Iliad and Odyssey Volume 2
Homer
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 17, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...bosom rend, And my swift soul o'ertake my slaughter'd friend; Ah, no! Achilles meets a shameful fate, 325 Oh, how unworthy of the brave and great! Like some vile swain, whom on a rainy day, Crossing a ford, the torrent sweeps away, An unregarded carcass to the sea." Neptune and Pallas haste to his relief, 330 And thus in human form address'd the chief: The power of ocean first: " Forbear thy fear, Oh son of Peleus! lo, thy gods appear! Behold! from Jove descending to thy aid, Propitious Neptune and the blue-eyed maid. 335 Stay, and the furious flood shall cease to rave: 'Tis not thy fate to glut his angry wave. But thou the counsel Heaven suggests attend; Nor breathe from combat, nor thy sword suspend, Till Troy receive her flying sons, till all 340 Her routed squadrons pant behind their wall: Hector alone shall stand his fatal chance, And Hector's blood shall smoke upon thy lance. Thine is the glory doom'd." Thus spoke the gods: Then swift ascended to the bright abodes. 345 Stung with new ardour, thus by Heaven impell'd, He springs impetuous, and invades the field: O'er all the expanded plain the waters spread; Heaved on the bounding billows danced the dead, Floating mid scatter'd arms; while casques of gold And turn'd-up bucklers glitter'd as they rolPd. 351 High o'er the surging tide, by leaps and bounds, He wades and mounts; the parted wave resounds. Not a whole river stops the hero's course, While Pallas fills him with immortal force. 355 With equal rage indignant Xanthus roars, And lifts his billows and o'erwhelms his shores. Then thus to Simois: " Haste, my brother flood! And check this mortal that controls a god: Our bravest heroes else shall quit the fight, 360 And Ilion tumble from her towery height.-Call then thy subject strea...