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Robert Fagles - The Iliad (1990); The Odyssey (1996)
And old King Priam was the first to see him coming,
surging over the plain, blazing like the star
that rears at harvest, flaming up in its brilliance,-
far outshining the countless stars in the night sky,
that star they call Orion's Dog - brightest of all
but a fatal sign emblazoned on the heavens,
it brings such killing fever down on wretched men.

Robert Graves - The Iliad [The Anger of Achilles] (1959)
Old King Priam soon observed him: His armour blazing like Sirius, harbinger of fevers, the evil star (also called Orion's hound), which dominates the night sky in harvest time.

Andrew Lang; Walter Leaf; Ernest Myers - The Iliad (1882)

George Chapman - The Iliad (1598); The Odyssey (1616)
When aged Priam spied
The great Greek come, spher’d round with beams and showing as if the star,
Surnam’d Orion’s hound, that springs in autumn, and sends far
His radiance through a world of stars, of all whose beams his own
Cast greatest splendour, the midnight that renders them most shown
Then being their foil; and on their points, cure-passing fevers then
Come shaking down into the joints of miserable men;

E. V. Rieu - The Iliad (1950); The Odyssey (1944)
Old King Priam was the first to see him rushing towards them over the fields. As he ran, the bronze on his chest flashed out the star that comes to us in autumn, out-shining all its fellows in the evening sky - they call it Orion's Dog, and although it is the brightest of all stars it bodes no good, bringing much fever, as it does, to us poor wretches.

Martin Hammond - The Iliad (1987)
The old man Priam's eyes were the first to see him, as he rushed over the plain glittering like the star that comes in late summer, and its light is seen the clearest among the many stars in the darkness of the night: men call this star Orion's Dog, and it is the brightest of stars, yet a sign of evil, bring much fever on poor mortals.

Alexander Pope - The Iliad (1715); The Odyssey (1725)
Him, as he blazing shot across the field,
The careful eyes of Priam first beheld.
Not half so dreadful rises to the sight,
Through the thick gloom of some tempestuous night,
Orion’s dog (the year when autumn weighs),
And o’er the feebler stars exerts his rays;
Terrific glory! for his burning breath
Taints the red air with fevers, plagues, and death.

Richmond Lattimore - The Iliad (1951); The Odyssey (1967)
The aged Priam was the first of all whose eyes saw him
as he swept across the flat land in full shining, like that star
which comes on in the autumn and whose conspicuous brightness
far outshines the stars that are numbered in the night's darkening,
the star they give the name of Orion's Dog, which is brightest
among the stars, and yet is wrought as a sign of evil
and brings on the great fever for unfortunate mortals.

William Marris - The Iliad (1934)
Now ancient Priam was the first to see him
As o'er the plain he rushed, in radiance like
The star that cometh forth at harvest time,
Whose rays shine out amid the starry host
In the deep dead of night - the star they name
Orion's Dog: The brightest star is he,
But made a sign of evil, for he brings
Much fever on poor mortals.

Anthony Verity - The Iliad (2011)
The old man Priam was the first to catch sight of him,
shining brightly like a star as he sped over the plain-
The star that rises in autumn, and its rays shine out
blazing among all other stars in the depths of night,
and men give it the name of Orion's dog;
It is indeed the brightest star, but it is a sign of suffering,
and brings with it much fever for wretched mortals.

Caroline Alexander - The Iliad (2015)
And old Priam first beheld him with this eyes
as, shining like a star, Achilles streaked across the plain,
the star that comes at summer's end, its clear gleaming
in the milky-murk of night displayed among the multitude of stars-
the star they give the name Orion's Dog;
most radiant it is, but it makes an evil portent,
and brings great feverish heat on pitiful mortal men

W. H. D. Rouse - The Iliad 1938; The Odyssey 1937
The old King Priam was the first to see him speeding over the plain. His armour shone on his breast, like the star of harvest whose rays are most bright among many stars, in the murky night: they call it Orion’s Dog. Most brilliant is that star, but he is a sign of trouble, and brings many fevers for unhappy mankind.
William Morris - The Odyssey

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Andrew Lang; Walter Leaf; Ernest Myers>Andrew Lang; Walter Leaf; Ernest Myers
George Chapman>George Chapman
E. V. Rieu>E. V. Rieu
Martin Hammond>Martin Hammond
Alexander Pope>Alexander Pope
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William Marris>William Marris
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