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The Iliad, done into Engl. verse by A.S. Way. 2 vols. [in 3].
The Iliad done into Engl verse by AS Way 2 vols - in 3 Author:Homerus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK IX. How in vain ivitk their gifts they essayed to appease the wrath of Achilles. JO were the Troyfolk keeping their watch ; but Achaia's array Were ho... more »lder) of Panic, the handmaid of palsy-numbed Dismay ; And their mightiest all were stricken with heart-overmastering pain. And even as the fish-fraught sea is upstirred by the storm-winds twain, The North-wind and West-wind, that forth of their lair in the Thrace-land Swoop suddenly down, and all in a moment the surge dark-sweeping [leaping 5 Uptosseth its crests, and in heaps the sea-tangle is hurled to the shore, Even so were the souls in the bosoms Achaian disquieted sore. But Atreides, stricken at heart with the mighty grief of a king, Went bidding the clear-voiced heralds to call to the council-ring 10 The heroes Achaian—but every man by his name should they call, Nor in any wise shout, and himself therein toiled more than all. So they gathered, and sat down troubled, and there Agamemnon stood Fast shedding the tears, as a spring dark-watered poureth its flood When bursteth its sunless stream from the cleft of a lone steep scaur: 15 And heavily groaning he spake to the Argive chiefs of war: " Friends, lords of the Argives, and captains of fight, unto you I declare Kronion hath tangled my feet in folly's ruin-snare. Ah cruel!—he promised me once, by his nod did he seal it withal, That ere I returned I should cast down Ilium's goodly wall. 20 He hath fed me on lying delusions!—lo, how he biddeth me fly With shame unto Argos—me, who have led those thousands to die! Yea, this strange thing is the pleasure of Zeus the almighty, I trow, Who hath brought down many a city's crown of pride full low, And yet shall bring, for that none may withstand him, his doom to gainsay. 25 Come then, as my counsel shall be...« less