou hast sot

And

shall plant a wreath
Of endless glory on thy brows.” ‘Thus to
the free fram deat!
made retreat.
charge the godheads gave,
field, that now was s rascane with
many a boundless wa
He overcame. On their wild breasts they|
and aa the careastes, sia
arms, of many a slaughter’d man. |
on unto the he winged knces
oo bore aloft; against

nor could that god
make shrink his rescued thighs.
Hes pines the Bo0d, bet

ful, be grew mad, A
‘Thrust upa billow to the sky, ad crystal a

‘Simots bade

To his assistance 2 "*Simots, ho, brother,”
‘out he eried,

“Come, add (hy current, and resist this |

man half deified,
Or Mion he will pull down straight ; the
nS Cannot stand R
‘A minute longer, Come, assist, and im
command
Au ents ns in thy rule to ris, all torrents

And'st ‘tuff Pitty ‘billows : we whose height,
di

such a din,

‘With trees torn up and justling stones, as |
$0 immane a man

‘May shrink beneath us ; whose power
" hrives do ny power all it can 5

He dares things fitter for a god. But,
hor his form, nor force,
Nor, glorious arms, shall profit it; all

ich, and his dead corse,
Tyow so rll up fa my mods, tay, bury ta

He, much impell'd by

‘but, as his foe)

His big ridged billows on the prince, roare

hig blood and foam
carcasses. ‘The crimon stream did

snatch into her womb:

Surprise’ Achilles ; and her height stood,
held up by the hand

JOt Jove himscif. ‘Then Juno ered, and
‘eall’d (10 conntermanid

this aS ‘god that holds

‘commun

this flood thus ampli
|| Ls mised. at thee, wore
would

drown th

‘And | tal he spe ee Haste,
thy em]

Light ames Seep ns

as if his waves:

r th
iit call out of the sea, and breathe in
either’s full-chy ch

[Go thou then, and, “gains these. winds
riww, make work on Xanthus’ shore,
Wieh setting all his Ween re ‘and in ‘his

|A fervor tat a stall ll ake burns no et
fair words or [the

Avert thy tary Sl T speak: and thm subs

(oral ty Blas" Nicer rep
might

Firat #6 i th el eed; baring ap Oe
dies that the fee

Of great Achilles reft of souls; the quite-
‘rown'd ficld it dried,

And shrunk the flood up, And #3 Gelds,
‘hat have boeo loog time cloyd

Wid catching weather, when t
Ties on the gavel hesp,

Are with a constant north-wind dried, with
Which for comfort leap,

Their hears tat ww them ; so this eld

was dried, the bodies bum'd,
‘And'even the Hood into a fire as bright as
day was turn'd.

com

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‘THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘To these false Trojans "gainst the Grocks ;
$0 bold and

‘As Venus, ing charge of me ; and no
‘less impotent

Ee aa Gate ete thant bers ts Max So
short work

1s our ‘ing ‘Troy, this hardiest to

Ofall earth's cities." At this wish, white-

‘Maintain contention ; wretched snes that
flourish for a time

Like leaves, eat some of that earth yields,
and give earth in their

‘Thelr whole selves for it. Quickly then,
let us fly Seht for then,

Nor shew it offerd. Let thensélves bear

tt thrown extreme” a

hus be retired, and wd to
blows with his uncle's hands;

the | His sister therefore chid aa much, the

ao us to Te-ascend,
golden house, belng thus in field ;
eran not to =

For ‘tis no a.
hast the

T older and Know mor “O fool! what a
forgetful
Thou barat about thee, to stand here,

‘prest to take th’ Tian part,

And fight with met | Forgettat thou then,
what we two, we

Of-all the gods have suffer'd here, when
pret nedon

Enjoy'd our service a whole year, for our
agreed reward ?

‘Jove in his sway would have itso; and in
that year I reard

This broad brave wall about this town,
that (being-a work of mine)

1 might be tresyumable, “This service

then wis thine,

In tda, that so many hills and curl'd-head

forests

forests crown,

To feed his oxen, crookedshank'd, and
hheauled like the soon.

But when the much-joy-bringing hours
brought term for our reward,

‘The terrible Laomedon dismiss us both,

mich ares
Our ios Geservings, not alone to hold our

niger! for,

But — on too, Hands and feet
1o fetter thee,

And sales a 4 be aslave, dismisy'd far hence

ae both our ears,
past amecy with him then; and
‘grat

Buch 1a Kog'e sobigcts?” of with es-not
thelr destruction vow,

vet to theirehaste wives in their babes?”
He answurd he wight bold

is wisdom little, if with bim, & god, for
ma he woald

goddess tnt courrand
fn gumes of honting, and thus
To’ Nareanee alate ‘rth tell °
0 Neptane’s glory, and 26
foal, why dost thou wield
‘Thy idio bow? ao more my ears shall
rar thee vaunt $a skies
Dares fo mect Neptune, but YU teil thy
nee A low wie
fe answer ‘wot ‘s
i
Butsyated oul: Flow dart th,
dog, whom no tains,
Eneounter me? ‘twill prove a’mateh of
hard condition.
Tough the eat Lay of the Bow: snd

For lion of thy sex, with gilt to- slimghter
any dame
‘Thy rood will evi: yet ome ates

prove th’ hadse better
wid, ae upon hills than ‘Gane ‘Bat if
this question rests
Yet under jodgment in thy thoughts, and
by nd conteats,

‘Soddenly with
her left hand sbe ented
Both Cynthia's palms, lock'd
and aaa her right she: ie el
fair shoul

And fo de fay ‘abawk, fakes to
And Siahis bal hollow breast xe safe, ber fate

wit | I "bide combat. “Tix a work
At ailerence with the wives ot Jove. ty
theanfore,

feeedy vi
et
cg hey st

256
And til Achilles be had
nno deeds, once sti
fost, To hs broad breast is
Sie round shield be peer
And up his arm went with his aim, his
poe out with Cs eh
va too it, aon, this
eters,
‘Troy's Ton at thy foot. © fool} the
Greeks with much more woes,
More than are sulfer'd yet, must buy great
Tlon's overtbrows.

We are within her many st that for
ly strong,

our parents”

Our wives and children, will save Troy ;
fd thou (though be that makes

apy ake le) shalt make « sacri-

with th aay own ruins." Thus he threw,
avelin ert,
near his knee; the

‘THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

And rapt Agsoor from hs reschj whom

Without the eae, casting mists to
save from being chaced

His tendor‘d person ; and (he gone) to give
his soldiers scape,

The deity turned Achilles stil, by patting
ape

yn the shy
oer einem

pear his reach, to
‘draw his rage, wi hope h
gh er pee to flood main-
ining still
Orbis alison. To mean time, the other
Strooted with fillers; none would stand to
ain ard witht,

© seapad, and who came short: the
ports cleft to recetve the

rout
Bacides ‘Thal pou tse in Every man was for

Divine Agenor ; butin vain; Apollo's power
prevail’d, ©

ae ee Scns
lost fortunate, jonver us
head might thank Bis ets

BHE END OF THE ONE AND TWENTIETH BOOK,

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Ue should afford thes cht ,
‘THE ARGUMENT. ear tought scape

‘Act Trojans housed but Hector: only he Steedike, inc Opp eames wears
Ana teste cast extending a

his pride, Boe
sphered round’

Seld, aed wadergoes iY extremity.
‘asiasiting,

‘Aad to the naval station drags his conse.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT. oa

Biraar 2 Shi te dentin done, His radiance through = world of stars, of

case greatest cates splendour toe midaight that
hem most shown

“Then being their fol aed on thei pont,

cure.passing fevers then

[Come shaking “dow into the Joints of

Aa hiner fll toca, and shat along
his cays

ke hinds, the Ilians took

then to his son,
beg eh them. He now stood
‘Thigting the combat and to: kim thus
miserabl re

i

miss but now,
r sre not, ealerd. nor stay” here
‘and all fs, since © qucen of women, from whose womb they
stand beeathed. O did the tents
But beld I the} Detain them only, brass and gold would
purchase safe events

h

E
[et

.

Z
E

238
To Gir mad durance; Tis within: old
young in fame,
av pe bd is daughters dower; but

c
Oo ts uy seca Wess woh Oy
But in our state's woe their two deaths

And all this dean ova iboegh my red eyes.
Aone ees ty ates, bore my

deformity
Tat uss ges me tm dogs, all the
Of age discover’d ; ll tis thy death,

it
‘Will pour on me,’ A falr young man at
al parts it bescems,
Being bravely slain, to lie all gash'd, and
extremes: of
cruelty; 0 wound,
whatscever
But is his omament’: but f,a mas so far
White head," whitebearded, wrinkled,
Lint een iat ea
ve, a
‘Thus wept the old king, and tore off his
white hair; yet all these
Retired not Hector. Hecuba then fell
upon her knees,
Stripp'd naked her bosom, shew'd her
‘breasts, and bade him reverence them,
And pity her. [fever she had quieted his
exc!
Ba wed omen hers, and take the town,
the rude fed

Nor do thes tee: ur Seas shall pay thy
lor do tl jour
came no obeequy, <a

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Being ravish'd from us; Grecian
ourish'd with what # nussed.""

Gathers hee Eres, ste bin Gm, and at
Wraps all in her folds, and
all cr eaern
oa horrid fice
Out at hs ent

oo fer ae

Entering, like others, for this cause; to

which he thus
"Orme, if T shall take the town, Poly-

‘This fight and al his death om me; who
counsell’d me to lead
My powers to Troy this last black ight,

My helm and bas |
and meet in humble field
Renownrd Achilles ahatng bin Heles,

Whatever in, his hollow keels
Alexander's stealth

260

With wit shafts) so oft forced be
ceils oh mcaeast ad

uch « fain'd extreme

Possesseth both, that he in chase the
chaser cannot fly,

Nor cin the chaser get to hand his flyiog

cney
So nor Achilles’ chase could reach the
Nor Hotes Might elite itll of swift
for Hector’ fight en

Achilles’ chace.

es

But how chanced this? how, all this
time, could Mector bear the knees

Of fierce Achilles with his own, and keep

‘off destinies,
If Phoebus, for his last and best, through
all that course had fail'd

To add his succours to his merves, and, as

his foe assail'd
Near and within him, fed his ‘scape?
Achilles yet well knew
His knees would fetch him, and gave
signs to some friends (making shew
Of shooting at him) to forbear, lest they
detracted $0 the orerthrow
From his fall glory, in first wounds, and in
is hand last. But when they
Th reach’d me ai Gas we pounis,
en Jove golden scoles w ‘d up,
ait took the last accounts ve
Of fate for Hector, putting in for him
and Peleus’ son

‘Two fates of bitter death ; of which high |

bearen received the one,

to meke renowm perform
‘a brave access:

Thoug
heart of fight,
Nor must be

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
| To his most favour'd.
stand.

‘Th’ insulting ol
so ind deceit,

And said: ** Deiphobus, thy lave

My rack'd endeavour
"Good brother, ‘tis most true
ne after other, king and quecs, and all
ids, did sue,

‘The short course set up, deat
Our resolutions yet
‘Must shun all rudeness; and ths gods
or TE our yalour set ie
‘or use of victory; Doing wor
oon tual witness
all vows, since they keep vows best,
before ther deities

|

thou i pestilence fn all

Sere spirits, never set the point
"Waitt thee are Ls
conditions ;

AL terms of covenant, lambs and wolves;
pele fo ove atone) stand we, tilt
Y we, ti
‘our souls satiate

gest aging with thy tance.”

thine shall, and try them if
a's will favour thee

would
And sate’ th hr eset tae Sal a Sa

Our difficult wars, were thy soul fled,
thou most bane of oar town,”

His pote vanish’d, and no
eft ; out he cried :

‘* Dejphobus! another lance.” Lance nor
Deiphobus

Stood oar bis call, And thea his mind
na Re al tags ominon
And thus suggested: * Woe Ly
‘have calld,
Must meet death here ; Deiphobus 1 well
hoped bad been
With his white shield; but our strong walls
shield him, and this Geoeit
Flows from Minerva; now, © now, ill
No ‘nittcomes, no “Si a =
Jo more recovery, jore,
been otherwise
Thy bright son and thyvelf have set the

Greeks a
Of Mector’s blood than now ; of which,

bread, and
‘With which he rush’d in,
an eagle from her

‘timorous hare ;

hast | Stoops to the if al cuffs
ure of in or cuffs =
ioe 9 fis leds fare

Thy Bows with thrents thut mine might
ag AN Ni want of spirit to dare,

U;
sy back never torns with beeath; it
beat

So fell in Hector: and at hie Achilles
Was fieroe and mighty, his shield cast a
sun-like

Look’ through the ‘boy ot iis foe, and
sought through all that
‘The paseo his! Tife. Of all

Agorat dt bi An hat was whee

ofa

‘That the shoulders and the neck,

‘bad place, and where there lay

‘The specding way to death ; and there his

ick eye conkd display

‘The place it sought, even through those
arms his friend Patrochis wore

When He Hector slew him. There he aim'd,

‘and there his javelin tore
Stern passage quite through H Hectors neck
yet miss'd it so his thi

One the ow hat bled hm, and he
Thy strong ‘noes thus ; and now the dogs
Shall if piel teen ‘expoted to all
tear thee uy corse
ihe Greeks’ abuse."
ei ~ sud: Let me implore,
and soul,

ven by
And sth great parents, do not see a crucity
[any rate,
etic on fon cans er geld econ a
And quit my person, that the peers and
ladies of our stare
ue tomb it, and to sacred fire tum thy
fane decrees.”
he replied, **urge not my ruth,
a its, soul, nor knees.
I any rage would let
‘me eat thee rai

Siento pesca, 8 beyond the right of

1 taste’ thy’ merits. And, believe, it flies
the force of man

‘a; and after that thy
father with is gold
‘Would free thyself; all that should fail to
y mai
Solera ot death with thee, and do
thee such on
‘To mourn thy whole corse on a bed ; which
11 deface
‘With fowls and dogs.” He, dying, said
“1, woll, foresaw

Thy now tried for
Ny Dow tried fymanny, nor hoped for any

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Oe See and that fesr

Than ey ight wheh nee fxs
at Hect

seal ae ee ees mark, what

‘Wil gi: me of thee for this rage, when 5a

be tonal fe tae te: ao bell
destinies,

‘wher mi is spun,
rune che wal oon "This said,

is brazen
He drew, mind stuck by ; then bis arms,

stern
Gar eae
‘This man thas down, I'll
ight more bane to
‘Than all his aiders, ye we then, thus

And gig al ey wih our hat, Wow

oe eae at fleet, unthought

284

(Of his st desperate spit ls coos. et
him never kee {foot must stop,
violent

P before! ail his Wi
ig pace forced he el” ‘Thus fury-
eatene teat ord, at hand; and
it

ae

the G

‘Black night strook through her, under her
yaaa pio

And back sheshrunk with sucha sway that
‘off ber head-tire renus threw

(ue and and tases met thi
et mind ese

“oO fete Obed dane, bot |

‘born beneath of
ee here, ae in een ey ee where |

His saat pera Cetra
(apie) veg ‘aiapny me; which eine |

‘To.live past thee thou now art dived to
Pluto's gloomy throne,
the coverts of the earth ; 1,

io unhapp 5
Whom thou leavest helpless as he thee, he
toall the

‘THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

Tame the cap give ‘tis not ong, the wine
Scarce moists his palate; if he chance to
in the gence to sit,
|sanfing fathers’ soos fepine; use con-
tumelies, strike,
Big, “eave ts, whet's thy father's place ?
Ho, weeping with
esr me, to me, alas, Astyanax
Born to these miseries ; be that Tate fed o@
his father's knee,
pposed bim ; and when sa
lay an his is tees i rie Sr (ls
ofall things presou) av bed a careful
nurse's arms,

it di
ae ites of Ilion, eer) walls
fa ‘arm measured still ™
|Ampy an only et at Beet thy nal

(So den bing the chance of wu) ever

Walch tae thoagh a beset wold ook
serve t' employ my
It made ade my women, yet pechnay aa
War th thoes i tateguments they wrought
any.

jevous fire
‘Shall vent their vanitles. And yet, being

‘consecrate to thee,
‘They shall be kept for citizens, and their

fair wives, to see.”
woeplng ; pall the dames

: iter dee wat fing thelr own, wept

ith her tear for tear.

‘THE END OF THE TWO AND TWENTIETH BOOK.

THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

i

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k

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fee

All my revenges vow'd before. Hector
ies slaughter here
a my chariot, and our dogs shall

il in ploces tear
His hated limbs. Twelve Trojan youths,
‘born of their noblest strait <o

‘This said, a work unworthy him he put

‘And trampled Hestor under feot_at bis
ftiend's feet. ‘The rest
took horse from chariot, and all
to sleep address'd
At his black vessel. Infinite were those
that rested there,
Himself yet sleeps not, pow his spicits
were ty cheer
bed @ funcral, About the steel
(Oxen in ‘heaps lay bellowing, preparing
Bicating of shee ‘and gente) Sik “alr;
pH Hee at
Swimming L-¥ fat, bay singcing there: the

and it
The service of to the pine, ty i

His pleasure to admit their pains to cleanse
the blood soak’d in,
cat

‘THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

Be “Tis the last of all care
‘While I consort the careful. Yet, for your

entreaties’ sake,

And th E loathe food, I will eat. But
early in the morn,

Atrides, use your strict command that
leads of wood be borne

‘To our design'd place, all that fits to light

home such a one

As is to pass the shades of death, that fre
‘enough set gone

His person quickly from our eyes, and our
diverted men

May ply their business." ‘This all cars did
found observance. “Then the supp'd

ice

‘with alf things fit, and all

Repair'd to tents and rest. The friend the
shores mariti

‘The murmuring billows.
to rest, not he laid,
Heavily sighing.

‘not (60 neat,

Stood all his Myrmidons ; when straight,
20 over-labour'd were

His goodly lncaments with chase of Heo-

His resolution sleep, Sleep east his

Intion not to cast

sudden bond

Over his sense, and loosed his care. ‘Then
‘of his wreiched feiend

‘The soul appear'd ; at every part the form
did com

His likeness ; his fair eyes, his voice, his

stature, every weed
His mere, ‘it fantasied ; and stood

wren alba Drea from thence souls _
are retrieved
To talk with fricods here; nor shall T; a

care
‘That our bones part not ; but as life com-
bined in fare

thy charge
By his i ‘and thy love; and
ai i tio a ese

Round about, silent and | Thi

received :
What needed these commands? care,
before, meant to commend.

matter
‘This sad. speech tering “Dost thou |The

sleep?

Forgotten TRS thee? "Being alive, {found
thy mem flove abates.

Ever respectful but now, dead, thy dying

eee me me quickly, enter me in Pluto’s iron

For fow the souls (the hades) of men,

fled from this being, beat
My spirit from rest, and stay my much:
pe souls placed beyond the, food.

About this £Srlad door touse of Dis: o

Tesembling idol :
The soul's seat yet, all matter felt, stays
with the carcass

Sepik of bell Now

my pats thy life sustain'd
not

‘Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee,
rol i mH

The dogs shall eat him." These high
im, ese
form’d not their abuse ; =

threats
i dar, Venus Venus, took the guard of

ome off, fight and ap-
ot ry Eat

is dogs were

And i ha the ody Re-

‘A cloud fom Hoaven, est withthe sun the
nerves and lineaments.

Might dry and patrely. ‘And now some

‘To this solemnity ; the fre (or all the oily
Ie had injected) would not burn and then
the loving Cruel
Stodied for hep, and, standing off, invoked
Zep Sl creas 05 ard io rage of
ar to iJ
‘both their kinds =e

To wid his outrage, Precious gifts his
sal dit von,

camest
Pourd from a golden bowl much wine,
and pray'd them both to blow,
That quickly Ein] his tends come might bura,
and that heaps stardy breast
Embrace consumption. ‘Iris heard
anit bir at a feast,

said, and rected and oot rush,
with an unmeasured roar,

‘and| Those two

ict Gra Troy and
Tupon the fire

burned
‘Than did the great prince to his friend at
his combustions,

‘Then langu res it ple; ees
mie i oe an en al

niles hen forsook the pte, and to Bis

perceivin,
= reat son) hued i, and oped
wa ‘oral oF their
little then he

lis request
Before your parting give in change the

bgt iny with black wine

hi
heap.

‘THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

of Neptune and of fore: thee

virits have taught thee
et of horsemauship, for which the less

At oll points and set them aginst thelr
‘art ;
Good judges will not see thee lose. A

one inds
‘Want of anothers power in horse must tn
An ores of tat to that ; and so the

suit tats ait ass fa @ man, more | The;
C
horse z

The, way

of former year,
As now the lists Achilles sets may serve for
chariotecrs

see the rein enue) sir lm an

Of dhy kit wteal b tt then tals cas a
runn’st not on stone
(With wmek of horse ‘and chariot) whied

‘on’s speed.
‘Could not outpace thee, or the horse Lao-
meodan did

Whose race is famous, and fed here.”
“‘Thussat Neleldes,

‘When all that could be said was said.*
And then Meriones

‘Set fifthly forth his falramaned horse. All
leapt to chariot 5

‘And every man then for the start cast in his

per lot.
A drew ; Antilochus the lot set fore-

the fourth > .
‘The fifth and last was Diomed, far Gret io
excellence.

All stood in onder, and the lists Achilles

fix'd far thence

In plain field ; and a seat ondafn'd fast by,
in which he

Renowmed Phamix, that in grace of Peleus
was 80 great,

en wre of speech was hers.

THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

To see the race, and give a trath of all
, Scourged, and cried, and

‘pewo of thelr steeds a dust

‘30 dimm'd the race,
stood above their heads in clouds, or
“with the wind.

Yd up to the air ;
‘still sat fast the He <

in their breasts |

But when they turn’d to floct

again, then
all men's skills

lowe, [1 ne
Ming’ their

_| Pour'd out
cad

is eyes, to see bis horse for
hed aces tate potiss hel with much
¥ ys! mi
more swiftness

z
:

zz H
Heat

ie

:

&

of thelr steeds |

on

Athenia wings his horse, and tim re-

nownis ; Atrides’ steeds

Ate they ye must not fail but reach; and
soon succeeds:

re
To female Athe. What's the cause, ye
‘best that ever were,
‘That thus
Nestor’s love ye lose
eve, if ye fal ls om = through Doth

Hits bot 9
las

For
sides goes

steel, if ye suffer me to bring the

it prise home,

Haste, overtake them instantly ; we weeds

must overcome,

‘This harsh way next us, this my mind will

take, this I

cril, this FT through = hard
ic way fo honour

For |

1 Bn ea cave, forced
twas enrtl
* “trumotrs cold and raw. 4
of Winter's watery terast, met
there, and cleaving

sts. This

the roadway, being about.
Atrides fear’d,* and cried =
* Antilochus, thy ‘course is mad ; contain
thy horse, we ride
A way most dangerous; turn bead, Betime
take | eld,

ther eurth newer bore.

“| Farewell, wa never thought thee wise that

were wise ; but not s0
‘Without oaths shail the wreath, be sure,
crown thy mad temples, Go.”

* Menelaus in fear to Sillow Antilockus, wbe
(pe may see played upea han.

‘THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS, |
‘Vet

Both flew, and so
Atl came in’ smokes, Uke s
Greeks, (set to see who di
Without the race, aloft) now made'a new

‘meneus’
Other than that they maaeine ice,

pegene a Bo know tha 1k ol

of
The fest in

His forehead patting forth a star, round
ike the moon, and white.

Up-tood the Cretan, uttering this: “Is it
alone my sight,

Princes and ‘apa that discerns another

“tag lic eae here than Ied of late?|

spi. ‘The

Befall'n ae to him? perhaps he bath
not

Perform'd his flexure ; his reins lost, or
seat, or with the tress

‘His chariot fail'd him, and his mares have
gutrey ’d with affright,

, try you your eyes, for mine hold
with the sesond sight
‘This seems Lo me th’ Btolian king, the
Diomed.”

‘Tydean
“To you it seems $0,” rusticly Ajax
Oileus said,
“Your words are sulted to
"Thove tares lead still that
Buinslus owes them, and he sti holds
reins and place tha
Ree fatten Soo hoped’: ye saat prt
fore us all, though Inst
In judgment of ‘all: y are too old, your
tongue goes still too fas
‘You must not talk so,

4a mach dada, and thas replied: “Thou

seeing a horse
mark, of color bay, and was)

yo | $0

Kh ethos Nore’ sgh

Not fitr'st of all I hold « tripod
fi 2

asd
quarrel had inspired,

Had not Achilles rose, and ssed this
“with words in war:

sprebend
such foul terms ; sit the
That eh fe end Sax
‘The strife betwixt you instantly, and cither's
own load bear

their
their aoe deck'd with
Swit “attended, "0 eae or

cel's print In the mould
ie

mids the lists they 00, sweat

trickling down apace
ipa Biomed, =
the
led

breasts ; and down

‘Their high manes and thelr
Laid up be scourge ‘eat, apd

his bi
Precede of the J-lock’d. king,
of pe Papen
that not the 's own horse gat
more before the wi
Of ee“, Kank sae Sl ae
With the exceme bao is tal (nd that
nadie ‘o his ines, ‘no great space it let
Congider'd din 0. great « field}. ‘Thea
Gat of the king tow at hls bees thooglt
a j Dow
fee co ee
‘s
wee tenet ln (ean
the Agamemnonides, that was so richly

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274

‘Than tobe falling all my te from height,
0 joweoved tn, ‘and of the gods receive
curse in

5% bristles up tin
ua rated thon
© Menelaus, creas thus:

Thou wer
cuuse I sce th”

Ore en co abe trust to wit to,
up what sy
Forno man ino ost bide ba ety

calen’d ty
Stir with ik Bat thyself hast

a sustai
Of much aicton fn my cause; 50 thy

senpet

Give thee the pave
that all these may discern
King Menelaus bears a mind at no part

chee or stern.”
The king, thas calm‘d, Antilochus re-
rived, and gave the stecd
To loved Neemon to lend thence; and

eal
Next, Merfones, for fourth |
game, was to have
‘Two talents’ gold. “The fifth, unwon, re-|
nownn'd Achilles gate
‘To reverend Nestor, being a bowl to setan|
w re eal hi i ied hi
Mhich throu rough the ye carried him :}
saad he, **old frend
Tis gts abe 23 funeral platens of my y dear
ni
‘alee eter you mst se agua I make
yee ihoat any strife, obtaining it]
wae a ‘oulders must not undergo the|
churlish whoorlbat's fall ;
‘Wrastling is ps is ast yous, strife la darts, the

Hanh age in te ete ftir yoo, and
honour sets you free.’

This sinite three werelylrdleal

THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

‘Thus gave he it. He took, and
sey er eye a

sare that hs Pa
Under yorr shoulders. Would to
1 were 30 young-chint'd Bow.”
And strength threw each a many Of
0 eclebeate thi

st ogee for him ; where
not & man match'd mo

OF all tho plans, cr ie ores ce eae
Noes at the Bytlene,themocees, my
countrymen.

fi
Le Shy at thy suit, I there-| Ancaus,
here, though mine ows, | The

if Course,

| At ihe ‘best games were gone with me.
‘These men were twins ; one was:

A eatin mee 4 most sure guide; the

other:

Wich fod fad metles ‘This was them, Bat
now young men mt wage

These wt so ny “joints undergo the

of age
Thowst then 1 was another mas, At that

And much it

heart, Uhat still, for
my true kinds itiosey aoe
‘ou

memory. You perecive, ie
‘ria Bt grace f stand

Amongst the Greolans ; and to ¢Beirs you
set your gracefal had.

* His desire of praise pants stilt,

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THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

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all vantage of his sleight.
then with a
amonlas Sd” “Thou
st lay thine ; let Jove
ese." [Laertiades

im up to air; when
‘Ajax’ thigh he strook

Five?
ef ae

j all stood amazed. ‘Then
ing man, —_{monian
next close the Tela-
earth, not quite, but

‘and brought it then
the green sea, giving ft to Thoas ;

aoe rt yas, Jason's son, who young
». of Achilles’ friend bought with it;
and this, bere
Achilles made best game for him that best
his feet could bear,
For second he proposed an ox, a huge one,
and a fat;
And half 4 talent gold for last. These
thus he set them at :
“Rise, you that will assay for these,”

Hil ean oe oe

‘And as a lady at her loom, being young
‘and beauteous,
Her silk-shuttle close to her tireast, with
grace that doth inflame,
And her white hand, lifts quick and oft, in
drawing from her frame
Her gentle thread, which she unwinds with
her breast
her fair band ; 80 close still, and
‘with such interest
In all men’s kings, Ithacus unwound, amd
‘spent the race
By him before; took out his steps with
putring in
ly and gracefully his own ; spzinkled
the dust before,
‘And clouded with is breath his head. So
facilely he bore

Ever they cried to him.

his wise a move

Amids the ardure of the beasts, there

were slain there; and by

Minerva's friend
Oiiades of that rich bow!, and left his lips,

th
“0
bly is endear'd
‘To tah htineren, that her hand is ever in

‘That king, Beton used to hurl; but be

By evest ates tothe thes FEN aeeset
it it, and proposed it now both
exercise

nO
‘With large elas his own in Greece (and
cS one
80 needs for bis
His
ro
For five revolved

be meee
1] To aay town to furnish him, this only bowl
fron enough for all affairs." This said
to try this field,
Fist issued; next Leonteus ;
Great Ajax; hugo fourth be
Se ona Le
3] That mine of fron. Up it went,and upbe
toss’ it 50,
ns eee oe Saas the Geld. The
‘next man that did throw:
‘Was Leonteus; Ajax third, who gave it
such a hand,

first} That far past both their marks it flew.

But now ‘twas to be mann'd

ae
3

;

Eve
Fait
igege
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THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

shooting first; both which let fall| And stood astonish’a ; th arcber pleased,
fato a helt of hen shews

7 Dot save,
‘him, she fell, The} ut to renowm’d Talthybius the goodly

ia
gave,

‘THE &8D OF THE THREE AND TWENTIETH BOOK.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE ARGUMENT.

care of Hector’s corse,
‘Thetis to her an for hs ranrnes
then

Tris

Tr 'd; the soldiers whol;
Cl
eR yore

‘Achilles sf

‘Wept for bis friend ; nor itself, that
eines Got cabana”

Could touch at him ; this way and that he

ile fleet dese toccry his rice ta
memory, his grace

cis how Ife!

ra ato te

Still suffering ite’ eppress the dust. Apollo
_ Yet, even dead,
Pitied the prince, and would not see in-
humane tyranny fed
With moce pollution of his limbs; and
therefore cover'4 round:

cruelly

Had sed in fury. But now Heaven let
fall a eye

OF pity on him; the Best gods persuades
leroary,

‘Thele good observer, to his stealth ; and
every deity

Stood pleased with it; Juno ex
estas tad fal iad eee

Graced with the blue eyes, all their hearts
stood hatefully appaid

aed Bald it, as at first, to

And all his subjects, for the rape of his
Ticestioas son,

Proud Paris, that despised these dames in

thei divine access
Made to his cottage, and praised ber that

282 ‘THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

Reach’ Ley ‘The heavy court Cla-
mour and fill'd

Ineeepene te peut reas chat
thus thou darest assay
bef that man, In socks hove ee

If this stern man, whowe thirst of blood
makes cruclty his driak,
turn'd £0 soon to nought Take, or but sce thee thou art dead. He
Grecian hands) consumed their youth, | nothing pities woo.
rain'd rma from their eyes. Nor honours Without his sighe, we
have enough to do

To mourn with ee ce Keep we
our

And | these ew ate the soft, and said:
Ot goo! Sloinenta and ‘cost, am I
‘ambassadress,
Jove prety thee whe, a care, a8 much
as he fs distant de
Bye to thy sorrows, plying thee, ‘My am-
yes ea'fom Bin be wile|

hoot redeem thy son,
= cheer him so; but
ic Bim alon
None but somo herald let attend, thy mutes
and chariot
To cy for thee. Fear, nor death let
daunt thee ; Jove hath |
Hermes to guide thes, who as near to
‘Shall an 1 thee and ith
I guard thee; and being once with
‘his, nor others’, deeds

With aso plein fc ut foe, What
by ata at nigh cage on | On
The Greeks wont

rt ety tra their] Quench to his fe

fervour,” This
‘out to hear the works most fair and dear

84

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

‘The black-wing’d huntress, perfectest of
all fowls, w ch pods eal

Percnos, the eagle. And how broad the
chamber nupt

Of any mighty man hath doors, such
breadth cast either wing ;

Confusion strook the king, cold fear ex-
pete quench’ Chiat
it upon his
Pigoods and the chan
‘Of strong amaze bound all his
ich then came near

‘Which now she used, and spread them |‘

right hand of the king.
All saw it, and reolod, and up to chariot

Drave forth, the ‘al and the porch re-

Sounding ‘as he goes.

His friends all fan him, and mourn’d
as if he went to

And ‘bringing key a town to field, all left

him ; eee
Of Jupiter was then guard, who pitied
soe fo Hermes: «Mercury, thy

th been

‘Now consort Pans to feet but so,
that not the least
‘Suspicion of him be attain’d, till at Achilles’

tent

Thy convoy hath artived him safe,” This
charge incontinent

He put ‘in practice. ‘To bis fect, is

Tomortal and mate all of gold, with
which he used to ride

‘The rough sea and th’ unmeasured earth,
and equall'd in his pace

‘The pul of wind. Then took be up his

To hut wat eer He
‘o shut wi Ie
ti Open theas agai
In

sti
forth,
To Troy

‘a fair young prince,
First-down-chinn’d. od te ‘such @ grace as.
makes his looks con:
Contending eyes to view him, Sorthi he
rent toe
He, having pas the mighty tomb of Tas,

cart th
Idweus (guider of the mules) discern’d this

Dardanides, | Whom no

or kas hs knees and. ask his ruth}
men distress d?*

the peer:

“To what place, father, drivest thou out

through solitary night,

‘When others sleep? give not the Grecks
sufficient cause i

To these late travels, 0 near, and
such vow'd enemies:

or in Soe ae if with all this Joad any

ld cast his eyes
‘On or adventures; ‘id, wonld Misa tg
mind esteem thy state,

(oberon and thy follower old? Resis-
ice could not rate

At aay vale as for me, be sure T mind

To shy gr oe |i but against the hurt

Min, om foe fiber did not get a

eater love in me
To ipod good, an Oe to thine." He

‘Thou urgest ; but some god's fair hand
UIs in for my safe state,
‘That sends so sweet a guardian in this 30
stem atime
a8 Chyself, that all

Of night, and

ores tod of ty she altanswer'd
of

ith tnd

‘Thy goods of most price to more guard?
or your wa)
Frighted Hom holy Tiga? 9 excelest a
son
‘Asthou hadst
rok a, (pein somrepacial imped
2 Greak betta for his fight?"
0, what art thou,” said be,
‘Most worthy youth, of what race born,
that thus recount'st

My wretched on's death with such truth ?*
“Now, father,” be

“Your phen me ae elated

Of his oppression; yet he hears thy graces
st
et ee
aT Sec ea teeming: fhe Kia then
jermes et i
oie ote
“Now know, old kin

hath given this
‘To thy endeavour, seat by Jove ; and now
must §,

sstrengthless left ; and he
‘That was, es only joy, and Troy's
and grace to thee.’ sole guard, by (
‘This said, he ‘gh ‘Olympus reach'd = Late Sighting for country, sain 5 wires
the king then left his coach jender'd person now a
To gmve saa aad cay emacie Ele come rtm Infinite is that 1 offer

And eater fare goodly s0ots, where with Mysllt ¢ conferring it, exposed alone to all
your

Jove Acie, at their feast; two] Only imploring right of arms, edi,
or MY stan, ‘Aleus, and tora Pity an old man thy sine ; differest in
Kis Pitre cath). A great time Achitles| That Tan

ror, and (Mention by Pan) a mach bp Be

6 MAn- at
‘That mich blood feom isons had dmwo | And smoedABaciden so much, bs Gould aot
strange ook upon

tears and bosom | .
In such a stupefied estate Achille sat to| Before Achilles ; at bis feet te laid his

0

So unexpected, so in night, and so in- ae ee

Old Prams entry, Al his friends one on Tetuies bay eeew Wie eae ‘But

Toren Tooks, Satiate at all with the ruth of their
sires seeing no canse. | (: parts

His soo's isdeopin See in me, O

Thy fae aap ty
Tine ge ven

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And 80 — te thee? thy old beat ts
made of iron: sit,

He meme ie his “iy sgerted most
‘And thea a mortal, bad Tis bed dock’
dame,

a
with all this ‘one fl God
that takes all name

‘that Lapa ‘his name now,
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“Therefore sit.” "He sald’

when yet
Hector lies riteiess in thy tents, but deign
with utmost

Ills resignation, these eyes may see

wh ie humanity safe" Ie fown'd
id suid: "Give not my blood
Fresh cata. of farg : 1 ache wall Yeast
resign thy son, besides is done
Jove, by my monte attra it; and what
know as amply 3 and thyself “old Priam,
now

Like Jore's ei and Incense ngaln
r ‘bldod, lest nor rigs met
Nor Jor Ret Serpent of me.” This
And ion he sat fear, ‘The prince
Teapt like a tion forth,
meno ‘and Aleius attending ; ull

Beought for the body they took down and

Lrought in, and with Ie
herald

to the king; @ coat ¢m-
broider'd yet,
And (wo rich cloaks, they left to hide the
‘Thetis’ son
ie a bis aah to anoint and
‘The cae with ler, lifting it im private
Lest Priam saw, and his oold blood em-

braced a fiery touch
Of anger at the turpitude profaning it, and

ee ee ee ‘This

‘The ne and oak pat but the core

we bis friends to chariot

For which forced grace, abhorring so from
Tis fro mind he wept,

‘Cried out for anger, and ius pray’: “O
friend, do not except

this favour to our foe, if in the
Kan hy eteg foe,

A the give i iin to his sie ; he gave | Roasted

In SPDaeeaee want will; a what

‘sorver convert
Of all these gifts by any may
To thy. renown joan yel Ag |

honour sepaichre ‘This said, be
Shy and whiat was. doce i
Priam, father, now
wilt paid paid, i
‘Thy son is tp 2: ay the morn thine
eyes sh
Dea Sia ty cast on ts bed in mean

‘The tt rt Ni Nike found thoughts that
ap bbe she saw slain,
ns.

daughters, six sol
"The sons inseraed Apollo siew ; the maids’

confusions

Diana wrought, since Niobe her merits
durst compare

‘With great Latona’s, arguing that she did

onl

‘Two children, and herself had twelve ; for
which those only two

Slew all her twelve. Nine days they lay
‘ioepd in their blood, her woo

Found no friend to them fire,
Saturnius bad turn'd

ae to stones. 2 The tenth day yet,

‘The trunks themselves, and Niobe, when

< feng tired with tears,

Fell to her food, and ni now with rocks and

wha hills mix’ abe peas.

Tn Si the gods’ wraths still, in that
where ‘tis sald

‘The Goddess Fairies use to dance about

compar
with bl IRs powers made by earth deserves.
Without gre, ikea god, being maa, but

a man’

lhcet bis te eat “hot sat have time

He Bride te mourn ty fan; not
shall tearful, thon being ni
here, but Ilion

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS,

7 ey ae 8 co

a aod drew Rartfully, Automedon,
as fi

And che they fa Le 2 Hnger stanch'd ;

talk, and ol

‘Was tod of al bance Brain is Rao
to ser the prime

f ‘Thetis’ son, accomplish’d $9 with
phic the feat le ges

1o which the fashion of a
had changed his place ot

Actilles fell 1 bitn us fast, admired ms
much his years

Told im his grave and

ope eten arm hea ne
So peaee, ‘to matestal, With this food
led too,

thus: “Now, Jove's
sed, command that I may go,

And add to this feast grace of rest, These
lids ne‘er closed mine eyes,

Since ender thy hands fled the soul of my
dear son ; sighs, crins,

And woes, alll use ‘rom food and steep
have taken ; the base courts

No i, no sn penne touch'd.”
‘Then did Achilles bid
His men and women see his bed laid

down, and covered
With h purple blankets, and on them am

covertid,
Walsteoars af sii plush Ya
‘women straight took li
And two beds made with tmest speed,
and all the other rites
‘Their lord named used,
Go Taher Fou tat es ithe
father, must wit ke
Todt any counsellor
Make his a access In depth of might, as oft
Detagh them tape et Wasa ge
ings them ¢° impart our
‘Thom should an

oe ee (putting Miler. mind of Wis
‘His brother, son, shall work thy
brother, 20 200, fend) y

Toma ices fous towec fa Sony: Gasels
have cat earth from the hand

My other sons ons Ackil sold ; but thee he
left not dead.

shafts." ‘These words the
queen for her moan,
Andnext ber, Helen held that state of

Hector, all my brothers more were
Linumisedeton
As dhy most virtues. Not my lord I held
90 dear as thes,

do
Sincemy an yy arrival; all which time thou Sidst

‘Thy eutont a check, but all else, that my
lord's Brothers were,

Sou’ ed epoch ‘it would still repeowe

pe eet and
‘eel words, and thy gene sou

And all else." Thi
sti eee
Wear, fot, phe pn pile of

—— ae ‘cleventh morn Tet on earth

The prose wt he le, aa et
¥

Quench'd ail the flames. His _beott

then, and friewdts, Che bones
Gatherd into an urn of golds sal
‘on the moans.

o

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rrapt they in soft purple veils the| For fear of false surprise before they bad
ura, digg'd a pit, imposed the crown
if ramm'd upthe grave ‘with stones, | To these solemnitics. The tomb advanced
{quickly ilt to it once, all the town

it, while that work and all] In Jove-sursed Vriam’s Court partook
perfc held at| And res nting Hecio's rites
1 performance, were And s0 horse-taming ‘s gave
parts, ee, ‘up hs soul to est,

‘Thus far the Tian reine I have laid
Open to English eyes, In which, repaid
ith tine own value go, unvalted tool,
Live, and be loved Mesy. em anion
Hurt chy clear fame, learn that no state a more Bigh
vends on virtue than pined eayy’s «
Would thou wert worth it that the best dath wound,
‘Which this age feeds, and which the Jast shall bound,

‘Thus, with labour Panaiafon ot his nds o an en the merits of my divine
ranslation of his Uiadsto an end, 1. either therein, or in
Defore, I have, ior haste, scattered with

fies to ator kod partes all tocsdhic) many be agwonousty

work. ‘The rather, ec the moet learned, wit all thei ips and tne: have

‘been $0 often, and unanswerabl taken hulting. In the mean time, that

‘most assistful and mnapakanie Shit “oy whose thrice sacred conduct and ins —
the

1 have finished this labour, fraittul hom of his blessings th
goodne without whieh, utterly dry and bloodless ye

Spondanus ends le work witha prayer fo be taken cu
Tpian rivers: terms

‘wondering in his right omnfortabie 3 to magnify the
Almighty apparance in the other,

‘And with this salutation of Poesy given by our Spondanus in
Ninds ("* Ad sail saint-sues ea Poesy, that, sender 30 much gall Wo Selim sack
of honey doctrine Hast hidden, wot revealing them to the wrwwrdl

‘But 20 mach make me, that amongst thy wovices I
ver come weer my life thal could make me forsake thee.” ‘wil conch
daily and nightly peeps. earned of the most learned Simplicius —

“"Supplice titi, Domine, Pater, ef Dux rationis nostra, wt nostra mobilitatic
recordcounr gud tu wei ormasti ; ef wt tx modis pracstd sis ut Sis gual for sie mwenters
wi ef 4 corporis contagio Brateramgue afeclaum repurgemnr, corue 11
mus, et, sient decet, prodastrursentis iis utamur. Deinde ut nobis a rye
euratam rationis mostrar correctionen, ef confunctionene cus tis gud vert sunt er com
veritatit. Bt tertiae, sere sahilee ore, wt ab oculis aninornm nevtroruns calé-

sinem prvias ob (gwod apud Homerwm est) norisaus bese gui Deus, aut mor-

HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Homer's Odysses. Translated According to the Grecke, By George Chapman. Im
at London by Rich. Field, for Nathaniell Butter. [1616.]

29

‘THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

», inducing matter that inclined

Acouse us Geds as authors of their ill!
When, by the bane their own bad lives

They safer al the miseries of their stales,
our infiictions, and beyond their

isthus, past his Sate, did wed
A ind (in drench
Tn slaught
yee ‘we foretold him would so hardly
"Ta his eroctherous purpose, sendling Mer-| The:
That tee’d Argus, our considerate’
‘To e him this charge: *Do not wed
Nor murther bisa; for thou shalt bey his
With Faniom of thine own, imposed on
By his Orestes, when in him shall be
Atrides’ self renew'd ; and but the prime
OF youth's spring put abroad, in tl to
His Sraughty father's throne by his high
acts,
‘These words of Hermes wrought not into
Agisthus’ powers; good counsel he de-

‘And to that good his ls sacrificed.”
Pallas, whose eyes did sparkle like

akies,
Answerd: ‘*O Sire! supreme of Deities,

* These notes fullowing I am
feloce the wont tney Cotas der ron sister

sralasionnlnt 1 be thought 4 rr ot of that
P may perhaps
ance Unt may Fethapsposess ny deveaver.

it,
iergiven t Allan, ina

travis
Batpeariving reees
lowing. one place men olbekmacute fermion,
in the next, gud

repens pass'd his fate, and had desert
To warrant our infliction ; and convert
May all the pains such impious mses indliet
‘On innocent sufferers to fevenge as Strick
‘Their own hearts eating. Bat, that
thacus,
‘Thus never ie should suffer ——
His more plous

I deeply suffer.
Divides him from these Sone Tiegh
ving him a fate

unkind
Is piety to him, Fin
— cafe a rr Sn
So lon in @ seaegiry
Where the sen’ navel #0 syivas ile

In which the Goddess dwells that doth de

rive
Her birth from Atlas,* who of all alive
‘The motion and the fashion doth command
eer Sent wise sind, whose Toccoa

of

ts dough Tro uate ulna
san pour with ber evermore
pe = pre ingly, se possestt

nd male $0 lang 3
With soremiss a mind hes loved

the action of his

eee
In judgment yet more longs to shew

a

i
i

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

And death asks in her arms. Yet never

All to discover how fer
‘His wish'd retreat, iets mabe St:

‘His stern eye to him, since no one God
ane * ”
"FEAR is wet mad be pepe

‘Supreme of rulers, since so well apaid

oF
‘The blessed Gods are all then, now, in

‘And (tat youspesk as you relered threes
Prescription for the means, in this sort be
Thelr sacred onder : Let es now nddecss

His sire’s inquest the more ;
Isto his soul, to summoa the concourse
Of curld-bead Greeks to council, and

eter
Each wocer, that hath been the
| Of his fat sheepand ercoked-beaded

From more wrong to bis mother, and their

Jeaves
‘Take is such terms as fit deserts so great.
‘To Sparta then, and. Fylos where doth

Bright Amathos, the food, and epithet
To all that ki my advice shail end
‘The spltit-advanced Prince, tothe pious end
Of seckiny his lent father, if he may

from Fame where rests his

jerer

tain’
Her ravish'd substance swift as gust of
Then took she ber strong Lance with steel
Great, massy, active, that whole hosts of

men,
‘Though all heroes, conquers, if her ire
‘Their wrongs inflame, back'd by so great

Sire.
eta | Down, from Oiympas tops she beadiong

a ‘And swift as thought im Ithaca arrived,

Close at Ulysses gates; in ‘frst

‘Sde made her stand, and, for ber breast's
sy

‘Lean’

298

‘There found she these proud wooers, that
were

‘Set on those ox-hides that themselves had

Se ne en Day:

To theta the heralds, and the rest obeying,
Fuld wine and water ; some, still as they

‘a,
Andee for solemn supper's state, pur-
With porous sponges cleansing tables,
‘With much rich feast ; of which to all they

kerved.

God-like Telemachus amongst oo sat,
Grieved much in mind ; and in his beart

eet ek ie ak aes
How, come from far parts, his spits

fire
‘With those proud wooers' sight, with
ter parting
‘Their bol ‘Concourse; and to binieelf coa-
‘The honours usurp’d, his owa com-
they usurp’
th Cae he first saw Pallas
atin ar Bp reve, and addrest
t to her, angry that a guest
Soa sa one nt pe ‘and, coming
Hier right band took; took in his owa bier

‘And thus saluted : "Grace to repair,
Fair guest, your weloome shall be likewise

ter, and, cheer'd with feast, disclose th”
‘That caused coming.” This
(Servant peer: sone. ing.” sald,

And Pallas follow. ‘Toarcom they came,
and of state; the javelin of the

petites
pcigbleept aantGury:
fox with woods of lances

Of fis grave fathers In & trons he
‘The man-turn'd Goddess, under which was

carpet, rich and of deviceful thread ;
A etiol staying her feet ; and by her | T!

