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Title: Iliad and Odyssey. Done into English prose by Andrew Lang, S.H. Butcher, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Homer Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry), 1850-1910 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Leaf, Walter, 1852-1927 Myers, Ernest, 1844-1921
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Publisher: Chautauqua, N.Y. Chautauqua Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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that I promised thee before am I now accomplishing. Twelve
valiant sons of great-hearted Trojans, behold these all in com-
pany with thee the fire devoureth : but Hector son of Priam
will I nowise give to the fire to feed upon, but to dogs."
Thus spake he threatening, but no dogs might deal with
Hector, for day and night Aphrodite daughter of Zeus kept off
the dogs, and anointed him with rose-sweet oil ambrosial that
Achilles might not tear him when he dragged him. And over
him Phoebus Apollo brought a dark cloud from heaven to earth
and covered all that place whereon the dead man lay, lest
meanwhile the suns strength shrivel his flesh round about
upon his sinews and limbs.
But the pyre of dead Patroklos kindled not. Then fleet-
footed noble Achilles had a further thought : standing aside
from the pyre he prayed to the two Winds of Xorth and West,
and promised them fair offering;.-, and pouring large libations
from a golden cup besought them to come, that the corpses
might blaze up speedily in the fire, and the wood make haste

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THE FUNERAL PILE OF PATROKLOS

BOOK XXIII 291

to be enkindled. Then Iris, when she heard his prayer, went
swiftly with the message to the Winds. They within the house
of the gusty West Wind were feasting all together at meat, when
Iris sped thither, and halted on the threshold of stone. And
when they saw her with their eyes, they sprang up and called
to her every one to sit by him. But she refused to sit, and
spake her word : " No seat for me ; I must go back to the
streams of Ocean, to the Ethiopians' land where they sacrifice
hecatombs to the immortal gods, that I too may feast at their
rites. But Achilles is praying the North Wind and the loud
West to come, and promising them fair offerings, that ye may
make the pyre be kindled whereon lieth Patroklos, for whom
all the Achaians are making moan. "
She having thus said departed, and they arose with a mighty
sound, rolling the clouds before them. And swiftly they came
blowing over the sea, and the wave rose beneath their shrill
blast; and they came to deep-soiled Troy, and fell upon t

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