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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Meanwhile the suitors took to singing and dancing, and stayed till evening came.
2 Then Phemius took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.
3 Then Alcinous told Laodamas and Halius to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them.
4 Telemachus, Philoetius, and the swineherd now left off dancing, and made the women leave off also.
5 As for the suitors, they presently began to amuse themselves with singing and dancing, for it was now getting on towards evening.
6 The house re-echoed with the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said, "I suppose the queen has been getting married at last."
7 The suitors then returned to their singing and dancing until the evening; but when night fell upon their pleasuring they went home to bed each in his own abode.
8 When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council.
9 As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embellishments of a banquet, so a servant brought a lyre to Phemius, whom they compelled perforce to sing to them.
10 She washed her face with the ambrosial loveliness that Venus wears when she goes dancing with the Graces; she made her taller and of a more commanding figure, while as for her complexion it was whiter than sawn ivory.
11 It is the wine that makes me talk in this way; wine will make even a wise man fall to singing; it will make him chuckle and dance and say many a word that he had better leave unspoken; still, as I have begun, I will go on.
12 When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet.
13 We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and dancing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths, and good beds, so now, please, some of you who are the best dancers set about dancing, that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as sailors, runners, dancers, and minstrels.