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| 7768 | But thou, O son of Thetis,said he,"why dost thou disparage the state of the dead? |
| 7768 | O Circe,he cried,"that is impossible: who shall steer my course to Pluto''s kingdom? |
| 7768 | What desperate adventure has brought Ulysses to these regions,said Achilles;"to see the end of dead men, and their foolish shades?" |
| 7768 | What washing does my daughter speak of? |
| 7768 | And Telemachus said,"Is this the man who can tell us tidings of the king my father?" |
| 7768 | And he said,"What chief or what ruler is this, that thou commendest so highly, and sayest that he perished at Troy? |
| 7768 | Are you so soon tired of your country; or did not our present please you? |
| 7768 | But his father permitted not, but said,"Look better at me; I am no deity; why put you upon me the reputation of godhead? |
| 7768 | But what says fame? |
| 7768 | He held Ulysses by the wrist, to stay his entrance; and"Whither wouldest thou go?" |
| 7768 | Indignation seized Aeolus to behold him in that manner returned; and he said,"Ulysses, what has brought you back? |
| 7768 | Merchants or wandering thieves?" |
| 7768 | Then said Ulysses,"Tell me who these suitors are, what are their numbers, and how stands the queen thy mother affected to them?" |
| 7768 | Thy meats, spiced with poison; or thy wines, drugged with death? |
| 7768 | What pleasure canst thou promise which may tempt the soul of a reasonable man? |
| 7768 | What should so poor and old a man as you do at the suitors''tables? |
| 7768 | What should the cause be? |
| 7768 | What, can not you quit your wiles and your subtleties, now that you are in a state of security? |
| 7768 | Where now are all their anxious thoughts of home? |
| 7768 | Who has not heard of Calypso? |
| 7768 | and think you that you are unknown?" |
| 7768 | and what cause he had for making such horrid clamours in the night- time to break their sleeps? |
| 7768 | art thou prepared to share their fate, from which nothing can ransom thee?" |
| 7768 | do you wilfully give way to their ill manners? |
| 7768 | guests, what are you? |
| 7768 | he said,"what madness from heaven has seized you, that you can laugh? |
| 7768 | if his fright proceeded from any mortal? |
| 7768 | if strength or craft had given him his death''s blow? |
| 7768 | is my son yet alive? |
| 7768 | lives he in Orchomen, or in Pylus, or is he resident in Sparta, in his uncle''s court? |
| 7768 | must the first word with which you salute your native earth be an untruth? |
| 7768 | or do you mistrust your kinsfolk and friends in such sort as without trial to decline their aid? |
| 7768 | or has your government been such as has procured ill- will towards you from your people? |
| 7768 | see you not that your meat drops blood? |
| 41935 | Can you see aught ahead? |
| 41935 | Could you not take him to the palace, my lord? |
| 41935 | Friends,he said in a low, rapid whisper,"tell me, are ye purposing to starve in the midst of plenty? |
| 41935 | Hearken,he said uneasily,"do you hear anything, friends?" |
| 41935 | How, Lord Telemachus? |
| 41935 | If Noman harms thee, then how should we aid thee, brother? 41935 Merchants, are you? |
| 41935 | My boy that I suckled, why hast thou come into Hades not yet being dead, for I see that the flesh is still warm upon thee for which I drank to Zeus? |
| 41935 | Of what profit is it to look to the past, Phocion? |
| 41935 | Should we not rather trust the king even unto this last thing? 41935 To Ithaca?" |
| 41935 | What ails you, brother, that you call us from sleep in the night? |
| 41935 | What sound did you hear? |
| 41935 | What, then, about this lord of yours? |
| 41935 | Whither away, whither away, whither away? 41935 Whither away? |
| 41935 | Who are you, strangers? |
| 41935 | Why hast thou come here, O wise one, leaving the happy daylight for this cheerless shore? 41935 Wife of mine,"he thought,"shall I ever lie beside you more? |
| 41935 | Am I less beautiful than Penelope, or less kind?" |
| 41935 | And whence come you along the paths of the sea?" |
| 41935 | And who may you be, and what do you in Ithaca?" |
| 41935 | And will he ever come back to sit in his own chair and rule?" |
| 41935 | Are your lips another''s now? |
| 41935 | Are your thoughts to mewards as mine to you? |
| 41935 | But now, tell me, where is your ship?" |
| 41935 | But of what kind? |
| 41935 | But what of Ulysses as a Sybarite? |
| 41935 | Could he not have left me any time these nine long years of love? |
| 41935 | Did he not make us promise? |
| 41935 | Dost mind the soft kids on Circe''s island? |
| 41935 | Friends, shall we die thus? |
| 41935 | Had he at last broken away from the loving arms of Circe for this horror? |
| 41935 | Have we ever found him wanting yet? |
| 41935 | How can one judge the man of 3000 years ago by the standards of to- day? |
| 41935 | How he heard the Sirens sing, seen the swaying arms of the foul Scylla, and dwelt in love and slumber with Calypso? |
| 41935 | How will you answer, my heart''s love?" |
| 41935 | I can not restrain them; I am young; and what is one against so many? |
| 41935 | I have loved you well and cherished you, and shall I love you less now? |
| 41935 | I put ye this question-- Would ye not rather swallow the cold salt water for a moment and so die, than die for days among the rocks?" |
| 41935 | If the old seer alone could tell him how to conquer the wrath of Poseidon and win to his wife''s arms once more, should he not go with a will? |
| 41935 | Is he not my kinsman indeed? |
| 41935 | Is it your will to go and leave the lady?" |
| 41935 | Is there silver in your bright hair now? |
| 41935 | Know you where we have landed? |
| 41935 | Knowest thou in this beyond- earth if the beloved Penelope still holds me in her heart? |
| 41935 | On what strange place have we chanced?" |
| 41935 | Pirates? |
| 41935 | Saw ye ever such fat oxen and cows as graze in the pastures above?" |
| 41935 | Should we need more aid than that?" |
| 41935 | What were pale ghosts to a warrior of Troyland and the vanquisher of Polyphemus? |
| 41935 | When we reach home again, can we not build a great temple to Helios, and fill it with rich gifts? |
| 41935 | Whither away from the high green field, and the happy blossoming shore? |
