WOMEN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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2 Euryclea did as she was told, and bolted the women inside their room.
3 With these words he scared the women, and they went off into the body of the house.
4 But now he has fallen on evil times, for his master is dead and gone, and the women take no care of him.
5 And I said, 'In truth Jove has hated the house of Atreus from first to last in the matter of their women's counsels.'
6 Prove the women by all means, to see who are disloyal and who guiltless, but I am not in favour of going round and trying the men.
7 When Minerva had done all this she went away, whereon the maids came in from the women's room and woke Penelope with the sound of their talking.
8 Seats were ranged all along the wall, here and there from one end to the other, with coverings of fine woven work which the women of the house had made.
9 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.
10 But in the morning some of us drew our ships into the water and put our goods with our women on board, while the rest, about half in number, stayed behind with Agamemnon.
11 As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.
12 But Ulysses said, "Young women, please to stand a little on one side that I may wash the brine from my shoulders and anoint myself with oil, for it is long enough since my skin has had a drop of oil upon it."
13 I will tell the women to prepare a sufficient dinner for you of what there may be in the house; it will be at once more proper and cheaper for you to get your dinner before setting out on such a long journey.
14 Telemachus approved of what his father had said, so he called nurse Euryclea and said, "Nurse, shut the women up in their room, while I take the armour that my father left behind him down into the store room."
15 Her mother prepared her a basket of provisions with all sorts of good things, and a goat skin full of wine; the girl now got into the waggon, and her mother gave her also a golden cruse of oil, that she and her women might anoint themselves.
16 Nevertheless, tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their mouths full of lies, and not a word of truth; every one who finds his way to Ithaca goes to my mistress and tells her falsehoods, whereon she takes them in, makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions, crying all the time as women will when they have lost their husbands.
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.
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