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Updated: June 19, 2025
"I can't quite make it out," she said. "That?" Achilles's face was alight. "That is Greek." She nodded. "I know. I study it; but what is it the word?" "The word! Ah, yes, it is How you say? You shall see." He reached out a hand to the box. But the child stopped him. A quick thought had come to her. "You have been in Athens, haven't you? I want to ask you something, please."
If you had read your Homer, you would know that Achilles's horse Xanthus declined to have anything more to do with neighing, and stood on the field of battle spouting whole hexameters; he was not content with plain prose like me; he even took to prophecy, and foretold to Achilles what should befall him.
Some of these ladies, if handsome, were not unfrequently taken by a man of fortune, and kept from mere ostentation, just as he would sport a superlatively elegant carriage, or ride a very capital horse; others were maintained from caprice, which, like Achilles's spear, carried with it its own antidote; and then, of course, they passed into the hands of different keepers.
O monster, mix'd of insolence and fear, Thou dog in forehead, and in heart a deer! he accompanies it with this censure, for it was unlikely that speaking in such anger he should observe any rules of decency. And he passeth like censures on actions. As on Achilles's foul usage of Hector's carcass,
And therefore what pleasure, do we think, can such a one take in being bound to get against breakfast, two or three hundred Rumblers out of HOMER, in commendation of ACHILLES's toes, or the Grecians' boots; or to have measured out to him, very early in the morning, fifteen or twenty well laid on lashes, for letting a syllable slip too soon, or hanging too long on it?
M. Sanson you know the great training man? wanted me to sing in one of my thoraxes or glottises or oesophaguses. I believe I have several, but I don't know which is which. He said my voice would last better. But I said I would have both helpings at once; a recollection of nursery dinner, you know...." "I understand Achilles's view. There, you see!"
What could be more so than Achilles's memorable saying, which is repeated by Ulysses in the Odyssey: "More hateful to me than the gates of death is he who thinks one thing and speaks another;" or this exclamation of old Laertes in the last book of the Odyssey: "What a day is this when I see my son and grandson contending in excellence!"
Then his eye paused a boy was breaking through the crowd hatless, breathless and calling him with swift gesture. Achilles sprang forward. "What is it, Alcie?" His eye was searching the crowd, and his hand dropped to the boy's shoulder. "There they are!" gasped the boy. "There!" Achilles's eye gleamed down the street, a little way off, a car was wheeling out from the curb gathering speed.
They crossed swiftly and mounted the steps, between the lions, the child's feet stumbling a little as they went, but Achilles's hand held fast and his touch on the bell summoned hurrying feet... there was a fumbling at the chains a swift, cautious creak, and the door swung back. "Who is it?" said a voice that peered out. The dawn touched his face grotesquely. "It's me!" said the child.
He shifted a little in his chair. They were all alike these foreigners money was what they wanted and plenty of it. The sneer on his face deepened abruptly. Achilles's glance was on the clock. "It makes bad to pay that money," he said.
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