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1  '"'The third man,' he answered, 'is Ulysses who dwells in Ithaca.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
2  Here dwells the cunning and powerful goddess Calypso, daughter of Atlas.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
3  When I first saw him I thought him plain, but now his appearance is like that of the gods who dwell in heaven.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
4  Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
5  I am in great trouble, yet it insists that I shall eat and drink, bids me lay aside all memory of my sorrows and dwell only on the due replenishing of itself.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
6  Hence I was carried along for nine days till on the tenth night the gods stranded me on the Ogygian island, where dwells the great and powerful goddess Calypso.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XII
7  This can have been none other of those who dwell in heaven than Jove's redoubtable daughter, the Trito-born, who shewed such favour towards your brave father among the Argives.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
8  Aurora, throned in gold, carried off Cleitus for his beauty's sake, that he might dwell among the immortals, but Apollo made Polypheides the greatest seer in the whole world now that Amphiaraus was dead.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
9  There he is, lying in great pain in an island where dwells the nymph Calypso, who will not let him go; and he cannot get back to his own country, for he can find neither ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
10  When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
11  'Your brother and his ships escaped, for Juno protected him, but when he was just about to reach the high promontory of Malea, he was caught by a heavy gale which carried him out to sea again sorely against his will, and drove him to the foreland where Thyestes used to dwell, but where Aegisthus was then living.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV