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1  Then Phemius took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
2  He hung the lyre for him on a peg over his head, and showed him where he was to feel for it with his hands.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
3  As soon as he touched his lyre and began to sing Telemachus spoke low to Minerva, with his head close to hers that no man might hear.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
4  On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king's house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
5  There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
6  But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXI
7  As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embellishments of a banquet, so a servant brought a lyre to Phemius, whom they compelled perforce to sing to them.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
8  Presently the servant came back with Demodocus's lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
9  A servant hung Demodocus's lyre on its peg for him, led him out of the cloister, and set him on the same way as that along which all the chief men of the Phaeacians were going to see the sports; a crowd of several thousands of people followed them, and there were many excellent competitors for all the prizes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII