...The Odyssey of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Ho... ...tronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ... the talents which nature had bestowed, and Melesigenes soon surpassed his schoolfellows in every attainment, and, when older, ri valled his precepto... ... and his mother soon followed. Melesigenes carried on his adopted father’s school with great success, exciting the admiration not only of the inhabita... ... mons the council to meet the day following. The man for wisdom’s various arts renown’d, Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound; Who, when his arms ... ...! what words have pass’d thy lips unweigh’d! (Replied the Thunderer to the martial maid;) Deem not unjustly by my doom oppress’d, Of human race the wi... ...rcumfluent waves embrace; A duteous people, and industrious isle, To naval arts inured, and stormy toil. Freighted with iron from my native land, I st... ...and wines an ample store. While to the rival train the prince returns, The martial goddess with impatience burns; Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and ... ...ghty Thunderer in her arms: Hence sprung Amphion, hence brave Zethus came, Founders of Thebes, and men of mighty name; Though bold in open field, they...

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