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... Eurycleia : ' Dear nurse , have ye honoured our guest in the house with food and couch , or does he lie uncared for , as he may ? For this is my mother's way , wise as she is : blindly she honours one of mortal men , even the worse ...
... Eurycleia : ' Dear nurse , have ye honoured our guest in the house with food and couch , or does he lie uncared for , as he may ? For this is my mother's way , wise as she is : blindly she honours one of mortal men , even the worse ...
Page 353
... Eurycleia made answer : ' Yea , my child , herein thou hast spoken aright . But go to , let me bring thee a mantle and a doublet for raiment , and stand not thus in the halls with thy broad shoulders wrapped in rags ; it were blame in ...
... Eurycleia made answer : ' Yea , my child , herein thou hast spoken aright . But go to , let me bring thee a mantle and a doublet for raiment , and stand not thus in the halls with thy broad shoulders wrapped in rags ; it were blame in ...
Page 355
... Eurycleia answered her : ' I mock thee not , dear child , but in very deed Odysseus is here , and hath come home , even as I tell thee . He is that guest on whom all men wrought such dishonour in the halls . But long ago Telemachus was ...
... Eurycleia answered her : ' I mock thee not , dear child , but in very deed Odysseus is here , and hath come home , even as I tell thee . He is that guest on whom all men wrought such dishonour in the halls . But long ago Telemachus was ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship cast chamber Circé counsels answered daughter 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 Howbeit Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens mantle Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying 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