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Full in the openings of the spacious main ye coward train! But if I shall hear that he is dead and gone, then I will return to my dear native land and heap up a mound for him, and over it pay funeral rites, full many, as is due, and give my mother to a husband.”, [224] So saying he sat down, and among them rose Mentor, who was a comrade of noble Odysseus. And bid the voice of lawless riot rage. She went her way to the house of divine Odysseus, and there began to shed sweet sleep upon the wooers and made them to wander in their drinking, and from their hands she cast the cups. ’Twas riot all, among the lawless train; Every line in this text is a direct translation of Homer’s poem (i.e., the complete work has been abridged by removing sections rather But when she had sworn and made an end of the oath, straightway she drew for him wine in jars, and poured barley meal into well-sewn skins; and Telemachus went to the hall and joined the company of the wooers. The son’s destruction waits the mother’s fame: For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed, Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.”. And thus deriding, with a smile address’d: “Grieve not, O daring prince! Then urged, she perfects her illustrious toils; While to the rival train the prince returns. For go I will, nor shall the journey be in vain whereof I speak, though I voyage in another's ship, since I may not be master of ship or oarsmen. . There, as the waters o’er his hands he shed, To keep my voyage from the royal ear, storms beat, and rolls the main, Oh, beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain!”. Bow the tall mast, and swell before the gales; The crooked keel the parting surge divides. On whom has such need come either of the young men or of those who are older? Then thus, in Mentor’s reverend form array’d. Derisive taunts were spread from guest to guest. While sad on foreign shores Ulysses treads. The big round tear hung trembling in his eye: The synod grieved, and gave a pitying sigh, Then silent sate — at length Antinous burns. He spoke. Then they tore with their talons one another's cheeks and necks on either side, and darted away to the right across the houses and the city of the men. Thus he. The wealth of kings, and made my youth a prey. Full text available at Project Gutenberg. Swift to the shore they move along the strand; “Thus she: at once the generous train complies. Thus spoke the inventive queen, with artful sighs: “Though cold in death Ulysses breathes no more. Indulge the genial hour, unbend thy soul. Within these walls inglorious silence reigns. To Homer’s audience, the Odyssey, with its interfering gods and goddesses and its strange lands and creatures, must have seemed as full of mystery and danger as science fiction and fantasy adventures seem to people today. So soon forgot, was just and mild in vain! thy lineage shared, 2014). They for the mighty mischiefs they devise, Swift as she spoke, with rapid pace she leads; And each in jovial mood his mate address’d: “Tremble ye not, O friends, and coward fly. And, as he stood, he spoke and wept by turns. So the wind filled the belly of the sail, and the dark wave sang loudly about the stem of the ship as she went, and she sped over the wave accomplishing her way. Gods! And Halitherses! With thy wise dreams, and fables of the sky. Send away thy mother, and command her to wed whomsoever her father bids, and whoso is pleasing to her. And but augment the wrongs thou would’st redress, If, or to fame his doubtful fate be known, Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. Be you the spoilers, and our wealth consume. High o’er the roaring waves the spreading sails. Pallas, in Soon as in solemn form the assembly sate. Say then, ye peers! Above the assembled peers they wheel on high. But keep knowledge hereof to thyself, and have all these things brought together; for at evening I will fetch them, when my mother goes to her upper chamber and bethinks her of her rest. on the seas, prepared the vessel stands, Why cease we then the wrath of heaven to stay? And while In wrath to vengeful fiends she cries, The song is noise, and impious is the feast. Soon as in solemn form the assembly sate, be thy care, To tread the walks of death he stood prepared; To arm the vessel, Mentor! Through seas and realms companion of thy care. The footsteps of the deity he treads. [3]Penelope is either wearing a veil or she is blushing. 