Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-11
Hours With Homer
Book /. A Literal Translation BY
6. MdClean. Ph. b.

Wv IL. NVldtn VI
It's Origin and Consequences:
Sing, o goddess, OF the wrath OF
Achilles that baleful wrath which
brought countless woes upon the
Achaeans, and sent forth to the
God of the underworld many mighty
souls of heroes, and made them
selves a prey to dogs and to all raw
enous birds (but the will of Zeus
was being brouhgt into effect) ever
since the time that the son OF Atre-
us, king OF men, and the Zeus be-
gotten Achilles, having first quar-
relied, separated.
Wv. S-2l. The visit Of Cbryses
to the Achaeans for the release of
his daughter:
And who then of the gods brought
them together to fight in strife
(It was) the son OF Leto and of Ze-
us. For he, angered at the king,
let loose an evil disorder through
out the army, and the hosts died,
because the son of Arteus dishonored
the we'll known Chryses, his priest.
For he (Chryses) went to the swift
ships of the Achaeans. both to re-
lease his daughter and bearing
countless gifts-holding on golden
scepter in his hand wreath OF the
far-darter, Apollo, and he besought
all the Achaeans, but especially the
two sons of Aureus, commanders-in-
chief of the forces
20, sons OF Aureus, and other
we'll grieved Achaeans: To you,
may the gods, who possess the
Olympian Halls, give to utterly
sack the city of Priam and to reach
home in safety; and do ye, who
stand in awe of the far darter,
Apollo, the son of Zeus, release to
me my dear child and accept these
gifts.'
Wv. 22-52. Agamempon having
disallowed his petition, Chryses ap-
peals to Apollo:
Then all the other Achaeans (viz.
the other commanders), shouted
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ana accept his splendid gifts but it
did not please the mind of Agamem-
non (more literal-it did not please
Agannemnon in his mind) the
son OF Atreus. He, therefore, rude
ly dismissed him and laid upon him
the stern command:
"Old man, (see to it, that shall
not find thee either now lingering
near, nor hereafter returning again
to the hollow ships, lest then neith-
er the scepter nor the wreath of
your god may avail thee. And l
will not release her-sooner, in
deed, shall old age come upon her in
my house, IN Argos, far from her
native land, plying at the loom and
sharing my bed. But, be gone, do
not provoke me in order that thou
mayest go more SAFELY
Thus he spoke, and the old man
feared and oDeyed his command, and
set out in silence along the shore OF
the loud roaring sea. Then with
drawing apart, the old man earnest
~ prayed to Apollo, the king, whom
the fair-haired Leto bear:
Hear me, o Bearer of the Sill
yer Bow, who dost ever guard
Chrysa and the very divine Killa,
and art the protecting lord OF Ten
edos with might, o Smintheus. II
ever /, as a favor to thee, rooted
over a temple, or if, indeed, | ev-
er burned to thee g. e. to thy HON
orr fat thighs of bulls and OF goats
accomplish this my prayer; May
the Danai atone, by thy shafts for
myAtears."
Thus he spoke praying anc
Phoebus Apollo heard him and ne
descended from the heights OF Olym-
pus grieved at heart--having OF
his shoulders bow closely covered
with a CULVER. Then on the
shoulders of the angry god the ar
rows ratified as he moved himself
along and he came in countcnanc'
like to night. Then set he apar
from the ships and shot an arrow
and, as he shot dircful twans
arose from the Silver Bow. III
first attacked the mules and swift
dogs, and then, sending his pointed
missiles to the men themselves, III
continually smote them; and al
WAYS, in crowds, funeral pyres o
the dead burned.