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02 - The Odyssey - Homer · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Book two. Now, when the child of mourning, rosy fingered
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  Speaker 1: Dawn appeared, Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his
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  Speaker 1: sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
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  Speaker 1: He at once sent the criers round to call the
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  Speaker 1: people in assembly. So they called him, and the people
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  Speaker 1: gathered thereon. Then, when they were got together, he went
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  Speaker 1: to the place of assembly spear in hand, not alone,
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  Speaker 1: for his two hounds went with him. Minerva endowed him
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  Speaker 1: with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marveled
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  Speaker 1: at him as he went by, And when he took
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  Speaker 1: his place in his father's seat, even the oldest counselors
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  Speaker 1: made way for him. Egyptius, a man bent double with
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  Speaker 1: age and of infinite experience, the first to speak. His
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  Speaker 1: son Antiphus, had gone with Ulysses to Ilius, land of
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  Speaker 1: noble cities, but the savage Cyclops had killed him when
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  Speaker 1: they were all shut up in the cave, and had
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  Speaker 1: cooked his last dinner for him. He had three sons left,
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  Speaker 1: of whom two still worked on their father's land, while
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  Speaker 1: the third, Euryymus, was one of the suitors. Nevertheless, their
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  Speaker 1: father could not get over the loss of Antiphus, and
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  Speaker 1: was still weeping for him when he began his speech,
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  Speaker 1: Men of Ithaca, he said, hear my words. From the
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  Speaker 1: day Ulysses left us, there has been no meeting of
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  Speaker 1: our councilors until now. Who then, can it be young
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  Speaker 1: or old that finds it so necessary to convene us?
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  Speaker 1: Has he got wind of some host approaching? And does
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  Speaker 1: he wish to warn us? Or would he speak on
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  Speaker 1: some other matter of public moment? I am sure he
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  Speaker 1: is an excellent person, and I hope Jove will grant
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  Speaker 1: him his heart's desire. Telemachus took this speech as of
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  Speaker 1: good omen and rose at once, for he was bursting
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  Speaker 1: with what he had to say. He stood in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the assembly, and the good herald Pisano brought
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  Speaker 1: him his staff. Then, turning to Egyptius, sir said he
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  Speaker 1: it is I, as you will shortly learn, who have
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  Speaker 1: convened you. For it is I who am the most aggrieved.
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  Speaker 1: I have not got wind of any host approaching about
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  Speaker 1: which I would warn you, nor is there any matter
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  Speaker 1: of public moment on which I would speak. My grievance
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  Speaker 1: is purely personal and turns on two great misfortunes which
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  Speaker 1: have fallen upon my house. The first of these is
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  Speaker 1: the loss of my excellent father, who was chief among
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  Speaker 1: you all here present, and was like a father to
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  Speaker 1: every one of you. The second is much more serious,
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  Speaker 1: and ere long will be the utter ruin of my estate.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of all the chief men among you are
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  Speaker 1: pestering my mother to marry them against her will. They
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  Speaker 1: are afraid to go to her father, Ecarius, asking him
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  Speaker 1: to choose the one he likes best, and to provide
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  Speaker 1: marriage gifts for his daughter. But day by day they
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  Speaker 1: keep hanging about my father's house, sacrificing our oxen sheep
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  Speaker 1: and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so
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  Speaker 1: much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.
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  Speaker 1: No estate can stand such recklessness. We have now no
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  Speaker 1: ulysses to warn off harm from our doors, and I
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  Speaker 1: cannot hold my own against them. I shall never, all
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  Speaker 1: my days be as good a man as he was. Still,
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  Speaker 1: I would indeed defend myself if I had power to
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  Speaker 1: do so, for I cannot stand such treatment any longer.
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  Speaker 1: My house is being disgraced and ruined. Have respect therefore
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  Speaker 1: to your own consciences and to public opinion. Fear too
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of heaven, lest the gods should be displeased
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  Speaker 1: and turn upon you. I pray you by Jove, and
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  Speaker 1: themis who is the beginning and the end of counsels.
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  Speaker 1: Do not hold back, my friends and leave me single handed,
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  Speaker 1: unless it be that my brave father Ulysses did some
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  Speaker 1: wrong to the Achaeans, which you would now avenge upon
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  Speaker 1: me by aiding and abetting these suitors. Moreover, if I
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  Speaker 1: am to be eaten out of house and home at all,
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  Speaker 1: I had rather you did the eating yourselves, for I
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  Speaker 1: could then take action against you to some purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: serve you with notices from house to house till I
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  Speaker 1: got paid in full, whereas now I have no remedy
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  Speaker 1: with this. Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground and
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  Speaker 1: burst into tears. Everyone was very sorry for him, but
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  Speaker 1: they all sat still, and no one ventured to make
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  Speaker 1: him an angry answer, save only Antinus, who spoke. Thus, Telemachus,
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  Speaker 1: insolent braggart that you are, how dare you try to
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  Speaker 1: throw the blame upon us suitors? It is your mother's fault,
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  Speaker 1: not ours, for she is a very artful woman. These
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  Speaker 1: three years passed and close on, for she has been
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  Speaker 1: driving us out of our minds by encouraging each one
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  Speaker 1: of us and sending him messages without meaning one word
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  Speaker 1: of what she says. And then there was that other
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  Speaker 1: trick she played on us. She set up a great
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  Speaker 1: tambour frame in her room and began to work on
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  Speaker 1: an enormous piece of fine needlework. Sweethearts, said she, Ulysses
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  Speaker 1: is indeed dead. Still do not press me to marry
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  Speaker 1: again immediately, wait, for I would not have skill and
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  Speaker 1: needlework perish unrecorded till I have completed a pall for
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  Speaker 1: the hero Laerties to be in readiness against the time
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  Speaker 1: when death shall take him. He is very rich, and
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  Speaker 1: the women of the place will talk if he is
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  Speaker 1: laid out without a pall. This was what she said,
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  Speaker 1: and we assented. Whereon we could see her working on
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  Speaker 1: her great web all day long, but at night she
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  Speaker 1: would unpick the stitches again by torchlight. She fooled us
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  Speaker 1: in this way for three years, and we never found
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  Speaker 1: her out. But as time wore on and she was
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  Speaker 1: now in her fourtheth one of her maids, who knew
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  Speaker 1: what she was doing, told us, and we caught her
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  Speaker 1: in the act of undoing her work, so she had
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  Speaker 1: to finish it, whether she would or no. The suitors
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  Speaker 1: therefore make you this answer, that both you and the
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  Speaker 1: Acaians may understand. Send your mother away and bid her
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  Speaker 1: marry the man of her own and of her father's choice.
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  Speaker 1: For I do not know what will happen if she
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  Speaker 1: goes on plaguing us much longer with the airs she
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  Speaker 1: gives herself on the score of accomplishments Minerva has taught her,
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  Speaker 1: And because she is so clever, we never yet heard
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  Speaker 1: of such a woman. We know all about Tyro Alcmena, Myceni,
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  Speaker 1: and the famous women of old, but they were nothing
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  Speaker 1: to your mother, any one of them. It was not
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  Speaker 1: fair of her to treat us in that way. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as she continues in the mind with which
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  Speaker 1: Heaven has now endowed her, so long shall we go
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  Speaker 1: on eating upon your estate. And I do not see
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  Speaker 1: why she should change, for she gets all the honor
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  Speaker 1: and glory, and it is you who pay for it.
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  Speaker 1: Not she understand then, that we will not go back
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  Speaker 1: to our lands, neither here nor elsewhere, till she has
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  Speaker 1: made her choice and married some one or other of us.
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  Speaker 1: Telemachus answered Antinus, how can I drive the mother who
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  Speaker 1: bore me from my father's house? My father is abroad,
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  Speaker 1: and we do not know whether he is alive or dead.
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  Speaker 1: It will be hard on me if I have to
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  Speaker 1: pay a carre us the large sum which I must
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  Speaker 1: give him. If I insist on sending his daughter back
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  Speaker 1: to him, not only will he deal rigorous with me,
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  Speaker 1: but Heaven will also punish me, for my mother, when
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  Speaker 1: she leaves the house, will calf on the Irenis to
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  Speaker 1: avenge her. Besides, it would not be a creditable thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, and I will have nothing to say to it.
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  Speaker 1: If you choose to take offense at this, leave the
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  Speaker 1: house and feast elsewhere at one another's houses at your
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  Speaker 1: own cost. Turn and turn about. If, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: you elect to persist in sponging upon one man, Heaven
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  Speaker 1: help me. But Jove shall reckon with you in full,
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  Speaker 1: and when you fall in my father's house, there shall
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  Speaker 1: be no man to avenge you. As he spoke, Jove
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  Speaker 1: sent two eagles from the top of the mountain, and
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  Speaker 1: they flew on and on with the wind, sailing side
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  Speaker 1: by side in their own lordly flight. When they were
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  Speaker 1: right over the middle of the assembly, they wheeled and
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  Speaker 1: circled about, bearing the air with their wings and glaring
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  Speaker 1: death into the eyes of them that were below. Then,
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  Speaker 1: fighting fiercely and tearing at one another, they flew off
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  Speaker 1: towards the right over the town. The people wondered as
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  Speaker 1: they saw them, and asked each other what this might be.
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  Speaker 1: Whereon Halethrces, who was the best prophet and reader of
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  Speaker 1: omens among them, spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying,
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  Speaker 1: hear me men of Ithaca, And I speak more particularly
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  Speaker 1: to the suitors, for I see mischief brewing for them.
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses is not going to be away much longer. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: he is close at hand to deal out death and destruction,
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  Speaker 1: not on them alone, but on many another of us
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  Speaker 1: who live in Ithaca. Let us then be wise in
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  Speaker 1: time and put a stop to this wickedness before he comes.
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  Speaker 1: Let the suitors do so of their own accord. It
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  Speaker 1: will be better for them. For I am not prophesying
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  Speaker 1: without due knowledge. Everything has happened to Ulysses as I foretold.
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  Speaker 1: When the argive set out for Troy, and he with them.
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  Speaker 1: I said that after going through much hardship and losing
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  Speaker 1: all his men, he should come home again in the
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  Speaker 1: twentieth year, and that no one would know him. And
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  Speaker 1: now all this is coming true. Eurymicus, son of Polybus,
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  Speaker 1: then said, go home, old man, and prophesy to your
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  Speaker 1: own children, or it may be worse for them. I
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  Speaker 1: can read these omens myself much better than you can.
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  Speaker 1: Birds are always flying about in the sunshine somewhere or other,
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  Speaker 1: but they seldom mean anything. Ulysses has died in a
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  Speaker 1: far country, and it is a pity you are not
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  Speaker 1: dead along with him. Instead of prating here about omens
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  Speaker 1: and adding fuel to the anger of Telemachus, which is
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  Speaker 1: fierce enough as it is, I suppose you think he
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  Speaker 1: will give you something for your family. But I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: and it shall surely be. When an old man like you,
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  Speaker 1: who should know better, talks a young one over till
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  Speaker 1: he becomes troublesome in the first place, his young friend
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  Speaker 1: will only fare so much the worse. He will take
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  Speaker 1: nothing by it, for the suitors will prevent this, And
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  Speaker 1: in the next we will lay a heavier fine, sir,
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  Speaker 1: upon yourself, than you will at all like paying for
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  Speaker 1: it will bear hardly upon you As for Telemachus, I
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  Speaker 1: warn him, in the presence of you all, to send
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  Speaker 1: his mother back to her father, who will find her
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  Speaker 1: a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts
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  Speaker 1: so dear a daughter may expect till we shall go
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  Speaker 1: on harassing him with our suit, for we fear no man,
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  Speaker 1: and care neither for him with all his fine speeches,
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  Speaker 1: nor for any fortune telling of yours. You may preach
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  Speaker 1: as much as you please, but we shall only hate you.
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  Speaker 1: The more. We shall go back and continue to eat
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  Speaker 1: up to Lemachus's estate without paying him, till such time
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  Speaker 1: as his mother leaves off tormenting us by keeping us
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  Speaker 1: day after day on the tiptoe of expectation, each vying
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  Speaker 1: with the other in his suit for a prize of
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  Speaker 1: such rare perfection. Besides, we cannot go after the other
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  Speaker 1: women whom we should marry in due course, but for
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  Speaker 1: the way in which she treats us. Then, Telemachus said,
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  Speaker 1: Eurymicus and you other suitors, I shall say no more
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  Speaker 1: and entreat you no further, for the gods and the
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  Speaker 1: people of Ithaca now know my story. Give me then
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  Speaker 1: a ship and a crew of twenty men to take
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  Speaker 1: me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta
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  Speaker 1: and to Pylos in quest of my father, who has
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  Speaker 1: so long been missing. Some one may tell me something
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  Speaker 1: or and people often hear things in this way. Some
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  Speaker 1: heaven sent message may direct me. If I can hear
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  Speaker 1: of him as alive and on his way home, I
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  Speaker 1: will put up with the waist you suitors will make
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  Speaker 1: for yet another twelve months. If, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: I hear of his death, I will return at once,
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  Speaker 1: celebrate his funeral, rites with all do pomp, build a
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  Speaker 1: barrow to his memory, and make my mother merry again.
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  Speaker 1: With these words, he sat down, and Mentor, who had
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  Speaker 1: been a friend of Ulysses and had been left in
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  Speaker 1: charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose
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  Speaker 1: to speak. He then, plainly and in all honesty, addressed them.
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  Speaker 1: Thus hear me, Men of Ithaca, I hope that you
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  Speaker 1: may never have a kind and well disposed ruler any more,
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  Speaker 1: nor one who will govern you equitably. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: all your chiefs henceforward may be cruel and unjust. For
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  Speaker 1: there is not one of you but has forgotten Ulysses,
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  Speaker 1: who ruled you as though he were your father. I
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  Speaker 1: am not half so angry with the suitors. For if
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  Speaker 1: they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their
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  Speaker 1: hearts and wager their heads that Ulysses will not return,
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  Speaker 1: they can take the high hand and eat up his estate.
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  Speaker 1: But as for you others, I am shocked at the
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  Speaker 1: way in which you all sit still without even trying
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  Speaker 1: to stop such scandal goings on, which you could do
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  Speaker 1: if you chose, For you are many and they are few. Leocritus,
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  Speaker 1: son of Evanor, answered him, saying, Mentor, what folly is
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  Speaker 1: all this? That you should set the people to stay us.
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  Speaker 1: It is a hard thing for one man to fight
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  Speaker 1: with many about his victuals. Even though Ulysses himself were
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  Speaker 1: to set upon us while we are feasting in his
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  Speaker 1: house and do his best to oust us, his wife,
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  Speaker 1: who wants him back so very badly, would have small
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  Speaker 1: cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon his
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  Speaker 1: own head if he fought against such great odds. There
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  Speaker 1: is no sense in what you have been saying. Now, Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do you people go about your business and let his
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  Speaker 1: father's old friends Mentor and hale Atharces speed this boy
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  Speaker 1: on his journey. If he goes at all which I
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  Speaker 1: do not think he will, for he is more likely
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  Speaker 1: to stay where he is till some one comes and
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  Speaker 1: tells him something. On this, he broke up the assembly,
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  Speaker 1: and every man went back to his own abode, while
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  Speaker 1: the suitors returned to the house of Ulysses. Then Telemachus
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  Speaker 1: went all alone by the sea side, washed his hands
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  Speaker 1: in the gray waves, and prayed to Minerva. Hear me,
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  Speaker 1: he cried, you, God, who visited me yesterday and bade
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  Speaker 1: me sail the seas in search of my father, who
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  Speaker 1: has so long been missing. I would obey you, but
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  Speaker 1: the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked suitors, are hindering
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  Speaker 1: me that I cannot do so. As he thus prayed,
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  Speaker 1: Minerva came up close to him in the likeness and
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  Speaker 1: with the voice of mentor, Telemachus said, she, if you
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  Speaker 1: are made of the same stuff as your father, you
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  Speaker 1: will be neither fool nor coward. Henceforward, For Ulysses never
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  Speaker 1: broke his word nor left his work half done. If
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  Speaker 1: then you take after him, your voyage will not be fruitless.
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  Speaker 1: But unless you have the blood of Ulysses and of
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  Speaker 1: Penelope in your veins, I see no likelihood of your
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  Speaker 1: succeeding sons are seldom as good men as their fathers.
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  Speaker 1: They are generally worse, not better still, as you are
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  Speaker 1: not going to be either fool or coward henceforward, and
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  Speaker 1: are not entirely without some share of your father's wise discernment.
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  Speaker 1: I look with hope upon your undertaking. But mind you
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  Speaker 1: never make common cause with any of these foolish suitors,
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  Speaker 1: for they have neither sense nor virtue, and give no
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  Speaker 1: thought to the death and the doom that will shortly
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  Speaker 1: fall upon one and all of them, so that they
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  Speaker 1: shall perish on the same day. As for your voyage,
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  Speaker 1: it shall not be long delayed. Your father was such
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  Speaker 1: an old friend of mine that I will find you
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  Speaker 1: a ship, and will come with you myself. Now, however,
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  Speaker 1: return home and go about among the suitors, begin getting
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  Speaker 1: provisions ready for your journey. See everything well stowed, the
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  Speaker 1: wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the
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  Speaker 1: staff of life, in leathern bags. While I go round
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  Speaker 1: the town and beat up volunteers at once. There are
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  Speaker 1: many ships in Ithaca, both old and new. I will
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  Speaker 1: run my eye over them for you, and will choose
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  Speaker 1: the best. We will get her ready and will put
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  Speaker 1: out to sea without delay. Thus spoke Minerva, daughter of Jove,
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  Speaker 1: and Telemachus lost no time in doing as the goddess
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  Speaker 1: told him. He went moodily and found the suitors flaying
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  Speaker 1: goats and singing pigs in the outer court. And Tyinus
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  Speaker 1: came up to him at once and laughed as he
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  Speaker 1: took his hand in his own, saying, Telemachus, my fine
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  Speaker 1: fire eater, bear no more ill blood, neither in word
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  Speaker 1: nor deed. But eat and drink with us as you
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  Speaker 1: used to do. The Achaeans will find you everything, a
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  Speaker 1: ship and a picked crew to boot, so that you
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  Speaker 1: can set sail for Pilos at once and get news
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  Speaker 1: of your noble father. And Tyinus answered Telemachus, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: eat in peace nor take pleasure of any kind with
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  Speaker 1: such men as you are. Was it not enough that
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  Speaker 1: you should waste so much good property of mine while
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  Speaker 1: I was yet a boy. Now that I'm older and
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  Speaker 1: know more about it, I am also stronger. And whether
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  Speaker 1: here among these people or by going to Pilos, I
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  Speaker 1: will do you all the harm I can. I shall go,
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  Speaker 1: and my going will not be in vain, though thanks
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  Speaker 1: to you suitors I have neither ship nor crew of
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  Speaker 1: my own, and must be passenger and not captain. As
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, he snatched his hand from that of Antinus. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the others went on getting dinner ready about the buildings,
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  Speaker 1: jeering at him tauntingly as they did so, Telemachus said,
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  Speaker 1: one youngster means to be the death of us. I
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  Speaker 1: suppose he thinks he can bring friends to help him
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  Speaker 1: from Pylos, or again from Sparta, where he seems bent
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  Speaker 1: on going. Or will he go to Ephira as well
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  Speaker 1: for poison to put in our wine and kill us?
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  Speaker 1: Another said, perhaps if Telemachus goes on board ship, he
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  Speaker 1: will be like his father and perish far from his friends.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, we should have plenty to do, for
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  Speaker 1: we could then divide up his property amongst us. As
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  Speaker 1: for the house, we can let his mother and the
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  Speaker 1: man who marries her have that. This was how they talked,
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  Speaker 1: But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store room,
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  Speaker 1: where his father's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped
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  Speaker 1: up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare
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  Speaker 1: clothes were kept in open chests. Here, too, there was
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  Speaker 1: a store of fragrant olive oil, while casks of old
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  Speaker 1: well ripened wine, unblended and fit for a god to drink,
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  Speaker 1: were ranged against the wall in case Ulysses should come
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  Speaker 1: home again. After all, the room was closed, with well
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  Speaker 1: made doors opening in the middle. Moreover, the faithful old
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  Speaker 1: housekeeper euryclea daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, was
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: in charge of everything both night and day. Telemachus called
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  Speaker 1: her to the store room and said, nurse, draw me
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  Speaker 1: off some of the best wine you have, after what
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  Speaker 1: you are keeping for my father's own drinking, in case
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  Speaker 1: poor man he should escape death and find his way
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  Speaker 1: home again. After all, let me have twelve jars, and
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  Speaker 1: see that they all have lids. Also fill me some
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  Speaker 1: well sewn leathern bags with barleymeal, about twenty measures in all.
