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Twelve years ago, when, in concluding his "Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age," Mr. Gladstone applied to himself the warning addressed by Agamemnon to the priest of Apollo, “Let not Nemesis catch me by the swift ships”, he would seem to have intended it as a last farewell to classical studies.
十二年前，在结束其著作《荷马及荷马时代研究》时，Gladstone先生给自己发出了阿伽门农给阿波罗的牧师的警告：“不要让复仇女神抓住我敏捷的舰船。”他似乎想通过这么做向经典研究道别。

Yet, whatever his intentions may have been, they have yielded to the sweet desire of revisiting familiar ground, -- a desire as strong in the breast of the classical scholar as was the yearning which led Odysseus to reject the proffered gift of immortality, so that he might but once more behold the wreathed smoke curling about the roofs of his native Ithaka. In this new treatise, on the "Youth of the World," Mr. Gladstone discusses the same questions which were treated in his earlier work; and the main conclusions reached in the "Studies on Homer" are here so little modified with reference to the recent progress of archaeological inquiries, that the book can hardly be said to have had any other reason for appearing, save the desire of loitering by the ships of the Argives, and of returning thither as often as possible.
然而无论他的本意如何，也执拗不过故地重游的诱惑。这种诱惑在经典学者的胸中涌动，其迫切之情完全不亚于奥德修斯当年拒绝永生的馈赠渴望再见家乡绮色佳屋顶缭绕的炊烟的心情。在这篇关于《世界的青春期》 的新论文中，Gladstone先生讨论的是一些他以前著作中谈到过的问题，而相对于考古研究的最新进展而言，他在《荷马研究》得出的主要结论在这里也几乎没有改动。这本书除了满足乘坐阿哥斯人的船闲荡，时常返回彼岸的愿望外几乎可以说没有出现的必要。

希腊的东西读得不多，典故不熟，怕理解错误。整体有什么问题也请赐教，谢谢！红字那句似乎是有什么典故，怎么也查不到。