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...Excerpt: SING, O GODDESS, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfil...

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... The Iliad by Homer trans. by Samuel Butler is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one an other. And w... ...em on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because th... ...word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne. “Hear me,” he cried, “O god of th... ...who gave it to Jove the son of Sat urn. Jove gave it to Mercury , slayer of Argus, guide and guardian. King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty cha... ...fly weeping away , leaving her bow and arrows behind her. Then the slayer of Argus, guide and guardian, said to Leto, “Leto, I shall not fight you; it... ...e blessed gods looked down in pity from heaven, and urged Mercury, slayer of Argus, to steal the body. All were of this mind save only Juno, Neptune, ...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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...by Apollonius Rhodius, translation by R. C. Seaton, 1912 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..., I will re count the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the be hest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks... ...he flood. And straightway he came to Pelias to share the banquet which the king was offer ing to his father Poseidon and the rest of the gods, though... ... rest of the gods, though he paid no honour to Pelasgian Hera. Quickly the king saw him and pondered, and devised for him the toil of a troublous voya... ...might lose his home return. (ll. 18 22) The ship, as former bards relate, Argus wrought by the guidance of Athena. But now I will tell the lineage an... ... a welcome comrade. She herself too fashioned the swift ship; and with her Argus, son of Arestor, wrought it by her coun sels. Wherefore it proved th... ...elias himself any will to stay behind in the palace of his brave sire, nor Argus, helper of the goddess Athena; but they too were ready to be numbered...

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...Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and...

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... M.A. A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publicat... ...omer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ught out its accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of men and noble Achilles. Who among the gods set the twain at strife ... ... and variance? Apollo, the son of Leto and of Zeus; for he in anger at the king sent a sore plague upon the host, so that the folk began to perish, be... ...the loud sound ing sea. Then went that aged man apart and prayed aloud to king Apollo, whom Leto of the fair locks bare: “Hear me, god of the silver ... ...us son of Kronos, and then Zeus gave it to the messenger god the slayer of Argus [Or, possibly, “the swift appearing”]; and king Hermes gave it to Pe... ...re blinded. For Hera darted from Olympus’ peak and came swiftly to Achaian Argus, were she knew was the stately wife of Sthenelos son of Perseus, who ... ...bow and arrows where they lay. Then to Leto spake the Guide, the slayer of Argus: “Leto, with thee will I no wise fight; a grievous thing it is to com...

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...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... the same way, is more pardonable, than to believe in the good natured old king whom the elegant pen of Florian has idealized—Numa Pompilius. Sceptici... ... convenient road. Here, the Cumans say, he composed an epitaph on Gordius, king of Phrygia, which has however, and with greater probability, been at ... ...o Ithaca. She holds a conference with T elemachus, in the shape of Mantes, king of Taphians; in which she ad vises him to take a journey in quest of ... ...ravels. Ulysses is conducted by Eumaeus to the pal ace, where his old dog Argus acknowledges his master, after an absence of twenty years, and dies w... ...!” Thus, near the gates conferring as they drew, 240 The Odyssey of Homer Argus, the dog, his ancient master knew: He not unconscious of the voice an... ...y call’d him o’er the main. Till then in every sylvan chase renown’d, With Argus, Argus, rung the woods around; With him the youth pursued the goat or...

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... The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Samuel Butler is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...has paid for everything in full.” Then Minerva said, “Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else wh... ...eptune is still furious with Ulysses for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes. Polyphemus The Odyssey – Book I 4 is son to Neptu... ...ssey – Book I 4 is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea king Phorcys; therefore though he will not kill Ulysses outright, he torm... ... ever with out ceasing, and whose name was great over all Hellas and middle Argos.” “Mother,” answered T elemachus, “let the bard sing what he has a ... ...far on our way . Four days later Diomed and his men stationed their ships in Argos, but I held on for Pylos, and the wind never fell light from the da... ...nd his friends.” Thus he spoke, and Mercury, guide and guard ian, slayer of Argus, did as he was told. Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sa...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

