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1  This hound," answered Eumaeus, "belonged to him who has died in a far country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
2  For my own part I should have no more pleasure in life, but had rather die at once.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
3  And Minerva said, "There is no fear of your race dying out yet, while Penelope has such a fine son as you are."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
4  As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the cloister where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
5  As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die in Argos, but the gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
6  The fame, therefore, of her virtue shall never die, and the immortals shall compose a song that shall be welcome to all mankind in honour of the constancy of Penelope.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
7  Happy son of Peleus," answered the ghost of Agamemnon, "for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
8  Ulysses has died in a far country, and it is a pity you are not dead along with him, instead of prating here about omens and adding fuel to the anger of Telemachus which is fierce enough as it is.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
9  Both these heroes are lying under the earth, though they are still alive, for by a special dispensation of Jove, they die and come to life again, each one of them every other day throughout all time, and they have the rank of gods.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
10  She found him sitting upon the beach with his eyes ever filled with tears, and dying of sheer home sickness; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
11  Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men, 'My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
12  Then she stood in the midst of us and said, 'You have done a bold thing in going down alive to the house of Hades, and you will have died twice, to other people's once; now, then, stay here for the rest of the day, feast your fill, and go on with your voyage at daybreak tomorrow morning.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
13  I lay dying upon the earth with the sword in my body, and raised my hands to kill the slut of a murderess, but she slipped away from me; she would not even close my lips nor my eyes when I was dying, for there is nothing in this world so cruel and so shameless as a woman when she has fallen into such guilt as hers was.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
14  The gods one and all of them detest him, or they would have taken him before Troy, or let him die with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes and his son would have been heir to his renown, but now the storm winds have spirited him away we know not whither.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV