The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan, 1906 - 429 pages |
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... saying outright , to wit that ye leave these halls and busy yourselves with other feasts , eating your own substance , going in turn from house to house . But if ye deem this a likelier and a better thing , that one man's goods should ...
... saying outright , to wit that ye leave these halls and busy yourselves with other feasts , eating your own substance , going in turn from house to house . But if ye deem this a likelier and a better thing , that one man's goods should ...
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... saying : ' Antinous , may in no wise thrust forth from the house , against her will , the woman that bare me , that reared me : while as for my father he is abroad on the earth , whether he be alive or dead . Moreover it is hard for me ...
... saying : ' Antinous , may in no wise thrust forth from the house , against her will , the woman that bare me , that reared me : while as for my father he is abroad on the earth , whether he be alive or dead . Moreover it is hard for me ...
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... saying : ' Go now , old man , get thee home and prophesy to thine own children , lest haply they suffer harm hereafter but herein am I a far better prophet than thou . Howbeit there be many birds that fly to and fro under the sun's rays ...
... saying : ' Go now , old man , get thee home and prophesy to thine own children , lest haply they suffer harm hereafter but herein am I a far better prophet than thou . Howbeit there be many birds that fly to and fro under the sun's rays ...
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... saying : ' Mentor infatuate , with thy wandering wits , what word hast thou spoken , that callest upon them to put us down ? Nay , it is a hard thing to fight about a feast , and that with men who are even more in number than you ...
... saying : ' Mentor infatuate , with thy wandering wits , what word hast thou spoken , that callest upon them to put us down ? Nay , it is a hard thing to fight about a feast , and that with men who are even more in number than you ...
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... saying : ' Take heart , nurse , for lo , this my purpose came not but of a god . But swear to tell no word thereof to my dear mother , till at least it shall be the eleventh or twelfth day from hence , or till she miss me of herself ...
... saying : ' Take heart , nurse , for lo , this my purpose came not but of a god . But swear to tell no word thereof to my dear mother , till at least it shall be the eleventh or twelfth day from hence , or till she miss me of herself ...
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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