...the dark hell with heroes slain ; flll'd the shady hell with chiefs untimely Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures...Since great Achilles and Atrides strove : Such was the sovercign doom, and such the will of Jove. Whose limhs, unburied on the hostile shore, Devouring dogs...

...wrath, to Greece the direful spring, Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing ; That wrath which hurled 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.* Nothing could be plainer than...

...dead the Phrygian plain, And peopled the dark shade 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 irpoti^rfv." But I submit that a better...

...gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs uhtimely slain ; 5 Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, A Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore : Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sov'reign doom, and such the will of Jove ! Declare, O Muse ! in what ill-fated hour 10 Sprung the...

...nuncia luctus, Ignavus but'p, dirum mortalibus omen." 12. reign = realm; as in Pope's Iliad: " The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain." 13. As he stands in the churchyard, he thinks only of the poorer people (comp. below. passim) because...

...upon the most vivid realization of them I ever saw, or ever expect to see : " The wrath which hurled 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 ! " From the battle-field we went...

...upon the most vivid realization of them I ever saw, or ever expect to see : " The wrath which hurled 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 ! " From the battle-field we went...

...I. 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 plain : Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, 5 Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore : Since...

...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 ; 1 The following argument of the Iliad, corrected in a few particulars, is translated from Bitaube,...

...to Greece tho [direful] spring Of woes unnumbered, [Heavenly] Goddess, sing! That wrath which hurled to Pluto's [gloomy] reign The souls of [mighty] chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburicd on tho [naked] shore, Devouring dogs and [hungry] vultures tore — Now turn from the Iliad...