"Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!"

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 451.

"With all its beauteous honours on its head."

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 557.

"A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault."

The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 16.

"Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days."

The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 371.

"Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind."

The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999.

"He held his seat,--a friend to human race."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 18.

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181.

"Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 330.

"If yet not lost to all the sense of shame."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350.

"'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 427.

"The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 467.

"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 544.

"Andromache! my soul's far better part."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 624.

"He from whose lips divine persuasion flows."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 143.

"Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 364.

"I war not with the dead."

The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 485.

"Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn."

The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 1.

"As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast."

The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 371.

"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 412.

"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 524.

"Short is my date, but deathless my renown."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 535.

"Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 628.

"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows."

The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 725.

"To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe."

The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 78.

"Content to follow when we lead the way."

The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 141.

"He serves me most who serves his country best."

The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 201.

"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know."

The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 293.

"The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xi. Line 394.

"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 283.

"The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xii. Line 393.

"And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106.

"The best of things beyond their measure cloy."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 795.

"To hide their ignominious heads in Troy."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 170.

"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251.

"Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 157.

"And for our country 't is a bliss to die."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 583.

"Like strength is felt from hope and from despair."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 852.

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xvi. Line 267.

"Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 730.

"The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 756.

"In death a hero, as in life a friend!"

The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 758.

"Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!"

The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103.

"I live an idle burden to the ground."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 134.

"Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 303.

"Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,-- For thee, that ever felt another's woe!"

The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 319.

"Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 127.

"The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 278.

"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 290.

"Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 304.

"A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise."

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337.