gods Flashcards
“The goddess took him in her white arms
and caressed him, and caressed him again”
“She was well aware of her beauty and
she knew how to use it.”
“I did not wish, O my dearest husband,
that you should exert yourself to no purpose”
“I would have suffered agonies at heart then,
if Thetis had not taken me in and welcomed me to her bosom”
“I must do all I can to
repay lovely-haired Thetis the debt for my life”
“All the time I have him alive and looking onto the light of the sun,
he is suffering, and I can give him no help”
“Why do we not instead agree to arrange marriage
and live at peace forever”
“It was this that kindled the zeal for war
in the hearts of the country people”
“Hector is a mortal, he sucked at a woman’s breast. But
Achilles is a child of a goddess, whom I myself brought up”
“Close round his head the queen among goddesses set a golden cloud,
and made a flame burn from it gleaming bright”
“So speaking Athene
led him forward in her treachery”
“There is no possibility now
that he can escape us any longer”
“Do you intend to take a man who is mortal and long ago
doomed by fate, and release him from grim death?”
“Great man though he is, he should be weary of our anger-
he is dishonouring the dumb earth now in his fury”
“All the wounds have closed where he was struck…
Such is the care the blessed gods have for your son.”
“Do not make them
change their name or native dress”
“Why have you
put strength into the arm of the defeated?”
“then Jupiter himself lifted up a pair of scales with the tongue centred
and put the lives of the two men in them
“Hector’s day of doom sank down,
away into Hades, and Phoebus Apollo left him”
“In obedience to the commands of Jupiter
Aeneas is standing on Rutulian soil.”
“So now, if it is in your power, protect your son.
Go to Olympus and beseech Zeus”
“Bring aid to the Trojans,
and pen the Achaians back by the shore”
“wide ruling Agamemnon will recognise his folly,
in paying no honour to the best of the Achaians”
“Have you entirely forgotten
your own kingdom and your own destiny?”
“It is not the hated Spartan woman… that is
overthrowing all this wealth… it is the gods, the cruelty of the gods”
