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

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  Speaker 1: Book twenty. Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed
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  Speaker 1: bullock's hide, on the top of which he threw several
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  Speaker 1: skins of the sheep the suitors had eaten, and Uriname
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  Speaker 1: threw a cloak over him. After he had laid himself
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  Speaker 1: down there. Then Ulysses lay wakefully, brooding upon the way
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  Speaker 1: in which he should kill the suitors, And by and
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  Speaker 1: by the women who had been in the habit of
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  Speaker 1: misconducting themselves with them, left the house, giggling and laughing
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  Speaker 1: with one another. This made Ulysses very angry, and he
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  Speaker 1: doubted whether to get up and kill every single one
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  Speaker 1: of them then and there, or to let them sleep
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  Speaker 1: one more and last time. With the suitors. His heart
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  Speaker 1: growled within him, And as a bitch with puppies growls
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  Speaker 1: and shows her teeth when she sees a stranger, so
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  Speaker 1: did his heart growl with anger at the evil deeds
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  Speaker 1: that were being done. But he beat his breast and said, heart,
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  Speaker 1: be still, you had worse than the to bear on
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  Speaker 1: the day when the terrible cyclops ate your brave companions.
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  Speaker 1: Yet you bore it in silence till your cunning got
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  Speaker 1: you safe out of the cave, though you made sure
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  Speaker 1: of being killed. Thus he chided with his heart and
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  Speaker 1: checked it into endurance. But he tossed about as one
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  Speaker 1: who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in
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  Speaker 1: front of a hot fire, doing it first on one
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  Speaker 1: side and then on the other, that he may get
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  Speaker 1: it cooked as soon as possible. Even so did he
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  Speaker 1: turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the
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  Speaker 1: time how single handed as he was, he should contrive
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  Speaker 1: to kill so large a body of men as the
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  Speaker 1: wicked suitors. But by and by Minerva came down from
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  Speaker 1: heaven in the likeness of a woman, and hovered over
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  Speaker 1: his head, saying, my poor, unhappy man, why do you
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  Speaker 1: lie awake in this way? This is your house. Your
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  Speaker 1: wife is safe inside it, and so is your son,
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  Speaker 1: who is just such a young man as any father
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  Speaker 1: may be proud of God. This answered, Ulysses. All that
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  Speaker 1: you have said is true. But I am in some
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  Speaker 1: doubt as to how I shall be able to kill
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  Speaker 1: these wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of
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  Speaker 1: them there always are. And there is this further difficulty
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  Speaker 1: which is still more considerable. Supposing that with joves and
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  Speaker 1: your assistance, I succeed in killing them, I must ask
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  Speaker 1: you to consider where I am to escape to from
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  Speaker 1: their avengers when it is all over. For shame, replied Minerva.
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  Speaker 1: Why any one else would trust a worse ally than myself,
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  Speaker 1: even though that ally were only immortal and less wise
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  Speaker 1: than I am? Am? I not a goddess, and have
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  Speaker 1: I not protected you throughout in all your troubles? I
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  Speaker 1: tell you plainly that even though there were fifty bands
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  Speaker 1: of men surrounding us and eager to kill us, you
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  Speaker 1: should take all their sheep and cattle and drive them
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  Speaker 1: away with you. But go to sleep. It is a
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  Speaker 1: very bad thing to lie awake all night, and you
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  Speaker 1: shall be out of your troubles Before long as she spoke,
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  Speaker 1: she shed sleep over his eyes, and then went back
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  Speaker 1: to Olympus. While Ulysses was thus yielding himself to a
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  Speaker 1: very deep slumber that eased the burden of his sorrows,
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  Speaker 1: his admirable wife awoke, and, sitting up in her bed,
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  Speaker 1: began to cry. When she had relieved herself by weeping,
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  Speaker 1: she prayed to Diana, saying, Great Goddess Diana, daughter of Jove,
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  Speaker 1: drive an arrow into my heart and slay me, or
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  Speaker 1: let some whirlwind snatch me up and bear me through
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  Speaker 1: paths of darkness till it dropped me into the mouths
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  Speaker 1: of overflowing oceanus as it did the daughters of Pandareus.
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  Speaker 1: The daughters of Pandaraus lost their father and mother, for
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  Speaker 1: the gods killed them, so they were left orphans. But
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  Speaker 1: Venus took care of them and fed them on cheese, honey,
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  Speaker 1: and sweet wine. Juno taught them to excel all women
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  Speaker 1: in beauty of form and understanding. Diana gave them an
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  Speaker 1: imposing presence, and Minerva endowed them with every kind of accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: But one day, when Venus had gone up to Olympus
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  Speaker 1: to see Jove about getting them married for a well,
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  Speaker 1: does he know both what shall happen and what not?
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  Speaker 1: Happened to every one? The storm winds came and spirited
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  Speaker 1: them away to become handmaids to the dread Erineas. Even so,
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  Speaker 1: I wish that the gods who live in heaven would
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  Speaker 1: hide me from mortal sight, or that fair Diana might
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  Speaker 1: strike me, for I would fain go even beneath the
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  Speaker 1: sad earth, if I might do so, still looking towards
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses only, and without having to yield myself to a
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  Speaker 1: worse man than he was. Besides, no matter how much
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  Speaker 1: people may grieve by day, they can put up with
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  Speaker 1: it so long as they can sleep at night. For
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  Speaker 1: when the eyes are closed in slumber, people forget good
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  Speaker 1: and ill alike. Whereas my misery haunts me even in
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  Speaker 1: my dreams. This very night, methought, there was one lying
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  Speaker 1: by my side who was lef Ulysses, as he was
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  Speaker 1: when he went away with his host. And I rejoiced,
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  Speaker 1: for I believed that it was no dream, but the
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  Speaker 1: very truth itself. On this day broke But Ulysses heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound of her weeping, and it puzzled him, for
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  Speaker 1: it seemed as though she already knew him and was
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  Speaker 1: by his side. Then he gathered up the cloak and
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  Speaker 1: the fleeces on which he had lain, and set them
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  Speaker 1: on a seat in the cloister. But he took the
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  Speaker 1: bullocks hide out into the open. He lifted up his
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  Speaker 1: hands to heaven and prayed, saying, Father Jove, since you
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  Speaker 1: have seen fit to bring me over land and sea
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  Speaker 1: to my own home, after all the afflictions you have
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  Speaker 1: laid upon me, give me a sign out of the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of some one or other of those who are
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  Speaker 1: now waking within the house, and let me have another
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  Speaker 1: sign of some kind from outside. Thus did he pray.
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  Speaker 1: Jove heard his prayer, and forthwith thundered high up among
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  Speaker 1: the clouds from the splendor of Olympus, and was glad
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  Speaker 1: when he heard it. At the same time, within the house,
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  Speaker 1: a miller woman from hard By in the mill room
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  Speaker 1: lifted up her voice and gave him another sign. There
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  Speaker 1: were twelve miller women whose business it was to grind
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  Speaker 1: wheat and barley, which are the staff of life. The
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  Speaker 1: others had ground their task and had gone to take
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  Speaker 1: their rest, But this one had not yet finished, for
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  Speaker 1: she was not so strong as they were, And when
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  Speaker 1: she heard the thunder, she stopped grinding and gave the
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  Speaker 1: sign to her master. Father. Jove said, she, you who
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  Speaker 1: rule over heaven and earth, You have thundered from a
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  Speaker 1: clear sky without so much as a cloud in it,
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  Speaker 1: and this means something for somebody. Grant the prayer then
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  Speaker 1: of me, your poor servant, who calls upon you, and
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  Speaker 1: let this be the very last day that the suitors
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  Speaker 1: dine in the house of Ulysses. They have worn me
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  Speaker 1: out with the labor of grinding meal for them, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope they may never have another dinner anywhere at all.
