EUMAEUS in Classic Quotes

1  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "Eat, my good fellow, and enjoy your supper, such as it is."

The Odyssey By Homer
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2  Listen to me," said he, "Eumaeus and the rest of you; when I have said a prayer I will tell you something.

The Odyssey By Homer
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3  Eumaeus answered, "Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses' wife and son to believe his story."

The Odyssey By Homer
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4  Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master.

The Odyssey By Homer
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5  Stranger," replied Eumaeus, "as regards your question: sit still, make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me.

The Odyssey By Homer
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6  Ulysses answered, "Then you must have been a very little fellow, Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents."

The Odyssey By Homer
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7  Eumaeus, and all of you, to-morrow I want to go away and begin begging about the town, so as to be no more trouble to you or to your men.

The Odyssey By Homer
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8  Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather.

The Odyssey By Homer
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9  Ulysses went back to his own place, and Eumaeus strewed some green brushwood on the floor and threw a sheepskin on top of it for Telemachus to sit upon.

The Odyssey By Homer
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10  But Eumaeus called to his men and said, "Bring in the best pig you have, that I may sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll of him ourselves."

The Odyssey By Homer
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11  And a pretty figure I should cut then," replied Eumaeus, "both now and hereafter, if I were to kill you after receiving you into my hut and showing you hospitality.

The Odyssey By Homer
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12  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove."

The Odyssey By Homer
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13  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else."

The Odyssey By Homer
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14  To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "Poor unhappy stranger, I have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting, but that part about Ulysses is not right; and you will never get me to believe it."

The Odyssey By Homer
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15  Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again.

The Odyssey By Homer
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16  It poured without ceasing, and the wind blew strong from the West, which is a wet quarter, so Ulysses thought he would see whether Eumaeus, in the excellent care he took of him, would take off his own cloak and give it him, or make one of his men give him one.

The Odyssey By Homer
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17  I will tell you all about them," replied Eumaeus, "Laertes is still living and prays heaven to let him depart peacefully in his own house, for he is terribly distressed about the absence of his son, and also about the death of his wife, which grieved him greatly and aged him more than anything else did.

The Odyssey By Homer
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