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1  Nestor was astonished, and took Telemachus by the hand.
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2  He took her right hand in his own, and bade her give him her spear.
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3  Then the men loosed the hawsers and took their places on the benches.
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4  Then the suitors came in and took their places on the benches and seats.
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5  Then she took the form and voice of Mentor, and called Telemachus to come outside.
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6  Telemachus took this speech as of good omen and rose at once, for he was bursting with what he had to say.
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7  When they saw the strangers they crowded round them, took them by the hand and bade them take their places.
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8  Then Telemachus got into the chariot, while Pisistratus gathered up the reins and took his seat beside him.
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9  She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.
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10  They took their sweating steeds from under the yoke, made them fast to the mangers, and gave them a feed of oats and barley mixed.
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11  Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
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12  When the servants had washed them and anointed them with oil, they brought them woollen cloaks and shirts, and the two took their seats by the side of Menelaus.
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13  Now when the child of morning rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.
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14  Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and when he took his place in his father's seat even the oldest councillors made way for him.
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15  When they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and seats, he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it.
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16  Antinous came up to him at once and laughed as he took his hand in his own, saying, "Telemachus, my fine fire-eater, bear no more ill blood neither in word nor deed, but eat and drink with us as you used to do."
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17  When they were within he took her spear and set it in the spear-stand against a strong bearing-post along with the many other spears of his unhappy father, and he conducted her to a richly decorated seat under which he threw a cloth of damask.
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