 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 lapas
...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. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine did he follow to the war to be a leader or... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 472 lapas
...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. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine did he follow to the war to be a leader or... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 lapas
...avaffffnv. (' 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.'Butcher and Lang's trans1.) But mediately through Grotius. ' Grotius hath ascribed the... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1888 - 220 lapas
...words of the poet, "Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another with a landless man who had no 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 go. Swear to me... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 lapas
...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 presentation of the dead, it would appear, from the examples of Ganymedes... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1893 - 348 lapas
..."Rather," says Achilles, "would I live above 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." 2 The contrast between the bliss of the gods who " live at ease " and the troublous lot they have ordained... | |
 | 1894 - 852 lapas
...602-4. sens, rather would I live above ground, the hireling of another with a landless man who had no 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 fate was reserved for... | |
 | James Cameron Lees - 1897 - 954 lapas
...Achilles' words, " 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 " (Odyss. xi., 489 seq.). So much for the general feeling. The specific pleasures are similar in both... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 lapas
...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." J What a witness is such language as this to the gloom of the destiny (as Homer conceived it) reserved... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1898 - 368 lapas
...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." * What a witness is such language as this to the gloom of the destiny (as Homer conceived it) reserved... | |
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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. 
