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The Illiad: The Embassy to Achilles.
The Second Battle, and the Dis... The Night Adventure of Diomed ... The Embassy to Achilles. Agamemnon, after the last day's defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and…The Iliad of Homer: Concluding Note
Appendix 2 Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem, and…Concluding Note.
Footnotes Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem,…The Iliad of Homer: The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle
The Duel of Menelaus and Paris. The Acts of Diomed. The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle. The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war: they agree upon the…The Unfortunate Lover
The Unfortunate Lover Alas, how pleasant are their dayes With whom the Infant Love yet playes! Sorted by pairs, they still are seen By Fountains cool, and Shadows green. But soon these Flames…William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III
Scene IIIThe Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tentSennet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Menelaus, and othersAgamemnonPrinces, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks? The ample…The Iliad of Homer: The Embassy to Achilles
The Second Battle, and the Dis... The Night-Adventure of Diomed ... The Embassy to Achilles. Agamemnon, after the last day's defeat, proposes to the Greeks to quit the siege, and…Brewer's: Teucer
Brother of Ajax the Greater, who went with the allied Greeks to the siege of Troy. On his return home, his father banished him the kingdom for not avenging on Ulysses the death of his…Brewer's: Alifanfaron
the giant. Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he…Brewer's: Pasquinade
(3 syl.). A lampoon or political squib, having ridicule for its object; so called from Pasquino, an Italian tailor of the fifteenth century, noted for his caustic wit. Some time after his…