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1  I gave him seven talents of fine gold, and a cup of solid silver with flowers chased upon it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
2  These founded Thebes with its seven gates, and built a wall all round it; for strong though they were they could not hold Thebes till they had walled it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
3  He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
4  Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
5  Days and nights seven and ten we mourned you, mortals and immortals, but on the eighteenth day we gave you to the flames, and many a fat sheep with many an ox did we slay in sacrifice around you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
6  For seven years after he had killed Agamemnon he ruled in Mycene, and the people were obedient under him, but in the eighth year Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and killed the murderer of his father.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
7  I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
8  I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me something; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV