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The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton
The Odyssey tr into blank verse by GW Edginton 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: LACED.EMON. What things were done in Lacedsemon : They now reach'd Lacedaemon crown'd by hills; To Menelaiis palace drove their steeds ; They found h... more »im setting forth a marriage feast, In honour of his 'daughter and her spouse : She was betroth'd unto Achilles' son; 5 In wide Troy he at first had promise made, That he would give her: Jove confirmed it now. He sent her with five chariots and steeds, To the fam'd city rul'd o'er by her spouse. A wife from Sparta came, Alector's child, 10 For Megapenthes, his brave late-born son : / Born of his '''hand maid : but the gods did not More offspring give to Helen since she first Brought forth that lovely child, Hermione, Who golden Venus' beauteous form did bear: 15 And so they banqueted through that vast house, Of Menelaiis; friends and neighbours both : Themselves amusing : a sweet minstrel sung To harps soft music : while two tumblers danc'd Amidst, when he began his tuneful lay : 20 The two within the porch now, with their steeds, 1 Hermione, daughter of Menelaus by his wife Helen. ' 'Doule' or female slave : according to the author of the ' nostoi' (the returns) Doule does not signify a slave, but is a proper name: and they say that Homer never calls a female domestic a slave. Cyclica Fragments 'Keditus.'Telemachus and Nestor's famous son, Had stopt, and Etioneiis them beheld, Attendant who on Menelaiis was; He went then to announce them to his chief, 25 And standing near he spake these swift-wing'd words; " O Menelaiis, certain guests are come, Two men much like the offspring of great Jove : But tell me if we shall unyoke the steeds, Or send them to one else to give them cheer f" 30 Much anger'd Menelaus said to him, " Such folly 's not th...« less