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  Speaker 1: Get these things put together at once, and say nothing
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  Speaker 1: about it. I will take everything away this evening as
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  Speaker 1: soon as my mother has gone upstairs for the night.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to Sparta and to Pylos to see
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  Speaker 1: if I can hear anything about the return of my
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  Speaker 1: dear father. When you are clear heard this, she began
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  Speaker 1: to cry and spoke fondly to him, saying, my dear child,
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  Speaker 1: whatever can have put such notion as that into your head.
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  Speaker 1: Where in the world do you want to go to? You,
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  Speaker 1: who are the one hope of the house. Your poor
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  Speaker 1: father is dead and gone in some foreign country, nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows where, And as soon as your back is turned,
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  Speaker 1: these wicked ones here will be scheming to get you
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  Speaker 1: put out of the way, and will share all your
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: possessions among themselves. Stay where you are, among your own people,
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  Speaker 1: and do not go wandering and worrying your life out
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  Speaker 1: on the barren ocean. Fear not, Nurse answered to Lemachus,
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  Speaker 1: My scheme is not without Heaven's sanction. But swear that
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  Speaker 1: you will say nothing about all this to my mother
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  Speaker 1: till I have been away some ten or twelve days,
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  Speaker 1: unless she hears of my having gone and asks you,
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  Speaker 1: for I do not want her to spoil her beauty
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  Speaker 1: by crying. The old woman swore most solemnly that she
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  Speaker 1: would not, and when she had completed her oath, she
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  Speaker 1: began drawing off the wine into jars and getting the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: barley meal into the bags. While Telemachus went back to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the suitors. Then Minerva bethought her of another matter. She
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: took his shape and went round the town to each
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: one of the crew, telling them to meet at the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: ship by sundown. She also went to Noemon, son of Phronius,
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  Speaker 1: and asked him to let her have a ship, which
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: he was very ready to do. When the sun had
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: set and darkness was over all the land, she got
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the ship into the water, put all the tackle on
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  Speaker 1: board her that ships generally carry, and stationed her at
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the end of the harbor. Presently, the crew came up,
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  Speaker 1: and the goddess spoke encouragingly to each of them. Furthermore,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: she went to the house of Ulysses and threw the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: suitors into a deep slumber. She caused their drink to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: fuddle them and made them drop their cups from their hands,
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  Speaker 1: so that instead of sitting over their wine, they went
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: back into the town to sleep, with their eyes heavy
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and full of drowsiness. Then she took the form and
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  Speaker 1: voice of mentor and called to Lemachus to come outside.
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  Speaker 1: Telemachus said she, the men are on board and at
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  Speaker 1: their oars, waiting for you to give their orders. So
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  Speaker 1: make haste and let us be off. On this, she
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  Speaker 1: led the way, while Telemachus followed in her steps. When
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: they got to the ship, they found the crew waiting
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: by the water side. And Telemachus said, now, my men,
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  Speaker 1: help me to get the stores on board. They are
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: all put together in the cloister, and my mother does
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  Speaker 1: not know anything about it, nor any of the maid
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: servants except one. With these words, he led the way,
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  Speaker 1: and the others followed after. When they had brought the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: things as he told them, Telemachus went on board, Minerva
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  Speaker 1: going before him and taking her seat in the stern
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of the vessel, while Telemachus sat beside her. Then the
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  Speaker 1: men loosened the hawsers and took their places on the benches.
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  Speaker 1: Minerva sent them a fair wind from the west that
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  Speaker 1: whistled over the deep blue waves, whereon Telemachus told them
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  Speaker 1: to catch hold of the ropes and hoist sail, and
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  Speaker 1: they did as he told them. They set the mast
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  Speaker 1: in its socket, and the cross plank raised it and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: made it fast with the forestays. Then they hoisted their
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: white sails, aloft with ropes of twisted ox hide. As
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  Speaker 1: the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: her bows as she sped onward. Then they made all
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: fast throughout the ship filled the mixing bowls to the brim,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and made drink offerings to the immortal gods that are
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  Speaker 1: from everlasting, but more particularly to the gray eyed daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Jove. Thus then the ship sped on her way
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  Speaker 1: through the watches of the night, from dark till dawn.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book two.