| 41935 | Who am I that I can combat the will of Zeus or the hardness of your heart? |
| 41935 | Would you be immortal? |
| 41935 | [ Illustration:"WHO AM I THAT I CAN COMBAT THE WILL OF ZEUS OR THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEART?" |
| 41935 | or is she perhaps here with thee, lost to the sunlight?" |
| 41935 | she said, laughing lightly,"are you not going to join us in the fun? |
| 41935 | was it not all mist and dreams-- the long past? |
| 6370 | ''Who are ye?'' 6370 And when the goddess perceived that I was silent and ate not, she said:''Why dost thou sit, Ulysses, as though thou wert dumb? |
| 6370 | Nay,said Ulysses,"what is this that thou sayest? |
| 6370 | Stranger, do these men treat thee well? |
| 6370 | Then I made answer,''Nay, but who could think of meat and drink when such things had befallen his companions?'' 6370 ''Are ye traders or pirates?'' 6370 Afterwards came Telemachus, and spake to the nurse, saying,Hast thou given to the guest food and bedding, or doth he lie uncared for?" |
| 6370 | And Arete recognized his clothing, and said:--"Whence art thou, stranger? |
| 6370 | And I doubt not that were thou with me some one would say:` Who is this stranger, tall and fair, that cometh with Nausicaa? |
| 6370 | And Penelope said again to Eumaeus:"Call now this stranger; didst thou not mark the good omen, how my son sneezed when I spake? |
| 6370 | And Penelope said:"How camest thou here, my sister? |
| 6370 | And Telemachus said:"Mother, evil mother, sittest thou apart from my father, and speakest not to him? |
| 6370 | And afterwards she said:--"Why art thou so eager for thy home? |
| 6370 | And as for Ulysses, did not I save him when Zeus had smitten his ship with a thunderbolt, and all his comrades had perished? |
| 6370 | And he said to himself:"What is this land to which I have come? |
| 6370 | And he spake to Ulysses bitter words:"Wilt thou still plague us, stranger, with thy begging? |
| 6370 | And how can I cease to weep when my husband is lost? |
| 6370 | And is not thy wife within, and thy son, a noble lad?" |
| 6370 | And my father and my son, have they enjoyment of that which is mine, or have others taken it from them? |
| 6370 | And my wife, is she true to me, or hath she wedded some prince among the Greeks?'' |
| 6370 | And she spake, saying:"Wakest thou still, man of many troubles? |
| 6370 | And the Cyclops knew him as he passed, and said:--"''How is this, thou who art the leader of the flock? |
| 6370 | And the vision stood over her head and spake:"Sleepest thou, Penelope? |
| 6370 | And when I said,''How is this, my mother? |
| 6370 | And when she had drunk, she knew her son, and said:''My son, why hast thou come into the land of darkness, being yet alive? |
| 6370 | And when she saw the strangers she said:--"Who are these, Menelaus? |
| 6370 | And when they had dried their tears, Telemachus said,"Tell me how thou camest back, my father?" |
| 6370 | And whither shall I go myself? |
| 6370 | Are the men barbarous and unjust, or are they hospitable and righteous? |
| 6370 | Are the suitors come back from their ambush, or do they still watch for my ship?" |
| 6370 | Are they that dwell therein fierce or kind to strangers? |
| 6370 | Are they yet alive?" |
| 6370 | Are we not met together that we may give gifts to this stranger, and send him to his home? |
| 6370 | Athene spake, saying:"Why hath thy mother so careless a child, Nausicaa? |
| 6370 | But I answered him:''Wherefore dost thou beguile me, old man, with crooked words? |
| 6370 | But Menelaus was wroth, and said:"Shall we, who have eaten so often of the bread of hospitality, send these strangers to another? |
| 6370 | But Telemachus answered,"How shall I speak to him, being so untried and young?" |
| 6370 | But Telemachus answered:"Think ye that I will eat and drink with you, who so shamefully waste my substance? |
| 6370 | But Telemachus made reply:"Why dost thou grudge the minstrel, my mother, to make us glad in such fashion as his spirit biddeth him? |
| 6370 | But Ulysses answered:"Why askest thou this? |
| 6370 | But Ulysses laid his hand on her throat and said softly:"Mother, wouldest thou kill me? |
| 6370 | But Ulysses said to the goddess:"Why didst thou not tell him, seeing that thou knewest all? |
| 6370 | But at the last he spake:"My friend, who was this, thy lord, of whom thou speakest? |
| 6370 | But come, tell me truly, whose servant art thou? |
| 6370 | But come, tell me where have you left your ship?'' |
| 6370 | But first, tell me true-- what land is this to which I am come, and what is the people? |
| 6370 | But say, who shall bear the light, if thou wilt not have any of the women to go before thee?" |
| 6370 | But tell me truly, is it long time since thou didst give him entertainment? |
| 6370 | But tell me, how didst thou die? |
| 6370 | But tell me, what news didst thou get of thy father?" |
| 6370 | But tell me, who are these that I see? |
| 6370 | But tell me, who art thou? |
| 6370 | But the Phaeacians said one to another:"Who is this that hath hindered our ship, as she journeyed homeward? |
| 6370 | But the old woman said, weeping:"What meanest thou, being an only son, thus to travel abroad? |
| 6370 | But when they came the next day to Pylos, Telemachus said to Peisistratus:"Son of Nestor, wilt thou be as a friend to me, and do my bidding? |
| 6370 | CHAPTER V MENELAUS''S TALE The next day Menelaus said to Telemachus:"For what end hast thou come hither to fair Lacedaemon?" |
| 6370 | Come now, old man, and tell me who art thou, and whence? |
| 6370 | Did Zeus send this sign to us or thee?" |
| 6370 | Did a wasting disease slay thee, or did Artemis[ Footnote: Ar''-te- mis] smite thee with a sudden stroke of her arrow? |
| 6370 | Did he bring tidings of thy father? |
| 6370 | Did he not offer thee many sacrifices in the land of Troy? |
| 6370 | Did thine own ship bring thee hither, and thy companions with thee, or didst thou come as a trader upon the ship of another?" |
| 6370 | Didst not thou thyself plan this in order that the vengeance of Ulysses might be wrought upon the suitors? |
| 6370 | Do not the suitors devour it? |
| 6370 | Do the people hate thee, that thou canst not avenge thyself on them? |
| 6370 | Dost thou not remember how thy father fled to this house, fearing the anger of the people? |
| 6370 | Dost thou plot against the life of my son, having no regard for the gods, nor any memory of good deeds? |
| 6370 | Fearest thou any craft of mine? |
| 6370 | For am I master in my house? |
| 6370 | For who could move away the great rock that lay against the door of the cave? |
| 6370 | Hadst thou, perchance, a kinsman, or a friend-- for a wise friend is ever as a brother-- among those that perished at Troy?" |
| 6370 | Hast thou not yet returned to thy home?'' |
| 6370 | Hath he heard any tidings of the coming back of the host? |
| 6370 | How can she know that I am indeed her son?'' |
| 6370 | How can the gods dishonour thee, who art the eldest among them? |
| 6370 | If it be Telemachus, what doth he want? |
| 6370 | Is any one robbing thee of thy sheep, or seeking to slay thee by craft or force?'' |
| 6370 | Is he yet alive, wandering on the deep, or is he dead? |
| 6370 | Is it an island, or a portion of the mainland?" |
| 6370 | Is my husband yet alive?" |
| 6370 | Is not this thy house? |
| 6370 | Is this the gathering of a clan, or a wedding feast?" |
| 6370 | Just now I seemed to hear the voice of nymphs[ Footnote: nymphs, spirits of the woods and waters], or am I near the dwellings of men?" |
| 6370 | Knoweth Queen Penelope of thy coming, or shall I send a messenger to tell her?" |
| 6370 | Much did I wonder to see him, and I asked,''How comest thou hither, Elpenor, to the land of darkness? |
| 6370 | Much did they wonder to see me, saying,''What evil power has hindered thee, that thou didst not reach thy country and home?'' |
| 6370 | Nay, but that may not be, for have I not sworn the great oath that binds the gods?'' |
| 6370 | Or came he on some matter of his own? |
| 6370 | Sail ye over the seas for trade, or as pirates that wander at hazard of their lives?" |
| 6370 | Shall I pass in a raft over the dreadful sea, over which even ships go not without harm? |
| 6370 | Shall we keep them here, or send them to another?" |
| 6370 | Shall we twain be able to make war upon them or must we get the help of others?" |
| 6370 | So the nurse brought the settle and the fleece, and Ulysses sat him down; and Penelope spake, saying:"Stranger, I will ask thee first who art thou? |
| 6370 | Some put trust in men, yet men are weaker than the gods; why trustest not thou in me? |
| 6370 | Telemachus spake to him, saying:"What news is there in the city? |
| 6370 | Tell me now which of the gods have I offended, and how shall I contrive to return to my own home?'' |
| 6370 | Tell me now which of the gods hindereth me, and how I may return across the sea?'' |
| 6370 | Tell me this also: is this, indeed, the land of Ithaca to which I am come? |
| 6370 | Tell me truly, therefore; knowest thou anything thyself about my father, or hast thou heard anything from another?" |
| 6370 | Tell me, who is this stranger that came but just now to thy house? |
| 6370 | That thy husband will return no more, when he is even now in his own house? |
| 6370 | The sickness which great Zeus may send, who can avoid? |
| 6370 | Then Calypso said to Hermes:"Wherefore hast thou come hither, Hermes of the golden wand? |
| 6370 | Then Laodamas said to Ulysses,"Wilt thou not try thy skill in some game, and put away the trouble from thy heart?" |
| 6370 | Then Ulysses asked her:"My child, canst thou tell me where dwells Alcinous? |
| 6370 | Then answered Telemachus:"How can I send away against her will her who bare me and brought me up? |
| 6370 | Then he lay down on the rushes by the bank of the river and kissed the earth, thinking within himself:"What now shall I do? |
| 6370 | Then he ran to his father and said,"Shall I fetch arms for us and our helpers?" |
| 6370 | Then said Antinous:"How is this, thou braggart, that thou fearest this old man, all woebegone as he is?" |
| 6370 | Then said Ulysses:"But why dost thou bear with these men? |
| 6370 | Then she called to her maidens:"What mean ye to flee when ye see a man? |
| 6370 | Then she caught me by the knees, and cried aloud:''Who art thou? |
| 6370 | Then spake Athene to Zeus:"Tell me, my father, what dost thou purpose in thy heart? |
| 6370 | Then the nurse spake, saying:"What is that thou sayest? |
| 6370 | To her Zeus made answer:"What is this that thou sayest? |
| 6370 | To her Zeus made answer:"Why dost thou inquire this thing of me? |
| 6370 | To her Zeus, the father of the gods, made reply:"What is this that thou sayest, my daughter? |
| 6370 | To him Zeus made answer:"What is that thou sayest, lord of the sea? |
| 6370 | To what land am I come? |
| 6370 | Was it not of thy contriving that Ulysses slew the suitors in his palace? |
| 6370 | Was it that he too might wander over the seas in great affliction, and that others meanwhile might consume his goods?" |
| 6370 | What is thy city and thy father''s name?" |
| 6370 | What is thy race? |
| 6370 | What meaneth the wanderer? |
| 6370 | When they had eaten and drunk their fill, Nestor said:"Strangers, who are ye? |
| 6370 | Whence didst thou come? |
| 6370 | Where is thy city, and what thy parentage? |
| 6370 | Wherefore hast thou such wrath against him?" |
| 6370 | Whither shall I carry these riches of mine? |
| 6370 | Who could tell the tale of all that we endured? |
| 6370 | Who now hath called us together? |
| 6370 | Whose orchard dost thou tend? |
| 6370 | Will he be her husband? |
| 6370 | Wilt thou perish, as thy father has perished? |
| 6370 | Wilt thou that there be strife or friendship between these two?" |
| 6370 | Would another wife have kept away from her husband, coming back now after twenty years?" |
| 6370 | Would ye fight for him or for the suitors?" |
| 6370 | ], bade thee thus waylay me?'' |
| 6370 | and hast thou not kinsmen to help thee? |
| 6370 | and how have thy feet outstripped my ship?'' |
| 6370 | and who gave thee these garments?" |
| 6370 | art thou then but a phantom that the queen of the dead hath sent me?'' |
| 6370 | can it be that another of the gods is contriving a snare for me, bidding me leave my raft? |
| 6370 | on the other, avenge me on this monster, when she would take my comrades for a prey?'' |
| 13725 | ''Thou knowest my need,''I answered;''why dost thou waste thy words? 13725 Are ye merchants,"he said,"or bold buccaneers, who roam the seas, a peril to others, and ever in peril themselves?" |
