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1  Therefore, my dear young friend, I returned without hearing anything about the others.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
2  When he had so done he sat down and milked his ewes and goats, all in due course, and then let each of them have her own young.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
3  My friend," said he, "I see that you are going to be a great hero some day, since the gods wait upon you thus while you are still so young.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
4  Never yet did such a young plant shoot out of the ground as that was, and I admired and wondered at it exactly as I now admire and wonder at yourself.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
5  I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
6  I am giving these instructions to the young men who will form the crew, for as regards you aldermen and town councillors, you will join me in entertaining our guest in the cloisters.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
7  Good heavens, this voyage of Telemachus is a very serious matter; we had made sure that it would come to nothing, but the young fellow has got away in spite of us, and with a picked crew too.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
8  I will come and help you so that you may have everything ready as soon as possible, for all the best young men among your own people are courting you, and you are not going to remain a maid much longer.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
9  Presently the servant came back with Demodocus's lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
10  When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
11  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
12  Then Pisistratus said, "Menelaus, son of Atreus, you are right in thinking that this young man is Telemachus, but he is very modest, and is ashamed to come here and begin opening up discourse with one whose conversation is so divinely interesting as your own."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
13  Here the chief persons of the Phaeacians used to sit and eat and drink, for there was abundance at all seasons; and there were golden figures of young men with lighted torches in their hands, raised on pedestals, to give light by night to those who were at table.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
14  Laertes had bought her with his own money when she was quite young; he gave the worth of twenty oxen for her, and shewed as much respect to her in his household as he did to his own wedded wife, but he did not take her to his bed for he feared his wife's resentment.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
15  As soon as he had put the stone back to its place against the door, he sat down, milked his ewes and his goats all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; when he had got through with all this work, he gripped up two more of my men, and made his supper off them.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
16  They cut out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III
17  When the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn, appeared, he again lit his fire, milked his goats and ewes, all quite rightly, and then let each have her own young one; as soon as he had got through with all his work, he clutched up two more of my men, and began eating them for his morning's meal.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
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