The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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... thine heart regardeth it not at all , Olympian ! What ! did not Odysseus by the ships of the Argives make thee free offering of sacrifice in the wide Trojan land ? Wherefore wast thou then so wroth with him , O Zeus ? ' And Zeus the ...
... thine heart regardeth it not at all , Olympian ! What ! did not Odysseus by the ships of the Argives make thee free offering of sacrifice in the wide Trojan land ? Wherefore wast thou then so wroth with him , O Zeus ? ' And Zeus the ...
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... thine own dear country and pile his mound , and over it pay burial rites , full many as is due , and give thy mother to a husband . But when thou hast done this and made an end , thereafter take counsel in thy mind and heart , how thou ...
... thine own dear country and pile his mound , and over it pay burial rites , full many as is due , and give thy mother to a husband . But when thou hast done this and made an end , thereafter take counsel in thy mind and heart , how thou ...
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... thine heart shall bid thee give me , when I am on my way back let it be mine to carry home : bear from thy stores a gift right goodly , and it shall bring thee the worth thereof in return . ' So spake she and departed , the grey - eyed ...
... thine heart shall bid thee give me , when I am on my way back let it be mine to carry home : bear from thy stores a gift right goodly , and it shall bring thee the worth thereof in return . ' So spake she and departed , the grey - eyed ...
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... thine own housewiferies , the loom and distaff , and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks . But speech shall be for men , for all , but for me in chief ; for mine is the lordship in the house . ' ) Then in amaze she went back to her ...
... thine own housewiferies , the loom and distaff , and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks . But speech shall be for men , for all , but for me in chief ; for mine is the lordship in the house . ' ) Then in amaze she went back to her ...
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... thine own possessions and be lord in thine own house ! Never may that man come , who shall wrest from thee thy substance violently in thine own despite , while Ithaca yet stands . But I would ask thee , friend , concerning the stranger ...
... thine own possessions and be lord in thine own house ! Never may that man come , who shall wrest from thee thy substance violently in thine own despite , while Ithaca yet stands . But I would ask thee , friend , concerning the stranger ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship Calypso cast chamber Circe counsels answered dear death deathless gods decked ships deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit steadfast goodly Odysseus stood straightway stranger sweet swift ship swine swineherd Teiresias tell thee thereof Therewith thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself took twain verily voice wandering Wherefore wife wind wine winged words wise Penelope wise Telemachus answered wooers Zeus