From the Greek by Alexander Pope
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
“TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run?
Ah too forgetful of thy wife and son!
And think’st thou not how wretched we shall be,
A widow I, a helpless orphan he!
For sure such courage length of life denies,
And thou must fall, thy virtue’s sacrifice.
Greece in her...
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From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
[The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.]I TOO have thought of all this, dear wife, but I fear the reproaches
Both of the Trojan youths and the long-robed maidens of Troja,
If like a...