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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) 22 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 10 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 9 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 1 Browse Search
Homer, Odyssey 8 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) 8 0 Browse Search
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) 8 0 Browse Search
Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 6 0 Browse Search
C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Leonard C. Smithers) 6 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 6 0 Browse Search
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Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 137 (search)
ound on the Munich cylix of the early vase-painter Euphronius (about 500 B.C.), in which Dolon wears a tight-fitting hairy skin with a long tail. The plan can of course only succeed in a country where wild animals are common enough to be thought unimportant. The playwright has evidently chosen a more primitive and romantic version of the story; the Homeric reviser has, as usual, cut out what might seem ridiculous. (See J. A. K. Thomson in Classical Review, xxv. pp. 238 f.). I, Prince!-I offer for our City's sake To go disguised to the Greek ships, to make Their counsels mine, and here bring word to thee. If that be thy full service, I agree. HECTOR. Dolon the Wolf! A wise wolf and a true! Thy father's house was praised when first I knew Troy: this shall raise it twofold in our eyes. DOLON. 'Tis wise to do good work, but also wise To pay the worker. Aye, and fair reward Makes twofold pleasure, though the work be hard.
Euripides, Rhesus (ed. Gilbert Murray), line 164 (search)
HECTOR. So be it: an honest rule. Do thou lay down What guerdon likes thee best-short of my crown. DOLON. I care not for thy crowned and care-fraught life. HECTOR. Wouldst have a daughter of the King to wife? DOLON. I seek no mate that might look down on me. HECTOR. Good gold is ready, if that tempteth thee. DOLON. We live at ease and have no care for gold. HECTOR. Well, Troy hath other treasures manifold. DOLON. Pay me not now, but when the Greeks are ta'en. HECTOR. The Greeks! . . . Choose any save the Atridae twain. DOLON. Kill both, an it please thee. I make prayer for none. HECTOR. Thou wilt not ask for Ajax, Ileus' son P. 12, 1. 175, Ajax, Ileus' son.]-" Ajax" is mentioned here and at 11. 463, 497, 601, as apparently next in importance to the two Atreidae or to Achilles. That is natural, but it is a shock to have him here described as son of Ileus. In the Iliad we should ha