An Introduction to Greek Verse Composition With Exercises
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ACHILLES. Achilles, you ought to cease from this anger and pity the Greeks : for who would not, 1. Achilles, "Ax'XX^s. This line part of the clause 2. And pity, participle. Put in beginning line 3. L 162 APPENDIX. seeing such distress, forget his own wrongs ? Yet you see me and all the host fallen into the extremity of disastrous woe ; 5 and still you remain unmoved, nor from your eyes is the fresh dew of tears shed forth. Vainly then do you boast to be the son of Peleus, nor did Thetis bear yo...u, but some rock, or the briny rage of the sea-surge, 10 if thus ever retaining a hard heart you shall endure to see your comrades perishing. 5. Disastrous, <5s, 8eiv6s, /ca*c6y. 10. Surge = ' wave. ' 7. Say ' shed forth for you ' (eth. 12. Comrades, T& TUV (\w (or dative) ; fresh, xXw/>6j. Literal). CXXIX. THE KESTORATION. I have heard an old true saying that nothing is past hoping, but, even if one fail in most things, he may be able to set right his fate. And I myself have now found these things to be so, who having once reigned over the Argeian land 5 was deprived of my power, and driven out into a foreign land, into the desolate wilderness : and so I had many sorrows, and not once alone I prayed (miserable man) to all the gods that I might die.
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