1 '"'Sir,' he answered with a groan, 'it was all bad luck, and my own unspeakable drunkenness.'
2 On this he groaned, and cried out, 'Alas, alas, then the old prophecy about me is coming true.'
3 As I drew near I began to smell hot roast meat, so I groaned out a prayer to the immortal gods.
4 They made a horrible groaning as their brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with their blood.
5 I was not there," answered Euryclea, "and do not know; I only heard them groaning while they were being killed.
6 He filled both hands with the dust from off the ground and poured it over his grey head, groaning heavily as he did so.
7 From the moment that we had done supper and Demodocus began to sing, our guest has been all the time groaning and lamenting.
8 The men were broken-hearted as they heard me, and threw themselves on the ground groaning and tearing their hair, but they did not mend matters by crying.
9 If they hear any groaning or uproar as of men fighting about the house, they must not come out; they must keep quiet, and stay where they are at their work.
10 As for the boar, Ulysses hit him on the right shoulder, and the point of the spear went right through him, so that he fell groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.
11 All day long the atmosphere of the house is loaded with the savour of roasting meats till it groans again, yard and all; but by night they sleep on their well made bedsteads, each with his own wife between the blankets.
12 It was plain that some one of the gods was helping them, for they fell upon us with might and main throughout the cloisters, and there was a hideous sound of groaning as our brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with our blood.
13 He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river, for the heat of the sun drove him, and as he passed I struck him in the middle of the back; the bronze point of the spear went clean through him, and he lay groaning in the dust until the life went out of him.
14 While they were thus busy getting their dinner ready, Rumour went round the town, and noised abroad the terrible fate that had befallen the suitors; as soon, therefore, as the people heard of it they gathered from every quarter, groaning and hooting before the house of Ulysses.