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses was glad when he heard the omens conveyed to
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  Speaker 1: him by the woman's speech and by the thunder, for
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  Speaker 1: he knew they meant that he should avenge himself on
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  Speaker 1: the suitors. Then the other maids in the house rose
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  Speaker 1: and lit the fire on the hearth. Telemachus also rose
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  Speaker 1: and put on his clothes. He girded his sword about
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder, bound his sandals on his comely feet, and
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  Speaker 1: took a doughty spear with a point of sharpened bronze.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went to the threshold of the cloister and
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  Speaker 1: said to Euryclea, nurse, did you make the stranger comfortable
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  Speaker 1: both as regards bed and board, or did you let
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  Speaker 1: him shift for himself? For my mother, good woman, though
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  Speaker 1: she is, has a way of paying great attention to
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  Speaker 1: second rate people, and of neglecting others who are in
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  Speaker 1: reality much better. Men do not find fault, child, said Euryclea,
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  Speaker 1: When there is no one to find fault with. The
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  Speaker 1: stranger sat and drank his wine as long as he liked.
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  Speaker 1: Your mother did ask him if he would take any
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  Speaker 1: more bread. He said he would not when he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to bed. She told the servants to make
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  Speaker 1: one for him, But he said he was such a
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  Speaker 1: wretched outcast that he would not sleep on a bed
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  Speaker 1: and under blankets. He insisted on having an undressed bullock's
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  Speaker 1: hide and some sheepskins put for him in the cloister,
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  Speaker 1: And I threw a cloak over him myself. Then Telemachus
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  Speaker 1: went out of the court to the place where the
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  Speaker 1: Achaeans were meeting in assembly. He had his spear in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, and he was not alone, for his two
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  Speaker 1: dogs went with him. But Euryclea called the maids and said,
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  Speaker 1: come wake up. Set about sweeping the cloisters and sprinkling
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  Speaker 1: them with water, to lay the dust, put the covers
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  Speaker 1: on the seats, wipe down the tables. Some of you
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  Speaker 1: with a wet sponge, clean out the mixing jugs and
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  Speaker 1: the cups, and go for water from the fountain. At once.
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  Speaker 1: The suitors will be here directly. They will be here early,
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  Speaker 1: for it is a feast day. Thus did she speak,
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  Speaker 1: and they did even as she had said. Twenty of
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  Speaker 1: them went to the fountain for water, and the others
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  Speaker 1: set themselves busily to work about the house. The men
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  Speaker 1: who were in attendance on the suitors also came up
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  Speaker 1: and began chopping firewood. By and by the women returned
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  Speaker 1: from the fountain, and the swineherd came after them with
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  Speaker 1: the three best pigs he could pick out. These he
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  Speaker 1: let feed about the premises. And then he said, good
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  Speaker 1: humoredly to Ulysses, stranger, are the suitors treating you any
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  Speaker 1: better now? Or are they as insolent as ever? May heaven?
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  Speaker 1: Answered Ulysses, requite to them the wickedness with which they
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  Speaker 1: deal high handedly in another man's house without any sense
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  Speaker 1: of shame. Thus did they converse. Meanwhile, Melanthius the goatherd
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  Speaker 1: came up, for he too was bringing in his best
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  Speaker 1: goats for the suitors dinner, and he had two shepherds
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  Speaker 1: with him. They tied the goats up under the gatehouse,
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  Speaker 1: and then Melanthias began jibing at Ulysses. Are you still here, stranger?
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  Speaker 1: Said he to pester people by begging about the house.
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  Speaker 1: Why can you not go elsewhere? You and I shall
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  Speaker 1: not come to an understanding before we have given each
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  Speaker 1: other a taste of our fists. You beg without any
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  Speaker 1: sense of decency. Are there not feasts elsewhere among the
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  Speaker 1: Achaeans as well as here? Ulysses made no answer, but
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  Speaker 1: bowed his head and brooded. Then a third man, Filoecious,
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  Speaker 1: joined them, who was bringing in a baron heifer and
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  Speaker 1: some goats. These were brought over by the boatmen, who
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  Speaker 1: are there to take people over when anyone comes to them.
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  Speaker 1: So Filoecious made his heifer and his goats secure under
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  Speaker 1: the gatehouse, and then went up to the swineherd, who
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  Speaker 1: swineherd said, he is this stranger that is lately come here?
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  Speaker 1: Is he one of your men? What is his family?
