 | 1894 - 1020 pàgines
...uture life. " Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with a landless man that had no great livelihood. than bear sway among all the dead that are gone." Such was the pale realm whose walls Lucretius battered with such fierce exultation, —... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pàgines
...straightway answered me, and said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as the hireling of...than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be a leader or... | |
 | Homer - 1879 - 422 pàgines
...said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, great Odysseus. Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are,_no more. But come, tell me of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be a leader... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 472 pàgines
...straightway answered me, and said : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground * as the hireling of...than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. But come, tell me tidings of that lordly son of mine — did he follow to the war to be a leader or... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 pàgines
...avbpl imp' ait\r}fKff, w pri fiioros iroAiis eiTJ t rj iraffiv veKveoai KaratpOipivotaiv avaffffnv. (' Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another,...livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.'—Butcher and Lang's trans1.) But mediately through Grotius. ' Grotius hath ascribed the... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1888 - 220 pàgines
...And suddenly through Daphne's mind there flashed the words of the poet, "Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another with a landless man who...than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." Then she said, "Promise me one thing. Swear to me by thy strongest oath, and I will go. Swear to me... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 pàgines
...to me of death, great Odysseus. Bather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, with u landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that are no more.' * All the great Latin poets died young ; neither Catullus nor Lucretius even reached... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 472 pàgines
...held by the Argives, he replies : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus ; rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who has no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 1 Dreary as is this Homeric... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pàgines
...great Odysseus ; rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who has no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 1 Dreary as is this Homeric presentation of the dead, it would appear, from the examples of Ganymedes... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1893 - 348 pàgines
...by " strengthless heads," " phantoms of men outworn." "Rather," says Achilles, "would I live above ground as the hireling of another, with a landless...than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 2 The contrast between the bliss of the gods who " live at ease " and the troublous lot they have ordained... | |
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Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed. 
