John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9694 Misellaneous Translations John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 9694 |
| AUTHOR: | Miscellaneous Translations |
| QUOTATION: | Ossa on Pelion. 1 |
| Note 1. See Ovid, Quotation 3. They were setting on Ossa upon Olympus, and upon Steep Ossa leavy Pelius. George Chapman: Homer’s Odyssey, book xi. 426. Heav’d on Olympus tott’ring Ossa stood; On Ossa Pelion nods with all his wood. Alexander Pope: Odyssey, book xi. 387. Ossa on Olympus heave, on Ossa roll Pelion with all his woods; so scale the starry pole. Sotheby: Odyssey, book xi. 315. To the Olympian summit they essay’d To heave up Ossa, and to Ossa’s crown Branch-waving Pelion. William Cowper Odyssey, book xi. 379. They on Olympus Ossa fain would roll; On Ossa Pelion’s leaf-quivering hill. Worsley: Odyssey, book xi. 414. To fling Ossa upon Olympus, and to pile. Pelion with all its growth of leafy woods On Ossa. Bryant: Odyssey, book xi. 390. Ossa they pressed down with Pelion’s weight, And on them both impos’d Olympus’ hill. Fitz-Geffrey: The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 99 (1596). Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam.—Virgil: Georgics, i. 281. [back] |