Another seat (ll garish'd wondrous fir,

eat or sleep-on in tha Ce
Par from the iapoae tt woos isto meat

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

The noe they wi made might

Br a not bene oem

That ke no noble form in thee altars.
And Ke be set far from them, much the

rather
‘To question freely of bie sbvent father.

ie ay pad hen was spa,
Ontvhich aretccad offcer pb
nd tors

of

sewer
Pourd water from a great and golden
‘That fromm thele hands ¢' silver caldron
oth nt, and sated lee, he veel
ric cope of gold and et by thm
‘Those cps with wine with all. endeavor

crown’
‘Then rush'd in the rude wocers, them
selves

Ava! toe them, the bold wooes
Thee pages plying their cups past. the

But lasy pcan ee moro than
or now rh gers mal Uh ie

a 'd for songs and dances ; those,

‘a

Were th’ ornaments of feast, The herald
st

it
A harp, carved full of astificiat ¥
‘Thrust roi Phemius,, & learn’

Who, till be
mtb much was urged, on terms

tn ths ot ai “My guest, exceeding

Will you not sit incensed with wbat
ee eae tee oneness Take fea

wo ly hey may we, be because they

‘THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

9

‘man’s, whose white bones wasting ‘thts city, in the harbour eall’d
ak “i plathnwr vitor eases wae Heber occ

Tn far region, with th’ incessan
Ot showers por down upon thera, {ying

ashore,
(Or iin the seas wash'd naked. Who, if be

and not contend t°
its. Bat his virtwes food

‘4 day never will appear.
fed ie Trams year when

from whence you are? what
's birth ?
What (parents? In what vessel set_ you

And with what mariners arrived you here?
‘earipot tlsink you & foot passenger.
me all, to teach me well
your worth. And if it fell
‘ndw first that you Bius see us

are wall’,
Thy siro and T were ever mutasl guests,
Atelter’s house tl interchanging feasts,
1 glory in it. Ask, when thon shalt see
Laertes, the old hero, these of me,
From the begianing. He, men’ say, no
snore
Visits the elty, but will needs deplore
His son's believed loss in a private field ;
One old maid only at bis bands to yield’
Pood to bis life, as oft as labour makes
His old limbs’ faint; which, though be
creeps, he takes
Aree ee lain, set all with vines,
‘Which hastasdinan-like, though a king,
| _he proins.
But now T come to be thy father's guest ;
Ubear he wanders, while these wooers

; fonst.
And (as th’ Immortals prompt me at this
‘hour)

Tit tell thee, out of power,
Not as Kestp plas mspel oni)
Mal docs what aoe cher cimase: bo

men)

What I conceive, for this time, will be
fue:

‘The Gods’ inflictions keep your sire from
ot.

Divive Ulysses, yet, abides not dead.

Above earth, nor benesth, sor buried
‘Tn any yeas, 28 you did late conceive,

| But, with the sea sieged, is kept

alive
‘Within an isle by rede and en,
‘That in bis spite bis sie ans,
‘Vet tong it not ‘be tread
His epee a a
‘And held Ais return, with

So much* a.son, ns to be said the seed
uereself > ‘nich

Of Tthacus hit Exceeding
‘Thy forehead and fait eyes at his form

touch :
For oftentimes we met, as yom ahd T
‘Meet at this hour, before he dit

Tciown | Ells prvera er top; ben ott Gera

For rich in brass, which my occasices: need ;
And therefore being | shining steel in wea
Whee
i. a
‘That near a ploogh’d Geld vides at anchor's
weight,

states
In hollow ships were his associates.

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Bat, since that time, mine eyes could never
a Ulysses, por met his with me

pe
after acts be won,
igh undoubted son,

ae this then: what's this

Whar all Wis Toot? Ts all this nuptial

cheer
Or else some friendly banquet made by
thee?

For here noshots are, where all sharers be.
‘Past measure contumeliously this crew
ae ect ee which should th

‘Telemachus rent much
Since you demand and si these sights #0
1 gate gp tape ap toe
faultless once In goveroment,
Siotidal fat all parts, the same form

Thal gave glo whl er lor wa ee.
that us. displeasure
Have otherwise

pact aed dewace.
Sonenres yeaa
For arr tail me moun oo ons
‘Amongst is fellow-cptaing ang tered

Of ti ded hs
is Red ented ended as om [3

‘Aner ne haa
His power and

jously beatow'd
ina war so row,

‘nd to bis tomb all Grecks their grace hd :
“That to ail ages be might feaxe his son
Immortal 5 but now

end,
‘And me, for glories, to all pets conten,
Nor shall I any more mourn im
The Gods have given me Bip

Shady
Rule in the rough brows
here;
‘So many now my a this —
‘At all parts make defamed
‘And she her hateful a cece eae
ch ther important
them spoil still as they
feast
All my free house yields; and the little
rest
Of my dead sire in me perhaps
To ti il long to some unti end =
Thi lla sigh’ and answer'd "0,

‘Abent Ulysses ls much mlet dt thes,
‘Thas oa Whee sbameles stot Bema

Hs weeakful bands. ‘Should he now come,
In yeaa first gates, arm'd with helm:
Anda) such darts a8 Uae seen hin
when fst T saw him in our Taphian
Feasting. and doing bis deserts dlsport
a
To niet ‘avell'd through the watery
For bane to poison his sharp arrows
‘That death, but touch’, caused ; which he
he Gods that ever
Would cetera and

wast my father’s bosom not so
As was th i (or ao be

ought
‘father found him. to a thought)
Free ea eilateenoe
pee proud

‘Wal wooers, all were at) his

‘THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

with wreak inclosed,
of be return no more,
And therefore I advise thee to explore
Feat to set these

and declare to all
witness) what thy plea

sure
‘Command to towns of their nativities
‘These frontless woorrs, If thy mother's

mind
Stands to ber second nuptials so Inclined,
Return she to her royal father's towers,
‘Where th’ one of these may wed her,
her dowers
Make rich, and such as may consort with
grace
So dear a daughter of 80 | a race.
And thee I warn as well (if thou as well
‘Wil, hear 403 follow) take chy best-built

With t h Swenty oars mand, and baste ¢

Fe all that be
ache that honours men,

To Nestor? thence to Sparta

To god loka Menelaus, who was last
the brass-arm’'d Greeks that saifd

aa
And Teese ths team, iomnat

News of thy sire's return‘ life anywhere,
watt thou entier'st in, bis search’,

Af of is death thou bear'st, retum thou
And to his erect a tomb,
can

Performing parent-rites, of feast and

Pompous, and such as best may

‘And then thy mother a fit hasband give,
‘These past, consider how thou mayst

Of orthan it ake woot in thy howe,
ings eh na ‘thee ; th’ art so no

Hast thow not how all men did
beard, men

DO —

and } As m

Valet eid manly,
AS great as be. fit,

thy mind, thy wits
Allgies Dimaes ie oes eed ae
Thal even, past douttythey-muy,thele

tn senting 1 Sescend ta spend men,
Be observant thea

‘That much expect me.
Of my adwice, and careful to maintain

Tn equal acts thy father's reign.”
“Telemachas Yeplled "You See, fale
A fiend's heart fs your speech, as well

nt @ father serve t’ inform his son ;
‘sure place have in my memory

calls away,
your

Testy

oo 5

ude ngs bathed
stay
‘With some more honour,
you may yet

Delight mind by bei
With some’ ch peat ken your

mind
‘Commands to at my return this
Bestow on me; that Laiecay ay
Convey & home; which, more a price

to me,
The more it asks my to theo.”

Tits said, away grey eyed Minera fe,
{aks toa mounting lark and did eadoe
His mind with strength and

Mad bm i att longfor than Ue
And weighing better who his guest might

He stood amazed, and (eet
‘Was there descended ; he

His at all parts, and went so In=

Amongst the wooers, who were silent

ease ee
was from thenos

‘Prociaim'd by Pallas, pain of her offence.

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

When which divine song was percelved |
to bear

Two, maid of honour made. fad wher

lSrperten snoy'd so Vow; sta eight be
seen

By all her wooers. Tn the door, aloof,

Entering the ball graced witha goodly rf,

She stood, of graceful veils,

{Aboat her beantlen; om her-cther ld

Her honour'd women, When,

moved, thus

She chid the sacred singer : ‘* Phemlus,

You imow a number more of these great

‘Of Gods and men (that are the sacred seeds,
subjects, of a Fears Ses

rotreat

sorta tenon ar nana yur Oh
seat

They may with silence sit, and taste their

But cease this song, that through these ears
of mine
deserved oceasion to my heart
less sorrows, of which the desert
Jamie mamcsmued f, pant allows tne

Com

ide
Ot Giese and Argos” “To the queen

ired Telemachus : “* Why thus envies
‘mother him that fits socicties*

For these ingenuous and fi
‘That do immediately from Jove retain

* "Epuipes dowtie, Cantor, fame aptce
bo pin tngg ores ese

J eeieare bees Pdi
ly Wy Joresand are here
since first they gave

‘Their ai Jove as well
Tp a cbse of wa eit 20g
oe ie a snd shee hi
Ke ple le oa cee
omeward sagt! fr is
“toh see
Men sll most celebrate, that sings mact
And Therefore in his note your ears
Jost in Troy
‘The day Bierce, but nambers more
bore.

The deadly ruins of his fortunes
Go you then in, and take your work

‘hand,
tears | Your web, and distaff; and your maids

command
Trip Goat fit work. Words to men ame

fue,
And those reprovin, Paes
repeats ee orn shee a

ba 15h things that

Began new orders, other
Than those in spite of

‘sway’
his mother’s tears still wash’d

Vea
Tilt pt ee did thoge tears surprise

Witt tin woe! sleep, and that her wooers didi
Rade tumult up though all the shaily
Disposed tosleep because thelr

‘Telemachus this a einen ‘Poi ae did ii
On Dat cir old

My mother wooers} much too high ye

Your cunt spirits ; sit; and, while ye

ma me in beast banquets,
ok hotes down, nor bartatet man
bri oe

Uccause my mother hath disliked bis song,

ia taken for him gmt Arias tesnsd
and will dAgerrerur
with fase,

at ail, to sway a throne ;
wickly i

By Jove's high bounty, these your present | _ Eu
‘To what I give in charge shalt add more | The gi

so
g

nion.””
He answer'd : “ The return of my loved
ire

-™ ‘THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS, {

'
‘Coll'd by my mother for her care’s unrest, |Of her rare beasties; and love's cqual
tr should not move me, For my late fair flame,

|To her he felt, as to bis nuptial dame,

He was of old my father's, tonchig bere | Yet never Gurst be mix with her im bea,
From sea-girt Taphos ; and for name doth) So much the anger of his wife he fled.

bear She, now grown old, toyonny Pent yon
Menias, the ton of wise Anchialns : Two torches bore, and was

all, the ‘Taphians studious Past all his other maids; and di
jigation.” This he said, but knew. | Her service to hias from bis in
‘These peaecapac His well-built chamber reach’, abe oped |

To dances and attraction of the sonj the door, |
‘And while their pleasures did the time Ee 08 his ‘bed sat, the soft weeds be

helt Ben ancndet, and did steep | Put off and to the diligent old maid
The lids of all men in desire of al (Gaveatl «who yall in thick folds lad
‘Tedemactus, intoa room built h And bung them on a beam-pit 1etr
Of his Mustrious coure, and to the eye
Of circular prospect, to his bed ascended, | That round about was rich embroidered.
And (el aa much weighty thought Veiga tngd haste forth from bim, and
bring
Before him Kuryelea (that well knew, |The door together with a sliver ring,
All the observance of w handmaid's due, And by a sing a ba toi id pull
Daughter to Opis Pisenorides) He, Iai cover'd well with

Bore wo bight torches; whe didsomuch| wi eal ee ie
oven ts, texmploy’
Laoties ahr pine, that, for the price Mad Raltenplor
‘Oltwenty oxed, he wade’ merchandise | About the task that Pallas bad design’,

‘THE END OF THE FIRST DOOR,

pot on, and did about him pe gd
that thwart his soars. hung.

‘cle feat fair aboes, and all parts

readiness ; who, when he trod
earth, to men show'd like

then he straight charged to
Greeks, with loud calls, to
summon'd; th’ other came in utmost
assembled, and in one heap
oon topline ete ema agel
asd his irom-headed spear
Tons, nor with eoea-troors ee
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face,

Bf

To which the we him
0 wl RTave peers gay

way.
(Create win Eipy ge ant ha i bern

speech to afi: who bad‘ loved
‘That with divine U}y rhea
His hollow fleet to 7 to serve which

cod,
Be es ae

And in the erotl erate is
His life a him in his Pie cave,
Whose his abborred. grave,
Kod made of hing, ofall Ulpmear take

‘His latest supper, being latest stale ;
His = was Antipas, ‘And this old

ss crooked. grown, this wise
Tat three sons more; of

A wooer was, and call'd Enrynomus ;
[Tid COR ee ele Ea a eae

Yet bth tebe fates weigh not down
the worse,

Wiss 3d mechoniy 3 rs onal
OF young or old?” Hath any ons Bessd

army, at ae
Seana ‘words of wove here fi ih-daeesree
‘And, - methinks it must be some goad

eae es

305

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acti Jon; ty,
erie e appiove what tis roan
ted at,
And mae bis first proof in a cause so

Adin’ the eounes chief place up he

Pisenor (herald to his sire,
in counsels) fet his heart on

‘him speak, and put into his hand
These ithe ber ei com
to the old Egyptian tum’d, he

nee: not far he is that undertook
“To aall this Council; whom you soon shal |Or

know.
Myself, whose will make
tl wrongs my griefs

‘Am he that author ae ansay be.

Nor have I heard of any

Of which, being Sra told, T Right iterate,

Nor for the public good can aught relate,

Only mine own affairs all this procure,

That in my house a double ill endure;

One, having lost a father v0 renown'd,

‘Whose kind rule once with your command
‘was crown'd ;

The other is, what much more doth aug-

Ha ae loss, pa ruin a z
‘my Rouse By it, my goods all spent

And of all this Remaes, ‘that are sons

Fo our lef peers, are the confusions,

i ing my mother's

See aL a a al oats

Dold rage
Go to Icarus’, her father’s court,
‘That, his will ask’d in kind and comely

‘sort,
Hie may endow his daughter with a dower,
And, she consenting, at his pleasure'’s

Dispbso hee-to a man, that, Uns behaved,
May have fit grace, ‘and see her honour

‘saved.

Bat these, Sn none but my house, all their
ves

Resolve to spend ; slaug@tering my sheep

And with my fattest goats lay feast on
feast,

Bai

Ly generous wine consuming as they list.
x world of things they ‘poll, bere wanting

That, tke Ul lickly could set gone
‘These pence-plager fi oo Sa acne thas | Year

spoil like war
Whom my powors are unfit to urge so far,

‘Myself immartial. had I the
wl soil vo tae for eceaaee a

From out my life-time. For,

Bie dowd are ne en eee

Of any honour.

you

Reverence the ensures that all good men

“That dwell about you : and for feat to te
Exposed to heavea' wrath (lat doth ever |

etal ede

Or pater cocnoiie da pe
From further spoil ; an ete oly wate
In that mast wretched grief T have

braced
Re ar ee And though I am
free

From meritin; outs iF
Good ian, had ever wites bese hea
¥ tke hosts an avenge
rour like snd vengeance tak
Of his ill on my li or
la in ha ato ‘but, to see

ashe “do ngae il but being. Mk

mpine a
ad soa

7 se nay Coan

Oft axk’d, may be wih ade

But fa Me mean spc cd epi

ost tayesssaae boty fa

And are denied oe, patent al
wreak.”

This sn,

And ‘@ from him; which mowed
aime cew

The court strook silent, not a mam did

To give a word that might offend bis
mess ‘only in tenet Ss |
ed,

High spoken, and
7aoot wim

Uve

eevee have you: abet

seem

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 7 1

‘Four suite but ll Tend, ak most,

weed, lest what is done be lost.

des, 1 parposs, that whew th’ austere
fate

‘Of bitter death shall lo {nto his state
Laertes Pes, it shall de

Hold on
funeral

This speech sho used; and this dd. s90n
persuade
Our nile mints. But this a work she

se ae ng e undoing still in Ly ae

she did by day's broad
‘That Fears her deceit dived past our
‘Ass made os thiok that all she felgn'd wns
Bape te fourth year ae, and tho
‘That 2 sarprsa at lenges dares’ craft
ne'of her’ women, that knew all, dis-
closed
that she still unl

TUT on

Peciaiae love om Be
me
wwe offend not in our stay. but abe.
Trouse then, cod

ae fer thy oe
‘Commanding that her
ee eee ort cee mauled »
lor let ber vex with her illusions
nm
© Telaw Penslopes retexere, Proverbiam.

send her to her

choice be left entire
Ned will,
still

Heer frends that woo her; standing on her

Because mice Pallas hath given wiles to it
So full of art, and made her understand

AAD works in fa il of J Jady’s band,
But (for her worklog mind) we

Of ithe la wold, in which Greece bath

Horan piace that could equal her:
Tar, Alemena, and Mycena were
hold comparison in no degree,
For solid beain, with wise Peneloy
‘And yet, in her delays of us, she
No PETERS SL NO ER ee

Toruter iin mand a a

While thus the Gods

dispose,
Glory herself may gain, but thou ame ose
"Thy longings even for n food :
For we will never go where lies our

Nor any other where, til this delay
‘She purs on all she quits wich th’ endless

stay

‘Of seme ono of ts ; that to all the rest
May, give free farewell with hs nuptial

The wise young prince replied : "Am
tineus 1

I may by no means tern out of my hotsse

Her that pat ‘brought me forth and

ourish’d me.

Besides, if quick or dead my Sether be

In any Bir yet aides in doubt 7

And ‘twill go hard, hy means being so run
out,

‘To tender to Tearius again,

If he again my mother must maintaia

In Sere be stoner wa Eeowgpt with

And then a double ill it will confer,
Both from my father fn from God on me,
When, thrust out of her house, on her

beat knee,
My moter shal the borsid Faties raise
ths im berenrore. News tien

Wale pete nti colnedl It ieee

‘Swell cousnes, once moh coer
Your absence from my house. Some other's

Charge with your banquets; on your own
ea,

408

kless lis
sSumisasust

EEG gee, tM oad

wake each
And vow, if Jove sh nin any date
Power of like pains for pleasures so past

rate,
From thenceforth look, where ye have
20
Unwreak'd, ruins all shall wt 5
gai Toca VO,
Far-seeing Jove upon their pinions set
Tes Joe the hi

igh brows of a hill,
That, mounted on the winds, together

‘Their strokes extended ; but arriving now

Amidst the Council, over every brow

Shook thelr thick wings, and, threatening
death's cold fears,

“Tebkr sesh ast chek toe. with thelr

Theo, on | Go the court's right-hand away they
Above Both court and city: with whose

ia sents tad Meals ey might foretell,
‘The Counell into admiration fe

‘The old heroe, Halitherses, then,

‘The son of Nestor, that of all old men,
His peers in that court, only cotld foresee
By Aight of fowls man’s fixed destiny,
"Pwint them and thelr amace, this inter.

«Hear, Tthacensians, all your doubts
disclosed.
‘The wooers most are touch’d im this

ostent,
‘To whom are dangers great and gel

For now not

‘more shall U1)
Lack of his most some

+ Dut fills some place

hey tight iad & find it ana if with us.
in time prevent what threats

‘them thus ;
Since not without sure trial I foretell

‘sacred, no laws | As I

‘THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

For to Ulysses all things have event,
foretold him, Morphett A
The saree Grek feet together, amd

them
‘Th’ abundant -in -all- counsels took the
stream.

Ttold bim, that, when much ® he bad
aoe his men were lost, he a

st,
ba
inewng

s+ Hence, great in years, go, prophesy at
‘Thy children teach to shun their ills to

come,
Tn these Head LN
A world of fowls beneath the
That dre not ft inform a prophecy

Ulysses

petit
Since so thy so much
Thy wroaging of our

Within the anger of
But this twill pre

Even to himself his anger shall confer
ee anguish, and thine own ends

From all their objects; and, besides, thine
Shall‘feel a pain, to make thee curse
worthy eau, ot sal touch ew
Bat Iw oon gve end to al ot fan
Preventiny chance can fail,

In for
Any the rang ce ea

‘Thar be ‘sort her out
oe ton worthy sp

Ohne loved: to leaneber fiends and fae
cease ts" ambition
pe match, For, chanos what cam

Women noe Tee

we
For any threats of austere prophecy,

‘THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Ea 08d. esate, vaunt’st of 90 in |

And thus shalt thou im much more hate
remain ;

Por still the Gods shall bear their ill ex-

Nor ever be
ble her nu

24]

i

c
read)
sea,

E

it

“opin or mild, or humane be,
Nox in bis mind form acts of

acts us
Commit, even to the foll swings of bis

| Since of divine Ulysses no man now,

‘Of all his subjects, any thought doth show.
All whom be govern'd, and became to

rate: ign cnn aes wees 8 diadem,

A most indulgent father. But, for all

‘That can touch me, withia no (4 fall
insolent wovers, that in violent

ind

Comal sings fou by tA wit of the

{Anahi hazard oftheir beds devour
use; since

yield past ope, But i ads me

Ye, lebstans, dha all this doth touch

ied he

aitord
| Sane aces ko! See

and you with only number
Bagh othe th roland ight."
Evenor'
«» Mentor! the tlle iosds"afook with

wid iaage svat thom hat wold
With us in storm, exciting

glad mine est gat wa? i oh oe

toil'd in that proof I sustain a Should nd tno ey vtory

oe

23 fies his state ;
toa

dispose.”
to the rest arose
chosen friend,

i

Be
ee

ripper
till his rete

iii

#

‘be set forth, he did com-

ive men, habited in feast, from

Should come nnd fad so fceisting bis
‘And hope to force hess fiom $0 sweet a

His wis should tinle arrive,
fot tenets bent for, where

Wai Se eo there death should
Ha must be couguer'd that with many

Tis charge, and seciog | Thoy. _epeliat antic things. To their

care of their king, his subjects reeeeraen ontter and let these two.
mien,

‘his son $0 much contempt to) Mentor and Halitherses, that #0 boast

to have govern'd most

gravely, and with seal, to him Ip endatp te aber, 0 the on

he sow affects to

0
But my mind says, that, sf he would but
m9

A little patience, he should here hear news
OF all things iat his wish would under-

Baton’ goad hops for of th i
at no for Ye course in
a whet
‘This said, the Council rose ; when every
peer
And all the people in dispersion were
‘To houses of their own ; the wooers yet
Made to Ulysses’ house their old retreat.
“elemactne, apart frm al the prea,

Prepared to shore, and, in the
His fair fhaads wastrd, did hae wo Pal Pallas

w Hs, O Godden, that but yesterday
Didst deign access to’ mo at home,

lay
Grave charge on ‘me to take ship, and to-
jul

ire
‘Along the dak seas for mine absent sive ;
Which all the Grecks oppose; amongst
whom most
that are proud still at another's

and the civil rights of men,

woorrs, my repulse main-

cost,
Past measui
My mot

tain.
Thus spake he praying ; when close to
him eame

Pallas, ica and Fe Mentor both in frame

OF voice and perton, and advised “him
These wooers well might know, ‘Tele-
machus,
‘Thou wilt not ever weak and childish be,
ie fo thee ‘be instill'd the faculty
ind and body that thy father graced ;
Rnd if ike hits, there be fa thee enchaced

Virtue to give words works, and works |

their end,

This a: YOFaRS, that to them thou didst eom-
Shall not 0 quickly, as they idly ween,

Be vain, or given up, for their opposite

sp)
But, if Ulysses nor Penelope

Were thy true parents, f then hope in thee
Of no more urging thy attempt in band ;
For few, hat rightly bred on both sides

‘Are! bbe’ their paredts/ tnany that ar
worse,

‘And mostew better. ‘Those then that the

(Or mother eall true-bora born yet are Rota

Like: worthy sires ‘are like to

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

But thow — now that in thee fader
not quite

“Thy fathers wisdom : and that future

Shall therefore show thee far from

Wise,

Or touch'd with stain of bastard cowardice.

Hope therefore says, that thoa wilt to the
ni

er toe (acta eeneen tay a

hut for the foolish woes, they bewrny:

‘They neither counsel have nor soul, since

Are neither wise nor just; and so must
needs:

Rest ignorant how black above their beads
Fate hovers holding Death, that one sole

day
Will make on fo make them all
For tuon tan pay he ‘shall

I, that have been before
thine likewise now will

more
Fly thee a,
‘Yhy father's
be,

Provide thy ship myself, and follow thee.

Go Lie he 5 hes home, and soothe each
woe!

Bot under hand fit alt things for the main ;

pad ie in a8 strong and sweet as you

‘And meil, the very narrow of a man,
Which ti good are enter sak, and

That with sweet food sweet vessels still

agrees
from the people straight will press for:
Free yoluntares tea for for ships, emow?

ins, both new
mate aia bs ‘uilt all jal seul 1 m
And choose cone soever

please

whith ch egw ‘we'll straight launch, and
This i ape ake Jove, daughter, Pallas;

No more ‘Telemachus her charge deferr’

Dat ncted Horne ad sud et art S68

Amidst his hall th’ insulting’ wooees flea
Goats and roast swing. “Mongst whom

ay vow,

Comme, do as we do, put not up your spirits
With these low ‘das Dan oar loving

te
Bofeat egegiouly, aad dink as Sep,

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘The ihings thou think’st on, all at full shall)

Ship, and choice oar, that ina tee wail
ra ‘on bravenly Pylos’ sand,
the fame of thy lusrions ste
Men, whom pride doth

De arate,
Nor are constrain'd ten merry at thee

Is't fot enough, that all this time ye bare
Oped in your entrails my ‘chief goods a

grave,

eae eee Ce ee
ba Ad growth more grown my
een rm Neel ps as
Perce how much f waa _misgovern’d
1 nom wily 1 san bring ye home

Toot in « merchant's ship T ster my
‘Which Mews in ‘best ; since me!
your sights

ye
Incapable ‘or men to row."
"This aid, Wi and be coyly snatch]

on
Day Uke lm, far from aid of
And so he makes ws work; for al the
af his goods here we shall share ; the

Left to his mother and her choven sponse,"
‘Thus they while he room ascended,

And large, balt by he father, where did
Gold and brass heap up and In cola
Robes, great store of orem land
Stood ‘uns of sect old wines along the

wall;
Neat” nd divine drink, kept to cheer
witha
‘Ulysses’ old heart, if he turn’é again
From labours fatal to him to sustain.
The doors of plink were,

uisite
Kept with a double key, and day and night
Aitanen ava eons aad areas
‘Who all trust had for her sufficiency,

Old Euryciea, ane of Opis race,

Sun to Pisenor, and in Psing race

With geay Minerva ;

And said = “ah ign draw me the most
“sweet
te

in hope be shall retire.
‘Tecive soelafllie forth, nad atop them

well,
‘Then into well-sew'd sacks, of fine ground
Nor, to any one
be

st
Ascend ber high reom and for sleep pre-
Scien Dinara pce n
‘Fo find my father." Out Kurycten cried
tears: ‘Why & your mind
a fo this course? whither will

go raf leie os, and lores,
i Roearhina

pater from the embrace
is ad cu an wks
you from your loved

Eta betas rl ge
destrnction,

‘To your then thelr

Of ait your gooss. on

Yiare strong.
Mate fafe abete, It fits not you a9
To ser so mach by the aged
eames erness

in raurse,” said he, “for,

‘The will of God, attempts about.
Swear therefore, aot to wound roy mother's
With word of this, before from heaven

hen

‘Th’ eleventh or twelfth light, o herself shall

‘To shi of me, of bears me put to seas;
Lest her fair body with ber woe’ be

ee
To this the great oath of the Gods she
ewore:
‘Which havin; ‘sworn, and of it oe, due
Perorn’d to fall, to. vessels Wii
And vin welsew's sacks pourd foody

ne ‘mean-time he, with cunning to conceal
fhought of this from others, himeel

Ee peved hous, Wb the ove ti be-
‘Then grey-cyed Pallas other thoughts did
And like ‘Telemachus trod through the
Commanding all his men in th’ even to
Aboard his a Again then question’s
Phronius’

for aj son,
cot ah hin to be done
sun then

Socwon, bis

About his shi
Assured rk should.
And exble shadows, slid through “every

street,
apes ae * hitioes and soon aboard

reins of every needful thin
Tate fies a wens ship.” "The Goddess

Stoo in the pon’ extreme pst, where hee

Noy ny appointed, thick about her
ne every bresat abe did with spicit ¢n-

Yet still fresh laid the
D Projects grey-eyed

Strnight to the house she 1
Pourd on exch wooer ; which so Haid én

‘As all were drinking, and each band tis
(The cup) let fall. All start up, and to
Nor more would watch, when sleep £0 sur-

Thabe,Heocon, gets ‘Then did Pallas

‘Rebng Mentor fom hi etre nest
Asa ead hat ai bis aad men were

ine she | A ravish’d spirit, and led as she did

And he her most haste took out step by

‘Amived at sca) tnd aby ey found
hig thai
To yhont he pace sald

No bot ty mother, nor her maids, but
one
Knows our intention,” This express'd, be

‘The soldiers
nol CA Dee Sen ead beard their

Aboard’ the prince went; Pallas stil

before

Up hasted after. He and then
Put from the shore. His soldiers then he

‘bee Olt thel apeia es which they heand,
A beethen mast, then fo the hollow
‘They put and holsted, fd Mt im bis
Wile; andwith w-wrentbed ales
eke white sl; whieh gray Pilla ow

i

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 33

‘With foll and fore-gales through the dark | Their arms about the ship ; and sacrifice
deep With_crown'd wine-cups to th’ endless
Fhe parple waves, 0 mit cut, roar] | Deities

They offer'd up. Of all yet throned above,
sen the ship sides, that now ran and They most observed the grey-eyed seed of

Jove
The seas up, Then the men be-| Wha, from the evening til he moxning rose,
Da 3 And all day long their voyage did dispose.

‘VHB EMD OF THE SECOND BOOK,

THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

THE ARGUMENT.

iS
z
:
i
i
F

‘book these three! of greatest place
nerve with man}
finery

sett

ze

ANOTHER,

Tappa. Ulysses’
at Nestor fos
“Thence Falls fica
‘Tre sun now loft the great and goodly lake,
And to the firm heaven bright ascent did

make,

To shine as well upon the mortal birth,

Inhabiting the plow'd life-giving earth,

AS on the ever-treaders upon death,

And now to Pylos, that so garnisheth

Herself with buildings, old Neleus’ town,

The ‘prince and jess come had strange
ts shown

Ties tos mated sboce the people there
‘To Neptune, that the azure joth wear,
Beeves that were wholly black gave boly

flame.

Nine seats of state they made to his high
name j

And every seat set with five hundred men,

And each five hundred was to furnish then

‘With nine black oxen every sacred seat.

These of the entrails only pleased to ext,

* Pallas
4 vic Minerva, Nestor, and Telemachus,

And to the God enflamed the feshy thighs,
By this time Pallas with the sparkdlag

‘And fe she led, within the haven. bore,
‘Strook sail, cast anchor, and trod both the

shore.
Bion Ses a eens Then sid Pallas:
“Now

No more befits thee the least bashful bow ¢
T’ embolden which this act is pat on

thee,
‘To seck thy father both at shore and sea,
And learn in what clime he abides 50 cleee,
Or in che power of what Fate doth
Come then, go right 10 Newor;

se,
If sn bia bosum any sounsel be,
‘That may inform wi. Pray him not 40

mmaoe
‘The common courtship and to speak in

shall E
Prevent myself? how greet his 2
My youth by 20 rcap tal Sie al
a

‘That can digest my mind's Instinct Im words
Wise, and besceming th’ cars of ono 80

‘Thy mind will some conceit
‘impress,
And something Ged will prompt thy
Towardness ¢

For, 1 thy birth, and breed:
Were aot ia spite of what the Goda eau

This said, she swif before, and

Her Sa rsehgi tey = follow tae
antly.

Whea soon they reach'd the Pylian throngs

‘Where Nestor with his soas sat; and the
meats, «

entry, took their hands, and
both would sit; their entry first

Cl ete sip hs geve toes kono’

‘Betwixt his sire and brother Thrasymed,
‘Who sat at feast on soft fells thar were

Along the sea sands ; kerved, and reach’d
to thes
Parts of the inwards, and did make a

;

i

i
H
if

it idk add delight ;

Si?
tee
He

fal

in this:
these fir sons of his,
Femi, next them,

Pyfians, that have offer'd now

ws
Hite

‘renowmed hecatomb to thes,
fit for them, and free ;
‘abd me,

Hie

‘And tow, fo pray, and dons she had one,
‘She gave the Gir round bowl ¢ Ulysice

son.
‘The meat then dread, and drawn, and

sald:

“Now Bfe's desire is served, as far as
‘Time fits me to enquize what guests these
Pair guests, what are ye? and for what
Your ship the molt Gecps? Fon St
four 3} ‘or fit mer-

chandire,

Or radely coast ye, ke cer men of ?
Ths rode acc" eepaag, dememely

__ eeting.,
“The iof ethers in their good conterting?”
‘The wise Prince now his boldness did

+7
For Pallas’ self had barden'd hin within ;
By this device of travel to explore

His abseat father ; which two girlonds

wore 7
Ph a spirits ; and
‘To gain him high grace in th’ accounts of
™ O Nestor ! still in whom Neleus lives!
And all the glory of the Greeks survives,
You ask from we are, and relate:
From Ithnea (whose seat is situnte
‘Where Neing, the renowned

favoked: “' Hear thou, whose | The business,
eaves,
‘whole earth, nor disilain thy | And not the public.

To event with earth the height of
‘Of all men obe, that any same did bear,
And fought for Troy, the several ends we

a6

‘THE THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Tfon the continent by enemies slain,

Or with the waves cat of the ravenous main.
For his love tis that to your knees I-sue,
‘That you would please, out of your own

clear view,
Frsseare Ns and end sor sry, if yourenr
Hath heard of the unhay

jom his mother

‘To too much sorrow

‘You then by all your bounties I implore,
perenne mans
™) fatl ren
aoe, the Trojans, where ye both has

‘The Grecian sufferance) that in nought

‘To my respect or pl you will glose,
But w rere Serta ines dis-| A:

teoag!
‘QO my much-loved," said he, ** since
you renew

Remembrance of the miseries that grew
‘Upon our stil-instrength
‘Troy's peopl

ot wn tes Or
Achilles brought by sea and led to gain
‘Aboat the eovatsy or ius thal veh
‘About the city, where to death were brought
Al our chief men, as many as were there,
‘There Mars-like Ajax lies ; Achilles there ;
‘There, the in-counsel-like-the-Gods, his

‘There my doe son Antilochus took end,
Past measure swift of foot, and staid in

fight.
A number mare that ills felt infinite ;
Of whieh to reckon al, what mortal man,
mete six years you say bere,
Serve such enquiry ? You would back again,
Ate with pe een greg
Before you heard it,

wo them,
With a all the depth beats ee
Piatt De thought, Ul knit to ill past

Yet still they told us; nor would yet Jove

opposing
iT must touch a

Rest to feavuioas nor will scarcely
But pad man lived, that would in “habtic

His wisdom

West
Hi

is son indeed, mine

tN ea equal) s0 ols

or all ways. “If you be
‘eyes even ravish me

* Patroclus.

‘Greece |

To admiration, And in all consent

Your Besse pels on toe pea orna-
Nor'wotid one sy, that one 30 young
(Unless sa) thetorioso-

And while we hed baer Fran t
Never in speceh maintain'd di

Nor set in coun but, by one

mt spirit and
rhe fon Gov at

ve What best beeame them dey might pat ia
—— pen towers we had
See,
For all the were neither just nor
lop
he Father can do

By whose help she betwixt the brother

in,
Let fall contention ; who in counell met
In paren timeless, when the sun was

Andale Gost alta amecharged
Yet then the kings would utter thelr de

And they a Mi
faa a ey sumneg, Menges. be

But ‘a lood
Whose wily, they thou epee

Whale! hecatombs to Aiea ia

Her high wrath to them.
‘She ‘would tet so be woo for not with
Th ‘Soul Gods are turn'd from what
they plese,
| So they, divided, on foul stood.
leet in huge rout rose, their wine
Two, pk, = affecting. And that night's
We re Fate: So eating iia tees

men
‘The people's guide, Atrides did contain

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And half, being now aboard, pat forth to

A most free gale gave all ships prosperous

God sete thea the huge whale-bearing

‘vd Tensios wereach'd: where, for time's
rites to the Gods: but Jove,
‘bore yet no love

‘part of us back to sea again ;
were th’ abundant-in-all-counsels

man,
Your matchless father, who, to gratify
back tohim aid fy.
But I fled all, with all that follow'd me
1 knew God studied

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re

a7

And safe Idomensmus his men led
To bis home, Crete, who fled the armed

field,

Of whom yet none the sea from Bim with
Aides you have both heard, though ye

His Groff dwellers, what an end had he;

His wreakful sword. ‘And thou my friend
fas he
Fortis bath his fame) the lke spirit tm thee
Assume ut all parts. Fair and Lee,
‘Thou art in all bope; make it good to tt
end,
‘That after-times as much may thee com-
He answer'd: "© thou greatest grace of
Orestes made that wreak his ewe,
And him the Greeks will he 0 aa

praise,
‘Verse finding him to last all aftondays.
And would to God the Geds would favour

me
With his performance, that my injury,
Dong by my mothers woos ies

I might revenge upon their every sot ;
‘Who, pressing me with contumelies, dare
Such thangs a8 past the power of urlermnce

are.
But Heaven's great Powers have graced my

With no such honour, Both
Are bore to suffer
" Because

my sire and T

¢ wourrs,

+ Report says, many such, fn spite of thee,

‘Woolag thy Tooter, fa thy Bouse commit

The ills thou namest. But sy pro

coodeth it

‘From will in thee to bear so foul « foil,

‘subjects’ bate, that wish thy

x
[And "Sil not ald thee, since their spirits

name w

rely
etre ai| Wat hoow they, ba angen thy ber

Come "and with wotenoe ther viiece
py:

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QF be alone, or all the Greeks with him?
Minerva now
Thee, ns thy father in times past ; whom,

All Penn, she with glorious favours
ymoed

a
Amougst the Trojans, where we suffer’d $0;
(OF I.did never see, in such clear show,
Goils #0 grace & man, ns she to him,
‘Toll our eyes, appear'd in all ber trim)
If's0, I say, sho would be pleased to love,
And that her mind's eare thou so much
couldst move,
Asi thy fwher, every man of these
Would lose in ‘death their seeking mar

"6 Yhtber," answer’ he, “you make

aunace
Scim me throughout. Beyond the height) Where then
ase

‘You raise expression ; but ‘twill never be,
‘That f shall move In any Deity

So blest an bonour, Not by any means,
If Hope should prompt me, or blind Con-

ne Gish ot fools) or every Deity
ould wil it for “tis pat past ty dein
he burning-eyed answer’
"" What a spench
Hath Nao} the Teeth yguard Nature gave to

Fit question of thy words before they fly!
God easily* can (when to a mortal eye
off} a mortal satisfy ;

‘And dors the more stil. For thy cared-
for sire,

T rather wish, that T might home retire,

After my sufforance of a world of woes,

Far MC seal then my glad eyes might dis
clase

‘The day of my return, than straight rete;

qin standing by my bomschold

As A Seemann did, that lost his life
thus, and his falser wife.
"ror tocome at length, ts due to

Nor Peper b Gods themselves, when Fate

‘Their most-l loved man, extend his vital
breath

hy the fix'd bounds of abhorred

“ Menor sakd he,
Ricstoe faa te porto fons i.

“let's dwell no

* Velente Dee, wikil ext difficile,

Spirit enough to dare his brother's death”
ath feos eh nal ae so al

bad not

‘4 heap beietahle
But fois’ and dogs had torn him in the
Furst et pct Re
Hod firen Nien os san heir, te

Shen d even to women.

To orto: Shek oe auc

‘oe sinew’s sufforance,

ta Argor uplands tt

Aa apie wife with foroe of word
Flatterd and soften'd, who, at first, a+

horr'd
A fact so infamous. The dame
feet ne a ee ee
‘Theng (wes 9 Poet ht Siena

vig Ge compa a ey hing

Hine ee all guard to her dignity,

+ #giathos 1 aide dake

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3x9

Bat when strong Fate so wraptin ber| Bare, and all broken, on the confines
‘That she resolved to leave her fit respects, Ot Goriys that the dav was likewise

Into a desert isle her lian led,

‘There left, the rapine of the altars fed.

Then brought he willing home his will's
won

On altars offer'd many thighs ;

Hang in the God's fanes many ornaments,

Garments and gold, that he the vast
events

Of such a labour to his wish had brought,
4s nether fell into a hope nor though.
‘At last from 7 'd Sparta’s ki

Boa oklng her untouch’d. And, that
Might 2 no wore of her, when both were

‘To sacred Sonim {of Miverva's town
‘The goodly promontory) with his shafts

‘Augur Apollo slew him that did steer

‘Atrides’ ship, as he the stern did guide,

‘And she the full speed of her sail applied.

He was a man that nations of men

Excell'd in safe guide of a vessel, when

A tempest rush'd in on the ruffied seas ;

His name was Phrontis Onetorides.

‘And thus was Menelaus held from home,

‘Whose way he thirsted so to overcome,

To give his friend the earth, being his pur-
‘suit,

And all his exequies to execute.

But sailing still the wine-hued seas, to
reach*

Some shore for fit performance, he did
fetch

The steep mount of the Malians :
there,

With open voice, offended Jupiter

Proclaim'd the voyage, his repugnant mind,
‘And pourd the pulls out of @ shrieking

That 2 trish’ billows, heighten'd like to
hills ;

and

Crete

Casting the navy, where the sea-waves
meet

Rough Iardanus, and where the Cydons
Ti

ve.
There is a rock on which the sea doth
drive,

* Olvera wévroy : sivop cujus facies vinum
reprasentat.

Andy" hiher sent the South a hori
OF waves againgt the top, that was) the

Of that torn cliff; as far as Phoestus’ strand,

A little stone the great sea's rage did
stand.

‘The men here driven seaped hard the ships

shocks,
The stip the themselves being wrack'd against

rocks,
‘Save only five, that blue fore-castles bore,
Which wind and water cast on Egypt's

where "(there victling well, and store of
Avot is ships brought) his wild way did
And) other languaged men was forced
Meat space Zgisthus made sad work at
And ane his brother, forcing to his
Aide "subjects; and did seven years

His yoke upon the ich Mycenian state.
But fn the eighth, to his afrighting fate,
Divine Orestes home from Athens came ;
‘And what his
He made the
neath :
Death evermore is the reward of death.
‘Thus having slain him, a sepulchral
feast
He made the Argives for his lustful guest,
‘And for his mother whom he did detest.
‘The self-same day upon him stole the

(Good at ‘a martial shout) and goods did

ring,
‘As many as his freighted fleet could bear.
But thou, my son, too long by no means

al father felt, the same
‘Aigisthus groan be-

err,
Thy goods left free for many a spoilful
the

guest,
Lest they consume some, and di
And, rou perhaps, besides, thy voyage

To Moncliws yet thy course dispose
I wish and charge thee; who but late

arrived
From such a shore and men, as to have
lived

930

Avd whom
Wain sesso vost, that in a year

id i
Soh ad te bored ast me, Loe

With ‘sip Jo and men {or if thox plesest|
‘To pass by land, there shall be brought for
Both, horse and chariot; and. thy guldes

ly sons: eS to S| ee divine,
ren to the king wi lke amber)

Titres tie Groth of him, ‘nor Joves he
Wisdom’ jn truth fs, and he's passing
"This sald, the Sun went down, and up
“© father, all good’

Bear ‘tye directions. But divide we now
The sacrifices’ tongues, mix wine, and

To Neptune, and the other ever blest,
‘That, having sacrificed, we may to rest.
‘The fit hour runs now, light dives ont of

date ;
‘At sacred feasts we must not sit too Iate,"*
: herald

She said ; they heard ; the waier

‘The qoute sows'd oops wih wide van
Teaetepat ikea Cegitning Gon ta
‘Toeie parting banquet. All the tongues
‘The fire they gave them, sacrificed, and|
Wing tod divine rites used, to each

Mtpecve and’ Telemachus desis
‘They might to ship be, wate his leave,

Hie, moved with that, provoked thus

“Now Jove forbid, and all the long-lived
four leaving me, to sleep aboard a ship ;

As Thad dis space Pens whi
Even to my oabedoes, and’ had ‘not
Nor covering in my house; that warm nor
A gunk nor tm had means to sleep
Soret both eed ‘and wealthy cover-
ingr keep

(ny our hile
Joys survival, who sh
Whomere my house
"My much-loved com
All this becomes thee. But persuade to
“This night with thor thy soa Telemactns 5
For more convenient is the course forms,
‘That he may follow to thy Bouse and
reat,
And I'may board our black-eall ; that
addsest
At all parts T may make our men, and
Al! with my presence; since_of all men

bot ysl the elo, tere ae
Youth, “hat stent fe and edly

Great ‘Telemachus, and are his
if Pace ilitude of form and.

For “heir coomaneey 1 wail therlore
Sloe or Black Dark ut, when light |

it she
Recsien Soe Tintend
Amongst the ‘Caucons, met tbat are to

A atbt to me, nor small, nor Sew, Yor |

Take you lm home; whom fn the moc

With canst and your sons, and given
course,

Tea away she flew, fornid like the

Men call the onsifrage; when
(Arann torah Tren" old an ade |

mired,
The youth's, hand took, and said:
My Rope sys chy root wil no
Nor‘one ‘und In war, when

So yeing stend the, and become thy
Nox yi the eaver-boused.

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But Tritogenla’s seif, the seed of
The great in prey, that did i fa ener

His sons, and all his heaps of kindered ;
‘Who entering his court royal, every onc
He ‘@ in his several scat and

‘And every ono, so kindly come, he gave
cop; which mone was let
to have

| Before this ‘leventh year landed him from

‘Whieb now the butlers hed leave ¢
employ.

Who therefore picroed it, and did give it

vent.
Of this the old duke did a cup present
re erey gmat: made his maid many &

That wears the shield fringed with bis
And gare ber te ‘With this rich
And food sufficed, sleep all eyes did
And’ all fot home went: but bis court

Tene tcs, ditine Ut ‘son,
Must maks'bis lodgiog, or not please his

beart.
Abed, all chequer'd with claborate|

Within a that rung like brass,

He his goest to; and his bedfere’

That sech a gloss as richest ointments
Tistorn. ls igh pees} when, ts coon
mcg mae the Gods (his father) used
Who nom, by fate forced, stoopid as tow

That, fear of al the Gods, 1 ae
To os favour ; ‘wea voretenied

[At Neptene's feast her ht 20
Tae ches eo) aed oy ea rh

Cant Sih: bough; which et the herds-

‘asetier toes dete exe gona vessel
And all yee dices bring, sare’ only

Aled th smith that works ingot come

[Lacctias) to attend, and lend his hand,
gee the both Borns round about with

‘he Ft roman bere oe But first, see
‘The maids within, that they prepare a
Set veats through all the court,

seats throug! see straight

The purest water, and get fiel fell'd.”
This said, not one bat in the service

held

Oficious band. The ox caine Led from

‘The soldiers troop'd from ship; the smith
be came,

‘Then th’ old knight Nestor gave the
‘smith the gold,
‘With which he straight did both the horns

And trimm’d the offering so, the Goddess
a
Divine and fair Stratius,
‘Held both the horns. Thewnter odorous,
Tn which they wash'd, what to the rites
was vow'd,
retus, in a caldron all bestrow'd
herbs and flowers, served in from th’

holy room
‘Whee al were drest, and whence the rites

‘And afer bim's ballow'd virgin came,
That.

‘brought the barley-cake, and blew the

flame.
‘The ave, with which the ax should both be hers and

And cut forth, Thrasymed stood by and | Thi
held.

Perseus the vessel held that should retain
‘The purple liquor of the oftering slain.
‘Then wash the pious father, then the

ortaricy, salt, and ofl, made) took, and
Askid many a boon of Pallas, and the
state

Ofaall the offering did initiat
In three parts cutting off the hale, and

cast
Amidst the lame. All th invocation past,
And all cake Broke; manly Thrasy-

Sto ear, and sr and such a blow he

(ADI th ofitag, thal to earth ba wank,
His neck-verves gunder‘d, and his spits
unk.
Out shrick'd the daughters, daughter-in-
laws, and wi

ore Nistor, who helt life
‘Of Clymen's daughters, chaste Euryuice.

‘The ox on broad earth then laid laterally.
They, Held, while duke Pisistraus the

Dissolved, and set the sable blood afloat,

And then ‘the life the bones left. In-
stant!

Trey cot him up; apart flew either

That ‘with the fat they dubb'd, with art

‘The throat-brisk, and the sweet-bread
pricking on.

‘The inwards,cut in cantles; which, the meat
peel ei ss consumed, they roast

I Pol;
scanners atten
tel - x

whey Aiting gn and wih

ms
Sha cast.x ‘white shitt quietly ofr his Bead
And, ten bis weeds put om ; when forth

And did the cof 8. God premant sa |
‘ Nestor took his honourd

_ ‘of the people. Then, the meat
Pthe spare pats Toasted, off ey

Sat, and lta. Bt zoon the
Rose, and in golden bowls

few
14 ‘a others:
wine,

‘Till, when the rest felt thirst of Seast de~

Nestor bis sons bade fetch his high-maned

And them in chariot join, to mun the |
course

‘The prince resolved, Obey@ as soon as

Was Nestor by his sons, who straight pre

Both horse and charlot. She that kept the
at

Both bread and wine, and all such vlands |
more,

‘As should the feast of Jove-fed kings com

Purvey'd the voyage. To the rich coach
ross

‘Teo duke Pisttan he ee ener

rc c

And scourged, to force tovield, who

And lft chetown that far her splendour

Both ohiing fll and shook it all the
lay.

But now the sun set, darkening” every

When | ies to Pheris came sod in the |

Of Diocles (the son t' Orsiloctus,

oe x

aero

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‘Whom flood Alpheus got) sleptall that night;| Rode scourging still their willing flying
‘Who gave them each due hospitable rite. steeds,

‘But when the rosy-finger'd morn arose, _ | Who strenuously perform’d their wonted
‘They went tocoach, and did their horse}

‘inclose,
Drave forth the fore-court, and the porch| down,
‘that fields| And shadows all ways through the earth
Each breath a sound ; and to the fruitful] were thrown,

speeds.
Their journey ending just when sun went

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‘THE ARGUMENT.
Racarreo now lo the Spartan court,
relemachus prefers report

EpEESe2
fi
it

3

|. Her
To Achilles’ son, who was
ind to bet at'Tvey. ‘And ches the

| And
Le elgteed gk ap ee i

(ol whch Pel in the imperial crown} |
horse and hey eons

ge fous’ ih

* Aaaebainova xqréergay which isexpounded
sue sia iy biaranen sin tera ma

-

Mean space, the hig!
feast did dow

Of friends and neighbours, joying with the
Amongst’ whom did a heavenly Poet
z
And touch his by Amongst wbom like
wise danoed =

Two, who in that dumb motion advanced,
Would prompt* the singer whist 10 sing

All i lint ater cou a stay,
‘With horse and chariot, Telemachus,

In care and his respect, he ran and
“Guest Joverkept Menelaus! two such
oer
The oe Frm each or ayy at
‘Theis way to some suck howe as may
his ir koown arrival with more welcome

Be , answerd: Thou dict

2
if a fool, Boett ‘ill now ;
wea ree

Ve ty ain spirits. We ourselves now

Our home by much spent
Of other mea | or Know It Jove
‘With other afterewants ‘State

ty
‘our H
from our feast no more de

| Thos Welcome rests; ‘but take their steeds.

fram coach,
Aad ‘with pocedanes in their
proach.” Lars —

‘THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

deaths
That fell ar Del pre by <— revived breaths.
And el sit ) ourni

apn as and sometimes make

iy tears for thelr Ls
Src eee
‘The pleasure soon admits satiety.

SS en ete wana wet ‘not so mine]

(Thowgh ch they more me) ca'oua scl
man’s miss ;
For which, my sicep and meat even loath-

In his renew'a it ; since no Greck
hal

Grace for such Inbours as Lagrtes* yon

Hath wrought, and
nought

But future sorrows f

For his long absence, since 1

If life or desu detaia hima; since such woe

For his love, old Laértes, his wise wife,

‘And poor young son sustains, whom new
wit

He left as sirless.* This speech grief to
(Pour fron 1° from the son's lids on the earth) | 4

‘Told of the ‘the father, did excite ; who kept
His cheeks dry with his Ted weed as he

His bak hands used therein. Atrides

Begin to know him, and did strife retain,
If he should lee himself confess his sire
Of wih all iting eieamatance enquire

While this his thoughts disptted, forth |

distaff-deck’d divine,

Aira sat a chair; i Alcippe Lae ;
‘A piece of tapes ine woo! :

Pamlo a sliver cattoet contecrd,

Given by Alcandra, nuptially endear

© Imending Ulysses, + Diana.

cty was, where wealth In
His Ep house held; out of which
Inga "Rises, lesb 0,

Foie gifts, a detaff that of gold

wrought,
| And hat ‘nich cabinet that beige
Round, and with gold bd, now Gae

On which extended (crown'd with finest

oryite olden distaf lay.
wih ech ‘state-chair, pina

tous,

King eed whom these mem com-
meni

‘Themselves for, that our comt now bakes
to friend?

suffer'd, to himself} Lik

1 looks my thoughts, that Seema
ower to perinde me thus, who did but
‘When ‘pely he was bor, the form they
But a is ater grace, whom mee asd

ia grace resembles, thar swakes me wets
Thought that he now is like Telemachss,

‘Left by his sire, when Greece did uedler~

bold war for my impudency's sake.”
THe moneerd Now "wir har yon
mn his eyes! onder,

Hiss and fe
of ss 80 well

his

nowledie for oe bis continnal Sow
hea? ch mere By ta

Such bitter tears for that which fats Bees

wold (ening sf sew) sc Row Be

|

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shall yield time to you and

me
do what fits ; and reason mutually.”
‘This said, Ue careful servant of the) 4
Asphalion, ‘pour'd on th’
‘And il te ready feast set ready hand.
Be Helen now on new device did stand,
straight a —— to thetr wine,
ing cares and angers, did de-

A thought, of ‘Who drunk her cup:

tds yo ‘no not if dead
Nouri father or his mother were ;
Ne if hls brother, child, or chiefestdear,
should see mi ‘d then

* fans,
Such useful medicines, enly borne in
Of what was good, would Flelen erer
And this ulos to her Polydamna

a] wife of
fore tic ark’ herbs oF medicne do A
abundance. Many healthfut are,
many beneful, fers Ayah there
areas cat sat Nature's grace;
neg alld Poeon's race.
Sritiiies Sen Ber cesias tie!

In
Api

‘yee
She bad» pour wine to ft, and this speech

use|:
“Atrides, and these good men's sons, |

Makes: ee after other move,
In all t sings earthly ; forhe can do all.
‘The woes past, therefore, he 40 late let

mnforts he affords us let us take ;

nigh every fight, and every sulfering

Seti Ulead were ceed
Buk wat be Gi, aod suerdy when he
sngst the Trojans, where ye Greclans

Took pert with suferance, Hin part can | The

|] When both my

To your kind memories, How with ghastly
‘wou!

ee he mangled, and the Trojan

ae

fleet

Brought not besides. And thus through
‘every street

Ho ‘crept discovering, of no one man

through all this difference, 1 alome
es ‘See eae as ny

Flod me with wiles stil, “Nor could we
Ta diselad bim quite; and s0 (as
‘Wut womanly remarse of ene Oak
So wretched ah estate, hate ee)
we, | Won itn to take my house. Amd yet
rut ely / 1, to make him doubtless, swore
oath, to let Mirae esha
But then I bathed

he then
Confes'd, and told me aint

Auntie of he Thien pea retired,
bam ts i the fst for sleight and force

Their usands eaths by him the Trojan
Stikfas but I made triumph for their
For thea my heart eonecived, that once
T should reach home ; and yet did still re-
Wort tesco adie for me,
‘ad bridal Fooan, ue rob of 9, eave
Acid Sever me tc ap Sey
‘Though nothing under heaven I here did

Tier busonad sds Wile what you

Is tear all pars well,
rs
Kod mya thal so yy ue

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

And great berocs, measuring many a
Have r by these that light me,
om ARS agiheagen

One with a bosom $0 to be belowed,
As that in which th’ accomplish’d spirit

Ulysses. eat breve mas,
act, and sutfer, when we wan
toms in the brave-built horse,
‘When all we chief states of the Grecian | Withi

‘Aumerem ie Troan, you ite, wey ro-| The, mom

For you, at last, came to us; God, that

‘You took on you with olcesollke and &,*
visited,

#9
Teeeais Amat her handmaid

‘And put fair bedding fa the porte,
Lay parle blankets on, rugs warm and

‘And cast an armas coverlet aloft
FIBA tes tty road Rast and made

uae sae lodgings
4 portico without the house,
his large-train-wearing spouse,
i of women, fot the way,
ln a retired recelt,toge
| the King. ose, and put
His Toyal weeds, his sharp sword hung
upen
His ample shoulders, forth his chamber

went,

And did the person of a God
mache novents Ka, #1) baa
Speech af tis journey’s prepation

“And what, roy you
Provoke thes on the back of the

To visit ‘Lacediemon the ditine?
Speak truth, “Some public [came] or only
«Pome said he, **tohear, Zany fame
Breatbed of my father to thy notice came.
Leds is sack'd ; my St works of the
Are all destroy’d ; my house doth nothing
But seein, Oat ‘that kill my harmless
Rossukey son er ob eerkee
‘Their sn wit them, pete
“That woo ty motber, most Inkumanely
Committing i injury 00 injury.
To thy knees therefore I am come, t' at-

tend
Relation of the sad and wretched end

Atrides, ana!
The

The of heman
pa oe Fore Bia Vosclisafe me

Peace T can sestain)
lain and simple tra ofall you koe.

ssaxst)
Beare eet et

330
le, deey sighing, answer'd him; "O.
"ht “sh ‘poor vasals should affect the
To a the Lage of such a worthy's bed f
As when a hind, her calves late farrowed,
To give suck, enters the bold lion's den,
He roots of hills and herby valleys then
For food | libere feeding) hunting; but at
Bescrntees to his cavern, gives his strength
q

‘The lives of bath the mother and her brood
In deaths indecent ; 50 the wooers' blood

‘Must pay Ul
O would a tore
‘The wise

inst Philomelides, in a fight
Peterman welcbullt te, where,
He stk the earth with him, and gat a

Of all the Grecians. O, it eT
He were as then, and with

Shortlved they all were, and cher muptials
Would prove as desperate, Bot, for thy
Enforeat with Til tet thee und
with prayers, ler
seen eh prayen

‘The truth directly, nor decline a thought,
Much less deceive, or sone thy sexre in
But what ‘old and still-true-spoken God,

ym the sea breathes oracles abroad,
Disclosed to me, to thee Tl all impart,
Nor hide one word from thy solicitous

a4
in Afgypt. where 2 mighty time
he ds Gods detsin'd me, though my natural

lim
Tnever 0 desired, because their homes

erly comman
certain island, eat

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYs.

‘My fleet full twenty days; the winds, that
ae

Had t Dor’ ‘a certain Goddess sod gil regard,
‘And pitied me in an estate 30 hang 5

‘And ‘twas Tdothea, honour'd Protess seed,
‘That old seadarer. Her mind 1 made

bleed
With my compassion, when {wali’d all
From ai ny solders, Prete

About the isle on’ fishing with
me |About, the isle on fishing

‘Hunger their bellies on her errand
She came close to me, spake, and

“OF all men thou srt the most foolish
Or sie ta sine, of stayst bere of

‘wooers | And ¢ fone in all thy iy sufferances rejolos,
‘That thas long liven detain'd bere, asd me

Const “ve thy, tarriance, Thou doest
‘h offend

“The minds of all thy fellows. 1
* Whoever thou art of the Deit

I
tefiersn, e eT

That Says my pastage from the fishy
sea
ans said she, ‘1 tell thee true y
/Anld esteem that gives

Who ea the deep of all the seas exquire;
Wao terns priest is, and, they say,

Him, if
weg
‘Thy course from hence, and how far off

doth lic
Pe mag eof

pe oe

]
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THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

‘Whatever: ‘oF ill hath got event,
Baa fine hy one and bard

Since hy departure from thy house.” This
Again I auswor'd : ‘Make the sleights die.
as re
‘Thy father useth, lest his foresight see,

rekon!

Or his fo tnklng nate of
"san the fix'd of his used abode.

man to countermine with

+] Our
sun

‘The eacaves, lovely Halon ies eal
From whom 8 'poltorne odour fs ex
Got from the whit-poos, en aes,

Kay gin the morn iMlustrates all the | Ts

ru ‘guide, and seat thee in the fittest

Ot vest expt, to go as aids to thee.
But now 171 ‘hed tee all the od God's

Like toa shepherd midst his lock of sheep.
Ja ie fot ley, call ep your hardiest

Viger enlsbas and hold him there,
all his strivings to be gone.
ters hit gpg Ao]
that in euth creep and

. or shine in beaventy fine.
you bim fem, and much the

from passing. ‘Bat when, as

ge OF
Lee,

i
F

i

When sleep first bound his powers, his
form ye see,
‘Then cnt your force, and th’ old heroe
free
And SS ae ibe heaven-born it
Tatas pel Y ffcts you, hindering bees rotreaty.
free sea-patsage ‘naLiNC Sew
This sald, she dived into phe Woy pe
‘And | my course cil ty Sips rot,
"That ce the sands stuck; where arrived,
ready. ‘Thea the Ambrosian
ae ae ee
‘Aurora rose ; we rose as
three of them on whom I mast relied,
For fm at every force, I choosed, and
Sel to the many-river-served seas ;-
fll assistance atk the Deities.
“Sica ne Toten the sea’s broad
Embraced ; and brought for mo, and all
“my rest
bina A ‘the sen-calves’ skins but newly
"o work a wile which she had fashioned
‘Upon her father. Then, within the samd
A covers Seeing, when these calves showkd
She sat “expecting. We came close to

Ets ster
‘one bis calves’ skin, But we then

‘A Mage Coplot. “The sea-calves” savour
So passiog sour, they still being bred at

‘$83,
It much afflicted us ; for who can please
these same sei-Leed

‘Bears sill about it, which ne ‘pointed
round

Ger ethene 0 ge roma
Fhe. easy, whalesmell

eve!

‘The whole momn's dae, with

We lay expecting. Whea
fame,

Forth rom the se, is shoals the seacalves

pusicat,

noon did

‘Asd oeder st last ny down and
Ang te iheviands And then th old sew

Vy
From forth the deeps, and found his ft
Survey and number, and came never
Tho craft we used, but told us five for
His erpled then diaeas with slesp be

And in Tush'd we, with an abborred cry,
Cast all our hanas xboat him Pee
And then th’ old Forger alr bis

First was @ lion with a mighty mane,

Kok a then,
pi am
aise sistas

‘We, with haired hearts, Bi is Sima

Wi ain nent rt
To ext gave words, and question’d |

"Wiley of the Gass, © Atres 200, |
“Advised and taught thy fortitude this!

leaght,
“To theeand hold mo thus in my dexpite?”
"What asks thy wish now? I replied

Why dost thow ask? ‘What wiles are these
thou show’st?
T have within this file been held for wind
A wondrous timo, and can by no means find
An end tomy retention. it hath spent
heart in me. Give thou then vent
To doxks s thns bound in me (ye Gods

all),
LWieh of the Godhead doth 0 foully fall
On my oddression home, to stay me
Avert me om ty way, te Gly car
Barrid to my passage? He replied : *OF
force,
Ifto thy home thou wishest free recourse,
‘To Jove, and all the other Delties,
‘Thou must exhibit solemn sacrifice ;
And ive) the fe
Ti ty i loved country’s settled reach, But

Ask hse rites thy performance? ‘Tis |

othe a
{tho shal ever 20 fs, nor

‘Thy esunty's earth, nor ee inhabited
‘Thy so magnificest house, tilt thou make

‘Thy voyage back to the Agyptian flood,

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

‘Whose waters fell from Jove; and there hast
ves

To Jove, and all Gods bowsed in ample

Devoted hecatombs, and then free ways,

‘Shall to thee, clear'd of all.

"This wold he; and, zt the bake
heart,

In suds « long and hand comme iota

My hope for bome, and charge my back

ee I made answer yet

See ne pilin

Seeks es ey Oe

ee

That (Sa ap tet when
frends embracod,
neigh oii" He made answer:
‘To ask to far. Te Sts thee not to be
Se cunning tn tine

[Nor seck to I —
shouldst forge

abode,
_| Before thon buy this curious skill with tears.

Many of thoes whe sete ea

death, and many left alive <
‘which ‘in strong’ bold doth

survive,
Amidst the broad sea. Two, in thelr

Tetreat,
Are done to death, 1 Bist not to
Who fell at Troy; thyself was
Ishi loge hp, Neptae e

Are stoop vd by
‘One chief

to

And
Inspite
in ber fane did, (when he ravished

2 Trojan shetess)* he had
tet 3 Tmplous Boast hat he weak

bear,
Despite the Gods, his ship safe through the
‘Then mised against him. These

pious braves te

* Comnérs

and their ships, do safe |.

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘When Neptune heard, in his strong hand
be took .
strook

Of which one fragment on the land he left,
The other fell into the troubled seas ;
At which first rush’d Ajax Oiliades,
{And oplithisship ; and then himself afloat
Sum on the rough waves of the world's

Ta Kong drank atc for his sin,
‘There, persh'd he. “Thy brother yet did

‘The wreath from death, while in the waves

ctel by he
Afficted by the reverend wife of Jove.
But when the steep mount of the Malian

shore
He fone to reach, a most tempestuous

Far lobe by wold that sighs so soe
‘Straight ravish'd him again as far away,
As to th’ extreme bounds where the

Where hist Thyestes dwelt, but then hisson
Zgisthus Thyestiades lived. This done,

‘When his return untouch'd appear’d again,
Back tum’d the Gods the wind, and set

Bard by his bow. Then, full of joy, be
His ship, and close ¢’ his country earth he
Kiss‘d it, and wept for joy ; pour'd tear on

tear,
To set so wishedly his footing there.
But see, a sentinel that all the year
Crafty Agisthus in a watchtower set
To spy his landing, for reward as great
As two gold talents, all his powers did call
‘To strict remembrance of his charge, and

Discharged at first sight ; which at first he
cast

Agamemnon, and with all bis haste
'd Agisthus, He an instant train
Laid for his slaughter : Twenty chosen men
Of bs plebelans he in ambush laid;
His other men he charged to see
‘A feast ; and forth, wit chavits

He rode t'invite him, but in heart em-
braced

Horrible welcomes, and to death did bring,
ith treacherous slaughter, the unwary
king.
Received bim at a feast, and, like an ox
Sain at his manger, gave ‘him bits and

No one left of Atrides’ train, nor one
Saved to Azgisthus, but himself alone :

All strow‘d together there the bloody court.’
‘This said, my soul he sunk with his report,
Flat on the sands I fell; tears spent their

I ugha abborr'd : my heart would live no
‘more.

‘When of tears, and tired with
tumbling there,
‘Th’ old Tell-truth thus my daunted spirits
did cheer :
‘No more spend tears nor time, O
Atreus’ son ;
‘With ceaseless weeping never wish was won,
Use uttermost assay to reach thy jos
And all unwares upon the mr
For torture, taking him thyself alive;
Or let Orestes, that should far out-strive
Thee in in fit vengeance, quickly quit the

Of sush'a dark soul ; and do thou the rite
Of burial to him with a funeral feast.”

With these last words I fortified my

breast,

In which again a generous spring began
Of fitting comfort, as I was a man ;
But, as a brother, I must ever mourn.
Yet forth I went, and told him the return
Of these I knew; but he had named a third,
Haldoa d the broad sea, still with life in-

Whom I ‘Feeoueht to know, though like
wise d

Andi pee mourn alike. He answered

I Nya mph Cal = Jpilaoe who compe Nd

In Nymph Calypso's ‘who compel

His stay with her ; and, since he could not

see
His country earth, he mourn'd incessantly.
For he had neither ship instruct with oars,
Nor men tofetch him Eom those stranger

whee’ "eave we him, and to thy self de-

Whom not in Argos Fate nor Death shall
end,

But the immortal ends of all the earth,

So ruled by them that order death by birth,

‘The fields Elysian, Fate to thee will give ;
‘Where RI thus rules; and where

men live

A never-troubled life, where snow, nor
showers,

Nor irksome Winter spends his fruitless
powers,

But from the ocean Zephyr still resumes

Acconstant breath that all the fields per-
fumes.

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34

THE FOURTH BOOK OF NOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

alee) ae es eeaise, Hees, 9,

Tand my Bote ene tk os oar a
And worlds of thoughts 1 varied wit ala

me eR a ara

‘And sie bereft us of our visual light.
At st ‘sails, rear'd, ohn} let

the shores,
And beat the foamy ocean with our oars.
Again then we the JovofalTa food dia
fete
As far as Agypt ; where we did beseech
‘The Gods with hecatombs ; whose angers

ceased,
I tomb’d my brother that T might be
bless'd. <
All res perform’, all haste 1 made for
e,
And all the prosperous winds about were

Tad the passport now of every God,
‘And here closed all these labours’ period.
Here stay then tilt th’ eleventh or twelfth
day's light,

‘And 11 dismiss thee well, gifts exquisite
ing for thee ; chariot, horses three,

A cup of ciirious frame «

‘To serve th’ immortal Gods with

Mindful of me while all suns

skies.
open “Stay me not too long

ve here,
Though T could sit attending all the

year.
Nor should, my house, nor parents with

‘Take iny affections from you ;s0.on fire
With love to hear you are my thoughts;

iy Plan friends 1 shall afflict with woe,
}maruen_ even this stay. Whatsoever

‘the its your grace is to bestow on me,

Vouchesfe them suct as T may bear and

Por your sake ever, Hotee, 1 list not
have,

To keep in Ithaca, but leave them here

To your soils dainties, where the broad
fields bear

Sweet eypers grass, where men-fod lote
doth flow,

Where whieat-like spelt, and wheat itself
doth grow,

ike white, and spreading fike =

ti
‘Hast thou made of the world | I well an

nieces ‘as being con-

| Unfit indeed, my store is such i
Of all my Terps then, hat up Tay
For treasure there, I will
‘The fairest, and of greatest meee Ln '
I wil bestow on thes a rich bareed
Ofssilver all, but all the brims up
With finest gold ; it was the only
‘That the heroical Sidontan king
Presented to me, when we were to past
At his receipt of me; and “twas the art
i great Artist that of heavenis free;
And yet even this will I Bestow on thes.”
h thus ended, guests case,

and did bring

| Muttons for pried tothe God-like king,

‘And spirit pit prompting wine, that strenuous:
-rhelr ibnnd-svreathed wies brought frat
and cakes,
‘Thus in this house did these thelr feast
apni
‘And in Utjse’ house atity
Saves aie | Teale aa
The “sone and hurling ; thus delighted,

“They exetclied such insolent before
Even in the court that wealthy pavements

‘Antinous did still their stifes decide,

And he that was in persoo deified,

Borymschus ; both Gnk-eaders of al

Foc im thei virtues they were pencipal
‘Noemon, son to

by
wee ow, who made the question
the
» ADtinous!' does any Teena here keow,
When this rte)
He made old te take

From sandy
My ship with i olwbichT now should
mks

‘THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

use myself, and sail im her as far
Elis, where of mine there are
and under thelr

tbe locks secre,

reat bat ox with what Gan dig

ified
Prete, or bonne, ware te
pent aebomdinat ween were they? Tell

Geni fect ts? let me ly kao.
‘ed eed ber ea
sect toy wil os haa bet
Woes Siting question be bad made with
ag Noemam amare ds did freely
[Salen teho-deperves tot
would do other, whea ach,
Di in distress ask? he should chutlish

“That would deny him. Of our youth the]

are 1 ny alegre

35

Is bere committed by Telemachus.

Rice ear salen, 8 SRL i
‘gainst his voyage, it it thus:

With ship and choice Sou of omc Dept

Bot hi 0, and all his mihi do

Sail with his ruin for tis father saft.”
his all spplauded, and gave ebarge to

Rose, greet Ulysses’ house did ro.
fan long Cio pas Sot ete Veoeiages

Had notice of their farfetch’d treachery.
Medon the herald told her, who had beard

Melita

‘hos te eight cet aa

Who, from the entry having Medon seem,

Prevents im thus Now herd what

affair,

Intend the famous wooers, im your repair?
To tall Ups mals tat thoy mt cone
an doing our work, and their banquets

within conferrd,

, liysses, bear?
Who never did ‘ganst any one proceed
in word or deed?

deny |r) ahah ih ier sings anche ig,

love, another
He sil ‘would, though might,
sien mod

Nor tothe worst did ever taste of 2
eee ects shew minds?

Goo tins rcv one, thanks grow ont

Medou, the learn'd ia wistom, ssswer'd
““T wish, O queen, that their ingratitudes
‘Their worst ill towards yos ; bet worse by

336

Blorept Ca adn lec ess

‘Their purpose is, as he returns to

bg ‘steels ia cruel death :
fame

breathe
News of hi sir, and will the Pylian shore,
‘And sacred Sparta, in explore.”
Miia Dews'dasslved to ber otk ies

and beart,
Long silence held her ere one word would | |

Baie oped 6a ull of ts; er sal not
All Tate uso lost; that yot at last bad
of Sse] words, which briefly thus she
Whe eft my son his mother? why
refused

His wit the solid shore, to try the seas,
‘Acd put in ships the trust of his distress,
That aro at sea to men unbridled horse,
And run, past rule, their far-engaged | Laert

‘course,
Amidst « moisture mean unstaid ?

homour came
From current of his own instinct, or flowd
From others’ instigations ; but he vow'd
Attempt to Pylos, or to see descried

‘His sire's return, or know what death be | O:
died."

“This said, he took him to Ulysses’ house

After the wooers ; the Ulyssean spouse,

Run, through with woes, lot Torture seize
her mind,

Nor in her choice of state-chairs stood
inclined

‘To take her seat, but th’ abject threshold
chose

Of her fair chamber for her loathed repose,
And moura'd most wretch-like. Roun¢
about her fell

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

lantern ernst ‘And nowa

0 worthy below, cone to ren
Beyond my knowledge; whom rade temn-

Made far from howe his most inglodioas

Uswappy wenches, that 20 one of al
in the reach of every one must

i
His taking ship) sustain’d the careful mind,
Tocall we fiom my bed; who this de-

fue Nahar co

EI auch soever hasted) of dead tad
(ora ee tat ‘Many a man Tf

‘That wotid have call'd old Delius sy slave,
(That Se iy nea father

At {ure) to have ron, and told
Ac rea pers Be could bold
From ¢ running the people, and
vow'd murtherers?
sand his,
His nurse then, ‘made
* bwin lot mo with your owm
Bee ee ee oe eee
Wee at hi some snags rot ale
is mn.
Th val gamer ine for whieh be picased

to call.
Riana pan ates mem

Not to report it
soubesd hes

Before the twelfth
Oryou sul ak me when Jou
Imptir not then your beauties with your

moan,
rt ee

‘Mer handmaids, join’d in a continuate yell. ‘Ascend you

From every corner of the palace,
Of all degrees tuned to her comforts’ fall
‘Their own dejections ; to whom ber com-

Of any measure, urge these tears on me ;
Nor vias there ever dame of my degree
So past degree grieved. First, a'lord so

Thai bad such handy spirits in his blood,
That ole wetues was ador'd witha
‘That all the Groeks did their superior call,

coon

ast affected, for his ages sake.
Bat heaven-kiogs wax Hot old, aod there

— to them ; formy thoughts never
Believe the heaventy powers conceit $0 ill

humorous eyes,

(on pe Iga of exerifice
and unstain'd with herdistrussful tears,

Pare ‘on, with all ber wormen-ministers

Up to a chamber of most heigtit she tose,

Aid cakes of stand barley aid impose

‘Within a wicker basket

decent order, thus she did invoke ;

EEQOR FF

=
we

‘These woorrs past all mean in ."
‘This said, she shriek'd, and Pallas heard

eoke with tumult all the air

‘Wit jurely satiate her delayful spleen,
‘ind one of ws nnstant nupelas
Poor dame, she dreams
we make
the life and slaughter of her son.”
sald he; but so said was not so done

‘FOL. it.

space, Penelope her chamber
And bed, rend peither at, nor ok ee

lept

Her strong thoughts wrougM so on bee
blameless son,

Still in contention, if he should be done

‘To death, ar ‘scape the impious wooers

; $0 fared she, till
of alate ad harvest

Aq idol, that Tpdthians did present
In structure® of her every lineament,
Great-out'd iarius® daughter, whom. for

johnei

Mourafel Peotlope, and make relent
‘The strict addiction in her to deplore.
This idol, like a worm, that less or more

not, what design | Contracts or strains her, dick healt conrad:

Beyead the wands oF

38
ee eT ‘© sister,

Ae Fou hither, since so far off tie
Your hows and and household? You were

never here

Before i how, and would you now give
<

Yo my so many woes and miseries ?

Meeting fitly all the faculties

My soul and mind bold, having lost before | Mi;

‘A hiwsband, that of all the virtues bore

‘The palm amongst the Greeks, and whose
fenown

So ample was that Fame the sound bath

Tong Gresoe and Arges to her very

And nowt ), 1 son, that did convert
My whole powers to bls lore, by ship Is

fone
A tender plant, that yet was never grown
To labour’ teste, nor the commerce of

For peat more than my husband I com-

in
And lest he should at ang sufferance touch
(Or in the sen, or by the men so much
‘Estranged to bim that must his consorts be)
Fear and chill tremblings shake each joint
‘of me.
Besides, his dat ‘sets on fors fexs'a
ae wayelay his neta, that haveaddresy'a
tos for Nis death""The sereedlscemed

said :

Let thus dimay thee; thow hast such a
mate

Attending thee, a8 some at any rate

Waid y wish to purchase, for ber power is

Mingiva pties thy delights’ defeat,

Be of comfort, nor fears £0 ex-

THE FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Whee erech Mavi eet aan to foretell thee

sv thou,” sald she, ‘be of the Gode
And heardst her tell thee these, thou mayst
From hr tlt thing he Deign thea

If yet the man to all misfortunes born,
My husbend, lives, and secs the sun

Tet ac earth, or hides his wretched
Ia Pit house, and lives amongst the
“Twill not," abe replied, Dee
Is cos coctizsed aad
Se os
rough 1 ‘Pe ofthe
Pee seenee tarred es ae
‘And es amour her loved, breast
‘When now 9» clea, in that first watch of
She sar the seed Dresin vanish from ‘her
Thee ship the seam waves
Andi the prince a Kaughty death
‘There rsa cetala land inthe sa,

iat rocky and roagh Ithaca,
‘That clity lest an ing reat,
Yet holds convenient havens, that two ways

tet
Ships in and out, eall'd Asteris; and
‘The wooers hoped to make thelr massacre,

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘THE ARGUMENT,

to clear
tand she

Neptune saw Ul

faite
hy

a

fe sbeald

j

\URORA Tose from high-born Tithon’s bed,
hod might re aealion
i . Imperial Jove,

urmut beat above,

‘That

Since he, that ruled as it in right behaved,
‘That all his sy 22s bis ebildsen loved,
Finds you so thoughtless of Bim and is

Tus men begin to say ye rale in eit,
nd grudge at what undergo,
Who yet the least Bart of his sufferance

|Thrall'd in an island, shipwrack’d in bis

ti

‘And, In th fancies that Caly poo bears,

Bound from his birthright, all his shépping

3

And ot bs soldiers not retaining one.

And now his mostloved son's life doth
inflame

‘The slaughterous envies; slnoe his father's
farne

‘Sparta. ‘This, with this

The Cidsdamembler answer: “What

words fy

‘Thine oun remembrance, damghter? Hhat
dl

not
The roid siven thyself, that tok’ thee

ow
Ulysses shall with bis retarm address
Tis wooess' wrangs? And, for the safe

access
His son shall make to his innative port,
Do thou direct it, in as curious sort

As thy wit serves thee ; it obeys thy

wooers."
‘Then turn’d be to bis issue r
And said; "Thou bast made good our
‘ambassy
To th’ other Statists; tothe Nymph then
now,
On whose fair head a tuh of gold doth
grow,
Bear our inse-spoken counsel, for retreat
Of patient Ulysses ; who shall
No aid from us, nor man,
But in a patch’ d-up* ake (bull as he cam,

° ie rate muita
"Exl exubigg wedvldepon, de rate

340

‘THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

And suffering woes enow) the twentieth | All

1
(ee eg
ith the that half Deities live,
Whe lite a Got sil honotr bim, and give
le clothes, and ship, and brass,

More than for gain of Troy he ever told
Where, at the whole division of the prey,
Ifhe a saver were, or pot away

Without wound, if he should gradge,

well.
But ty’ peal] therefore Fate 4

So well wit him, ether iere
aes, earth, and

Theos denied,
Bul tos fon heal wing shoes ns ued
Ambrosian, golden ; that in his command
Wis para ft of wind.”
as asa
Rp tis fod went, with which ‘he

The eves of any waker, when he pleased,
And any sleeper, when he wish'd, diseased,

“This took ; he stoop'd Pieria, and thence
Giid through the alr, and Neptune's con-

Kio be and check the wares

as light

As any sea-tew in her fishing flight

Her kenge sousing in the savoury seas,
he pass'd a world of wilderness ;

Bat whee te fara he touch’d, he

Up! from the blue sa to the continent
id_reach'd the ample cavern of the

Whom he within found ; without seldom | Thy

seen,

A sunclike fire upon the hearth did flame ;
qinattee precious, and divine the
frame 5

Of cedar cleft and incense was the pile

‘That breat! odour round about the

isle.
Herself was seated in an inner roo
‘Whom swenly sng he heard, and at her

About a curious web, whose yarn she threw

In witha golden shite. “A grove

In endless spring about

‘With odorous cypress, and pop!
crown’

‘Where hawks, sea-owls, and long-tongued

thr se elt shady pins

her cavern found,
pines,

grace.
Fr

With a mt ES end blue violets
‘That deck d the soft breasts ofeach frageant

employ a.
But having all admired, be enter'd on
‘The ample cave, nor could be seen un

yl
knowledge, though

in dwellings) but he could mot
Uiyses there within without was be.
ad ashore, where

Th Unguetoe, sigh'd, wept, and empty
His heart of comfort. Placed here in her

‘That bon admiration,

at sell mi

Divine Caly; jermes thus +
“For what bi uae enti:
__esteem'd by us,

‘Thou golden-rod.adomed Mercury,

‘Anrires bon heehee ae

RESt sare, Sey, whatever be

iin my imeans ties of power of ft,
it first, w! hospit ites exact,
Come yet more near, and take” THE

‘table forty, and farlsh ft with meat
Such asthe Gods taste; amd served in with

Vermilion nectar. ich banquet fit
Hevtud contra is picts be thus

iis cause of coming: “Thou hast made

jucsty
ilar, Goditess of Goddesses, to

understand
My cause of touch here; which thon shalt
command,
And know with truth: Jove cased my
course to thee
Against my will, for who would willingly

‘THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.
90 vast a lake of brine, ae a ree gent thot at!

?| To liberal safety, when his ship Jore strook
‘With. red-hot pleoewieal In the
Sem,
‘And all his friends and soldiers, succourless
Perish’ but he, “Him, cast upon this coast
With blasts and billows, 1, in life given
, and to end hath brought
with thee.

Tost,
Nine years in the contention, is Preserved alone, loved, nourish'd, and did
For in the tenth year, when viet vow
‘Was won, to give the Greeks the spoil of| To make him denthless, and yet never
eee eer Le Crodked, oF worn with age, his whole tie
ae OT Bat singe no reason may be made so

a, TOOK
1] To strive with Jove's will, or to make it

Return tbs
Since Pallas they incensed

dismiss,
Affirming that th’ unalter'd Destinies_
Not have decreed he shall not die
friends,

asny'd.”
““Vouchsafe it so,” sald heaven's am-
“And deiga it quickly By all means

wine
‘and sweet, that will the* piner pine:
nts on thee, give thes winds

‘At all parts all the hea
‘That more in power are, more in skill
than I,
And more can ji
He stood
in her,
‘ai

what fits humanity.”
‘at this strange change

Goddess! thy intents
Some parting hence,
edna st tines of wae high conso-

A ship of power, my home assays
st the great sea of such dread to pass ;

Which not the best-ba ip that ever was

Che eculting, whem such winds as|
Jove

Can ‘thunder wp their trims and tacklings

we.

But "could T bella one,’ T would ne‘er
aboard,

‘Thy will opposed ; nor won, without thy

Given in the great oath of the Gods to, me,

Not to begat -

The Godd

and said

"OY aro.a shrewd one, and so habited

In

To amiss.
Hor

ha Tne‘er 29)

Let sith know then and heaven, so broad,
©

‘And th’ undersunk waves of th’ infernal
stream, ‘f

(Which is an osth; as

‘As any God

‘But stood with ‘would

ve it,
Nor counselldy any act against thy g00d ;
But ever diligently weigh'a, and stood

* Hunger

| In wit Is far inferior to thee

home ;
He traced her steps; and, to the cavers

come,
Tn that rich throne, whence Mc aro,
He sat. The Nymph berself did then

For food and beverage to him all best mest

‘And drink, that mortals use to taste and
at,

‘Then sat she and for her feast

‘Won nectar aod asbroes ates

By bandmaids to her. Both, what was

ia Freely fall to, Having Sly fared,
Nymph ‘this discourse began:
jove-bred Ulysses!

is thy home Re

to shield

me in the least degree.’
ess smiled, held hard his hand,

All cause myself why wise

Reece ia
In feature, stature, all the parts of show,
a mortal, an iemortal thou,

‘terribly supreme,
that I had no thought | She
swear) that had no thotght | Sbe being

As having given me soch a mind as shall
eee eee ne ee tae ee ae

In wars and waves my sufferings were not
OE oe eet eral dah
fore,
Hereafter tet 23 much result, and more."
‘This said, the sun set, and earth shadows

gave 5
‘When these two (in an fs-room of the | His

cave,
Beer ee ace ful

pe ‘thick like fishy scales ;
el then her waist ibopalee +
a vell decks; and abroad

come ;
now began Ul; to go home,
Geisler ass too pare That two ways

cut,
In which a fair well-polish'd helm was

To To ety wo woods that did the isle confine.
tree, poplar, and heaven-scaling

nals thelr offspring, Of which, those

nd twenty trees be at din little space,
Prana ‘used his plumb, did aul with artful

and halst All the
Gables, ert, tacklings,

‘space* to full perfection came.
bey dismissal him from the
shore,
Woeds neat and edorous gave him,
victuals’ store,
Wine, and strong waters, and a prosperous

Te: ach Ulyses, (ft to be dvs
and bi

he
cheerful was he. At the stern be sat,
And steer'd right artfully. Nor sleep could

lids. He beheld the Pleiades ;
the Wain, shat round

still abore
‘The billowy ocean ; the slow-serting star

they eel ‘by some the Waggoner.

jarn'd him he his course should
im es tt a, Seventeen days did
‘The ot night's command in his moist
And iy he elghtereh fight be might dis.

roe bl hills of the Phawacian shore,
pa as to his next abexte, he bore.

And io Toad tom ef he a tas bk

lapis iotan oon penile) ih

mare
taking
Upon the mountates of yea,
From then fr of dco i
‘lyme hls fields plowin ‘on fire
‘The sight straight ‘is beart, and oui

Sere 2 it did boil so
Whee bis Bend modding: “© impiety,”
He cried out, ‘now the Gods’ Escon’

the saw,
To this Ulysses’ fate his m
The gt skeen whch af i hops

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

His horrid trident, and aloft did toss
{Of all the winds) all storms he could en-

ait Grab took into sea with clouds, grim

Felt funny headlong from the cope of

The et fand South winds Justied in the

The vislent Zephyr, and North making-

Roll tip the waves before them, And then
bet

Ut
In which despair, he thus spake: **
!

knees, then all his spirit was spent.
‘oeis,

me
‘What was I born to, man of misery !
Fear tells me now, that, all the

said,
Truth's seit Self will author ; that Fate would
meee, Mote sum due from me, at soa,
T reach’d the dear touch of my country's

shore.

With what clouds s Jove heaven's heighten’
fosebead binds

How tyeunniae the wraths of allthe winds!

How all the tops he bottoms with the

And in the bottoms all the tops he steps 1

‘Thus dreadful is the presence of our death.

‘Thrice, four times blest were they that sunk
beneath

Theit fates at Troy, and did to nought coa-

Bt io renowm Atrides with thelr end |

T would to God, my hour of death and
fate

That day bad held the power to terminate,

When sI ceetae epee

About div divine acides deceased,

nown.”
‘This spoke, a huge wave took hm by
And ia im seberd ship and all it

Inverted quite amidst the waves, bet he
Far off ftom her sprawl’, sce srow'd about

the sea,
His rl holding broken ff, is mast
Burst in the midst, 90 horrible a

‘Along time under water: nor could get
In haste his head out, wave with wave so

pheastrreas se
Saved
Weastling with Ne ‘Nepisng, ‘hold of ber

then

ot ja bee ball {insulting over Geni,
, with the salt stream prest to

sch, aa si rest to stop
He seaped, and pave the wan se
To other men, His shi
Floating at random, eut'a

wave,
‘Aa you hao aban the Noctoariac aay be
Ia ssn heaps of thorafed gras
Hine! pa thither, ons heap this way

Tho, vine hi

Tosa it to Notas 5 Nol eet
To Eurws, Eurus

The oe tennis, orahis sport calla calld the
of Camus daughter, with the marrow

Too Lacon bah rina
Amott 's desires, and had a

Bat Sor ted tir Bocour to be samed
‘The marine Godheads. She with

Estep he "Why 6 Neptune
In thy t
In cy pa

extremely furious,
the th og a wold of

Erne iy death ?

‘THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

"Us his study. Let me then ad-
‘As my thoughts serve; thot shalt not be
To leave thy weeds and ship to the cam-
Of these rude winds, and work out with

bands

Pas to Phuracias where thy austere Fate
Ueto pane hae with no more sah Nate

Take here this tablet, with this riband

strung,
And see it still about thy bosom hung ;

By whose eternal virtue never ‘nds

"To salle thus again, noe perish

Bat wen thou toochest with thy hand the

shore,
‘hen take it from thy neck, nor wear it

Bat east it far off from the continent,
And then thy person far ashore

‘Teas gave she bim the and

Tunid ta to a cormorand, dived, past sight, | Tho

Ae
And sald: "Alas, { must suspect even

Lest any other of the Deities
Add sleight to Neptune's force, to counsel

me
Fee} SeeS0"Nat i
aim at. Not with thoughts

wait her ; but to me appear
yea -comnsels Best ; as long as I perceive
My ship not quite dissolved, 1 will not
‘The! ahe may afford me, but abide,

all woes till the worst be tried.
When ae Ho Hew ‘no miracle
Paster and clear eas, move a kaow

ys discourse employ’d him,
A a high, and borrid sea, that
‘Hie and bis and toas’d them through

peri bad

‘As when the violent winds together take
Tse ape ood them every

So Nis log. wood-stack ‘Neptune strook
cig dia Uiynes mount on 1, per
‘Like toa rider of a running hore,

d at this, and stuck
fhir-segoken lock,

et oe

patton straight Levcothea’s amelet
is neck, he all his forces set
To swim, and cast him prostrate to she
When po my powertl Neptune saw the ruthless
of fer weige him thus, be moved bis
er this Detwist him and his heart ho
e now feel ills enow, and struggle
Till to your Jove Jove-loved islanders you row.
‘But my mind says, you will not $9 avoid,
Ta tatk too, but be with
‘This said, his rich-maned horse he moved,
and reach’
His house at 2gas. But Minerva fetch'd
inds from sea, and all their ways but
one
Barr'd to thelr passage ; the bleak North
alone
‘She set to blow; the rest she charged to
ee
‘Their tages in, and bind’ themselves tn
But "Bera S80 flew bigh to break the
‘Tm Jove-bred Idhacas the more with ease
‘The navigation-skil'd Phasacian mates
Atlencth exaping, Two nights, yet, and

He ge in wrestling with the sable es
In which space, often did his heart pro-

Ree at Mote eae wie
The winds grew cal, esd clear way all
Not oon tris ssiig: Then be waht
Ralsed by the high seas, clear, the land

was Ol

And then, how to good sons that
teem

‘Their fathes’s life dear, (after pains ex-
treme,

et fine sche, that th bed Sim

Down to his bed, and with affections
‘srong,

uo

THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘Wasted his body, made his life his fond,

As being inflicted by some angry God)

‘When on their prayers they see descend at

Health from the heavens, clad all in spirit
and strength,

‘The sight is precious ; $0, since here should
e

Uiyese tol, whlch therein should ex-

Healih to his country, held to him his sire,
‘Abd oa which Jong for him disease ai

Ad then, besies, fr bie own ske tp ae
The shores, the woods so near, such joy

had
As those aa sons for thelr recover'd sire.
‘Then labour'd feet and all parts to aspire
To — wish'd continent ; which when as:
He came, as Clamour might inform an
ex,

i a sound beat from the sea-bred

rocks,
Against which gave a huge sea horrid
al

hocks,
‘That beleh'd upon the firm land weeds
foam,

With which were all things hid there,
where no ipa

‘Of fit capacity was for any port,

Nor from the sea for any man's resort,

‘The shores, the rocks, and cliffs, 90 promis}
nent were.
"said Ulysees thon, “now Jupiter

Hath, given me sight of an unhoped-for

Thought ii have wrought these seas so long,
or rst at ‘no place shews the slenderest

The ee shore 30 bristled is with flints,
Against which every way the waves so
And all ail the shore shews as one eminent
So near which ‘tis s0 deep, that not a sand
Is there for any tired foot to stand,

Nor fy his desth-at folowing mires,

if he land, upon him foreright flies
church ‘were,/00 crush Bim ‘guinst

lif,
Worse than vain rendering all his landing
‘hod shoud 1 evi to sen haven elie

Orland aT a

And there the great Karthahakerfhavieg

My so near landing. and again his

Foreiag me to him) will some whale: send |
Of which a horrid number here about
is Armphitite breeds) to avalloy me.

T well have proved, with what

He treads my step. While this die

course he held,
A cursed surge “gainst a cutting rock lm

pel
His naked body, which it gash'd and tore,
And bad his bones broke, if but one sea

more
Had cast him on it. But she* prompted
That nover fail’, and bade bin mo more
sim
Still aff and on, but boldly force the shore,
And hug the rock that him so radely tore
Which The with both hands sgh and
©
‘heb ras; which seaped, back

“The rock repulsed, that it eft his hold,
Sucking. him from it, and far back: be

And aa the wat {forced from horn
reyes bees var rough land
Forster “gainst the storms that beat on

doth erx)
x ey pre poe faa little stones,
‘Needfully gathers in her hollow bones
So he forced hither by the sharper ill,
Shunning the smoother, where be best

hoy
“The wast succeeded ae
ee ‘he cling’d ‘for succour, off
Fro is bond nd the ssn Sesh so
Tralee land cout swine more

Quite under water Thay
Hapless Ulysses there Md iowt

He held in life, sea tg
‘ate teat

His wisdom.
Another course, eet r

shore,
‘Swimming, and casting round his eye ¢
lore
Some. other shelter. Then the mouth be
Of fair Callicoc’s flood ; whose shores were
crown'd.

* Pallas.

‘THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

nv

‘Will most apt succours ; rocks so smooth
‘seem’

wed operon: Tand that quite re-

Wik Becahless coverts th’ others blasted

‘The flood he knew, and thus in heart im-
of this river! hear; whatever

mame
Makes thee invoked, to thee I humbly

My ight from Neptune's furies. Reverend | A

To al the everving Deities
rari ere mam peeves nests Vial ot
‘To thy both flood and knees a man dis-|,

Wil aed eulerane see Yield then

Tobie that & lant profess'd.”
“Thi ean Spoke fa thought, the

eard

Her current straight stay'd, and her thick
wares

Before hie, smooth her waters, and, just

He pray'd, balf-drown'd, entirely saved him
Tie ea he came, his both knees
Ws Seog hanging down, and all
His cheeks and nesthrils flowing , voice and
‘Spent to all use, and down he sunk to
‘The sea had toak’d his heart through ; all
His toils had rack’d ¢’ a labouring woman's
pantie le: But when breath did
Soe pai
‘That Too gave bir which he hurl'd from
‘To sea. It sounding fell, and back did
Wink th eBbing waters, tl it stright

= ot egal bpond received,
th’ humble earth ; and on

eee
Tm shew’d place for his repose,
* "Ober of bine: 2 parte doles,

| Where er fad ho sigh'd, and thus said to bis
i Dee me, what ities Comtzol
‘The whole skill of thy powers in this event !
What fecl 1? if tl care-nusse nigin be
Spent
I watch amidst the flood, the sen's chill
And vegetant dews, I fear will be my
So ‘brought with my labours, Towards
1g sharp alr ever breathes at sea.
i Fe hich of this next mountain scale.
ind shady wood, and in some thicket fall
no the tan of Sleep, though there the
May well be check'd, and healthfulstumbers
ert a all care

ist my spirit, may make me
make for life ;
Which, though impairid, may yet be fresh
applied,
ible of

Where pe escape fs
rs wih beara, ox Wich che

But be sat
To indiscresion adds impiety."
“Thus tothe woods he basto$; whieh be

Not far from but on far-seeing ground,
two twin usderwoods Ne enlerd

With olive-trees and olltrees
h which the molst force of the
Joud-roiced wind
Did never beat, nor ever Phoebus shined,
| | Nexahomes best cog er Rn oom
one,
[kre > Sao

Here casera our U j anda
Of leaves hage, of hee sinned

‘With all ls speed. Large he made it, for

re as mig ah elon = ol bir)

Though st st inn be Deeathed, and blew as it
ah eee

eS eee

* A metaphorical
winter's eurremily of

“eB ‘THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.
Patient Ulysses joy'd, that ever day r Served with self-store, he else would ask of
midst he

Sie such a shelter. In the Pea
ley, his fore-spent sparks rakesth’ asheson;
Store "ot leaves heaping high on every| So this out place Ulpaes Enns roccves
side. ‘And thus naked virtue'’s seed lies hid in
And as in some out-ficld a man doth leaves.
hide ‘Yet Pallas made him sleep as s000 as men
A kindled brand, to keep the seed of fire, | Whom delicacies all their flatteries deign ;
No neighbour ‘dwelling near, and his| And all that all his labours could comprise
desire Quickly concluded

‘HE END OF THE FIFTH BOOK,

THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.
Rgra. Here olive leven
‘The maid receives”
‘The naked man.
Tite much-sostaining, patient, heavenly
man,

went
To the Phaxacian city, and desoent

“That first did beoad Hyperia’s lands divide,
Near the wast Cyclops, men of monstrous

Of ‘Minervas project ; to provide
‘That preatsouFd tacus wight be supplind
With all things fitting his return,

‘went
Up tothe chamber, where the fait descent®
‘great Alcinous’slept; a maid, whose

7
In wht and beauty wore divine
Beak ber chamber was; of which

door

Did seem to tighten, such a gloss it bore

Betwixt the posts, and now flew ope to fad

‘The Goddess entry. Like a pett of wind

She meg the virgin bed; near which
there lay

‘Two maids, to whom the Graces did con
re and manners. But above the
eight Nassican did Pallas tread

‘The subtle air, and put the parsse on

Of Dymas’ damghter, from comparison

Exempt in business naval. Like his wend

Minera look’d now jt whom one year did

‘With bright Nausicaa, asd who had gain’d
Grace in her love, yet on ber tbus |

complain'd =
« Namsicaa ! why bred thy mother one
So negligent in rites 10 stood spon
By other virgins? ‘Thy fair garments tie
Neghcted by thon, yo toy saptias nigh
When rich in all attire both thow shouldst

be,
And garments give to others hosouring

thee,

‘That leait thee to the tempts. ‘Thy good
name

Grows amongst mes for these things ; they
inflame

Father and reverend mother with delight.

