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Apollo with his painless shafts
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King Apollo
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patron god of Ismarus
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mighty archer
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Apollo stood in the doorway of Vulcan’s house.
“On this the gods gathered to the house of Vulcan. Earth-encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo, but the goddesses staid at home all of them for shame. Then the givers of all good things stood in the doorway, and the blessed gods roared with inextinguishable laughter, as they saw how cunning Vulcan had been, whereon one would turn towards his neighbour saying:”
Apollo gathered at Vulcan’s house.
“On this the gods gathered to the house of Vulcan. Earth-encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo, but the goddesses staid at home all of them for shame. Then the givers of all good things stood in the doorway, and the blessed gods roared with inextinguishable laughter, as they saw how cunning Vulcan had been, whereon one would turn towards his neighbour saying:”
Eumaeus described Apollo coming to Syra to kill its aged inhabitants.
“‘You may have heard of an island called Syra that lies over above Ortygia, {134} where the land begins to turn round and look in another direction. {135} It is not very thickly peopled, but the soil is good, with much pasture fit for cattle and sheep, and it abounds with wine and wheat. Dearth never comes there, nor are the people plagued by any sickness, but when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts. It contains two communities, and the whole country is divided between these two. My father Ctesius son of Ormenus, a man comparable to the gods, reigned over both. ”
Apollo kills Phrontis at Sunium with his painless shafts.
“Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the steersman of Menelaus’ ship (and never man knew better how to handle a vessel in rough weather) so that he died then and there”
Apollo killed Rhexenor while he was still a bridegroom without male issue.
“Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom and without male issue”
Demodocus sings that Apollo foretold the chieftains’ quarrel to Agamemnon at Pytho.
“But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.”
Ulysses says Apollo angrily killed Eurytus for challenging him as an archer.
“This in fact was how Eurytus came prematurely by his end, for Apollo was angry with him and killed him because he challenged him as an archer.”
King Apollo comes to Vulcan’s house with Neptune and Mercury.
“On this the gods gathered to the house of Vulcan. Earth-encircling Neptune came, and Mercury the bringer of luck, and King Apollo”
Apollo asks Mercury whether even strong chains would deter him from sleeping with Venus.
“King Apollo said to Mercury, ‘Messenger Mercury, giver of good things, you would not care how strong the chains were, would you, if you could sleep with Venus?’”
Apollo is patron god of Ismarus and has a temple with wooded precincts there.
“Apollo the patron god of Ismarus, and lived within the wooded precincts of the temple.”
Apollo, son of Leto, kills Otus and Ephialtes before hair appears on their cheeks or chins.
“Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them, before they had got so much as a sign of hair upon their cheeks or chin”
Apollo makes Polypheides the world’s greatest living seer after Amphiaraus’s death.
“Apollo made Polypheides the greatest seer in the whole world now that Amphiaraus was dead”
Apollo and Diana end Syra’s inhabitants’ old age with painless shafts.
“when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his painless shafts”
Melanthius wishes Apollo would strike Telemachus dead that day.
“I wish I were as sure that Apollo would strike Telemachus dead this very day”
Penelope wishes Apollo would strike Antinous as Antinous struck the beggar.
“Would that Apollo would so strike you, Antinous”
Telemachus wishes Apollo would break every suitor’s neck.
“I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers of yours”
Ulysses’s beggar persona says Apollo’s will left Telemachus behind as Ulysses’s son.
“by Apollo’s will he has left a son behind him, Telemachus”
Apollo is celebrated throughout the land and invoked as the mighty archer to receive goat thigh bones before the contest resumes.
“feast of Apollo throughout all the land; who can string a bow on such a day as this? Put it on one side—as for the axes they can stay where they are, for no one is likely to come to the house and take them away: let the cupbearer go round with his cups, that we may make our drink-offerings and drop this matter of the bow; we will tell Melanthius to bring us in some goats tomorrow—the best he has; we can then offer thigh bones to Apollo the mighty archer”
Penelope makes Apollo’s granting of glory the condition for rewarding the stranger after he strings the bow.
“if Apollo vouchsafes him the glory of stringing it”
A suitor invokes Apollo and the other gods while conditionally threatening Eumaeus with death by his own boarhounds.
“If Apollo and the other gods will grant our prayer, your own boarhounds shall get you into some quiet little place, and worry you to death”
Ulysses asks whether Apollo will vouchsafe him success against a new mark no man has yet hit.
“I will now see whether Apollo will vouchsafe it to me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit”
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
“Apollo with his painless shafts killed Phrontis”
“By father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo”
“the altar of Apollo—for I was there, too”
“Apollo killed the first of them while he was still a bridegroom”
“Apollo was angry with him and killed him”
“Apollo the patron god of Ismarus”
“Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them”
“dearly loved both by Jove and by Apollo”
“father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo”
“I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers”
“by Apollo’s will”
“the shady grove of Apollo”
“Today is the feast of Apollo throughout all the land”
“whether Apollo will vouchsafe it to me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit.”
“Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo”