(Not fated yet to die;) there safe retreats, Or stain this lance, or see Achilles fall. The god, now distant scarce a stride before, Who 'scaped by flight, or who by battle fell. Calamitous by birth, At every bound his clanging armour rings: Is it in vain our conquering arms subdue? The smiles' and loves' unconquerable queen! Copyright © 2006—2021 by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida. This at the heavenly homicide she cast. my choked streams no more their course can keep, She call'd aloud, and summon'd Vulcan's aid. Thine is the glory doom'd." "Book 22: The Death of Hector." Scorch all the banks! Of Peleus, Æacus, and Jove, am I. Even to the middle earth; and quiver'd there. Bk XIX:1-73 Achilles ends his quarrel with Agamemnon . The watery willows hiss before the fire. The son of Priam; whom the hero's hand Thus is atoned Patroclus' honour'd shade, Mark how resistless through the floods he goes, Howe'er 'tis better, fighting for the state, [30] Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. On this his weight, and raised upon his hand, Lo! Funeral Games of Patroclus. That bar such numbers from their native plain; This section contains 487 words (approx. "Book 21: The Battle in the River Scamander." But most of Thetis must her son complain; This document was downloaded from Lit2Go, a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. Broad elm, and cypress rising in a spire; Stand I to doubt, within the reach of fate? His feet, upborne, scarce the strong flood divide, His useless lance and unavailing shield,) Spun forth; in earth the fasten'd weapon stood. A spreading elm, that overhung the flood; With their rich belts their captive arms restrains And the short absence of Achilles paid.". He said; and on the chief descends amain, Roars the resounding surge with men and horse. Still enraged by the death of Patroclus, he kills many Trojans, including a begging Lycaon, even so cowered the Trojans in the streams of the dread river beneath the steep banks. Submissive I desist, if thou command; the insulting flood requires No power to avert his miserable end? With fury swells the violated flood. Swift from the field the baffled huntress flies, Troy walls I raised (for such were Jove's commands), Hast thou forgot, how, at the monarch's prayer, The fourth, he tries to break the spear in vain; fight among themselves--Achilles drives the Trojans within. Homer, . Smote on his knee; the hollow cuishes rung This book is George Chapman's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. And at his call they came, even they who before had remained at the ships, as the pilots and they who dealt out the food, because Achilles, who had been absent so long from the battle, had returned thereto. Ten days were past, since in his father's reign Where Jason's son the price demanded gave; Where, all confused, she sought the sovereign god; By night, or day, by force, or by design, Iliad . Stretch'd like a hero, by a hero's arm! He spoke; and pass'd: Latona, stooping low, Now glow the waves, the fishes pant for breath, But great Saturnius is the source of mine. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it And the warm purple circled on the tide. So when a peasant to his garden brings We shared the lengthen'd labours of a year? the day before, what time glorious Hector was ragingâthitherward poured forth some in rout, and Hera spread before them a thick mist to hinder them; but the half of them were pent into the deep-flowing river with its silver eddies. Again, her victim cruel Fate demands! And scarce restrains the torrent in her eyes: And scarce twelve morning suns have seen me here; Therein they flung themselves with a great din, and the sheer-falling streams resounded, Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. Lo, thy gods appear! Juno, whom thou rebellious darest withstand, And numbers more his lance had plunged to hell, The falling deluge whelms the hero round: What wonder this, when in thy frantic mood Through blood, through death, Achilles still proceeds, Fierce to the feeble race of womankind, and bound their hands behind them with shapely thongs, which they themselves wore about their pliant tunics, and gave them to his comrades to lead to the hollow ships. thy word we shall obey; Turn then, impetuous! Go, matchless goddess! Loud flash the waters to the rushing fall She said, and seized her wrists with eager rage; Some demon urges! Prevent, O Jove! But ah! Of the thick foliage. download 4 files . The Iliad.Lit2Go Edition. And while, above, the spear suspended stood, And fear'd the Greeks, though fate forbade her fall. Along the margin winds the running blaze: Now sums immense thy mercy shall repay. The Trojans fly before Achilles, some towards the town, others to the river Scamander: he falls upon the latter with great slaughter: takes twelve captives alive, to sacrifice to the shade of Patroclus; and kills Lycaon and Asteropeus. Thus they above: while, swiftly gliding down, Call then thy subject streams, and bid them roar, line to jump to another position: The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. And make my future life the sport of fate. And the barb'd javelin stings his breast in vain: Silent he heard the queen of woods upbraid: See! Set wide your portals to the flying throng: In awful darkness hide the face of all?". And madly bathed it in celestial gore.". unhappy sons) she bore; Our bravest heroes else shall quit the fight, Deep groan'd the waters with the dying sound; oh! with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. The river here divides the flying train, O'er all the expanded plain the waters spread; ", "O son of Peleus! This Combat ended, the other gods engage each other. Beneath her ruins! He springs impetuous, and invades the field: On earth together lay the lovers spread. To their own hands commit the frantic scene, Approach'd, and sought his knees with suppliant tears Achilles routs the Trojans and splits their ranks, pursuing half of them into the river known to the gods as Xanthus and to the mortals as Scamander. A sadder journey to the shades below. And lifts his billows, and o'erwhelms his shores. He stops, and questions thus his mighty soul; "What, shall I fly this terror of the plain! The gushing purple dyed the thirsty sand. Swift through the foamy flood the Trojans fly, even so before Achilles was the sounding stream of deep-eddying Xanthus filled confusedly with chariots and with men. what avails to trace Bent as he stands, he tumbles to the plain; (So, ere a storm, the waters heave and roll.) In shoals before him fly the scaly train, Meanwhile the god, to cover their escape, Learn hence, no more unequal war to wage—" Then heaved the goddess in her mighty hand One group runs toward the city and the other runs right into the river Xanthos. And wide around the floated region fills, Part plunge into the stream: old Xanthus roars, Stay, and the furious flood shall cease to rave Phoebus rush'd forth, the flying bands to meet; Your living coursers glut his gulfs in vain! The goddess spoke, and turn'd her eyes away, Wild with revenge, insatiable of war. Twelve chosen youths he drags alive to land; Such ruin theirs, and such compassion mine. As when the flames beneath a cauldron rise, See bottom for copyright. And Troy inglorious to her walls retired; Die then,"—He said; and as the word he spoke, Homer, . And partial aid to Troy's perfidious race.". And wide beneath them groans the rending ground. In vain a single Trojan sues for grace; Web. (Like all the sons of earth) the force of steel. Then rising in his rage above the shores, So boils the imprison'd flood, forbid to flow, So raged Achilles: death and dire dismay, Flows from the source of Axius, stream divine! (As from a sycamore, his sounding steel Current location in this text. Weeping, she grasp'd his knees: the ambrosial vest Far from his father, friends, and native shore; Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. The flood impell'd him, on Pelides' head Like yearly leaves, that now, with beauty crown'd, For ah! 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. Download Full PDF Package. And my swift soul o'ertake my slaughter'd friend. Like us, their present, future sons destroy, Views, from his arm, the Trojans' scatter'd flight, to shun him by the self–same road View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document. BOOK 21. Oh! Thick beats his heart, the troubled motions rise. Here, and in public view, to meet my fate. Thy task it was to feed the bellowing droves What if?—But wherefore all this vain debate? 2.4 cm high and 3.2 cm wide. Synopsis : The Iliad A Commentary Volume 6 Books 21 24 written by G. S. Kirk, published by Cambridge University Press which was released on 31 January 1985. As soon as night her dusky veil extends, Before him scattering, they prevent his pains, His well–known face when great Achilles eyed, Like some vile swain, whom on a rainy day, But nor that force, nor form divine to sight, Hera sends a mist to confuse and slow the retreat of the men going back towards the city. Then, murmuring from his beds, he boils, he raves, And I succeed to slaughter'd Polydore. Unaided Ilion, and her destined state, Yet dauntless still the adverse flood he braves, "O first of mortals! The bow, the quiver, and its plumy pride. Older commentaries like Anthon's (published in 1847!) But from the bottom of his gulfs profound But least, the sons of Priam's hateful race. Wash'd from beneath him slides the slimy soil; Till Greece shall gird her with destructive flame, A hundred oxen were his price that day, To the cleft cavern speeds the gentle dove; Some pity to a suppliant's name afford, And take their thrones around the ethereal sire. (Book 21, lines 13-14) He wades into the river leaving his spear on the bank and kills many men, taking twelve captive. Achilles meets a shameful fate, To Ida's forests and surrounding shades? Battlefield: Death of Hector. Arm'd with his sword, high brandish'd o'er the waves: Commentary references to this page The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore.pdf download. Till, roll'd between the banks, it lies the food While Achilleus still refuses to return to battle, his friend, Patroklos, persuades him to let him fight in his place. And the pale crescent fades upon her brows. In valour matchless, and in force divine! The youth address'd to unrelenting ears: Some notes on using the pages as a scansion database. Your current position in the text is marked in blue. triumph in the skies, But thou, the counsel heaven suggests, attend! The flouncing steeds and shrieking warriors drown'd. Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from "What sloth has seized us, when the fields around With heavier strides, that lengthen toward the town. With cries promiscuous all the banks resound, The Iliad - Book 21 Summary & Analysis. High on a turret hoary Priam stands, Thy pride to face the majesty of heaven? Full and express, that Phoebus should employ Ah—bend no more thy fiery arms on me!". Like others fly, and be like others slain? Bce fragment of the upper part of a column written probably on a loose sheet of papyrus which contains 15 fragmentary lines of book 21 of the Iliad. Of shouting hunters, and of clamorous hounds; He vents his fury on the flying crew, The power of battles lifts his brazen spear, The plant uprooted to his weight gave way. On the riverbank, Achilles mercilessly slaughters Lycaon, a son of Priam. Hide browse bar They poured across it in flight, while Hera spread a dense fog there to thwart … While the proud victor thus triumphing said, What though tremendous in the woodland chase (Old Altes' daughter, and Lelegia's heir; Shall aught avail him, if our rage unite: And in his deep abysses shakes with fear.". Then blacken'd the wild waves: the murmur rose: Achilles splits the Trojan line at the River Xanthus.The Trojan men "[s]pun like locusts swarming up in the air, whipped by rushing fire." And tears his hunter, or beneath him dies. The shining goddess came and took his hand, saying; ‘My child you … 20.8M . And left the breathless warrior in his gore. Ill suits the wisdom of celestial mind; Then fiercely rushing on the daring foe, Tempts his pursuit, and wheels about the shore; Not till proud Hector, guardian of her wall, Thy force can match the great earth–shaking power.". Now shines the tenth bright morning since I came Arm'd with protended spears, my native band; Homer, . But Jove he dreads, nor wars against his son. When by the spear, the arrow, or the dart, 'Tis not thy fate to glut his angry wave. Mydon, Thersilochus, with Ænius, fell; The fierce Achilles sees me, and I fall: SINGLE PAGE PROCESSED JP2 ZIP ... Iliad, Book 21 - The Battle by the River download. Battlefield: Routing of the Trojans. Dost thou, for this, afford proud Ilion grace, Safe from pursuit, and shut from mortal view, He spoke in vain—The chief without dismay And boast my conquest, while I yield the prize.". Again the branching streams begin to spread, Charge the black surge, and pour it on his head. Propitious Neptune, and the blue–eyed maid. Then thus to Simois! This collection of children's literature is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by various grants. His hand forgot its grasp, and left the spear, He throws so many corpse… To her Latona hastes with tender care; Earth, whose strong grasp has held down Hercules.". Heaved on the bounding billows danced the dead, from our injured flood; Before Patroclus met his destiny It was more to my taste to spare Trojan lives, Capture them and sell them overseas. And thus insults him, floating on the wave: "Lie there, Lycaon! To check Achilles, and to rescue Troy? No stop, no check, no aid! 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