FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD

(COPIED FROM WEBSITE - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html)
 
 

TROY

On they flew along the waggon-road that ran hard by under the

wall, past the lookout station, and past the weather-beaten wild

fig-tree, till they came to two fair springs which feed the river

Scamander. One of these two springs is warm, and steam rises from it

as smoke from a burning fire, but the other even in summer is as

cold as hail or snow, or the ice that forms on water. Here, hard by

the springs, are the goodly washing-troughs of stone, where in the

time of peace before the coming of the Achaeans the wives and fair

daughters of the Trojans used to wash their clothes.

BOOK 22