...the dark hell luilh heroes slain. fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures...strove ; Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove. Whose limbs, unburied on the hostile shore, Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tore,...

...the first Iliad, where he thus speaks of AchilWs anger : s V Ifil , eturitf Qivtllfl Tl fill' That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore. ran. But this was not so common...

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...the dark hell -with heroes slain ; fiJl'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely Whose limbs, utiburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore, Since great dchUles and Strides strove: Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove Whose limbs, unburied...

...peopled the dark hell with heroes slain. fill'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore, Since great Achilles and Atrides strove; .-.-- .,-;.-- ; ." f.- . Such was the sovereign doom,-and such the will of Jove. Whose limbs, unburied...

...warriors dead the Phrygian plain, And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain. It now stands thus : That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain — and was evidently altered to preserve the sense of the word. fourth my latter translations* and...

...warriors dead the Phrygian plain, And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain. It now stands thus : That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain — and was evidently altered to preserve the sense of the word. fourth my latter translations* and...

...decline : Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. • In the first couplet the language is distorted by inversions, clogged with superfluities, and clouded...

...thus ; The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing, That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides' rage, O Goddess, sing', wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring, Grecian...

...Olympus. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied, on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore : Since great Achilles and Atrides...