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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 And now, sir, tell me and tell me true, who you are and where you come from.
2 And Minerva answered, "I will tell you truly and particularly all about it."
3 I hope, sir," said he, "that you will not be offended with what I am going to say.
4 Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
5 Phemius," she cried, "you know many another feat of gods and heroes, such as poets love to celebrate.
6 As for any present you may be disposed to make me, keep it till I come again, and I will take it home with me.
7 And Minerva said, "There is no fear of your race dying out yet, while Penelope has such a fine son as you are."
8 Then, having done all this, think it well over in your mind how, by fair means or foul, you may kill these suitors in your own house.
9 I have not got wind of any host approaching about which I would warn you, nor is there any matter of public moment on which I would speak.
10 Then, turning to Aegyptius, "Sir," said he, "it is I, as you will shortly learn, who have convened you, for it is I who am the most aggrieved."
11 As for yourself, let me prevail upon you to take the best ship you can get, with a crew of twenty men, and go in quest of your father who has so long been missing.
12 If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again.
13 The first of these is the loss of my excellent father, who was chief among all you here present, and was like a father to every one of you; the second is much more serious, and ere long will be the utter ruin of my estate.
14 Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, "It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you."
15 First go to Pylos and ask Nestor; thence go on to Sparta and visit Menelaus, for he got home last of all the Achaeans; if you hear that your father is alive and on his way home, you can put up with the waste these suitors will make for yet another twelve months.
16 Sir," answered Telemachus, "it has been very kind of you to talk to me in this way, as though I were your own son, and I will do all you tell me; I know you want to be getting on with your voyage, but stay a little longer till you have taken a bath and refreshed yourself.
17 I am no prophet, and know very little about omens, but I speak as it is borne in upon me from heaven, and assure you that he will not be away much longer; for he is a man of such resource that even though he were in chains of iron he would find some means of getting home again.
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