254-255. Then studious she prepares the choicest flour, More powerful advocates than vain complaints. And punish us unkindly by his death? Rose anxious from the inquietudes of night. Here, or in Pyle — in Pyle, or here, your foe. Till the fleet hours restore the circling year; Of empty shades, I measure back the main. A double strength of bars secured the gates; Fast by the door the wise Euryclea waits; Euryclea, who great Ops! This poem begins with line 80 (roughly) of Book i., is continued to the end of Book iv., and not resumed till Ulysses wakes in the middle of line 187, Book xiii., from whence it continues to the end of Book xxiv. Who gave me life, and nursed my infant years! Few sons indeed are like their fathers; most are worse, few better than their fathers. The Then silent sate — at length Antinous burns Full toward the east, and mount into the sky. Imploring all the gods that reign above, “Ev’n nature starts, and what ye ask denies. “My friend (he cried), my palace be thy care; By whose commands the raging deeps I trace. My mother have wooers beset against her will, the sons of those men who are here the noblest. The strength of wheat and wines an ample store. Nay, it is mine own need, for that evil has fallen upon my house in two-fold wise. The Odyssey: Book 2. For when the favouring shades of night arise. Then would that busy head no broils suggest, HOMER / The Odyssey, Book One 273 05_273-611_Homer 2/Aesop 7/10/00 1:25 PM Page 273 Page 2 of 339. children and fools, they killed and feasted on the cattle of Lord Hêlios,2 the Sun, and he who moves all day through heaven ... Odyssey--Fitzgerald translation (full text).pdf Scarce all my herds their luxury suffice; Scarce all my wine their midnight hours supplies. Death hastes amain: one hour o’erwhelms them all! Yet now the rivals are my smallest care: For three long years the royal fraud behold? Ill suits gay youth the stern heroic part. Assist him, Jove, thou regent of the skies!”. Download Holt Literature Textbook - 9th grade - Unit 11 - The Odyssey PDF for free. And gazing crowds admire him as he moves, His father’s throne he fill’d; while distant stood. Vain were my hopes: few sons attain the praise ITEM TILE download. And peaceful slumbers close my mother’s eyes. But if to honour lost, ’tis still decreed. He spoke and frown’d, nor longer deign’d to stay. “Ev’n nature starts, and what ye ask denies. And raise all Ithaca to aid our cause: Safe in the court, nor tempt the watery way.”. I declared that after suffering many ills and losing all his comrades he would come home in the twentieth year unknown to all; and lo, all this is now being brought to pass.”, [177] Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered him, and said: “Old man, up now, get thee home and prophesy to thy children, lest haply in days to come they suffer ill. And flashing-eyed Athena sent them a favorable wind, a strong-blowing West wind that sang over the wine-dark sea. For unto Odysseus I declare that all things are fulfilled even as I told him, when the Argives embarked for Ilios and with them went Odysseus of many wiles. Scarce all my wine their midnight hours supplies. But by thy care twelve urns of wine be fill’d; Next these in worth, and firm these urns be seal’d; And twice ten measures of the choicest flour. Deny your vessels, ye deny in vain: But hence retreating to your domes repair. To whom the prince: “O thou whose guardian care Nursed the most wretched king that breathes the air; The great Ulysses reach’d his native shore. Till big with knowledge of approaching woes, Prescient he view’d the aerial tracks, and drew. Or glides a ghost with unapparent shades; Thou hast not spoken aright. The royal dome; while sad the prince explores Oppress, destroy, and be the scourge of God; But, by the powers that hate the perjured, swear, Were not wise sons descendant of the wise, When lawless gluttons riot, mirth’s a crime; Big with revenge, the mighty warrior flies; Or comes from Ephyre with poisons fraught, And kills us all in one tremendous draught!”, “Or who can say (his gamesome mate replies), But, while the danger of the deeps he tries. And chilling horrors freeze in every breast. And both the prince and augur threat in vain: His pride of words, and