"Troad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... l. 194. Through Chrysa's cruel sting. Chrysa was an island near the Troad, sacred to a goddess of the name. Her precinct was guarded by a serpent, whose bite, from which Philoctetes suffered, was incurable. See below ...
— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles
... name to posterity, and doing homage to the friendly English nation." Besides showing that the Odyssey was written by a woman in Sicily and translating the poem into English prose, he also translated the Iliad, and, in March, 1895, went to Greece and the Troad to see the country therein described, where he found nothing to cause him to ...
— Samuel Butler: A Sketch • Henry Festing Jones
... second voyage out in the ship of Hermione, without their orders, he gave proofs of similar behaviour. Besieged and expelled from Byzantium by the Athenians, he did not return to Sparta; but news came that he had settled at Colonae in the Troad, and was intriguing with the barbarians, and that his stay there was for no good purpose; and the ephors, now no longer hesitating, sent him a herald and a scytale with orders to accompany the herald or be declared a public enemy. Anxious above ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... therein to live; Such grace did God unto his creatures give. Said then the Foxe: "Who hath the world not tride From the right way full eath may wander wide. [Eath, easy.] We are but novices, new come abroad, 405 We have not yet the tract of anie troad, [I.e. routine of any way of life.] Nor on us taken anie state of life, But readie are of anie to make preife. [Preife, proof.] Therefore might please you, which the world have proved, Us to advise, which forth but lately moved, ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser |
