The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer

Author:Homer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

declared to him some prophecy from Zeus,

all right: then let him send you into battle!

Let the battalion of Myrmidons follow you!

Victory light for Danáäns you may be!

And let him give you all his beautiful armor

to wear in battle. Taking you for him

the Trojans may retire from the field

and let the young Akhaians have a respite

exhausted as they are. War gives brief rest!

You and your soldiers, fresh against tired men,

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might easily throw them back upon the town

away from our encampment and our ships.”

At this, Patróklos’ heart bounded within him

and he went running back along the shipways

toward Akhilleus. Just as he passed the ship

of great Odysseus, where the assembly ground

and place of justice were, and gods’ altars,

there came Eurýpylos, the wounded man,

Euaimôn’s noble son, struck by the arrow,

limping out of combat. Sultry sweat

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