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1  I said I would let Ulysses get home when he had suffered sufficiently.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
2  I have suffered much, but at last, in the twentieth year, I am come back to my own country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXI
3  You are asleep, Penelope: the gods who live at ease will not suffer you to weep and be so sad.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
4  He grieves continually about your never having come home, and suffers more and more as he grows older.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
5  Ulysses in his turn told her what he had suffered, and how much trouble he had himself given to other people.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
6  There I saw Helen, for whose sake so many, both Argives and Trojans, were in heaven's wisdom doomed to suffer.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
7  Bless my heart," replied Menelaus, "then I am receiving a visit from the son of a very dear friend, who suffered much hardship for my sake.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
8  Ulysses," said he, "now that you have reached my house I doubt not you will get home without further misadventure no matter how much you have suffered in the past.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
9  My friend," answered Nestor, "you recall a time of much sorrow to my mind, for the brave Achaeans suffered much both at sea, while privateering under Achilles, and when fighting before the great city of king Priam.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
10  Thus, then, she cut her way through the water, carrying one who was as cunning as the gods, but who was now sleeping peacefully, forgetful of all that he had suffered both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
11  There we lay two days and two nights suffering much alike from toil and distress of mind, but on the morning of the third day we again raised our masts, set sail, and took our places, letting the wind and steersmen direct our ship.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
12  Still, after much suffering you may get home if you can restrain yourself and your companions when your ship reaches the Thrinacian island, where you will find the sheep and cattle belonging to the sun, who sees and gives ear to everything.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
13  We too will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone by.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XV
14  Then Ulysses answered, "Madam, wife of Ulysses, since you persist in asking me about my family, I will answer, no matter what it costs me: people must expect to be pained when they have been exiles as long as I have, and suffered as much among as many peoples."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
15  The others all agreed, but Ulysses, to throw them off the scent, said, "Sirs, an old man like myself, worn out with suffering, cannot hold his own against a young one; but my irrepressible belly urges me on, though I know it can only end in my getting a drubbing."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
16  Indeed they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosy-fingered morn appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west, while she would not suffer Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
17  Then Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right, and so it would any one else who does as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea-girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
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