DIVIDE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 It contains two communities, and the whole country is divided between these two.
2 Then we can divide up his property amongst us, and let his mother and the man who marries her have the house.
3 We took their wives and also much booty, which we divided equitably amongst us, so that none might have reason to complain.
4 On this we fetched our spears and bows and arrows from the ships, and dividing ourselves into three bands began to shoot the goats.
5 Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
6 If the suitors kill me in my own house and divide my property among them, I would rather you had the presents than that any of those people should get hold of them.
7 We ran our vessel upon the sands and got out of her on to the sea shore; we also landed the Cyclops' sheep, and divided them equitably amongst us so that none might have reason to complain.
8 They wept bitterly in their dismay, but there was nothing to be got by crying, so I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each; I gave one company to Eurylochus, while I took command of the other myself.
9 They brought in a five year old bull, flayed it, made it ready and divided it into joints; these they then cut carefully up into smaller pieces and spitted them; they roasted them sufficiently and served the portions round.
10 He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning.
11 When, however, death took him to the house of Hades, his sons divided his estate and cast lots for their shares, but to me they gave a holding and little else; nevertheless, my valour enabled me to marry into a rich family, for I was not given to bragging, or shirking on the field of battle.