The Iliad of Homer eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 667 pages of information about The Iliad of Homer.
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The Iliad of Homer eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 667 pages of information about The Iliad of Homer.
Of law or order.  But, eternal sire! 
Shall I offend thee chasing far away
Mars deeply smitten from the field of war? 

    To whom the cloud-assembler God replied. 

Go! but exhort thou rather to the task 910
Spoil-huntress Athenaean Pallas, him
Accustom’d to chastise with pain severe. 

    He spake, nor white-arm’d Juno not obey’d. 

She lash’d her steeds; they readily their flight
Began, the earth and starry vault between. 915
Far as from his high tower the watchman kens
O’er gloomy ocean, so far at one bound
Advance the shrill-voiced coursers of the Gods. 
But when at Troy and at the confluent streams
Of Simois and Scamander they arrived, 920
There Juno, white-arm’d Goddess, from the yoke
Her steeds releasing, them in gather’d shades
Conceal’d opaque, while Simois caused to spring
Ambrosia from his bank, whereon they browsed. 

    Swift as her pinions waft the dove away 925

They sought the Grecians, ardent to begin: 
Arriving where the mightiest and the most
Compass’d equestrian Diomede around,
In aspect lion-like, or like wild boars
Of matchless force, there white-arm’d Juno stood, 930
And in the form of Stentor for his voice
Of brass renown’d, audible as the roar
Of fifty throats, the Grecians thus harangued. 

    Oh shame, shame, shame!  Argives in form alone,

Beautiful but dishonorable race! 935
While yet divine Achilles ranged the field,
No Trojan stepp’d from yon Dardanian gates
Abroad; all trembled at his stormy spear;
But now they venture forth, now at your ships
Defy you, from their city far remote. 940

    She ceased, and all caught courage from the sound. 

But Athenaean Pallas eager sought
The son of Tydeus; at his chariot side
She found the Chief cooling his fiery wound
Received from Pandarus; for him the sweat 945
Beneath the broad band of his oval shield
Exhausted, and his arm fail’d him fatigued;
He therefore raised the band and wiped the blood
Coagulate; when o’er his chariot yoke
Her arm the Goddess threw, and thus began. 950

    Tydeus, in truth, begat a son himself

Not much resembling.  Tydeus was of size
Diminutive, but had a warrior’s heart. 
When him I once commanded to abstain
From furious fight (what time he enter’d Thebes 955
Ambassador, and the Cadmeans found
Feasting, himself the sole Achaian there)
And bade him quietly partake the feast. 
He, fired with wonted ardor, challenged forth
To proof of manhood the Cadmean youth, 960
Whom easily, through my effectual aid,
In contests of each kind he overcame. 
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