Literary Record Details

Author: HOMERUS Epic.

Opus: Odyssea
Reference: Hom.Od.9.331

Period: Archaic

Genre: poetry
Subgenre: epic
Object:
Gender: m
Context: military

Greek Text: αὐτὰρ τοὺς ἄλλους κλήρῳ πεπαλάσθαι ἄνωγον, ὅς τις τολμήσειεν ἐμοὶ σὺν μοχλὸν ἀείρας τρῖψαι ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ, ὅτε τὸν γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἱκάνοι.

English Text: And I bade my comrades cast lots among them, which of them should have the hardihood with me to lift the stake and grind it into his eye when sweet sleep should come upon him

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Kleros 507, Hom.Od.9.331
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