| 13725 | Are ye not covered with shame already, by your foul deeds done in this house in the absence of its lord? 13725 Art thou a goddess, or a mortal woman? |
| 13725 | But tell me truly, how did he with his single hand gain the mastery over such a multitude? |
| 13725 | Dost thou doubt my power to help thee? 13725 Father,"she said,"may I have the waggon to take the household raiment to the place of washing? |
| 13725 | Go to,replied his brethren,"if no man is using thee despitefully, why callest thou to us? |
| 13725 | Hast thou lost thy wits? |
| 13725 | How say ye, fair sirs? |
| 13725 | How was it,he asked,"that already in early childhood thou wast cast on the mercy of strangers? |
| 13725 | How would it be if I showed myself to the wooers? 13725 Is the public voice against thee,"he asked,"or art thou at feud with thy brethren, so that they will not help thee? |
| 13725 | Is there not one among you,he cried indignantly,"who will speak a word for Telemachus, or testify against the wickedness of these men? |
| 13725 | Now tell me,began Penelope, when the chair had been brought,"who art thou, and of what country? |
| 13725 | O my mother,cried Odysseus in deep distress,"why dost thou mock me thus? |
| 13725 | Of my own free will I lent her,answered the lad,"why should I not help him in his need? |
| 13725 | Royal son of Atreus,he said, in a voice broken with weeping,"is it here that I find thee, great chieftain of the embattled Greeks? |
| 13725 | Shall I bring them in,asked the squire,"or send them on to another house?" |
| 13725 | Shall I not go to Laertes, and tell him also? |
| 13725 | Shall we, who owe so much to the kindness of strangers, in the long years of our wanderings, send any man from our doors? 13725 Son of Laertes,"he said,"thou man of daring, hast thou reached the limit of thy rashness, or wilt thou go yet further? |
| 13725 | Son of Laertes,he said,"why goest thou thus unwarily, even as a silly bird into the net of the fowler? |
| 13725 | Speak not to me of such vanities,answered Penelope;"why should I wish to preserve this poor remnant of my beauty? |
| 13725 | Thinkest thou that the poor man will win me for his wife if he succeeds? 13725 Thou art mad, nurse,"answered Penelope pettishly, turning in her bed and rubbing her eyes;"why mockest thou me in my sorrow with thy folly? |
| 13725 | Thou surely art of some country,she said, smiling;"or art thou one of those of whom old stories tell, born of stocks and stones?" |
| 13725 | Was it that he might suffer as I have suffered, in wandering o''er the deep, while others devour his living? |
| 13725 | What ails the hounds? |
| 13725 | What ails thee, Polyphemus,they asked,"that thou makest this dreadful din, murdering our sleep? |
| 13725 | What can I do? |
| 13725 | What sayest thou to Athene and her father, Zeus? 13725 Where is thy faith?" |
| 13725 | Who art thou,he asked,"that comest back in a moment thus wondrously transfigured? |
| 13725 | Who put such a thought into thy heart? |
| 13725 | Who put such a thought,he asked,"into thy mind? |
| 13725 | Why came he hither to bring strife among us? |
| 13725 | Why comest thou alone? |
| 13725 | Why didst thou permit him to go on a vain errand? |
| 13725 | Why should not the stranger try his skill with the rest? |
| 13725 | Why sit ye thus,he cried,"huddled together like sheep? |
| 13725 | Why standest thou idle? |
| 13725 | Why wilt thou take this dreadful journey, thou, an only child, so loved, and so dear? 13725 Wilt thou be ever harping on that string? |
| 13725 | ''And hast thou a mind to see thy native land again?'' |
| 13725 | A common question addressed to persons newly arrived from the sea is,"Are you a merchant, a traveller, or a pirate?" |
| 13725 | Am I not tall and fair, and worthy to be called a daughter of heaven? |
| 13725 | And art thou indeed the son of Odysseus, whom none could match in craft and strategy? |
| 13725 | And how did Ægisthus contrive to slay a man mightier far than himself?" |
| 13725 | And knowest thou aught of my father, Peleus? |
| 13725 | And what cause has brought all these men hither?" |
| 13725 | And what if a god should visit this house in some strange disguise, to make trial of our hearts? |
| 13725 | And where shall I find means to pay back her dower? |
| 13725 | And who could tell what heavy trials awaited him when once more he set foot on his native soil? |
| 13725 | And who were thy father and mother?" |
| 13725 | Antinous heard him to the end with ill- disguised impatience, and then broke out in angry tones:"Who brought this wretched fellow here to vex us? |
| 13725 | Are there no perils left for thee in the land of the living that thou must invade the very realm of Hades, the sunless haunts of the dead?" |
| 13725 | Are there not beggars enough here already to mar our pleasure when we sit down to meat? |
| 13725 | Are they savage and rude, or gentle and hospitable to strangers?" |
| 13725 | Art thou not ashamed to take sides with this malapert boy, feeding his passion and folly with thy crazy prophecies? |
| 13725 | Art thou still wandering on thy long voyage from Troy, or hast thou been in Ithaca, and seen thy wife?" |
| 13725 | Art thou that Odysseus of whom Hermes spake, telling me that he should come hither on his voyage from Troy? |
| 13725 | Art thou tired of thy life?" |
| 13725 | As soon as he appeared on the threshold Penelope looked at him reproachfully, and said:"What message bringest thou from thy fair masters? |
| 13725 | But I fear me greatly that this task is too hard for us; how shall two men prevail against so many? |
| 13725 | But answer me once more, what means this lawless riot in the house? |
| 13725 | But come, ye bold wooers, which of you will be the first to enter the lists for this matchless prize, a lady without peer in all the land of Hellas? |
| 13725 | But tell me now of a truth, art not thou the son of that man? |
| 13725 | But tell me now, and answer me truly, what was the manner of thy death? |
| 13725 | But tell me truly, where didst thou moor thy vessel on thy landing? |
| 13725 | But to Menelaus I would have thee go; him thou must by all means consult; for who knows what he may have learnt on that wondrous voyage? |
| 13725 | But what am I saying? |
| 13725 | But what can one do against so many? |
