A MAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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2 And now you are angry with me too because I have a man here.
3 Minerva, in the form of a man, came and marked the place where it had fallen.
4 Aegyptius, a man bent double with age, and of infinite experience, was the first to speak.
5 Here my father has a field of rich garden ground, about as far from the town as a man's voice will carry.
6 Every one was speechless with surprise at seeing a man there, but Ulysses began at once with his petition.
7 So the maids went out, carrying a torch, and made the beds, to which a man-servant presently conducted the strangers.
8 In battle I am always the first to bring a man down with my arrow, no matter how many more are taking aim at him alongside of me.
9 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.
10 Nevertheless, let me sup in spite of sorrow, for an empty stomach is a very importunate thing, and thrusts itself on a man's notice no matter how dire is his distress.
11 You will find a number of great people sitting at table, but do not be afraid; go straight in, for the bolder a man is the more likely he is to carry his point, even though he is a stranger.
12 I shall never all my days be as good a man as he was, still I would indeed defend myself if I had power to do so, for I cannot stand such treatment any longer; my house is being disgraced and ruined.
13 Therefore, I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may tell me about my father's melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller; for he was a man born to trouble.
14 Therefore I am suppliant at your knees, if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller, for he was a man born to trouble.
15 It was not long ere Penelope came to know what the suitors were plotting; for a man servant, Medon, overheard them from outside the outer court as they were laying their schemes within, and went to tell his mistress.
16 Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, "It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you."
17 I am no prophet, and know very little about omens, but I speak as it is borne in upon me from heaven, and assure you that he will not be away much longer; for he is a man of such resource that even though he were in chains of iron he would find some means of getting home again.
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