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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 When she had done bleeding and was quite dead, they cut her up.
2 '"'Stranger,' said she, 'I will make it all quite clear to you.'
3 '"'Stranger,' replied she, 'I will make it all quite clear to you.'
4 As he rose on the swell he looked eagerly ahead, and could see land quite near.
5 I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself.
6 Calypso smiled at this and caressed him with her hand: "You know a great deal," said she, "but you are quite wrong here."
7 Then Minerva said, "Yes, father stranger, I will show you the house you want, for Alcinous lives quite close to my own father."
8 At any rate I will not do so at present, for the land where she said I should be quit of all troubles seemed to be still a good way off.
9 Alas," he said to himself in his dismay, "this is only some one or other of the gods who is luring me to ruin by advising me to quit my raft.
10 Here is my dear and excellent mother saying she will quit this house and marry again, yet I am laughing and enjoying myself as though there were nothing happening.
11 He covered himself with wounds and bruises, dressed himself all in rags, and entered the enemy's city looking like a menial or a beggar, and quite different from what he did when he was among his own people.
12 After they had washed them and got them quite clean, they laid them out by the sea side, where the waves had raised a high beach of shingle, and set about washing themselves and anointing themselves with olive oil.
13 Your ill-judged remarks have made me exceedingly angry, and you are quite mistaken, for I excel in a great many athletic exercises; indeed, so long as I had youth and strength, I was among the first athletes of the age.
14 I shall make the suitors try to do the same thing, and whichever of them can string the bow most easily, and send his arrow through all the twelve axes, him will I follow, and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly and so abounding in wealth.
15 Laertes had bought her with his own money when she was quite young; he gave the worth of twenty oxen for her, and shewed as much respect to her in his household as he did to his own wedded wife, but he did not take her to his bed for he feared his wife's resentment.
16 But Minerva resolved to help Ulysses, so she bound the ways of all the winds except one, and made them lie quite still; but she roused a good stiff breeze from the North that should lay the waters till Ulysses reached the land of the Phaeacians where he would be safe.
17 Diomed and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held us all in check, so we sat quite still, all except Anticlus, who was beginning to answer you, when Ulysses clapped his two brawny hands over his mouth, and kept them there.
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