The Iliads of Homer, prince of poets, never before in any language truly translated, with a comment on some of his chief places, done according to the Greek by George Chapman, with introd and notes by Richard Hooper . Though I correct her still, and chide, nor can forbear offence,Though to her son ; this wound I know tastes of her insolence ;But I will prove more natural ; thou shalt be curd, because 890 Thou comst of me, but hadst thou been so cross to sacred laws,Being born to any other God, thou hadst been thrown from heavnLong since, as low as Tartarus, beneath the giants drivn. This said,
The Iliads of Homer, prince of poets, never before in any language truly translated, with a comment on some of his chief places, done according to the Greek by George Chapman, with introd and notes by Richard Hooper . Though I correct her still, and chide, nor can forbear offence,Though to her son ; this wound I know tastes of her insolence ;But I will prove more natural ; thou shalt be curd, because 890 Thou comst of me, but hadst thou been so cross to sacred laws,Being born to any other God, thou hadst been thrown from heavnLong since, as low as Tartarus, beneath the giants drivn. This said, he gave his wround in charge to Pason, who appliedSuch sovreign medcines, that as soon the pain was qualified, 595 And he recurd ; as nourishing milk, when runnet is put in,Runs all in heaps of tough thick curd, though in his nature thin,Evn so soon his wounds parted sides ran close in his recure ;For he, all deathless, could not long the parts of death Hebe bathd, and put on him fresh garments, and he sate 900 Exulting by his sire again, in top of all his , having, from the spoils of men, made his desird remove,Juno and Pallas re-ascend the starry court of Jove. THE EXD OF THE FIFTH THE SIXTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGUMENT. THE Gods now leaving an indiffrent * field, The Greeks prevail, the slaughterd Trojans yield. Hector, by Helenus advice, retires In haste to Troy, and Hecuba desires To pray Minerva to remove from fight The son of Tydeus, her affected knight, And vow to her, for favour of such price, Twelve oxen should be slain in sacrifice. In mean space Glaucus and Tydides meet; And either other with remembrance greet Of old love twixt their fathers, which inclines Their hearts to friendship ; who change arms for signs Of a continud love for cithers life. Hector, in his return, meets with his wife, And, taking in his armed arms his son, He prophesies the fall of Ilion. ANOTHER ARGUMENT. In Zeta, Hector prophesies ;Prays for his son ; wills
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