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

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  Speaker 1: Book one, Tell me, o muse of that ingenious hero
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  Speaker 1: who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the
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  Speaker 1: famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and
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  Speaker 1: many were the nations with whose manners and customs he
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  Speaker 1: was acquainted. Moreover, he suffered much by sea while trying
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  Speaker 1: to save his own life and bring his men safely home.
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  Speaker 1: But do what he might, he could not save his men,
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  Speaker 1: for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating
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  Speaker 1: the cattle of the sun god Hyperion. So the god
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  Speaker 1: prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me too about
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  Speaker 1: all these things, o, daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source
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  Speaker 1: you may know them. So now all who escaped death
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  Speaker 1: in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home, except Ulysses,
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  Speaker 1: and he, though he was longing to return to his
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  Speaker 1: wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who
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  Speaker 1: had got him into a large cave and wanted to
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  Speaker 1: marry him. But as years went by, there came a
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  Speaker 1: time when the gods settled that he should go back
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  Speaker 1: to Ithaca. Even then, however, when he was among his
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  Speaker 1: own people, his troubles were not yet over. Nevertheless, all
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  Speaker 1: the gods had now begun to pity him, except Neptune,
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  Speaker 1: who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let
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  Speaker 1: him get home. Now, Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians,
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  Speaker 1: who are at the world's end and lie in two halves,
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  Speaker 1: the one looking west and the other east. He had
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  Speaker 1: gone there to accept a hcotom of sheep and oxen,
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  Speaker 1: and was enjoying himself at his festival. But the other
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  Speaker 1: gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the
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  Speaker 1: sire of gods and men spoke first. At that moment,
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  Speaker 1: he was thinking of Egysthus, who had been killed by
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  Speaker 1: Agamemnon son Orestes. So he said to the other gods,
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  Speaker 1: See now how men lay blame upon us gods, for
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  Speaker 1: what is, after all but their own folly. Look at Egisthus.
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  Speaker 1: He must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously, and
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  Speaker 1: then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the
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  Speaker 1: death of him, for I sent Mercury to warn him
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  Speaker 1: not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes
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  Speaker 1: would be sure to take his revenge when he grew
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  Speaker 1: up and wanted to return home. Mercury told him this
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  Speaker 1: in all good will, but he would not listen. And
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  Speaker 1: now he has paid for everything in full. Then Minerva, said, father,
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  Speaker 1: son of Saturn, king of Kings. It served Egisthus right,
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  Speaker 1: and so it would any one else who does as
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  Speaker 1: he did. But Egisthus is neither here nor there. It
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  Speaker 1: is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds when I think
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  Speaker 1: of his sufferings in that lonely seagirt island, far away,
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  Speaker 1: poor man, from all his friends. It is an island
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  Speaker 1: covered with forest, in the very middle of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: and a goddess lives there, daughter of the magician Atlas,
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  Speaker 1: who looks after the bottom of the oak and carries
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  Speaker 1: the great columns that keep heaven and earth asunder. This
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor, unhappy Ulysses,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps trying, by every kind of blandishment to make
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  Speaker 1: him forget his home, so that he is tired of
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  Speaker 1: life and thinks of nothing, but how he may once
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  Speaker 1: more see the smoke of his own chimneys. You, sir,
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  Speaker 1: take no heed of this. And yet, when Ulysses was
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  Speaker 1: before Troy, did he not propitiate you with many a
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  Speaker 1: burnt sacrifice. Why then, should you keep on being so
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  Speaker 1: angry with him, and Jove said, my child, what are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about? How can I forget Ulysses than whom
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  Speaker 1: there is no more capable man on earth, nor more
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  Speaker 1: liberal in his offerings to the immortal gods that live
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. Bear in mind, however, that Neptune is still
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  Speaker 1: furious with Ulysses for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus,
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  Speaker 1: king of the Psyclops. Polyphemus is sun to Neptune by
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  Speaker 1: the Nymphthuosa, daughter to the Sea king forces. Therefore, though
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  Speaker 1: he will not kill Ulysses outright, he torments him by
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  Speaker 1: preventing him from getting home. Still, let us lay our
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  Speaker 1: heads together and see how we can help him to return.
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  Speaker 1: Neptune will then be pacified, for if we are all
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  Speaker 1: of a mind, he can hardly stand out against us
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  Speaker 1: and Minervas said father, son of Saturn, king of Kings.
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  Speaker 1: If then the gods now mean that Ulysses should get home,
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  Speaker 1: we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to
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  Speaker 1: tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and
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  Speaker 1: that he is to return. In the meantime, I will
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  Speaker 1: go to Ithaca to put heart into Ulysses, son to Lemachus.
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  Speaker 1: I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in assembly
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  Speaker 1: and speak out to the suitors of his mother Penelope,
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  Speaker 1: who persist in eating up any number of his sheep
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  Speaker 1: and oxen. I will also conduct him to Sparta and
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  Speaker 1: to Pylos, to see if he can hear anything about
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  Speaker 1: the return of his dear father, For this will make peace.
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  Speaker 1: People speak well of him, So saying she bound on
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  Speaker 1: her glittering gold sandals, imperishable, with which she can fly
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  Speaker 1: like the wind over land or sea. She grasped the
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  Speaker 1: redoubtable bronze shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong,
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  Speaker 1: wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
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  Speaker 1: And down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus,
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  Speaker 1: whereon forthwith she was in Ithaca at the gateway of
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses House, disguised as a visitor Mentes, chief of the Tafians,
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  Speaker 1: and she held a bronze spear in her hand. There
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  Speaker 1: she found the lordly suitors seated on hides of the oxen,
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  Speaker 1: which they had killed and eaten, and playing drafts. In
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  Speaker 1: front of the house. Men, servants and pages were bustling
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  Speaker 1: about to wait upon them, some mixing wine with water
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  Speaker 1: in the mixing bowls, some cleaning down the tables with
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  Speaker 1: wet sponges and laying them out again, and some cutting
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  Speaker 1: up great quantities of meat. Telemachus saw her long before
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  Speaker 1: any one else did. He was sitting moodily among the suitors,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about his brave father and how he would send
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  Speaker 1: them flying out of the house if he were to
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  Speaker 1: come to his own again and be honored as in
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  Speaker 1: days gone by. Thus brooding as he sat among them,
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  Speaker 1: he caught sight of Minerva and went straight to the gate,
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  Speaker 1: for he was vexed that a stranger should be kept
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  Speaker 1: waiting for admittance. He took her right hand in his
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  Speaker 1: own and bade her give him her spear. Welcome, said
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  Speaker 1: he to our house, and when you have partaken of food,
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  Speaker 1: you shall tell us what you have come for. He
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  Speaker 1: led the way as he spoke, and Minerva followed him.
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  Speaker 1: When they were within, he took her spear and set
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  Speaker 1: it in the spear stand against a strong bearing post,
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  Speaker 1: along with the many other spears of his unhappy father,
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  Speaker 1: and he conducted her to a richly decorated seat, under
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  Speaker 1: which he threw a cloth of damask. There was a
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  Speaker 1: footstool also for her feet, and he set another seat
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  Speaker 1: near her for himself, away from the suitors, that she
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  Speaker 1: might not be annoyed while eating by their noise and insolence,
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  Speaker 1: and that he might ask her more freely about his father.
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  Speaker 1: A maid servant then brought them water in a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for
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  Speaker 1: them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean
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  Speaker 1: table beside them. An upper servant brought them bread and
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  Speaker 1: offered them many good things of what there was in
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  Speaker 1: the house. The carver fetched them plates of all manner
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  Speaker 1: of meats, and set cups of gold by their side,
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  Speaker 1: and a man servant brought them wine and poured it
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  Speaker 1: out for them. Then the suitors came in and took
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  Speaker 1: their places on the benches and seats. Forthwith men servants
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  Speaker 1: poured water over their hands. Maids went round with the
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  Speaker 1: bread baskets, pages filled the mixing bowls with wine and water,
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  Speaker 1: and they laid their hands upon the good things that
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  Speaker 1: were before them. As soon as they had had enough
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  Speaker 1: to eat and drink, they wanted music and dancing, which
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  Speaker 1: are the crowning embellishments of a banquet. So a servant
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  Speaker 1: brought a liar to Phemeus, who may compelled perforce to
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  Speaker 1: sing to them. As soon as he touched his lyre
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  Speaker 1: and began to sing, Telemachus spoke low to Minerva, with
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  Speaker 1: his head close to hers, that no man might hear.
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  Speaker 1: I hope, sir, said he that you will not be
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  Speaker 1: offended with what I am going to say. Singing comes
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  Speaker 1: cheap to those who do not pay for it, and
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  Speaker 1: all this is done at the cost of one whose
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  Speaker 1: bones lie rotting in some wilderness or grinding to powder
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  Speaker 1: in the surf. If these men were to see my
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  Speaker 1: father come back to Ithaca, they would pray for longer
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  Speaker 1: legs rather than a longer purse. For money would not
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  Speaker 1: serve them. But he alas has fallen on ill fate.
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  Speaker 1: And even when people do sometimes say that he is coming,
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  Speaker 1: we no longer heed them. We shall never see him again.
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  Speaker 1: And now, sir, tell me, and tell me true who
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  Speaker 1: you are and where you come from. Tell me of
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  Speaker 1: your town and parents, what manner of ship you came in,
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  Speaker 1: how your crew brought you to Ithaca, and of what
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  Speaker 1: nation they declared themselves to be. For you cannot have
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  Speaker 1: come by land. Tell me also truly, for I want
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  Speaker 1: to know. Are you a stranger to this house, or
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  Speaker 1: have you been here in my father's time? In the
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  Speaker 1: old days we had many visitors, for my father went
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  Speaker 1: about much by himself. And Minerva answered, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you truly and particularly all about it. I am Menes,
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  Speaker 1: son of Anchialus, and I am king of the Taphians.
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  Speaker 1: I have come here with my ship and crew on
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  Speaker 1: a voyage to men of a foreign tongue, being bound
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  Speaker 1: for Tamesa with a cargo of iron, and I shall
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  Speaker 1: bring back copper. As for our ship, it lies over
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  Speaker 1: yonder off the open country, away from the town, in
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  Speaker 1: the harbor Rayethron, under the wooded mountain Neritum. Our fathers
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  Speaker 1: were friends before us, as old Laertes will tell you
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  Speaker 1: if you will go and ask him. They say, however,
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  Speaker 1: that he never comes to town now, and lives by
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  Speaker 1: himself in the country, faring hardly, with an old woman
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  Speaker 1: to look after him and get his dinner for him
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  Speaker 1: him when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard.
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  Speaker 1: They told me your father was at home again, and
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  Speaker 1: that is why I came. But it seems the gods
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  Speaker 1: are still keeping him back, for he is not dead
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  Speaker 1: yet not on the mainland. It is more likely he
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  Speaker 1: is on some segret island in mid ocean, or a
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  Speaker 1: prisoner among savages who are detaining him against his will.
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  Speaker 1: I am no prophet and know very little about omens.
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  Speaker 1: But I speak as it is borne in upon me
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. And I assure you that he will not
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  Speaker 1: be away much longer, for he is a man of
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  Speaker 1: such resource that even though he were in chains of iron,
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  Speaker 1: he would find some means of getting home again. But
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  Speaker 1: tell me, and tell me true, can Yunisses really have
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  Speaker 1: such a fine looking fellow for a son. You are
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  Speaker 1: indeed wonderfully like him about the head and eyes. For
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  Speaker 1: we were close friends before he set sail for Troy,
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  Speaker 1: where the flower of all the Argives went. Also since
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  Speaker 1: that time we have never either of us seen the other.
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  Speaker 1: My mother answered, Telemach tells me, I am son to Ulysses.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a wise child that knows his own father,
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  Speaker 1: would that I were son to one who had grown
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  Speaker 1: old upon his own estates. For since you ask me,
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  Speaker 1: there is no more ill starred man under heaven than
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  Speaker 1: he whom they tell me is my father, And Minerva said,
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  Speaker 1: there is no fear of your race dying out yet,
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  Speaker 1: while Penelope has such a fine son as you are.
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  Speaker 1: But tell me, and tell me true, what is the
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  Speaker 1: meaning of all this feasting? And who are these people?
