Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ed to the great hall door with bow and quiver full ofshafts, which down at his feet he poured, and in bitterwords presignified his deadly intent on the far, he said, this contest has been decidedharmless; now for us there rests another mark, harder tohit, but which my hands .shall essay notwithstanding, ifPhoebus, god of archers, be pleased to gve me themastery. With that he let fly a deadly arrow at 2?4 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. Antinous, which pierced him in the throat as he wasin the act of lifting a cup of wine t
Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ed to the great hall door with bow and quiver full ofshafts, which down at his feet he poured, and in bitterwords presignified his deadly intent on the far, he said, this contest has been decidedharmless; now for us there rests another mark, harder tohit, but which my hands .shall essay notwithstanding, ifPhoebus, god of archers, be pleased to gve me themastery. With that he let fly a deadly arrow at 2?4 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. Antinous, which pierced him in the throat as he wasin the act of lifting a cup of wine to his mouth. Amaze-ment seized the suitors as their great champion fell dead,and they raged highly against Ulysses, and said that itshould prove the dearest shaft which he ever let fly, forhe had slain a man whose like breathed not in any partof the kingdom; and they flew to their arms, and wouldhave seized the lances, but Athene struck them withiliraness of sight that they went erring up and down thehall, not knowing where to find them. Yet so infatuated. John Flaxhait. DLYSSES SLATING THE SUITORS. were they by the displeasure of heaven that they did notsee the imminent peril which impended over them, butevery man believed that this accident had happened besidethe intention of the doer. Fools I to think by shuttingtheir eyes to evade destiny, or that any other cup remainedfor them but that which their great Antinous had tasted IThen Ulysses revealed himself to all in that presence,and that he was the man whom they held to be dead at THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES. 276 Troy, whose palace they had usurped, whose wife in his life-time they had sought in impious marriage, and that for thisreason destruction was come upon them. And he dealt hisdeadly arrows among them, and there was no avoiding himnor escaping from his horrid person; and Telemachus byhis side plied them thick with those murderous lances fromwhich there was no retreat, till fear itself made them val-iant, and danger gave
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