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1  Then he went back to the threshold and sat down there, laying his well filled wallet at his feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
2  As he spoke he crossed the threshold, and Alcinous sent a man to conduct him to his ship and to the sea shore.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIII
3  So here Ulysses stood for a while and looked about him, but when he had looked long enough he crossed the threshold and went within the precincts of the house.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
4  Since, however, you press me to stay here and await the return of Telemachus, tell me about Ulysses' mother, and his father whom he left on the threshold of old age when he set out for Troy.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
5  Immediately after dinner I took a herald and one of my men and went straight to the house of Aeolus, where I found him feasting with his wife and family; so we sat down as suppliants on the threshold.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
6  He sat down upon the threshold of ash-wood just inside the doors leading from the outer to the inner court, and against a bearing-post of cypress-wood which the carpenter had skilfully planed, and had made to join truly with rule and line.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
7  Then he threw his dirty old wallet, all tattered and torn over his shoulder with the cord by which it hung, and went back to sit down upon the threshold; but the suitors went within the cloisters, laughing and saluting him, "May Jove, and all the other gods," said they, "grant you whatever you want for having put an end to the importunity of this insatiable tramp."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII