Nausicaa la Phéacienne parlant de son peuple à Ulysse.
L'Odyssée
Homère citations célèbres
Priam venu réclamer le corps de son fils Hector à Achille.
L'Iliade
Ulysse s'exhortant lui-même au calme en voyant les exactions des prétendants de Pénélope.
L'Odyssée
Invocation à la Muse aux premiers vers de l'épopée.
L'Iliade
Le guerrier troyen Glaucos parlant à l'Achéen Diomède sur le champ de bataille de Troie.
L'Iliade
La nuit des retrouvailles entre Ulysse et Pénélope.
L'Odyssée
Homère: Citations en anglais
Homér Iliade
I. 599–600 (tr. Robert Fagles); hence the expression "Homeric laughter".
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”
Homér Iliade
IX. 443 (tr. Andrew Lang).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin.”
Homér Odyssée
XIX. 13 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“It is the god who accomplishes all things.”
Homér Iliade
XIX. 90 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Iliade
XXI. 110 (tr. R. Lattimore); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Clearly doing good puts doing bad to shame.”
Homér Odyssée
XXII. 374 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“How ill, alas! do want and shame agree!”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 347 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XV. 392–394 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“The time for trusting women's gone forever!”
Homér Odyssée
XI. 456 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: For since of womankind so few are just,
Think all are false, nor even the faithful trust.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
XIII. 730–733 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Victory passes back and forth between men.”
Homér Iliade
VI. 339 (tr. R. Lattimore); Paris contemplates the fickleness of victory as he prepares to go into battle.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”
Homér Iliade
X. 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Odyssée
IX. 34–36 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“In form of Stentor of the brazen voice,
Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.”
Homér Iliade
V. 785–786 (tr. Lord Derby).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Welcome words on their lips, and murder in their hearts.”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 66 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
Homér Iliade
IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”
Homér Odyssée
V. 222–223 (tr. William Cowper).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
VIII. 485–486 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile!
As ever, god brings like and like together!”
Homér Odyssée
XVII. 217–218 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
IV. 442–443 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it.”
Homér Iliade
XVII. 32 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”
Homér Odyssée
XX. 85–86 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.”
Homér Iliade
IX. 413 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XV. 398–401 (tr. Alexander Pope).
E. V. Rieu's translation:
: Meanwhile let us two, here in the hut, over our food and wine, regale ourselves with the unhappy memories that each can recall. For a man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far can enjoy even his sufferings after a time.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things!”
Homér Iliade
III. 277 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails.”
Homér Odyssée
VI. 188 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XIV. 56–59 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Odyssée
XV. 19–23 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Homér Iliade
XVII. 446–447 (tr. R. Lattimore); Zeus.
Robert Fagles's translation:
: There is nothing alive more agonized than man
of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