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  Speaker 1: What is it all about? Have you some banquet? Or
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  Speaker 1: is there a wedding in the family? For no one
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  Speaker 1: seems to be bringing any provisions of his own. And
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  Speaker 1: the guests, how atrociously they are behaving, What riot they
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  Speaker 1: make over the whole house. It is enough to disgust
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  Speaker 1: any respectable person who comes near them, Sir, said Telemachus,
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  Speaker 1: as regards your question, So long as my father was here,
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  Speaker 1: it was well with us and with the house. But
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  Speaker 1: the gods, in their displeasure, have willed it otherwise, and
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  Speaker 1: have hidden him away more closely than mortal man was
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  Speaker 1: ever yet hidden. I could have borne it better even
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  Speaker 1: though he were dead, if he had fallen with his
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  Speaker 1: men before Troy, or had died with friends around him,
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  Speaker 1: when the days of his fighting were done. For then
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  Speaker 1: the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes,
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  Speaker 1: and I should myself have been heir to his renown.
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  Speaker 1: But now the storm winds have spirited him away. We
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  Speaker 1: know not whither. He is gone without leaving so much
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  Speaker 1: as a trace behind him, and I inherit nothing but dismay.
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  Speaker 1: Nor does the matter end simply with grief for the
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  Speaker 1: loss of my father. Heaven has laid sorrows upon me
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  Speaker 1: of yet another kind, for the chiefs from all our
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  Speaker 1: islands Dulychium same and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as
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  Speaker 1: also all the principal men of Ithacae itself are eating
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  Speaker 1: up my house under the pretext of paying their court
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  Speaker 1: to my mother, who will neither point blank say that
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  Speaker 1: she will not marry nor yet bring matters to an end.
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  Speaker 1: So they are making havoc of my estate, and before
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  Speaker 1: before long will do so also with myself. Is that
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  Speaker 1: so exclaimed Minerva, Then you do indeed want Ulysses home again.
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  Speaker 1: Give him his helmet, shield and a couple lances. And
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  Speaker 1: if he is the man he was when I first
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  Speaker 1: knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he
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  Speaker 1: would soon lay his hands about these rascally suitors, were
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  Speaker 1: he to stand once more upon his own threshold. He
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  Speaker 1: was then coming from Ephira, where he had been to
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  Speaker 1: beg poison for his arrows from Ilas Son of murmeris
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  Speaker 1: Ilas feared thee ever living gods and would not give
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  Speaker 1: him any. But my father let him have some, for
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  Speaker 1: he was very fond of him. If Ulysses is the
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  Speaker 1: man he then was, these suitors will have a short
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  Speaker 1: shrift and a sorry wedding. But there it rests with
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  Speaker 1: Heaven to determine whether he is to return and take
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  Speaker 1: his revenge in his own house or no. I would, however,
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  Speaker 1: urge you to set about trying to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: these suitors at once. Take my advice. Call the Achaean
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  Speaker 1: heroes in a set tomorrow, lay your case before them,
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  Speaker 1: and call Heaven to bear you witness. Bid the suitors
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  Speaker 1: take themselves off, each to his own place. And if
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  Speaker 1: your mother's mind is set on marrying again, let her
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  Speaker 1: go back to her father, who will find her a
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  Speaker 1: husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts that
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  Speaker 1: so dear a daughter may expect. As for yourself, let
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  Speaker 1: me prevail upon you to take the best ship you
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  Speaker 1: can get with a crew of twenty men, and go
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  Speaker 1: in quest of your father, who has so long been missing.
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  Speaker 1: Some one may tell you something or and people often
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  Speaker 1: hear things in this way. Some Heaven sent message may
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  Speaker 1: direct you. First go to Pylos and ask Nestor. Thence
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  Speaker 1: go on to Sparta and visit Menelaeus, for he got
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  Speaker 1: home last of all the Achaeans. If you hear that
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  Speaker 1: your father is alive and on his way home, you
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  Speaker 1: can put up with the waist. These 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: you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate
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  Speaker 1: his funeral, rites with all dear pomp build a barrow
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  Speaker 1: to his memory, and make your mother merry again. Then,
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  Speaker 1: having done all this, think it well over in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: How by fair means or foul you may kill these
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  Speaker 1: suitors in your own house. You are too old to
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  Speaker 1: plead infancy any longer. Have you not heard how people
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  Speaker 1: are singing? Or rest these praises for having killed his
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  Speaker 1: father's murderer, Egisthus, you are a fine, smart looking fellow.
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  Speaker 1: Show your metal then, and make yourself a name and story. Now, however,
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  Speaker 1: I must go back to my ship and to my crew,
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  Speaker 1: who will be impatient if I keep them waiting longer.
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  Speaker 1: Think the matter over for yourself, and remember what I
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  Speaker 1: have said to you, sir, answered Telemachus, it has been
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  Speaker 1: very kind of you to talk to me in this way,
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  Speaker 1: as though I were your own son, and I will
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  Speaker 1: do all that you tell me. I know you want
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  Speaker 1: to be getting on with your voyage, but stay a
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  Speaker 1: little longer till you have taken a bath and refreshed yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I will then give you a present, and you shall
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  Speaker 1: go on your way rejoicing. I will give you one
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  Speaker 1: of great beauty and value, a keepsake such as only
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  Speaker 1: dear friends give to one another. Minerva answered, do not
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  Speaker 1: try and keep me, for I would be on my
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  Speaker 1: way at once. As for any present, you may be
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  Speaker 1: disposed to make me keep it till I come again,
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  Speaker 1: and I will take it home with me. You shall
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  Speaker 1: give me a very good one, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: you one of no less value in return. With these words,
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  Speaker 1: she flew away like a bird into the air. But
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  Speaker 1: she had given to Lemachus courage and had made him
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  Speaker 1: think more than ever about his father. He felt the change,
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  Speaker 1: wondered at it, and knew that the stranger had been
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  Speaker 1: a god. So he went straight to where the suitors
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  Speaker 1: were sitting. Phymeus was still singing, and his hearers sat
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  Speaker 1: rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of
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  Speaker 1: the return from Troy and the ills Minerva had laid
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  Speaker 1: upon the Accayans. Penelope, daughter of Vicarius, heard his song
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  Speaker 1: from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase,
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  Speaker 1: not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids. When
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  Speaker 1: she reached the suitors, she stood by one of the
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  Speaker 1: bearing posts that supported the roof of the cloisters, with
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  Speaker 1: a staid maiden on either side of her. She held
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  Speaker 1: a veil moreover before her face and was weeping bitterly.
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  Speaker 1: Phineas she cried, you know many another feat of gods
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  Speaker 1: and heroes, such as poets love to celebrate. Sing the
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  Speaker 1: suitors some one of these, and let them drink their
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  Speaker 1: wine in silence. But cease this sad tale, for it
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  Speaker 1: breaks my sorrowful heart and reminds me of my lost husband,
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  Speaker 1: whom I mourn ever without ceasing, and whose name was
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  Speaker 1: great over all Hellas and middle Argos. Mother answered Telemachus,
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  Speaker 1: let the bards sing what he has a mind to.
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  Speaker 1: Bards do not make the ills they sing of. It
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  Speaker 1: is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends
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  Speaker 1: weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: This fellow. Means no harm by singing the ill fated
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  Speaker 1: return of the Dnanes, for people always applaud the latest
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  Speaker 1: songs most warmly. Make up your mind to it and
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  Speaker 1: bear it. Ulysses is not the only man who never
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  Speaker 1: came back from Troy, but many another went down as
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  Speaker 1: well as he. Go. Then within the house, and busy
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  Speaker 1: yourself with your daily duties, your loom, your distaff, and
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  Speaker 1: the ordering of your servants. For speech is man's matter,
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  Speaker 1: and mine above all others, for it is I who
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  Speaker 1: am master. Here she went, wandering back into the house
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  Speaker 1: and laid her son, saying in her heart. Then going
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  Speaker 1: upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her
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  Speaker 1: dear husband till minervs shed sweet sleep over her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: But the suitors were clamorous throughout the covered cloisters, and
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  Speaker 1: prayed each one that he might be her bedfellow. Then
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  Speaker 1: Telemachus spoke shameless, He cried and insolent suitors, Let us
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  Speaker 1: feast at our pleasure now, and let there be no brawling.
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  Speaker 1: For it is a rare thing to hear a man
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  Speaker 1: with such a divine voice as Phemeus has. But in
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  Speaker 1: the morning meet me in full assembly, that I may
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  Speaker 1: give you formal notice to depart and feast at one
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  Speaker 1: another's houses, turn and turn about at your own cost. If,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, you choose to persist in sponging
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  Speaker 1: upon one man, Heaven help me. But Jove shall reckon
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  Speaker 1: with you in full, and when you fall in my
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  Speaker 1: father's house, there shall be no man to avenge you.
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  Speaker 1: The suitors bit their lips as they heard him, and
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  Speaker 1: marveled at the boldness of his speech. Then, Antinous, son
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  Speaker 1: of you pay feasts, said the gods seem to have
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  Speaker 1: given you lessons in bluster and tall talking. May Jove
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  Speaker 1: never grant you to be chief in Ithaca as your
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  Speaker 1: father was before you, Telemachus answered, Antinous, do not chide
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  Speaker 1: with me, But God willing, I will be chief too
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  Speaker 1: if I can. Is this the worst fate you can
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  Speaker 1: think of? For me? It is no bad thing to
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  Speaker 1: be a chief, for it brings both riches and honor. Still,
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  Speaker 1: now that Ulysses is dead, there are many any great
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  Speaker 1: men in Ithaca, both old and young, and some other
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  Speaker 1: may take the lead among them. Nevertheless, I will be
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  Speaker 1: chief in my own house, and I will rule those
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  Speaker 1: whom Ulysses has won. For me. Then, Eurymicus, son of Polybus, answered,
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  Speaker 1: it rests with Heaven to decide who shall be chief
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  Speaker 1: among us. But you shall be master in your own
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  Speaker 1: house and under your own possessions. No one while there
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  Speaker 1: is a man in Ithaca, shall do you violence and
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  Speaker 1: rob you. And now, my good fellow, I want to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: know about this stranger. What country does he come from,
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  Speaker 1: of what family is he? And where is his estate?
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  Speaker 1: Has he brought you news about the return of your father?
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  Speaker 1: Or was he on business of his own? He seemed
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  Speaker 1: a well to do man, but he hurried off so
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  Speaker 1: suddenly that he was gone in a moment before we
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  Speaker 1: could get to know him. My father is dead and gone,
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  Speaker 1: answered Telemachus. And even if some rumor reaches me, I
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  Speaker 1: put no more faith in it. Now. My mother does,
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  Speaker 1: indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but
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  Speaker 1: I give his prophecies no heed. As for the stranger,
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  Speaker 1: he was Mentes, son of Anchylus, chief of the Taphians,
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  Speaker 1: an old friend of my father's. But in his heart
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  Speaker 1: he knew that it had been the Goddess. The suitors
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  Speaker 1: then returned to their singing and dancing until the evening,
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  Speaker 1: but when night fell Upon their pleasuring, they went home
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  Speaker 1: to bed, each in his own abode. Telemachus room was
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  Speaker 1: higher up in a tower that looked on to the
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  Speaker 1: outer court. Hither then he hied, brooding and full of thought.
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  Speaker 1: A good old woman, Euryclia, daughter of Ops, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Pisinoor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches.
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  Speaker 1: Laertes had bought her with his own money when she
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  Speaker 1: was quite young. He gave the worth of twenty oxen
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  Speaker 1: for her, and showed as much respect to her in
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  Speaker 1: his household as he did to his own wedded wife.
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  Speaker 1: But he did not take her to his bed, for
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  Speaker 1: he feared his wife's resentment. She it was who now
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  Speaker 1: lighted Telemachus to his room, and she loved him better
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  Speaker 1: than any of the other women in the house did,
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  Speaker 1: for she had nursed him when he was a baby.
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  Speaker 1: He opened the door of his bedroom and sat down
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  Speaker 1: on the bed. As he took off his shirt, he
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  Speaker 1: gave it to the good old woman, who folded it
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  Speaker 1: tidily up and hung it for him over a peg
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  Speaker 1: by his bedside, after which she went out, pulled the
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  Speaker 1: door to by a silver catch, and drew the bolt
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  Speaker 1: home by means of the strap, but Telemachus, as he
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  Speaker 1: lay covered with a woolen fleece, kept thinking all night
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  Speaker 1: through of his intended voyage of the Council, that Minerva
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  Speaker 1: had given him end of Book one