(Come, when the Day takey any wick foe

iy
ing garment
Serve thee for thy speedier ay
shalt no more starcl om the

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‘THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘The best of all Phaeacia woo thy grace,
‘Where thon wett bred, and owest ‘owest thyself

Up, and stir up to thee thy honour’ sire,
To gir shen males iles and coach, thee and
thy tire,
Veils, fis, mantles, early to the flood
To bear in stare. It suits thy high-bor

And fr more fits thes, than to foot so far ;
For fr from town thou know’st the bath
founts are."
‘This said, away blue-eyed Minerva went
Up to Olympus, the firm continent
x ears in, endles being the deified |

That eit the. souaed with showers, nor |
Nor oa ith snow, but where Serenity
Exempt from clouds and ever-beamy skies
Girele the iter
Give the deli
And hither
had all that might excite her

said.
Straight rose the lovely Morn, that up did
raise

Fair-veil'd Nausicaa, whose dream her |

To admiration took ; who no. —_ aseet
‘To give the rapture of her vi

To hee loved parents, whom she found

within,
Her mother set at fire, who had to spin
A Say whose tincture with sea-purple

Heras bout her. Bat she chanced to

Her father going abroad, to council call’
‘his grave Senate; and to him exbaled
ersmothe bosom was :* ‘* Loved sire,"
she,
“Will you not now command a coach for

Stately and

complete? fit for me to bear
To waih at flood the weeds

I cannot wear

Before 2 Yourself it fics

T ‘weeds, chat sits
I place of council. And fre sons Joa

‘two wee, siren, acca: Whee Sea
Tn every. days shi, that they may go
For these three last with these things must
The sas in marriage ; and who cle

Thelr sie, should thelr damcing rites
supply?’
This general cause she shew'd, and
would not name
‘Her mind of nuptials end res for shame.
| He understood her yet, and thus replied =
* Danses ‘nor these, nor any grice

Frting ati part” Goy my servants sal
i
Serve, thy desires, and thy command 1a

‘The servants then commanded soon
|Fetch’d coach, and mules ‘ad in
"Then the Maid a 3
bog ior i Reale he
+ in which her mother

Aol seed ere eae
‘And other junkets, Wine she

cd! “4 ach side ber handmaid straight
attains.

aii placed,
Nastiein Scourged to make the cosch-

* | That Cneghd nd paced thelr mul speed

Both aid nd ees rough to there
E| where baths foe all the year their te
supplied,

THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Whore waters were ope they won nt

But still ran fair forth; and did more re- Fe

main
Apt to. ssains, for that purged stain
wit
‘Which by the water's pure store was not
seen.
aa Gd pees. the mules uncoach’d,

ATP Gas ally viver's whore; that
Sweet grass (ar Beri ‘The maids from

then
‘Their clothes, and steep'd them in the sable
‘Then put them into springs, and trod them
0
With Sop foot ; adventuring wagers
t
Who should have soonest and most cleanly
‘When having throughly cleansed, they
them on
‘The flood’s shore, all in order. And then,

where

‘The waves the pebbles wash'd, and ground
was clear,

They athed themselves, and all with

| their white skins ; refreshing

the river's side.
ie sux their clothes

‘Till which time, having dined, Nausicaa
‘With other virgins did at stool-ball play,
Their ing head-tires ‘baying.

esate wie tbe ures ar
‘The liking stroke strook, singing first a

song,
‘As custom order’d, and amidst the throng:
Tin seh shew, and so past all was |

A Yi be chaser, sow nig

Or swift-houved bart, and with ber Jore's
fair race,

yhom,
a a I

(As bby bead and forehead bang owe

gst

', Since the dullest sight
ige whom her pains brought

es i
ight easly

autcan 00, whout never hushand tam.
“Above them all in all the beauties flamed.
But when they now mace homeward, and
array'd.
Oraeing their weeds disorder'd as they
Mlés and coach ready, then Minerva

thought

mans to wake Ulysses might b:
wrought,

‘That he might see this lovely-sigheed meld,

Wom she intended should become his ad,

Rang him to om: and Ma return advance.
ler meas tek a ta stool-

ne is,* though thougtt

‘The quecn now, for the epstrobs, strook the

bart off th other maids, and made
Amidst, the wbirpoots. At which out

shriek'd all
And with the shriek did wisn Ulysses wake >
Who, sitting up, was doubtft who should

That sudden outcry, and in mind. thus
sri
“On what a people atn Tnow arrived?
At civil hospitable men, that fear
‘The, Gods? or dwell injurious mortals
Uno aod chur? “he the female

Of youth it sounds. What are they?
‘ymphs bred high
fa

of bills, of in the founts of floods,
ry mrarsbes, of in Seavy woods?
Or are they high-spoke men I sow am
near:
Poa] and see,” With this, the wary
forth the ticket. ad an ol
eee, which he

den
A mountais lion looks, that, all embrand
With rops of trees and weather-beaten-

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ne ‘of his strength, goes on, and in his
‘Aba furnace alll bent fo prey
Aientren te tance
ly charging him, and ie
an the herdsman in his beasts’
attempt,
even, where rom rape thelr strengths are
most exempt
So wet, so ronson bent, 0 stung with
Even to the home-fields of the country’s
breed

Ulysses was to force forth his
Bapek sees snkedi and his sight lid

The eyes of softhaicid virgins. Horrid
was
His rough appearanes to them ; the bard

He Had at sea stuck by him. Allin.
The virgins scatter'd, frightod with this

sight,
About the prominent windings of the
All bat Nausiena fled ; but she fnst stood =
Pallas had put a boldness in her breast,
And in her fair limbs tender fear com-
west.
And'still she stood him, as resolved to
What ren fe wes or out of what should
His range repair to them. And here

Put to bis wisdom ; Mf ber singin kao
He ahould be bold, but knecling, to em-

Or ip oof, and try with words. of
Tn smb ‘suppliance, if he might ob-

Some cover for his nakestnes, aed gala
Her grace to show and guide bm to the

The ‘is he Best thought, to be worth his

In. weighing both well; to keep still

And give with ‘soft words his desires their

Lest, pressing $0 near as to touch her
iene,

He might incense her maiden modesty.
‘This fair and filed speech then shew'd this

was he =
« (iodo don py this truth of

THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

isthe Goa hat a eaten

ean eisbacsgis te eee
So near as to the chasteborn binth of

‘Thelbeamy Cynihla. Her you fall pres
sent,

In grace of every

Her goodly maj

You promise of

‘God-llke
Beh seo
perfectness,

birth ;

‘Thrice blest your brothers, that in your
deserts

Must, erent Parson Oa aa

jearts,
To see, so like the first xin of on
oyle = adorn a dance, mast blest

or a “that breathe, that hath the gift
Your our gh neck In the

ake of |
is house with oar, pee
en
Lhave not seen a man of so much spirit,
Nor man, nor woes, F did exer ses,

il parts equal to the pars ia thes.

aly Del th
las that render'd me

Now ‘ang me dhs nab bel

of « palm, whose feue

swell’
About Aj 's fane, and that on
4 rac ike thee! for Earth ad

Of all her sylvan femur 0 adorn’,

Jato amaze my sol was tere’d,

gfe it see
view, O virgin, a sta

Pad eduaeation atti tne iad wlll
fear

To do a suppliant’s duc, and press so
near,

As to embrace thy knees. Nor is it
strange,

For one of fresh ami firmest spirit would
¢

‘T*enibeane So ‘Gright a at But, for

Accu babi of calamity
Prepared the 2 strong impression thou hast

‘made:
For this last day did twentieth
or ll Ce ON ae

‘THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

‘Since T, at length, escaped the sable seas ;
Wee ieee tean tee th’ unrelenting

ee ak reas teens
From ty isle Ogygia, And now God hath
My wrack om this shore; that perhaps T

may
My miseries vary here ; for yet their stay,
Moar aca,

‘These late aflfictions, ft hath lent me
store,

© queen, deign pity then, since first to

My fate nes my distress to vow.

No other nor man, that this Earth
own,

And ibour city, I have seen or known,

Re eaten een ae setatets|
ess

Some shrond to shelter it, f to these seas
Linen or woollen you have brought to

‘More sweet, more worthy is, thas firm
‘consent

Of man and wife in household govern-
ment.

It joys. their wishers-well, their enemies

aniwer'd ; “Stranger! I discern in

thee
sloth, nor folly reigns ; and yet I sec

Nor
‘Th’ art and wretched. In which I

10 our cares {0 oe
what else a bumane hand

353

To one so supptiant and tamed with woe,
Thou shale not want, Our city I will
And tell cur people's name: ‘This neigh-

And all 5 Llagdom, the

nd all t) ing M

Aaa ison toe seca os
yy birth,

Pheeackias own.
#9 fain to know

mi ,

And Seas pean ot ate
ent

‘This earth hath bred me; and my father's
mame

Alcinous fs, that in the power and frame

(Of this isle's rule is supereminent.””

passing bim, she to the virgins

‘Give stay both to your feet

and fii
letersi ae del tom

Thus,
went,

servilt
Sar

phim som She

{ THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS, 355 fj

Had horse to chariot join’d, and up sherose;
Up cheer'd her guest, and said : * Guest,

now dispose

Yourself for town, that T may let you see

My father's court, where all the peers
will be

Of our Pheacian state, At all parts, then,

Observe to whom and what place y’ are t'

attain ;
‘The IT need usher witb no advice
Since 1 suppose you absolut. .
While we the febds pase, and fan's labours

So long.'in these malds' guldes, direct
long, in Y guides, directly
bear

Upon my chariot (I must go before
For cause that after comes, to which this

more
Be my induction) you shall then soon end
Yous wart town, whose towers you see

To such a steepness. On whose either side
A fair port stands, to which is nothing wide
An enterer's passage ; on whose both hands

Tide
Ships in fair harbours ; which once past, you

win
‘The goodly market-place (that circies in
A fane to Neptune, buit of curious stone,
‘And passing ample) where munition,
Gables, and masts, men make, und polish’d

oars ;
For the Phaeacians are not conquerors
By bows nor quivers; oars, masts, ships

they are
‘With which they plow the sea, and
ze their war.

And now the cause comes why I lead the
way,

Not tang you to coach : The men that
sway

In work of those tools that so fit our stat,
‘Are rude mechanicals, that rare and late
‘Work in the market-place ; and those are

they,

‘Whose bitter tongues I shun, who straight
would say,

(For these vile vulgars are extremely proud,

Aad foully anguaged) What she, allow'd

To coach it with Nausicaa? so large set,

‘And fairly fashion’d? where were these
two met?

He shall be sure her husband, She hath
‘been

Gadding in some place, and, of foreign men

ity's description so far forth as may
, induce her promised reason, why she
‘not Ulysses to coach with her.

in
tool

Fitting her fancy, kindly brought him
home

In her own ship. He must, of force, be
come

From some far region; we bave no such
man,

It may be, praying hard, when her heart
ran

On some wish’d husband, out of heaven
‘some God

Dropp’d in her lap; and there lies she at
Toa

Her complete lifetime. But, In sooth, if
she,

Ranging abroad, a husband, such as he

Whom now we saw, laid hand on, she was

wise ;
For none of all our nobles are of prize
Enough for her; he must beyond sea

come,
That wins ber high mind, and will have her
home.

Of our peers many have importuned her,

Yet she will none” ‘Thus these folks will
confer

Behind my back ; or, meeting, to my face

The foul-mouth rout dare put home this

And this would be reproaches to my fame,

For, even myself just anger would inflame,

If any other virgin I should see,

Her parents living, keep the company

Of any man, to any end of love,

Till open nuptials should her act approve.

And therefore hear me, guest, and take
such way,

That you yourself may compass, in your

‘stay,
Your quick deduction by my father's

grace ;
‘And means to reach the root of all your
race.
‘We shall, not far out of our way to town,
A never-fell'd grove find, that poplars

crown,
To Pallas sacred, where a fountain flows ;
And round about the grove a meadow

ws,

In which my father holds a manor-house,

Deck’d all with orchards, green, and
odorous,

As far from town as one may hear a shout.

‘There stay, and rest your foot-pains, till
full out

We reach the city ; where, when you may

guess
We are arrived, and enter our access

Within my father's court, then put you on.
For our Phacacian state ; where, tobe shown.

Ae

356

‘THE SIXTH ROOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

My father's house, desire. Each infant
there

Can bring you to it; and yourself wit

Distingulsh it from others, for no shows
‘The city-buildings make compared with
those

‘That king Alcinous’ seat doth celebrate.
In whowe roofs, and the court (where men

of state,
‘pas sit and stay) when you shall |

past it, entering further, where
My ‘ais, with her withdrawn house-

rset bee to her
My fathers “aintng ibroce

He pout his choie of wine In, he a Go.
“This view once past, for th’ end of your

Address suit to my mother, that her mean
May make the day of your redition seen.
‘And you way frolle stright, though far

‘You are in distance from your wished stay.
or, ifshe once be won to wish you well
‘Your hope may instantly your passport seal;
‘And thenceforth sure abide to see your

wated

Fair‘ hevee, and all to which your heart

Tiss a ein Ps |
Her fen cx that soon the shore left where
And, knowing well the way, their pace wna
And thick they gather’d up their nimble| ©

‘Which yee she temper'd so,* and used her

With so much skill, as not to Overenge
The foot behind, and make them straggle

From cléte society. Fuci topemner
‘Ulysses and her maids. Em
pee, C3 the waters, When they all had

The everfel 'd, and sound-exeiting wood,
Sacred to Pallas; where the god-like

Ulysses rested, and to Pallas pray’ :
Hear me, of goat-bept Jove th” tinea
quer'd Maid!
Now throughly hear me ; sincs, in all the
time
es | OF aly wack my prayers could never

S| my en when noiseful Neptune

‘Upon his watery bristles my eenboss'd
oy torn. a tear yet mow, and

1 roay af the Phaacian state obtain
Pity, and grace.” “Tins pray bey und she

By no means yet, exposed to. sight

For fart offend her uncle, the
gf OF a ta Sea whose wrath |

Stood to | to Uh
‘TM with bien ei ‘hore he crown
peace.

rors please.
Store of our Poets curlousand sweet
of ou Poets cum set pit

‘THR END OF THE SIXTH BOOK.

THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

man.
‘The Maid, by froe force of her palfreys,
wan

Access to town, and the renowmed court
Roach'd of ber father ; where, within the

To ivory-arm’d Nausloan ; gave beat
‘To all her Gres, and drew'd Privy meat
‘Thea rose Ulysses, and mae way to

town ;

Which ere he reach'd, a mighty mist was
thrown

By Pallas round about bim, in her care,

Lest, in the away of envies popula,

Some proud Phasacian might

jest ha op. and ask him what he was,
Ext lovely town yet, throngh the

Pallas appear’, and Uke = young wench
a
a pitcber, stood before him #0

Astlchjeced ly to Know
Walters se boelod hoes bu usta’
«Keon my you not, danghter, where
That yates tie town, del? Ta
ral poor
Mere stranger bere, know none T may

west
To make this court known to me.” Ste

* Niet Setias deel eynie jd vogue, meres

| weleces veluti frame, algne coctieti

358

THE SEVENTH LOOK OF HOM HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘This sald, she usher'd him, and alter be
‘Trod is the swift steps of the Deity.
‘Tho free-sail’d seamen could not get a

sight
Of our Ul; , though he forthright
Both by their houses end Wels persons

Patil about him such a darkness cast
By ber divine power, and her reverend

care,
She would not give the town-born cause to.

stare.
‘Me wonder'd, as he past, to sce the’

pores ;
Has ther
spree -steads; and aisles

afr
For the heroes ; walls so large and wide ;
Rasnpires s0 high, and of such strength

withal,
It would with wonder
Ti ST AEC

++ ew, honourd stan sage, Lil ne obey
Your wil, to shew out

here
Where yo you shall find kings celebrating

Enter amongst them, nor admit a fear.
More bold a man ts, ee spr pnt
Though man wor.

You fst shall Hiet pioen trent

1s Lene of pare parents bora the same
That was the king her spouse; their

igre,
Tean report.” The great Earth-shaker, he

Of Peribora (that her sex outshone,

‘And youngest dangliter was t’ Eurymedon,

Who of th’ minded giants

‘unmeasured
"Te Iopetal septs and the ride allay’
OF men v9 ianptous with cold death, and

Himself soon after) got the magnified

and for alt resorts |

|And whom the silvesbow graced Pbasbus
Young in the court) bit shed blood dit
renew,

Inonl} Aria obs sat spouse
To a fa the kingdom in iis
Anal ie ose, Lng Anos
Who honours ber past equal. She may

‘Morehonour of bita than the bomour'é* most

casei for, alt
‘Wrapt is cookent00 4s Sass ae
she affects, she wants no. mind 10 }

bea
Goodness enough. Af ther heart sani
‘To your dspatch, hope all you with Eko

Your fries
beg

ample-strected Athens
Whetefo the howe that casts

ors an ugeiae
Ulysica to the lofty-builded court
Of king Alcinous made bold resort:
Yet in, his heart east many thougts, |
fore

snind, Nausithous; whom the kingdom's | On

state

Even
Fit held insupreme rule. Nausithous gat

Rhexenor, and Aleinous, now king,
Rhexenor (whose seed did no male fruit

permicnity of this pedigree,
sas te 7 ‘of Peri-

‘THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

With knowing inwards had inspérod, and

Tat death oor age shookd ther estates

nk ie wall stood every way a throne,
cou to the lobby, every one

over with @ rich-wrought cloth of

tes
Beneath which princes sate

ihe Phorscian
Br wins and food, naa foamed all she
eas ope gl, at eer aie her

Gare tnsugh, the howe exch honoard
AR To catuntr fast wih howe

moisture in light dews distill.
‘As much as the Phaacian mea excell d
wntrymen in art to build
d ship; so much the women
of webs, other women wore,
fe ee tp cer gn
‘The grace of good works ; and had wits as
the hall, and close upon the
was situate,
lofty quick. 1% (op tal la
To
High and beosd fruit trees, that pome- | Of
ee ee Nereirees
ore
‘Most usefal plants did there produce their
Wes am the hardest winter could sot
Renierees emma rata: ‘There was:

‘used to sacrifice,
Hie ioclaation cage Thete thos

Ulysses pasvd, and forth went ; nor their
“Took sete of him, for Paiias stopp’ the
‘With mists about him, that, enstay'd, he

Fit to Akinous, and Arete,
Present his person; and, of both them,

she,
OF fremont greg. Throne cme

aly this of me
it T may but see
fed means, and betimes |

His hate the earth, the hearth his cushion,
‘Ashes as if apposed for food, A throne,
'd with due rites, stands you more in

hand

‘To see his person in, and command

That tainty Perla Ait incwine
That to the the od that dott ightnings

ants appear,
Let what you bave sort Drought

‘To sup the stranger. All these would hay
he h re
show

‘This fit respect to him, but that they stay
For soar precedence, that should grace tl

When this had. Lerpth tothe. wellinctinea
sacred order of

Alcinous’
Than of the gratin wit We tend! he
selsed,

And from the ashes his fair person raised,
Advanced him toa wolladcrned t throne,
And frome his seat mised his

Yaodamas, that next himself was set,
To give him place. The handmaid then

did get
‘An ewer of gold, with water filf'd, which
Upon a caldron, all with silver graced,

en he rl at 2" Pontemous !

all the house, that all

Receive i solemn court with 2

| Then think of his return, that,

Of our dedoction, his natural land
eee more toil or care, and with

‘And thet 260 given aia rr Bee ee
that soon it

dissite sy

Soares Beet eee

And in the mean time without wroog

Or other wane ft roeana to that £
‘What, after, austere Fates shall make th’

‘most loved | The Gods’ wills

* Tho word that
trandated opty aie ehiek

pee ee

RENAE
tf Ascent ¢9 his country’s abore.

‘THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. a

to ws, when to them:
of fit esteem,

Vet thom cleak themacives in any care

do ws comfort, we as near them are,

Hil

And
The

ia

8

‘Gods consent to; no one twist thelr

A desperate wosnd. When most with
cause I grieve,
le bids me |, ** Eat, man, and drink, and
forgot. Whatever itt
1 ever bear, it ever bids me fill,
Bat this eave is but forced, and will not
st,
‘Till what the mind likes be as well
embraced ;
And therefore let me wish you would
pattal
tn your late purpose when the morn shall
Her next appearance, deign me but the
Unhappy man, that T may once embrace
My country earth, Thoogh Tbe sail
"

rust at
ancient ills, yet make me but see that ;

Ryd thes tee hee when withal I sce

My high-roof'd house, lands, and
family.”
“This all approved ; asd each wilfd every

r one,
** Since he hath said so fairly, set him gone.”
foe to aleep all vow

Feast past and sacrifice 5

‘Their eyes at either’s house. Ulysses now
‘Was left here with Alcinous, and his
“The Stoned Arete The handmalds thea
‘The vessel of the banquet took awny.
Wheo Arete set eye on his array ;

Kary Sn ee
Made with ber maids ; and mused by what

means be
Obtain'd their wearing ; which she made

you are?
And thes, who graced you with the weeds
akan on ice bad err'd af seas,
‘And tuence arrived kere?” Laertiades

To th thes sarees: ~"Tls a pala, ©
Still fo be opesing wounds wrought deep

‘and green,

of thick the Gods have open’ sore in
Yet Your i mast be served. Far hence,
‘There lies an isle, that bears Ogygia's

Where Alley’ davghter, the ingealous
dame,

362
Fairbair'd Calypso lives; a Goddess
AndSrak whoa men nor Gos ext | Ig

THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

i ¥et r peak man unhappy, lived alone, My
jouse com

By Heaven's wrath forced, ber house

For Jove hud with a fervent lightning Glee
My Ship in tain, ‘and far at black sea }

Ma mel say slices; all wove ives € lost
Lin mine arms the Keel took, and was tost
Nive days together up from ‘ave to wave.
‘The fenth grim night, the angry Deitios

Me my wrk on tal In which
Drea Cay ear feeeae well
Received and nord me, and

Pres is ca dedthlam not should age
My powers with his deserts through all my
ee oh mes ee eee ates
aie Jp she made me i and there
Tne bag fem steeping In the mi

tears the garments I did wear,
Probe ‘ber fair band. The eighth revolved

(or by ee changed mind, or by charge of
Ste pae provoked way to my wish'd

remore,
‘And in a many-jeinted sti, with wine
Dainty in savour, bread, and weeds divine,
Sign’d, with a tarmless and sweet wind,
my pass.
‘Then seventeen days at sea I homeward.
was,
And by the eighteenth the dark hills
ay
That Four curt thruses ‘op. ‘Bach wt
ata forth i bears, ,
man, for thit was but a
To show B yet had extreme
‘To pat in sulferanes, which th’ Earth-
Crossing my way with tempests violent,
Head ay wa tempat volt | al
‘The billows leave to let wy vessel
‘The least time quiet; that even sighrd to
Their bitter outrage, which, at last, did

tear
Her sides in pieces, set on by the winds.
T yet swum the waves that your

F tock: and fenced
“ae free, from

‘And this Epa for, uterng op aoa,

Ct nto elo Joe

Within a thicket 1 j when round
puled up fall leaves-ie Neape and

found,
‘Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate:

And here my beart, Usse excruciate,
cae ene

‘ou iter's maids
oe

er et epee fer
Beeson cad ‘wlsdbans nb eet Kee
mig

Become the goodness of a Goddess height.
Nor would en ean hope, supposed

As | wasthen, and old, to find the Beast
of = grace from her, being younger

ih young fla Wisdom makes her tom-

Yet she in in at abundance did bestow:
Both wine,*that makes the blood in humans

‘And food ; and bathed men the loed ; and
ve

‘The Seeds to me which now ye see me

ve. ‘

ee Rong Sy greys Ob yee

tet

rte y

what ba RE nor

“The ‘sour the’ took, to lot witty every
dame

Aatellfvd Sire, .Vieamn ; calcfactandl pl

THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Your person lackey; nor hath with them

Yourself too; which first you had
becoght.”

td her not,” said he, ‘beroical

Nor let me bear against her woeth a word.
She fastitiess is, and wish'd T would have

gone
With al her women home, but f alone
we Yenture my recvipt here; having | I
fear
‘And reverend awe of accidents that were
QF Wesly isue ; both your wrath to move,
¢ the common people's love
Gf speaking’, to which tey soca give

MSc, ieious race,”

fy tue not to be
“a yeah too sly and where are pro-| "i
To men's eoncelts things that may both

Felis RADA teat thouid the most pera’ |
Would Jove our Father, Pallas, and the

‘Sexi,
‘That, Sheth altel and comld tat

Oe ie with se ou woul my daughter] A bed make

And be may s00-in-Law ; still vow'd to lead
Your fest of life here. La house would

‘And hevactihagbodk, so frosty you would

Cen with ws, Bat ‘gainst your will

iceetin yea iene Boe hak wren silence

To Jove our Father. For your passage

‘That yoo may well know we can over-
come

thus it shall Carel

So great a
Tomorrow owt men take all thelr

While you securely sleep, to see the seas
In calceest temper’ unde i dha wil please,

yea and your house ere
night,
‘Though fir beyond Eubcra be that sight.

1
x3 |
And this Euboen, as our sebjects say

“That have been there and seen, Ds aay
Farthest from us of all the parts they
And "de the tal when they belp'd to
“The golé-Jock’d Rhadamanth, to give him

view

Of carth-born Tityus ; whom theft speeds
id abe:

‘To et tee through, a mt
is cheer'd Uipmes, who in a

sass oe fen what he
He could perform at > he

then
Be glorified for ever, aed T gain
My nataral counry.* ‘This decoarse they

Whee Girard Arete her bandmaids bade

moved Ul for his rest, and sald
Teper Ui bed fs fit, now frame

THE EIGHTH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT.

"Due Peers of the Phaacian State
A Council call, to consolate
Miymes ety means for home,

ited by the
oa fort hurling of the st:
he ye the make with the stranger-King.
emodocus, at feast, doth sing
tr adele of the Gi
th Her ie

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.
Fre. The councils frame

Tne tes lee

thes when the tie eis! arene,
sacred inous cid dsj
itkewtst se; and, like bimy eft his

aes
‘The city-rarer Laertindes.
‘The Council at the navy was d

‘To which Alcinous, with the sacred sha)
Came first of all. On polish’d stones they

sate,
Near to the navy. To increase the state,
Minerva took the herald’s form on ber,

‘Of that design the ears
at ye ears:

Proclaiming thas:

oy men

‘To hear the stranger that made late resort
= Aleinous, Jong time lost at sea,
oop nal bee
AN at
And straight the court and seats with men
oa

| hap lire penta tei
they beheld him. Pallas put "Oh

OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

A supernatural and heavenly dress ;
Enlarged him with and good.
In wet and shoulders, that he might

oni te eae

A perfect hand on his
In all the trials they resolved ti

‘All met, and gather'd in attention close,
Alcinous thus bespake them : ““Dulkes, and

lords,
ae my hearty thoughts in
This stranger here, whose travels found
™

court,
1 know nok ‘nor can tell if his resort
From ee but his suit is

That Yc is counery-oerth we wri aaa
His hithor-forced person, and doth bear
The mind to pass it under every peer
Reber sta prepare, and stir up, making

My free ; desire of his deduction.

Nor shall there ever any other tga
That ties che goodness

{o me. and my cour

Mourning for

Come then, a ship

pee: ‘now launch we ; and from out

Choose foamy youths, of ll, the

rie ies a All which see straight tm-

‘Andi hr oar bound seate. Let others
fe

Home to our court, comt

‘The solemn

Tn which provision
Bema ft Tacha. Caen coins

T give our youth, You, seepire beeing
Conn ths fcrae, aad tale wide eee
Thi st of ours; noone man shall ree

‘THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Some other of you haste, and call tous. | He sung the glories, and
‘The sacred grave Demodocus, ‘That in
To whom ‘God given song, that can
7
‘The beart of whom he listeth wich detight.”"
‘Tha sd, he led. ‘The soepere-bearers

‘Their free attendance ; and with all speed | When

weet
‘The herald for the sacred man in somg.
Youths two-and-fifty, chosen from the

throng,
Went, as was will'd, to the untamed sea’s | T
Where coine, they launch’d the ship, the tn traedly yt tothe perch of sone
mast it ‘That then the end of erick ‘host
in

‘Advanced, sails bolsed, every ceat his oar | begi
Gave with a leather thong. The deep} "Twixt Greece and Troy, when Greece

then ‘ith strife to win.
‘They further reach'd. ‘The dey strets| That wish concuson) inher kings should

fow'd with men, jar,

‘That troop'd up to the king's cxpacions | And plead, if force or wit must cod the
court, war.

‘Whose porticos were choked with the re-] ‘This beave contention did the poet sing,

sort, Tia ge parle wed Ue bi
‘Whose walls were hung with men, youn bis weed Ulysses
if is face and eyes, since thence dis-

That
Before
ull
Tos aaa) which be obscured, in.
To let th’ observing

But, when bis the
Had given an end, a crown'd with

Sacer ata
T" inspire the
To.de bin keboat, nod reno whe
His tears then stay'd. But whee again
all he ki Gesires, the moving man,
Ran Uyentacel oot chases bat oat
To aes which again, with-
He kept 20 cenningly from sight, that
none,

thrust there
In mighty concourse; for whose promised
slew twelve sheep, eight white-

222 2
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i

i

i

Fry?
Hie

lf

ht

E7z
HU

Biscad bin moved so mech Bur hesat
[And heard him deeply sigh; which ‘is

not keep id from him. Yet be
His utterance of f, and would have it held

el ek ae oe

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From all the rest, brake off the song, and.

1!
Per eae aoe peers of his :
“ Princes, we now are

satiate
Say anced song, that fits a feast of
with wig and food, Now then to field,

In all Kinds our approved actisty :
That this our guest may give his friends to

In his return, that we as little owe
To fights and wrestlings, leaping, speed of

race,
AS — our court-rites ; and commend

In all toul wath Forth he led,
‘The peers people troop’ up to their

aie re eeoas ba a viltin ti
the herald bang opon the rin,
His and a ‘hs took, and ‘abroad he

brovg!
ira Dsetealy’ Boe oot’ tha\ ssl pay

wrou
‘That did the Princes, and what they would

toe
‘With admiration, with his company
‘They wish'd to honour. ‘To tho place of

game
‘These eens: ; and after, routs of other

of all sort, Infinite. Of youths that strove,
Many and strong rote to thei tril’ Tove.
Up rose Acroneus,* and Ocyalus,
Elatreas, Prymneus, and Anchialus,
Nauteus, Eretmens, ‘Thoon,
and the strong Amphialus,
fe fectonides 5 Patras ;
rose to these the great Euryalus,
Toaction Tike the homicide of war.
Naubolides, that was for person
the rest, but one he could not

Nor Ray itu; ht improve, Laodamas,
Up Anabesingus then arose

And three sons of the Sceptre-state, and

those
‘Were Halius, and fore-praived Lacdamns,
And Clytoneus like a God in grace,

* Since the Piusacians were not only dello
by sea, but studiows also of tea qualities, heir
sires bom tuner ther fgculties therein. All
Semisting of ses asing sigieation, ‘except
Taodamas. gi salem see strane

on miter On ae,

These fint the foot game (ied, ad from
Took start together, Up the dust ts
‘They bead, bout ow bee eee ieee

Bat Co toneus first of all the crew
Asiteh’s

Made good bis
Judiges yleld
ra Es oo
Next, for the ‘te belateras wrestling game
Avwiteh Berea the wet palemes

rt leap Ampbialus. At the hollow stone:
Elatrens excell'd, “At buffets, last,

prove what skill
¢| This stranger hath attaind to in our

Methinks, he must be of the active sot
His calves, thi hands, aod. wellkalt

shoulders
‘That Nature disposition did bestow
ir form. Nog wants he

‘To fit with fact 1
prime.

Bat sour affliction, made a mate with
ime,

ej ee the more sees, Nor ima
gine I,

A-worse thing to enforce
ti = a; tenga nae ne'er 20

Kelton get." “ Nor conceive you

Replied Euryalus, “bat prove bis blood.
wane Fou question” tn. the ‘nid

stood

Rengwmd’ Todas "Sed Teena
“Come, stranger lather, asd Samay, wait
Vout power in these comentons If your
De sawed wits your wert," Ht it

Should know these conflicts. Nor doth

On fy orth moe in A mn's come

[map tbe strenvous both of oot and

Ebtres | O¢ dlsconicntments; for not far bekind

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* Comes your deduction." Ship is ready now,
And men, asd all thi ly ye aad
ee oa ae
Myl power to answer? I am more in-
To cares than conflict. Much swstain'd T
And Sif ath susBering. T come bere to

crave,
| Im your assembities, means to be dismisy'd,
pany. bor Kings and, subjects 10

Euryales enw! began,
Po conyeitg n

man
As fits these honour'd strifex A number

‘To one that loves to lie a ship-board mach,
Oris the of sailors ; oF to sacle
‘and wear, and Eo hee
1 and passage, and a foreright

more
Strange mea there are that t woul choose| 1

‘And soch art thoa. A perton fair is
Bet rothing else is in thee nat ton

For ia thee lurks a base and earthy soul,
And 1 hast compel me, with @ speech

most fowl,

To be thus bitter. Tam not unseen

In these fair strifes, a8 thy words overween,
Bast in the first rank of the best Tatand ;

At least 1 did, when youth and strength of
band

‘Made me thus confident ; but now am worn
With woes and labours, as ¢ human born
‘To bear all anguith. Sudier'd mach I

‘The war of men, and the inhumane ware,
Have 1 driven through at ail parts: but

petal

ih
"Ture foros that Grave it fying (orm bis
As it a dart were, or a walking wand :
‘And far past all the marks of all the rest
His wing stole way ; whea Pallas straight

A raat at fal of i rosmmbog then
at it.
‘One of the ma

Oso cai
sump gronlag, may Ho ome

For not amidst the roat of marks it fell,
But far betore all, Of thy worth thisk

well,
And stand im all strifes No Pheracian

‘This bound can elther better of come
Bea

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And one beyond it too, And now, whose
core

yo have
‘Tha put my spleen up, come agnin and
We
‘The ye tempted, with such gross
At wrestling, buffets, whitibat, speed of
race;
At all, or either : I exeept at none,
But

Twill not challenge in my 5
And that's Lacdamas,* for he's mine host.
‘And who will ght or wrangle, with his

Unwise he is, and base, that will contend
With bien that’ feeds" him ina forejgn

race,
None else except I here, nor none

Bat wish io ino, ead prove his oben,
That dares appear now. No strife ye

can name
Am I unskill'd in ; reckon any game

Of all that are, as many as there are

Tn use with men, For archery I dare
Affirm myself not mean. Of all a troop
Vit make the first for with mine arrow

Though oe a fe
hough with me ne'er 30 many fellows

‘Their bows at mark'd men, and affect
thelr end.

pd was Philoctetes with his bow

Still my superior, when we Greeks would.

show
Our archery against our foes of Troy.
But all, that now ‘by bread frail life enjoy,
I far hold my inferior. Men of old,
None now alive shall witness me so bold
Torant equality with sueh men a these

us, Hercules,
‘Who with « bows durst with the Gods
‘contend ;
And therefore caught Eurytus soon his end,

the whole state of you ; only one,
Greed boast, |

You shal, and stright I think, have one| Nor

Stands sound and great within him, since | 3

‘With speech to angwer. ‘You would maka

Your vires therefore, that wil stil! shine

Your only onk is, Vet must thisman give
worth ill language; whea, he

And takes all ede off from his own sought | Your

yo Ih
Ia sort of moctats (whenodeoeer bs
‘That Judgment ‘hah to epeak
i your virtues. Note then
DOW
My spcoch, and what iy love preseats #0
‘you;
| That tell beroes, when come,
To vanguet wih your wife and bin at
(Mindful ‘of our worth) what deserving
ore
Hath put on our in
Five fie 03 son, ors Doc
Kind, and perpetual. We eitat needs
‘To other countrymen, and
‘We are not blameless in onr ce}
om nor wrestlings ; but in speed
| And ‘a the
We boast us Best

ever
With neighbour feasts, fog
For possy, masie, exncing, baths, and Bede

heads
| And feet with best grace in enamouring
dance,

Enflame our guest here, that he may
vance

Our worth past all the world’s to his home

As well for the ummateh’d grace that

out srs footiog of
four in *
That affairs

fy armce best. And so,

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in fair game aside,
Tig eager

mea,
‘on math's first youth made fresh entry

Had art to make thele natural motion sweet,
And shook a most divine dance from their

Ulysses wonder'd at it, but amazed
Sire a the dance s0|

For, as
‘The

‘danced, Demodocus did sing,
terown'd Venus’ love wi

s 3
‘As fist they clsély mix’d in th’ house of

epee orien
Vee, But in little whi

le
OF good king Vi le
‘The Sin te mista sh, and eae nd
The bitter news did by bis ears take hold

Of Vulcan's heart. to bis forge he

went,

And in his shrewd mind deep stuff did
His mighty anvil is the stock he
‘And forged a net that none

7 loose or}

cai

‘That when it had them, it might hold them

Which baving Gnish'd, be made utmost
haste

. soli. signéics
thlanor Fate ties oemion cmap
png la bn

vou.

Up to the dear room where his wife he
woo'd,

home
With (air-wreathod Venus’ love stang, who

was come
New from the Court of ber most mighty Sire,
Mars enterd, wrung her band, and the

said:

“ Now, love, ts Vulcan gone, let tx to bed,

‘He's for the barbarous Sintians.” Well
appay'd

Was Venus with it; and afresh assay'd

‘Their old encounter, Down they went ;
and straight

About them cling’d the artiéelal sleight

Of most wise Vulcan; and were so em
snared,

‘That either they could stir their comme

In apy limb about them, nor arise.
And then they knew, they would no more

conveyance, but lay, forced,

stone-still. _

Back rush'd the bothfoot-crook’d, but
straight in skill,

From his near scout-hele turn'd, nor ever

went
To any Lessnos, but the sure event
Left Phobus to discover. who told

370
Lame that I am, Jove's daughter doth

bbl darted that be thought ;
ties, , thatean :
And loves this allthingymaking-cometo-

nougtit,
‘Since he is fair forsooth, foot-sound, and t
‘Touk in my brain a little, lqge’d awry ;
And no fault mine, but all my parents!

fait,
Who should not get, if mock me with my
But ses how fast they sleep, wile f, to

‘Am only made an idle looker-on.
One bed their turn serves, and it must be

mine;
1 think yet, 1 have made their stoves
Thay sn no more wrong me, and none

Nor wil they sleep together, I believe,
With toohot haste again, “Thus bot shall

Ta emit and force, til the extremity

Ofail the dower I gave her sire (to gain

A dogged set-faced girl, that will not stain
Her Tics with blusbing, though she shame

He mere tbe She's fair, but.was no
waite fie tls thls long speech was making, all

To Vulcan's wh ‘s fabri -brazen-founded home.
Earth-shakin; co useful Mercury,
And far-shot No She-Deity,
For shame, would show there.

cary a reoled to

‘That ‘which ‘they said, that no impiety

Finds good success at th’ end, ‘And
now," said one,

“The Na the swift. Lame

‘To be the slowest of the Gods, outg:

Mars the most swift And’ this'is that

the

portal, and
Gave tens to laughters

reaiest justice : that adultery’ sport,

oedinab by craft, by craft of other sort
Cos Janve craft too} is plagued, whic

‘Thal sound in sng le the anes

. foot,
Tappeties Dees Sea of Took ‘Wien Oy,

‘THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

This speech amongst themselves hey
whe Precast a Hermes: “Thus
Woskst haw ‘be, Hermes, to be thas
‘Though ae thee golden Veeus were

He soon gave that an answer: “O,~
“Thou king of archers, would “twere thas

swith me.
pose ce She much shame; nay,
though infinite
Were pour'd about me, and that
In great heaven shining, witeeasd
harms,
So ‘Venus slumber'é in mine arma”
¢ Gods tain ogh'd; even the
wat ik for Man, snd posal the God of
me Sarr dissolve him, ipa Gesire
fe made to Jove ‘and said,
Ait duo debi shoutd Be byte Godt
Bye no words,” said he; “where
deeds lend pain,
nye the words are given for wretched
How vat 1 bind you in th’ Imenortaly
If Mars be once Toor, nor will pay is
right
«Wake said be, “if Mars should fly,

Thy abe re id, it should be:
wri Wea cron ean

said he.
Which said, he toosed them, Mars then
rash'd from sky.
And stoop’ cold Fheecc. ‘The laughiog
Deity
For Cyprus wa and took ber Paphian
wee she grow, never cut, hath conse
All with Arabian odode famed, and hath
‘An altar there, at which the rsa i
si Seams ee
Fit for the bliss I solace in ;

immortals
Deck'd her in to-e-studied attere,
And apt to set bebolders’ hearts om fire.

wien er Ls Lad aera] tom

THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 37 1

‘This our assembly, be all fetch'd, and
‘That to cur feast prepared, as to his
heaven,

‘Our guest may enter, And, that nothing be
Left “that fits his
"uoperform'd that fits his dignity,

Hirde wth words aad plan, sce past our

‘This sang the sacred Muse, whose notes
The dancers’ foct kept <3 his bands his
Ul mach was ], and all the crew.
"his wid fe ting have varied with a

nd pleasing meamure, and performed

two, with whom none would sire fa

And those is sons were, that must there-
fore dance

pe wep

Without the words. ‘And this sweet couple

Youn; og Hales and divine Laodamas

Wihodanond al ball dance, Then the rich-
vs hd made, of purple al
to band. “One teow ie tov the

When they had kept it up to eisher’s will
They then dances yah foo
band in hand,

Eig

Gods make
Thy wifes vght good to thee, in quick
‘To all thy fisends, and best-lored breeding
Their tong miss quitting with the greater
In whose sweet vanish all thy worst
annoy.
~ Aad fie how to all beight, fread,”
“Which earen coef with wish
ity
Nor ever give again dati to thee
Seg A ee

In my reclaim, thou hast bestow'd om me.”
"ils sd, swat his soos he put

The ght far sword ‘and then did set the
wren all the gifts were brought, which

(yi eee king Alcinous in all tho trais)
‘ere hy the honour'd heralds borne to

Which his fair sons took, asd from the
resort
Lald by their reverend mother. Each his 4

Of ail the peers {which yet were oversbone
nae

THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

jnous’ command) ascended ;
‘Whom' to passas much in pitscontended,
“Wife | see

Impose a well-cleansed in :
A caldron Dea wih wate, that with speed
Our guest wellbathed, snd all

weer fess and tnd eke bir |

rete maids
‘A wellsined caldron quickly.
Clear wate pours, fame made so entire,

Te gilt the brass, and made the water fire.
Jn mean space, from her chamber brought

‘Now, guest,
fake close and fast your gifts, lest, whes
shied ly, fi
A sweetly, in your wa) meet
Seg os tat “jess may make jour next
‘This when Ulysses heard, all sure he
acl ‘and bound safe ; for the saving
uel ‘reverend for her 1, Circe, had
ars taught him. “Then the hand
His wort o bathing; which rejoiced his
For, since he did with bis Caly; y
Hoh no hot bath; none Yas favour’
Nor beso teader of his Bingly limbs.
But all the time he spent in her abode,
He lived respected as he were a God.
Cleansed then and balm'd, fair shirt and
‘Tobe put on,
Fresh come from bath, and to the feasters

Nausicaa, that from the Gods' hands took

‘And through her eye her heart was over-
come

to
Which was |

‘With admiration of the port
1 bis aspect, and sale col etre

cil as nal the fata sate
‘Your home will shew you in your better

Bot Ye re et ee
iis | Your life's price I lent, and you owe it
me.

‘Then, took they feat, and dil in parts
Nidal G4 out wine, and

+ | Than seeteed Co, for Sle ec ae

| And ‘rovereaoed
| Was

In midst of all

Apa a lofty

ilar ; when this grace
wisdom @id bim: From

the chine,
That stoed before him, of a whitetoothid
‘Belng a to deities tat wed

‘He carved to him, and sent (t where be sat
By his old friend the herald, willing than:

Teach this to grave Demodocus,
Sey | sla Mes ak

's deserve, past all the husnan race,
respect and booour; since tbe

of kaowiedge and the supceme worth in

rue Rise, tforms them. and tvs all tht

‘hist he he oh, who te
ected encouraged which, whee feast
tye apie oth

nat pce of,
Pur aliyee met Mie ‘Muse of war,

+ "Bpispor dmdiv, Peviam cxfas Armuibaa
digas tol ecietas,

TH EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Jove's danghter, prompts you, that the
Greeks respects,

ae noes me uaa of Ti ae

Tobe heard you, since my coming.

‘The fate of Greece to an admired string.

He sung, besides, the
Frome bane thar lov eae
foregone ;

And how the

How wach cur sufersnce was, bow mark ‘That of that

How ® ps ee actions rose to when we
= we ay forming you you Le Le an
Forth‘ then, and sing im ‘coal horse's

Built by Epeus, th ial Dame
Bay Se echt ol

All
eee afm any men
ion with the plain,

Wioal' yon an as well enchant,
You sung the ret prongance you

clear
ihn sah, ered rd by God Up be

‘And to bis song fell, past the form of
inning where the Grecks a ship-board

A

a

every chief had set on fire his tent,
"Uy other kings, in great Ulysses!

ii

Hy

Sebnce the Trojans up to Ton drew
it;

i

fre,

Vow'd to appease ach anger Goutead's
re.

On which opinion, they, thereafter, saw,
a ter eo

Se ees ie ea ere

‘vast market-place the horse did | That move

Ia tile time, by eee
level laid.

death, yet no. cn
Defend rare oye

eal there death's horrors, and be fl fe
In tears? his feeling brain swet; for, in
ore ast sean ter ope al
Norse tere inthe powers that alle

‘More trve int of all than tears.
as gives interpreters of el

Andasa

ge ea Set tar eecetty fed,
hs Tot fhe Teper be made were ex

oo
‘Them, metaph. signi

Ez
Labour, and languor; for all which the
vag hehe cheeks with tears, and feeds

‘With miserable sufferance ; so this kingr
Of tear-get anguish oped a boundless
spring =
Nor yet was seen to any ove man there
Barring laze Win two aan
not ‘scape him, sighs, so choked,
Seerbeee
From all his tempers ; which the king did

Both note and grave respect of, and thus
“Het me Paseacian councilors and peer
aps all cars

ies not st lite with hs song, for, ever
‘Muse sung, our guest batt

Contain'd from secret mournings. 1 may
‘That something sung he hath been grieved | A
witha,

‘As touching his particular. Forbear,
‘That feast may jointly comfort all hearts

here,
eae amend

all due honour. For our reverend guest
th all our celebration, and all

His love bath added vs our festival

A guest, and suppliant too, we should

Dea, a our bother ‘one that doth but

He bath a oul, or touch but at a mind
Deathless and manly, should stand s0|
inclined.

Nor eae you longer with your curious |

ion peat what ever we shall ask of it.

