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.
- And grant that when I come to the nether slopes of towering Mimas
- I may find honorable, god-fearing men.
- Also may I avenge me on the wretch who deceived me
- and grieved Zeus the lord of guests and his own guest-table.
- Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth,
- how kindly, it seems, you are to some,
- and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry.
- Sailors, who rove the seas and whom a hateful fate has made as
- the shy sea-fowl, living an unenviable life,
- observe the reverence due to Zeus who rules on high, the god of strangers;
- for terrible is the vengeance of this god afterwards for whosoever has sinned.
- Strangers, a contrary wind has caught you: