YOKE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said, and yoked the fleet horses to the chariot.
2 When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and their places in the chariot.
3 All that day did they travel, swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and darkness was over all the land.
4 They swayed the yoke upon their necks and travelled the whole day long till the sun set and darkness was over all the land.
5 They took their sweating steeds from under the yoke, made them fast to the mangers, and gave them a feed of oats and barley mixed.
6 In return, I will offer you in sacrifice a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke.
7 When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse.
8 If, moreover, you have a fancy for making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal cities.
9 Then they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, but as soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus and Pisistratus yoked the horses, and took their places in the chariot.
10 Or if you will plough against me, let us each take a yoke of tawny oxen, well-mated and of great strength and endurance: turn me into a four acre field, and see whether you or I can drive the straighter furrow.
11 Indeed they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosy-fingered morn appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west, while she would not suffer Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind.