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1  She is only a woman, whereas you are an immortal.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
2  I never yet saw any one so beautiful, neither man nor woman, and am lost in admiration as I behold you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
3  My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
4  They both descend originally from Neptune, who was father to Nausithous by Periboea, a woman of great beauty.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
5  A good old woman, Euryclea, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
6  We never yet heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
7  He wept as a woman weeps when she throws herself on the body of her husband who has fallen before his own city and people, fighting bravely in defence of his home and children.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
8  This old woman had been brought by sea from Apeira, and had been chosen as a prize for Alcinous because he was king over the Phaeacians, and the people obeyed him as though he were a god.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
9  There we found a woman, or else she was a goddess, working at her loom and singing sweetly; so the men shouted to her and called her, whereon she at once came down, opened the door, and invited us in.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
10  This drug, of such sovereign power and virtue, had been given to Helen by Polydamna wife of Thon, a woman of Egypt, where there grow all sorts of herbs, some good to put into the mixing bowl and others poisonous.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
11  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.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
13  The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
14  She bore Nestor, Chromius, and Periclymenus, and she also bore that marvellously lovely woman Pero, who was wooed by all the country round; but Neleus would only give her to him who should raid the cattle of Iphicles from the grazing grounds of Phylace, and this was a hard task.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
15  Once when she was taking a walk by his side as usual, Neptune, disguised as her lover, lay with her at the mouth of the river, and a huge blue wave arched itself like a mountain over them to hide both woman and god, whereon he loosed her virgin girdle and laid her in a deep slumber.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
16  Alcinous," answered Ulysses, "there is a time for making speeches, and a time for going to bed; nevertheless, since you so desire, I will not refrain from telling you the still sadder tale of those of my comrades who did not fall fighting with the Trojans, but perished on their return, through the treachery of a wicked woman.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
17  Thus she both was, and still is, respected beyond measure by her children, by Alcinous himself, and by the whole people, who look upon her as a goddess, and greet her whenever she goes about the city, for she is a thoroughly good woman both in head and heart, and when any women are friends of hers, she will help their husbands also to settle their disputes.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
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