Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
Translations, Aeneid (2005)
Stanley Lombardo: Frasi in inglese
The Hsin-hsin-ming of Seng-ts'an, lines 61–68
Translations, Trust in Mind (2008)
Book VI, lines 183–189; Odysseus to Nausicaa.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)
Book XXII, lines 287–289; spoken by Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain.”
Book I, opening lines
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Book XX, lines 333–342; Sarpedon to Glaucus.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.”
Theogony, line 617
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
Frag. 31
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.”
Book XIII, lines 355–356
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite.”
Frag. 1
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
“We know how to tell many believable lies,
But also, when we want to, how to speak the plain truth.”
Theogony, lines 28–29
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
“Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.”
Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)
Canto III, lines 1–3
Translations, Inferno (2008)
Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)
“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Frag. 72
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)
Book VI, lines 149–152; Glaucus to Diomedes.
Translations, Iliad (1997)