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Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
Topic: Absence
Source: The Iliad (bk. 22, l. 415), (Pope's translation)
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Few sons attain the praise
Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
Topic: Ancestry
Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 315), (Pope's translation)
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Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in
the bosom of a man like smoke.
Topic: Anger
Source: The Iliad (XVIII, 108)
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Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 48), (Pope's translation)
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Gloomy as night he stands.
Topic: Appearance
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 744), (Pope's translation)
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.
Topic: Art
Source: The Iliad (bk. 23, l. 382), (Pope's translation)
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To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd,
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
Topic: Blessings
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VII, l. 95), (Pope's translation)
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Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Topic: Blindness
Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, l. 730), (Pope's translation)
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Topic: Bravery
Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 283), (Pope's translation)
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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each one of this children and his wife,
His home, his parents, living yet and dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
Topic: Bravery
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 843), (Bryant's translation)
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Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.
Topic: Cities
Source: The Odyssey (bk. 14, l. 410), (Pope's translation)
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast,
For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof
From sharp contentions.
Topic: Contention
Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 317), (Bryant's translation)
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Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
Topic: Contention
Source: The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 364), (Pope's translation)
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Topic: Conversation
Source: The Odyssey (bk. 15, l. 433), (Pope's translation)
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O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
Topic: Courage
Source: The Iliad (bk. V, l. 663), (Bryant's translation)
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
Utters another.
Topic: Deceit
Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 386), (Bryant's translation)
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No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Topic: Destiny
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 623), (Bryant's translation)
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All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
Topic: Destiny
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XII, l. 31), (Pope's translation)
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Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Topic: Dreams
Source: The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 207), (Pope's translation)
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Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Odyssey (bk. X, l. 622), (Pope's translation)
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Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.
Topic: End
Source: The Iliad (bk. IV, III)
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Content to follow when we lead the way.
Topic: Example
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 141), (Pope's translation)
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Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!
Topic: Faith
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 229), (Pope's translation)
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He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
Topic: Folly
Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, l. 39), Bryant's translation
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And better skilled in dark events to come.
Topic: Future
Source: The Odyssey (bk. V, 219), (Pope's translation)
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Rare gift! but oh, what gift to fools avails!
Topic: Gifts
Source: The Odyssey (bk. 10, l. 29), (Pope's translation)
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The first in glory, as the first in place.
Topic: Glory
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 441), (Pope's translation)
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Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 280), (Bryant's translation)
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The son of Saturn gave
The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls
Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head
Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,
Olympus trembled.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 666), (Bryant's translation)
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Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 684), (Pope's translation)
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The ox-eyes awful Juno.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Iliad (bk. III, l. 144)
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Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
Topic: Gods
Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, 514)
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Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.
Topic: Greatness
Source: The Iliad (bk. III, l. 293), (Pope's translation)
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Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.
Topic: Grief
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXII, l. 526), (Pope's translation)
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Then let him know that hatred without end
Or intermission is between us two.
Topic: Hatred
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 270), (Bryant's translation)
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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Topic: Heaven
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 128), (Pope's translation)
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Light is the task when many share the toil.
Topic: Help
Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 493), (Bryant's translation)
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Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
Topic: Heroes
Source: The Iliad (bk. XV, l. 157), (Pope's translation)
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The long historian of my country's woes.
Topic: History
Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 142), (Pope's translation)
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Topic: History
Source: The Odyssey (bk. III, l. 142), (Pope's translation)
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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
Topic: Home
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 38)
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Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man
of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the
road-side and he entertained all men.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 12), (Lang's translation)
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Topic: Hospitality
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 83), (Pope's translation)
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He held his seat; a friend to human race.
Topic: Humanity
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 18), (Pope's translation)
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Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor.
Topic: Humanity
Source: The Odyssey (bk. IX, l. 338), (Pope's translation)
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I live an idle burden to the ground.
Topic: Idleness
Source: The Iliad (bk. XVIII, l. 134), (Pope's translation)
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 153), (Pope's translation)
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'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
Topic: Immortality
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIII, l. 122), (Pope's translation)
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Lay ye down the golden chain
From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links
Both Goddesses and Gods.
Topic: Influence
Source: The Iliad (bk. 8), (Cowley's translation)
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
Topic: Kindness
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIV, l. 523), (Pope's translation)
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