The Women of the Iliad a Metrical Translation of the First book And of the Othe
The Women of the Iliad a Metrical Translation of the First book And of the Othe
Hugh Woodruff Taylor
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Go, Zeus-descended Patroclus, bring forth the damsel and give To them to lead away. These twain themselves shall be My witnesses surely before the face of the blessed gods, Of mortal men, and also of this churlish king; Whenever need of me shall after come to ward Those others from shameful ruin. This man surely raves 22 Mlomen of tfte 3lia& With a baleful mind, nor doth he know to look before And after, that his Achaeans may safely battle beside Their ships/' So spake he; Patroclus obeyed his ...comrade then, And forth from the cabin he brought fair-cheeked Briseis and gave To them to lead away. So went they back again Along by the Achaean ships, and with them the woman went Quite loath. Straightway Achilles weeping seated himself Aloof from his comrades upon the margent of the dim- grey sea, And gazed out over the wine-dark deep; then stretching forth His hands, he called upon his mother in urgent prayer: "O mother, seeing that thou hast borne me to a life so brief, The Olympian ought some signal glory to have bestowed, Yea, Zeus that thundereth on high; yet hath he honored me Not the least.
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