The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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Page 6
... verily care for such things as these , the lyre and song , lightly , as they that devour the livelihood of another without atonement , of that man whose white bones , it may be , lie wasting in the rain upon the mainland , or the billow ...
... verily care for such things as these , the lyre and song , lightly , as they that devour the livelihood of another without atonement , of that man whose white bones , it may be , lie wasting in the rain upon the mainland , or the billow ...
Page 7
... verily they said that he , thy father , was among his people ; but lo , the gods withhold him from his way . For goodly Odysseus hath not yet perished on the earth ; but still , methinks , he lives and is kept on the wide deep in a sea ...
... verily they said that he , thy father , was among his people ; but lo , the gods withhold him from his way . For goodly Odysseus hath not yet perished on the earth ; but still , methinks , he lives and is kept on the wide deep in a sea ...
Page 8
... verily saith that I am his ; for myself I know not , for never man yet knew of himself his own descent . O that I had been the son of some blessed man , whom old age overtook among his own posses- sions ! But now of him that is the most ...
... verily saith that I am his ; for myself I know not , for never man yet knew of himself his own descent . O that I had been the son of some blessed man , whom old age overtook among his own posses- sions ! But now of him that is the most ...
Page 10
... verily thou mayest endure the wasting for yet a year . But if thou shalt hear that he is dead and gone , return then to thine own dear country and pile his mound , and over it pay burial rites , full many as is due , and give thy mother ...
... verily thou mayest endure the wasting for yet a year . But if thou shalt hear that he is dead and gone , return then to thine own dear country and pile his mound , and over it pay burial rites , full many as is due , and give thy mother ...
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... verily thou speakest these things out of a friendly heart , as a father to his son , and never will I forget them . But now I pray thee abide , here , though eager to be gone , to the end that after thou hast bathed and had all thy ...
... verily thou speakest these things out of a friendly heart , as a father to his son , and never will I forget them . But now I pray thee abide , here , though eager to be gone , to the end that after thou hast bathed and had all thy ...
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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