The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A corn-invefted land receiv'd them next, And there they brought their journey to a clofe, So rapidly they moved; and now the fun Went down, and even-tide dimm'd all the ways. A R G U- ARGUMENT OF THE FOURTH BOOK. Telemachus, with Pififlratus,. arrives at the palace of Menelaus, from whom he receives fomefrem information concerning the return of the Greecians, and is in particular told on the authority of Proteus, that his father is detained by Calypfo. The fuitors, plotting againft the life of Telemachus, lie in wait to intercept him in his return to Ithaca. Peneldpe being informed of his departure, and of their defigns to flay him, becomes inconfolable, but is relieved by a dream fent to her from Minerva. BOOK IV. IN hollow Lacedaemon's fpacious vale Arriving, to the houfe they drove direct Of royal Menelaus; him they found In his own palace, all his num'rous friends Regaling at a nuptial banquet giv'h 5 Both for his daughter and the prince his fon. His daughter to renown'd Achilles' heir He fent, to whom he had at Troy engaged To give her, and the Gods now made her his. With chariots and with. fteeds he fent her forth i o To the illuftrious city where the prince, Achilles' offspring, ruled the Myrmidons. But to his fon he gave a Spartan fair, Aleftor's daughter; from an handmaid fprang That fon to Menelaus in his age, 15 Brave Megapenthes ; for the Gods ho child To Helen gave, made mother, once, of her Who vied in perfeft lovelinefs of form With golden Venus' felf, Hermione. Thus all the neighbour princes and the friends] 20 Of noble Menelaus, feafting fat Within his fpacious palace, among whom A facred bard fang fweetly to his harp, , While, in the midft, two dancers fmote the ground With meafur'd fteps refponfive to ...Read More