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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on to the town.
2 Here my father has a field of rich garden ground, about as far from the town as a man's voice will carry.
3 Sit down there and wait for a while till the rest of us can get into the town and reach my father's house.
4 Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
5 I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses, who is said to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself.
6 Show me the way to your town, and let me have anything that you may have brought hither to wrap your clothes in.
7 She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.
8 Then, when you think we must have done this, come into the town and ask the way to the house of my father Alcinous.
9 You will have no difficulty in finding it; any child will point it out to you, for no one else in the whole town has anything like such a fine house as he has.
10 Stranger," said she, "rise and let us be going back to the town; I will introduce you at the house of my excellent father, where I can tell you that you will meet all the best people among the Phaeacians.
11 She caused their drink to fuddle them, and made them drop their cups from their hands, so that instead of sitting over their wine, they went back into the town to sleep, with their eyes heavy and full of drowsiness.
12 They say, however, that he never comes to town now, and lives by himself in the country, faring hardly, with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him, when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard.
13 Her mother was sitting by the fireside spinning her purple yarn with her maids around her, and she happened to catch her father just as he was going out to attend a meeting of the town council, which the Phaeacian aldermen had convened.
14 She stood right in front of Ulysses, and he doubted whether he should go up to her, throw himself at her feet, and embrace her knees as a suppliant, or stay where he was and entreat her to give him some clothes and show him the way to the town.
15 When they were right over the middle of the assembly they wheeled and circled about, beating the air with their wings and glaring death into the eyes of them that were below; then, fighting fiercely and tearing at one another, they flew off towards the right over the town.
16 Presently, however, we shall come to the town, where you will find a high wall running all round it, and a good harbour on either side with a narrow entrance into the city, and the ships will be drawn up by the road side, for every one has a place where his own ship can lie.
17 Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.
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