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1  Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said, and yoked the fleet horses to the chariot.
The Odyssey By Homer
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2  Here this part of the fleet was driven on to the rocks and wrecked; but the crews just managed to save themselves.
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3  Pick out, therefore, the three best men you have in your fleet, and I will tell you all the tricks that the old man will play you.
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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.
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5  Aeolus entertained me for a whole month asking me questions all the time about Troy, the Argive fleet, and the return of the Achaeans.
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6  We are not particularly remarkable for our boxing, nor yet as wrestlers, but we are singularly fleet of foot and are excellent sailors.
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7  I spent but one month happily with my children, wife, and property, and then I conceived the idea of making a descent on Egypt, so I fitted out a fine fleet and manned it.
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8  He took many of our best men away with him in his fleet, and he has lost both ships and men; now, moreover, on his return he has been killing all the foremost men among the Cephallenians.
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9  Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.
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