Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-14

to make thee, King the most contempt
ible man amongall mortais who employ
articulate speech, since they do not per-
form the promise, the same promise /
which they promised [lit. stood under]
as they were still on their way hither
Ii. e. to Troy from the horse-feeding Ar
gos, tt at thou after sacking the we'll
walled Troy shouldst return home. For |
indeed like tender children and women
bereft of their husbanhs1 do they /
mournfully long the one to the other TO [
return homeward. Truly too it is g,ief
TO return home tired out with an Tn.
profitable warn For any one remaining
away even one month from his wife is
sad near his strong ship-anyone whom
| the wintry storms and the sea when ex-
here the ninth year is rolling round Ii.
e. We are here nearly nine yearsl. For
J this reason do not take it i'll that the
Achaeans are sad near the curved ships.
! But even inspite of all that it is. I assure
you, disgraceful both to remain [sol long
and to. return home empty handed.
Cheer up, 0 friends, and remain a whlla
longer in order that we may know wheth
er Kalchas prophesies truly or not. For
this we know well in our minds, as all
We, whom the fates of death did not car
ry away, are Witnesses: kuL yesterday,
or day before yesterday Ii. e. lately].
when the ships of the Achaeans were
mustered in Aulis Ia Boeotian harbor on
the Uripus] to carry calamities to Priam
and to the Trojans; ard we round about
fountain were offering among the sa-
cred altars Mote: The Greeks had no
temple here. The woods were at this
time, as in the earliest times of their re-
igicn their temples] to the immortals
unblemished hecatombs, under beauti-
full plaue-tree, whence flowed clear water,
. then appeared wonderful portent-a
snake on the back all blood red, terrible,
, which, mark yon, the Olympian himself
sent forth to the light, glidin. from be-
6 meath an altar darsed directly to the
plane-tree. and here were the nestlings
of a sparrow, a tender brood, on the to p
most branch, crouching under the leaves
} eight, and the mother, which matched
them, was the ninth. See Gen Al chap
! He now devoured them twittering pite-
S lously. And [asl the mother was flying
e round about. lamenting for her dea
= brood, he, having coiled himself, seizet
2 her by the wing when she was shriekinl
a about. And when he had deyoured tht
brood of the sparrow and herself, god,
the very god who caused him to appear
made this portent very clear. For th'
i son of crafty Kronos changed him [th
[ snake] into stone; and we who stoot
e by wondered what had happened.
: Thus then dire portents occurred at th'
o time of the sacrifices in honor of tn
: gods, and Kalchas then Immediate,
e said prophysing, ."Wherefore have "
r. become sileat with amazement. o lon'
haired Achaeans? To us indeed the all
. wise Zeus has shown this great wonder
- late, late in its fulflment, the glory O
Il which shall never fade away As tina
snake] devoured the brood of the spar
y Tow and the [sparrowl herself-eighi
). and the mother, which hatched tn
J. brood, was the ninth, so shall we wag
= war there so manv years, but on tn
:. tenth We will capture the wide-waye
e CITY," Thus he [Kalchas] spoke. jus
now all these things are on the point c
e fulhlment. But come, remain all of ye
- we'll greaved Achaeans, here, On the spot
y until we have captured the great city {
> Priam.''