The Odyssey — Vocabulary
Homer
Recommended version — Translated by Fagles
(Edited)

She found Odysseus in the thick of slaughtered corpses,
splattered with bloody filth like a lion that's devoured
some ox of the field and lopes home, covered with blood,p.451.9alternate pages18 more

So, we will devour your worldly goods and wealth
as long as she holds out, holds to that course
the gods have charted deep inside her heart.
Great renown she wins for herself, no doubt,
great loss for you in treasure.p.97.3alternate pages18 more

  Orestes took revenge,
  he killed that cunning, murderous Aegisthus,
  who'd killed his famous father.†p.113.8alternate pages32 more

  Proteus of Egypt does,
  the immortal Old Man of the Sea who never lies,
  who sounds the deep in all its depths, Poseidon's servant.†p.136.7alternate pages40 more

  I saw good Mentor
  yesterday, just at sunup, here.†p.145.4alternate pages19 more

  Poised or on the prowl, learning of these rank crimes
  he's sowing seeds of ruin for all your suitors.†p.359.5alternate pages24 more

  If any other woman of mine had come to me,
  rousing me out of sleep with such a tale,
  I'd have her bundled back to her room in pain.†p.456.3alternate pages24 more

Eurymachus—the rest of you fine, brazen suitors—I have done with appeals to you about these matters.p.100.1alternate pages21 more

and round the posts he poured the chains in a sweeping net
with streams of others flowing down from the roofbeam,
gossamer-fine as spider webs no man could see,
not even a blissful god—
the Smith had forged a masterwork of guile.
Once he'd spun that cunning trap around his bed
...
and uncontrollable laughter burst from the happy gods
when they saw the god of fire's subtle, cunning work.p.201.9alternate pages7 more

I'm hardly adept at subtle conversation.
Someone my age might feel shy, what's more,
...p.108.3alternate pages7 more

Why probe my mind?†p.140.1alternate pages20 more

  There I sacked the city,
  killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder,
  that rich haul we dragged away from the place—
  we shared it round so no one, not on my account,
  would go deprived of his fair share of spoils.†p.212.9alternate pages17 more

  Once he'd supped and the stirring bard had closed,
  the suitors broke into uproar down along the hall.†p.365.9alternate pages35 more

Fifty women you have inside your house, women we've trained to do their duties well, to card the wool and bear the yoke of service.p.452.6alternate pages15 more

Zeus, the Old Thunderer, robs a man of half his virtue the day the yoke clamps down around his neck.p.364.8alternate pages15 more

  Vengeance done, he held a feast for the Argives,
  to bury his hated mother, craven Aegisthus too,
  the very day Menelaus arrived, lord of the warcry,
  freighted with all the wealth his ships could carry.†p.117.4alternate pages8 more

  So I vaunted and he groaned back in answer,
  'Oh no, no—that prophecy years ago ...
  it all comes home to me with a vengeance now!†p.227.5alternate pages8 more

...Athena,
luminous goddess, lavished immortal gifts on her
to make her suitors lose themselves in wonder . . .
The divine unguent first. She cleansed her cheeks,
her brow and fine eyes with ambrosia smooth as the oils
the goddess Love applies, ...p.382.2alternate pages3 more

[Proteus (the Old Man of the Sea) prophesying to Menelaus]
But about your own destiny, Menelaus,
dear to Zeus, it's not for you to die
...
So he divined and down the breaking surf he dovep.142.7alternate pages3 more

  Now because I am filthy, wear such grimy rags,
  she spurns me—your mother still can't bring herself
  to believe I am her husband.†p.459.3alternate pages6 more