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  Speaker 1: Where does he come from? Poor fellow? He looks as
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  Speaker 1: if he had been some great man. But the gods
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  Speaker 1: give sorrow to whom they will, even to kings, if
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  Speaker 1: it so pleases them. As he spoke, he went up
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  Speaker 1: to Ulysses and saluted him with his right hand. Good
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  Speaker 1: day to you, father, stranger, said he. You seem to
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  Speaker 1: be very poorly off now, but I hope you will
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  Speaker 1: have better times by and by Father Jove of all gods,
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  Speaker 1: you are the most malicious. We are your own children,
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  Speaker 1: Yet you show us no mercy in all our misery
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  Speaker 1: and afflictions. A sweat came over me when I saw
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  Speaker 1: this man, and my eyes filled with tears, for he
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of Ulysses, who I fear is going about
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  Speaker 1: in just such rags as this man's are, if indeed
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  Speaker 1: he is still among the living, if he is already
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  Speaker 1: dead and in the house of Hades, then alas for
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  Speaker 1: my good master, who made me his stockmen when I
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  Speaker 1: was quite young among the Cephalenians, and now his cattle
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  Speaker 1: are countless, no one could have done better with them
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  Speaker 1: than I have, for they have bread like ears of corn. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: I have to keep bringing them in for others to eat,
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  Speaker 1: who take no heed to his son, though he is
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  Speaker 1: in the house, and fear you are not the wrath
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven, but are already eager to divide ulysses property
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  Speaker 1: among them. Because he has been away so long. I
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  Speaker 1: have often thought only it would not be right while
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  Speaker 1: his son is living, of going off with the cattle
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  Speaker 1: to some foreign country. Bad as this would be, it
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  Speaker 1: is still harder to stay here and be ill treated
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  Speaker 1: about other people's herds. My position is intolerable, and I
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  Speaker 1: should long since have run away and put myself under
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  Speaker 1: the protection of some other chief, only that I believe
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  Speaker 1: my poor master will yet return and send all these
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  Speaker 1: suitors flying out of the house. Stockman answered, Ulysses, you
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  Speaker 1: seem to be a very well disposed person, and I
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  Speaker 1: can see that you are a man of sense. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you and will confirm my words with
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  Speaker 1: an oath by Jove, the chief of all gods, and
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  Speaker 1: by that hearth of Ulysses, to which I am now come.
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  Speaker 1: Ulysses shall return before you leave this place, and if
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  Speaker 1: you are so minded you shall I'll see him killing
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  Speaker 1: the suitors who are now masters here. If Jove were
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  Speaker 1: to bring this to pass, replied the stockman, you should
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  Speaker 1: see how I would do my very utmost to help him.
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  Speaker 1: And in like manner, Eumaeus prayed that Ulysses might return home.
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  Speaker 1: Thus did they converse. Meanwhile, the suitors were hatching a
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  Speaker 1: plot to murder Telemachus. But a bird flew near them
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  Speaker 1: on their left hand, an eagle with a dove in
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  Speaker 1: its talons. On this, Amphinomus said, my friends, this plot
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  Speaker 1: of ours to murder Telemachus will not succeed. Let us
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  Speaker 1: go to dinner instead. The others assented, so they went
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  Speaker 1: inside and laid their cloaks on the benches and seats.
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  Speaker 1: They sacrificed the sheep, goats, pigs, and the heifer, And
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  Speaker 1: when the inward meats were cooked, they served them round.
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  Speaker 1: They mixed the wine in the mixing bowls, and the
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  Speaker 1: swineherd gave every man his cup, while Filoetius handed round
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  Speaker 1: the bread in the bread basket, and Melanthius poured them
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  Speaker 1: out their wine. Then they laid their hands upon the
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  Speaker 1: good things that were before them. Telemachus purposely made Ulysses
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  Speaker 1: sit in the part of the cloister that was paved
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  Speaker 1: with stone. He gave him a shabby looking seat at
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  Speaker 1: a little table to himself, and had his portion of
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  Speaker 1: the inward meats brought to him, with his wine in
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  Speaker 1: a gold cup. Sit there, said he, and drink your
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  Speaker 1: wine among the great people. I will put a stop
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  Speaker 1: to the gibes and blows of the suitors, for this
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  Speaker 1: is no public house, but belongs to Ulysses, and has
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  Speaker 1: passed from him to me. Therefore, suitors, keep your hands
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  Speaker 1: and your tongues to yourselves, or there will be mischief.
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  Speaker 1: The suitors bit their lips and marveled at the boldness
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  Speaker 1: of his speech. Then Antynus said, we do not like
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  Speaker 1: such language, but we will put up with it, for
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  Speaker 1: Telemachus is threatening us in good earnest. If Jove had
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  Speaker 1: let us, we should have put a stop to his
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  Speaker 1: brave talk air. Now, thus spoke Antinas, but Telemachus heeded
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  Speaker 1: him not. Meanwhile, the heralds were bringing the Holy hecatomb
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  Speaker 1: through the city, and the Achaeans gathered under the shady
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  Speaker 1: grove of Apollo. Then they roasted the outer meat, drew
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  Speaker 1: it off the spits, gave every man his portion, and
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  Speaker 1: feasted to their hearts content. Those who waited at table
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  Speaker 1: gave Ulysses exactly the same portion as the others had,
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  Speaker 1: for Telemachus had told them to do so. But Minerva
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  Speaker 1: would not let the suitors for one moment drop their insolence,
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  Speaker 1: for she wanted Ulysses to become still more bitter against them.
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  Speaker 1: Now there happened to be among them a ribald fellow,
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  Speaker 1: whose name was Ktisippus, and who came from Samme. This man,
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  Speaker 1: confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the
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  Speaker 1: wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors, hear what
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  Speaker 1: I have to say. The stranger has already had as
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  Speaker 1: large a portion as any one else. This is well,
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  Speaker 1: for it is not right nor reasonable to ill treat
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  Speaker 1: any guest of Telemachus who comes here. I will, however,
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  Speaker 1: make him a present on my own account, that he
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  Speaker 1: may have something to give to the bath woman or
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  Speaker 1: to some other of ulysses servants. As he spoke, he
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  Speaker 1: picked up a heifer's foot from the meat basket in
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  Speaker 1: which it lay, and threw it at Ulysses. But Ulysses
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  Speaker 1: turned his head a little aside and avoided it, smiling
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  Speaker 1: grimly Sardinian fashion as he did so, and it hit
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  Speaker 1: the wall, not him. On this Telemachus spoke fiercely to Tisippus.
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  Speaker 1: It is a good thing for you, said he, that
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  Speaker 1: the stranger turned his head so that you missed him.
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  Speaker 1: If you had hit him, I should have run you
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  Speaker 1: through with my spear, and your father would have had
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  Speaker 1: to see about getting you buried rather than married in
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  Speaker 1: this house. So let me have no more unseemly behavior
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  Speaker 1: from any of you, for I am grown up now
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  Speaker 1: to the knowledge of good and evil and understand what
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  Speaker 1: is going on, instead of being the child that I
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  Speaker 1: have been heretofore, I have long seen you killing my
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  Speaker 1: sheep and making free with my corn and wine. I
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  Speaker 1: have put up with this, for one man is no
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  Speaker 1: match for many. But do me no further violence. Still,
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  Speaker 1: if you wish to kill me, kill me. I would
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  Speaker 1: far rather die than see such disgraceful scenes. Day after day,
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  Speaker 1: guests insulted, and men dragging the women servants about the
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  Speaker 1: house in an unseemly way. They all held their peace
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  Speaker 1: till at last Agilaus, son of Damastor, said, no one
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  Speaker 1: should take offense at what has just been said, nor
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  Speaker 1: gainsay it, for it is quite reasonable. Leave off therefore,
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  Speaker 1: ill treating the stranger or any one else of the
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  Speaker 1: servants who are about the house. I would say, however,
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  Speaker 1: a friendly word to Telemachus and his mother, which I
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  Speaker 1: trust may commend itself to both as long, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: as you had ground for hoping that Ulysses would one
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  Speaker 1: day come home, no one could complain of your waiting
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  Speaker 1: and suffering the suitors to be in your house. It
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  Speaker 1: would have been her that he should have returned, but
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  Speaker 1: it is now sufficiently clear that he will never do. So. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: talk all this quietly over with your mother, and tell
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  Speaker 1: her to marry the best man and the one who
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  Speaker 1: makes her the most advantageous offer. Thus, you will yourself
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  Speaker 1: be able to manage your own inheritance and to eat
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  Speaker 1: and drink in peace, while your mother will look after
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  Speaker 1: some other man's house, not yours. To this, Telemachus answered,
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  Speaker 1: by jove Agilaus, and by the sorrows of my unhappy father,
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  Speaker 1: who has either perished far from Ithaca or is wandering
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  Speaker 1: in some distant land, I throw no obstacles in the
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  Speaker 1: way of my mother's marriage. On the contrary, I urge
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  Speaker 1: her to choose whomsoever she will, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: her numberless gifts into the bargain. But I dare not
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  Speaker 1: insist point blank that she shall leave the house against
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  Speaker 1: her own wishes. Heaven forbid that I should do this.
