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2 Noemon then went back to his father's house, but Antinous and Eurymachus were very angry.
3 Then the queen went back to her room upstairs, and her maids brought the presents after her.
4 When she had done speaking Eumaeus went back to the suitors, for he had explained everything.
5 Then he went back to the threshold and sat down there, laying his well filled wallet at his feet.
6 When he had given his message he left the house with its outbuildings and went back to his pigs again.
7 I agreed to this, so I went back to the sea shore, and found the men at the ship weeping and wailing most piteously.
8 On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own abode, while the suitors returned to the house of Ulysses.
9 They were very angry at my having escaped and went searching about for me, till at last they thought it was no further use and went back to their ship.
10 Ulysses went back to his own place, and Eumaeus strewed some green brushwood on the floor and threw a sheepskin on top of it for Telemachus to sit upon.
11 On this Eumaeus took his seat again, and when he had finished his dinner he left the courts and the cloister with the men at table, and went back to his pigs.
12 Then Mercury went back to high Olympus passing over the wooded island; but I fared onward to the house of Circe, and my heart was clouded with care as I walked along.
13 On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades, for his prophecyings had now been spoken, but I sat still where I was until my mother came up and tasted the blood.
14 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.
15 The old woman swore most solemnly that she would not, and when she had completed her oath, she began drawing off the wine into jars, and getting the barley meal into the bags, while Telemachus went back to the suitors.
16 Their messenger, a very cunning fellow, came to my father's house bringing a necklace of gold with amber beads strung among it; and while my mother and the servants had it in their hands admiring it and bargaining about it, he made a sign quietly to the woman and then went back to the ship, whereon she took me by the hand and led me out of the house.
17 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."
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