 Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.  An Introduction to the History of Religion - Side 300af Frank Byron Jevons - 1896 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 sider
...I spake, and he straightway answered me, and said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war... | |
 | Homer - 1879 - 422 sider
...said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, great Odysseus. Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are,_no more. But come, tell me of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 472 sider
...spake, and' he straightway answered me, and said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 sider
...avbpl imp' ait\r}fKff, w pri fiioros iroAiis eiTJ t rj iraffiv veKveoai KaratpOipivotaiv avaffffnv. (' Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another,...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.'—Butcher and Lang's trans1.) But mediately through Grotius. ' Grotius hath ascribed... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1888 - 220 sider
...And suddenly through Daphne's mind there flashed the words of the poet, "Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another with a landless man who...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." Then she said, "Promise me one thing. Swear to me by thy strongest oath, and I will... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 sider
...to me of death, great Odysseus. Bather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with u landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are no more.' * All the great Latin poets died young ; neither Catullus nor Lucretius even reached... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 472 sider
...honour in which he is held by the Argives, he replies : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus ; rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who has no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 1 Dreary as is this Homeric... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1893 - 348 sider
...by " strengthless heads," " phantoms of men outworn." "Rather," says Achilles, "would I live above ground as the hireling of another, with a landless...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 2 The contrast between the bliss of the gods who " live at ease " and the troublous... | |
 | 1894 - 852 sider
...critics already doubted the passage about Heracles, 11. 602-4. sens, rather would I live above ground, the hireling of another with a landless man who had...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." It is a relief to find a few scattered allusions in Homer showing that a better... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1895 - 354 sider
...tlaiv. Iliad, XXIV. 524-6. » Aeneid, VI. 721. * Odyssey, XI. 488, Butcher and Lang's translation. another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are no more." All the great Latin poets died young ; neither Catullus nor Lucretius reached middle... | |
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