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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Let me tell you also of another matter which you had better attend to.
2 We will put an end therefore to all this weeping, and attend to our supper again.
3 The men who were in attendance on the suitors also came up and began chopping firewood.
4 So I sent two of my company with an attendant to find out what sort of people the inhabitants were.
5 You are the chief man here, so it is only right that you should have a clean shirt when you attend meetings of the council.
6 I have to attend swine for other people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.
7 Penelope, daughter of Icarius, heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids.
8 She then went upstairs to her own room, not alone, but attended by her maidens, and when there, she lamented her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyelids.
9 Her mother was sitting by the fireside spinning her purple yarn with her maids around her, and she happened to catch her father just as he was going out to attend a meeting of the town council, which the Phaeacian aldermen had convened.
10 With these words she came down from her upper room, not alone but attended by two of her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a staid maid servant on either side of her.
11 In the fore part of the house she saw the tables set with the cups of guests who had been feasting with my father, as being in attendance on him; these were now all gone to a meeting of the public assembly, so she snatched up three cups and carried them off in the bosom of her dress, while I followed her, for I knew no better.
12 As for myself, heaven has given me a life of such unmeasurable woe, that even by day when I am attending to my duties and looking after the servants, I am still weeping and lamenting during the whole time; then, when night comes, and we all of us go to bed, I lie awake thinking, and my heart becomes a prey to the most incessant and cruel tortures.