 | Homer - 1879 - 422 pagine
...perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners, and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep. now arise, ye dancers of the Phaeacians, the best in the land, and make sport, that so the stranger... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pagine
...perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners, and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep. Lo, now arise, ye dancers of the Phaeacians, the best in the land, and make sport, that so the stranger... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 472 pagine
...perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners, and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep. Lo, now arise, ye dancers of the Phaeacians, the best in the land, and make sport, that so the stranger... | |
 | Walter Copland Perry - 1898 - 292 pagine
...perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen, and dear to us is the banquet and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath, and love and sleep." » The king then sends for the minstrel Demodocos and the best dancers. " And Demodocos gat him into... | |
 | Homer - 1908 - 240 pagine
...perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen ; and to us is the banquet dear, and the harp and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath and sleep." " Lo now! arise, ye dancers, the best in the land, and fetch for Demodocus the loud lyre, which... | |
 | Edward Norman Gardiner - 1910 - 568 pagine
...said !) speedy runners and the best of seamen. And then the truth comes out : " Dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath and love and sleep ! " Clearly the Phaeacians are no sportsmen, nor Achaeans, and we have really no concern with them;"... | |
 | Theodore Andrea Cook - 1919 - 218 pagine
...(in the first outriggers) i ' We are speedy runners and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet and the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and the warm bath and love and sleep.' — Od. viii. 247. he lost again to Cambridge at Putney, but secured the Stewards' for the third time... | |
 | 1919 - 560 pagine
...no perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen, and dear to us ever is the banquet and the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and love and sleep." 2 If this be the poet's ideal it is in marked contrast to that expressed in Hector's... | |
 | Wallace Everett Caldwell - 1919 - 170 pagine
...no perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen, and dear to us ever is the banquet and the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and love and sleep." 8 If this be the poet's ideal it is in marked contrast to that expressed in Hector's... | |
 | Henry Rosher James - 1921 - 474 pagine
...no perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep. Lo, now arise, ye dancers of the Phaeacians, the best in the land, and make sport, that so the stranger... | |
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Zeus bestoweth even upon us from our fathers' days even until now. For we are no perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners, and the best of seamen; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the... 
