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Book nineteen of the Odyssey by Homer. The Odyssey, Book nineteen, Telemachus

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and Ulysses remove the armor. Ulysses
interviews Penelope. Euryclea washes his feet and

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recognizes the scar on his leg.
Penelope tells her dream to Ulysses. Ulysses

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was left in the cloister, pondering
on the means whereby, with Minerva's help,

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he might be able to kill the
suitors. Presently, he said to

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Telemachus. Telemachus, we must get
the armor together and take it down inside.

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Make some excuse when the suitors ask
you why you have removed it,

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Say that you have taken it to
be out of the way of the smoke,

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inasmuch as it is no longer what
it was when Ulysses went away,

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but has become soiled and begrimed with
soot. Add to this more particularly,

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that you are afraid Jove may set
them on to quarrel over their wine,

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and that they may do each other
some harm, which may disgrace both banks

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quit and wooing, for this side
of arms sometimes tempts people to use them.

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Telemachus approved of what his father had
said, So we called nurse Eurycleia

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and said, nurse, shut the
women up in their rooms, while I

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take the armor that my father left
behind him down into the storeroom. No

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one looks after it. Now my
father is gone, and it has got

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all smirched with soot during my own
boyhood. I want to take it down

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where the smoke cannot reach it.
I wish child, answered Eurycleia that you

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would take the management of the house
into your own hands altogether and look after

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all the property yourself. But who
is to go with you when light you

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to the storeroom. The maids would
have done so, but you would not

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let them. The stranger said,
Telemachus, shall show me a light.

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When people eat my bread, they
must earn it, no matter where they

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come from. Eurycleia did as she
was told and bolted the women inside their

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room. Then Ulysses and his son
made all haste to take the helmets,

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shields and spears inside, and Minerva
went before them with a gold lamp in

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her hand that shed a soft and
brilliant radiance. Whereon Telemachus said, father,

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my eyes behold a great marvel.
The walls, with the rafters,

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cross beams, and the supports on
which they rest are all aglow as with

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a flaming fire. Surely there is
some god here who has come down from

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heaven. Hush, answered Ulysses.
Hold your peace and ask no questions,

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for this is the manner of the
gods. Get you to your bed and

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leave me here to talk with your
mother and the maids. Your mother,

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in her grief, will ask me
all sorts of questions. On this Telemachus

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went by torchlight to the other side
of the inner court, to the room

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in which he always slept. There
he lay in his bed till morning,

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while Ulysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means whereby, with

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Minerva's help, he might be able
to kill the suitors. Then Penelope came

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down from her room, looking like
Venus or Diana, and they set her

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a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver
and ivory, near the fire in her

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accustomed place. It had been made
by Achmlius, and had a footstool all

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in one piece with the seat itself, and it was covered with a thick

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fleece. On this she now sat, and the maids came from the women's

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room to join her. They set
about removing the tables at which the wicked

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suitors had been dining, and took
away the bread that was left with the

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cups from which they had drunk.
They emptied the embers out of the braziers

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and heaped much wood upon them to
give both light and heat. But Melantho

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began to rail at Ulysses a second
time, and said, stranger, do

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you mean to plague us by hanging
about the house all night and spying upon

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the women? Be off, you
wretch outside and eat your supper there,

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or you shall be driven out with
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answered, my good woman, why
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Is it because I am not clean
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And because I am obliged to go
begging about after the manner of tramps and

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beggars? Generally, I too was
a rich man once, and had a

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fine house of my own. In
those days, I gave to many a

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tramp such as I now am,
no matter who he might be, nor

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what he wanted. I had any
number of servants, and all the other

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things which people have who live well
and are accounted wealthy. But it pleased

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Jove to take all away from me. Therefore, a woman, beware,

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lest you two come to lose that
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And above your fellows, have a
care lest you get out of favor

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with your mistress, and lest Ulysses
should come home, for there is still

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a chance that he may do so. Moreover, though he may be dead,

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as you think he is, yet
by Apollo's will, he has left

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a son behind him, Telemachus,
who will note anything done amiss by the

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maids in the house, for he
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Penelope heard what he was saying and
scolded the maid impudent Baggage. Said she,

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I see how abominably you are behaving, and you shall smart for it.

