EARS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Then my men took the wax from their ears and unbound me.
2 I have eyes, ears, and a pair of feet of my own, to say nothing of an understanding mind.
3 As they were thus talking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears.
4 It is all over now; still, if you look at the straw you can see what the ear was, for I have had trouble enough and to spare.
5 As soon as he saw Ulysses standing there, he dropped his ears and wagged his tail, but he could not get close up to his master.
6 There they cut off his nose and his ears; they drew out his vitals and gave them to the dogs raw, and then in their fury they cut off his hands and his feet.
7 Then I stopped the ears of all my men, and they bound me hands and feet to the mast as I stood upright on the cross piece; but they went on rowing themselves.
8 When the night was two-thirds through and the stars had shifted their places, I nudged Ulysses who was close to me with my elbow, and he at once gave me his ear.
9 Then he went up to Telemachus and said in his ear so that none could overhear him, "My dear sir, I will now go back to the pigs, to see after your property and my own business."
10 Still, after much suffering you may get home if you can restrain yourself and your companions when your ship reaches the Thrinacian island, where you will find the sheep and cattle belonging to the sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.
11 When the wine had got into his head, he went mad and did ill deeds about the house of Peirithous; this angered the heroes who were there assembled, so they rushed at him and cut off his ears and nostrils; then they dragged him through the doorway out of the house, so he went away crazed, and bore the burden of his crime, bereft of understanding.