Quotes from Homer

perhaps having all encountered the nightmare that haunted Pope — "that he was engaged in a long journey," as Joseph Spence reports, "puzzled which way to take, and full of fears" that it would never end. And if you reach the end, the fears may start in earnest.

Nuestros dones son pequeños, pero amistosos, pues la naturaleza de los siervos es tener siempre miedo cuando dominan nuevos soberanos.

write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history.

So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night;

Son of Tydeus, that thought is nonsense. Even if Hector called you a coward or weakling, the Trojans and the Dardánians wouldn't believe him, nor would the widows whose men you flung in the dirt.

Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.

for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.

Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods. It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves, through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.

Therefore let no man press for our return before he beds down with some Trojan wife, to avenge the struggles and the groans of Helen.

A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt—but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain.

2.?ILIÁDOS B So the other gods as well as chariot-fighting men slept through the night; but

release to me my beloved daughter, take instead the ransom,?20 revering Zeus' son who strikes from afar—Apollo.

He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.

Como os portões do Hades me é odioso aquele homem que esconde uma coisa na mente, mas diz outra.

Draw closer to me, let us once more throw our arms around one another, and find sad comfort in the sharing of our sorrows.

I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.

Now the gods were seated in assembly by Zeus

Then when all the contingents were marshaled with their leaders the Trojans set out with ringing cries and clamor

Never once have you taken courage in your heart to arm with your people for battle, or go into ambuscade with the best

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own.

rolling eye balls

let's go to bed together, mount my bed and mix in the magic work of love — we'll breed deep trust between us.

and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn (R. Fagles translation)