The Odyssey — Vocabulary
Homer
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For through the blindness of their own hearts they perished, fools, who devoured the oxen of Helios Hyperion: but the god took from them their day of returning.†62 more

For nine whole years we were busy about them, devising their ruin with all manner of craft; and scarce did Cronion bring it to pass.†44 more

And she sent it to the house of divine Odysseus to bid Penelope, amid her sorrow and lamenting, to cease from her weeping and tearful lamentation.†41 more

So all the morning we waited with steadfast heart, and the seals came forth in troops from the brine, and then they couched them all orderly by the sea-beach.†61 more

Moreover it is hard for me to make heavy restitution to Icarius, as needs I must, if of mine own will I send my mother away.†36 more

And Odysseus of many counsels answered him saying: 'Thou too, my friend, all hail; and may the gods vouchsafe thee happiness, and mayst thou never miss this sword which thou hast given me, thou that with soft speech hast yielded me amends.'14 more

But whensoever we Achaeans did battle on the plain of Troy, he never tarried behind in the throng or the press of men, but ran out far before us all, yielding to none in that might of his.14 more

So spake he, nor heedless was the messenger, the slayer of Argos.†34 more

And he marked the thing and was amazed, for he deemed that it was a god; and anon he went among the wooers, a godlike man.†33 more

'So spake he, but my spirit within me was broken, for that he bade me again to go to Aegyptus over the misty deep, a long and grievous way.†29 more

I said that after sore affliction, with the loss of all his company, unknown to all, in the twentieth year he should come home.†29 more

Thinking upon him he spake out among the Immortals: 'Lo you now, how vainly mortal men do blame the gods!†32 more

So with that word he sat him down; then in the midst uprose Mentor, the companion of noble Odysseus.†20 more

Therewith he roused Athene to yet greater eagerness, and from the peaks of Olympus she came glancing down.†27 more

His daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of Ithaca.†23 more

Then Antinous, son of Eupeithes, answered him: 'Telemachus, in very truth the gods themselves instruct thee to be proud of speech and boldly to harangue.†15 more

First as she was washing clothes, one of them lay with her in love by the hollow ship, for love beguiles the minds of womankind, even of the upright.†12 more

But now of a truth will I utter my word of prophecy, as the Immortals bring it into my heart and as I deem it will be accomplished, though no soothsayer am I, nor skilled in the signs of birds.†9 more

There was some excuse for the error of critics who asked for a Homer in ballad rhyme.†8 more

There was much wine still a drinking, and still they slew many flocks of sheep by the seashore and kine with trailing feet and shambling gait.†7 more