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1  Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
2  Phaedimus, king of the Sidonians, gave it me in the course of a visit which I paid him when I returned thither on my homeward journey.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  Then they took out the presents which Minerva had persuaded the Phaeacians to give him when he was setting out on his voyage homewards.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
4  There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
5  I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
6  We must see that he comes to no harm while on his homeward journey, but when he is once at home he will have to take the luck he was born with for better or worse like other people.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
7  And the goddess answered, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards.'
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
8  When they explained why they had called the people together, it seemed that Menelaus was for sailing homeward at once, and this displeased Agamemnon, who thought that we should wait till we had offered hecatombs to appease the anger of Minerva.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
9  When, however, we had sacked the city of Priam, and were setting sail in our ships as heaven had dispersed us, then Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage; for they had not all been either wise or understanding, and hence many came to a bad end through the displeasure of Jove's daughter Minerva, who brought about a quarrel between the two sons of Atreus.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III