Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...with need of earthy food, My Muse shall memorise; the son of Jove, Whom, in fair-seated Thebes (commix'd in love With great heaven's sable-cloud-assembling State) 5 Alcmena bore to him; and who, in date Of days forepast, through all the sea was sent, And Earth's inenarrable continent, To acts that king Eurystheus had decreed; Did many a petulant and imperious deed 10 Himself, and therefore suffer'd many a toil; Yet now inhabits the illustrious soil Of white Olympus, and delights his life With still-young Hebe, his well-ankled wife. Hail, King, and Son of Jove Vouchsafe thou me 15 Virtue, and, her effect, felicity TO AESCULAPIUS. ITH./Esculapius, the physician, That cur'dall sickness, and was Phoebus'son, My Muse makes entry; to whose life gave yield Divine Coronis in the Dotian field, (King Phlegius' daughter) who much joy on men B Conferr'd, in dear ease of their irksome pain. For which, my salutation, worthy king, And vows to thee paid, ever when I sing TO CASTOE AND POLLUX. ASTOR and Pollux, the Tyndarides, Sweet Muse illustrate; that their essences Fetch from the high forms of Olympian Jove, And were the fair fruits of bright Leda's love, Which she produe'd beneath the sacred shade 5 Of steep Taygetus, being subdu'd, and made To serve th' affections of the Thunderer. And so all grace to you, whom all aver (For skill in horses, and their manage given) To be the bravest horsemen under heaven 10 4 Taygetus.--It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that Chapman's quantity is wrong, as is often the case. TO MEKCUKY. ERMES I honour, the Cyllenian Spy, King of Cyllenia, and of Arcady With flocks abounding; and the Messenger Of all th' Immortals, that doth still infer Profits of infinite value to their store; 5 Whom to Saturnius bashful Maia bore, Daugh...