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1  Noemon then went back to his father's house, but Antinous and Eurymachus were very angry.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
2  There is no chance of my father's ever coming back; the gods have long since counselled his destruction.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
3  Sit down there and wait for a while till the rest of us can get into the town and reach my father's house.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
4  The man who had seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on this she told him her father's name.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
5  As he spoke he made a sign with his eyebrows, and Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped his spear, and stood armed beside his father's seat.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXI
6  Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father's flocks and herds.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
7  Nurse, draw me off some of the best wine you have, after what you are keeping for my father's own drinking, in case, poor man, he should escape death, and find his way home again after all.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
8  Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and when he took his place in his father's seat even the oldest councillors made way for him.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
9  But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store-room where his father's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.
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Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
10  Therefore, I am suppliant at your knees if haply you may tell me about my father's melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller; for he was a man born to trouble.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
11  Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better; still, as you are not going to be either fool or coward henceforward, and are not entirely without some share of your father's wise discernment, I look with hope upon your undertaking.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
12  Then Telemachus sprang away from him, leaving his spear still in the body, for he feared that if he stayed to draw it out, some one of the Achaeans might come up and hack at him with his sword, or knock him down, so he set off at a run, and immediately was at his father's side.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXII
13  There happened to be a Phoenician woman in my father's house, very tall and comely, and an excellent servant; these scoundrels got hold of her one day when she was washing near their ship, seduced her, and cajoled her in ways that no woman can resist, no matter how good she may be by nature.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
14  They are afraid to go to her father Icarius, asking him to choose the one he likes best, and to provide marriage gifts for his daughter, but day by day they keep hanging about my father's house, sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
15  Their messenger, a very cunning fellow, came to my father's house bringing a necklace of gold with amber beads strung among it; and while my mother and the servants had it in their hands admiring it and bargaining about it, he made a sign quietly to the woman and then went back to the ship, whereon she took me by the hand and led me out of the house.
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Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
16  Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII