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Page 132
... wife and one house - dame only . And as often as they drank that red wine honey sweet , he would fill one cup and pour it into twenty measures of water , and a marvellous sweet smell went up from the mixing bowl ; then truly it was no ...
... wife and one house - dame only . And as often as they drank that red wine honey sweet , he would fill one cup and pour it into twenty measures of water , and a marvellous sweet smell went up from the mixing bowl ; then truly it was no ...
Page 169
... wife of Cretheus , son of Aeolus . She loved a river , the divine Enipeus , far the fairest of the floods that run upon the earth , and she would resort to the fair streams of Enipeus . And it came to pass that the girdler of the world ...
... wife of Cretheus , son of Aeolus . She loved a river , the divine Enipeus , far the fairest of the floods that run upon the earth , and she would resort to the fair streams of Enipeus . And it came to pass that the girdler of the world ...
Page 175
... wife , neither show her all the counsel that thou knowest , but a part declare and let part be hid . Yet shalt not thou , Odysseus , find death at the hand of thy wife , for she is very discreet and prudent in all her ways , the wise ...
... wife , neither show her all the counsel that thou knowest , but a part declare and let part be hid . Yet shalt not thou , Odysseus , find death at the hand of thy wife , for she is very discreet and prudent in all her ways , the wise ...
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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