Frases de Homero

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“La juventud tiene el genio vivo y el juicio débil.”

“El pueblo me silba, pero yo me aplaudo en mi casa mientras contemplo cariñosamente las monedas en mi caja fuerte.”

“El genio se descubre en la fortuna adversa; en la prosperidad se oculta.”

“En la juventud y en la belleza la sabiduría es escasa.”

“Todo hombre sabio ama a la esposa que ha elegido.”

“Nace una fuerza de la unión de los hombres, aunque sean débiles; y nosotros somos capaces de luchar con los valientes.”

“El vino aumenta mucho el vigor del hombre fatigado”

“Igual que bajo la tormenta la oscura tierra se empapa entera el día otoñal en que con insuperable violencia vierte el agua Zeus para manifestar su ira, rencoroso contra los hombres que en la plaza dictan sentencias torcidas abusando de su poder y destierran la justicia sin ningún miramiento por los dioses; los cauces de todos sus ríos se desbordan, los torrentes hienden entonces barrancos en muchas colinas y en la ondulante costa se precipitan con grandes clamores desde la cima de los montes, anegando las labores de las gentes;
tan grandes eran los clamores de las yeguas troyanas al correr.”

“Ojalá os volvierais agua y tierra ahí mismo donde estáis sentados, hombres sin corazón y sin honor.”

“La relación que existe entre los autores mediocres y la crítica mediocre es más o menos ésta: ninguno se fía del otro.”

“De los que sienten este temor, son más los que se salvan que los que mueren; los que huyen, ni alcanzan gloria, ni entre sí se ayudan.”

“El esclavo pierde la mitad de su alma cuando entra en servidumbre.”

“… y, avanzando, era como una noche sombría”

“Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.”

“Pero aquel que se siente tocado por mi lanza no tarda en expirar. Su esposa se desgarra las mejillas, quedan sus hijos huérfanos y enrojece él la tierra con su sangre, y se corrompe, y hay en torno suyo más aves de rapiña que hembras gemebundas”

“La fortuna es como un vestido: muy holgado nos embaraza, y muy estrecho nos oprime.”

“«Combatieron con roedor encono, y se separaron unidos por la amistad.»”

“Tú, ¿por qué tienes tanto miedo a la guerra y la matanza? Incluso si el resto de nosotros caemos y morimos a tu alrededor, luchando por las naves, no correrás el riesgo de morir: te falta el corazón para aguantar en combate, ¡cobarde!”

“… Como esa estrella del verano menguante que más allá de todas las estrellas se eleva bañada en la corriente del océano para brillar con fulgor.”

“The day will come when sacred Troy must die,
Priam must die and all his people with him,
Priam who hurls the strong ash spear!”

“Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”

“But one can't go without his sleep forever.
The immortals give each thing its proper place
in our mortal lives throughout the good green earth.”

“Let us put our griefs to rest in our own hearts…
What good's to be won from tears that chill the spirit?
So the immortals spun our lives that we, we wretched men
live on to bear such torments—the gods live free of sorrows.”

“As when in harp and song adept, a bard
Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre.”

“Prayers are Jove's daughters, of celestial race,
Lame are their feet, and wrinkled is their face;
With humble mien, and with dejected eyes,
Constant they follow where Injustice flies.”

“Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!”

“Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse…”

“They remembered bed and took the gift of sleep.”

“A physician is worth more than several other men put together, for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs.”

“If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

“Ashamed to decline the challenge, yet fearing to accept it.”

“Let them be friends,
devoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth
come cresting through the land.”

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.”

“Shaker of the earth, you would have me be as one without prudence
if I am to fight even you for the sake of insignificant
mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm
with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again
fade away and are dead.”

“As stars in the night sky glittering
round the moon's brilliance blaze in all their glory
when the air falls to a sudden, windless calm…
all the lookout peaks stand out and the jutting cliffs
and the steep ravines and down from the high heavens bursts
the boundless, bright air and all the stars shine clear
and the shepherd's heart exults.”

“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”

“And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.”

“But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

“Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow
More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow?
Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms
Must pay the penalty for lawless charms.”

“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”

“Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.”

“Nothing more shameless is than Appetite,
Who still, whatever anguish load our breast,
Makes us remember in our own despite
Both food and drink.”

“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

“No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.”

“Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.”

“Then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia.”

“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”