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"Sing to me the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallow heights of Troy." (Pg 77, 1) "Ah how shameless-the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes," (Pg. 78,38) "Let them all die so, all who do such things. But my heart breaks for Odysseus, that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long-." (Pg. 79, 56) "You must not cling to your boyhood any longer- it’s time you were a man. Haven’t you heard what glory Price Oresteds won throughout the world …" (Pg. 87, 341) "… As for giving orders, Men will see to th"at, but I most of all: I hold the reigns of power in this house." (Pg. 89, 412) "the true son of Odysseus sprang from the bed and dressed, over his shoulder he slung his well-honed sword, …" (Pg. 93, 3) " ‘Hear me, men of Ithaca. Hear what I have to say. Never let any sceptered king be kind and gentle now, …’ " (Pg. 100, 256) "Menelaus recognized him at once but pondered whether to let him state his father’s name or probe him first and prompt him step by step." (Pg. 128,131) "It’s hard for a mortal man to face a god." (Pg. 137, 445) "Heard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy- scandalized when goddesses sleep with mortals, openly, even when one has made the man her husband,…"(Pg. 156, 130) "So there he lay at rest, the storm-tossed great Odysseus, borne down by his hard labors first and now deep sleep as Athena traveled through the countryside and reached the Phaeacians’ city."(Pg. 168, 1) "Ah, if only a man like that were called my husband, lived right here, pleased to stay forever … Enough. Give the stranger food and drink, my girls."(Pg. 176, 270) "Eurylochus, stay right here, eating, drinking, safe by the black ship. I must be off. Necessity drives me on." (Pg. 239, 300) "just as the Cyclops trapped our comrades in his lair with hotheaded Odysseus right beside them all- thanks to this man’s rashness they died too!" (Pg. 248, 480)
"...Odysseus, raised him up
from the hearth and sat him down in a burnished chair,
displacing his own son, the courty Lord Laodamas," (Pg. 185, 200)
"Up he sprang, cloak and all, and siezed a discus
huge and heavy, more weighty by far than those the
Phaecians used to hurl and test each other." (192,220)
"Here, herald, take this choice cut to Demodocus
so he can eat his fill--with warm regards
from a man who knows what suffering is..." (206,535)
"...--say Odysseus,
raider oc cities, he gouged out your eye,
Laertes' son who makes his home in Inthaca!" (227,563)
"It's a crime to host a man or speed him on his way
when the blessed deathless gods despise him so.
Crawling back like this--" (232,80)
"I broke into tears to see her here, but filled with pity,
even throbbing with grief, I would not let her ghost
approach the blood till I questioned Tiresias myself." (252,97)
"my lord, remember me, I beg you! Don't sail off
and desrt me, left behind unwept, unburied, don't
or my curse may draw god's fury on your head."(251,80)
"they sowre they'd sail me home to sunny Ithaca--well,
they never kept their word. Zeus of the Suppliants
pay them back--he keeps eye on the world of men and punishes
the transgressors"(293,245)
"She loved me... Why cover the same ground again?
Just yesterday, here at hall, I toldyou all the rest,
you and your gracious wifre. It goes against my grain
to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly"(285,490)
"And then, that hour the star rose up,
the clearest, brigthest star, that alwasy heralds
the newborn light of day, the deep-sea-going ship
made lanfall on the island...Ithaca at last"(289,105"
"Balance is the best in all things. It's bad either way,
spurring the stranger home who wants tolinger,
holding the one who longs to leave--you know" (321,80)
"'Why confuse me wiht one who never dies?
No, I am your father--" (344,210)
"But now with his master gone he lay there, castaway,
on pikles of dung from the mules and cattle, heaps collecting
out before the gates till Odysseus' serving-men(363,325)
"'Nobodys' fool, that stranger,' wise Penelope said,
'he seas how things could go. Surely no men on earth
can match that gang for reckless, deadly schemes.'" (373.655)
"keep your firsts to yourself, don't press your luck, don't rile me,
or old as I am, I'll bloddy your lip, splatter you chest
and buy myself some peace and quiet for tomorrow" (376,25)
"'Make no mistake, you brazen, shameless bitch,
none of your ugly work escapes me either--
you will pay for it with your life, you will!" (393,100)
"if a god beats down these brazen suitors at my hands,
I will no spare you--my old nurse taht you are--
when I kill the other woman in my house." (406, 552)
"close around us, hot to kill us off in battle,
still you could drive away their herds and sleek flocks!" (412,55)
"'Fighting words, but do let's knuckle under--
to our prince." (419, 300)
"Weaklings, look, they can't even string the bow.
But along came this beaggar, drifiting out of the blue--
strung his bow wieth ease and shot through all the axes!" (464 365)
"as the shaft sank home, and the man's life-blood came spurting
from his nostrils-
thick red jets-
a sudden thrust of his foot-
he kicked away the table--
food showered across the floor,"(440 17)
"But hte battle-master kept on glaring, seething.
'No, Eurymachus! Not if you paide me all your father's wealth-
all you possess now, and all that could pour in from the world's end-"(441 65)
"cunning ones who plot their own dark ends.
Remember Helen of Argos, Zeus's daughter--
would she have sported so in a stranger's bed"(462 246)
"Then all united Achaea would have raised your tomb
and you'd have won your son great fame for years to come.
Not so. You were fated to die a wretched death."(469 35)
"Odysseus, the man she married once!
The Fame of her great virtue will never die."(474 216)
"last night in our hose with harness on my back,
standing beside you, fighting off the suitors,
how many I would have cut the knees from under--
the heart insdie you would have lept for joy!"(480 422)
"So she commanded. He obyed her, glad at heart.
And Athena handed down her pacts of peace
between both sides for allt he years to come--
the daughter of Zeus whose shield is strom and thunder
yes, but the goddess wtill kept Mentor's build and voice"(485 600)
Posted by Rudolph Klemencic on 5/12/04; 8:45:33 AM
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