Homer’s Epigrams

Homer

Homer. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.

  1. For there shall mortal men get the iron that Ares loves
  2. so soon as the Cebrenians shall hold the land.
  1. Glaucus, watchman of flocks, a word will I put in your heart.
  2. First give the dogs their dinner at the courtyard gate,
  3. for this is well. The dog first hears
  4. a man approaching and the wild-beast coming to the fence.
  1. Goddess-nurse of the young,[*](Hecate: cp. Hesiod, Theogony, 450.) give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman
  2. may reject the love-embrace of youth
  3. and dote on grey-haired old men
  4. whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
  1. Children are a man’s crown, towers of a city;
  2. horses are the glory of a plain, and so are ships of the sea;
  3. wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes