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1 I see no way out of it; nevertheless, we must try and find one.
2 Have a try therefore at something, and banish all sorrow from your mind.
3 Minerva answered, "Do not try to keep me, for I would be on my way at once."
4 'And I will tell you of all the wicked witchcraft that Circe will try to practice upon you.
5 Let us try and lay hold of him either on his farm away from the town, or on the road hither.
6 As soon as he came he began to insult Ulysses, and to try and drive him out of his own house.
7 My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.
8 She said this to try him, but Ulysses was very angry and said, "Wife, I am much displeased at what you have just been saying."
9 And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has brought you to my door, do not try to flatter me in this way with vain hopes.
10 Iphitus had gone there also to try and get back twelve brood mares that he had lost, and the mule foals that were running with them.
11 Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among themselves, as a means of bringing about their destruction.
12 He said the gods could not drown him even though they had tried to do so, and when Neptune heard this large talk, he seized his trident in his two brawny hands, and split the rock of Gyrae in two pieces.
13 Ulysses was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.
14 I know, Eurynome," replied Penelope, "that you mean well, but do not try and persuade me to wash and to anoint myself, for heaven robbed me of all my beauty on the day my husband sailed; nevertheless, tell Autonoe and Hippodamia that I want them.
15 I shall make the suitors try to do the same thing, and whichever of them can string the bow most easily, and send his arrow through all the twelve axes, him will I follow, and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly and so abounding in wealth.
16 Presently she said, "Telemachus, you must not be in the least shy or nervous; you have taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried and how he came by his end; so go straight up to Nestor that we may see what he has got to tell us."
17 Then Amphinomus drew his sword and made straight at Ulysses to try and get him away from the door; but Telemachus was too quick for him, and struck him from behind; the spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell heavily to the ground and struck the earth with his forehead.
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