The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan, 1906 - 429 pages |
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... hands , strings it , sends the arrow through the axe - blades , and then leaping on the threshold of stone , deals his shafts among the wooers . Telemachus , the neatherd , and Eumaeus , aiding him , he slaughters all the crew , despite ...
... hands , strings it , sends the arrow through the axe - blades , and then leaping on the threshold of stone , deals his shafts among the wooers . Telemachus , the neatherd , and Eumaeus , aiding him , he slaughters all the crew , despite ...
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... hand and took from her the spear of bronze , and uttered his voice and spake unto her winged words : ' Hail ... hands in a goodly golden ewer , and poured it forth over a silver basin . to wash withal , and drew to their side a ...
... hand and took from her the spear of bronze , and uttered his voice and spake unto her winged words : ' Hail ... hands in a goodly golden ewer , and poured it forth over a silver basin . to wash withal , and drew to their side a ...
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... hands , and maidservants piled wheaten bread by them in baskets , and pages crowned the bowls with drink ; and they stretched forth their hands upon the good cheer spread before them . Now when the wooers had put from them the desire of ...
... hands , and maidservants piled wheaten bread by them in baskets , and pages crowned the bowls with drink ; and they stretched forth their hands upon the good cheer spread before them . Now when the wooers had put from them the desire of ...
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... hands . Then he spake , accosting the old man first : ' Old man , he is not far off , and soon shalt thou know it for thyself , he who called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in chief . Neither have I heard any ...
... hands . Then he spake , accosting the old man first : ' Old man , he is not far off , and soon shalt thou know it for thyself , he who called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in chief . Neither have I heard any ...
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... hands in the grey sea water , and prayed unto Athene , saying : ' Hear me , thou who yesterday didst come in thy godhead to our house , and badest me go in a ship across the misty seas , to seek tidings of the return of my father that ...
... hands in the grey sea water , and prayed unto Athene , saying : ' Hear me , thou who yesterday didst come in thy godhead to our house , and badest me go in a ship across the misty seas , to seek tidings of the return of my father that ...
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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