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You knew perfectly well, for I
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to see the stranger and ask him
about my husband, for whose sake I

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am in such continual sorrow. Then
she said to her head, waiting woman,

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your enemy, bring a seat with
a fleece upon it, for the

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stranger to sit upon while he tells
his story, and listen to what I

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have to say. I wish to
ask him some questions. Your enemy brought

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the seat at once and set a
fleece upon it, And as soon as

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Ulysses had sat down, Penelope began
by saying, stranger, I shall first

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ask you who and whence are you? Tell me of your town and parents.

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Madam answered Ulysses, who on the
face of a whole earth can dare

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to chide with you? Your fame
reaches the firmament of heaven itself. You

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are like some blameless king who upholds
righteousness, as the monarch over a great

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and valiant nation. The earth yields
its wheat and barley, the trees are

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loaded with fruit, the ewes bring
forth lambs, and the sea abounds with

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fish. By reason of his virtues, and his people do good deeds under

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him. Nevertheless, as I sit
here in your house, ask me some

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other question, and do not seek
to know my race and family, or

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you will recall memories that will yet
more increase my sorrow. I am full

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of heaviness. But I ought not
to sit weeping and wailing in another person's

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house. Nor is it well to
be thus grieving continually. I shall have

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one of the servants, or even
yourself, complaining of me and saying that

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my eyes swim with tears because I
am heavy with wine. Then Penelope answered,

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stranger, Heaven robbed me of all
beauty, whether of face or figure.

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When the argives set sail for Troy, and my dear husband with them,

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if he were to return and look
after my affairs, I should be

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both more respected and should show a
better presence to the world. As it

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is, I am oppressed with care
and with the afflictions which Heaven has seen

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fit to heap upon me. The
chiefs from all our islands, Toulichium,

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Sami, and Zacanthus, as also
from Ithaca itself, are wooing me against

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my will, and are wasting my
estate. I can therefore show no attention

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to strangers, nor suppliants, nor
to people who say that they are skilled

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artisans, but am all the time
broken hearted about Ulysses. They want me

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to marry again at once, and
I have to invent stratagem in order to

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deceive them. In the first place, Heaven put it in my mind to

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set up a great tambour frame in
my room and to begin working upon an

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enormous piece of fine needlework. Then
I said to them, sweethearts, Ulysses

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is indeed dead. Still do not
press me to marry again immediately wait,

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for I would not have my skill
in needlework perish unrecorded till I have finished

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making a pall for the hero Laerties
to be ready against the time when death

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shall take him. He is very
rich, and the women of the place

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will talk if he is laid out
without a pall. This was what I

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said, and they assented. Where
I used to keep working at my great

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web all day long, but at
night I would unpick the stitches again by

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torchlight. I fooled them in this
way for three years without their finding it

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out. But as time wore on, and I was now in my fourth

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year in the waning of moons,
and many days had been accomplish those good

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for nothing hussies, my maids betrayed
me to the suitors, who broke in

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upon me and caught me. They
were very angry with me, so I

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was forced to finish my work,
whether I would or no. And now

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I do not see how I can
find another further shift for getting out of

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this marriage. My parents are putting
great pressure upon me, and my son

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chafes at the ravages the suitors are
making upon his estate, for he is

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now old enough to understand all about
it, and is perfectly able to look

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after his own affairs, for Heaven
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Still, notwithstanding all this, tell
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from, For you must have had
father and mother of some sort. You

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cannot be the son of an oak
or of a rock, then, Ulysses

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answered, Madam, wife of Ulysses, Since you persist in asking me about

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my family, I will answer,
no matter what it costs me. People

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must expect to he pained when they
have been exiles as long as I have,

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and suffered as much among as many
peoples. Nevertheless, as regards your

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question, I will tell you all
you ask. There is a fair and

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fruitful island in mid ocean called Crete. It is thickly peopled, and there

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are ninety cities in it. The
people speak many different languages which overlap one

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another. For there are Achaeans,
brave Etiocretans, Dorians of threefold race,

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and noble Pulaski. There is a
great town there, Nosus, where Minus

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reigned, who every nine years had
a conference with Jove himself. Minus was

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father to Ducalian, whose son I
am. For Ducalian had two sons Idomeneus

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and myself. Idomeneus sailed for Troy, and I, who am the younger,

