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“Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!”

Homér Iliad

XV. 724–725 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XX. 18 (tr. Robert Fagles).
: Bear up, my soul, a little longer yet;
A little longer to thy purpose cling!
Source: Odyssey (c. 725 BC), P. S. Worsley's translation:

Heart

“They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XVI. 481 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Sleep

“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

Homér Iliad

I. 218 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

God

“Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it.”

Homér Iliad

VII. 93 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Fear

“Let them be friends,
devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth
come cresting through the land.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XXIV. 485–486 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Peace , Wealth

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”

Homér Iliad

XXII. 262–263 (tr. Samuel Butler); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Men

“Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence
if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant
mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm
with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again
fade away and are dead.”

Homér Iliad

XXI. 462–466 (tr. R. Lattimore); Apollo to Poseidon.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Life , Fight , Dead

“As stars in the night sky glittering
round the moon's brilliance blaze in all their glory
when the air falls to a sudden, windless calm…
all the lookout peaks stand out and the jutting cliffs
and the steep ravines and down from the high heavens bursts
the boundless, bright air and all the stars shine clear
and the shepherd's heart exults.”

Homér Iliad

VIII. 551–555 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,
And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed,
And tip with silver every mountain's head;
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Star , Heart , Night

“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”

Homér Iliad

XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.”

Homér Iliad

XXIV. 543 (tr. R. Lattimore); Achilles to Priam.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

Homér Iliad

IX. 408–409 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Life

“Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow
More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow?
Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms
Must pay the penalty for lawless charms.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

VIII. 329–331 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

God , Penalty , Art , Strong

“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

IX. 14 (tr. Robert Fagles)
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.”

Homér Iliad

XIII. 358–360 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

God , War

“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

VII. 216–218 (tr. P. S. Worsley).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Food , Drink

“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XV. 54–55 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.”

Homér Iliad

V. 407–409 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

God , Children , Fight

“Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.”

Homér Iliad

I. 34.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Sea

“Then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia.”

Homér Iliad

XVI. 671–673 (tr. R. Lattimore). Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, VI.278.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

Death , Sleep