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The Odysseys, tr. by G. Chapman, with intr. and notes by R. Hooper (1857)
The Odysseys tr by G Chapman with intr and notes by R Hooper - 1857 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: The p'ld. the great nrn.. and rohc richly wrought, Girrn to Ulye. All which in he brought, Laid down in heap : mid she imposed a stone Cloe to the caver... more »n's mouth. Then sat they on The racred oliro'ii root. consulting how sa To not th' moulting Wooers' overthrow, When Pallas said : " Eainine now the means That bet may lor hands on the impudence Of thoc proud Wooers, that have now three years Thy roofs rule sway'd. and lieen hold offerers so Of suit and gifts to thy renowned wife, Who for thy absence all her desolate lifo Dissolves in tears till thy dosirod return ; Yet all her Wooers, while she thns doth mourn, She holds in hope, and every one affords tt (In fore-sent message) promise ; but her words Bear other utteranee than her heart approves," " O Gods," said Ithacus, " it now behoves My fete to end me in the ill decease That Agamemnon underwent, unless 870 You tell me, and in time, their close intents. Advise then means to the revenged events We both resolve on. Be thyself so kind To stand dose to me, and but such a mind Breathe in my bosom, as when th' Dion towns Sts We tore in cirwV-TS. O if equal powers Thwi wouJ.lst f-r,flijw arniil.- my nerves as then, I could eufynaMit with thmc hundred men, TLy only ,:!f, gnat. (tiAilfin, had to friend. In the irwk xrfbmn fia wttrl wont t' extend !' u I ltt t Htnuii''. ,ih ttxK-," anandwer'd sbe, " Kor mut tWu tuil, t/ut tiy jmrt with me. When both whose powers combine, I hope the bloods And brains of some of these that waste thy goods Shall strew thy goodly pavements. Join we then: 585 I first will render thee unknown to men, And on thy solid lineaments make dry Thy now smooth skin ; thy bright-brown curls imply In hoary mattings ; thy broad shoulders clot...« less