QUEEN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 The queen is preparing for her marriage with one or other of us.
2 Suitors of the illustrious queen, listen that I may speak even as I am minded.
3 As for himself, he slept in an inner room of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.
4 Then the queen went back to her room upstairs, and her maids brought the presents after her.
5 "Holy queen," he continued, "vouchsafe to send down thy grace upon myself, my good wife, and my children."
6 And now, O queen, have pity upon me, for you are the first person I have met, and I know no one else in this country.
7 Farewell, queen," said he, "henceforward and for ever, till age and death, the common lot of mankind, lay their hands upon you.
8 Maids, servants of Ulysses who has so long been absent, go to the queen inside the house; sit with her and amuse her, or spin, and pick wool.
9 The house re-echoed with the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said, "I suppose the queen has been getting married at last."
10 So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.