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.”

“I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.”

“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”

“Who, on his own,
has ever really known who gave him life?”

“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”

“He will tell you no lies, for he is an excellent person.”

“The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate.”

“The fleeting shadows of the dead.”

“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”

“He kissed his son, and a tear fell from his cheek on to the ground, for he had restrained all tears till now.”

“I far excel every one else in the whole world,
of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth.”

“Sleep, universal king of gods and men.”

“Such desire is in him
merely to see the hearthsmoke leaping upward
from his own island, that he longs to die.”

“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”

“Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!”

“Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle,
would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,
so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost,
nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.
But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us
in their thousands, no man can turn aside or escape them,
let us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others.”

“Hardship can age a person overnight.”

“It's light work for the gods who rule the skies
to exalt a mortal man or bring him low.”

“There she encountered Sleep, the brother of Death.”

“And may the gods accomplish your desire:
a home, a husband, and harmonious
converse with him – the best thing in the world
being a strong house held in serenity
where man and wife agree. Woe to their enemies,
joy to their friends! But all this they know best.”

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds,
many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,
fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.”

“But if you're a man who eats the crops of the earth,
a mortal born for death—here, come closer,
the sooner you will meet your day to die!”

“Two gates there are for our evanescent dreams,
one is made of ivory, the other made of horn.
Those that pass through the ivory cleanly carved
are will-o'-the-wisps, their message bears no fruit.
The dreams that pass through the gates of polished horn
are fraught with truth, for the dreamer who can see them.”

“The blessed gods have no love for crime.
They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men.”

“An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest,
soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself…”

“The recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all.”

“A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows.”

“When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.”

“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”

“The will of Zeus was accomplished.”