Re-edited with an English Commentary by F.A. Paley Aeschylus Frederick ... examples of similar licence . It is certain that some words have a metrical weight ... ib . 542 and Eur . Suppl . 889 , Τελεύταντος Ajac . 210 , ̓Αλφεσίβοιαν Soph ...
Pindar. * ODE XXX . - CUPID TAKEN PRISONER CUPID , once , was rambling found On the Muses ' hallow'd ground ; Straight they weave a rosy chain , And the little god detain . Him to Beauty soon they gave , Mighty Love is Beauty's slave ...
... repeat , And mix their loathfome ordures with their meat . I bid my friends for vengeance then prepare , And with the hellish nation wage the war . They , as commanded , for the fight ... grind the plates on which you feed . She faid , and to ...
... one time or place ; and all this foresight and retrospect would certainly have been lost upon those who might only hear a twenty - fourth part , and would rarely or never hear a half , of the Iliad itself . The division of the Poem into ...
Introductions to the study of the Greek classic poets
... Iliad ; - that in the age of Herodotus + the Cyprian verses and the Epigoni were commonly considered as Homeric poems ; that Thucydides quotes the Hymn to Apollo exactly in the same tone in which he quotes , or speaks of , the Iliad ...
... skull Pass'd the brass point , and darkness veil'd his eyes . So in the battle , like some tower , he fell ; Whom Elephenor , King Chalcedon's son , Chief of the great Abantian tribe , beheld Fallen , and catching by the feet ' gan draw ...
The Hymns of Homer: The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns
... she all Earth's may sing , And force to tremble in her trumpeting Heaven's crystal 4 temples : in her pow'rs implant Skill of my griefs , and she can nothing want . Then like fierce bolts , well ramm'd with heat and Hymnus in Noctem.
Simile and Metaphor in Greek Poetry from Homer to Æschylus