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am called Athon. My brother,
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and the more valiant of the two. Hence it was in Crete that I

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saw Ulysses and showed him hospitality,
for the winds took him there as he

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was on his way to Troy,
carrying him out of his course from Cape

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Malia, and leaving him an Amnesus
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harbors are difficult to enter, and
he could hardly find shelter from the winds

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that were then raging. As soon
as he got there, he went into

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the town and asked for Idomeneus,
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But I, Domineus had already set
sail for Troy, some ten or

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twelve days earlier. So I took
him to my own house and showed him

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every kind of hospitality, for I
had abundance of everything. Moreover, I

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fed the men who were with him
with barley meal from the public store,

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and got subscriptions of wine and oxen
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They stayed with me twelve days,
for there was a gale blowing from

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the north, so strong that one
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I suppose some unfriendly God had raised
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day the wind dropped and they got
away. Many a plausible tale did Ulysses

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further tell her, And Penelope wept
as she listened, for her heart was

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melted as the snow wastes upon the
mountaintops when the winds from southeast and west

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have breathed upon it, and thought
it till the rivers run blank full with

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water. Even so did her cheeks
overflow with tears. For the husband,

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who was all the time sitting by
her side. Ulysses felt for her and

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was sorry for her. But he
kept his eyes as hard as horn or

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iron, without letting them so much
as quiver. So cunningly did he restrain

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his tears. Then, when she
had relieved herself by weeping, she turned

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to him again and said, now, stranger, I shall put you to

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the test and see whether or no
you really did entertain my husband and his

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men as you say you did.
Tell me then, how he was dressed,

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what kind of a man he was
to look at, and so also

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with his companions. Madam answered Ulysses, it is such a long time ago

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that I can hardly say twenty years
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home and went elsewhither. But I
will tell you as well as I can

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recollect. Ulysses wore a mantle of
purple wool, double lined, and it

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was fastened by a gold brooch with
two catches for the pin. On the

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face of this there was a device
that showed a dog holding a spotted fawn

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between his fore paws and watching it
as it lay panting upon the ground.

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Everyone marveled at the way in which
these things had been done in gold,

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the dog looking at the fawn and
strangling it, while the fawn was struggling

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convulsively to escape. As for the
shirt that he wore next his skin,

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it was so soft that it fitted
him like the skin of an onion,

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and glistened in the sunlight, to
the admiration of all the women who beheld

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it. Furthermore, I say,
and laying my saying to your heart.

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And I do not know whether Ulysses
wore these clothes when he left home,

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or whether one of his companions had
given them to him while he was on

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his voyage, or possibly someone at
whose house he was staying, made him

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a present of them, for he
was a man of many friends, and

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had few equals among the Achaeans.
I myself gave him a sword of bronze

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and a beautiful purple mantle, double
lined, with a shirt that went down

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to his feet, and I sent
him on board his ship with every mark

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of honor. He had a servant
with him, a little older than himself,

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and I can tell you what he
was like. His shoulders were hunched,

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he was dark, and he had
thick, curly hair. His name

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was Eurybates. And Ulysses treated him
with greater familiarity than he did any of

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the others, as being the most
like minded with himself. Penelope was moved

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still more deeply as she heard the
indisputable proofs that Ulysses laid before her,

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and and she had again found relief
in tears. She said to him,

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stranger, I was already disposed to
pity you, but henceforth you shall be

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honored and made welcome in my house. It was I who gave Ulysses the

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clothes you speak of. I took
them out of the storeroom and folded them

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up myself, and gave him also
the gold brooch to wear as an ornament

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alas I shall never welcome him home
again. It was by an ill fate

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that he ever set out for that
detested city, whose very name I cannot

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bring myself even to mention. Then
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do not disfigure yourself further by grieving
thus bitterly for your loss, though

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I can hardly blame you for doing
so. A woman who has loved her

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husband and borne him children would naturally
be grieved at losing him, even though

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he were a worse man than Ulysses, who they say was like a god.