It now stands on your honest state to tell,

And therefore give your name, nor more
conceal

‘What of your parents, and the town thar

Nate of your native, or of foreigners
That neat ‘us bordes, you are call’ in

birth
i eA What

ee oats

ips all, that your way must

‘THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

For our shipe* know th’ expressed minds of
mn,

And yet tise aever any man to steer,

Nor any rudders have, ax others need.
Troy know men's thoughts, and whither

reds their speed,

And ther there will set them ; for you cannot
‘Acty to them, ‘nor fat soll, that Fame
Hath any notice given, but well they know,
‘And will fly to them, though they ebb and

(een clouds and sights; and never

‘lt stip’ we

From safer deduction of facia stranger
eo scorn
With a cast round ‘This
‘The old kt kingt made ; i which miraculous
i cat had Gone’ soot ‘thiagh) on lel

At his pleasure be it. But sow, on,
‘And cared ere Ba iroen] whence

‘And toutes cise of mex, would Sie ae
‘With all their fair towns, be they as they

‘iffade, onjust, and all
minds tt tbat please

Or eee
bas eS eee
And' therefore what allicts you? why, t3
bear am

Fr
city, own you? give to know. ine

“t Intending bis father Nansithoas,

THE EIGHTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

The fate of Greece and Ilion, mourn you| Whom next our own blood and self-race
10? we love?

‘The Gods have done it ; as to all they do | Or any friend perhaps, in whom did move

Destine destruction, that from thence may | A knowing soul, and no unpleasing thing ?

rise Since such a good one is no underling

A to instruct posterities. To any brother ; for, what fits true friends,
Fell any kinsman before Ilion? True wisdom is, that blood and birth
Some worthy sire-in-law, or like-near son, transcends.””

‘THE EXD OF THE EIGHTH BOOK.

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT,
urases here is rw made known ;
tells

‘the crafts his ly
hes

ANOTHER.
“Wirra. The strangely fod

‘The Cicons fled,
‘The Cyclop's eye.

‘Utyssrs thus reslved the king's de~
manele:

4 Alsizous, In whom this empire srands,
You should not of 40 natural right ds-

‘Your priceely feast, as take from it the
‘To bear that in accent
shart ane peg ee

iowa cn
In any ‘common-weal, what more doth

Nott of the just and blessed empery,
‘Than to eel fant

fonst
‘Adorn it through; and thereat hear the’
breast

OF the divine Muse; men in ander ost
Awinepeye? wating tables erown'd with

Set Gon to guests that are to use it
eee and the cups
This shews, my mind, most humanely

SRR Frye toe the early

‘That stir’ my soul 90; for { Nove sal
Asfllfom 6x noes, beaten dong mine
wath repetitions of what beaven bath
Sra SS Hg a sew
And! "etre doth my mind excite me
To ia tard bleeding moan; but much

Tossve} your pleasure, that to over-flow
1 a th tc coe ay Oy sce

‘Though eae 22 much plagued J ming
And
nd BOW my name; which way shall
ie rete that their sommde riayy
Tih our es alo, 8 shew having
Sa much on), wh ets ead
In your embraces, when, so far from
Tite nt where obtada i

“The fear ofall the world for
For which my facts ax high as heaven 1e-

Ir rm han, ear mot enw

Tree Nes; whose near confines

Islands iber, well-inbabited,

‘That uder ‘say obecrrance taste thelr
Dulichius, Samos,

ooh ree

pecs, Goat te
Yeti ae ala she rs

* He begins where Alcineas commanded | fronds,

Dewndocor t9 end,

1 eivoxton,

iy

t

‘THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODVSSEVS.

Peeper en roe seem Sr WES eet
(Teo dar, wo nights enttTe) we gat

= ee
The thind clear day yet, to more fiendly

winds

‘We musts advanced, we white sails spread,
and sate,

Forewinds and guides again did iterate

Our ease and hi ; Which we clear’
had reach’,

wet t chance, a sudden north-wind

With an extreme sea, quite about in
ciple “eedeavou sa eis

To giddy road, and with our bow'd. sulla

Dreaiiful Maleia; callin tick our fost
‘As far forth as Cythern. Nine days more
nah ed winds toss'd and the tenth,

Where dwell the blossom fed Lotophagl
feteh'd ; fresh water took in, instantly
Fal to oor feed aship-board, and then

‘Two of my choice men to the continent
Mtr ng tid, 3 herald) to discover
hat sort of people were the rulers Over
Where, the first

hagllrg
Lotophagi, that made then

cat,
‘Their country-diet, and no Ml [ntent
HE fo thelr oars co thers; and yet th

4, for, having eat
‘Theie dainty viands, the: ‘did alte f
(As oe else that but taste their

Both countrymen and country, ‘nor’ ad-
\ Sopotrymen and sounty, ‘nor

‘Any return t' inform what sort of men
Made fix'd abode there ; but would needs

maintain
Abode themselves there, and eat that food

over.
1 made out after, and was fin to sever
‘Dh’ enchanted knot by forcing their re

treat,
‘That strived, and wept, and would noi
Jesve their meat

fae eee

And cast thom under hatches, and
‘Comsmandod all the test without leas sey,

Lest they should taste the Iote too, and

With such strange raptures Oirte Weapioed
retreat.

All thea abroad, we beat the set with

ones,

And still with sad bearts sall'd by out-way.

‘Till thy out-law'd Cyclops” land we
arace

Of proud-lived loiterers, that never sow,
Nor put a plant tn can, 6

nor ae
But trust in God for all thi ns Soe
Unown, lb
‘That other lands hare ; wheat, and barley,
‘That bear in goodly grapes Welicious
ne 5
And sends showers for all No coun
ai ioere bs
Not, Sobsielices ies) Se a
r
‘Thee heads aloft on mountains, and those
st
And on ‘thelr tops too ; asd tbr Woates
a
cs ma
Nor wife oor auld ead, Davos Ne ae

None for another ‘But
Another little iste, ele Briers eet

agate
Men's want i vofie’d, but the sew supe
‘The’ goats mate with their inarticalane
Goats number this stall iia,
So tame, that no access disterts their
No’ hunters, Omt the tops Of mowstalns
And rub eg ‘woods with fol, sock
Now ls he sol wih beh fel Goat

Nera tae yuo the

Ja brave rermlion growed Gs mar

‘Usefial. lene

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. oe
SS
‘Tous sure, he kneel'd and milk’ | We su are ; and

making pplanis are; and bowpiable fore
‘And beaying goats, with all a milker's| power to move,
; And with their plagues together will
‘Then let’ in all their young; then quick
did dress ‘That bumble guests shall have their wants
His half milk wp for cheese, and in a press ied.
of weber press'd it; put in bowls the] He crurlly answer'd : *O thou fool," said
To drink and est, aod serve his sapping | ‘To come so far, and to importane
feast. With any God's fear, or cbsceved love?
All perks diepatsh'a thes; be Dogan his ‘We Cyclops care not for your goat-fed
Which blown, be saw us, and did thus
*Hol gossts! what are ye? whence sail To
Qeces? But tall
‘OF rove yt, and like thieves oppress

Your soutl to cage tad "your lives to}
This utter he, when fear from our
Ted per tie ts be fo thicchcoarcch
‘With such @ voice, and such a monster
But thus I answer’d # + Erlang Grecians,

it Like two
se whelps

ai
i

i

is
BE
5B

view
Aight to horrid. Desperation few,
afl car after Noma, 40 fastens death,
Belicwed doutrection But whan

i
i

heed get,

3a
a ha a a teed
Tit ea choked up was a he ps for

Along bis den, it his cattle, down
Ne ay and streak'd him, When my

ind was grown
Desperate to step in, draw my sword, and
His where the strings about the

‘Circle the liver, re add strength of hand.
But pat sak jought, more stald, did

sate

or ere we all ad pris, since pas
powers to lift aside a log so vast

Hh War ull outecepe tad 90" oak

The thevght all night, expecting active

Which come, ‘he first-of all his fire en-

‘Then milks his gonts and ewes, then to| One male
their dams 3

Lets in their young, and, wondrous
inh 3 maz, haste dispatch’d his house-

Then to his breakfast, to which other two
Led friends went ; which eat, out

His herds and fat flocks, lightly patting by
‘The churlish bar, and closed it instant
For both those works with ease as much fe

id,
AAs you would ope and shut your quiver

with storms of whistlings then his flock | A

te drave

Up to the mountains ; and oscasion gave

Hoe, m6 ‘we, my Wits, Which Yo tak
a

Ecairteel: to, screw up, that a vengeance
tight

By sive means fall srom thence, and
Pallas n

‘Afford full ear to my teedieet vow.

This then my thoughts, prefered: a huge
lob iny
Close <4 Wb milkchouse, which was now in

season, being an olive-tree
he nek he fell'd, and, being green,

Made lig Tighter for his manage, “Twas so
vast,
‘That we resembled it to some fit mast,

‘To serve a ship of burthen that was driven
‘With twenty oars, and had a bigness given

THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘To bear a huge ven Full so thick, $0
We ju bess

And cote hao The
Amongst my soldiers, to hl g 9

‘whic oda, T sharpen’d 4 at top, and

Harden d in fire, T hid It fn the dem
Within a i rocking

‘Thick ands oct kd very
‘Then made I Jota cast by my to
West fore served to dae heat
Of tha mansates and the Jot dict fall
On four t wish'd to make my aid of all,
‘And the th mse, cve ke he tt
1 eee came from
‘OF his fat cattle, drave in al
By God's direct will, or of
|, of
Hisar ofl the, dot ep
My comprehension... Bat he eel a
mighty bar, mild,
His. work. all. done, om, re soldiers
At nce ce he saatch'd ep, and to stipper
ent,
That dat 1 words to him, and did
A fowl of wine, with these wortls:
*Cyclop ! tale
‘bowl of wie, rons my hand, that may.
Way for the man’s flesh thou hast est, asd
‘What drink our ship held ; whlch in smered
row

| offer to thee to take ruth on me

in my dismission home,

ee

‘Aad prove, from him if thou canst belp

‘Tharp they, leving him; when a

Paap Gil iey eet taal oo wad xp wit
a whom now pain

it,
ind groaning upand down, be eroping tried
Wis te tue toes which fxs hepa ide;
‘But in the door sat, feeling if he could
his sheap issued) on some man lay hold ;
b Ine a foo. that could devise
jo stratagem to scape his gress surprise.
Bat L, contending what I could invent
My (riends and me from death 30 imminent
RES deliver’, all my wiles T wove
being the subject) and did this ap-

Fat ‘yams, most fair, and great, lay
rr

‘That did n burthen Mike a violet bear.*

These, while this leara’d-in-villany did sleep,

L yoked with osiers cut there, sheep to

Tres in & rank, and still the mid sheep

‘A man about bis belly, the two more

March’ on bis each side or defence. Ithen,

he Imypelf tho fairest ofthe den,

‘fleecy belly under-crept, ern!

His back, and in his rich wool wrapt me fast

With Jee my hands, arm’d with as fast a

‘And thus each man hung, till the morning

Which come, be knew the hour, and let
al

His matelocks fit, the females unmilkd

Blesting and braying, their full bags s0 sore
Wining uem Th ther Shepherd

Witt being unsighted ; which was cause
his mind

Went not a milking jin
‘The backs felt, as they pass'd, of thoge male

Gross fool, believing, we would ride his
Nor eer knew that any ‘of them bore:
Het Disbelly any mau before.

‘ast ram came to pass him, with his
Aud we together, loaded tothe fail,

Rovere da de blres flee ene
ia his my head

‘* Wool of a violet colour.

- br
. He, to wreak inclined, To

‘THE NINTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

‘Troubled the while, not causelesly, nor
‘This ram be groped, and tak’ to = * Lany
Why last art thoe now? thou hast never
‘To lag thus bindmost, but still fiest hast

‘The tender blossom of a flower, and held
Stace in thy step, Both to, whe flood and

Fist al ot fold at even, now last

Dost thon not wish I Me
‘Which that abhorri man

by his exscrable rout

When be hed wrought down with
en. me
wine? but be

ler knw nd ed

To tell me where he berks. now 1 would

His brain about my cave, strew'd bere and

To ease my heart of those foul ills, that
=

A little from bis bold, sewself first
‘And next my friends. ‘Ties doeevont eal

His straight-Ingy’d Gt Geeoe-bearers over
Even ull they all were én

PUN
Besped ~ death. But, for our toss,
in tears; which with a look I
‘And bade them take our boot in, They
And up we all went, sat, and sd oar

pope
at the +

jasdtbatram bestay'd, i

THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

From charge abroad, and then goes he to
‘The oar: fewuing ; be whose tern doth
‘The night observance nth bis double hire ;
Since day and night In equal length expire
About that region, and the wight’s watch
weigh

At twice the day's wand slace the change!

that's laid
Upon the nights-man (besides breach of

Ef

— the days-man’s; for one oxen
cop,

‘The other sheep, hen thee Tia
ans ‘Bat wi ron we

(Exceeding famous, and exviron'd round
With one continuate rock, which 20 natch

‘That both ends almost met, so peominent
‘They were, and made the havea’s mouth

passing strait)
Our whole fheet la we got ; in whose receit

‘Oue ships lay amchor'd close. Nor needed
we

Fear hanm on any stays,* Tranquil®t
So pariy st dite, that waves great nor

eres Fos to soy beighs at al

Dia
And yet would T no entry make, bot

‘To hier they came, and aik'd who govern'd
‘And what the people whom he order’
She snewer'd-not, bet led theer those
a pose haste to shew her father's
Percent etn ee
Who rush’d abroad, and from the council-

‘¢ bome her horrid beabaod Antiphas.* |
Who, deadly.minded, straigtt be snatch

eloquent Cited]

‘THE TENTH ROOK OP HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Gres beneath a womb of brass.
it, T bathed ; and odorous water

‘on my head and neck,
heart-hurting sorrows

In

Which
That mis sts
Mie} the refreshing sweetness; and, for

that,
Men‘ sometimes may be ae delicate.
Bathed, and adorm'd, she led’ me 19 a
Of assy silver, and of fashion
Exoceding curious. A fair foot-stoal set,
‘and every sort of meat
\borately-palish’d board,
7 but not a

Wosi ty ars taste of taste; my mind
‘That must digest ; eye-meat would do me
Circe (observing that 1 tno hand
Toany baoguet, bering counters
From weigher cares
excuse]
in ‘er near me, these wing’d words
“Wy is Ulysses like one dumb, his
Lemening with 2 Nor t
9 ; languors; jor 10 food
Nor wine? Whence comes it? out of any
Of more illusion? You must needs for-
‘Tat wrongfil doubt, since you have heard
+0 Cares ied, ‘what man is he,

ett
Awed with the rights of true humanity,
(ceria! ore ge atm before he

Mis fends redeem’ tom tele defo yrmni~ :

a ES
‘To let me Stee urine,
Dissolve the cia that the fored ors
ER moos tt lire my honour'd friends
men.”
‘This said, she left ber throne, and took
ber roc,
ype ae aed Jet my men abroad,
vine of nin e years ‘They

old,
oc oberg

‘When, ‘a igh hay
All over smeard, their
gone,

more,
And all their forms mach goodller thin

fore,
All knew me. cling’d about me, and a cry
Of pleasing mourning few about so
The roof resounded; and the queen
Herself was moved tosce our kind so i
Who bade me sow bring ship and men

ashore,
Our arms, and goods fn caves hid, and
feet
the weeping

light cates “ould ‘That

ity
ee Caer

nia
‘Their natural country,

And evea the Keeney pom

‘And vow ad mich, wich mer *O your

As much delights us, as in you had come:

‘Our countsy to us, and our
unbappy

But what" fate Bagh reft- oor

‘THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMEIHS ODYSSEYS, SS

For Ciree's house, that will ransform ye all | Of your distresses should, methink, be

Tovwion ce wolves or Hoos? ‘Neweriball | Sesumab wah saseeances "We Wid well
Sp og mee allow

Parprralick ot Her kind ‘persunstons, andthe while yom,

So rhe the Cy Berg
‘our fends ben Se eS ek geal When, new

“Tai i oe eon and brought a het
PP seek wae with Wap
By tis coe indiscretion, nes be

1 for this ours
wath my sword (that desperate | Had gone the round again through herbs
Hewn from his neck) to gash upon the |The months atwolved in onder, sill the
His mangled body, though my blood was Had ram thee fll ace i Apali's ape

My friends
Wik bambla tak contaled he; ea re | If ever Fa wrould sign my pas, deta’
alliances ° % Ad \
quest, me, ant’ | tt should be now bo more. 1 heasd them
That 1 would leave him with ey ship

well,
‘Yet that day spent io feast, till darkness
And to tho sacred palace lead them oo. i
piled them ex xsylochves Would ay Sa
vom their attend
lance on me, our " pe

fray
Strook tohisheartso, But 7
to 50, paired ast SLE rel ho eee

men,
In Circe’s house, were all, in several bain,
Btadloaayswescn', sid wih ol nd Atticted me ‘with tears to get them goer:

wiley = AAU these 1 told ber, ond she answer
out weeds, and a feast select
Served in before them ; at which close we | * Much-skill'd Ulysses Lacrtindes t

: = Kemain-no tore against your wills with

Bat tao your free way : only this mst Im
Perinat yon ket oa eee

-

found
‘They all were set, cheer'd, and carousing
‘When (mutual sight had, and all thought | Peciorm’

el thes
Feast was forgetten,* and the moan again Yon nates
‘About the house i, deren with wings of | Ad were forme yerar pss,

Bit oc segue Circe: *Now,'no more Ratiet sn soa
Pence
te ty Cat, my Bl sate my
ag gee red PFriagoet coongh Might sing trath’s soit wisdom, and

ha. ee ‘heww then feast as
rove obey Dan
"This broke my beats nbs

"| Mourn’d, and would
lourn' mever snore be com*

THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

"The divine in voice

grulfs, and go alone
house, wheres to Acheron | Ai

‘Cocytus runs, and ilegethon ;

Reed ctatye: eal Shere nik
Of th ihe nt Hood tense ating |
‘The dark heroe, great Tiresias,

Now comin eat, to gain proptions pas,

' cubit every way) & pit

Rael pean paral siedure ie
‘Acolemn sacrifice. For which, first take
oer, and wine, and their commixtion
‘Then Sect wine nea: and thirdly water

And Nsly aid to these the whitest flour.
‘Then vow to all the weak necks of the

dead
Offerings a number; and, when thou shale
‘The Ithacensian shore, to sacrifice

of
4 le ofl thy most exceed gous zn

the dear streams of ti |

et in et its, to Tress vow

‘See then the: that thy fellows slew,

Hyland tnpoadl tn fees aad all top
crew

ae ees

Grave Pluto, and

Then gee Gy sro, aE, ne

Of all the faint shades of the dead and

gone
T approach the blood, till thou hast heard
their king,

‘The wise Tiresias ; who.

Will instantly do honour, ti

nd all the measure of

Tene payer ‘This the Codes tok —
forning in her throne of

‘Sars the vast woud ; by. when exient
‘The Nymph adorn’d me with attives as
Her own hands putting on both shirt and
Robes fine, and curious, and upon my
‘An ormament that gltter@ tke a Mame

Girt me in gold; and forth betitses Lcame
Amongst my soldiers, roused them all from

all parts, that doth |
Least fame for

“or
ee ae fleece, and all thy flocks doth

‘When the all-calling nation of the dead*
Thou thus hast pray'd to, offer on the

2 leas

‘To dreadful Erebus, thy

‘The food's shore walling. And then,

A
Sick hicks. of souk of men ead darves

‘Shall all gy pious rites be, Straight

ladder, Sorward, aad en end

cosa ee
Sear ae pont

ee

THE TENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 397

of gure endeavours now is — for| It would have way yet. We went woful on
To ship and shore, where was arrived as

house
Of austere Pluto and his glorious spouse, Vanish again, tnwitness'd by our eyes ;
‘To take the counsel of Tiresias Which grieved not us, nor check’d our
reverend Theban) to direct our pass”|
This brake their hearts, and grief made For who would see God, loth to let us see?

tear their hair. [This way oF that beat ;'still his ways are
But grief was never good at great affair; free,

&
be

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT.

iurssest way to Hell appears
he the grave Tiresias hears
Rosguires his own and other fea
‘ees, and th’ after states
Ip'vhich were eld by sad decuase
ee
at Teo wary
‘ea Ajax that was stl
With Tehacus, forth arms he los ;
And with the great Achilles’ ghost.

ANOTHER.

‘dpi. Ulysics
evokes the dead.
The lives appear
Hereafter
Asniveo now at our ship, we hunch’,
and

Our mast up, put forth sail, and in did get |
Our late-got cattle, Up’ our sails, we

My served fellows mourning* now th’
AA good oo ion yet, a toreright wind,
Circo (the pe eiarer of ie wad)
Supplied our murmuring consorts with,
that wns
Both speed and guide to our adventurous
atl
(Our voyage prosperous. ‘San thea set, and
All oe S ieaitig on the bounds we fll
Of deep Oceanus, where people
Whom a perpetual cloud rhe
ight 5
To ham the cheerful sun lends never
it?
Nor whe be mounts the star-sustaining

Ey our sails stood to the winds, and
made

heaven,

Nor when hie stoops earth, and sets wp the
ven,

But Night holds fix'd wings, feather'd all
ith bas

nes,
Above thowe most unblest Cimmerians.

* They moumed the event before they
Kavew it.

Here drew we wp our ship, our sheep #8
And walk’d the shore till wo attain’d
view

OF that sad tegion Circe had fore-show'd .

And then the sacred offerings to be vow'd

Hurylochus and Persimeces bore.

When 1 ny sword drew, and earth's wom

did go

Tull La pied

Which with the
rt honey six

‘Then water poor’ in, tast the flour
wheat.

Much I importuned thea the weak-ne-"
And yow'd when 1 the barren soil she
tread

Of oliffy Ithaca, amidst my hall
To kill a heifer, my clear best of all,

And give in offering. on a pile compose

‘Of all the cholcs goods my whole he
enclosed.

And to Tiresias himself, alone,

‘A sheep coal-black, and the selectest or

OF all my flocks.” When to the pow
Deneath

‘The mcred nation that survive with dea

My prayers and vows had dene devotic

I took the offerings, and upon: the pit
Bereh their lives” Oat gushid the sal

And round about me fled out of the floor
or ‘There clustes
u

Youths, and their wives, much-sulferi

‘dof a cubit round,
i¢ liquid sacrifice we crown’d,
with wine, then sweet

men,

Soft tender virgins that but new cats
there

By timeless death, and grees their sorro
were.

‘There men-at-arms, with armours all ¢:
brued,

Wounded ‘with lances, and with fatilchi
a

—

Fut flocks, and ores, which the Sus doth
own,

‘To whom are all things as well heard as

And never dare one head of thove to slay,

Bat hold unharmfal on your wished wa

Though through enough affliction, yet
secure

Your Fates shall land ye ; but presage says
sure,

If once ye spoil them, spoil to all th:
‘tients, ze 4

When: losing all thy fellows, in n sil
Of foreign (when most thy Fates
In thy deliverance) thus th’ event ball
‘Thon shalt find shipwrack raging in thy
Prowl saen thy goods consuming, and thy
Urging with gifts, glve change upon thy
But all these wrongs revenge shall end to
And on ores, of cunning, set with slaughter

Thy house of all thy evollen, Yet again
Thon shalt a voyage mabe,

That ow tose, nor ships, nor oars that

Wings to a ship, nor mix with any fares |

Salt’s savoury vapour. first
shalt land,

‘This clear-given sign shall let thee under-

eo

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Soall ‘chance fa ip cartel yoann

aiv'd’at home, quite eapded of his
‘Thy subjects round about thee, rich and
And bere bath Truth semm’d ep thy vital

Decreed in Deity ; let it Ekewise please
Tiresias to revolve ene, why so near
ie hie nee ey
An 7 or wd, not lock, vouchsafe her
Dot abe not know me?" + No," said be,
none

nor
Of all these its, but myself alone, 4
Bote till nal taste the

Bot whomsoever you shall do that
He will the truth tall

there those men remain: assume |

nyt shoulder a ship
fo thy ro} a ship oar,
Wi hen thou shalt meet one on

Tati willie country admiration say
‘What dost thou with that wan upon thy

neck ?*
‘There fx that wam thy oar, and that shore |
Whth\meerad tites to Neptune ; slaughter
Aram n bull, and (who for strength doth
bear

Reena my sn, that you aie
‘This deadl ion underdive ?
“Twin w ‘wilh, and caste is mary mighty

doi xen their prease 2 |
A lerpose

7 which mone (
Siete taig'd thes eel on Boe Date
transgress.

* Den that never eat salt with their food.

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ODYSSEYS.
‘built ship he needs that ventures | But in the winter strew'd abont the fire
ae, ‘wilh his aves in ashes, his attire
(Chiou from Troy but now, enforced | Like to a beggars: when the Summer
| caine,

f time with thy soldiers? Not hast And ‘Actim all fats ipe'd with ie
Ps

long day, thy country, and. thy | Where vines made shadows
ween most

feta: “That a noosa end | is Goch wah fan lees made upon

5 infernal state made me contend ;
‘rom the wise Tiresias’ ‘Theban soul | And here lay he, his sorrow’s fruitfal state
i y. #8 be faded, for my fate 5

soul
‘With shame and horror ; only In her moan,
that pene unfold, For me and my lifo, she consemed ber own,’

her 3 if some long] She thus; ‘when I had great desire to

spleen of her that arrows| My arms the circle where ber soul did

LATE

tl

z
a
B

TI t i
teat if nd

3ate
&

her. holding me no moro She woukd say love to her embraces fy.
of tage return, or if my store | And not vouchsafe that even in hell we

Beal ENCSS

nti
Be B
pian
ap E ae
rep TE
&

=

Kingdom's throse, but th’ in-| Nor suffer expt

(a
i
Es
E
o

Hf
i
i
|

ike a prince, and Tecréase | Of his last Ques, that. soom spirits
the whits bones are is

and the Whee her
ped rw aot Whes, Uke a dream, the sos! assumes

rn

‘3
reer ene clones to, This thy ite tate
state is enoagh 5 all this le
Fa-atfurnitures, nor wealthy weeds ; | Will malke a tale fit to be tod thy wise.”
ys

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Roe Cpe ea amr that then
ow deh tuled the ‘Pylian

Samer beauty’s empire overshome.

She bromght hes wife-awed hastand, Nelous,
Nestor mech honour d, Pelclymenus,
And Pep sons with sovereign virtues

ay}
‘And Poller, that excelld in whirlbat
Both these the fruitful Barth bore, while the
Of lite inspired them ; after whieb, they
Such grace with Jove, that both lived ender

bus hr ought « dager a su

Rand beastie Pero, so for foren exact
That nature to a miracle was rack’
In her perfections,

men;
ears Ae iat Sane Coen 8
chain,
And drew them suitors to her. Which her

Took
‘To nothing nore ta to the

herd
Of oxen, which the common fame so
rear’

Own’d by Iphicles, not a man should be
His Pero's husband, that from Phylnce
‘Thone never-yet-driven oxen could not

Yer ‘thse a strong ope eld him to

aati pie a prophet that had never ere’,
Hd sald, that only he should be prefer?
‘To their on. but the equal fare
Of God withstood his stealth; Ihextrieate
Impeisoning bands, and sturd;

swains

laze tr eh eyes of |1

of, and. since he did aspire,

v
‘That were the herdsmen, who withheld

with chains

ae erent ‘af won|

jevcomed mail th alLeafeconchaicn. |
— saw I Leda, link’d ie nuptial

with Tyndarus! to whom she dl sustal

ee aera st eas Castor 4

"That pai’ for use of horse, commparizon ;

‘Tal, in ae bea cin Dh Di
‘Detain'd his homeward baste ; wi

Tine tee and ated

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Sad, and about him
‘That in Aegistbes’

ends
With his ster fortune, “Having drunk the

He knew me instantly, and forth a flood
OF spite. tenes, eR ook ks tee
hat

is,

With will t' embrace me, but their old
commands:

Flow'd not about him, nor their weakest

all his train of friends,
house endured their

1 cto sce, and moan'd him from my d

And askit: "© Agamemnon! Ring of
mea
What sort of cruel death bath render

:
‘Thy royal person? tune, in thy feet?
Te ee tn hullsh tilows. soaking

meet,
Rowing the winds? Or have thy men by

Done thee this il, for using thy command,
Past their consenis, in diminution

Of those full shares their worths by lot had

‘won
Of sheep or oxen ? oF of any town,
In covetous strife, to

thine

own,
In men or women prisoners?” Hie replied:
* By none of these, in any right, U died ;
But by Afgisthus and my murtherows wife
(Bil fo a banquet at his house) my life
se been reft me, to my slaaghter

Like to an ox pretended to be fed.

So miserably fell I; and with me

My friends lay exastacred ; as when you see
Atany rich man’s euptials, shot, or feast,
‘About his kitchea whitetooth’d swine lle

rest.
The slaghters of @ world of men thine
Both private and in prease of enemies:
eis pcaelly Sine les Gi ee
‘Would all thy parts have beoken into
mean,
‘To see bow strew'd about our cups and

As tables set with feast, 90 we with fates,
Al 'd and slain lay, all the floor em-

‘breathed:

doh fond 7 whom, she that wit

With, banefal crafts, false Clytemoestra,

Chose sit f hands 1 threw
Poaeets lence? on tanlen at

By all hee sex's shame, forsook the room,
for deign’d, though’ then so near this

To shat 2 lips, or close my broken eyes.

at my mi

Nothing : heap'd is wath implties,

As such a woman that would kilt ber

‘That tarried her & maki. | When to muy
house

| E brought her, of her love in beart,
To children, and slaves. But she (in
art

And Som me, wl tke fom him he

48

‘THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

bach ge cla ln aad

As for Achilles; nor thy doth
In sentence, any but Saturai doom ;
In whose hate was the host of Greece

A very horror ; who express'd it well
Ta signing thy fate with this times hell
‘Approach then, king of all the G

Repress thy rest miod and thy flamy |O

it,
And give the words 1 give thee worthy
A his o word drew from him, but ess

The sern soul kept ; to other souls be fed,
‘And glid along the river of the dead.
‘Though anger moved him, yet he might

a |
strook

With sight of other souls. And then T saw
Minos, that minister'd to Death a law,
And Jove's brigtt son was. He was set,
and sway’
A golden sceptre : and to him did plead
A sort of others, set about his throne
Ta Pluto's. widedoor'd house ;
straight came on
‘Orion, who was bunting there
those beasts he had

geht veces
In desert hills on earth. A club he bore,
Entirely steel, whose virtues never wore.
‘Tityus I saw ; to whom the glorious earth |
Open her womb, and gave unhappy

jira owed eet a pavomect 18
He" quence atm eater Be thelr

Nine asres! compess, On his bosom sat
‘Two vultures, algying, through his caul af

Into his liver with their crooked beaks ;
And each by tums the concrete enirail

{As oats their steel beat) set on-éither

Nor doth he ever labour to divide
His rts their bead ‘nor with his hand

Smooth Panopeus. 1 saw likewise
Up to the chio, amidst a liquid lake,
‘ormented Tantalus, yet

His burning thirst, Of as his scornful
nt ld an would tat, 20 of twat

sod kt

Divine power Iesears Hiiei Ma

ee ee trees, clustering
a

stone
And on Bis tip-toes
‘To wrest up to mount
Wen prs ret there (hi eres gull

Dows the event
yok ee me Gate eae
To which straight set his nerer-reated pain.
‘The Sweat came gushing out from every

| Andon Kis head @ standing mist he Works

when /Keeking from thence, as if a cloud of

dust
wer sed about it Down wilh these
vias thrust
|The tdol of the force of Hercutes,
But his firm self did po such oe
He feasting ves amongst th’ Leumortal
Whiteankled Hebe and. imself_ made
In heavenly nuptials, Hebe, Jore's dese
moe,
And Juso’s, whom the golden sandals

grace.
About him flew the clamours of the dead
‘Like fowls, and still stoopd cuffing at his

bead.

‘He with his bow, like Night, stalked up
and down,

His. rm sull nock’d, and hurling rosnd his
frown

At or vex'd hoverers, aleaing at them

Aad still, as shooting out, desire to.
A bp a} bawdrick wore be treat tas

‘The thong all gold la wich wee forms

: weet td mice dey eal brent

Tn bears, boars, Mons, battles, combats,

THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

409

Who wrought that work did never i sleight and wisdom, as of dowsright
before,

| Nor so divinely will do ever more.
Soon as he saw, he knew me, and gare

speech :
“Son of Laertes, high in wisdom's reach,
And, yet unhappy wretch, for in thls
heart,
Of all exploits achieved by thy desert,
‘Thy worthy but works cut some sinter
fate,
Twas generate
By Jove himself, and yet past mean op-
it

rex
By one my far inferlor, whose proud
best

Texposed abhorred Inbours on my hand.
Of all which one was, to descend this

strand,

And hale the dog from thence. He could
not think

‘An act that danger could make deeper

And 3 Bt ‘this depth 1 drew, and fetch’d as

Katies toe the dog. The Deity

pid. and raised, and eaide me

4
‘This said, he msade descent again ax low
As Pluto's court; when I stood firm, for

Of more heroes of the times before,
And might perhaps have seen my with of

more,
{As Téeseus and Psrithous, derived
From roots of Deity) tut before th”

achieved
Rare a aght of these, the rank-soal'd multi-
Tn date flocks rose ; ventieg somads so
Thal pe Fear took me, lest the Gorgon's
Rusia 4 in amongst therm, thrust up, ia my
By grim im Pensertione: I therefore sent
yes ‘before to zhip, and alter went.
rere, boarded, set, amd launchd) the

ocean wave

Our carsand forewindsspeody passage gave.

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT.
Ho shes from Hell his anfe retreat

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.
‘Mi. ‘The rocks that efi :
‘The Sirens’ call
‘The Sun's stolen herd +
‘The soldiers’ fall
OUR ship now past the straits of th’ ocean
She, plow'd tbe dread sex's billows, and
le

m:
The isle where the palace stands
Of th’ early riser with the rosy hands,
Active Aurora ; where she loves to dance,
Abd shere t the Sun doth his prime beams

when bere arrived, we drew her up to

nd,
And trod ourselves the re-saluted sand,
Found = the shore fit resting for the
night,
Sh aad expected the celestial light.
Soon us the white-and-rosraaix efingers

Dame
Mad git. the mountains with her saffron

sent my men to Circe’s house before,
‘To fetch deceased Elpenor to the shore.
Straight swell the high banks with fil

thas! sah tx wore wo did due exequles

To our dead friend. Whose corse con-
sumed with fire,

And honour'd arms, whose sepulchre

entire,
‘And over that * column raised, his oax,
Curiously carved, to his desiro before,
Upon the top of all his tomb we fix'd,
Of all rites fit his funeral pile was mix'd.
‘Nor was our safe ascent from Hell con

ceal'd
From Circt's knowledge; nor s0 soon
reveal

But she was with ws, with ther bread amd
And ruddy wine, brought ty ber sacred
Of woods and fountains, In the midst
she stood,
‘And thus saluted us: * Unhappy men,
‘That havo fiforavd with al Soar ‘seoses)
In Pluto's dismal mansion. You shafl die
‘Twice now, where oibers, that Mortality
In ber fair arms holds: shall
decease.
But ext and drink out all conceit of

‘And this hay dedicate to food and wine,
‘The following night to sleep. When nest
The cheerful morning, you shall prove the
pe i oti dal aig
‘Lest with your own bad counsels ye

cline
Event as bad aganst ye, ana
By son aud thon, the’ Wot oud Me

to wilfél actions” Thus did she sdeise
oe = the time, our fortenes were a9

| To follow wise directions. Atl that day
Wo rat and feasted, When bis lower

[ee eh te

hig!
y friends slept on their gables ; she and &
fd by hes fle it hand to a place a

By her well-sorted) did to

Cop powers ; when all things

fail
In our wfiair she ask’; T told ber all.
To which she answerd: ' These

thus took end.
And sow to thos: that [inform attend,
Which bering, God bimselt

be
The blessed author of your memory.
First to the Sirens ye shall come, thag

taint
‘The minds of all mea whom they cam

4
Remamecan te ate aptaons Se eared | et
t

In bands, unfarour'd, to th’ erected mast ;

From whenos, if L should pray, or use
command,

To be enlanyot, they should with much

Contain naan: ‘This 1 simply

‘To each particular, nor would withhold
‘What most enjoin'd imine own affection's

stay,
‘That theirs the rather might be taught t’

Iu tmeantime few our ships, and straight
we fetch’
‘The ‘Sirens tle; a sploenless wind 20

‘Strotel
Her wings to waft us, and so urged our
But having reach’d this isle, we could not

tie) Te exp oi it, it was oitrae! dead,
nd all the sea in prostrate slumber spread +
‘The Sirens’ devil charm’ all, “Up then

My friends to work, strook sail, together
dcew,

And under hatches stow'd them, sat, and
pu

‘Their polish'd cars, and did in eurls divide

The whitehead waters. My pat theneame

A lanes waxen cake Iset upon,

Choppd it in fragments with my sword,
and wrought

With strong "hand every pices, tll all were

soft.
‘The great of the sun, tn such a beam
AAs then Bow buralog from bis aden

To liquefaction helpd us. Orderly

Tstopprd their ens and: they as fale did

My Het and bands with cons and tothe

mast
‘With other halsers made me soundly fast.
‘Then took they seat, and forth our
passage steook,
The foamy sea beneath their labour shook,
Row'd on, in reach of an erected voice,
‘The Sirens’ soon took note, without our

noe;
‘Tuned those sweet accents that made
charms s0 strong,
SOD sng ots
* Come here, then worthy of a world of|

Tadt dat 10 igh the Grecian glory reise ;|

‘THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

re pld me at bet hate
and imstructed mort
polars

BD arrewren ‘before,

‘or we know whatsoever secre

dn wide ds wnbatsnever there

The Grecians and the Trajons Seth pub
taind

Ay those Riph isvats that te Gor om

loner ‘chatverver elt the earth cam show
eh desert,

enamour'd vein.
moe petra needs would
ve

jine car
Vet more delighted, force way forth, and

hear.
To which end commanded with all
Siem looks could wake (or not a lai a

mine
Had power to stir) my friends to fie, and
ve
My limbs tre way, ‘They fly atrved to
rive
‘Their ship still on. When, far from will to
loose,
Burylochus and Perimedes
‘To wrap me surer, and “d me more
‘With many a halser than bad use before,
"rowing on without tbe react of
My friends anstopp'd their ear, and me
And that isle quite we quitted. Bat
i
vesttnaes ecupleya Gk (2 Bebeld a mala
Of shot hillows, and a smoke ascend,
Aornd murrour hearing, Kvery friend
‘Astonish’d sat ; from ‘oat
Fell quite forsaken, with ro
‘Where all things there made echoes ; stone
ua ome oe
itself, because the ghastly flood.
men's motions from her im their

{rg the ship ment, akoureg up and

My fiends recover‘ spins. One by one
T ave good word, ahd sobd That well

“The ils to them before T told them all ;

And that these could not prove more
ca

“Thal these the’ Cyclop Blocked we wp id

My 7irtugy witjinnd henoes Snip Sosa
xt

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

a5

Bue wy sey semen ie sack wad theo

Carri ahi mitaoa ieee al (EL
me stregih They ha foc ining wp ey

Rosho tied Gated: to try if Jove had Iaid
Hs ayes in theirs up, and would add his

To en ved that death. Th particular| The

1 told our that
Lio aes since he

sway’
‘The continent that all spirits
Tabs whole guise of herr” Hie sow tore

boll
The whirlpools that to all our spoil
inte without which gant
steer,
Or all our ruins stood concluded there.
All heard me and obey'd, and little | When
‘That, shunning that rock, six of them
should rac

‘The wrack another bid, For ¥ conceal’
gy Saeed that never would be

To be ypen'd ; for thelr fer
Wott then Rtave foubtd Ail of all care to

x firvaa ear, and made them id
‘When they and all had died an idle death.

Bot then even T forgot to shun the harm
Circe forewarn'd ; who willd 1 should not

Norah met Soja Ite ala |
and thence

TRE Pate Pees eae tt ate
And taken my life with the friends I fear'd.
on agg erase" aon
a the dark rock mir
bp oe
And ransack'd all ways, I then took a
ete myself, and some few more,
“Twist Sea and Chay whence we:

How borridly Charytets daw
Toe tek tex on Shieh hee

‘She spit again out, mever caldroa sod

a eae | See Sree oor a a

That could enrage it; all the rock did roar
i ule wale towels cy

oF aiPine steep crags flew the foamy

But Ywhen'ber dranght the sea and earth
troubled bottoms turn'd up, and abe
thunder’

Par under shore the swart sands maked

Wigs whole ster sgt de wathed Mood

From al or fee. And while we on her
on renee ‘a thus to our ruim’s Gear,

Six friends had Scylla snaich'd out of our

Jn whom most loss dif foree and virtue

and
bho shares ac cutien their ede
aint hanes ton ep’ Weighs diane
That also me for help, when aw they

‘To try we in thet last extremities

meen fr sure
froms the
From ont the erook'd

‘hn then with ia tog aa ts then
Upto te al, then dehy bats bem by,

nok
ane we

Fape 5
‘Who in their tortures, desperate of escape,
Shriek’d as she tore, and ep thelr hands to
Sul re fr ews i, I did never see,
in all my sufferance ransacking sok,
AA spectncte 20 full of merien

aring fled these rocks (these cruel

rock had expt
a aid oh a
they lay beneath her vislent

dames
Scytln, Charybdls) where the king of
Hah oferings burn'd to Bim, our ship pat

read hth a ie cats doth vin
The epithet Funders; where

And famous oxeo, for the Sua are fed,

The ma lowing of saxo, and the blext
fiocey that in my memory's seat
Pat up bates that late had been in

By Goat xan Circe, and the best
or mals and prophets, the blind Theban

‘The wist Tireslas, who was grave decreer
of ™ Gad whole means, Of which| As

In che ‘He urged ; that 1 should always

The inna of the man-delighting Sun.
J illest! te loss, 1

My ids to bea fit counsel (though
With all i fortunes). which was grea’ to
Clree's and Ticesias’ proph
4 Tsbould fly the ilewhere was adored
‘The Comfort of the world, for ills abhorr’d
Were ambst for us there; and
They, should put off and leave the tle.

‘Their tender spirits ; when Eurylochus
A speech that verd me ulterd, answering

“cruel, Ulysses!
alound
In strength the more spent; and no tolls
‘Thy able limbs, as all beat out of sec
‘Thou ablest us too, as unapt to feel

‘The teeth of Labour and the spail of Sleep,
And ersfore still wet gee in the

Since thy nerves

dee
Nor let us land to eat, but madly now
In night put forth, and leave firm land to

mi
‘The sea with errors. All the rabid fi
Qf winds that ruin ships ae bred in

‘Who is it that can keep off te

Hf suddenly should rust out Se ie ae!

or Novas oe the eager-spirited West?
That cat Geka, tnd do the: Gods

best
Serve black Night still with shore, meat,
sleep, and ease,
‘And offer to the Moming for the sens."
This all the rest approved, nd thea

i knew
| That past Ii doubs the dev di apply

sterous
erefore| His flocks of

436 THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS, :
Gepeeia aera Us slaughierous works. faba,

And
Near « fresh river, where

victuals’ store,
their friends,

and

‘Their toss by Sept, weeping: tit they

ny ‘ps tea part, when stars began
The Consent pot te wp
louds, and bet such darkness
Thal arth and Ses fo ft Be wee
For with his clouds be thrast out Night
sae wi hie a Ln? po
Fair dancing-rooms bad, ahd thelr seats of

anf iy ends ten, that, tsa hl
They would ober thelr oath and take
‘Our ship afforded, nor aternpt the ood
Of those fair herds asd flocks
| that dal Got that aimed

They seed obverant, andi that god

shore
‘They all lew out 16, toak-tg
|, being full, thought of

‘THE TWELFTH ROOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

(OC. toobe ona Al be ny net
A those students the get and

Bat when their victuals fail'd they felt to!

prey.
Necessity compell'd them then to stray
In fape of fah end fowls westever exroe

Afflicted to i, to prayer,

And (making to a close retreat Ered

Free friends and winds) I wash’d
‘a the Go

And all the Gods besought, that held com-
mands

In liberal heaven, to yiekd some mean to
stay

Their desperate hunger, and set up the
way

Of our return restraint. The Gods, in-
stead

of what I d for, of
Rect alep Sidon ny ha ds”

Fer mean to work pon ey friends thelr
For whiles I slept, there waked no mean
rep

to
‘Their heads! wants; which he that
id dtu

wave,
‘Than tm a desert island Se and sterve,
And with cee pined life many deaths ob-
serve.
All cried *He counsels oobly,’ and al)

Made to thelr resolote driving ; for the feed
Of those coal-black, fair, brow’,

Had’ place eloss shi took
our
eee deen
Of seven, most eminent ; about their €43
Stood round, and to the Stales celestial
Made solemn vows ; but other rites thelr

Could fot afford them, they dd, therefore,

My rule in chief at all times, and was chief] Pour'd purest

‘To all the rest in counsel to thelr grief,
Kaew well, and of iy) present abscoce

His fit advantage, and their iron strook
At highest heat, For, ing their desire
In his own entrails, to allay the fire
‘That Famine blew in them, be thus gave

"To that affection = "Hear what I shall say,
| ‘Though words will stanch

no hunger,

every death
| To us poor wretches that draw temporal
breath A
You know fs hateful ; bt, all know, to die
is a misery

418
‘The Cloud-herd answer'd ; ‘Sont thou
shalt be ours,
‘And light those ‘mortals ia. that mine of
ween on their

D
And eat it, burning. deep!
ts ty cae rst Twas, westol aad se

Come ti cine (ar shy Thi and ld by

Each man how impiously he was to blame.
But chiding got no peace ; the beeves were

When sanight the Gods forevent their
With dire ostents. ‘The hides the flesh had
Crept all before them. As the flesh did

‘toast,
It bellow'd like the ox itself alive.
And yet my soldiers did their dead beeves:

Thi
ey er tare

And when ‘the seventh day Jove reduced

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMERS ODYSSEYS.

Together au ets tg Jor

tdcoge te ap hs

ae a eae
We ee a
Tumbled to sea, like sta-mews swum
‘And theese Gaiv Of ide noes
1 fost from side to side stilt, til! all
ghee be tT and she did

With let-in surges ; forthe mast torn down
Tore her up piecemeal, and for me to

Left little undissolved. But to the mast

There was = leather thoug. Sft/-wiels

See Ren ne ee
‘With baneful weather, til the West bad

ost
His wormy tymany.. And |
The fe ‘that me noe

etter
ravenous:

‘That all the month raged, and so in did) On

Our ey! us, was turn’d and calm’d,

Di
aunt bed, pot up mast, sails holsed, and |
“The island left 0 far that land nowhere

But only sea and sky bad power ¢ ap-
Josie 0 oat above our ship, so
That all the sea it darken'd. Yet from
She fan good ffee time, till from the
Came Zephyr rafting forth, and put bis

Outi i gig tm tempest, so mest vast
jt burst the gables that made sure our

mast:
Our masts a CTs our cattle’
Rush’d fo the pump, and by our pilot's
The main-mast prass’d his fall, pash’d all his
And all this wrack but one flaw made at
(Off from the stern the stermsman diving
‘And from bis sinews flew his soul to hell.

me; :
To which T leapt, and left my Keel, and |
Clammteting upon te did a close imply
rey ng po

‘Yet might m fect on eo stub fasten Baad
‘To ease my hands ; the roots were crept 50

Beneath the earth, and 0 aloft did

‘The farspread arms that (though good |
nid noc rec

Teould not reach them, ‘To the main bole

{bere ail mst tng
She belch'd my mast,
My bee! came tambitng
chanced

esac

When glad he riseth apd to dinner *
So time, at longth, released with joys

ay
WOR,

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. a

ae Charybdis’ mouth appear'd my} Nine days at sea I hover'd: the tenth
night
To which, my hand now loosed and now In th’ isle Ogygia, where, about the beight
m

yy heel, ‘And right renowes'd Calypso, I was cast
altogether with a buge noise dropy'd | By power of Deity ; wtere I lived embraced
Just in her midst fell, where the mast was| With love nnd feasts, But why sbonld I
propp'd ; relate
And there row’d off with owers of my hands. | ‘Those kind occurrents? 1 sbould iterate
God and man’s Father would not from her] What I in part to your ebaste queen and

you
Let Scylla see me ; for I then had died —_| So late imparted. And, for me to grow
‘That bitter death that my poor friends| A talker over of my tale again,

supplied. ‘Were past my free contentment tosustaln.”*

THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘THE ARGUMENT.
paagee ‘but in the even,

rd: who so goes om bis way.
ANOTHER.

He said; and silence all their tongues
contain'd,

In aAimiration, when with pleasure chain'd
‘Their ears had long been to him,

Alcinous silence, and in this sort spake
‘To th’ Ithacensian, Laert

“0 Ithacus! However over-run

With former sufferings in your way for

ome,
Since ‘twat, at last, your happy fate tocome
‘To my high-toof and brass foundation d

Tier weak

ary ¥
Our doves: shal Yield: you, that you shall

Wander, ot suffer, homewards, as before.
You then, whoever that are ever

‘With all choice of authorized pal
Seas WN Bees ee BA acre}

And’ ah honory* given to age,

© Twpedeist coer, puad
or pas ae 10
other end
Bo other 10 express rd

eS
helping our

With which ye Ukemise hear di
the post

A for guest, attires of price,
pope ee wasnite device:
‘hows add beside

Aad

ba abeag
gy

‘Thus spake Alcinows, and pleased the
When tan clove with home and

But oe the

All hh ng a rp
pose,

And’ wealth, thatf honest men makes,
brought with them.