| 13725 | But what has it availed him? |
| 13725 | But what miracle was this? |
| 13725 | But who is that tall and goodly lad, who sits apart, with gloomy brow, and seems ill- pleased with the doings of that riotous crew? |
| 13725 | But why do I ask? |
| 13725 | But why do I speak thus to thee? |
| 13725 | Came he to fight with the Trojans after I was gone, and did he acquit him well? |
| 13725 | Came it slowly, by long disease, or did Artemis lay thee low in a moment with a painless arrow from her bow? |
| 13725 | Comest thou for the first time to Ithaca, or art thou an old friend of this house, bound to us by ties of ancient hospitality?" |
| 13725 | Did I not save him and cherish him when he was flung naked and helpless on these shores? |
| 13725 | Did he bring any tidings of thy father?" |
| 13725 | Do they still live, or have they gone to their rest?" |
| 13725 | Egypt, sayest thou? |
| 13725 | For what wilt thou say of me, when thou art wandering in distant lands, if I suffer thee to abide here thus poorly clad, unwashed, and uncared for? |
| 13725 | For who ever beheld such wooing as yours? |
| 13725 | Foul or fair, what matters it in my widowed state? |
| 13725 | Had he not borne even worse than this on the day when the Cyclops devoured his comrades in the cave? |
| 13725 | Has she not grief enough already? |
| 13725 | Hast thou ever seen such lavish ornament of silver, and gold, and ivory? |
| 13725 | Hast thou not heard of the fame which Orestes won, when he slew the murderer of his sire? |
| 13725 | Hast thou not turned my men into swine, and didst thou not seek even now to put thy wicked spells upon me?" |
| 13725 | Hath any tidings come of the return of those who followed him to Troy, or is it some other business of public moment which has called us hither? |
| 13725 | He seemed a goodly man; but why did he start up and leave us so suddenly? |
| 13725 | He was in the prime of his manhood, surrounded by his friends, and in the midst of a joyous revel; who would dream of death and doom in such an hour? |
| 13725 | Hearts of stone, why did ye not tell me of his going? |
| 13725 | How camest thou by this raiment? |
| 13725 | How shall a man cross this dreadful gulf, where no ship is ever seen, on a raft? |
| 13725 | How was he with such help as Telemachus could give him to overpower and slay a hundred men in the prime of their youth and strength? |
| 13725 | Hungry and weary as we are, wouldst thou have us turn away from this fair isle, where we could prepare a comfortable meal, and take refreshing sleep? |
| 13725 | I would fain speak with this stranger; who knows but he may have somewhat to tell me of Odysseus, my lord?" |
| 13725 | If he killed Polyphemus, how was he to escape from the cavern? |
| 13725 | Is anyone stealing thy sheep or thy goats? |
| 13725 | Is it not enough that I have lost my brave father, whose gentleness and loving- kindness ye all knew, when he was your king? |
| 13725 | Is it their pleasure that my maidens should leave their tasks and spread the board for them? |
| 13725 | Is my power to be defied, and my worship slighted, by these Phæacians, who are of mine own race?" |
| 13725 | Is not Odysseus mine? |
| 13725 | Is their aid enough or shall we look for more?" |
| 13725 | It was of Antiphus that he thought, as he stood up and made harangue among the elders:"Who has summoned us hither, and what is his need? |
| 13725 | Know ye when he is to return from Pylos?" |
| 13725 | Knowest thou not that thou art a child of great hopes, and a favourite of heaven?" |
| 13725 | Lies she near at hand, or on a distant part of the coast?" |
| 13725 | Must I show you the way? |
| 13725 | Now tell me truly, I implore thee, what is this place where I am wandering? |
| 13725 | Of all his gallant peers, for ten years his companions in many a joyful feast, and many a high adventure, how many were left? |
| 13725 | Oh, for an hour of life, with such might as was mine when I fought in the van for Greece? |
| 13725 | Or art thou but the shadow of a shade, a phantom sent by Persephone to deceive me?" |
| 13725 | Or art thou keeping thy tidings until the wooers return? |
| 13725 | Or do his looks belie his qualities? |
| 13725 | Or seeks anyone to slay thee by force or by guile?" |
| 13725 | Say, hast thou brought any news of thy father?" |
| 13725 | Say, how comest thou hither, and what arm aimed the stroke which laid thee low?" |
| 13725 | Say, therefore, who art thou, and where is thy home? |
| 13725 | Shall I become a byword among the people, as false to the memory of my true lord? |
| 13725 | Shall we add the horrors of night to the horrors of the sea, and confront the demons of storm that haunt the caverns of darkness? |
| 13725 | Sweet home of my wedded joy, must I leave thee, and all the faces which I love so well, and the great possessions which he gave into my keeping? |
| 13725 | Telemachus replied:"How can I drive away the mother who bare me and nourished me? |
| 13725 | Tell me, how long is it since thou didst receive him, and who art thou, and where is thy home?" |
| 13725 | Then he called to Odysseus, and said:"How sayest thou, friend, wilt thou be my thrall, and work on my farm among the hills for a fixed wage? |
| 13725 | Then said Polyphemus, as his great hands passed over his back:"Dear ram, why art thou the last to leave the cave? |
| 13725 | Then wise Penelope made answer, slumbering right sweetly at the gates of dreams:"Dear sister, what has brought thee hither from thy far distant home? |
| 13725 | Thinkest thou that every fowl of the air is a messenger from heaven? |
| 13725 | Thou saidst''twas Ithaca, but in that I think thou speakest falsely, with intent to deceive me; or is this indeed my native land?" |
| 13725 | Ungrateful men, have ye forgotten all the good deeds that were wrought here by the hands of Odysseus, and all the kindness that ye received from him? |
| 13725 | Was it not but too probable that he would find his house made desolate, Telemachus dead, and Penelope wedded to another? |
| 13725 | Wast thou taken captive in war, or did robbers seize thee as thou satst watching sheep on the lonely hills, and sell thee into bondage?" |
| 13725 | We have slain the noblest in the land, not one, but many, who leave a host of friends to take up their cause: how then shall we escape the blood feud? |