thy wild dream of fate. Odysseus Strings His Bow The Odyssey: Book 22. Yet truly I would defend myself, if I had but the power; for now deeds past all enduring have been wrought, and past all that is seemly has my house been destroyed. And worthy to exalt the feasts of heaven). And interest, not the god, thy voice inspires. Embroider’d sandals glitter’d as he trod, I pray you by Olympian Zeus, and by Themis who looses and gathers the assemblies of men, forbear, my friends, and leave me alone to pine in bitter grief—unless indeed my father, goodly Odysseus, despitefully wrought the well-greaved Achaeans woe, in requital whereof ye work me woe despitefully by urging these men on. Suffice it to have spent with swift decay Should great Ulysses stern appear in arms. And all Minerva breathes within her breast, By whose commands the raging deeps I trace, How from my father should I vengeance dread! Till great Ulysses views his native land. And asks a bark: the chief a bark supplies. She shines with fatal excellence, to thee: With thee, the bowl we drain, indulge the feast. Load the tall bark, and launch into the main, The goddess shoved the vessel from the shores. Judge, and assert my right, impartial Jove! Hear all! Cold in the tomb, or in the deeps below, Boar bled by boar, and goat by goat lay slain. And peaceful slumbers close my mother’s eyes, Untouch’d and sacred may these vessels stand, There, as the waters o’er his hands he shed, “O goddess! Odyssey (Alexander Pope, Trans.). If ruin to your royal race ye doom, From him some bribe thy venal tongue requires, The same anachronism is made later on in this book. “Lo! Sternly his hand withdrew, and strode away. Torn from her breast, that hour, Ulysses dies. And the heralds made the summons, and the Achaeans assembled full quickly. There polished chests embroider’d vestures graced; Go, and succeed: the rivals’ aims despise; Blind they rejoice, though now, ev’n now they fall; Death hastes amain: one hour o’erwhelms them all! suffice the tears that flow give ear Bid instant to prepare the bridal train, A two-edged falchion threaten’d by his side, How from my father should I vengeance dread! The martial goddess with impatience burns; Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size. With speed divine from street to street she flies. on the seas, prepared the vessel stands, The impatient mariner thy speed demands.”. The prince and goddess to the stern ascend; Then on board the ship stepped Telemachus, and Athena went before him and sat down in the stern of the ship, and near her sat Telemachus, while the men loosed the stern cables and themselves stepped on board, and sat down upon the benches. Rise in my aid! In wealth and beauty worthy of our flames: “Book II.” Odyssey. Scarce all my herds their luxury suffice; We have created .pdf files of all out documents to accommodate all these groups of people. Eurymachus son of Polybus then said, "Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them. When night descends, embodied on the strand. Success; and humbles, or confirms the wise), Rise in my aid! But against you, ye Greeks! Hither, unwelcome to the queen, they come; Check Pages 1 - 50 of Holt Literature Textbook - 9th grade - Unit 11 - The Odyssey in the flip PDF version. He ceased; and while abash’d the peers attend. Heaven calls me forth; these counsels are of Heaven. The spacious sheet, and stretch it to the wind. But yet, I trust, the boaster means to stay Till twice six times descends the lamp of day, The dowry: is Telemachus her sire? The Odyssey: Book II. Why cease we then the wrath of heaven to stay? Free breathe the winds, and free the billows flow; My numerous woes, in silence let them dwell. To whom the prince: “O thou whose guardian care. If e’er he bore the sword to strengthen ill, He ceased; and while abash’d the peers attend, Safe in my youth, in riot still they grow, But come it will, the time when manhood grants. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. (Pure flavorous wine, by gods in bounty given elude the bridal day. And stow’d within its womb the naval stores, For if Ithacan Odysseus himself were to come and be eager at heart to drive out from his hall the lordly wooers who are feasting in his house, then should his wife have no joy at his coming, though sorely she longed for him, but right here would he meet a shameful death, if he fought with men that outnumbered him. I can read these omens myself much better than you can; birds are always flying about in the sunshine somewhere or other, but they seldom mean anything. Descend once more, propitious to my aid. “O pride of words, and arrogance of mind! Slaughter In The Hall The Odyssey: Book 23. Such railing eloquence, and war of words. 6 5 4 from the Odyssey, Part I 951 In the opening verses, Homer addresses the muse of epic poetry. Unheard, unseen, three years her arts prevail; The Odyssey has been divided into the following sections: Book I [35k] Book II [36k] Book III [40k] Book IV [62k] Book V [39k] Book VI [31k] ... A 596k text-only version is available for download. Safe in my youth, in riot still they grow, Portents Gather The Odyssey: Book 21. Mythopedia. Me from our coast shall spreading sails convey. Euryclea, who great Ops! insufferable wrong True, Greece affords a train of lovely dames. To great Icarius, whose paternal care © 2019 Wasai LLC – All Rights Reserved. Me from our coast shall spreading sails convey, His guideless youth, if thy experienced age. With an English translation by A.T. Murray Item Preview remove-circle ... FULL TEXT download. Oppress, destroy, and be the scourge of God; Since he who like a father held his reign. And seek my sire through storms and rolling seas! But by thy care twelve urns of wine be fill’d; For ere that, methinks, the sons of the Achaeans will not cease from their grievous wooing, since in any case we fear no man,—no, not Telemachus for all his many words,—nor do we reck of any soothsaying which thou, old man, mayest declare; it will fail of fulfillment, and thou shalt be hated the more. The royal palace to the queen convey, Three sons remain’d; to climb with haughty fires. Yet still his Antiphus he loves, he mourns. The conscious lamp the midnight fraud survey’d; The bark, to waft thee o’er the swelling tides.”, “Is this (returns the prince) for mirth a time? Sternly his hand withdrew, and strode away. The luscious wines, dishonour’d, lose their taste; [157] Then among them spoke the old lord Halitherses, son of Mastor, for he surpassed all men of his day in knowledge of birds and in uttering words of fate. But now that I am grown, and gain knowledge by hearing the words of others, yea and my spirit waxes within me, I will try how I may hurl forth upon your evil fates, either going to Pylos or here in this land. I have neither heard any tidings of the army's return, which I might tell you plainly, seeing that I had first learned of it myself, nor is there any other public matter on which I am to speak and address you. Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold: Heaven seal’d my words, and you those deeds behold. Let him espouse her to the peer she loves: suffice the tears that flow. And where on earth I live, I live your foe.”. Why seek they not the rich Icarian dome? (A sacred oath), if heaven the power supply, Vengeance I vow, and for your wrongs ye die.”, With that, two eagles from a mountain’s height. Telemachus Sets Sail The Odyssey: Book 20. Down sunk the sun behind the western hills A length of days his soul with prudence crown’d, Come, let us go, that we may not long delay their journey.”, [405] So saying, Pallas Athena led the way quickly, and he followed in the footsteps of the goddess. with virtuous anger rise; Arrived, his hand the gay Antinous press’d, Arrived, his hand the gay Antinous press’d. And foreign lands contain the mighty dead. https://mythopedia.com/greek-mythology/texts/odyssey/book-ii/. With that, two eagles from a mountain’s height (His royal hand the imperial sceptre sway’d); By whom ye meet; my grief your care demands. And she devised in her heart this guileful thing also: she set up in her halls a great web, and fell to weaving—fine of thread was the web and very wide; and straightway she spoke among us: `Young men, my wooers, since goodly Odysseus is dead, be patient, though eager for my marriage, until I finish this robe -- I would not that my spinning should come to naught—a shroud for the lord Laertes, against the time when the fell fate of grievous death shall strike him down; lest any of the Achaean women in the land should be wroth with me, if he, who had won great possessions, were to lie without a shroud.’ So she spoke, and our proud hearts consented. If yet he lives, with patience I forbear. Leave thought to age, and drain the flowing bowl. (Themis, who gives to councils, or denies Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray. There every eye with slumberous chains she bound, Then day by day she would weave at the great web, but by night would unravel it, when she had let place torches by her. We saw, as unperceived we took our stand, He with good intent addressed their assembly, and spoke among them: “Hearken now to me, men of Ithaca, to the word that I shall say. [7]The suitors are making fun of him because he looks poor. The martial goddess with impatience burns; Here thou art sage in vain — I better read the skies Then, when they had made the tackling fast in the swift black ship, they set forth bowls brim full of wine, and poured libations to the immortal gods that are forever, and chiefest of all to the flashing-eyed daughter of Zeus. Then to Noemon swift she runs, she flies, (n.d.). Lo, all this the Achaeans hinder, but the wooers most of all in their evil insolence.”, [267] So he spoke in prayer, and Athena drew near to him in the likeness of Mentor, both in form and invoice; and she spoke, and addressed him with winged words: “Telemachus, neither hereafter shalt thou be a base man or a witless, if aught of thy father's goodly spirit has been instilled into thee, such a man was he to fulfil both deed and word. But, by the powers that hate the perjured, swear. Then thus, in Mentor’s reverend form array’d, Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. Rise then, ye peers! Homer, “Book II,” Odyssey, trans. Nor uncompell’d the dangerous truth betray, While to the rival train the prince returns, His injured prince the little aid of words.”, While yet he spoke, Leocritus rejoined: The wondering rivals gaze, with cares oppress’d. Penelope & the Suitors, Odysseus' Tale: Aeolus, Laestrygones & Circe. Homer. Go, and succeed: the rivals’ aims despise; Retrieved from https://mythopedia.com/greek-mythology/texts/odyssey/book-ii/. Now reddening from the dawn, the morning ray “Ye sons (he cried) of Ithaca, give ear; Cease, till to great Laertes I bequeath And now they ship their oars, and crown with wine Your fame revere, but most the avenging skies. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. We saw, as unperceived we took our stand. Great fame she brings on herself, but on thee regret for thy much substance. What mighty labours would he then create, The synod grieved, and gave a pitying sigh, They shrink from going to the house of her father, Icarius, that he may himself exact the bride-gifts for his daughter, and give her to whom he will, even to him who meets his favour, but thronging our house day after day they slay our oxen and sheep and fat goats, and keep revel, and drink the sparkling wine recklessly; and havoc is made of all this wealth. He, like his sire, may sink deprived of breath. And tears ran trickling from her aged eyes. [413] Thus saying, he led the way, and they went along with him. T ELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Thou to the court ascend: and to the shores. Vengeance I vow, and for your wrongs ye die.”. It's her guidance in The Odyssey that led to the word "mentor" being adopted in the English language to mean a teacher or a wise person who provides guidance. Yet would your powers in vain our strength oppose. Till the fleet hours restore the circling year; And lo, with speed we plough the watery way; Teach me to seek redress for all my woe, [60] "As for me, I am no-wise such as he to ward it off. Wide o’er the bay, by vessel vessel rides; The best I choose to waft then o’er the tides.”. Go prophesy at home, thy sons advise: Hear from thy heavens above, O warrior maid! The spacious sheet, and stretch it to the wind. Will guide her passion, and reward her choice The youthful hero, with returning light, to his version of the Odyssey. wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. that noble heart; The earth’s disgrace, and human-kind my foe. The Grecian matrons taint my spotless fame; Be mild in power, or faithful to his trust! What mighty labours would he then create. “But you, O peers! The Odyssey (Book 2) Lyrics Assembly Of The People Of Ithaca—Speeches Of Telemachus And Of The Suitors—Telemachus Makes His Preparations And Starts For Pylos With Minerva Disguised As Mentor (I speak aloud, that every Greek may hear):