At last! an

‘The whole assembly to expected feast.
Among whom he a sence acdrest

Beat we whose oo copie on aie reel
The th ares then roasting, they made
hgh a ‘and amongst them there

Demctoce’ tee, Reo

Of cheer and music, bad seit
ofc pe a

‘THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

To neva food a man at fixed plow
{Te whom the black ex all day Tok bath

‘The. mubborn, fallows_up,, bis sttirach

bum'd
‘With empty heat and appetite to food,
Has oan eae his spirit-speat

blood)

At length the long-expected sun-set recs,
Mae hes may sit to food, and rest his
So to Ul; set the

‘The Beh with as haeatile sight.
‘Who. straight bespake that oar-affecting

State;
But did in chief his speceh Crerrky gare
To him by name, that with rile was
‘crown'd.
“ Alcinous hohe mon recon

Dismiss me with as safe
(Your offering past), ‘Gods to

In Fees spasnatel,
For now my landing

stand
In all perfection with my heart's desire,
Both my so safe dedi feduction to aspire,

And loving gilts; ‘which tangy the God

(As Uleat fa tse Snake your acts are froe 3
resto the oding fi fovea fe
With all desired event, my friends and

state,
Wi csery vitae render consanenat

general i never
Fun; bak good your good

Appraah your
i appt, a tty id

With fps ho aon” "Ten
That the herald: “ll for
A bow! of wine ; which through the whole
Dispose to all men ; that, propliions
Get tbericcs ents naan Gaacalaa
Give home our guest in fall and whbed

way”

‘This said, Pontonous commix’d a bow!
‘Of mech sweet wine as did delight the

‘oul,

Which making sacred to the blesed
is,

That held im brood bearen their supreme

God-tike Ulysses from his chair arose,
And in ee lS ee

‘The itround cep ; to whom (aie spot)

« Refs: © on, od Be sou Joe
By fewven, for me, ull age and eeath
Bott which inflct thelr most tewelcome

here and stay shail | Of

| ris eal ep se be eed Ma dad
In silence took. Towers ordered
| Pmt sera a sa hm
Oe She stip; the gable from the bollow
Disscved, and weigh'd-up ; all, together,
‘Then beat the sea. His Mids im sweet re-
Toud oo fast, h ocarse, gave wap io
Inexcitable, mest dear, est of all to-
death.

423

‘And as amid fair Sed four brave horse
a chariot, stung into their course
wane fervent ‘ssh of the smarting
That al Heir fice blows high, and makes |"
ig tmncht: gneve incomes. of Waele
So Bere te dhip aloft her fiery bound ;
About whom rush'd the billows black and
st
In which the sea-roars burst. As firm as
She plied ber course yet ; nor her winged

‘The Bien 1 for pace exceed ;
Papin cbedgtead gabeeele
Ben with the Govtsin counsels; that began
‘And spent kis former {ife to all misease ;
Bes of ten, ae rade waves of the

Yet = , forgetting all.
Xid'when beavers test tas that first

The early morning out, advanced her

‘Then near to Ithaca the billow-bred.

Praca ship approsc’d. "There is a

i alae

Whose earth the Tthacenslan

In which to racks aceeube we own
‘ar forth into the sea, whose each strengib

‘The Doisterous waves in from the high-

flown
On both the out-parts so, that all within
‘The well-built ships, that once their har-
bour win

In his calm bosom, without anchor rest,
‘Safe, and unstirr’d. From forth the haven’s

Brant we well-brawn'd arms of an olive
Beneath ‘which Tuns & cave from all sun

orld. detightsome, sacred to th’ acces
Of Ny: Wwheer’ sartaes. are the | Thou

Tn which few bumming bees, fn which lay,
Stone cap lone veel, sit, al f
wath which the Nymphs their purple
In wove baae omnes Ait aA won

In which,

To whe tw ics tay cae eee tee ee

On which the North breathed ; 18 other
cated ve

On which the South; and that bore no
abodes

ralerec ata

aa ater Sa i
ent
bulk reach’d, by suck

a ones en eee ‘Then her men
And fit brought forth Ulysse, bed, amd
‘That richly furnish’d it, be still im thrall
fatten, Ue sae
strew'd with all the goods he Bad,
By the the renown'd Phsacians, since be

So much Minerva. At the olive:
‘hay drew then hen i ben sos a

| OF any be Sen
Resumed thelr chaige, they might be
olherd” pele.
‘These then turn'd home; mor was the
seas suy

Ulysses,
rpecioonance) tas Geena ant a

=o ‘no more the Geds shall

Since men despise me, and these men tat

The gue fn lineage of mine own towed

Lvow'd U ‘Uiyasee should, before the grace
Oli seer aera ee woes CDOw

wisi Sates

vouchsafed it; yet, before my
Hath fall power en hy, the Paracas
Theit own minds’ satisfaction with his
plow

ftom Reptone

‘Ths LHKTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Pappomeepet notes nex ats

Recking Bs temples; garments slehly
And worlds of pee, more than was ever
Mroven

sustain’ at Troy, | The

From all the conflicts he sustain’
If safe be should his full share there en|
‘The showerdissolver answer'd : ‘*

Hiath pass'd thy palate, © thos great in
reach

(Of wrackful ¢1 Par the Gods remain
From scorn of thee ; for ‘twere a work of

Fosfor wth cnn ce
That sways our ablest and most
throne.

Wy then * said he, “thou blacker of

el ihe sun, my licensed power
resumes.

Ae Feces Coy seamen sPast 4 gava jem
mt

gy Sap Sungonanstonn gatvanichoed

toucl
At any inclination of mine own,
7 induence be

‘Transform al

493

So like and dam up all their

pie paige up fights,
‘When Neptune hea tis, he for

Whence the Pheacians took their Erst
descent.

Which when he reack’d, and, in ber

water-treader by the city’s side
Came cating close, close he came swiltly

Took ber in violent basd, asd to a stone
‘Ture'd all ber sylvan substamce: all below
aed es See wee ber. This
‘When the ‘Phocians saw, they stupid

‘And said each other, who amid the fod
Could Sx their ship 20 in her full-speed

And, quite transparent take er bull

‘Thus wlk'd they; but were far from
‘These things had lame, Which thee king
‘And said: *"O friends, the ancient peo-

toll oar
erates ean the tine would

au che reecly chant Sadlapean on

soit « anew ad cle

Amids the
it imimnenio before their

When they shall se «6 be a mighty hal

‘Their glory stick before their city's grace, | Tweive
i glory. fore nS Brae chosen

‘And my®, hands coat &

“Cent sald Jove, “it shews to me
Of all earth's objects, fiat, hake whole
In sot wopiter, pane ais em feel
And stare spon a stone, $0 near the Land,

Shecenieren, sepeinfce atield) tor
am fegmen ore

which absence yet, Minerva threw
A cloud about hina, to make strange the

His safe arrival, ia alg His shore
wales known his face, and otter

‘That might prevent th’ event that was to

Which st ‘she prepared so well, that not his

Presented to him, should perceive his life ;

No citizen, no friend, till righteous fate

Upon the wootss’ wrongs were consum-

Through which cloud all things show’
now to thi

Of foreign fashion : the enflower'd spring
a oh the trees there; the perpetual

The. pst ‘nae did more high thelr fore-

than natu did ;
Topp oe haves, in ap ies seem’

hit
From swind and weather, when storms:

loudest chid.
Tin being risen, stood and | As

His country carh ; whlch, not peresived,

And, striking with his hurl'd-down hands
‘his thig!

He mourn'd, and sald: “Ome! Again
where

My desert way? To wrongful men and

‘And with no laws of human right endued?

Qr are they human, and of holy minds?

bm tae) fits my deed with these 39 many

Of goods late given? What with myzeit
wi

And errors do? I would to God, these

Had rested with their owners ; and that I

‘Had fall'a on kings of more regality,
halen out my return, that loved indeed,

Te wey distress’ ending | But, as now
All knowledge flies me where I may bestow

My labour'd purchase: here they shall not |

Lest what I cared for, others make their

9, Godt 1 ae he gent Phaacane
Marsinot wl fenton octane

‘would have given me consorts of fit |

aunts,
© Jove! great Guardian of poor sap

Trott oe, soe ee
Allin thy plagues that most peesaioe 09

Revenge me on them. Tet me number
The goods they gar, to gin my mind to
If they have stolen none in their close
‘The goodly caldrons thea, ace tripods,

In several ranks from out the beap, be told,
Hite sconght puree ole

And Mowing ak; and yet this man did
‘The but supposed miss of his home return,

‘a Aad Sogn (0 the hee ee

sctokrea (ike m, sbephend,, gounge) sad

at,
5 kings’ sons are, a double mantle ast
foes his shoulders, his fair goers

whitttied shoes, and tn hls band =
Appear to bito, whose sight rejoiced

‘To whom he came, and said; "© friend 1
‘Since first

I meet your sight here, be all good the
wort

‘That can join our encounter. Fare you

Nor en adverse mind welcome my re

| But Fea oo gouts of mise, and

Aston 2 God 1 offer to thes,

‘And tow access mae t0 thy loved kee,

ete , What country

What coinman people live here, andl what

men’
| Sos Saree a Or it vent,
Being Ee the sea, to coe rich conti

‘She answer'd: “Stranger, whatsoc'er

you are,
Yiare either foolish, or come ‘far,
en | THM know not This ies aad mabe that

trouble,
For'tis not 30 exceedingly ignoble,

But know it; and so le
“That ofall mations there abies vot any.”
From where the moraing rises and the sum,
To where the even and night their courses

‘But know this country. Rocky ‘tis, and’

And 20 for use of hore nnapt enough,
Yet Fin sad* joes: much in-

ied,
Since clouds are bere in frequent rains
And flowery dews. ‘The compass is not

‘Tum'd to his country, Yet 90 wise a band
He carried, even of this joy, flown s0 hight
‘That other end he pat to a reply

‘Than, stright to show thet joy, and lay
His life to strangers. Therefore he be-
A veil on truth ; for evermore did wied

About bis bosom a most crafty mind.
‘Which thus his words showd: “I have

Avepht, velet friths, jfwengue matert,

great,
‘The little yet well-l'd with wine and | Wher
wheat.

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With any sorvice, but, well as be

Sway'd in command of other woldiery,

So, J a fiend withdrawa, we way!
hic,

‘When gloomy night the cope of hearen
And no man knew ; but, we lodged close,
he came,
And T put out to him bis vital Sa2ne,
Those slaughter baving author’d with my
I instant flight made, and straight fell
A ship of the renown'd Phornician state;

n prayer, and pay at a sufficient rte,
Obtain'd my men in her command ;

Teaind to set me on the land
hice che Epelans in rent epee sh
d ans em \e
But [== Flgiomerigeyenice steam =~
them,
‘Phoagh (loth to fail me} to thelr anost’ ex-
Ieee
at thelr willin, But,
er bom een ee
We ed, and put in here, with much
expence
Of caze and labour; and in dead of night,
When no man there served any appetite
‘Though our rates eaceting needy od
‘our estates
Bat, going ashore, we Ly; when gentle

My wouty powers invaded, and from shi
Stang these my Hihes, with just

‘About me laid them, while upse the sand
Sleep bound my senses; and for Sion

t
(Put i om bene) made while bere
“alone.” ‘The Goddess lasghi
and took 3
His hand in bers, amd with another look

thas :

He should be
OF steath.* in men's
In any cra, thoagh any God should be
Ambitious to exceed i subtilty.

scam tm

and covetous
~ ‘that coted

} ida emrohoney varia ef meullipiicin
Aarhona sousitia,

436

‘Without these wiles, though on thy native

Thou sett’st safe footing? but upon thy
; ottise wor still spend, that even from
thy best friends? Come, our
orth,

ier, Thou of men art far,
d counsels, the most sin-

But Pilbote the Gods in born may
My = tried faculties. Yet

The knowledge even of me, the seed of

Jove,
patids Athenia, that have still out-strove:
In eI pity, labours their extremes, and

Have been
either

For words

malt

Tiare guard ever, nag all thy good

Pdteaitn ss jevdl Reeatiaany tie re:
ceived.

And now again I greet thes, to see weaved |

Fresh comets forthee ; and will take oo

The ‘ese reeecving of these goods for
Which the renowa'a Pheeacian States be-

At syd deduction homewands, only moved
‘With my eat spicit and ‘counsel, All|

Teow eal Sn say, and tell what case.
‘Thy household stands in ; uttering all those

Thal of mere peed yet stil most mck thy
ins.
Do hes thea freely bear, nor one word

Bat silent suffer over all agai
‘Thy sorrows pat, and ‘bear the wrongs of | V

“Goddess,” said he, “unjust men, and

‘That author injories and vanities,

By vanities and wrongs should rather be

Bound to this ill-abearing destiny, :
Just and wlse men.” What delight

hath heaver
‘That lives: unhurt itself, to suffer given
Up to all domage those poor that

strive
‘To imitate it, and like the Deities live?
But where you wonder that I know you

ot
‘Through all your changes, tbat skill is not

To fan eee

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bere or ast, since thy most hard-hit
Is ill ail datngltr by thy freegives
And therefore, rwlodge
soaleners 9 ere
In men most knowieg ; for to all men thea
Takest several likeness. All men

Tres he Ww bat soon (hy weet
A to all. and truth €0 few,
‘Raa bye Oe Ta
Asis diet tore t ‘and inspired

But this 1 pbs peepee

pat.
T have been often with # presente Ee,
All Ume the sons of 3 Guede waged er

Troy
Bat iad Fate's full hour let our swords

in sack of Prism’
cesar eg

(Our fet br sunder 1 a
The et of Jove, mor once distinguiss

Beatdng my ship, to take one woe frm

Bt yt any pee ee
te stain, til beawes
Nima
en my ill; which chanced not, til
hy grace

tod oa oo

, the author of
ones ore aoe iho cals (eae

en
My ae that thus shoald fall into
mine
ov {thaca, but fear T touch
Atsome far shore, and tht thy wit ls suck
Thou dost delude me) riaresemaee
Lo

me?”
«Ten said she, pre
ony

iors late po mate (0B
fod there ve no more the power to

Fra ie more plaid wit iflicty
Tn one so cl

| ‘got Hasltns saa Ont eo eee

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«+1 will be strongly with thee," answer'd

"Nor must thou Sail, but do thy part with
me.

‘When both whose combine, I hi
me powers ope

Ines pratt comes 6 Hse that anata tip}
strew pavements. Join we
fas thy goodly J

1 first will render thee unknown to men,
And on thy solid lineaments make dry
Thy now smooth skin ; thy bright-brown

curls imply
1m hoary maitings; thy broad shoulders

In such a cloak as every eye shall lothe ;
‘Thy bright eyes blear and wrinkle ; and'so

“Thy form at all parts, that thou shalt be

‘Strange
To all the wooers, thy oung son, and wife,
Bat to thy herdsman fist present thy le”
That thy swine, and wisheth well
theo,
‘That loves thy son and wife Penelope,
| ‘Thy seareh shall find him set aside his herd, |
‘That are with taste-delighting acorns rear'd,
Hod sch, te cick, oter ‘of the |

| night Areihoss, the most nourishin
Rar of of herds’ ‘There stay, and, taking|

Aside th ‘hy herdsman, of the whole state treat
ome occurrents ; while I make access

| To fairlame-broeding Sparta, for togress

| Of loved Telemachus, who went in quest

| Of thy loved fame, and lived the welcome

st
Of Menelaus." ‘The much-knower said :
“Why wouldst not thou, in whose grave
beeast i bred
‘The art to order all acts, tell in this
Hiserror to him? Let those years of his.
Amids the rade seas wander, and sustain
‘The woes there raging, while unworthy
men

Daten aes ‘Let not care ex
Thy seat hae Bee Rd sey “myself did

By peer ta ‘search, to set his worth,
ae peaks

Sent na
1e grief you fear:
fare,

ee ei eee
Ja whose eben from home, he wooem

Lay bloody ambush, anda sblo have set
‘To sea, to Intercept his life before

He touch again his birth’s attempted store,
All which, ‘my thoughts shall

rin
lag eet cre words to him,
Se oct im wih ber Tous and every

‘Was hid all-over with a wither skin:
His bright eyes bleard; his brow curls
white and thin;
‘And all things did an
Then, for his

‘hist sad cook,
all-rent,
lee ee! all-sootied with noisome

She put him on z and, over all, a cloke
Made of a at's buge hide, of which wan

|The hair qt of a secp, ail pateh'd and
aE cord, again;
toe a ot ee
‘Thus having both consulted of th eweat,

‘They parted both; and forts to > paste

‘The pray-eyed Godan to xo all things

| "That appertain’d to wise Ulywes’ soa.

THE END OF THE TINATRENTH BOO.

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT,
Unyssms meets amids the Geld
‘His ewain Romomus; who doth yield
Kind guestrites to him, ané relate
Ocourrents of his wrong’d estate.

ANOTHER.

as syfer ice eds
Mis Hows erin
Bor he the rough way took from forth the
‘Through woods and hilltops, seeking the
reiort

‘Where Pallas said divine Eumseus lived ;
rs tig the fortunes,

By Goa like Idhacus in household rights,
fad more true eare than all his pros lites.®
He found him sting in his cotinge door,

ton wat beh sn cha
Tiuat round pe might behold, of colar
pe ars 7 which the swain

In absence of his far-gone sovereign)
{ie built himself, without his Sean

wrought

Of stones, that thither his own labours
Drought,

Which with’ an hedge of thorn be fenced

And compass all the hedge with pales

Fiona | that here and there he fix'd
Leet thick. Within his yard he

‘Twelve sys to lodge hls herd; and every
Hak tee coir af EY

* Tipdawhoe, materia

we ppbnrenss item, gut

that were first

Bat those were females all. ‘The male

Without doors ever; nor wns thelr herd

Fair like the fernales’, Der lhrpat by J

Great diminution, be being forced to Kill

And send the pat the ‘dainty feasts
fected ungodly wooing guests.

‘Their num! thereloce but three hundred

apse abe ‘still Irehey did Rene offerings
ene to bark* took sudden
Of Odysseus,

oo eee
fi sar 6

, wod sat him careless

‘This way and that thelr eager course they
‘When through the entry past, he thus did
mourn :
“0 father! How soon had you near
been torn

ny Tantonen, a batrandn fate quedo

“eo
By See Sax, whose burt bad branded

With much neglect of you! But Deity
Heath given so many other sighs and cares
attendant state, that weil unwares
You might be hurt for me, for here I lie
Geeving and mourning for the Majesty
like, wonted to be rullng here ;
EASE aoe Unt th exins fr sale coos,
‘Where hs, petbaps, errs hungry up and
jown,

In countries, nations, cities, all unknown ;
Ifany where he lives yet, and doth see

Tea sass event beams ‘Bu, father, follow

That, ch gent with wine and food, you may
From whence you truly are, and all the
‘woes

fs sbject to." This sald, he led.
Tato his cottage, and of asiers

Al “d hurdle, on whose top he strow’d
A wild-goat’s shaggy’ skin, and then
His own couch on it, that was soft and

lps Joyo esto entent.
His uncouth presence, saying: " Jove re-

And ai ‘in immortal Gods, with that do- ||

light
most desirest, thy kind receipt of me,
O friend to humane hospitality.”
Euma juest! Ef one

mi
Sorel here than thyself, It were a curse
let @ stranger taste

means, to
Goaeslpt for ft foods Poor soem and ua-| B
placed Tv

In fia seats of these on, aie all from Jore
Poop y ererreorg love.

Tords’ govern, this is all the
‘hey Gan afd a anges, ‘There was

‘That used tomanage thisnow desert throne,
Towhom the Gods deny return, that showd
His curious favour to me, and bestowd
‘on me, a most-wished wife,
Ahouse, and portion, and a servant's lifo,
Fit for the gift a gracious king: should give ;
aire st fou pains himself, and God)

‘His rece Vendeavour, and tome
His work the more ittcreased, in which you
ee

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T

Und hod Belp time ta Meares wl
He tight hava bere (rowa 6d, Bat tal
‘And would to God the whole

Ti ld, is coat to hime stright
And to fis styes went that contain Wis
From whence be took out two, slew both,

set
‘With spit and all to him, that be ei
From thence his food in all the

heat,
‘Yet dredged it first wath flour; then Sil'd

‘For us poor swalne the fat al aecely
ent,

Ta borg io no shatne, no Tenor,

om rll they Bow the Dlest Gods

le maleate the
in the works of ssn Seg

ie. pie Gober is his ris ning ied
lees favour 09 thels foes,
pease who, having
‘het i withspoll enough weigh anche
And euch schoo hs oui fs peeve
Sol eae Sear of God's just vengeance
reterencbaaaeas
(fC se ne haa eat ah
‘The ruler here, will never suiler tel

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But as one thankful for bis love and care
‘To me a poor man ; in the rich #0 rare.
And be be past all shores where sun can.

T will invotke thim as a soul divine."*
“O friend,” said he, “to say, and to.

doth too much license give
+ for, not to speak

He cannot

witness bear;
‘And this thy hospitable table here:
i wench ee Ulysses" house,
in whic in
CAR rea a
Ts tt ys he eyes even esta

view
‘Thy lord Ulysses, Nay, ere this month's
Retard full bome, be shall revenge ex-

her,” he replied, **I'll sited give
‘Thy news reward, nor doth Ulysses live.
But come, fnoagh ofthis et sdnkandeat,
And never more his memory repeat

It grieves my heart to be oteré thus
By any one, of ane 90 glorious,

But stand your oath in your assertion

rong,
ies come, for whom I long;

is wife, for whom his aged sie,

For whom his acs consumes his god-like

Whose chance T now must mourn, and
‘shall

‘ever shall,
oS ‘the Gods had brought to be | By

plant, and I bad said
i court of mmen have

ora
In colt, and fr for have been a

ven with is father, some Goa rnsnepired,
‘Or man took from him his own equal
‘Rad passé him forthe Pylan shore to fd

‘and ea
OF your artival bere :
‘That truth prescribes you, but relate your
name
And of what race you are, your father’s
peteleg ete Ee men unfold

‘That to this 'd you, sisce
Your here antes was not ips

‘Within your roof to ws, that
May sit and bengost. Let

casely, wile the year doth

His creo roesd, ran Gnor ol te a
which, by tbe course the

ars

My Yon we First, I'll tell you
ample Crete 1 fetch my native strain:

Bey ose paki beak maiiy a

Coops Sort ae a

But mae dond-mald bore, his concubine,
Yet codera waa t as he tefl ines

By him of wose race 1 fe

Castor his name,

ox goods ood ot of mo meas esteem,
Geunccafering Fates

But have bansb'd

\. After whom his some

Tide; or
A house on mo, to my vittoes woo'd
2 ito’ rova ic soen's somes ode ae

borne low,
Nor last in fight, though all serves fail me

= ae the satis 'wEat toe Sore ha

To Pte's king
lots divide
gave me

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So much grief seized me; but Jove made
me

Dishelm my head, take from my neck my

Hurl from my band my lance, and to the

Of horse the king led instantly made
Embrace, and Betis knees whom pity

Te 0 ge me safety, and (to make me shun
's outrage, that made in amain,
intly fired with thirst to see me

a

in)
He toak me to his chariot, weeping, home,
Himself with fear of Jore’s wrath over

Who yield

All such as well may save yet love to kill.
Garon yons 1 scjour'd her, and reasere

In geod abundance of th’ jan states
For all would give ; but when th’ eighth

A Kiowing fellow (that would gnaw a

Like to.a vermin, with his hellish brain,
And many an honest soul even quick had

slain.
‘Whose name was Phaznix) close accosted

me,
And with insinuations, such as he

Preciied on other, miy consent he gain’
To go into Phoenicia, where remain'd
His howe, and living. “And with him

Acomplete year ; but when were all arrived,
‘The months and days, and that the year

again
Was turning round, and every season's
n
Renew'd upon us, we for Libya went
When, still inventing crafts to eircumvent,
He made pretext that I should only go
And belp convey his freight ; but thought

For fe intent was to have sold me there
And inade good gain for finding me a

Yet fiat 1 follow'd, though suspecting this :|
For, aboard his sip, T must be his
Of sizong necessity. She ran the ficed
(Driven with a northern gale, right free,
pee dee fal stream, fallon Crete, But
Tore plotiod death to his and ail his men.

‘Avip borden cibbs, spierye.

Por (put off quite from Crete, and s0 fer

That shore was lost, and we set eye co
‘01

But al shew’ heaven and sea) above ox

coe tic atthe ea bid anew

whence
Jove thunder as his band would newer

ce,
And thick into our ship be threw his.
‘That ‘gainst a pot ‘fiat, her keel

-

ing souls receives, and takes most
Like

wide, the
That tanta va for. Where the

sauna took me by the hand, and led

Into his court my fe, surfeited
With cold and 5 and because my

wrack
oc father’s shore, he let sot

Me pig Aiocead! ae

Might cher at ne

Said, ae eae
Home toh fs county, sbewing there to me
Of tra it cu an wel ol eee

Asi te is tnd acai

peers ye ie

T nourish’d little will
question of him, since the

himself the fled Atolian,
‘ty ar

is dirersory, s
itreating hit oh old me
Cretans, with king Idomen,

1 st hs sup ‘s ir,
een brust’d ‘with the enraged

mer, or in autumn, sure,
friends and rich furni-

here ; and nothing so, nor 60.
ou, an old man, taught with so much

it suffer'd, to be season’d true,
by his fate, do not here pursue
jons with thy cunning lies;
t not soak so through my

I did never either honour thee
fire thee love to bring these tales to

Se 2Fe 2 2 0F 31%
Festina
ap 3

Au
&

Bet 2
Ft

at

Bat inn ny fear of hospitable

Thou disse to this Super yea eee
“You ya stand exceeding much incredulous,”
ied Ulysses, *'to have witness thus
My = and oath, yet yield no trust at
But nas now a covenant Bere, and
The mene Gods to witness that take

Io arge O} ig ‘King’s retreat
Provesnade, even biter, you shal furnish

With loa, an oa, and make my passage

For ia Dalichius: if, ye my vow,
Your x Kio retura not, let your servants

My a ot High, headlong from some rock

‘That other poor men may take fear to le.”
‘The Berdaman that bad gits én. him

Replied 10 guest, how shall this fame of

gna hotest Acer! amongst men, remain
r Without worthy stain,

ne I, ‘eee tnes to my hovel bere,
‘And tmade thee fitting hospitable cheer,

‘THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Should ater) Mi ey Gir Die
ron Or how should

With aay held ay RA Poy ear

In any prayer hereafter
Came, now ‘ts suppers hour, acd instant

My men will make bome, whes our sweet
Well ate eget.” “This discourse they
{a mutual kind, when from a neighbour
His swine and swine-berds came, who in
tacos cr bers forsloey which mighty
Laid eatin emcees ‘Then the God-like
1's men enjoin’ thus: “Bring me to be
‘A chit nine female for ‘my, stomger

facul- Whee stogeter we wl take our feast,

Refrebing now our spirits, thar alt day
Paina tn ous owine's goed aie ie ae
For our pains with them all, amends with

ot cen eae Ben labours, and take
‘Tosi his sharp steel ew’ dows wood,

Tac swine haled out of the
arise at olds which to the fre they

Won fist Bumews ftom the font dd

“The sacred hair, and cast it fa the &re,
‘Then pray'd to heaven; for sell before

‘Was served with food, ia their so rade
‘Not the swine-herd would forget the
Good souls they bore, how bad soerer
were:
‘The habits that thelr bodies’ parts did
Wen a the deathiess Deities besought
ln Tipe maa ey
Hone Iii howe! thea with m log of

pe ee

rat ber Goat, So all

Hegheto
the rest

Senieremiiensaiermmmnieeent

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. a7

An oom pga Froontl
The night il, aod no

shined:
(Part dredged with flour Into the ancred owt wa ‘coe
Thea. cut the joints, and roasted | Zepbyr blew loud ; and Laertiades

= a a
Drew ail’ from spit, and served in dishes | For Flee
‘Then rose Eumeeus
Thali to guide cach act hia fe event)
‘And, afl in seven parts cut, the first part lor

went
‘To sxrvice of the Nym ;
‘To whose names he «Tir toe, ‘Boras, assy offer
Tas cuatea erreney auntie hae tél 72 speech that omy glory tends

‘every one; ay
sexe th wing pat ey heal

Strong wei pikes the fool and moves

He finced with all the chine, and of that
ra

To his heart cheer'd, set up every

‘Which he observing sald : * E would to

Eases thou livedst in his worthy lore
sy Sane that givest to such a

As iny poor ‘self of all thy goods the
Bama answer'd: "Eat, unhappy
eotaml kegiech at thy pleasure reach.

‘This T have, this thou wantses thes God

will give,
Bieta aa tat ve,

438
And so. we made good shift, our shields
Clapp coe wpon oar cle, fo rest
eee

ft could not prove; which

test fan garment 1 had on;
follow'd with my shield alone,
But when the night

Nefiaete her wo lay passing near

My ev angel maite me with my men
all weeds but a fine one, But 7

a
“Tis vain to talk ; here Wants alf remedy
‘This sald, he bore that understanding
ta He promot apt that stl show'd his

Bt it and counsel, (i rd,
AD resis low.) prc ty Test you | Ui

po pay note of your softness. No
ee ee Spe
My plight no pity : bid hed hy
reposing on his hand, gave

To bs fuveation S “Hear me ft onda a

ton ‘was of some celestial light a beam)
in my sleep before me, prompting

wit this fit notice: ‘We are far,’ said
Let one go then,

rr tier’

rae our fleet,

A Agamentnon wil afford 2g
To wat we Bow fare strong.

In Thess to th’ affair; whose purple

ap for haste ; which then I took, and

0 qui afer il the dawn af day,
made for one in need,

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Now in my nerves, and that my folnts were
With such a strength as made me then
To lead men with Ulyssas. 1 shookd
Serm worth a weed that fie a herdsssas's
For. wo, respects to gain a thankful
And to 4, good man's wend a goat
6a said Eumsnus, ** thou batt
Gok sae £oe palolati tase aaa
Not" using any word that wes mot
From all loast ill. Thou, therefore, shalt
not need
‘Or coat, oF other thing, that aptly may

ortega Binrwhen ber golden

‘heat ascends you mst rene your

For her you must not dream of many
any cl e at all,

on Sy ame

As you do yours; one tack, one coat.

But when
iysses" loved son returns, he then

We serve car

| Stall give you cost and caseock, aad

bestow.
‘Vous Reaeh Steen Eee and soel is
‘This said, be rose, made near the fie ks
Which all with goats! and sheep-skins he

AL wh with himself did line,
With whom, berdes, he changed a gaber-

‘uid ig, and ot which still be made
When be would dress him “gaiost the
Of tempest, when deep winter's season
Nor plessed it him to lie there with bis
But while. Ulysses slept there, and. eloee

Before Ulysses’ heart, to see such care

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 439

Of his goods taken, how far off soever All that the large hide of well-fed.
His fate, his person, and his wealth should | A lance then took he, with a keen steel

sever. head,
First then a sharp-edged sword he girt|To be ee keep-off both ‘gainst men and
His well-¢pread shoulders, and (to shelter | And thus went he to rest with his male
‘The sharp West wind that blew) be pat That abroad lay underneath a rock,

him on Shield to the North-wind's ever eager
A thick-lined jacket ; and yet cast upon base

‘'TME END OF THE BOURTRENTH BOOK.

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT.
MuntexvA to his native seat

(©. From Sparts's strand
Makes safe access
To his own land
Ulyssides.

i Lecediamon,* lange, and
Kiventan Palos horton vances
Up to the gret-in-soul Ulyses' sex,

his return now Bt for deed.
Shetfousd bots him aad Neots noble

son
Tn bed, in front of that fair mansion,
Nestorides with pleasin, pony
But on the watch Ulysses’ son di

Sleep could not enter, cares did 50 roa
His soul, through all the solitary night,

F loved father. To him, near, she

for dances,

‘Telemachus] “Tis tie that pow were
‘Thy “ein travels; since thy goods are
For thove proud men that all wil ext from
Divide thy whole possessions, and leave

ce nothing to receive,

yy too-late presen
ies the shrill-voiced M¢ then,
To send thee to thy native seat again,

we
therefore, ‘hy hipaa tes ad

OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

While thou mayst yet find in ber honour
‘trot
“Thy Biameless mother, “galast thy Eater's

fier gifts, and make sy
And therefore haste

despite,
Thy house stand empty of thy native right.
For well thou iow vbat bd een
“The house of him, whoever she esddeazs
Heras in nuptials to, she sees thereanedls
The issue of her first loved ond deceased
Forgotten quite, and never thought oa

In thy retura then, the re-counted store
a ‘st reverved, to thy most trusted

aid

Commit in ar, heaven's powers ave
‘a wh: Ta veton anda bem

Of fit sort for thee, tomueiy

And this cia eae TH gi
{In sure sare Temembeance : ‘The best sort of
a
pete thy mother watehfal scouts ad-
‘Both in th ee ce
v invade

And dusty Sam
‘And take th Ure thy rer return be made.
‘Which yet I think will fail, and some of

| That waste Say Sects Sl
| They pt for tow, But keep off far from
fat oo

Immortals thet vow peat

And scape to thy retsr, will

sai

oa Seats wn
‘fest of all

‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

To him that keeps thy swine, and doth

A tender care to see thee well survive.
There sleep ; and send him to the town, to

tell
‘The chaste Penelope, that safe and well
Thou livest in his charge, and that Fylos’

The place contain’d from whence thy per-
contain’d from w!
i

on
“Thus she to large Olympus made ascent.
With his heel & hide touch be leat

spies wih ase that will | know be

The

‘Abroad he went, and did the king accost :
guarded

“ Atrides, with heaven's deified
bost,

at
‘We should a guest love, while be joves to
‘And, shan be liked not, give him loving

‘Yet sufier so, that rifts impose
we
Tn conch bn thon welch on Ger lets ol

close,

‘Thine eyes shall see, lest else our loves
may glove.

Besides, FX cause our worven to prepare

‘What our house yields, and merely so much

‘As may suffice for health, Both well wil

‘Both fer oar biosiour ai oat profit Kao.
And, serving strength with food, you after

‘As much earth measure as will match the
Tf you will turn your course from sea, and
‘Through Greece and Argos (that melt
Key Had ay with thee) 11 Join horse,

T our bomane cities. Nor ungratified
WW say one romtt aa

4 with emblems of some rare
‘The wise prince answered * “I woukd
own, and sce thet govern

keep what I for certain bold,

Tih Gait! an soo eye oom Bec

heard,
He charged his queen and maids to see
eof what the whole house held
“To him tout Etzooces fom bis rests
Whose dwelling was sot far of from the
And his attesdance his coeamand did sort
arlene eae ea Ah =

“ee ‘THE FIFTEENTH BOOK

OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

With Ridling fires, ad furthering all tho

In act of whose charge heard no time he!
Himself then to an odorous room de-
ascended,

‘Whom Megapenthe and his queen at-|

ageengt atwo-tard
He saows a all, and made his ton hear!

A aver bowl. ‘The queen then taking:
stand

‘Aside her chest, where by her own fair hand
Lay vests of all hues wrought, she took

out one
Most large, most artful ; chiefly fnir, and

Like to a star ; rls a
‘Then through the ither's

gift they past ;
When to U! son Atrides said
*Telemachus, since so entirely sway'd
iy hts. are with thy vow'd return’
now tender'd,
May Juno's thundering husband sce it
render’

Perfect. at a parts, action answering
Of all the ch gis, St Beers id

‘Abed teeters fet te eresee
al aes t the brim's po
‘With whose fabric his desest doth
From ta ‘hand, presented by the king
‘And great heroe of Sidonia’s rid
‘When at our parting he did consummate
His whole house-keeping.. This do thou
command.”

‘This said, he put the round bowl in bis
And thea is gan
‘The silver cup belore him, ntnply Alene
With work mdstre. flelen Geese os

SoS, wiley}
same

fa aes
Lore soa, son, this ab} to Lent the monument

‘31
Ming of thy Suptial bands,
thy wife, In mean space, may it}

thy lowe moter: bt to me TE
leasure in sobre
To by fur bokea eed ‘coca

pm aceeptation author'd joyfully.

suits enaAcabeal bu |

Which in the chariot’s chest |
Placed with the rest, and held
yellow-beaded

The

all
‘To seats and thrones placed in bis spacions
The hand-maid water bromght, and gave it

From gat a fair and golden ewer to them,
From whose hands a sliver ealdoe

Th bed ware A bright board thes

1c

On which another reverend dame set
bread.

To which more servants store of victuals
served.

Eteoneus was the man that kesved,
And Be toe fill'd them all thelr

‘AIL fed and drank, 1) all felt care decline
For those refreshings, yi

Tas ant i feelin
le when tt
Brought wine ims at, ee
Toll the Gods, they might thelr journey
He sags pekerei Se Se and thus be
“Farewell young Princes: to grave
Nestor’s ear

Jon i ugh wa
Mine Ss in ge ot ee

iu cei es

| The king's love to him) was saluted thus z
An eagle rose, and in her seres did truss

)A goose, all-white, and huge, a howseodd

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

443

Before their horses; which observe! by
‘The spirits in al thee minds took joys ex-
treme ;
Which Nett sson thus question'd: ** Jove-
‘Yield your grave thoughts, if this ostentful
[Tis angle, aod thls goces) touch es, er;
you
He put to study, and not knowing how
To give fit answer, Helen took on her
‘Th’ ostent's solution, and did this prefer :
pe nepal ey
cast it In my heart ;

bm
‘end think, will make the true sense | And
known :

is Jove's bird, from out the mountains | (3

So sil Uipses, coming from the wild

Of and sufferings, reach, unreconciied,
Hua sative ome; where even this hour Be
pas hone howe-fed wosers those

lay with all their miseries.”

wor ‘Telemachus, “if Saturnian

Ineash rents wey, they andes thc eocom | EE
\t Pheras, house of Diocles,
to Orstochus,

Feats cere hes Fiphons whose high city
‘hey rae Nor would Telemachus be
To Nestor house, and therefore ender’

His pesch to Nesior’ son, Platina #
** How shall 1 win-thy promise to

‘That I must ask of thee? ‘We both em-
‘The names of bedfellows; and in that
name

wal asan of our fame ;
Our mest our own equal

tet ed wap

; Sect ary

ony hear ship, bat take a course direct

Hoare me ecm, let thy El aaa

tne o oe me. oer So
My way for home, that hare such need to

beld all discourse

‘This said, Nestorides

In his Kind soul, how best Be might a
Beno an performance 3 which, at
He vow'd to venture, and directly’

His os bo to eh the sp dasha
‘Where come, his friend's most lovely gis
Aboard the ship, and in her bind-deck
‘The veil that Helen's carious band had

Ed his mid to exe force
any —— will stay your

Himself make bitber, al your course call
‘And, ween be hath yoo, have no thought
‘Him from his aad to
ers ear
‘With both our pleadisgs, if we once but
“The least represtion of hia fiexy jowe."

© ecrog Sud, expos ailgere,

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

ponent pape) ‘his fair-maned steeds:
ate the the Fyn city, and.

‘But lost his life by female
‘Yet two sons author'd bie

A
her's Sourt reach’; while Ulysses’
= And

Bade board, and erm; somieatiti
‘was done,

Ips, Who

vir ne, and ha ah
Bat he Se ae

stsoutd Neleus, ta a foreign toe
eee eirera

‘A world of riches, nor could be compell’d
‘To render restitution in yest

In mean 5} living as
Ta boert Py rig acs pte

Neleus’ ighter mighty cares did

take,
‘Together with a lang
rom ave Betton tat did meh tor

His = ree yet his life's ex-
Pence

‘He scaped, and drave the loud-volced oxen
thence,

estate,

Her
one to his brother's
aes from Pylos did remove
feed-horse Argos, where his fate set

A Smeg for aaj ad tate ow
Made govern many Argives; where a

He took to him, and built a famous house.
‘There had he to him Antiphates,
And forceful Mantias. ‘To the first of these
Was great Oicleas bom : Oicleus gat
fata that the popular state
all their health in; whom even from

Jove MToved, and Phebus in the whole

mi
‘That age's threshold he did ever touch,

* Pallas.
f Ose of the Furies of Hell.

He
punishing

‘Tell one that asks the trath ; nor give ®
Both who, and whence you are? From

what seed roe
re what city's

Takes cist om tg whose event to
Himsa ra eae Leet forth thus
‘Theostymenus

reacheth far:
From rwhoux ocean t Sar teeta

seborn
dovert Blood and black fate against me (being
Of friendship held bim ; yet not bless'd s0 oem

be @ wanderer
ii rarer ae

‘His wike betrayed him fee money,

Perform that mercy, and to them tan
See a a

Miche wie oe net an Rare ta al ie
nee stone ere,

led
Aloft the hatches, which himself ascended
Tho ey oe

Set Theoclymenus, and gave command
“Toa his men fo ra, ad to de ast

we, [Fee he fl) th hands ec

take | To some small feast from out their infinite:

ly| For which, Ill watt, and play the serving-
man,

Fairly enough, command the most they

an.
ee ot, Oe a Se

to
Tn any service ; as to bulld a fire,

; (Te seeeee Mie wt, eae er oe

ee a that ber cher way ria

Pires we Ge ome ope aight Dlack’d all:
Toe i mh J Jove's wind wing’d, where

Fetch'd s Gest, then Elis the divine,
And then for those isles made, that sea-ward

shine
For form and sharpness ike a lance’

About which lay the wooers ambushed
On whe erase ote A be eo

Mis plotted death, or serve her treacherous

‘And now fatara we to Burien shed,
food with others mar-

To walt t board, mlx wine of know the
Ot hyo in which the poor-call'd
the] To secve the rich-call'd best in Fate are

He, angry with him, said: "Alas, poor
why did’ {is counsel ever touch thy
Thon et thy utter spoil beyond ail

If thos givest venture om the Wooers' rout,
‘Whose are and force affects the iron

To St eights am far om Deng
To ech grave servitors, Youths richly

‘And thou? go thither? Seay ; for bere do
Bone

brie elaplee ste

Of all I feed. But when

‘Again shall greet us be tl pte
Both coat and
retreat

os pars a nesses iS

3 ee dee eee
eich wi his

446
Loved thee, as 1 do, that hast eased my

wanderings confined.
ought mre wrecked ta a human

haem wnt and sit from lace)

But for the baneful belly men take care

Int Bean vad cae

in the wants it un

Ey wanderings, lexes, or dependent woes.

Excuse me therefore, if 1 err'd at home ;

‘Which since thou wilt make here, a over-

With thy command for stay, TTL take on
‘me

Cares aj ining to this place, like thee.

Boor (eeu Uses aie and mother,
breathe,

Both whom he lef in th' age pext door to
ea

Or are they breathless, and descended
where

‘The dark house fs, that never day doth
clear?”

“Lacrtes lives," said he, ‘but every
Besecheth Jove to take from him the

power
‘That joins his life and Yimbs ; for with a

"That breeds a marvel he laments his son
Deprived by death: and adds to, that

nother

Of no es depth for that dead son's dead
mother,

Whom he @ virgin wedded, which the

moore
Makes him lament her loss, and doth
ie

deplore
Yet more her miss, because her womb the) Her

truer "
Was neki ‘his brave son, and his slaughter’

‘Which last lowe to her doth his if engage,
And makes him live an undigested age.

© such a death she die’ as never may

Seise any one that here bebolds the day,

‘That either is to any man a friend,

Or can a woman kill in such a kind.

As ee she had being, 1 would be

Ail inquter (ince ‘owas dear to me,

death to her, to hear his ape

Heard of Ulysses, for mi
She brought me up, and her ove did

My life, compared with Yong-veil'd Crimene,
Be tcion ta eae

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Her daughter yet preerr'd) « brave young
And when the dearly-loved
me tae ct im acta ere

ras be <=

ee hes It, new and ait cad

M to he Bald? but passing
AS levog me ‘ore! haa sone Ber

And theoe 1 want pew, it Oe aioe

which the Gods impose,
T poh me dal, wh accoust to them,
retin Tha Se zt it

Tse ind of poe That geal

wiih where ‘the quoea i, slots) takes
From Hci of these things, Nor is &
‘To ha om her plight of or wonk

me, Eumseus,” said Lecrtes” som,
cate thou then er’d to, of litte gas?

(Liege EL from
er oh a uh Aah ee

and country? pray

Waowya saa of
the wide-way'd seat
Wnts ay eel eo
then,
‘That thou ‘art dpared there?” Orelbe, set
e
Jn guard of beeves, or sheep, set th” enemy
s
ried, and hig transfer’, and
He as nel he Pel
“ Since thou iaqifest ofthat ary goes”
ee 3 ‘be silent ; aad, mean space,

¢ Ropoine hare deen ee

maar
along: and 1 will be
your ship bath made him

Transfer } him to prio viar tapenerne men ye
Th i she gt her home, sod there} When

sapeahs Wa great avail
inform the dame ;
canarias

Full of Phovnician craft, that to be sold

view
Both by my honour'd mother and the crew
Of her house-handmaids, handled, and | That

the price
Beat ; ask'd and promised. And while
this device

Lay thus upon the forge, this jeweller
Maite privy sigs (by winks and wiles) to

aap his object; which she tok | We

Misia sng noted, led to ship. When!

ae ee as she used to do
‘walk abroad with her)

‘That used to flock about my father's feasts
Had le ‘They gone (some to the council

oul
‘Some to hear news amongst the talking sort),
Her theft three bowls into her lap convey’
And fe Sloe res Nor was my wit so
To Stay he, ot mele ‘The sun went
RN ated waa et tte week ore
When we came to the haven, in which did

The swift Phosnician ship; whose fair

now fit for
A

‘To. Serve <he,eh AaSaee e

at Tas ket here wth a hay eat
‘wind and water Grave them quite

eee ree

Theirs couse, anon aes

eben
‘And all the suff
Bat, tray, to thy pili fread Bonk
Hid betets thy tervon al Rigen
ence
Of fod, ing, cloth to thee; and sare a
otis date er of desart,
Suilent fod and hoa ‘Dut to mes
Have see sry owe ooh aed
‘Tike thee yet, not nought meee
‘Tis matal spoesh they wed, nora
‘Much tine tatiee tot sateletaes en
leapt
To her far hone, And sow strook sail
the men,
Telemachus, aztived just then
Rear i ord th shove ; wbere now they
ad Pie aC och ech
Mad fast the ship, and thes ashore they

went,
Dress'd supper, gird wine; wea. (thie

broad The.
a straight, took us up; and

went
‘Along the moist waves. Wind Saturnius
went

ite Gl tists tx a town de

THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘at 2 feast bestow
pains. “And whither,

And in the morni
Rewards for all
now,”
‘Said Theoclymenus,
‘Shall 1 address myself? whose mansion,
Bees men, in CN pu wah isle, shall T
trea to
se and thy mother?” He

*Anbother thme 171 see you satisticd
With my house entertainment, but os

You should encounter noe tat could be-
out ‘i entreaty, and (which less grace
Youn feu cje tara
‘or she's no
Keeps from her

desart,
Up in her chamber, at her

aa menicme eee eee

bidden puss
Ot er dap, and theen he
A blacker sight being than ber nupelal

lacher
As this he otter, on i ight han lew
the God.

Tove,

And on Telemachus fell ; whom th’ augur

‘Took fast by th’ hand, withdrew him from
his mea,

baat “Telemachus, this hawk is
Gevess ine "crete

0 maw it.
sei tee te yen nad
To rule in Ithaca above

——_ ape,

{Of all my followers tothe Pylian shore)

y will in ehief im other things, once moee

Be chicly good to me take 1 thy house
loved stranger, and be studious

F ecabrave and ence biz with thy greataat

fare,
‘Tit I myself come and take off thy care.”
‘The famous for his ince suid: * Ifyoar

Tate before hr, hi a's eae 1
Oa my 0 Oe eee
‘Shall any peoury withtbold his feast.’

‘Thus took be ship, bade them board,
“Tin no hd deck’ bis feet, and reaeb'd his

They to the city ; he did straight advance
Upton ye wae where swine lay for bim

By whe dei ts met ine bard
‘Ti his stort cares bs longest nights hac
And pothing worse to both bis lords ne

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT,

ty pier et male
to make t

todd by
Thee on here
father knows.

ULyYsses and divine Eumseus rose
Soon, = the morning could her eyes un-
Mase On bese ald to ae pasture
‘The Sie herds, on whom thelr swains

rebaridag dogs all fawn’d “pon,
Nor bakes af irst sight of Ulysses’
‘The pene ‘of their fawnings yet did

vy cars, and sounds of certain foet ;
¢ thus bespake Hamaeus: **Sure some

rome Jenown, comes, that the mastives
Their mc oaths no louder. Only some one
Teer shine and leap about, whose feet T
ath word of this speech was not spent,
His sqa stood in the entry of the door.
Out-nish’d amazed Eumacus, and let

‘The cup to earth, that he had inbour 30,
Cleansea for the neat wine ; did the prince

OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

ae his son's embraces, that had

‘Ten in foro Row now
years in earth, >

Bis only hi too, gotten in hs
And for whose absence be bad

the

OF il om hm, ee fe ie vine
So Smuch for form was divine “for

Woe his him trong, who grew abo

‘As that tome eth sxaped. Whoes 35
long tne ming,

He wept for joy, and said: “Thom yet art
come,

sie Bh! sen-tise, to thy cloudy

0, 1 look'd, when
gre shore ey tone da

A!

whet enee an So

Nor, when you Tved at ome, would you

Often enoagh here, tet stay'd still at

Tepleaed you then to cat uch feetiaad

About your house on that: mest dammed
crew.

