The Odyssey - Chapter 11 Flashcards
10
‘With a taut sail she sped across the sea all day, till the sun went down and all the ways grew dark.’
13
‘So she reached the furthest parts of the deep-flowing river of Ocean where the Cimmerians live, wrapped in mist and fog. The bright sun cannot look down on them with his rays, either when he climbs the starry heavens or when he turns back from heaven to earth again. Dreadful Night spreads her mantle over that unhappy people.’
26
‘There I poured libations to all the dead, first with a mixture of honey and milk, then with sweet wine and last of all with water.’
37
‘And now the souls of the dead came swarming up from Erebus - brides, unmarried youths, old men who had suffered greatly, once-happy girls with grief still fresh in their hearts and a great throng of warriors killed in battle, their spear-wounds gaping and all their armour stained with blood.’
51
‘The first spirit that came up was that of my own comrade Elpenor, for he had not yet been buried in the wide bosom of Earth. So urgent had our other task been that we had left his corpse unburied and unwept in Circe’s palace. Now, when I saw him, tears started to my eyes and I was stirred with pity for him.’
80
‘All this, my poor Elpenor, I will do. Nothing shall be forgotten.’
70
‘I beg you, master, to remember me then and not to sail away and forsake me utterly nor leave me there unburied and unwept, in case I bring down the gods’ curse on you.’
84 - 86
‘Next came the soul of my dead mother, Anticleia,’ - ‘My eyes filled with tears when I saw her there and I was stirred to compassion.’
100
‘My Lord Odysseus, you seek a happy way home. But a god is going to make your journey hard.’
108 - 112
‘There you will find at their pasture the cattle and the fat flocks of the sun-god,’ - ‘But if you hurt them, then I predict that your ship and company will be destroyed and if you yourself contrive to escape, you will reach home late, in a wretched state, upon a foreign ship, having lost all your comrades.’
129
‘Then plant your shapely oar in the earth and offer Lord Poseidon the rich sacrifice of a ram, a bull and a breeding-boar.’
133
‘As for your own end, Death will come to you far away from the sea, a gentle Death. When he takes you, you will die peacefully of old age, surrounded by a prosperous people. This is the truth that I have told you.’
137
'’Teiresias,’ I answered him, ‘no doubt these are the threads of destiny which the gods themselves have spun.’’
146
'’Any ghost to whom you give access to the blood will speak the truth; any to whom you deny it will withdraw.’’
153
‘She recognized me at once; she gave a cry of grief and her words winged their way to me.’
157
‘For between you and us flow wide rivers and fearful waters, first of all Oceanus, whose stream a man could never cross on foot, but only in a well-found ship.’
176
'’And what of my good wife? How does she feel and what does she intend to do? Is she still living with her son and keeping our estate safe? Or has the best of her countrymen already married her?’’
183
‘Your fine kingdom has not yet passed into other hands.’
187
‘But your father lives alone on his farm and never goes down to the city now. He has no proper bed with laundered sheets and blankets to sleep on. Instead, he lies down in the winter-time with the labourers at the farm in the ashes by the fire and goes about in rags.’
194
‘There he lies in his misery, with old age pressing hard upon him and nursing his grief and yearning for you to come back. That was my undoing too; it was that that brought me to the grave.’
206
‘Three times, in my eagerness to clasp her to me, I started forward. Three times, like a shadow or a dream, she slipped through my hands and left me pierced by an even sharper pain.’
216
'’Alas, my child,’ came my revered mother’s reply, ‘ill-fated above all men! This is no trick played on you by Persephone, Daughter of Zeus. It is the law of our mortal nature, when we come to die.’’
222
'’But now quickly make for the light! And bear in mind all you have learnt here, so that one day you can tell your wife.’’
225 - 232
‘And now, impelled by august Persephone, there came up all the women who had been the wives or the daughters of the great and gathered round the black blood in a throng.’ - ‘So they came forward and announced their lineage one by one and I was able to question them all.’
