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Page 12
... sleep upon her eyelids . Now the wooers clamoured throughout the shadowy halls , and each one uttered a prayer to be her bedfellow . And wise Telemachus first spake among them : ' Wooers of my mother , men despiteful out of 12 ODYSSEY 1 ...
... sleep upon her eyelids . Now the wooers clamoured throughout the shadowy halls , and each one uttered a prayer to be her bedfellow . And wise Telemachus first spake among them : ' Wooers of my mother , men despiteful out of 12 ODYSSEY 1 ...
Page 27
... sleep . Lo , to Sparta I go and to sandy Pylos to seek tidings of my dear father's return , if haply I may hear thereof . ' So spake he , and the good nurse Eurycleia wailed aloud , and making lament spake to him winged words : Ah ...
... sleep . Lo , to Sparta I go and to sandy Pylos to seek tidings of my dear father's return , if haply I may hear thereof . ' So spake he , and the good nurse Eurycleia wailed aloud , and making lament spake to him winged words : Ah ...
Page 28
... and there she shed sweet sleep upon the wooers and made them distraught in their drinking , and cast the cups from their hands . And they arose up to go to rest through- out the city , nor sat they yet a long 28 ODYSSEY II , 368-397 .
... and there she shed sweet sleep upon the wooers and made them distraught in their drinking , and cast the cups from their hands . And they arose up to go to rest through- out the city , nor sat they yet a long 28 ODYSSEY II , 368-397 .
Page 41
... sleep , for it is the hour for sleep . For already has the light gone . beneath the west , and it is not seemly to sit long at a banquet of the gods , but to be going home . ' So spake the daughter of Zeus , and they hearkened to her ...
... sleep , for it is the hour for sleep . For already has the light gone . beneath the west , and it is not seemly to sit long at a banquet of the gods , but to be going home . ' So spake the daughter of Zeus , and they hearkened to her ...
Page 42
... sleep softly , he or his guests . Nay not so , I have rugs and fair blankets by me . Never , methinks , shall the dear son of this man , even of Odysseus , lay him down upon the ship's deck , while as yet I am alive , and my children ...
... sleep softly , he or his guests . Nay not so , I have rugs and fair blankets by me . Never , methinks , shall the dear son of this man , even of Odysseus , lay him down upon the ship's deck , while as yet I am alive , and my children ...
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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