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1  Meanwhile Aegisthus here at home plotted his evil deed.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
2  'Now there was a watchman whom Aegisthus kept always on the watch, and to whom he had promised two talents of gold.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  I would rather this, than get home quickly, and then be killed in my own house as Agamemnon was by the treachery of Aegisthus and his wife.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
4  Round him were gathered also the ghosts of those who had perished with him in the house of Aegisthus; and the ghost of Achilles spoke first.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
5  See what a good thing it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
6  When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts in all directions, the ghost of Agamemnon son of Atreus came sadly up to me, surrounded by those who had perished with him in the house of Aegisthus.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
7  '"'Ulysses,' he answered, 'noble son of Laertes, I was not lost at sea in any storm of Neptune's raising, nor did my foes despatch me upon the mainland, but Aegisthus and my wicked wife were the death of me between them.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
8  This man had been looking out for a whole year to make sure that Agamemnon did not give him the slip and prepare war; when, therefore, this man saw Agamemnon go by, he went and told Aegisthus, who at once began to lay a plot for him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
9  Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
10  'Your brother and his ships escaped, for Juno protected him, but when he was just about to reach the high promontory of Malea, he was caught by a heavy gale which carried him out to sea again sorely against his will, and drove him to the foreland where Thyestes used to dwell, but where Aegisthus was then living.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
11  Then Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I