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... 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 meat and drink , they minded them of other things , even of the song and dance : for these are the ...
... 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 meat and drink , they minded them of other things , even of the song and dance : for these are the ...
Page 7
... drink , whensoever weariness takes hold of his limbs , as he creeps along the knoll of his vineyard plot . And now am I come ; for verily they said that he , thy father , was among his people ; but lo , the gods withhold him from his ...
... drink , whensoever weariness takes hold of his limbs , as he creeps along the knoll of his vineyard plot . And now am I come ; for verily they said that he , thy father , was among his people ; but lo , the gods withhold him from his ...
Page 8
... drinking , or a wedding feast , for here we have no banquet where each man brings his share ? In such wise , flown with insolence , do they seem to me to revel wantonly through the house : and well might any man be wroth to see so many ...
... drinking , or a wedding feast , for here we have no banquet where each man brings his share ? In such wise , flown with insolence , do they seem to me to revel wantonly through the house : and well might any man be wroth to see so many ...
Page 9
... drinking and making merry what time he came up out of Ephyra from Ilus son of Mermerus ! For even thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seck a deadly drug , that he might have wherewithal to smear his bronze - shod arrows : but ...
... drinking and making merry what time he came up out of Ephyra from Ilus son of Mermerus ! For even thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seck a deadly drug , that he might have wherewithal to smear his bronze - shod arrows : but ...
Page 12
... drink their wine in silence ; but cease from this pitiful strain , that ever wastes my heart within my breast , since to me above all women hath come a sorrow comfortless . So dear a head do I long for in constant memory , namely , that ...
... drink their wine in silence ; but cease from this pitiful strain , that ever wastes my heart within my breast , since to me above all women hath come a sorrow comfortless . So dear a head do I long for in constant memory , namely , 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 friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Howbeit Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slain 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