| 13725 | Were it not better that I took him with me to my farm? |
| 13725 | What if he had come by his death through this violence? |
| 13725 | What shall I do? |
| 13725 | What was he to do with all this wealth? |
| 13725 | When she had drunk she said:"Whence comest thou, my son? |
| 13725 | When she observed it, Circe rallied him for his sullenness:"Art thou afraid to eat?" |
| 13725 | When they had supped, Calypso looked at Odysseus and said:"And wilt thou indeed leave me, thou strange man? |
| 13725 | Where was Menelaus when that foul deed was done? |
| 13725 | Who hath moved my bed from its place? |
| 13725 | Who in all the world will ever draw near to thee again, after the hideous deeds which thou hast wrought?" |
| 13725 | Who knows but that Odysseus will yet return, and make them drink the cup which they have filled? |
| 13725 | Who knows but thy master is now in like evil case, grown old before his time through care and misery?" |
| 13725 | Why didst thou bring this caitiff to the town? |
| 13725 | Why holdest thou thus aloof from my father, who has come back to thee after twenty years of suffering and toil? |
| 13725 | Why pierce ye the heart of the lady with your howlings? |
| 13725 | Why sit ye thus silent? |
| 13725 | Why will she delay us further? |
| 13725 | Will not one of you run down to the camp, and ask Agamemnon to send us further succour?'' |
| 13725 | Wilt thou go begging at other men''s tables, or art thou waiting to taste of my fists?" |
| 13725 | Wilt thou not repay us by telling something of thyself? |
| 13725 | With a cry of dismay he sprang to his feet, and cried aloud:"Good lack, what land have I come to now, and who be they that dwell there? |
| 13725 | With a stern look Odysseus answered him, and said:"What possesses thee, fellow, that thou seekest a quarrel with me? |
| 13725 | Would ye be for the wooers or for him?" |
| 13725 | Wouldst thou be wedded in soiled attire, and have all thy friends clad unseemly, to put thee to shame? |
| 13725 | Wouldst thou destroy him whom thou hast nursed at thine own breast?" |
| 13725 | Wretch, why dost thou lay snares against the life of my son? |
| 13725 | and why hast thou disturbed me in the sweetest sleep that ever I had since the fatal, the accursed day when my lord sailed for Troy? |
| 13725 | art thou there?" |
| 13725 | cried Antinous,"thinkest thou that there are no better men here than thou art? |
| 13725 | hast thou no heart at all? |
| 13725 | he cried,"when shall my troubles have an end? |
| 13725 | he cried,"would these dastards fill the seat and we d the wife of that mighty man? |
| 13725 | said the implacable god, shaking his head;"and have the other powers plotted against me in my absence, to frustrate my just anger? |
| 13725 | she said, smiling:"have I not sworn to do thee no harm? |
| 13725 | she said,"wilt thou never forget thy cunning shifts, wherein none can surpass thee, no, not the gods themselves? |
| 13725 | son of Telamon,"he said,"canst thou not forgive me, even here? |
| 26275 | A whole month the monarch entertained me;what was again the interest? |
| 26275 | All feast from day to day with endless change of meats;why ask whence the viands come? |
| 26275 | How shall I escape afterward, if I succeed? |
| 26275 | Ill- fated man,she cries,"why hast thou so angered Neptune?" |
| 26275 | No more honor for me from mortals or Gods,cries Neptune,"if I can be thus defied?" |
| 26275 | Phæacians, how does this man seem to you now in form, stature, and mind? |
| 26275 | Shall I drop into the sea and perish, or shall I still endure and stay among the living? |
| 26275 | Telemachus was much the first to observe her;why just he? |
| 26275 | Why art thou last to leave, who wast always first? 26275 Why dost thou a God ask me a God why I come?" |
| 26275 | A foolish question has been asked here and much discussed: How did Ulysses know what his companions said during his sleep? |
| 26275 | A great change in manner of treatment; why? |
| 26275 | Above all, does Menelaus love me still? |
| 26275 | Again the question comes up: what is it to know Homer? |
| 26275 | An idyllic spot and forever beautiful; who but Homer has ever gotten so much poetry out of a pig- sty? |
| 26275 | And indeed what can he gain thereby? |
| 26275 | And what is the connection with the preceding portion of the poem? |
| 26275 | And, Will he return home? |
| 26275 | Are literal rocks passed by putting wax into the ears of the crew and by tying the captain to the mast? |
| 26275 | Are they transformed men, or merely wild animals tamed? |
| 26275 | As that father is not present the question arises, Where is he? |
| 26275 | At once she recognizes who it is:"Art thou that wily Ulysses whose coming hither from Troy in his black ship has often been foretold to me?" |
| 26275 | But after such a fit, he is ready for action:"when I had enough of weeping and rolling about, I asked Circe: Who will guide me?" |
| 26275 | But can the mortal hide himself from the deity, specially from the deity of wisdom? |
| 26275 | But for what purpose? |
| 26275 | But if it be utterly rotten, what then? |
| 26275 | But is not Ulysses himself inhuman and uncharitable toward his poor beggar rival? |
| 26275 | But is this separation never to be overcome? |
| 26275 | But the aid for such an enterprise-- whence? |
| 26275 | But the singer is tired and sleepy; moreover has he not told the essence of the matter in this portion of his song? |
| 26275 | But what else is allegory but this embodiment of subjective wisdom? |
| 26275 | But what if he falls out with both? |
| 26275 | But what is the attitude of the Suitors toward such a view? |
| 26275 | But what is this thought? |
| 26275 | But what reader ever found these few lines tiresome? |
| 26275 | But where is this Syria? |
| 26275 | But who are the Cyclops? |
| 26275 | But who are these spirits or weird powers dwelling in the lone island or in the solitary wood? |
| 26275 | But who has not felt that in the preceding division the three Greek heroes were under the inevitable penalty of their own deeds? |
| 26275 | But who was the author of such work? |
| 26275 | But why did Helen do thus? |
| 26275 | But why should the Læstrigonians be portrayed as giants? |
| 26275 | But why this blame? |
| 26275 | Can not the other two adventures be derived in a general way from the experiences of the Underworld? |
| 26275 | Can we not see Orient and Occident imaging themselves in their respective ideal products? |
| 26275 | Can we not see that herein is an attempt to rise out of that twofold prison of the spirit, Space and Time, into what is true in all places and times? |
| 26275 | Cunning indeed she has and boundless artifice; what shall we make of her? |
| 26275 | Did he not see the limits of his world? |
| 26275 | Did they get their knowledge from Egypt or Chaldea? |
| 26275 | Did they not undergo all this severing of the dearest ties for the sake of Helen, for the integrity of the family, and of their civil life also? |
| 26275 | Do they still retain their affection for their families? |
| 26275 | Does he not show within himself a deep scission-- between his desire to return and his deed? |
| 26275 | Does her end justify her means? |
| 26275 | Does not the man at times conceal himself to the God, by self- deception, self- excuse, by lying to his higher nature? |
| 26275 | Does she not thus announce to the much- enduring man that she is free, though under a good deal of pressure? |
| 26275 | Does the poet hint through a side glance the real state of the case? |
| 26275 | Dost thou long to see the eye of thy ruler, which has been put out by that vile wretch, Nobody?" |
| 26275 | Doth he live? |
| 26275 | Finally comes the demand: who art thou and why didst thou weep? |
| 26275 | For has he not the proof in his own heart? |
| 26275 | For is not the career of every true hero or heroine vicarious to a certain degree? |
| 26275 | For is not the universal man all men-- both himself and others in essence? |
| 26275 | Has a change come over the Goddess through this visit from Olympus? |
| 26275 | Has he not negatived Polyphemus, who was himself a negative, so carefully and fully defined by the poet at the start? |
| 26275 | Has it any connection with the other songs of this Book, or with Homer in general? |
| 26275 | Has not the poet derived the noble Arete and Alcinous and institutional Phæacia from the savage Cyclops? |
| 26275 | Have the Gods, then, nothing to do in this world? |
| 26275 | He dares not kill the giant outright,"with my sharp sword stubbing him where the midriff holds the liver,"for how could they then get out? |
| 26275 | He denies his own reason; how then can he rise after a fall? |
| 26275 | He must have looked within in order to see his world; where else was it to be found in any such completeness? |
| 26275 | He recognizes this descent to Hades as the greatest deed of Ulysses:"What greater deed, rash man, wilt thou plan next?" |
| 26275 | How can we best see the sweep of these eight Books and their organic connection with the total Odyssey? |
| 26275 | How could he, with his bent toward the godless? |
| 26275 | How shall he know the truth of the reality about him in his new situation, how understand this world of wisdom? |
| 26275 | How shall we consider this prophecy? |
| 26275 | In fact, how can they have any unity? |
| 26275 | In general, the question comes up: What constitutes a lie? |
| 26275 | In such case is not the God also hidden, in fact compelled to assume a mask? |
| 26275 | In the harbor of Piræus the hackman will ask the traveler:"Do you want my_ amaxa_?" |
| 26275 | In the second place one asks very emphatically: Why this present treatment of the Gods on Homer''s part? |
| 26275 | Indeed have we not just seen him in the fierce conflict between knowing and doing, which he has not been able to unify in the last adventure? |
| 26275 | Indeed what else could he do? |
| 26275 | Indeed what use is there of rising? |
| 26275 | Indeed whom else ought he to find? |
| 26275 | Insane laughter of the Suitors, yet with eyes full of tears, and with hearts full of sorrow: what does it all forbode? |
| 26275 | Is it a wonder that Pallas, taking the human shape of Mentor, comes and speaks to him? |
| 26275 | Is it not manifest that we have passed out of dualism into unity, out of strife into harmony? |
| 26275 | Is not this a glorious starting- point for a poem which proposes to reveal the ways of providence unto men? |
| 26275 | Is she justified? |
| 26275 | Is she right? |
| 26275 | Is such deception allowable under the circumstances? |
| 26275 | Is the disguise of Ulysses justifiable? |
| 26275 | Is the subtlety of Penelope morally reprehensible? |
| 26275 | Is there to be no positive result of such bloody work? |
| 26275 | Is there to be no return to the East and completion of the world''s cycle? |
| 26275 | Is this test of charity, selected by the poet here, a true test of such characters? |
| 26275 | It is certainly a product of early Greek poesy; can it be organically jointed into anything before it and after it? |
| 26275 | It is to be noticed, however, that Pallas has little to do with Ulysses in Fableland; for is she not substantially negated? |
| 26275 | Knowledge and suffering-- are they not the two poles of the universal character? |
| 26275 | Lofty is the response of Ulysses:"O Circe, what right- minded man would endure to touch food and drink before seeing his companions released?" |
| 26275 | Mark the words of Ulysses:"Woman, thou hast spoken a painful word,"when she commanded the bed to be removed;"who hath displaced my bed?" |
| 26275 | Menelaus holds the Old Man fast, and asks: What God detains me from my return? |
| 26275 | Moreover he was one of those who returned home successfully, can he tell how it was done? |
| 26275 | Nor should we fail to scan her second question:"Do you not say that you have come hither a wanderer over the deep?" |
| 26275 | Now what is this problem? |
| 26275 | Now what will he do? |
| 26275 | Now what? |
| 26275 | One asks: Is not this imaginative form still a vital element of education? |
| 26275 | Onward the wanderer, now with his single ship, has to sail again; whither next? |
| 26275 | Our first question is, why call in a goddess for such a purpose? |
| 26275 | Pallas appears to Ulysses,"but Telemachus beheld her not;"Why? |
| 26275 | Pallas has at last to come and to answer his two troublesome thoughts:"How shall I, being only one, slay the Suitors, being many?" |
| 26275 | Pass them the man must; what is to be done? |