“It shall Be 80 then, friend,” sald he,
“ but now *
come $0. gied, mina area aa

ow
1 still my mother in her house remata,
‘Or if some wooer hath aspired 10 gain
Other in nuptials; far bed,
By this, Hes all with aon ‘cobwebs
=

In penury of hivn that should supply i"
FSi sl” paid. Be,
constant quiet,

Kised his fair forehead, both his lowly|—

Bt is white hands, and tender tears dis—
‘ill

‘There breathed no kind-soul'd father that
was fill'd Cy

"Aibydow

signifies properly frmebvweens, €F dafermedic,
otha pormitionse Cobich tthe Latin mates
ton) is not 0 ft as cane for, Ghat crew of
Gasolute Wooers being now used

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Yetnover took ‘Ulysses, or that he,
aah would but come,

ne ey yy age could achieve (and there is

For Hi

His eyes w
—

left, that he may recreate

stranger strike off,

Lstrook not all ; the house in open force
Entering with challenge. If their great

concourse
Did over-lay me, being a man alone,
(whe You urge for yourself} be you that

{rather ip mine own house wish to dle
One death for all, than so indeceatly
Sce evermore deeds worse than death ap-

Guests wrong’d with vile words and blow-
giving pride;

The women-servants dragg’d ia filthy ||
ASE:

kind
About the fair house, and in corners blind
Macey, the mpes of ruffians ; food

aly and rudely ; wine exhaust, and pour'd
‘iarough throats proan and all about a

Thats ever wooing, and wil never speed
ae tell you, guest, most truly,” said
son,

#1 do not think that all my people ron
One hateful course against me ; nor accuse
Kinsfoke that Lin tril of weight might

But Jove will have i 9, our rice lene
& tesa singular) to one and one
als ied comintag oe to the
Jove-bred Arcesi Lacrtes spring ;
bay toold TLaertes di
Ulysses : only to Ulysses’ end
‘Am 1 the adjunct, whom be left so young,
‘That from me to him never comfort sprung-
And to all these now, for their race, arise
Up in their house a brood of enemies
83 in these isles bow men’s kness, |
ichius, and the rich in trees
Zacynthus ‘or in this rough isles com.

So many aS for the ie ad stand,
‘That x my mother ;

such an object) this bed Ts

Nor doth she, though she boatties, deny their I
Nor they denials take, though taste their
But all this time the state of all things there
pa devour, and I mest shortly
‘A part in all: and

‘these:

stark | My safe return is a aloe
Li thot hither, ott ‘made tt knows.
jor ear

wi
But, all in one yet : may 1 not reveal
‘To i old hard fated Aveesiagens
ies 2 Sea
stress
‘not yet so grieve,

Toute Wiad Sue,
sh is appetite with wine and

Sy Bar cast aa
sits weeping ies

And sighing out hts pwn a

| Wasting fis body, tern'd all skis and
bones.”

"Mors sedi Seve sc said be, “yet,
mourn he still »

ZFaitend the bome-tur of my seer Kind
Do then what given effect,

Nor as his absence Bid from Joes de

Divine Minerra, who took straight to view
A Koodly woman's shape that all: works

| And, st in the p did
ye

His non ‘Telemschis por saw ope knew.

| Zhe Gods clear presences are Brown ff.
Yet, with Ulysses,

od out ntti bu wi glove iy.
a

Moved to 3 he knew her
And left the: pass'd the great

cote’s wall,
And stood before her. She bade utter all
Now to bis son, nor keep. the least wn-

‘That, all the wooers’ deaths being now
approach the town ; affirming,

poor blasts

Aud th hi iabb-gocn wed fictd ror?
His body straighten'd, and his youth to
tis eh ood ead wp eeey wae
[About is bales eyes, and on his chin
‘The brown hak sxeed. ‘When his

She issued, and he enter'd to his soo,

Who stood amazed, and thought’ some
His house that bonour, turn’d away his
And suid “Now guest, you grace another

‘That sults your Tate show. Other weeds

an Werpued stall
our.” Menuet?
state, vis pet you teeacm me
A God's resemblance?
pet heap ap are EE sei

sake
j whose absence makes
‘Thyyouth so genes; howe

Not Jore himself could both remove and
Old age with youth, and youth with ageso
Jn such an fastant, ** You wore all the
OF age but now, and were old ; sed but
You Bear fat young ere thatthe God
‘Their Neaveo-bor forms witha” His
veTelemachus' Admire, nor stand. dis-

Bat know iby solid father; since within
a noes nh pats nents Biel

whole | There shall no more UI

iw
OF het free ager

Be coe ras ant wee

Hime About im; dearn on tears he
shower’

‘dy
desire of moan increased,
hp ad te da oe cs

rears,
‘Or brood-kind vulture with the crooked
seres,

Tmoan,
‘The light had left the skies, if fest the son
‘Their dumb moans had not vented, with

demand

‘What ship it was that gave the natural

To his blest feet? He then did likewise

Hind on bis panicn and guvethese words
wee the tt, my son: The men

Much fame for shipping, my reducers were

‘To long-wish'd Tthaca, who each man else

‘That greets their shore give pass to where
he dwells.

The Phaeacensian peers, in one night's

te,
‘While I fast slept, fetch’d th’ Ithacensian

State,
Graced me with wealthy gifts ; brass, store

And faicorrought all which have

sacred h

Tn caves that by the Gods’ advice I chused.

And now Minerva's admonitions used

Box ibis reteset, that we might here dispose

Ia — discourse the slaughters of our
focs.

Recount the number of the wooers then,

‘And let me know what name they hold
with men,

‘That my mind may cast over their estates

A curious measure ; and confer the mates

‘Of our two powers and theirs, to try, if we

‘Alone may propagate to vict
‘Our bold encounters of them

heard
Your counsels and your fore of hand pre-
‘To might; j, but your speeches now
Four verrocs wad eacteing ‘mighty

for, in right
counsel, should be brought to

Even to amaze they move me ; for,
Of no fit

tight

‘Two men “gainst th’ able faction of a
No one two, no ane ten, no twice tes
ae oe

iat from Dulichius there are fifty-two,
Iie you men and every one of
Six men attend. From Samos eross'd the

port
Af wo shall dare t* all
in one: ore sl, bara ges cag

Vout eat mind tint, exsreding tr
And your retrest commend net to your
hipeth penn ‘but make you say,

Le
Theft paid bef ponte phot
i refore, if were well

His father saeeee =
thee

Hear me, consider, and then answer te,
‘Thtakst. Oe ES e
‘We had to friend, would their sufficiencies
Make strong our part? Or thad sorse otter
yet

My thoughts must work for? “ These,~
cals ee ‘are set

Alef the clouds, and are found ales In

As er ot oly that the mem cen
Bul bear of all med elie the Bigh eoms

ree
And hold of Gods 3
ve Wll yen. auld bn, > mot these all
sever long
‘Their force and ours in Sghts assured and
‘And thea wixt wa aod them shall Maze
His strength, to teed our great distin
‘guisher,

THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘Of foreign countries, let our speeds prevent
His coming home to this austere complaint, | Of
At field and far from bontrhy be tedpree way
‘Of narrow passage,

Shewn to his forward youl, yr and

{ato the te von of ont hands
@ moveables made bis mother’s

arian
And his, whoever Fate affords the power
Or if this please not, but
Stand Leal cepert and pee
Fy pede mg ny a
At his cost never more, ‘but
sy agp rt hs ‘whom he
At tome, ‘and there lay first about for

Goatknoteensyien ive his second power

ote nuptiabiing, and, for las, 8 nl S
irpose with most

“This silence caused ; Whose breach, at

Led sw ge wooers, and in chief did)

‘The queen with his discourse, because it)

From roots of those good minds shat did
endue

Hi person; who, excoeding wie,
Use SS as Friends, 1 eevee will

plause
‘The Gods will give it : Ifthe al kaws

Of myself will be
‘Tod man Shall Hil hem and this Company

Exhort to that mind : If the Gods remain
Adverse and hate it, I advise, refrain.”
‘This said Amphinomus, and pleased them

all;
‘When ail arose, and is
MSR ee

“The wooers plot, to kill ber soe at bore,
Since) ther her ‘abvoad design had. miss'd

‘The herald Heda (who the whole address

umber

49
Knew of their couascls) making the re
The ber sex with be fle sort

lovely women, at the large hall's door
{Her bright cheeks clouded with a veil she

‘Stood, and directed to Antinous
Her sharp reprooh, which she digested

} Qubstes | aeeoameiae
Plotter of mischiet “Though wets hak

RE
Art bey and counsels, ch’

Fond, = fellow, why plott'st thou the
And laughter of my son? and dost not
Te presidents of eupplants whea the ear

stoops to them? “Tistwnjust todo
Sth frauen py we fx wo

then,
to be toathed of men,
not thy to remember
when
‘Thy father ed to ea; who (moved to
wrt!
‘Aguinat the Taphiam thieves) pursed with

Ts an inj
‘Serves

Dioadiest ends
Jog abe alee thoagh they were his
ver thom Uke one that no tew will allow:

‘The lest tre honour, east bis house up
That fo thy faders woo'st for love his
Whom thus thou grievest and seek’st her
sole toes life,
T Jee all ought of theve fool fashions
'o se
ceased.”

Eurymachus replied : **Be confident,
‘Thou aa of wt mad, the ‘most famed de-

438

With any touch thy welLAoved zon,
But here | row, and here will see it done.
His life sball stain my lance, If on bis!

‘The eity-racer,* Laertiades,
Hath made me st, put in my hand his
And eld ls red wine to me, shall the

Ol Teens om my hap lay

Tesst pollution. that my life can stay? | \
Mort hams ever charged Bia not in or
Death's threat from any. "And for that 1

most
‘Love of his father, heshall ever be
‘Much the most loved of all that live tome.
Who hills a gwiltless man from wean mty
God his searcher all
“Ths cheer his words, but

Fear'd not to cherish foul intent to Hill
Eveo him whose life to all lives he preferr'd.
‘The queen went up; and to her love

is affections

A
Her {era 00 teshly, that: sho wept, tll

(By b

In his sweet humour,
came,

‘The ee herdsman reach’d the whole:

forced on her) her eyes did
When the even was

TUIpiee a bi 9 for mapper rest
A ra ving, andere their host and

thelr presenoe, Pallas had put by
With fale fod Ulysses! royalty,

And render'd him an aged mi
With all his wl integument, vies bas ec
* Ulysses,

Shoald kaow him in his trim and tell bk

queen,
In these deep secrets|
‘He seen, to hiss the

did mse
"Welcome divine Eusweus: Now what

ita te {ie chy?! isa ie ocr :
ont lems

? Or ber

5
My m done, return. And.
Calme my news fist; a herd

there]
Forestall'd my tale, and told how safe you:
wore,

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT.

Nj motes ea fr me who, er
Mioeovn eyes ites, varies tears and | Wi
allextremes, Do thea this charge

And whea the sun's flame bath besides
‘connected

Bp Casethay teense kone eee

wi be
mie ee a as
"st me

cubocn bepure ber nay

ence being wo far

‘That’ transcended the fale porch of

eye

stone,
‘The firse far that gave his en!
heats Lf § who th"

‘The other maids ; his head and shoulders
crown'd

With kisses and embraces.
The Gace best oanar ike ine Cosme
acide eel racetie
tears 5 ese ee ee
Ms and forehead ; plain}

‘my | With venrealy “Welcome, sweetest

had conceit
Sepeti han hy loved faker
necroneeter olames
ar boretetpoavs cancer ‘now 10
Mino dear object?" He retura’d

“Mone to not ‘pow, when you my scape

pass Preset ooh mk ma

vere ‘women with that ye all may
you, r 7

‘Vows of full hecatombs in sacred fire
Toall the Gedheads f their only Sire
Vouct ints eal guest-rites wrong’d,

Isto as being their Dei
neote ing their ae
Woon ctoon Demceree that Td oe may

A r, who from off the Pylian shore
Game Eeadly with me; whom I sent

before

‘With all my soldiers, but in chief did
4

Pirseus him, ‘him t’ enlarge

pea tl ie in best affair,
And utmost ‘mine own repais

honours, til
iar som th spoken his words could
‘Tha wings too easely’ through her ether
car,
Bat puiting, pore weeds on, made vows
tire

Ot perfect hecatomibs in sacred fre
‘To all the Deities, if their only Sire
heaping sparen cane -rites wrong’d,
wl
‘Was to protect as bel:
Her soa left house,

thelr Deity.

his fair hand bis

His attending ; and, on every glance
His ee ant fees tata, alle pa 8 FO

‘That made him seem of the celestial race.
» come to concourse, every man

admired.
About him throng’d the woorrs, and
AL
8
Most {lls threaten'd to his mest
deep nr
Of whose huge rout once free, he cast glad
ont
some that, long before his infancy,
ees ‘with his father grest and gmolous ;
Grave Halitherses, Mentor, Antiphas ;
To je) he went, took seat by them, and
Inquire of all things since his parting
lay,
To than Pimeus came, and brought his
‘Along the city thither, whom not least

ht
a ‘his women To see
‘The gifts from his hoase that Atrides:

Which his own roots, be thought,
better sare.

yy stage my Me at home,

‘become
The mater of hem, tat he bent of he
But, if I sow in their fields of

sieht con a a ees

‘aid ba brought home his grief
—s both put off, both ‘oi'd, and did
‘Thenestn eh abe, wad and sf,

Hic mother; tn fle chair t g seat

You" ow that eve since your sie was

Teen Aramempens Fede to Troy,
ne might pooe fst bat ae oy let

A.sen Dlown up with sighs, with teary stl

Embrue and troubled; yet, though al
mis

I
to him in tongues, but tn thelr}

You stun to tell me what seccess yoo had.
Now then, before the insolent scores
| The wooers straight will force om as, ex

Whi or ve head.” Twill)" sald be,

To 2 extreme Jength, in some voyage
Nestor, the pastor of the people, show'd

ee
From hi
or une go whose strong beauties
By wills Gf Gods, 90 many Grecan
And Trojans, under wel aborisas fates

ees

t told hima ath ieee ‘trtaths, mies made

mE on eaariee

Whose strength ot mln inehe li levelied |

inclined.
When he ls i ae es eel
Bau tn eo a ee iver ak dank

He shows abboerd death, im his anger
So, ond Ups fd tis abe howe
Fon! death would fall them. O, 1 would
Phat we and Pallas, that, when be shall

€
‘The brood report of his exhausted store
‘Troe wit Bis eyes, his merves and sinews

That 'igour then that tn. the Lesian

‘moved
Hage shouts (om all the Aches ten in
Mf, ence come home, hhe all those forces

irew
About him there to work, Petcatae = tf
And should find bitter tins

‘perm atlcdiaimascllaatag nm oa!
aga wae Lappe Pye
at not bain, by

Person from all elve recourse.”
Soi ald ‘Attides, which was all he

knew
Nor stay Tore, bat from the Gods there
A Prosperous wind, that set me quickly
Thi his mother from all ber
iis put eeite

When Theoelymenus the aungar said
wos, honourd with Ulyuer

vont no no doubt, keows clearly sothing:
Heat wager speak, that can the truth ma-
Nor, wil be curious, Jove them witness
LS se
eyo

or crteping, be will sce the cheer
Soni. coi and in his soul's feild

To farm my stable, or to sweep my
ee rs

oper rs

‘Weald ills wing (whey made ais T shall transport him,

His monstrous belly would oppress. his
knees, -

(arte terteaipte raat oedema
And will not work, but crouch among the
it

Abeat his cars fly, all the house will throw,

‘And rub his ragged sides with cuffs enow.”*

Past these roviles, his manless rudeness
tern'd

should

bers vl wegen ‘and the pavement
Bat he bore ail, and entertain’ a beeast

Bard thighs to you, that, id ta a,c

Fail your acceptance of, lamb or kid ;
Gras this grace tomes Ket tbe man ts

Iy wrongs, with forcing thee to ever err
Togot toe ly, bunsed ty ba tse

‘And in the mesn space may some slothful
Let lousy sickness gnaw thy cattle’s veins.”

1: atiag hagt caly for the
seni Wis ft Der pt caly for be

these,
His whole court arm’d with such a goodly

Caeerye the cope, majestical,
His double gates, cmd ts turrets, built too
atrong
Por force or virtue ever to
I know the feasters in it 2ow

‘Their cates cast such a savour; and the
ree ar Sie ea accomsplish'd
The Gols made wensic banpwets dearet
oer
Bat now coasult we how these works shall

If you will frst approach tis praised cour,

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

Served én more banquet ; of which, part he
eet
Before the wooers, part the prince did
Witotaa dane Ne bus poet idee |
‘To which the herald did he bread divide.
ae Es ‘d straight the

enter’
Lew thing,
Bore t eck pee | Fem

‘As would have made his mere beholder sad.
Upon the ashen floor his limbs he spread,
And ‘gainst a eypress threshold stay’ his

head,
ae ee mranete soca 008 ko wt Nos,

a b and by the architect,
‘The, prince then bade the herdsman give

‘The tines thee, pelle meny ec ivegena
Avall-parts it of his all
alt torn to Take," sald hee

His hands oak

Sand:

Th nes oh, and bid bim beg ofa
wooers here, and

Beep eit al tis Lapedines ne cans

Pye ards and did his mo ae man.

he,
“Telemachus commends these eatestothee,
a Nerd bear up, and all these wooers

Ww ina wake éempudent whom Fate maker
+6 Jove," sald he, "do my poor prayers

the grace
Topas him — ‘st ae mortal —
ht now in his generous beart
To deeds | that bg abe my desires convert,”
peo Fea ge oth his hands his

‘And In ths uncouth ecrtp, that lay before
His Sll-shod feet, reposed it ; whence he fed
All me the emusic tothe fears playa.
Both jointly endin;

‘Toput in old act tele umultnous powers
When close did prompt | ber

friend,
‘To prove how far the bounties would extend
Of those proud wooers ; 0 et him ty
‘Whomest, who least, oly.
en= (hor thought ‘oud "iiners

és
Shea proce beeing may
i roepherryeomyn |

Yet they admired it a8 no deed of his ;
Sas from thought of other, ‘wed

pity to him, who he was, and #hence,
Inquiring mutually. ‘Melanthius thea ¢
a fear re, yo wooers of the far

[About this beggar Thave seen before
This face of his; and know for certain

more,
oe ‘swain brought him hither, What
e
Or wieow he came, flies me," Reply to
toot mains nel soe aes
O thou resowned herdsman, why to us
Brought'st thou this beggar?

‘Serves it not
"That other land-Tespers, and cormornnds,
Profane. poor knaves, ile on 1 unoom:

a .
But you mst bring them? So amiss In=

‘Art thou in course of thrift, ax nat to know
‘Thy lot's goods wrackdin this ther over

‘Which think'st thou nothing, that thou
call'st ia these 2”

Bums answer: "Though you may

Yous Knot wisely. Who calls
ances tat ta fea
ter tins men nt ae of
Prophet oF poet, whom Tie Gods pro-
Physics fr men's, o rls
Such men the boundless earth affords re-

Round n Reno, and may then wl
oped who calls?’ Who doth so

In others" good to do himself an ill?
Bot all Bsr yur servants have been still
your way more than all that

46 THE SEVENTEENTH BOOX OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

5 "0," said the utmost
But,” turning then ¢’ Antinous, "0," *) Ors i gain =
A ebegrietear le epi ete me,

Yeon Jove consumed all ; be would have &
Re nes ate

ee en take, give; “+ mot| To wHich, his mean. was this: He made

Bat yeoman hath that hospitality Far of, fr Egypt, fa the nude coment
Be given all for shall. may OF sltways Condang asset one

cr fear, port,
Hal ae on nee my noberueer, 1 bade soy Loved: mien ae ai
‘And dwell amongst them; sent out some

ll aD that are here to

‘cast
‘To fill yourself than let — taste.”
er answer'd him ;

‘And unwean'd children, with the foul ex
Whose t vind'é free fire see check’d no)

Both Yof tei ames and Bloods ‘The ey
‘be licie = to the city; and the great Gekis
‘As would for three months serve his far off ‘Witt horee and foot, and famed with on

arms 5
From meting your house with more | When m Jor (that breaks the thunder in
cause of sti
This ae Mid, he 4 & stool up, that did Pe ‘men; Dot ose
Inspired with pes ‘oman an tat
Beneath the board, his spangled fest at ‘The free pursuing Se

And offer'd at him ; but the rest gave all, iret te ick ioe ae
‘And fill bis fulsome serip sith fenval
‘And #9 Ulysses for the present ‘And some in bondage; tolls Sed by eam

And for the future, furnista, and his: gone
Bent to ibe door to eat, Yet could not| Fastening upon them. ‘Me along they st

vere Fo Cypmis with a stranger-peince
Antinous 99, but said : "Do you too give, a aa

Lovet ioe} sour premnce akan s are |r atone Baa
tome mand,
‘As you tot worst were of the company, | And’ thus feel 1 here need's contemaed

But best ‘and so much that you seett the!
“And whet Got set ed Boe

king,
And therefore should give some better
Lea [ho wen our Eaaract® Stas oa ea

thing
‘Than ead, ke other. T wil spread] ae

praise board 50 boldly, lest 1 shew thee berg
‘Through all the wide world, that have in ypc and and Egypt made more sosir than

Ke hous 2 f, and trod the wealth; "You ara set-faced
ee 6 meaty | xbout with a 300g a0d they, Beyond
‘Of other men even to the title Blest ; pieces give thee, since they find not

And often have I given an erring guest
‘The least proportion set dowm to their

3]

‘That flows with feast, not to the broken

‘Will your allowance reach.” ‘Nay then,”
said he, a

clear
‘You shall not scape without some broken
‘Thus rapt he up a stool, with which be
‘The kis yht “twixt his neck
ts ee eee ‘
a eat
Decp fis proces, wich, foo time yet

On such an errant wretch. © {ll disposed !
icae atved Gsdbend gece aie

Sos ocaraseaeea
‘This afl men said, but he held sayings

Her
He bound in silence, shook his head, and | He

‘To his full sat on the
And wilk'd to the wooers

‘went
Ont to the entry, sapere le ne}

and cat,
Hoar

fi your rotten mgs nbout your

cars.
‘This made the rest aa highly hate his | In

As be had violated something holy.
Wen ton aren of the, eocteahas

i a a play the

ry THE SEVENTEENTH ROOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

And my desire serve, if,

‘be hath not heard
Or seen dated Bier who hath err'd
Like such therefore chance | Bt

bs man, and
He fn by bn Deen met and spoke
al

0 Queen,” sald he, "*1 wish to heaven
your ear

Were gu quit of this unreverend noise you| All

From. these rude wooers, when I bring
the guest ;

‘Such words your ear would let into your,

breast
‘As would delight ft to your very heart
arse nights and dapat did py sot ime

To 1am {for he came to me
aes el on ba Si ts se

To bi elation of weat woot aid spend
‘The spite of Fate on him, but as you see*
, breathing out of Deity
i ekindlg lines, when all men seated

‘Are rapt with endless thirst to ever hear;
So swoeten'd he my bosom at my meat,

he
‘red om wth sorows, tea from sea to

To ‘cat himself in dust, and tumble here,
At wooers’ feet, for blows and broken

cheer.
But of Ulysses, where the ’ Thesprots dell,

A wealthy Fame, he
“Te ail eral; who his uate igh relight

ae for now, with treasure
‘Call him," said she, ** that he himself

‘This over tg me, We shall soon have way
Given by the wooers; they, as well at

aaeytus os juse to recreate
‘Theit high-fed spirits. As their humours

They follow ; and may well; fr stil they
Unchi th wealth
Le aa Al ieir own

In poor Boot houses, only something tasted

* Simile, in which is compared with
a pom Torlin poemacnn te his wpeechs,

‘Their bread and wine ts by their hossebold

‘ae ily lang ow Schst wns
these the sacred Tie,

For bere lives no man ike Ulysses now

Tocurb these rains. But should be onee,

show
His cuonby eh: Ms preesces, be eae ks
Would soon revenge these wooers” ie

Atufioh the Queen yet laugh and eit
barre Heard’st thou not,
My wrest last utter'd, what @ nocsing
From iy Telemachas? From whence £

Of every wooer here is near his date.
Call then the gues, and Hf be tell as

down he went,
at Mod Ulysses, that the Queen had
To call hi to ber, ed
‘About her husband what he sf Se
Lad lier sand, I abe fone te
UG,
Both cot, and eassock (which Be needed)

Her ands would pat on him; and that

Which Se ing one the comm
Should frely feed b's hunger now trom
Who all he wish'd would to his wants pre-

cTesareeaiaat ‘Twill with fit speed
‘The whole truth to the Queen ; or passing

* Neering a good omen

The mage of whove pride smites Serena
Ot wns wen rook me for no
‘Telemachus nor none else turn’d th’ assault

‘Therefore,

Theft light, and then may she

“ris bud my iy closer pressing to the fre
In evening's eb id, because my weeds,
Are yenlog thin ; for I made bold to show
‘Tear beets woes ond pray'd your kind
supply.
He heard, and basted ; and met instantly
‘The Queen pon the pavement ia his way,

bring’st thou not?

Wee cies een
Find his austere supposes? Takes he fear
Of th’ unjust wooers? Or thus hard doth

eo — the ie oe
me wrong, and gives too nice

nie safety." “He does right,"
“And what he fears should move the

Otaby whe one maa herbert un

Hath Tid bis road tig. And, believe
“Twila joer bet cous, sce you

I
In protection Bust lel coger

To utter ruin, ere it touch at us.”
MT ste replied Telema-

veXcar bine taken, go In first of day
Come, and bring ‘acilice the bet you

To mew to Tmimarta be the care
C whetever here the saSetie are.
‘This said, he sat in his elaborate throne,
Eurnseus (fed to
‘Went to his charge, left the court aad

Fall of secure and fatal festivals,
In which the wocers" pleaseres stil] would

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

THE ARGUMENT.
I ite
Hence tacit ier ag

ey bea we
oe aoa the ig,
ANOTHER.

ie. TS Ror high fame:
Gifts, given to see
A is dame,

‘THERE came a common beggar to the | Bul
court,

Who in the city bora ofall resort,
Broa ‘din madness of the sats = ate,
itermission, was most hugely great,
‘Yet had no fibres in him nor noforce;
In sight a man, in mind a living corsa.
His true name was Amnaeus, for his mother
Imposed it from bis birth, and yet another
‘The city youth would. give him (om the

Ho after t derived out of the force
‘That need held on bir, which was up and

Tormmon all men’s errands through the
Which Sounded Irs, When whove gut

He needs would bar ‘Ulysses his own Lal |

And fel to chiding him : ONS bors tests
“Your pee sco
th fae language take a

Be with your stay

But little longer see you dragg’d away.
Set sf, obser you ou ged te al these

Dire si at mo, changing me to take
Your heels, and drag you out? But I

Rise yet, y' are best, lest we two play a| These

‘At diffs together." He beat brows, and

“Wreich | I do thee no ill, nor once
il, up-

Thy presence with a word, nor, what mise
By alfbans rs thee sve, one theugt
Nor “ole thou envy others. ‘Thos
Te pte wil hold us both ; and eeemiit
A gpa ke myscif; which who cat
The Gods most $9 whows they Least ant

Bei Cale ety ae

ees not, for fear mez
And lest the oie man, oc Wha oar

stood,
baat, “and bosom make shake handy
Tosa reg giles pall and mote will love
‘To-morrow than to-day. But if you move
peda the war you
searing a
we bors into
reo ae
This e one gut! And how his fine
teal oy
As from on crack’d oven! whom f
will clout
So bitterly, and so with both hands mall
‘His chaps together, that his teeth shell 63
As plain seen on the earth a3 any fow's
‘That bata 5 ee
Come, \<looe we Dow, {sk oll ay sea Wi
An i i tmp that takes at cuffs a

ie are Saas

Antinge one laugh’, and said: “O
+ This
Wena See ae UES Con

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Gomme aod Sew Sght,

ate aeks Legion? eoligvotiiten| tar

All the rragged rout of beggars at the door.
‘Then moved Antinous the vietor's hire
‘To all the woorrs thus: There are now

at fire
‘Two breasts of goat ; both which let law
set down
Before the man that wins the day's renown,
With all their fat and ind of both
‘The glorious vietor shalt prefer his tooth,

‘To which he makes his choice of, from us} That

all,
And ever after banquet In our hall,
With stat ‘our boards yield ; not a beggar
tow’ to share, but all keep out at
‘This be = proposed; and this they all
To slick Ulyses answor'd: “0 most
By no means should an old man, and one
old
Ia chief with sorrows,
‘To combat with his younger; but, alas,
Man's own ill-working belly needs will

“This work upon me, und enforca’ me; too,
To beat this fellow. But then, you ‘must

do

My age no wrong, to take my younger’s
part,

‘And ‘pliy me foul play, making your

aph ie to cena : fete? Sennen Segal my
nd tay

right, and ~
your oaths, to
cocoa |

Your honours on it in
His no aid, but
bat then Telemachus
werious

All swore his will.
His father's scoffs with
Guest | i thine own powers cheer thy
victory,
Fear no man's ele (bat will mot pass it
He fights with many that stall touch but
d
Tl see thy guest-right pald. ‘Thou here art
In my protection : and to this the sum

of wooers (which Antinous are
Asd. King Earymachas) oonjoin

ae
Both row'd fs When Utrmes, lating

prea his inner Bp

Ptacl feos about his thighs, and so pre
sented
Their goodly sight, which were so white

(And tos Kigudbouders serote Gem
ts bare rags, his arms, his Breas, at

So broad, and brawny (thelr grace natenat
Being heip'd by Pallas, ever staring neat)
‘ail the wooers his admirers

all
driven
Through all their cluster, saying ; sure as

wen
Poor Irus pull'd upon him bitter blows.
‘Through ti thin garment wust a thigh be
shows

The aad, But Iras felt. His coward

mind

Was t moved at tvot, But sow be needs
must fi

Facts to his brags; and forth at all parts St

The servants brosght him, all bis arteries

were
Beyond measure, mutual whispers

smit
With fearsand tremblings. Which Antinous

=,

And suid: ** Nay, now too late comes fear
No law

shoalist at Girt bave given thy beag-

gart vein,
Nor should it so have swell, if terrors
strain
‘Thy spirits to this pass, for a man so Al,
‘And worn with pemuries that stl lay bold
On his ragged Homsorver, take
+ That if be

bayer
Thy forces stoop, and prove his own
supeesne,
TH put thee in a ship, and down the stream
Could not but answer, and made this|Send thee ashore where King Echotus

reigns,
(The rx tyrant that the world con
tins]

‘And be will st thy nostrils,
‘Thy shame cut off, and give
tear

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 473

‘And thus is none held simply good orbad,
But as his will is either miss'd or had.
Al God's gifts mas calls, howe'er:
gets them,
And so takes all, what price soe’er God
sets them,
Says nomht how il they come, nor will

coat
‘That ravine in him, though it cost his soal.
And these parts here I tee these wooers

play,
Take ail that alls, asd all dishonours la
On that man's Queen, that, tll your feleods,
doth bear

time's absence, but is passing
Let God then guide thos hone, test he

it sald, he sacrificed, then drunk, ond
the
the given bowl to the guide of

Referr
men ;

Who walk’d away, afflicted at his heart,

Shook head, and fear’d that these facts
would convert

To Ml in th’ end; yet bad not grace to Ay,

Miners sty'd him, being ordain to die

Upon the lance of young Ulyssices.

wodow ‘down be sai; and then id Pallss

7 ikeline the Queen's aections to appear

‘To all the wooers, to

To th’ utmost lightning that aul anes
death,

And made ber pot on all tbe painted
sheath,

That might both set ber wootes' fancies]
bi

And get her greater honour i the

ven of her son tnd sovereaga than before,

Matos yhing yet, to shew her humour

serias appetite to that light show,
Earynone, that not now
desire

still;
Yet now she pleased ¢ appest, though from

Todo them bono, vor 1g she would tell
om tat of thon at wba & bin

To take 13 of which was, not to con-|
‘Too freely with ther pride, nor to disperse

re ae Sk een
Geod words, but through them ill fn!
‘oa ave. =

Your cheeks, stil drown'd jn
your eyes’
But bathe your body, and with blis make
clear
Your thickee'd countenance. Uncomgurad
cheer,
Aad ever mourning, will the marae
wears
Nr have you cause to mourn ; your son
| areas a
might deck =e
His Blood and person.” “Bat forbear to

speak
‘Of baths, or balmings, or of beauty, now,”
‘The Queen replied, "lest, urging comforts,
it
Dischmfort much ; because the Gods have
Tiba Spotl 60 iy beck alos apse oe
De.
Bot these must serve, Call hither then t0
Hippedamia as Ant
lat hon ont at mos ay

Our own deserts. And
Wits ail my nge: have Lena’ the Bolsnest

yet

T’ expose myself to mea. unless 1

Some otber gracets” This aii forthe
went

‘To call the ladies, and mach

Fe rain cet uae sy
cen

Would both herself shew, abd take test

Bat now itineeva ollie projees laid,
And through Icarius'} veins

"s desire; in whove soft fames
Scenes

‘She was as sco a5 laid, and Cimolved
‘Were all ber lineaments. Goddess

Bexow’d immortal gifts on her, that men
Might wonder at er beauties; and the

That glster lo the deified supremes,
* Beryoon,

44
‘She clear'd her countenance
mournleg =p

Even such a radiance as doth round empl!
Crown'd Cytherea,* when her

condues the of the eee Graces,
She added to ber owns Plump, more

high,
And fairer than the ‘dik
eon erat.
the Deity flew ; and up did run
“wristed ladies, with a noise
A Dar i iy
When’ she her fair eyes wiped, and,
gering. meld :
"© me unblest! How deep a sweet
sleep spread
His shades about me! Would Diana

‘Toshoot ine with adeath no more diseased,
AAs soon as might be, that no mere my

ght waste my blood in never
ght wa iy weepings *

For want of that accomplish’d virtue
In any loved lord, to all the Greeks pre-
Thon se descend with er mals, and

Fades ft octal foe ie Bey ook
Reach’ every wooe's bent j yet cast she

‘THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Like the rare soa of bis [most] matchies

11| Of sea sped to), tho sone nothing

1 Sk a he

In manage of thy actions, What
OF foul geet hath ty rose seme

Beneath thine own roof! A poor stranger

Used will ree
To withe wen et amas aba st

rata ot Oa
beafticens unrighted? "Tis a blaze wil
show
Extremely shameful to your name aad
wiblame you not, © mother,” the x=
“ That, this clear sustain'd
leat wrong by me,

Zhow 1 both the good and bad of all,
the yrars: young erres

ben demappinkey etna ms =
‘0 give, when once it knows, things
their fact.

1 well may doubt the prease of strangers
here,

So sin veil, that through it quite there | Betwi:

ne
A grace 60 stolen, it pleased above the!

clear,
And sunk the knees of every woorr there,
‘Tha wt So melted in love's vehement

That to her bed she helghten’d all desires.
‘Tha prince then coming near, she sald:
Thy thoughs and judgments have not yet
‘Thal constancy in what becomes their good,
Which all expect in thee. ‘Thy younger

Did mete choicer spirits ; but, arrived
At this fll growth, wherein their form hath

Beyond theboandsof childhood, and when
now,

Bebolders should affirm, * This man doth
grow

+ Vena.

in'd.
‘And would to Jove, Minerva, and the Sem,

‘sexve Coaten-
Tmade,
sboud

aa your wooers might serve
peers peteeee
And wore such weak heads +
death invade,
Strew'd in the entry, some embrue the bail,

Tih
Std the ist the gate,

and
"ila woe Teldoe daughters fail

“Teak ded toe Colchos venturous sail dispose

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

For that rich purchase, had before bat seen
Earth's richer prize ‘in th’ Ithacensian

sede made at but to,

Wold ail thar vitocs nad thet bedops
OW.

Should all the world know what a worth
you store,

To-morrow than today, and next light,
more

ots cart the should banquet; since to all

Jarnes
Ave far pele, both for the grace of

aeons kody form in every kind
Of all parts outward, and for fwultless

* Alas,” said she, “my virtue, body,

‘The Gods have blasted with that only storm
‘That ravish'd Greece to Ilion, since my | A

For that’ war shipp'd, hore all my goods

u
His guide would helghten, as the spirit

; A
Which, dead in me lives, given him long] W'

fore.
Assad course I live now; Heaven's stem
108
With many an ill hath numb'd and deaded
me.
He took, tle with fim, when he tok my

Ja paring om met the Te strand,
‘These words my witness: *Woman tT

“That not all th’ Achives bound for
shall leave id

‘Their native earth their safe returned bones,
Fame saying, that Troy traios up appeoved

sons
In deeds of arms, brave putters off of
For tngces masters of thelr crafts,
U riders, awift of foo and
straight
Can arbieatn 0 war of dondlont weighs.
Hope then can scarce fill all life's

a5
sire and mother tend as much as now,
her off, more near ia cares be
eo ea pr has, whom
you will ;
And, you gobe, his care let his housebold
‘Thus made my lord his will, which Meaven

‘Almost af all parts; for the Sam removed
Down to his set, ere long, will lead the

Othe aoe mpi, that son

Each worthy woman, which her second
are

‘With any man that breathes, her Sret
lord's care

Dead, becuse be to Sesh and Blood ts

nd hasband
Sj a
P
Tae grich lacie jos lr Goble

(Seay wom
should spend.
Her beeves and best sheep, as their

feat. ends :
Bat ater tat esl and al rede
They should with banquets and rich gifts

cmireat.
Their Uf fe death that lise with othert
Divine t much rejoiced
‘cic git and beep tn
‘Their hearts with hope that she would wed
Her enind yet sil her st intent retain.
Aatinous sew the woot Wo3 0 696
ee Le
Sits ey gen Welw reuse
Foe iw! Eat we rele not ot ome
To keep our own reofs, til of
‘Secon
‘This a the rest, and every one

the herald. First had
rapeoe pice ct aa

4 THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.
‘To all their fosioma, why should they] Which il uy cupearey, chat, ba
‘Their own rich humours for a beggar’s

sake
AATF BE thee ips tobe 9 taken down,
And taught the

tanent 2 i sot thes should ave | Up
‘Admaeed the prince and sald he bravely

‘But Nisus’son then strook the equal stroke,
And said O friends, let no man here

disdain
‘To put up equal a yaintal
Wal ert ror an nuwost aoe wit
an range in ance’ house p ovoke :
Se ectieis wolsciar

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT.
eresas and bie som eschew
Offending of the Wosees’ view
‘irs seat,
Euryciea the esd
‘rod :
Discover by a sear beald
Which in tops « boar,
Strook by him in his chace, did gore.

ANOTHER.
‘Ted, The King sill hid

Wath any armour. His
Ulysses calls his

Your mind will give them, say, “tis their:
‘With smoke and rust that makes you tke
This oot beng Whe the armoury well
not
‘known
To be the leavings of Laertes’ son
{Consortng the design for lion 5
‘Your eyes may see how much they are in-
‘As oll fires’ vapours ever since reflected
On those sole arms, Besides, a grarer|
thougt
Jove ed within you, lest, their spirits
Above their pitch with wine, they might

At eg Eanquet and to wonnde

‘Their feast inverting ; which, pethaps, may

Retaln these words; nor what is good
think, thus
Received at second

aera eta ctee ere
‘The other women, Gil himself brought

His father's arms, which all were over
B AE neglect with rust, his father
Aad be too childeh to epend’ Choughts

‘Those manly implements; but Ie would
Reform these young neglects, and th” arms
Past reach of smoke, The loving ,esrse

3] Gite O non, your powers weed ome
For ‘wisdom's habit, see your household
In thrifty manage, and teed all things
But if these arms must down, and every

maid

feast,
Or join in * that shall
Plorcrertathente be bis bone detve

* Xoinveve Zeverm, they will needs tern this,
(an pe Seen in ree
Titres jain or mnie’ spel ao the new

~ ‘charset heel.

a
ae

cor, oe

ite, od

aby
ame. mourn,” said be, “nor
Your lovely Peon Weeping wastes the

‘And 9 T taame not ; for any dame
itty one Joong. and brings to him

‘Whatever maa he ts, will mourn his Tos.
Much more respectful then must shew your

‘woes
Tia: weep i for Utywes, who, Fame

Was e eqcal with the Gods in all his ways.
av eng ‘no cause is there must be no}

‘And Gierelore hear tne, my relation
cag? the clear trutl paked to your

1 near Amongst the Thesprots for most
‘That Tord Ulysses lived, and stood just
On tis return for home; that wealth did
In fa peeoeke which he made not.
But bege'd smongit the pele since |

In getting off fom the Trinacrian coast
Jemand and the Sun was wroth with them f
Made of is oxen, and no man let 09

‘The rugged drops of Neptune; only he,
‘The ship's keel only keeping, was by sea
Cast on the fair Phseacian continent,
Where men survive that are the Gods’ de

scent, ‘
And like x God received him,
‘Of wealthy gifts, and would conduct his
steps .

‘Themselves safe home; which he might

°
His pleasure make, but profit would not s9,
Hee guiber'd going, and bad mighty store
oF so beyond the shore
“high Blood of

Bore stop, and all the world for it

Math far exceeded. All this Phaxion told,

‘That doth the soeptre of Thesprotia hold,

‘Who swore to me, in household sacrifice,

‘The ship was launch’d, and men to man |
the prise,

‘That soon should set him on his country

. gave bi heaps |’

earth,
‘Shew'd me the goods, enow to serve the |

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘That in the tenth age of his seed about
Yeti hi court coat, ‘But then the

Your hustand, for Dedona was fa
‘That from th’ oraculous Oak be: Co

‘hat corte for home woald

Romapeen secret sail
But mo the king dispatch'd in course be

Ashi; Pita bound the icing sore
his safety whom

Jere its wt

with delays, but
bedi 8 cosy, AS which rath
fll seal with sacred cath. Be witness,
pba fat sas eo ee

thou house of the great
eee

[To rwhoss high conte | ter ty Pep
eye tell the
his own >
‘ends, shall here

‘This year | Ulysses shall
Nay roa ‘next mod

r abate alive.”
“Sid abet git

|seti thake your name the most renows'd
Bat “is of me received, and rast $0 soxt,
‘That nor my lord shall eror see this SS,
Nor 7a galn your deduction thenew, for

‘The nlter'd house doth no such man allow
ae pleki pins
0 ent

And give him 1 airdismision, ie, mal

Ye te heft, and then wi
Best sheets and blankets, make

Sof tats by hi that, loiged wars,

Even id

spares and ben, wit he ft

| and give alms, that cherish'd appe-
te
He may,

ge tia ‘any deed he shall
\\ow wreth woever, to his barbarous

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS,

For how shall you, guest, know me for a
dame

‘That pass so far, may, turn and wind the
fame
Of other dames for wisdom, and the frame

Of household usage, if your poor thin
weeds

Let draw on you want, and worser deeds,
‘That may, pethaps, case bere your latet
day

The life of man és short and fies

Andif the ruler's self of households be

Ungentle, stodying inhumanity,

‘The rest prove wore, but he bears all the
blame ;

All men will, living, vow against his name
Mischiefs and miseries, and, dead, supply
With bitter epitaphs his memory.
Bat if himseif be noble (noble th

ng all his underlings

Will imitate his n , and all guests

Give it, in many. many int iterests.”

Bul worth iont Queen, ‘said he, “where

you co

Bani ch ods for, I «om to
tai

On such state now ; nor ever thought it

Since first 1 ket the snowy ars te

- ashi

thoughts fled ;

L love to take now, 8 long since, my bed.
bh L began’ the use with sleepless

phes,
I many a darkoos wth right honey ies
Have spent ere this hour, and desived the

Would come, and make sleep to the world
ascorn.
Nor rin, these dainty baths in my rude

Nor any andmaid, to your service
Lt touch my ill-d Pepe fee feet, peed there

‘usage, and no work will ly,
As having suffer'd ill as mach as I.
But if there live one such in your com-

‘anes foot b
,
hand.” 2 |

‘There never entes'd these kind roofs for
‘Stranger or friend that so much wisdom

t for a have
i aa SA ees, seit Re

#5
‘There lives an old maid in my charge that

The ph Terre

That sceish'd aed brought up, with
caries cam,

Th’ enhappy man. your ofd familiar,

Even since his mother let him view the

And vt, hd et a ber wes
And se ough ow much weaker) shail

tur tenia heat See modesty,

cote: tise, and wash the feet akon
"That is of coe age with your so"
Suck bao tick feet bath, though of a

deach's om Pim men sell Bring om change
sie tm br age stunte wake did

-_ — eyes, and Mer pee aie
Her sovereign's name, Bad ee

oy
Hes chocle Som tae ete
nye moans did offer nO my sa “ail
** T never can take grief enough for thee,
Goodness hurts, and whom even

Jore's high spleen,
Since thou ast Jovolike, bates the most of

men.
For none hath offer'é him 30 many thighs,
Nor such whole hecatombs of sacrifice,
Fat and selected, as thy zeal bath dome ;
For all, but peaying that thy noble son,
‘Thy happy age might sce at sale of man,
ed h love Sineoet

spites :
So her in like course, being driven to
Long time ere this, what such =
Woald yield his

And fair
eaters tie srk es

To let me cleanse your feet. For eet the
‘The is command ots Ss Be eee

My will wash your et, Yat what I do
Se yemene Chargeand yuu ceverem

488

To my firm Bosom, and that am far
Fon) Grose locee frauen Like ah icon

‘bar,
Or bolt of solid’st stone, T will contain 5
And tell you this tame ‘that if you gain,
By nec good aid, the woorrs' lives in

What dam dames are here their shameless para~

mourt,
And have done most dishonour to your | Or
wort!

My information well shall paint you fort."
“It shall not need," uid he, myself

will 500!
‘While thas 1 ‘mask here, set on one
‘My sure observance of the worst and best.
Be ex. hen silent, and leave God the
This a, ‘the old dame for more water

‘The rest ee ‘was all upon the pavement it
By known Ulysses foot, PMore broth,

Supplied pesides with sweetest olntments,
she
His seat drew near the fire, to keep him
warm,
And with his pled rags hiding close ‘is
harm.
‘The Quoen eame near, and said: ‘Yet,
guest, afford
Your further Patience, til but in a word
Til tell my woes to you : for well I know
‘hat Rests avect ar harbotr he poses
When ail poor men, how much soever
ieved,
Would glatiy get their woeswatch'd powers
But God hath given my grief a heart so
te will not down with rest, and sof set
My judgment up to make ft my delight,
y I mourn, yet nothing let the right
1 owe ia, charge both in my work and
maids ;
And when ihe night brings rest to others”
ai
T toss my bed; Distress, with twenty
points,
ghtering tbe powers that to my turning
ts
Convey the vital heat, And as all night
Randareus’ daughter, poor Udone, sinks,
ind ure of the springs,
When she for lias, her iqved son,
Zothus’ issue in his madness done

@ cruel death, poursaat her houry monn,
And draws the ears to her of every ome

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘my moan that cets in two |
Set rte tee pos ny Soeaune is

Uneerenia wootoe't shal wil ssyraa
— notice, | ipa
id guard of

Wos to his nuptials, While the ingest

an ae

guide,
‘He was sot wil
Not with ory

now,
‘Arrived at en's sete I eel

eget
And leave hi

cheer
‘Should so consume his free possessions,
To ees @ choice im these my

sores oot el

M fs Twenty geese 1
ae Tos oye one taring

nee pre: bens tidy dey

Stoop ed ott al thr nc aa
‘When, all lft scaltey dca ie eran
Ste oc her wing upto the God fae
L crea id ny dea, id weep a
To soe the eagle, with $0 shrewd a
Stoop my sad turrets; when,
‘there came:
‘Aboue any nee
mi
‘To cheer my sorrows ; in whose most ex-
treme
The hawk came back, and om the pro-

minent
‘That cross’ my chamber fell, and wsed to

My love to some ona of
is court ;

The: the pa
goese the WoDers ane,

Nas timeetatore fowl, bat mow

THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF ItOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 489

‘Thy husband's being, and am come to
ve

The wooers death that on my treasure
ve.

