Hobbes trans. Homer’s Odysses
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Thomas Hobbes. Edited by Eric Nelson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008.Hobbes, T., & Molesworth, W. (1844). The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (Vol. 10).…
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Homeric Poems
"Cyclops, try this wine—flesh of the grape, it is— just see what stock we carried in our hold. This was the drink I planned to offer you, hoping you would receive me, treat me well, and speed me home. But you rage on, unbearable, madman that you are."
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Homer the Illiad
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
