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1  Your discretion, my friend," answered Menelaus, "is beyond your years.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
2  There is a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned who every nine years had a conference with Jove himself.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
3  Twenty years are come and gone since he left my home, and went elsewhither; but I will tell you as well as I can recollect.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
4  There we fought for nine whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city of Priam and sailed home again as heaven dispersed us.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
5  No other woman could bear to keep away from her husband when he had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
6  He says that you have here the most ill-starred of all those who fought nine years before the city of King Priam and sailed home in the tenth year after having sacked it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
7  As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
8  This three years past, and close on four, she had been driving us out of our minds, by encouraging each one of us, and sending him messages without meaning one word of what she says.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
9  A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years' absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI
10  As for myself, he said that death should come to me from the sea, and that my life should ebb away very gently when I was full of years and peace of mind, and my people should bless me.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
11  When they had got there and had taken their places on the benches and seats, he mixed them a bowl of sweet wine that was eleven years old when the housekeeper took the lid off the jar that held it.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
12  They were the finest children that were ever born in this world, and the best looking, Orion only excepted; for at nine years old they were nine fathoms high, and measured nine cubits round the chest.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XI
13  For seven years after he had killed Agamemnon he ruled in Mycene, and the people were obedient under him, but in the eighth year Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and killed the murderer of his father.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
14  She fooled us in this way for three years and we never found her out, but as time wore on and she was now in her fourth year, one of her maids who knew what she was doing told us, and we caught her in the act of undoing her work, so she had to finish it whether she would or no.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
15  I stayed with Calypso seven years straight on end, and watered the good clothes she gave me with my tears during the whole time; but at last when the eighth year came round she bade me depart of her own free will, either because Jove had told her she must, or because she had changed her mind.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
16  But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
17  I stayed there for seven years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for they all gave me something; but when it was now going on for eight years there came a certain Phoenician, a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villainy, and this man talked me over into going with him to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV
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