7/5/2023 0 Comments The iliad online book free![]() Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.įor nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly-moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. For he had come to the swift ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, bearing ransom past counting and in his hands he held the wreaths of Apollo who. Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. ![]() If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.’ The quarrel between Agamemnon and AchillesAchilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the TrojansScene between Jove and Juno on Olympus. ‘Hear me,’ he cried, ‘O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe. ![]() ![]() Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne. ![]()
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