With tha sleep te me, wi my. waking

1 Took to try if any violent prey
‘ere made of those my fois which well

I, as before, found fe at thelr t
‘Their yoted wheat.” “"O one

lied,
“ Thyldrenin can no interpretation bide
But what the eagle made, who was your

lord,

And said himself would sure effeet afford
‘To what he told you ; that confusion

‘To all the wooers ‘should appear, and | Thus

Bape the fate a death be had cred
She answer'd him: ““O guest,

‘The art of id
art of mam t’ interpret ; and appear
‘Without ali choice of H
Perform to all at all parts. But there are

it dreams, that like thin

Tyo ronan tes; the one of
cher bom ‘Those ptetens(

ever, and no truti

‘Those, that the glittering hormgate lees
abroad,

‘Do evermore some certain trath abode,
Bat this my dream I hold of no such sort
nicotene
names

‘My soa and me.” And thes my thoughts

Sas ups we tom Viper
‘court

‘antsy
Takes from the polish’d del “ct
tes poli pet gnitoom ud

H [een ten deg Nysses’ bow ;

ny

‘Which Be that easely draws, and frees bis | Ts

‘Shoots twelve axes (as he did his
through

‘All setup in arom, and from them ait
iis stand-far-oef kept firm) my fortunes
Perce 9 and take me to his house from
Pa eae
‘Of feast and riches ; ek ote eee
As I shall ever in my dreams retain,”
"Do not said be, “defer the gassefud

Bt ee tank te pores
Wit something else Us. muptile;for

wil to kis court and kingdom be restored
pene ey, thread those steels, or draw

ree Penelope swell ys

weal ‘aever let mine eyelids close ther
Bet = cia live without the death of
‘Th’ Immortals fn our mortal memorics
Qur ends and deaths by abeep 2

die.
Fae ee Cr ee
— bedew with tears, and sigh past

‘Tiscagh ail my Bours epest sobs 1 lost.

For vile. ed, never-io-be-named
Yr fhe Ti prove for sop whe ke

oo he

were,
Or have a bed, di warmer rest."
‘Thus left she wit ee ada hk

eer and her
duly make ber

THE TWENTIETH BOOK

THE ARGUMENT.
Dieess, tothe Wi
vsans, inthe Wosers ek:

Resolving first to kill the
‘Thar sentence erring off, his care
Fer eher jes dom prepare:

ANOTHER.

®. Jove’s thunder eo!
‘But cheers the
The Wooeey prides”
Discomfiting.

‘Ux.yssns in the entry laid his head,
And under him an ox-hide newly flead,
Above im sheep-fells store; and over

Enrynome cast mantles. His
tyro bring no sleep yet, ‘audybg the im |
He whbid the wooers; who came by

Witt all their wenches, langhing, wanton-|
ing,

In ona ightness ; which his heart did
st

Contendlng two ‘ways, if, all patience fled,

He should rash up and strike those |

strumpets dead,

Or let thas night Be last, and take th ex-| O
treme

OF those proud wooers, that were so su

me
Pleasure of thelr high fed fantasies
Hit heart di bark within him to suprise

‘Their sports with spolls;no fell she-mastit

Amongst her whelps, fy eagerer on a man

She ae not — yet scents him some-
thing neat

‘And faln' would come to please her tooth,
and tear,

‘Than his disdain, to see his roof so filed

With thove ful fashions, grew within him

Tobe! 18 blood of them. Mock finding best |

In his free judgment to let passion rest,

He chid his angry spirit, and beat his
breast,

* Forbear, my mind, and thinke|_

OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Have tried thy patience. Call to mind ie
Tani the Cyclop, which pass’ manly
of ois strength, devourd thy friends;
Stoot it ‘firmly bold, tit from that hellish

‘Thy thoughts resolved os.” This discoume
did breath

q
‘The fiery boundings

Tap that Sonne iteoet ena tie
Yet manly suffering. Bot from side to side
1 made tim toss apace, You have not

before
tum fasten: Nebioee ieee
t, zd would not hays it

Ak low ofa
A Basty fre, his ball y
him | Of fat and blood,

‘To have it roast,

bum,
‘Than this and Cat sey ie eae

aan y would not quesch

on ee

speed, that went to all the
His well-ald plots, and bls exploits re

Since he, but one, to all their deaths ase

Seer
ven,
Stood over him, and bad ber presence

‘Reveswece! rho meray this
** Why, thou mit sour and

of altthat breathe yet thst thom ts
The house in whieh thy exes 50 toss asst
“Ph hn ye ee
To be sulfced with ove they could mot

« Gola sald be, "ths tue; but 5

THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.
eh ZF event bere?! Could you 3 heand with greedy ears, and every-
ht in practios. “Twenty to the
Made speed for water; niany in the house
‘Took pains ; and all were both laborious
And skill'd in labour
‘And cleave their wood ;
than well_

ioet ‘Then troop'd the tnsty wooers in; and
\jgmominious hands, forhisform sake, | __ then
better.” "De not faulty | Came all from spring ; at thelr beets loactedt

men
|e pe brawns, of all the hen

been fed up in several st;
sere cm ae

‘5 one whom sorrow only fod Puri te you with al ther wont
os infortune, would not take his I would to heaven, Eumonss,” be re-

felis; yet overall we cast
Sos men nore gran
eaemone enon house, and

wilt be be with two more, drave, and meade

Tis amcaaing Sontoaiad of that fair court.
Melanthius, seeing the king, this former

hence
‘Till I set on thee raged
Tee Gat Sates CASS eee ese besa
Other great banquetants, bet you mast
where than there but all were bid to) At anchor still with us?" ‘He nothing

ng aly, nae Sie eee aren, | ft ot encgh, ea shook hn

‘THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

At this, Minerva made for foolish
‘The wooers mad, and roused oe hts

annoy

‘To such ¢ laughter ap would never down.

‘They laugh’ with others’ checks, eat meat
o'erflown

‘With thelr own bloods, thelr eyes stood
fall of tears

For violent joys; thelr souls yet thought

which Theoclymenus express, and said
© wretches! Why sustain ye, well

Your Uminent ill? A night, with which
Your heads a and faces hides beneath your

Ne
Shricks bum about you ; your eyes thrust

bears
red house wp, in bloody torrents:
The enty full of ghosts stands full the
a
Of passengers to hell: and

da i a oo
They sweetly laugh’ at this. Euryma-

To meets sign, and said: ** This new-

Is surely mad, conduct him forth to Tight

Sa Sipcpee market-place ; he thinks ‘tis
ni

Wich the house.” * Eurymaches," said | The

Ait hp
T both my feet enjoy, have ears and eyes,
And no mad soul within me; aad with

[Wil {go forth the doors, became know
‘That imminent mischief ‘must abide with

Shall fly or sete. eal io ly bear
or e all too

Your uncuta heads, asa oe
And every man affect with forms unft.”
‘This said, he left the house, and took

his
Home lo Przus ; who, os free a8 day,

a7

‘Was of his welcome. When the woorss’

(Changed looks with one another, and, their

Of Iaughters still held om, still eased their
breasts

under all
; the sun sinks from the og

ronda ade wing
ats ky, wh had tl

Of al this speech that passé, Tears’ belr,
The ier asst, ie fo chal y

Hiad placed of purpose. ‘Their high dinner
‘Wits. ah peered palates, casee eaicatenm

ie sen cd tenga, yey Soot

suteat Res RsSEay

[asia Stan aac aed oes ne
Since they’ til then were in deseris 20
gross,

* évtparetioral.

‘THE END OF THE TWENTIETH BOOK.

THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘THE ARGUMENT.

oko tases,

PALLAS, the Goddess with the sparkling |

Excites Penelope t’ object the prize,

‘The bow and bright steels, to the wooers’
st

And. here begat ate and Bond

fhe fit mcended by lofty stl
Her tmost chamber; of whose door her

‘And balf trenaparent bund ‘received the

Bright, braren, bitted passing curiously,
Aolat eherga achat ner
‘And roe tid Tend her where was strongly | 17

The hosareroral:

rapt
Gold, brass, and steel, engraven with in-
‘The exvsked bow, and srrowy qui
a juiver, part
Of that rich magazine. in che diver were
Arrows a number, sharp and sighing gear.
‘The bow was given by ‘by kind ary
tus, fashion'd like the ‘Deice
‘0 young Ulysses, when within the roof
Of wise ilochus their pass had proof
Of mutual meeting in Messena; where
Ulysses claim’d a debt, to whose pa
‘The whole Messenian people bound. ince

they

From Ithaca had forced # beep dlp 4

Of sheep and shepherds. Tn ships
they thrust

in whose store lay

Tis fxhor sending first to that fae
‘His gravest counsellors, and then his ber,
Ipiiras made bls way cheney ‘ost
Ive female bore, and
mended most
For use of burthen ; which were after
or porn and fate to him; for,

Of hi lity, Jore's: =
sirens cp
Clese a house, though at that time his
Ry at neither the

are {Siete Waltetoves

The mutual tabhe to each other kacemy
Because Jove’s son th’ unworthy pare had

te!

fad ended love = Ulmer wt
i who:

Rak cateem'o i, Bik bo

In his biack thet

But, in fit of

Ts tis affection, Brought It

Hi eesare Se
And igen ene women had

To giveit use, and therefton oad mcmst
* Heculen

‘THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Were much the better taken, than long life
Without the object of thelr amorous strife,
For whom they had burn'd ont so many
Tot find eit ‘other, nothing but delays
ing in them ; and affirm'd that now
Sone wl have her, but when that
t
bg bad tried, and seen the utmost
Ie,
‘They must rest pleased to case: and now

some
Of all the ther fale Greciam dames
‘Why its, and. dower, and Hymencal

Let her io Specs nately

Ana slows the miptial destiny di
"Thu ind be ox the well joura: polska

board
‘The bow and bright-piled shaft, and then
restored
‘His seat his right. To him Antinous
Gave biter Mangasgs, and reproved hin
a
+" What words, Licdes, pass thy speech's

‘That ts a work to bear? oo set 20 hand
‘They setup my disdain ; This bow must

The best of us? Since thy arms cannot
The sing least motion? Thy mother's
Brought never forth thy arms to draught of
Oring shat of. ‘Though tho canst
The murdy ay punt, thou art to us no law,

Melani light a fire, and set thereat
and cushions, and that mass of

meer pectraned

Gave instant flame,

Command taid on
set,

Laid on the bow, which straight the pages

Chafed, suppled with the suet to thelr

enn
wooers’ strengths (00

“ ae fire
chair and cushions

‘To draw that bow ; Antinous' arms it tore,

st
And great Exrymachos’ the both clear
et Eek ied and made them glad to
Foeth then went both the swains, and after
Divine Ui when, being past th’ ex-

Of athe gatey, with winning words he
“Tht lover, and this ask: “Shall my

counsel’ hide
‘Their a frome you? ‘My mind would-

Xt ley Ue tad iso
meee some God

ar aids Join on his part, o with

How stand your bearts affected?” They
‘hate Go wos pene to rear thet
He = should see how Gar they would
‘Thete Hives for bis. He, sceing thelr truth,
ie yout lord trong eam ean
Amtived now bere, whom twenty years have:
From Saath my comtsy ‘Yet are notcon-
From my sere knowiedge your desires to

M sate return, a
Now hic ie ee! Desides, not one bat

Min’ ear bath witness'd willing to bestow
‘Thelr wishes of my Bfe, so long beld

1 therefore vow, which shall be
That God pinwe bona hed to

These oer ies, ye shal both ere
if band, and means,
Hare Ross bat to you and both shall

As friends and brothers to my oaly som.
And, that ye well may know me, and be
won

assurance,
The wherein bone gare as ta

ae eaten tava ie, Sem
By me, and by wey Lammas Gants Se

—S—

THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

Of my life's thread at all parts, that no

more
Can furnish these affairs as heretofore.”
‘This hese their; spleens past measure, blown

with fear

Lest his loathed temples world the garland
wear

Of that bow's draught; Antinous using
speech

To this sour purposd: “Thou most arrant

ofall go ‘beeathing, in n0 least degree
af witha haan soul, it serves not

Toten in pecs wih us, take eq shar
Of what we reach to, sit, and all things

hear
‘That_we speak freely (which no begging

) but thou must make
Rane ch us in merit of the Queen.
Bat wine inflames that bach ever

‘The bane of men whoever yet would take
‘Ty’ excess it offers and the mean forsake.
‘Wine spoil d the Centaur great Eurytion,
in ais with the mighty-minded san
‘Of bold Ixion, in his way re “ar a
the Lapithes ; who, driven as

AP rondacas with the bold elects of wine,
Did outrage to his kind host, and decline
Other heroes from him feasted there

‘With so much anger that they left thelr

cheer,
And rags him forth the forecourt, st
Gropil both bis ears, and, im the Ml dis-

He mind then sulle. dre the fata day
ba = head with his host ; for thence

Betwint the Centauss and the Lapit

thea
| For thy large expe, if thy arms deuw the
My mind foretells shalt fear; for not a
man

of ill,
Bo sure, is past all ransom. Sit then’

Drink temperately, and ‘contend
With bmenyour younge Ta "Ths the Quees

ee ens te eee
Y overcrow

iis hia fen fanraia wth aa prose Seal

oF a is and bravings; asking © he
a

Tat i besmgeo is rms had rough

baat aca bow down, he should marry

And Pace her home? And said, himself
should err

Jn po suck hope; ‘nor of them all the best

(good she did her guest
al test hes ‘since it ia no sort

Noblesse in them, noe paid ber whet abe

Hie gee ts ee a This Euryma-
chus

Conti's and said “Nor fceds it bope

Teariu fanghter, to solemnize rit
te with thee or in, noblest

sights
Tt can shew comely ; bat to our respects
"The rumour both of sexea and of setts
Amana she: peo Senate eee reas
Lest any worst Greek sald: "So, men
Of mens will presume t'
meas
To bis whoa a eeaaak at
For fame and merit, could not draw his
‘And yet bis wife had foolish pride to woo,
ewan apd

‘THE TWENTY-FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. SS

erp ly dime fell to jeat,
* Past doubt he isa man
far baer cra and sees quite through

Or some certain, to be understood

‘There is in this his turning of it stil :

A cunning rogue he is at any iL’
‘Then spake another proud one: “" Would

1 might at il got cold till he hath given

‘That bow his draught "With these sharp
feat did these

lightsome wocers thelr fatal bumours

Please,
Ba he the woe Uiyrs ngs had ed
chit
the harp, ig ote

‘of his instrament, ex
A string out with his pin, touch all, and

‘To every well-wreathed string his perfect
‘Struck all’ together ; with such ease drew

‘Tie King tia be. ‘Then twasg’d he up
‘That os. Fedllow in the alr doth sing

With no continued tune, but, pausing still,
‘Twinks eat her scatter voice ta nccents
So sharp he sting sung when be gave
Once ba waving bent and drawa it. Which

Amazed the wooers, that their colours went
‘And came most grievously. And thes
‘Jove reat

‘The air with thunder; which at heart did
cheer

‘The now-

That

Spee Rony ats wee but this one

hits arm, as if not known

eae 2 ceteris nock’d it then,

oe aces, at the Srut hole, few

The ope wrrow ; which when he

Hie Rice Deteahg Da Et ee

Disgie et Dy your got for I hare

The at shot, and no ot oto

Jn wisiag Gt Dow enn SAC Bec

As did the wooers: yet reverved endire,

‘Thank Heaves, my strength i, anid melt
ain

No man to be so basely vilified
4a then sore, pleoed cia Sy Bat,

Take th = tat, “and all their pleasures ; and
oid be tech to you, and the our of
Hash now fll date, give baoguet, and
Poem and harp, that grot a weld

‘This said, he beckon'd to his son; whose
He stuight ght to him, took to hand his
‘And complete-arm'd did to his sire adwance.

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS

‘THE ARGUMENT.
‘Tun Wooers in Minerva’
= all the
usewives
‘And servams are t0

ANOTHER.

‘The end of pride,
"And laws Tat,

ih Suoghters just.
ame that wise Ulysses wore
Cast be rash

Tusheth to the great hall door
With bow and quiver full of shafts, which

down
He ‘d before his feet, and thus made
‘His true state to the wooers :
thus

Hath harmless been decided ; now for us
‘There rests another mark, more hard to hit,
And such as never man before hath smit ;

‘Whose full point likewise my hands shall

And try 2 ras will give me his day.
He sald, and off his ber arrow thrust

it at Antinous ; that strook him just

‘As he was lifting up the bowl ; to show
"Phat ‘twixt the cup and lip much ill may

Death touch'd not at his thoughts at feast
for who
‘Would think that he alone could ish $0

Amongst so many, and he best of all?
‘The arrow in his throat took full his fall,

=

“This strife

And told him it should prove the dearest
‘That ever pass'd him ; and that now wes
No shift for him, bat sure amd suddes
For be had slain a maz, whose like

Inno ofthe {and had
He shuld no ove for gaiaae SHiv6 ei

his bow,
But vultures eat him there, These threats
q

Yet ‘man believed that stern event
Chancel guest the nator wi O foets,
oat hi rest a phen

But what their great ies
me

He, sowing a mit

‘The wile of one tat essed wo thon

Of man's fer, oF Gots, your pes

Or ay tak of

oxaty cto ea ee
outa le "This made fab

Stati end
Thee tormer bo boldness, “Every man had
On all the means, and

And thrust bis head far through the otlier| Te

side,
Down fell his cup, down he, down all his

About the booms, When his high-
bead

bome

‘The rest bebeld so Tow, wp rush’ they all
(And ransack'd every corer of the hall

For sleds wos dats; ut sR as

ous doe

Thea TEN they foul on bun with exashe eto et oes
speceh,

‘THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 7

Siestcrityeones
in which iF fast anger, nor ext
x = rea farther; spend

And v
Our liberties have made, we'll make all

good
In restitutions. Calls court, and pass
A fine brass,

Prien tw tat tender all your wrath
Tt shall be justice in our bl to bathe.”
NEuryassclaay sald es it you would

a tat your fathers bear to mab ye

live,

It rests now for you that you either fight
‘Tune wil scape’ death, or make rote

In wh tat choles, my thoughts con
Shai shen the death your fest hath nder-
THe quite Sewolved their knees
Enforcing all weir fears, yet counsel!
0 tos Tas mas, now he hath

‘avoid bim thus,
Mahe hath sew te pavement with
‘As thaeton, “ol we owende, aoa a
him fait
With tables forced up, and borne in op-

‘That ever bis band vaunted.” Thus he
| His sharpedged swort; and with « table

eee
His (Serve: eh nge urging. But Ulysses

he Daa, det ho fro nd
Bree at His tedat/ and tacts Ms shah oF
Hi ry ea to his liver, his broad
Pierced at his wipple; when bis hand re-
Porthwith his sword, that fell and ki

Wit" aad eas Tying seatter’d
‘About the pavement; amongst which his
Konock'd the imbraed earth, while fm pains

did Bow
His vital spirits, till his beels shook oat
is ‘Me, and hefd a throne

‘That way laid death's convulsions ta, his
Woes ffom his tender eyes the light dd
eet Amphinomes with his
‘The glorious king, in purpose to have

is feet forabe the horse; at hs aay
"The prince prevented, and his lane gave

ces iene
‘The fierce pile letting forth. His ruin
prest
Groans from the it, which hits fore-
om the pavement

— and at the further end
ber saw him busily bend
Hs tani to mcr rm 7 when they, still:
fatch’d bis return, At last be came, and
ele pbee met nel oe
anciont rusty-rested shi

“That old Laertes in his youth had =
ert Coa cee is had with age

subd upon hin, canght him by the

‘And drage'd him in again ; whom, crying
OU

‘They cast upon the pavement, wrapp’d
‘about

With sure and pinching cords both foot

And then, in full act of their King’s com-

A pliant chain bestow'd on him, and haled

His body up the column, till he sealed

‘The highest wind-beam; where made
firmly fast,

‘umes on his just infliction past

‘This pleasurable cotyil: “* Now you ma
ight keep watch here, and the cartlest

Discern, being hung so high, to rouse from

a

Your daint cattle to the wooers' feast.

‘There, as befits a man of means so fair,

pot mer you sleep, nought under you but

And go long hang you" Thus they left

u
Made fast the door, and with Ulyses
‘AN Grmd in th’ instant. Then they all

stood clese,
‘Theis min fie breathed in flames against

Fe rin i
‘Wheatrom the Mall chased amas mighty

Miao

But to thom then Jove's seed, Minerva,
came,

Resembling Mentor both in voice and
frame

ee nn. Passing well apaid
Diy am ad ‘said; "Now, Mentor,

"Gainst these odd mischicfs; call to
‘memory now
‘My often good to thee, and that we two

” he
Vin chee ‘Thus he said, but

‘Te was Bi) that had ever brought
Ptibebtele ati On the other part,
wooers threaten'd; but the chief in

iota
‘Was Agelaus, who to Mentor a
hy teton, ie no words of

In this persuasion, that when sire and son.
Our swords have’ slain, thy fe is sure to

One fortune with them. What stmoge
acts hast thou
Conese to form ere? Thy bead must
tow
‘The wreak of theirs on us. And when thy
cc
‘Ave "aken down by these feroe tela of

ours,
All thy possessions, in-doors and without,
Must’ raise on beap with ‘is ; and all thy

of fons and daughters in thy turrets

‘Wreak offerings to us; and our town stand

Of all charge with thy wife.” Minerva’s

‘Was fired with these braves, the approved:

Of her Ulysses chiding, saying: “No
more

Thy force nor fortitude as heretofore
an theo glory whew alse ears

White eens ecu employ
‘Thy arma and wisdom, aul and

‘The blocds of thousands through the fed
By thy vast valour; Priam's broad-way’d
By thy eave parts was ec and oye
And now, amongst thy people and thy
Against the wooers’ ave and petulant
Suint'st thou thy valour? Rather mourniog
‘Than manly fighting? Come, friend,
stand we near,
And note my Jabour, that thou may'st dis-
Amongst thy foes ow Mentors nerves
cam

10

bed pl pcre ‘This she spake,
Her Tn trom giving teeny fen

pamela oo ‘conquest to his certain
But still would try what saltpowers © would

Bouin theater andthe loxou on,
the wind-beam that along did

; sometimes cuffing at
‘The swords and lances, rushing from her
Ads and down the treble howe dd

Her wing at every motion, And as she
reused Uljwes: 30 the eeny

Bim hit od ‘Demoptole!

0 Domus ¢ an tolemus,
Eurynomus, and Polyetordes :

en as, ie that of ‘the wooing

Wert most most egregious, and the clearly best
In od ef hand ‘of all the eet

‘That yet survived, and now fought for their

souls ;

‘Which steaight swift arrows sent among
the fowls.

But first, Damastor's son had more spare
breath

To id on their excitements ere his
And said: That now Ulysses would for-

bear

His dismal hand, sinor Mentor's spirit was
there,

And blew vain vaunts about Ulysses’ ears;

In whose trust he would cease his massa

ind put his friend's huge boasts

beneath the entry's roof
Loft with Telemachus and th’ other two.
“At whom,” said he, *' discharge no datts,

‘but throw

All at Ulysees, rousing his faint rest :

‘Whom if we siaughter, by your interest

In Jove's assistance, all the rest may yield

Our powers no care, when he strows ance
i

ree then will'd, they all at random

rew

Madar they supposed he rested ; and then
lew

Minerva after art, and mate,
Some strike the
invade,

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‘Some beat the doors, and all acts renderd
‘Their grave steel offer'd = Wath eset}
Came on Ulysses,
tiesiamieseomar,
On or deat int, west may sage
‘Thus the much-sufferer said ; and all lt
‘When every man strook dead his.
po
Stir encounter'd, Good Eunuw
Elatus ; and Philetios overthrew
co
‘Their second charge to inner rooms; ant
Ulysses follow’d; from the slaughter
Their darts first drawing. While which

done,
‘The wooers threw with huge contention
To kill them all; when ber swallow

Miners cul’, acd made their javelins

ing
the doors and |
Seine et id rae tp ee ark Ope

‘The cis wi, which was Ampbi |
‘Th’ extreme part of the skin but touchi |

head,

Pott bis javelin strook Eurydames
Telemachus dislived Aro}

emach 4 Arophimedon 3

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‘Your wit be with a laughter, sy siding
eee eee ‘but

ting dows in old spicing fh
at all sorts ; cease to scoff at
worth,
‘And eave revenge of vile words to the
Is
Since thee wits bear the sharper edge by
Aad, fat the mean time, take the dart £

For that right hespliala foot rou gare
Divine Ulysses begging but his own.”
Ths, apni the Se ackcox br

just in the midst, the belly of the fair
ors son ; his eee pile taking alr
Qut at his back. Flat fell he on his faos,
His whole brows knocking, and did mark

And eae man-slaughtering Pallas took
Her snake-fringed shield, and on that
‘beam took stand
In = true form, where swallow-tike she
Aten in this way of the house and
‘The jwocens, wounded at the heart with
Fled the encounter ; as in pastures
Fat herds of oxen feed, about the hte
(asi ‘wild madness their instincts impell'd)
high-fed bullocks fly, whom in the
spring,
TW bee dats.ara dong,’ pici-Betd ol Eroeiel
uit
Asvthen, and his son the flyers chased,
with crooked beaks and seres, a
of nn aed eagles, cast-off at some
"That yet their strengths lkeep, but pat up
bon flame
es’ stoops ; from which, along the
‘The poor fowls make wing, this mnd that
Thelen ha flown pinions, then the clouds

For scape or shelter, their forlorm dismay
AN set exhaling, all wings’ strengeh to

Taek bas fon, and, truss'd up, to the

‘Theit falconers ride in, und relolce to see
‘Their hawks perform a flight so fervently

sit

Eoigehmng it, Ulysses with bis heir
Son ual cad’ Coe rosea tent tas

At Broke in vast sighs ; whose heads they shot
‘The pavement boling withthe souls they

Lbdes, rani heck acgpati rs
His ae ck thus: ‘his name

«win et me pay thee tomy ac
to me the grace,

Afford the reverenoe, and
‘That never did or said, to an}
3} Thy court contain'd, or

blame 5
But others so affected 1 have made
Lay down their insolence ; ak if the

trade
‘They kept with wickedness have made
ther still
Desriee mxy speech od costs ae
‘They have their penance by the stroke of

Which their desert divine!

Oxia cor Ae oes

ey bending his displeased forehead,
we a pt aoe
‘Yet you would marry, and with my wife
And have descent by her. For all that
Wish to obtain, which they should never
Dames’ husbands living. You must there-
OF fara ft fm Courter, dha the
raat cae
Pde NS eM

From Agelaus, having strook his last,
‘And on the priest's mid neck he laid a

stroke
‘That strook his head off, tumbling as he
‘Then did the poet Phemius (whose eur-

name
Was call Vervadieny whoo tatters

And as a lion slealking alt
Far off in pastures, and

Ihis ne piety '0 bemoan the prow,
Though

efall them moving ne'er'so

«Tit ell you tray,” she replied: * there
‘Twice fveand-twenty women bere that
[An work amoaget them ; whom I tanght to
And bear the just bands that they suffer'd
Of all which only there were twelve that

r. nor herself, the .
hath bet lacely

Eze

And on my mother’s, scandalling the Court,
With ‘men debeuch’d, In so abhon'd &
‘This said, a halser of a
‘Atcat neat tears fin seks which ak
‘They made about their necks, in twelve
‘And aled them up 30 high they could sot
it
‘Their feet to any stay. As which was done,
Look how a mart. ors pigeon,
Wit spring Salons gui
1 jons ‘gainst 1
doth Gat

Her tender body, and that then strait bed
Is sour to that swing in which she was

bred:

So strived these taken birds, till tees

Her pliant halter had enforced

Her stubbom neck, and Then ‘aloft: was

To wreiched death, A Title space they

praw''d,
The fe ir fet fast moving, but were quickly
Thea feteh’a they down Melanthius, to

? ‘eal feral execution 5 which was done

in portal of the hall, and thus begun :

‘They fist slitbot his nostrils, eropp deach

His members tugg’d off, whlch the dogs did
tear

‘And chop up bleeding sweet and, while

-hot

‘The vice-abhorring blood was, off they
smote

His hands and feet ; and there that work
had end,

‘Then wash’d they hands and feet that blood
had stad

‘And took the house again. And then the

Ki
warping: bade her quickly bring

or de

THE TWENTY-SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘hati primes cut be tag mae
The house's fist fm ail,

Aod then bis timely will was, she shout
‘Her Queen and ladies ; still yet charging
pices

jez.
She ssid he spake as Sted: but, Belen,
She held iff to change the nee

And she would others bing hie, that set
Po
nme ee

“igre ae a
Le ed me fire," said be She

came |
‘Sastais hbase ‘a
or fore abt pt 2 flare

Wink genes of his wei a
Both head's and foreheads kimes snd ex

braces,
And plied bim so with afl their loving
graces: -
| That tears and sighs took up his whole
For now he knew their beasts
to his

‘FRE EXD OF THE TWENTT-SECOND BOOK.

THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

‘THE ARGUMENT.
Unysszs to his wife

‘Tur servants thus inform'd, the matron
goes
Up where the Queen was cast in such re-

Met with fervent joy to tl
‘What all this time she aid with pain con-

eal,

Her kaces revoked thelr first strength, and
ber fort

Were orna store the ground with wings,

‘The i Seegreved Queen with mews Ker
King was come
near her, sald? “* Wake, Seave this
‘vithiraen room,

re, now your eyes may see at length,

Tee man return'd ; which, all the heary

‘Your woes have mck'd out, you have long’d
to see,

Ulysees is come home, and hath set free
His cour of all your wooers,

For wasting so his goods with festival ;
His house and for violence dome

‘now thy powers such proof

Ad amen fs Sot ake on
And make men © to

or the bave steven hy gre el
An understanding spirit heretofore,

Wir bt ion waded sae fo me tata
Ha tardy tin wth tees ao her
own,
madness much more blamefal, that |
with Hes
Thy baste is loaden, and both robs mine
Of mt dligbuome skp, and sep of
‘That now bad bound me in bis sweet ex-
T embrace my Hs and close my sual

LT havo not mach this tweety
para csping male ae

For that too-it!-tospeak-of Ilion.
Flones, sake your seed age Gace Many

Of all my train besides # Kad play
So bold oo wake, aod 4 mine oars sech

1 had stern her to her howeeutletes
‘With good proot of my wrath © mich Fale

Bgl the fut Your Jong-miss'd lord
And, with ihe wooers slanghter, his own
hand

Tn chief hath to his own command
Reduced his house ; anil that poor gurst

‘She fprang’ for joy from blames into em

Of her teat ancy
coerce

ss

THE TWENTY-THIRD BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. 520

Hi

the Lotophagi
Ci ch the png ot
least ruth shown to all they cori

way to Aolss ; his prom (ner str =e

dismission ; his

sudden tempest to the fishy main,
fed ae fig nding nthe Lsrignay po
then in eerable sore
ils, his ship and be alone
abhorrd confusion ;

‘Ciroe, her deceits and arts

=.
a

ie z

ot iti oot ther his Sicilian

In mean Pallas entertain’d intent
eee fiysses thought enough time

Talore, wt hs wl, orale the dy,
‘The morning foee and he, when thus be

Even till our stalls receive their wonted fill,
“And now, to comfort my good father's

And ample vineyand
Aya none dost Fis

‘That ship; his own endeavours

Or
eech

Your wisdom used, that since, the sun
‘The fame will soon be through the town

bam Sshler ~ Solnam home onc yourself, got

from the starry sphere ;
‘Their kind dismission of him home with

a wioat 9

chamber, there

Sarat ‘ith your women; and por
‘court, not aay man a word.
‘This sad, be arm's; to seme both som
Pee Se did entertain
His charge with spirit, oped the gates and

po Sip
‘This Inst word used, sleep seized his
‘That salves all care to all mortality,

He leading: And: laos
Kea ry fire; through all

Jed them throug’ the town from
‘sight.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS.

THE ARGUMENT. And to them, after, came the south

host
ap eee bias byyrene

all the Greeks he) einen ad
bt ‘of Ilion, fal alg de

sores that Gat wo
‘ern. therefore set thy seqett
CYLLENIAN Hermes, with his down 5

‘The wooers' souls, that yet abode | None born fst ther? tes cam fast as
Amids thelr bodies, call'd in dreadful rout
Forth to th’ Enfernals ; who came murmur- Res weit to a — Epphenet

‘out, nt Tice, Fate
And is ants the desolate retreat Pi Sexe
‘Of some wast cavern, made the saored sent
Of anstero spirits, bate with breasts and

wings A
Clasp fast the walls, and each to other

ee

Bat, swept off fom their covert, up they

And fly with murmurs in amazeful guiise
About the ctvern so these, rambling,

And fiock'd together. Down before them
Nons bartng Mercury to Hell's broad

And'stalght to those straits, where the
‘ocean stays

Hie lofty curent in calm deeps, they New,

‘Then to he snowy rock they next with-| With, hu

‘And to the clése of Phorbus’ orient tes. Toot, wert valued ia
‘The nation then of dreams, and then the a ony, ty
states Au ane we fought about thee 5 face at all
Of those souls’ idols that the weary dead | Had ceased our conflict, trad not Jove Jet

Gave up in earth, which in a more mead} fall
ded thre they sa he oll Tes so, | Basing brag the fom
nd there they saw som, | But,
7 Patrec a, brave Anioebus, AX
jax, the supremely strenuous lorious person, bathed and balm'd,
next, Peleion ; 7 we

‘Of all the Greek
which Aloft a bed ; and round about thee pai

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS, sy

‘The Greeks warm fears to thy deplored
Quite daunted; cetting aM this cuss fo.
Thy ‘death drave a divine voice through

That wart up thy mother from it waves}
And all the marine Gotheads left their

to our fleet her raj

‘The Grecks stood fighted ta see°eea and

And earth combine so in thy loss’s sense,
‘Had taken ship and fled for ever thence,
te ae ‘knowing-Nestor had not
Their rushing off; bis counsels having
4m all ine tes former with such cause their
Whe bude contain themselves, and: trast
thelr forces,
For al ‘saw, was Thetis come from sea,

Wi oes ie watery my,
‘To see and mourn for ber

jeceased son. | Al
stay/d the fears that all to flight had

won ; U

‘And round about thee stood th’ old Sea- ve
's

Ae eo mourning, their immortal ne

Spretng upon jpon thee. All the sxered Nine
‘Muses paid thee dues divine,
A I) voices vent-
A fn dep pasion fer thy death content
‘Ana hot hl our a oka GF
You could have seen undrown'd in

‘The moving Muse 20 ruled in every ml
Full seventecn days and nights our tears

confined

‘To celebration of thy mourned end ;
Both men and Gods did in thy moa con

Toe cigicet day We spent abou thy

OF a ee Diack omen, fate
We slew past mumber, ‘Then the

spoil,
Thy sorb, we took up, which with Moods
And pleasant honey we embalm’a; and
W
Wrappid thee in thowe robes tha te Gods
rain.
In which we gave thee to the hallow’d
To which a number of beroieal name,

An eee eens a ee ee

‘As pret to sacrifice their vital right
To'thy, dead ruins while so bright they

Both foot and horse brake in, and fought
and mourn'd

In infinite tamule. Eos whee eae

The rich flame Tasted, and that

‘To tasttate an Hcabais peek eee
The best approvement of

Tn whose praise I must say that many
games

About heroes’ mine

Have seen "a, but these bore off

- | With miracles to me from nll before,

oelstiatlons pn but thy ds
eee feet pct,

wen, caused all the
jot oa
While ay one talliend Gealigar nays
agent 258
As rights to me? when, having quite
‘An end with safety, and with conquest,
Fama Wa, wht ns eu

awe

THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS, Ss

‘When yet not home be went, but laid his

Up to his herdeman where his father lay
And where both laid our deaths. Totown

‘thea bore
The sine er and his King, th ewan

Telemachus in other bestow'd
ree her eee: associate us that

The ‘sala the King led after, who camo

Ragged and wretched, and still Jean’

Abortow'd staff, At length he reactd his | Her

Where (on the suden and so wretched

Nor we, nor much oar elders, once. did
dream

‘Ofbis return there, but did extreme
Of words and blows to him; all which he

bore
‘With that old patience be had teare‘d
But when the mind of Jove had ralsed his
own,
His son ‘and he fetch'd all their armour
a,
Fast lock'd the doors, and, to prepare
their use,
He will'd ‘his wife, for first mean, to pro-
His bow to us, to draw + of which no one
‘Could ai the string + himesl yet set spon
The deadly ‘it eld, drew all with
case,
Shot through the steels, and then began to
Our —— bosoms ; striking first the
md rar: bopedl of his end
‘Ged, be Loew, stood firm
Nor it worse with im, but all in
‘The pavement t bicah’d with oar
nice ee
And thas our souls came Bete ; our bodies
i
Neglected in his roofs ; no word comvey'd
To any friend to take as home and give
Our wounds fit balming ; nor kt wach as
we
Extomb our deaths ; and for cur fortunes
‘These tears asd dead rites that renown
the dead,”

Atri! ghost gave answer: "*O blest

Of old Laestes: thon at length hast oa
With mighty vireue thy unmatehed wife.
Uinowiedde how uniouctid a

Hath 1 How well she laid
acheter dts i
For which her virtues shall extend ap-
c frail
Tie deuthiss im ths vale of
a ee,

a

ain ba somes is ee Ae

pty eo

span wee neem

we he arms

a eT \

f ‘THE TWENTY-FOURTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEYS. gar |

Ti, be pays and sbe a mighty

Insp within him, who gave instant

To {is rare brandtya lance; which

Tha check’ Euptieus'easque, and these

Quite through his head ; who fll, and
sounds

is the su { again from earth re-

Ulysses od his son ruil’'d.on before,
‘And with their both-way-headed darts

‘Thelf enemies’ breasts so thick, that all ad
‘The way of slaughter, had not Pallas| Absa
Merwe ‘betwixt them, charging all to
Ava pce epee of ot Her voice did

“The biked #0 from thelr faces that it left
A greenish paleoess ; all their hands it reft

Of all their thence to
poles weaport, falling.

And to the common mother of their birth,
ee es a ee
‘The ives yet Teft them. ‘Then Umer

‘A baetd shout ; and Hike Jove's eagle few:
In Gery pursuit, till Saturnius threw
Hisamliagightning eat ie, tata

Before Minerva, who then out did call
‘Ken te Oyen “Born of Jove! ab-

did ae eee Jove’s hand in

the slain
on LogulKs to tae pan Sa

rage jen Deity.”
ain chen, ‘teto both parts the seed of

Arbgolan Pallas, ofall future love
A compased ; and for ber form took

Of Mentor’s Ukeness both Is limb and
vice.

RD OF THE TWENTY-POURTH AND LAST BOOK.

APPENDIX.

bd]
rile

i

it

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

fames round about his’
like burning fire
his tended brows, os

black

breast, his
phinings:
me

“oye be rude lips, nor is ‘din any
fe Ps perform’ y

eles om th frowardly dest preach, in
Thal heaven's Caracoter ia this plague,
n's far-shooter in this
the restitution seeks
(OF my far prisoner, who retain’ i cause

Andi rene ou kno’ ‘st in her f take

‘Ard wish Seiatte bane henna court, since
Lestocin her more
‘Than Clytemnestra that to me the nuptial

rianate wus yo a maid and OE i
Goth ie tench fame oo aenoam
Both for her body's comely form, her native

+ ** Be not

dow cane penne
Or that Sy fst into thy Bret can tone

To rte oor bch mee fo

Tee !
And godlike

and

or Uipoes pice (en of mos
Ads init oth rane in
On whom f shall perform my vow but

Her wines excites bowing; yet will 1) Our
t will

Itt bes, ee ees
Bat in anker place some other prise see

= Alon of al the Grek lose not my
‘Which teeta mat be conte unt but

To sin he ceoclent of foot, divine
“Ambitions and sot, ovetous man, what
Py, deacon racbjessindod Glenda ft thy
‘All know bow scantily we've stored our
For what the spond cities gave each

soldier for 1
Hath daly 8 aoe ey cr cocaeaia, WL
fo
Were base and gnomiaious; but to the
pleasure for our common good ; and
ithe most divine
this well-wall’d town we

repay the loss thy fortunes.

za 1] Whose

hit tt we shuld

to the royal Idomen or Ajax Telamon,

Or to the prudent counsellor, divine
Laertes' son,

Or to the terriblest of men, thyself,

‘That offerings made by thy strong hands,
Apollo 7

desert should
Ts before hand condemn’ to glut thy gill
For me, \ hare no cauue % spcuant Soman
‘Wins exemien,

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS. S9
ral Eo eeeet your|But when the universal host shall faint
‘soul T be incensed ; who is Or Wrong'd Aches, though thou pine,

it

ever
Help to their miseries from me, when
‘underneath the band

ad

Lh

pele

LHe
EES

yet }
And now amongst the third he reign'd.
He thas te 4

“Twixt you who in the skill of fight and
counsels
All other Greeks; let moe adviie this
ever shouldst have done ; bitterness 3
But I protest and swear to theeagreat and| You are act both so old as 1, who lived
sacred that were:
Phen a
(emia ina hed Lnever saw, nor ever,
might |Of whom

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.
and with the inwasds eat ; | Homour my son above the rest, since past
rest his life

ly fared.
Which eaten, not a man was left but com-
"Their hunger and their thirst thus quench'd,
the youths crown cups with wine,
‘and distribute to all; that day was
eld divine
‘Consumed in Pycans to the Sun, who heard
with pleased ear, [
‘And. when his chariot took the sea, and
tight hid the clea, j
It soundly on their cables slept, eves till
the night was worn ; ,
‘And whea the lady of the light, the rosy- |
‘dé morn

a
in word 0 my | TH be call met with Bim, at-
came near,
5 aa <4 tending to bis the

THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS. ss |

So all that day they banqueted till sunset | To several houses all the Gods with sleepy
it,

And wanted it that with content Toe ows oth-foot-halter wrought thelr

‘wondrous art
‘Toa i aa SP mii tone bi | Wa hem th Fri rego did
stone-qt strit to rest
To wh cach sacred mime coors and Where Somnus wed fo clos is eyes, and
most divinely sings. side ascends
But hen the eoabrale Son De oe | Fat fume wih the Iden throne ; and
lighten a, ‘quarrel ends.

‘THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE SECOND BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

THE ARGUMENT.

ay
hem ght
the foe;

be ky
amnbassy.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

Beta, the dream and synod cites
‘And catalogues the naval knights.

at their tents
Greeks ; this counsel then
seem'd best for these events :
He instantly would senda dream to Atreus’
‘eldest 00,
‘That with dark vows might draw his
powers to their confusion,
And calling him, he wing’d these words =
“Fly to the Grecian flcet,
Pernicious vision, and the king at our

high summons greet,

Uttering the truth of all 1 charge; give
‘him command to arm

His universal fairhair'd host, this is the
Jast alarm

He shall enthunder “gainst %
a a
For now no more remain disjoin’d the

nl powers.
Saturnia with successive prayers hath
drawn in one right line
‘Their general forces ; instant ills shall [lion's
pomp decline.”
‘This heard, the dream with utmost haste
the Greeks’ swift fleet attain'd,
ere ent Agamemnon’s tent, he
found him fast enchain'd
In sleep divine ; aloft his head he took im-

pressive place
Inform’ like Nestor, whom the king, past
all old men did grace,

THE SECON! BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIADS.

In your well furnsh'd men-of-war, and tong

‘What honour tothe King of Troy, and bis

a leaving Arpive Ficlen bere, the price of
ong epee "

[of Prinm’s
Who came from Ithaca with him, to siege
Took up; Uiyaea metthe King, fromwbom
he was (his line of old,
To take the © can never-stain'd, held in
‘With wich he weot amongst the troops to
from
And als wb what Prince or gentleman, his
royal stops did moet,
bb ae terms he willed him, pretended
“Sir, Ris not Be for such as to fly as
check’d with fear, vue
But rather stay, and with bold words, make
others s0
a nat rightly know king

‘ut trial of such spiritsashe may

his nd,

Nor durst we prease too near for fear of his

The anger of a hing is death ; bis honour
a at aye,

Pero ims o ate protected i
safes terermneeaers
A.soldier with exclaims for flight ; him with

aan ae

And used these
= Wretch, cect iy Ase and

‘To live as every man may take the steptre
from the king ;

‘The rule of many # absurd, on¢ Lond must
Jead the ring

A i 6 et ed eat, Teen

A ma fe, won raven weer
[Who in, he sani ee copy bad of ee

ACHILLES’ SHIELD.

Baront-feoted Thetis did the sphere) U;
Amongst ihe Immorals, of the God of] 8

Starry, incorruptible, and had frame
Of ruddy brass, it shay the lame.
She found ae bis eel bellows:

sweating,
radars! ‘ty
La polyp hiroatate | the
For chats of bonow, routd. about the be

wall,
And to the feet he fix'd of every one
Wheels of man-making gold to run alone
‘To the Gods Temples ; to the which they

Religious omaments, when standing there
‘Till sacrifice were done, they retire
To Vulean's house, which all eyes did

Yet ba ‘Daedalian handles to
Were unimposed, which cunghe

‘These Bile he fashion with miraculous:
art,

‘The fair white-footed dame aj ‘d apart
‘To Charis with the ich head,

Whose heavenly beauties strow'd the
nuptial bed closed,

Of that illustrious smith; she took her Aad took hie alin ee
hand ‘Then, with a sponge, his

‘And enterain'd her with this kind demand:
Ne makes the Goddess with the

Revered fey thendly ‘Thetis, entertain
Conceit to honour us with her repair,
‘That never yet was kind in that affair?
But enter further, that so wish'd a guest
May be received with hospitable feast.”
mus led she Thetis to a chair of state,
ad laborate,

famous smith ; *

‘Theis ia Sor some use needs thy fiery hand
He answer, "Thetis bath a strong com

OC ally power

‘With buman breath, and sees the Sun's
clear light,

‘He must live sad and moody as the night.

ior can I cheer him, since his valour’s

‘Within their fort, the peers of Greece bare
With worthiness of gifts and humble

‘To win to heartes their affairs
‘Which be denied; but to appease their

‘He deck’d his dear Patroclus in his arms,

And well it have expugn’d by that

te
Monetius’ son,
foredone

black
‘The Tian city, if Apollo's
Thirsting the blood of

‘own :
Since tt to the timeless
therefore, to revenge

‘Of his true friend, my son determineth
‘T’ embrue the field ; for want whereof be

care
Of these desires thy firmest a
WVatid Ged ns taroom iamectable death,
When heavy fates shall see it with his

blow:

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557

strived to work; and every furrow
‘A bowl of sweetest wine he still extended

fe prow a fea of high-sprung

In which did reapers sharpen'd sickles ply ;

‘Others, their Dandies fall'n confusedly,

Laid on the ridge together ; others bound
“Their gather'd handfuls to sheaves hard and

‘Their binders were appointed forthe place,

And at their did children gl
‘apace,

‘Whole armfuls to the binders ministering.

Aare all these all silent stood their

a Gall, his sceptre in bis hand,

emir at his heart to see his yieldy land.
heralds then the harvest fast prepare,

Bon an oak far off, and for their

(ox was slain, and women dress‘d

white ‘cakes, and mix’d the

black and thick did through
And ee Props sustain’d them from
About the vine an azure dyke was cea
pon short ita betige ot ne Re
went throu it, ough
h did pass os

‘The vint their vints

The ‘winglss When and youth childishly
For the sweet fait did painted cups de-
And in a circle bore them dancing round,
In midst whereof a boy did sweetly sound
His silver harp, and with a piercing voice,
Sang a sreet song ; when each youth with
‘Tetum; over earth, quick dances

raring s

A berd of oxen thrusting out their Leads
Aad bellowing, from their stalls rushing to

Near a swift and ‘4
oar serif food, raging crown’

eT Be NE Pe SR ee

Jn gold and tin he carved nert the vine
‘our golden herdsmen following : herd-

dogs nine
Walting on them ; in bead of all the herd,
wo lions shook a spall hat belowiogs

In Sepete horror, and was dmagg’d
‘The dogs and youths pursued ; but their
slain prey,

‘The lions rent out of his spacious hide,
‘And in their entrails did his flesh divide,
Tapping his sable blood; the men to
Set on tei dogé in vain that durst not
But take ‘é and backwards flew : he forged

Ina fair vale, a pasture sweet and wide
ean | Of white fleeced sheep, in which be did
press
Sheepcotes, sheepfolds, and cover'd
cottages.
Im this rare shield the famous Vulean
A dancing mace ; like that in ages
‘Which in’broad Gnossus Dedalts dla dress
For Ariadne with the golden tress.

youth and maids with beauties
past ©

Danced wih ommixed palms ; the maids

Light's sien en robes; the youths in coats
were de

Embroider d fair, whose colour did reflect

Glosses like oil: the maids fair coronets
ore,

‘The youths gilt swords in silver hangers
re,

‘And these sometimes would in a circle
meet

| ecooling nimbly, and with skilful feet,
FTumlog #3 round 99 doth s whee! new

The atieelwright sitting, trying how
Then’ ‘would they break the ring, and take

ing on, two youths then with a
‘sony
Danced tn the midst to please th’ admiring

throng.
About this living sbield’s circumference,
He wrought the ocean's curled violence,
‘Arming his work as with a crystal wall.
‘The targe thus firm and huge, wo Sisk,

foe

and ¢

She took, and like « hawk, stoop'd :
the brows

OF steep Olympus: and the wma

vows
Of ber s0n she hetp'd to pay,
"s arms wrought for ct

‘With Valean'
day,

brought to’

ACHILLEs' SHIELD.
‘This fall'ot wooder and unmatch' afl,

that did for outshine | And laid it ‘at ber
der | Wan win read

cuir made
bias offre, iF
en i oe Wis beviow, whows Loy cone
ay
Aad hes ie mth of tere
‘Thetis be address'd repair,

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