BENCHES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Then the men loosed the hawsers and took their places on the benches.
2 Then the suitors came in and took their places on the benches and seats.
3 The others assented, so they went inside and laid their cloaks on the benches and seats.
4 When they got there they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats, went into the baths, and washed themselves.
5 Alcinous went on board and saw everything so securely stowed under the ship's benches that nothing could break adrift and injure the rowers.
6 Thus did they converse; but the others, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, left off working, and took each his proper place on the benches and seats.
7 Now when the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.
8 When they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and seats, he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it.
9 They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown.
10 When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, we drew our ships into the water, and put our masts and sails within them; then we went on board ourselves, took our seats on the benches, and smote the grey sea with our oars.
11 When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes.