WEALTH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 All this wealth of presents has been given to no purpose.
2 I come from Sidon,' said she, 'and am daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth.
3 He said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth.
4 Before the Achaeans went to Troy, nine times was I in command of men and ships on foreign service, and I amassed much wealth.
5 This man, confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors, "Hear what I have to say."
6 In fact Ulysses would have been here long ago, had he not thought better to go from land to land gathering wealth; for there is no man living who is so wily as he is; there is no one can compare with him.
7 But while I was travelling and getting great riches among these people, my brother was secretly and shockingly murdered through the perfidy of his wicked wife, so that I have no pleasure in being lord of all this wealth.
8 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.