. Iliad and Odyssey. Done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Butcher, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. r. And Odysseus placed the bloody spoils of Dolon in thestern of the ship., that they might make ready a sacred offer-ing to Athene. But for themselves, they went into the sea,and washed off the thick sweat from shins, and neck, andthighs. But when the wave of the sea had washed the thick. o o fa o H wo BOOK XI 135 sweat from their skin, and their hearts revived again, theywent into polished baths, and were cleansed. And when they had washed, and anointed them with oliveoil, they sat down
. Iliad and Odyssey. Done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Butcher, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. r. And Odysseus placed the bloody spoils of Dolon in thestern of the ship., that they might make ready a sacred offer-ing to Athene. But for themselves, they went into the sea,and washed off the thick sweat from shins, and neck, andthighs. But when the wave of the sea had washed the thick. o o fa o H wo BOOK XI 135 sweat from their skin, and their hearts revived again, theywent into polished baths, and were cleansed. And when they had washed, and anointed them with oliveoil, they sat down at supper, and from the full mixing bowlthey drew off the honey-sweet wine, and poured it forth toAthene. BOOK XI Despite the glorious deeds of Agamemnon, the Trojans press hard onthe Achaians, and the beginning of evil comes on Fatroklos. Now Dawn arose from her couch beside proud Tithonos,to bring light to the immortals and to mortal men. ButZeus sent forth fierce Discord unto the fleet ships of theAchaians, and in her hands she held the signal of war. Andshe stood upon the huge black ship of Odysseus, that was inthe midst, to make her voice heard on either side, both tothe huts of Aias, son of Telamon, and to the huts of Achilles,for these twain, trusting in their valour and the might of theirhands, had drawn up their trim ships at the two ends of theline. There stood the goddess an
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