| 26275 | Prophetic Circe can tell all this, for does it not lie just in the domain of her experience, which has also been twofold? |
| 26275 | She has to obey, for is she not really conquered by Ulysses? |
| 26275 | She must not be seen with Ulysses; men with evil tongues would say:"What stranger is this following Nausicaa? |
| 26275 | She takes pleasure in the exercise of her gift, who does not? |
| 26275 | So much for Circe in her new relation in the present Book; how about Ulysses? |
| 26275 | So the old Greek poet must have thought; was he very far from right? |
| 26275 | Soon by the light of his fire he sees the lurking strangers and asks,"Who are you?" |
| 26275 | Soon, however, we catch the reason of her conduct in the question:"Stranger, where did you get those garments?" |
| 26275 | Such continual recurrence of the God''s interference with the course of events-- what does it mean? |
| 26275 | Such is her lively admiration now, but what means this? |
| 26275 | Such is the promise, has it not been fulfilled? |
| 26275 | Such is this ideal world of Phæacia, still ideal to- day; for where is it realized? |
| 26275 | Such was the supreme test, that of charity; how will the Suitors treat the poor beggar? |
| 26275 | Telemachus is to see Helen; what does that signify in education? |
| 26275 | The highest and the humblest of the social order are here placed side by side; with what result? |
| 26275 | The old dispute as to conduct rises in full intensity: Does the end justify the means? |
| 26275 | The present Tale seeks to give an answer to the two main questions of Telemachus: Where is my father now? |
| 26275 | The question arises: Did Homer find those Tales already collected? |
| 26275 | The question is, How can they truly get back after so long a period of violence? |
| 26275 | The question of the hour is, How shall I get out of the difficulty? |
| 26275 | The question rises, Why does the poet hold it so necessary to keep the matter secret from Eumæus? |
| 26275 | The question, therefore, is at present: How shall this man come into the knowledge of the Goddess? |
| 26275 | The reader naturally asks, will there be any return to the Orient after the grand Greek separation, first heralded on the plains of Ilium? |
| 26275 | The rest of the companions were ordered aboard, they obeyed; off they sail again on the hoary deep-- whitherward? |
| 26275 | The result is when the other Cyclops, roused by the cries of Polyphemus, ask him from outside the cave: What is the matter? |
| 26275 | Then why should the Suitors injure the son because they have been wheedled by the mother? |
| 26275 | There he sacrifices to the Highest God, Zeus, who, however, pays no heed-- how is it possible? |
| 26275 | This fact we may accept; but the question comes up: Is Homer such a balladist and nothing more? |
| 26275 | This test is that of humanity, of charity toward a beggar; how will the Suitors behave toward him? |
| 26275 | Unquestionably a glorious ideal is set up before the Sisterhood of all time for emulation; or is it unattainable? |
| 26275 | Was it a hostile act on her part? |
| 26275 | Was not Troy destroyed because of a wrong done to the Greek Family? |
| 26275 | Was there some intimate personal relation figured in this character which we still seem to feel afar off there in antiquity? |
| 26275 | What are these shapes and why? |
| 26275 | What are we doing now but trying to grasp Proteus in this exposition? |
| 26275 | What can be the matter? |
| 26275 | What did not Telemachus see and hear at Sparta? |
| 26275 | What did these companions do? |
| 26275 | What does all this mean? |
| 26275 | What does he get? |
| 26275 | What does it all mean? |
| 26275 | What does this suggest to the reader-- this duplication of the threefold form of the Book? |
| 26275 | What else can she do? |
| 26275 | What else indeed has man to do? |
| 26275 | What else indeed is Gravitation? |
| 26275 | What experience has called forth such a marvelous character? |
| 26275 | What follows? |
| 26275 | What have we to encounter? |
| 26275 | What hint lies in that? |
| 26275 | What is the ground of such a marked transition? |
| 26275 | What is the location of the Læstrigonians? |
| 26275 | What is the outcome? |
| 26275 | What is thy relation to Troy? |
| 26275 | What men are here-- wild, insolent, unjust, or are they hospitable, reverencing the Gods? |
| 26275 | What motive for weeping? |
| 26275 | What next? |
| 26275 | What reason for it? |
| 26275 | What shall I do with this world of the senses? |
| 26275 | What then? |
| 26275 | What then? |
| 26275 | What then? |
| 26275 | What will Ulysses do in such extremity? |
| 26275 | What will the Suitors do? |
| 26275 | What will this discipline be? |
| 26275 | What, then, is left for the poor mortal? |
| 26275 | When did it take place, at what period during the struggle? |
| 26275 | Whence did she obtain them? |
| 26275 | Wherein does the negative nature of Hades lie? |
| 26275 | Wherein is the escort by the Phæacians a violation of the divine order as voiced by the Supreme God? |
| 26275 | Which is paramount? |
| 26275 | Whither now does he go? |
| 26275 | Whither? |
| 26275 | Who are present? |
| 26275 | Who can not feel that this touch is taken from life, is an echo of his own experience in some princely hall? |
| 26275 | Who does not love this fealty of the old bard to the highest order of things? |
| 26275 | Who is this Goddess? |
| 26275 | Who is this stranger anyhow? |
| 26275 | Who will recognize her? |
| 26275 | Who, then, according to the theory, put these ballads together? |
| 26275 | Why a Goddess here? |
| 26275 | Why is he thus repelled by Family and State? |
| 26275 | Why just that in her case? |
| 26275 | Why not? |
| 26275 | Why should he not be angry at the man who seeks to tame him? |
| 26275 | Why should he not make a philologer and a professor the author of the Homeric poems? |
| 26275 | Why then introduce the Goddess at all? |
| 26275 | Why then regard them as Gods? |
| 26275 | Why this change in the everlasting powers? |
| 26275 | Why this difference? |
| 26275 | Why this interference from above? |
| 26275 | Why? |
| 26275 | Why? |
| 26275 | Will they answer the call of their wives? |
| 26275 | Will they behave toward him as Eumæus has? |
| 26275 | Will you still keep sneaking through the house by night to spy out women?" |