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................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

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...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...yro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whe... ...cares that weary the limbs. And he charged Hermes the guide, the Slayer of Argus, to put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature. (ll. 69-82) S... ...edecked her form with all manners of finery. Also the Guide, the Slayer of Argus, contrived within her lies and crafty words and a deceitful nature at... ...t when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare, the Father sent glorious Argus-Slayer, the swift messenger of the gods, to take it to Epimetheus as ... ...he sailors, unless Poseidon the Earth- Shaker be set upon it, or Zeus, the king of the deathless gods, wish to slay them; for the issues of good and e... ...by his people underground. Being disappointed, then, in his search for the king, Orion went away to Crete and spent his time hunting in company with A...

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated...

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...Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, T ranslated by A. S. Way, 1913 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, T ranslated by A. S. Way, 1913 , the Penns... ...the stings of pain Prick sharply yet beneath his eyelids; — so Joyed the old king to see that terrible queen — The shadowy joy of one in anguish whelm... ...the twentieth year; And set a feast before her, sumptuous As battle glorious kings, who have brought low Nations of foes, array in splendour of pomp, ... ...wasting strife o’erpassed her own! But when Andromache, the stately child Of king Eetion, heard the wild queen’s vaunt, Low to her own soul bitterly m... ... lain, Who dared defy the eternal will of Zeus. Then did the warrior sons of Argos strip With eager haste from corpses strown all round The blood stai... ...t now Me shall some new Achaean master bear To fertile Sparta, or to thirsty Argos. The bitter cup of thraldom shall I drain, Severed, ah me, from the... ...quiver was adorned. There Hermes was, storm footed Son of Zeus, Slaying huge Argus nigh to Inachus’ streams, Argus, whose sentinel eyes in turn took s...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ........................................................................ 160 ARGUS. ....................................................................... ...ind of the hysterical passion which is tearing the heart of the poor dying king, what a powerful index of misery it becomes, and its “undoing,” as the... ... gownman, learn’d; a bishop, what you will; Wise, if a minister; but, if a king, More wise, more learn’d, more just, more everything, 140 Court-vir... ... too refined; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; A rebel to the very king he loves; He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder s... ... and in fame: Though there the fair Egyptian heifer fed, And there deluded Argus slept and bled: Though there the brazen tower was storm’d of old, Whe... ...ter, sure, when blind, deceived to be, Than be deluded when a man can see! Argus himself, so cautious and so wise, Was overwatch’d, for all his hundre...

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... Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and i... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dious of their trade: Carthage the name; belov’d by Juno more Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore. Here stood her chariot; here, if Heav’n were ki... ...odes, And lock’d ‘em safe within, oppress’d with mountain loads; Impos’d a king, with arbitrary sway, T o loose their fetters, or their force allay. T... ...ss’d, And thus the tenor of her suit express’d: “O Aeolus! for to thee the King of Heav’n The pow’r of tempests and of winds has giv’n; Thy force alon... ...yours, O queen, to will The work which duty binds me to fulfil. These airy kingdoms, and this wide command, Are all the presents of your bounteous han... ...sue, stiff with golden wire; An upper vest, once Helen’s rich attire, From Argos by the fam’d adultress brought, With golden flow’rs and winding folia... ... this, the shrine Where Pan below the rock had rites divine: Then tells of Argus’ death, his murder’d guest, Whose grave and tomb his innocence attest...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...efined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. Rabelais’ pleas- antry about the woman folle a la messe is e... ...orts to free himself from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed... ...s did the later poets nobly bring The scene to height, making the fool the king. And, noble sir, you vigorously have trod In this hard path, unknown, ... ... 50 Gargantua & Pantagruel come upon you. There I catch you, I awake you. Argus had a hundred eyes for his sight, a butler should have (like Briareus... ...ne will, or else by the virtue of some good Mercury, who cunningly brought Argus into a sleep for all his hundred eyes. When I saw that he did no long... ...ith 339 Rabelais a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Ac...