History of Greece, and of the Greek People: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, Volume 1, Part 2Estes and Lauriat, 1892 - 197 pages |
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Page 375 - PROM. Yea, now in very deed, No more in word alone, The earth shakes to and fro And the loud thunder's voice Bellows hard by, and blaze The flashing levin-fires : And tempests whirl the dust, And gusts of all wild winds On one another leap, In wild conflicting blasts. And sky with sea is blent. Such is the storm from Zeus That comes as working fear, In utter chaos whirled In terrors manifest.
Page 582 - Biton, her own sons, who had so highly honoured her, the greatest blessing man could receive. After this prayer, when they had sacrificed and partaken of the feast, the youths fell asleep in the temple itself, and never awoke more, but met with such a termination of life. Upon this the Argives, in commemoration of their piety, caused their statues to be made and dedicated at Delphi.
Page 367 - Prometheus had told him never to accept a gift from Olympian Jove, but to send it back, lest haply any ill should arise to mortals. But he, after receiving it, felt the evil, when now he possessed it.
Page 343 - Go to now, ye gods, make trial that ye all may know. Fasten ye a rope of gold from heaven, and all ye gods lay hold thereof and all goddesses ; yet could ye not drag from heaven to earth Zeus, counsellor supreme, not though ye toiled sore. But once I likewise were minded to draw with all my heart, then should I draw you up with very earth and sea withal.
Page 344 - Then mightily moved spake unto him Achilles fleet of foot : " Thou hast baulked me, Far-darter, most mischievous of all the gods, in that thou hast turned me hither from the wall : else should full many yet have bitten the dust or ever within Ilios had they come. Now hast thou robbed me of great renown, and lightly hast saved them, because thou hadst no vengeance to fear thereafter. Verily I would avenge me on thee, had I but the power.
Page 300 - So spake he, chiding his own spirit within him, and his heart verily abode steadfast in obedience to his word. But Odysseus himself lay tossing this way and that.
Page 343 - ... from heaven, and all ye gods lay hold thereof and all goddesses ; yet could ye not drag from heaven to earth Zeus, counsellor supreme, not though ye toiled sore. But once I likewise were minded to draw with all my heart, then should I draw you up with very earth and sea withal. Thereafter would I bind the rope about a pinnacle of Olympus, and so should all those things be hung in air. By so much am I beyond gods and beyond men.
Page 316 - Whence each of the gods sprung, whether they existed always, and of what form they were, was, so to speak, unknown till yesterday. For I am of opinion that Hesiod and Homer lived four hundred years before my time, and not more, and these were they who framed a theogony for the Greeks, and gave names to the gods, and assigned to them honours and arts, and declared their several forms.
Page 581 - Tellus of Athens, because he lived in a well-governed commonwealth ; had sons who were virtuous and good; and he saw children born to them all, and all surviving; in the next place when he had lived as happily as the condition of human affairs will permit, he ended his life in a glorious manner ; for coming to the assistance of the Athenians in a battle with their neighbors of Eleusis, he put the enemy to flight and died nobly. The Athenians buried him at the public charge in the place where he fell...
Page 367 - ... with flowers of spring : and Pallas Minerva adapted every ornament to her person. But in her breast, I wot, conductor Mercury wrought falsehoods, and wily speeches, and tricksy manners, by the counsels of deep-thundering Jove : and the herald of the gods placed within her, I ween, a winning voice : and this woman he called Pandora, because all, inhabiting Olympian mansions, bestowed on her a gift, a mischief to inventive men.