eaten, and Eurynome threw a cloak over him after he had laid himselfdown. There, then, Ulysses lay wakefully brooding upon the way inwhich he should kill the suitors; and by and by, the women who hadbeen in the habit of misconducting themselves with them, left thehouse giggling and laughing with one another. This made Ulysses…
they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down uponthe town of Troy. The son of Saturn then began to tease Juno,talking at her so as to provoke her. ‘Menelaus,’ said he, ‘has twogood friends among the goddesses, Juno of Argos, and Minerva ofAlalcomene, but they only sit still and look on,…
and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he wasacquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to savehis own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might hecould not save his men, for they perished through their own sheerfolly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion;…
Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut andwere were getting breakfast ready at daybreak for they had sent themen out with the pigs. When Telemachus came up, the dogs did not bark,but fawned upon him, so Ulysses, hearing the sound of feet andnoticing that the dogs did not bark, said…
they aimed their bronze-shod spears at one another between the streamsof Simois and Xanthus.First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to the Achaeans, brokea phalanx of the Trojans, and came to the assistance of his comradesby killing Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the Thracians,being both brave and of great stature. The…
breeze to sailors who have long looked for one in vain, and havelaboured at their oars till they are faint with toil, even sowelcome was the sight of these two heroes to the Trojans.Thereon Alexandrus killed Menesthius the son of Areithous; helived in Ame, and was son of Areithous the Mace-man, and ofPhylomedusa. Hector threw…
‘Sons of Atreus,’ he cried, ‘and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove.’On this the rest of the Achaeans with…
is dawn and sunrise as in other places. We then drew our ship on tothe sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleepand waited till day should break.‘Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Isent some men to Circe’s house to fetch the body of Elpenor….
to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Nowthe Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their kingNausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from allother people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses andtemples, and divided the lands among his people; but he…
overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters ofOceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and theywrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently,in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.As when the south wind spreads a curtain of mist upon the mountaintops, bad…
