The Harvard Classics, Volume 22Charles William Eliot P.F. Collier & son, 1909 - Literature |
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... Behold the fault is not in the Achaean wooers , but in thine own mother , for she is the craftiest of women . For it is now the third year , and the fourth is fast going by , since she began to deceive the minds of the Achaeans in their ...
... Behold the fault is not in the Achaean wooers , but in thine own mother , for she is the craftiest of women . For it is now the third year , and the fourth is fast going by , since she began to deceive the minds of the Achaeans in their ...
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... behold , all these things now have an end . ' And Eurymachus , son of Polybus , answered him , 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 ...
... behold , all these things now have an end . ' And Eurymachus , son of Polybus , answered him , 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 ...
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... behold , there is none that remembereth divine Odysseus of the people whose lord he was , and was gentle as a father . Howsoever , it is not that I grudge the lordly wooers their deeds of violence in the evil devices of their heart ...
... behold , there is none that remembereth divine Odysseus of the people whose lord he was , and was gentle as a father . Howsoever , it is not that I grudge the lordly wooers their deeds of violence in the evil devices of their heart ...
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... behold , she sat her down in the stern , and near her sat Telemachus . And the men loosed the hawsers and climbed on board themselves and sat down upon the benches . And grey - eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale , a fresh West Wind ...
... behold , she sat her down in the stern , and near her sat Telemachus . And the men loosed the hawsers and climbed on board themselves and sat down upon the benches . And grey - eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale , a fresh West Wind ...
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... behold , this is the story of the woe which we endured in that land , we sons of the Achaeans , unrestrained in fury , and of all that we bore in wanderings after spoil , sailing with our ships over the misty deep , wheresoever Achilles ...
... behold , this is the story of the woe which we endured in that land , we sons of the Achaeans , unrestrained in fury , and of all that we bore in wanderings after spoil , sailing with our ships over the misty deep , wheresoever Achilles ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Amphinomus Antinous Argives Atreus bade behold beneath black ship cast chamber Circe counsels answered daughter of Zeus 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 Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned 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