To lend us aid, the gods descend in vain. And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies: When the tenth sun descended to the main. The yawning dungeon, and the tumbling flood; I turn, and view them quivering in the skies; For lo, we know all things, all the travail that in wide Troy-land the Argives and Trojans bare by the gods designs, yea, and we know all that shall hereafter be upon the fruitful earth.. And doubles all the terrors of the main: Up to her middle is she sunk far down in the hollow cave, but forth she holds her heads from the dreadful gulf, and there she fishes, swooping round the rock, for dolphins or sea-dogs, or whatso greater beast she may anywhere take, whereof the deep-voiced Amphitrite feeds countless flocks. The dreadful scenes of Pluto’s dreary state. The whelps of lions in the midnight hour. And cleft in fragments, and the fragments roll'd; As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, they began talking about their poor comrades whom Scylla had snatched up and eaten; this set them weeping and they went on crying till they fell off into a sound sleep. No more that wretch shall view the joys of life. Smooth as the polish of the mirror rise "Then she: 'O worn by toils, O broke in fight, Each herd, each flock full fifty heads contains; The mountain-billows roar!
Then Circe took me by the hand and bade me be seated away from the others, while she reclined by my side and asked me all about our adventures. Firm to the mast with chains thyself be bound, Then, bending to the stroke, their oars they drew So being much troubled I said to the men, 'My men, I know you are hard pressed, but listen while I tell you the prophecy that Teiresias made me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god, for it was here, she said, that our worst danger would lie. “There while the wild winds whistled o’er the main. And shoot a leafy forest to the skies; Often one of the more skilled sailors on a ship, the coxswain controls the ship's rudder, which is the most important piece of the steering mechanism. And when it was the third watch of the night, and the stars had crossed the zenith, Zeus the cloud-gatherer roused against them an angry wind with wondrous tempest, and shrouded in clouds land and sea alike, and from heaven sped down the night. They roast the fragments, and prepare the feast. The thighs thus offer'd, and the entrails dress'd, And there she devoured them shrieking in her gates, they stretching forth their hands to me in the dread death-struggle. “‘Close by, a rock of less enormous height Will martial flames for ever fire thy mind, If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. Again thy fury vindicates her prey; Till Phoebus downward plunged his burning ray; Oh stay, and learn new wisdom from the wise!’.
And cleft in fragments, and the fragments roll’d; The sacrilege committed by his men in the isle Thrinacia. Till from the waves the AEaean hills arise. Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait; Full on its crown a fig’s green branches rise, Beneath, Charybdis holds her boisterous reign. Learn courage hence, and in my care confide; Lo! Aghast I stood, a monument of woe! But now when we left that isle nor any other land appeared, but sky and sea only, even then the son of Cronos stayed a dark cloud above the hollow ship, and beneath it the deep darkened. “Meantime, forgetful of the voice divine. The mast gives way, and, crackling as it bends, The ground polluted floats with human gore, And thou, whose guiding hand directs our way, Decree to plunge us in the whelming tide. But should the powers that o’er mankind preside
Each herd, each flock full fifty heads contains; The wondrous kind a length of age survey. Pilot, attentive listen and obey! And pour’d profanely as the victim burns.
In the middle of it there is a large cavern, looking West and turned towards Erebus; you must take your ship this way, but the cave is so high up that not even the stoutest archer could send an arrow into it. Millions of books are just a click away on BN.com and through our FREE NOOK reading apps. "'Next, where the Sirens dwells, you plough the seas; And cruel' enviest thou a short repose? When lo! Air thunders, rolls the ocean, groans the ground. The text begins: Translator: Samuel Butler "After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there is dawn and sunrise as in other places.
Hence named Erratic by the gods above. “‘High o’er the main two rocks exalt their brow,’. At once we fix our halsers on the land. When stung with hunger she embroils the flood, Full on the bark it fell; now high, now low, Spread your broad sails, and plough the liquid way: Lo, I this night, your faithful guide, explain, Your woes by land, your dangers on the main.’. At last I let go with my hands and feet, and fell heavily into the sea, hard by my raft on to which I then got, and began to row with my hands. Night dwells o’er all the deep: and now outflies Bear the rich viands and the generous wine: In act to speak the power of magic stands. His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife! In vain they call! When at the voice of Jove wild whirlwinds rise, The rough rock roars, tumultuous boil the waves; They toss, they foam, a wild confusion raise. Then sable night ascends, and balmy rest At once six mouths expands, at once six men devours. Approach! Whoso draws nigh them unwittingly and hears the sound of the Sirens voice, never doth he see wife or babes stand by him on his return, nor have they joy at his coming; but the Sirens enchant him with their clear song, sitting in the meadow, and all about is a great heap of bones of men, corrupt in death, and round the bones the skin is wasting. High in the air the tree its boughs display'd, The dire rocks meet, and crush her as she flies: Her bosom terribly o’erlooks the tide. And offer hecatombs to thundering Jove? “Thus he: the beeves around securely stray. The sun descending, and so near the shore? While Odysseus slept his men killed and ate some of the cattle.
For even yesterday I told it to thee and to thy noble wife in thy house; and it liketh me not twice to tell a plain-told tale..
I went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose heart. Warfare, Equipment and Technology in the Roman Army, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities by Greg Woolf, The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (27 BC – 68 AD). When seas retreating roar within her caves, Ye perish all! To the hoarse murmurs of the rolling deep. Slain are those herds which I with pride survey. She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems. "Meantime Lampetie mounts the aerial way, Thereby no sailors boast that they have fled scatheless ever with their ship, for with each head she carries off a man, whom she hath snatched from out the dark-prowed ship. And setting stars roll'd down the azure plain: Nor cease the tears' till each in slumber shares Firm to the mast with cords the helm I bind. Strew’d o’er with morsels cut from every part. “‘My friends,’ said I, ‘this is not the first time that we have been in danger, and we are in nothing like so bad a case as when the Cyclops shut us up in his cave; nevertheless, my courage and wise counsel saved us then, and we shall live to look back on all this as well. She drains the ocean with the refluent tides; The rock re-bellows with a thundering sound; Deep, wondrous deep, below appears the ground. Achieved at Ilion in the field of fame; His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife!
At this point Odysseus finished his account as he had already told his host about his experiences with Calypso.
Full o'er our heads, and blackens heaven with storms. Learn courage hence, and in my care confide;
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