 | 1894 - 1020 Seiten
...darkness." Even the heroic Achilles (Odyssey xi. 488) sees nothing comfortable in af uture life. " Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with a landless man that had no great livelihood. than bear sway among all the dead that are gone." Such was the pale realm... | |
 | Homer - 1879 - 422 Seiten
...spake, and he answered me, and said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, great Odysseus. Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are,_no more. But come, tell me of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be a leader... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 Seiten
...said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be... | |
 | 1882 - 520 Seiten
...death, great Odysseus. Rather would I live upon the soil, the hireling of some landless man, with poor livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are no more." — Od. xi. 490. It is a pale withered existence they live there in Homer's vtKvLa, as unequal to this... | |
 | S. H. Butcher, A. Lang - 1883 - 470 Seiten
...: " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great * Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as the hireling \ of another, with a landless man...livelihood, / than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine—did he follow to the war to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 Seiten
...fiioros iroAiis eiTJ t rj iraffiv veKveoai KaratpOipivotaiv avaffffnv. (' Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.'—Butcher and Lang's trans1.) But mediately through Grotius. ' Grotius hath ascribed... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1888 - 220 Seiten
...And suddenly through Daphne's mind there flashed the words of the poet, "Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another with a landless man who...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." Then she said, "Promise me one thing. Swear to me by thy strongest oath, and I will go.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 Seiten
...Achilles answers him and says : — 'Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, great Odysseus. Bather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with u landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are no more.' *... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1893 - 348 Seiten
...strengthless heads," " phantoms of men outworn." "Rather," says Achilles, "would I live above ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 2 The contrast between the bliss of the gods who " live at ease " and the troublous lot... | |
 | 1894 - 852 Seiten
...critics already doubted the passage about Heracles, 11. 602-4. sens, rather would I live above ground, the hireling of another with a landless man who had...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." It is a relief to find a few scattered allusions in Homer showing that a better fate... | |
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Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. 
