The Iliad of Homer, Βιβλία 1-6Allyn and Bacon, 1883 - 322 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xxviii - Or, though they came with the rest in ships that bound through the waters, Dare they not enter the fight or stand in the council of Heroes, All for fear of the shame and the taunts my crime has awakened ? So said she : — they long since in Earth's soft arms were reposing. There, in their own dear land, their Fatherland, Lacedaemon. English Hexameter Translations, London, 1847, p. 242. I have changed Dr. Hawtrey's
Σελίδα xxviii - Clearly the rest I behold of the dark-eyed sons of Achaia ; Known to me well are the faces of all ; their names I remember...
Σελίδα 174 - The moan of doves in immemorial elms And murmur of innumerable bees " — has seldom been rendered with more genuine joy and sympathy.
Σελίδα xxxix - ... 20. FORMATION OF FUTURE AND FIRST AORIST ACTIVE AND MIDDLE. 1. Such pure verbs as do not lengthen the final theme vowel in the formation of tenses often double a- in the future and first aorist active and middle ; eg alStatro/iai [niSiVofHu], че[ке<т<п [eVeí/cecrf ], (TÓmao-f [еУакшге].
Σελίδα xx - Odyssey belong to the end, not to the beginning, of a poetical epoch. They mark the highest point reached by a school of poetry in Ionia, which began by shaping the rude war-songs of Aeolic bards into short lays, and gradually developed a style suited to heroic narrative. 23. The Iliad has been enlarged and remodelled, by several hands, from a shorter poem, by one poet, on the Wrath of Achilles. This original