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  Speaker 1: Minerva now made the suitors fall to laughing immoderately, and
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  Speaker 1: set their wits oneering. But they were laughing with a
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  Speaker 1: forced laughter. Their meat became smeared with blood, their eyes
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  Speaker 1: filled with tears, and their hearts were heavy with forebodings.
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  Speaker 1: Theo Clemenus saw this and said, unhappy men, what is
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  Speaker 1: it that ails you? There is a shroud of darkness
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  Speaker 1: drawn over you from head to foot. Your cheeks are
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  Speaker 1: wet with tears. The air is alive with wailing voices.
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  Speaker 1: The walls and roof beams drip blood. The gait of
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  Speaker 1: the cloisters, and the court beyond them are full of
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  Speaker 1: ghosts trooping down into the night of hell. The sun
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  Speaker 1: is blotted out of heaven, and a blighting gloom is
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  Speaker 1: over all the land. Thus did he speak, and they
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  Speaker 1: all of them laughed heartily. Eurymachus then said, this stranger
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  Speaker 1: who has lately come here has lost his senses. Servants
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  Speaker 1: turn him out into the streets, since he finds it
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  Speaker 1: so dark here. But theo Clemenus said, Eurymachus, you need
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  Speaker 1: not send any one with me. I have eyes, ears,
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  Speaker 1: and a pair of feet of my own, to say
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  Speaker 1: nothing of an understanding mind. I will take these out
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  Speaker 1: of the house with me, for I see mischief overhanging you,
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  Speaker 1: from which not one of you men who are insulting
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  Speaker 1: people and plotting ill deeds in the house of Ulysses,
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  Speaker 1: will be able to escape. He left the house as
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, and went back to Pereeus, who gave him welcome.
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  Speaker 1: But the suitors kept looking at one another and provoking
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Telemachus by laughing at the strangers. One insolent fellow said
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  Speaker 1: to him, Telemachus, you are not happy in your guests.
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  Speaker 1: First you have this importunate tramp who comes begging bread
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  Speaker 1: and wine, and has no skill for work or for
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  Speaker 1: hard fighting, but is perfectly useless. And now here is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: another fellow who is setting himself up as a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: Let me persuade you, for it will be much better
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  Speaker 1: to put them on board ship and send them off
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  Speaker 1: to the sea cells to sell for what they will bring.
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  Speaker 1: Telemachus gave him no heed, but sat silently watching his father,
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  Speaker 1: expecting every moment that he would begin his attack upon
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  Speaker 1: the suitors. Meanwhile, the daughter of Ecarius, Wise Penelope, had
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  Speaker 1: had a rich seat placed for her, facing the court
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  Speaker 1: and cloisters, so that she could hear what every one
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  Speaker 1: was saying. The dinner, indeed, had been prepared amid much merriment.
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  Speaker 1: It had been both good and abundant, for they had
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed many victims. But the supper was yet to come.
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  Speaker 1: And nothing can be conceived more gruesome than the meal
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  Speaker 1: which a goddess and a brave man were soon to
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  Speaker 1: lay before them, For they had brought their doom upon themselves.
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  Speaker 1: End of book twenty