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Chaos is a poetic legend, and the Trojan war was the squabble of a few marauding clans. 'Where are the records of the great Assyrian monarchy? Where are the books of the Medes and Persians? Where the learned annals of Pharaohs? 'Fortunate Jordan! Fortunate Ilissus! I have waded through the sacred waters; with difficulty I traced the scanty windings of the classic stream.
Till then I will win fame, and will bid Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow; thus shall they know that he who has held aloof so long will hold aloof no longer. Hold me not back, therefore, in the love you bear me, for you shall not move me."
I wonder the Trojan who first thought of playing this travestie on Homer, did not think of calling the place Troyville, or Troyborough! That would have been semi-American, at least, whereas the present appellation is so purely classical!
For if perchance we were minded, both Achaians and Trojans, to swear a solemn truce, and to number ourselves, and if the Trojans should gather together all that have their dwellings in the city, and we Achaians should marshal ourselves by tens, and every company choose a Trojan to pour their wine, then would many tens lack a cup-bearer: so much, I say, do the sons of the Achaians outnumber the Trojans that dwell within the city.
Thus also did the father of Pelops, the guest of the gods, die; and Tithonus likewise was translated to the skies, and Minos, though admitted to the secrets of Jupiter; and the Tartarean regions are possessed of the son of Panthous, once more sent down to the receptacle of the dead; notwithstanding, having retaken his shield from the temple, he gave evidence of the Trojan times, and that he had resigned to gloomy death nothing but his sinews and skin; in your opinion, no inconsiderable judge of truth and nature.
"It would be a fine thing to do," he thought to himself, "if they managed to recapture the ship." There was something quite prophetic in that thought. It is hard to keep awake all night, but a man can do it if he has to even though he has been working like a Trojan all day. Clif kept moving to work off the sleepiness whenever he felt it coming on.
Not far away he knows the snowy canvas of Rhesus' tents, which, betrayed in their first sleep, the blood-stained son of Tydeus laid desolate in heaped slaughter, and turns the ruddy steeds away to the camp ere ever they tasted Trojan fodder or drunk of Xanthus.
"I'll tell you what, Allie; it's a shame for you to stay tucked up with me in this hole. You've stuck by me like a Trojan; but I'm well enough off alone. Go out and have a lark; I would if I could." "Sha'n't!" returned Allie composedly. "Besides, there isn't anybody to lark with."
Hal, who had been working like a Trojan, wiped the beads of perspiration from his forehead with his shirt sleeve the work had become so hot that the lad had removed his coat, though it was still cold without and spoke words of encouragement to his men. "Good work, boys," he said quietly. "A few more like that and they will bother us no more."
Hecuba to Agamemnon, for instance, when she is planning the murder of the Thracian King: 'Leave it to me! and my Trojan women! And Agamemnon's scoffing reply poor idiot! 'How can women get the better of men? But one woman might be quite enough to upset a quiet man's way of living! The moral pressure of it was so iniquitous! Your convictions or your life! It was the language of a footpad.
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