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“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“The will of Zeus was accomplished.”

I. 5 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“The majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest
and kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his knees
and kissed his hands, those terrible, man-killing hands
that had slaughtered Priam's many sons in battle.”

XXIV. 477–479 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

I. 267. Cf. Iliad XVII. 514.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“His cold remains all naked to the sky,
On distant shores unwept, unburied lie.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 72–73 (tr. Alexander Pope); of Elpenor.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Easily seen is the strength that is given from Zeus to mortals.”

XV. 490 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Then Ulysses rejoiced at finding himself again in his own land, and kissed the bounteous soil.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XIII. 353–354 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 593–598 (tr. William Broome); of Sisyphus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I’d rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death,
than die by inches on this desolate island here!”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XII. 351–352 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:
"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"”

IV. 350–351 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“But when he let loose that great voice from his chest
and the words came piling on like a driving winter blizzard —
then no man alive could rival Odysseus! Odysseus…
we no longer gazed in wonder at his looks.”

III. 221–224 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Shameless they give, who give what's not their own.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XVII. 451–452 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals,
true, but to die of hunger, starve to death—
that's the worst of all.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XII. 342–343 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.”

XVI (tr. Samuel Butler); Hector to Patroclus.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“He bent drooping his head to one side, as a garden poppy
bends beneath the weight of its yield and the rains of springtime;
so his head bent slack to one side beneath the helm's weight.”

VIII. 306–308 (tr. R. Lattimore); the death of Gorgythion.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As full-blown poppies, overcharged with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain, —
So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, depressed
Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“But the will of Zeus will always overpower the will of men.”

XVI. 688 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses
gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship;
but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos
who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour
of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred.”

VI. 232–236 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“The chief indignant grins a ghastly smile.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XX. 301–302 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man—
some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—
than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 489–492 (tr. Robert Fagles); Achilles' ghost to Odysseus.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air,
A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread,
Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. P. S. Worsley's translation:
: Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine,
Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief,
Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)