Books 1-12James R. Osgood, 1875 |
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Achaians Achilles ægis-bearing Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Apollo Argive armor arms arrow Atreus Atrides bade battle bear beheld beside blue-eyed Pallas bore brass brave bravest brazen breast chariot chief combat coursers daughter dear death Diomed dost drew earth Epeians Eurypylus father fear fell fight fleet friends galleys gave Gerenian knight goddess godlike gods Grecian Greeks hand hath heart heaven Hector Helen honor host Idomeneus Ilium immortal Jove Juno Jupiter king long-haired Greeks Lycian Mars Menelaus mighty Minerva Nestor night noble o'er obeyed Olympus Pallas Paris Patroclus Peleus perish Phœbus pierced Pirithoüs Priam princes ranks rushed Saturn seized shalt shield ships slain slew smote son of Saturn sons of Greece sons of Troy spake spear spoil steeds Sthenelus stood swift Telamonian Ajax tent Teucer thee thou art thou hast took Trojan knights Trojans turn Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant valor wall warlike warriors words wounded wrath
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 203 - Andromache Pressed to his side meanwhile, and, all in tears, Clung to his hand, and, thus beginning, said: — "Too brave! thy valor yet will cause thy death. Thou hast no pity on thy tender child, Nor me, unhappy one, who soon must be Thy widow. All the Greeks will rush on thee To take thy life. A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone — Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother. Great Achilles slew My father...
الصفحة 1 - O GODDESS ! sing the wrath of Peleus' son, Achilles ; sing the deadly wrath that brought Woes numberless upon the Greeks, and swept To Hades many a valiant soul, and gave Their limbs a prey to dogs and birds of air, — For so had Jove appointed, — from the time When the two chiefs, Atrides, king of men, And great Achilles, parted first as foes.
الصفحة 207 - Received him, weeping as she smiled. The chief Beheld, and, moved with tender pity, smoothed Her forehead gently with his hand and said: "Sorrow not thus, beloved one, for me. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. But go thou home, and tend thy labors there — The web, the distaff — and command thy maids To speed the work. The cares of war pertain To all men born in Troy, and most to me.
الصفحة 206 - So speaking, to the arms of his dear spouse He gave the boy; she on her fragrant breast Received him, weeping as she smiled. The chief Beheld, and, moved with tender pity, smoothed Her forehead gently with his hand and said: "Sorrow not thus, beloved one, for me. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
الصفحة 12 - I came from heaven to pacify thy wrath, If thou wilt heed my counsel. I am sent By Juno the white-armed, to whom ye both Are dear, who ever watches o'er you both. Refrain from violence ; let not thy hand Unsheathe the sword, but utter with thy tongue Reproaches, as occasion may arise, For I declare what time shall bring to pass; Threefold amends shall yet be offered thee, In gifts of princely cost, for this day's wrong. Now calm thy angry spirit, and obey.
الصفحة 204 - Then answered Hector, great in war : " All this I bear in mind, dear wife ; but I should stand Ashamed before the men and long-robed dames Of Troy, were I to keep aloof and shun The conflict, coward-like.
الصفحة 205 - But not the sorrows of the Trojan race, Nor those of Hecuba herself, nor those Of royal Priam, nor the woes that wait My brothers many and brave, — who all at last. Slain by the pitiless foe, shall lie in dust,— Grieve me so much as thine, when some mailed Greek Shall lead thee weeping hence, and take from thee Thy day of freedom. Thou in Argos then Shalt, at another's bidding, ply the loom. And from the fountain of Messeis draw Water, or from the Hypereian spring.
الصفحة v - I have sought to attain what belongs to the original — affluent narrative style which shall carry the reader forward without the impediment of unexpected inversions and capricious phrases, and in which, if he find nothing to stop at and admire, there will at least be nothing to divert his attention from the story and the characters of the poem, from the events related and the objects described.
الصفحة 206 - And eyeing with affright the horse-hair plume That grimly nodded from the lofty crest. At this both parents in their fondness laughed; And hastily the mighty Hector took The helmet from his brow and laid it down Gleaming upon the ground, and, having kissed His darling son and tossed him up in play, Prayed thus to Jove and all the gods of heaven...
الصفحة 206 - O Jupiter and all ye deities, Vouchsafe that this my son may yet become Among the Trojans eminent like me, And nobly rule in Ilium. May they say, 'This man is greater than his father was!' When they behold him from the battlefield Bring back the bloody spoil of the slain foe, That so his mother may be glad at heart.