Book Xvi : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XVI THUS did they fight about the ship of Protesilaus. Then Patroclus drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls over the ledges of a high precipice. When Achilles saw...
Book Ix : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK IX THUS did the Trojans watch. But Panic, comrade of blood-stained Rout, had taken fast hold of the Achaeans and their princes were all of them in despair. As when the two winds that blow from Thrace- the north...
Book Xxi : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XXI NOW when they came to the ford of the full-flowing river Xanthus, begotten of immortal Jove, Achilles cut their forces in two: one half he chased over the plain towards the city by the same way that the Achaeans had taken...
Book Iv : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK IV Now the gods were sitting with Jove in council upon the golden floor while Hebe went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy...
Title Page : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD OF HOMER TRANSLATED BY SAMUEL BUTLER [1898] Formatted , April 2002, By John Bruno Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The US Because It Was Published Prior To 1923.
Book Xix : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XIX NOW when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armour that the god had given her. She found her son fallen about the body...
Book Xvii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XVII BRAVE Menelaus son of Atreus now came to know that Patroclus had fallen, and made his way through the front ranks clad in full armour to bestride him. As a cow stands lowing over her first calf, even so did yellow-haired...
Book V : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK V Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory. She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star th...
Book Xxii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XXII THUS the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweat from off them and drank to quench their thirst, leaning against the goodly battlements, while the Achaeans with their shields laid upon their shoulders drew...
Book Xxiii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XXIII THUS did they make their moan throughout the city, while the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship. But Achilles would not let the Myrmidons go, and spoke to his brave comrades...
Book Viii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK VIII NOW when Morning, clad in her robe of saffron, had begun to suffuse light over the earth, Jove called the gods in council on the topmost crest of serrated Olympus. Then he spoke and all the other gods gave ear. "Hear me,"...
Book Xiii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XIII NOW when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the ships, he left them to their never-ending toil, and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horse-breeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters...
Book X : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK X NOW the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole night through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that he could get no rest. As when fair Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail...
Book Xviii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XVIII THUS then did they fight as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships and boding that which was indeed too...
Book Xiv : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XIV NESTOR was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did not escape him, and he said to the son of Aesculapius, "What, noble Machaon, is the meaning of all this? The shouts of men fighting by our ships grow stronger...
Book Xi : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XI AND now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans. She took her stand by the huge...
Book Vii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK VII WITH these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brother Alexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when heaven sends a breeze to sailors who have long looked for one in vain, and have laboured at their oars...
Book Xv : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XV BUT when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set stakes, and many had fallen by the hands of the Danaans, the Trojans made a halt on reaching their chariots, routed and pale with fear. Jove now woke...
Book Xii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XII SO THE son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans in check longer. They...
Book Xx : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XX THUS, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O son of Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans over against them armed upon the rise of the plain. Meanwhile Jove from the top of many-delled...
Book Iii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK III When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death...
Book I : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK I Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were...
Book Vi : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK VI THE fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their bronze-shod spears at one another between the streams of Simois...
Book Xxiv : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK XXIV THE assembly now broke up and the people went their ways each to his own ship. There they made ready their supper, and then bethought them of the blessed boon of sleep; but Achilles still wept for thinking of his dear...
Book Ii : * "The Iliad of Homer", tr. by Samuel Butler, [1898], THE ILIAD: BOOK II Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In the end he deemed it...