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I cease your tears and listen to
what I can tell you. I

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will hide nothing from you, and
can say with perfect truth that I have

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laidly heard of Ulysses as being alive
and on his way home. He is

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among the Thesprotians, and is bringing
back much valuable treasure that he has begged

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from one and another of them.
But his ship and all his crew were

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lost as they were leaving the Natian
island. For Jove and the Sun God

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were angry with him because his men
had slaughtered the sun god's cattle, and

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they were all drowned to a man. But Ulysses stuck to the keel of

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the ship and was drifted on to
the land of the Phaeacians, who were

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near of kin to the immortals,
and who treated him as though he had

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been a god, giving him many
presents and wishing to escort him home safe

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and sound. In fact, Ulysses
would have been here long ago had he

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not thought better to go from land
to land gathering wealth. For there is

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no man living who is so wily
as he is. There is no one

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who compare with him. Phadan,
king of the Thesprotians, told me all

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this, and he swore to me, making drink offerings in his house as

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he did so that the ship was
by the waterside and the crew found who

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could take Ulysses to his own country. He sent me off first, for

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there happened to be a Thesprosian ship
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But he showed me all the treasure. Ulysses had got together, and

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he had enough lying in the house
of King Phadan to keep his family for

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ten generations. But the king said
Ulysses had gone to Dodona, that he

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might learn Jove's mind from the high
oak tree, and know whether, after

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so long an absence, he should
return to Ithaca openly or in secret,

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so you may know he is safe
and will be here shortly. He is

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close at hand, and cannot remain
away from home much longer. Nevertheless,

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I will confirm my words with an
oath, and call Jove, who was

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the first and mightiest of all gods, to witness, as also that heart

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of Ulysses, to which I have
now come, that all I have spoken

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shall surely come to pass. Ulysses
will return in this self same year,

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with the end of this moon and
the beginning of the next, he will

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be here. May it be even
so, answered Penelope, if your words

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come true, you shall have such
gifts and such good will from me that

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all who see you shall congratulate you. But I know very well how it

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will be. Ulysses will not return, neither will you get your escort.

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Hence, for so surely as that
Ulysses ever was, there are now no

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longer any such masters in the house
as he was to receive honorable strangers,

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or to further them on their way
home. And now you maids wash his

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feet for him, and make him
a bed on a couch with rugs and

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blankets, that he may be warm
and quiet till morning. Then at daybreak

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wash him and annoint him again,
that he may in the cloister and take

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his meals with Telemachus. It shall
be the worse for any one of these

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hateful people who is uncivil to him, Like it or not, he shall

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have no more to do in this
house. For how sir, shall you

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be able to learn whether or no
I am superior to others of my sex,

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both in goodness of heart and understanding, if I let you dine in

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my cloister. Squalid and ill clad
men live but for a little season.

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If they are hard and deal hardly, people wish them ill so long as

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they are alive, and speak contemptuously
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he that is righteous and deals righteously, the people tell of his praise among

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all lands, and many shall call
him blest. Ulysses answered, Madam,

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I have four sworn rugs and blankets
from the day that I left the snowy

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ranges of crete to go on shipboard. I will lie as I have lain

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on many a sleepless night hitherto night
after night have I passed in any rough

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sleeping place and waited for morning?
Nor again do I like having my feet

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washed. I shall not let any
of the young hussies about your house touch

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my feet. But if you have
any old and respectable woman who has gone

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through as much trouble as I have, I will allow her to wash them.

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To this Penelope, said my dear
sir. Of all the guests who

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have ever yet come to my house, there never was one who spoke in

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all things with such admirable propriety as
you do. There happens to be in

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the house a most respectable old woman, the same who received my poor dear

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husband in her arms the night he
was born, and nursed him in infancy.

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She is very feeble now, but
she shall wash your feet. Come

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here, said she, Eurycleia,
and wash your master's age. Mate.

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I suppose Ulysses hands and feet are
very much the same now as his are.

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For trouble ages, all of us
dreadfully fast on these words. The

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old woman covered her face with her
hands. She began to weep and made

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lamentation, saying, my dear child, I cannot think whatever I am to

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do with you. I am certain
no one was ever more God fearing than

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yourself, And yet Jove hates you. No one in the whole world ever

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burned him more thigh bones, nor
gave him finer hecatombs. When you prayed

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you might come to a green old
age yourself and see your son grow up

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to take after you. Yet see
how he has prevented you alone from ever

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getting back to your own home.
I have no doubt the women in some

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foreign place which Ulysses has got to, are gibing at him, as all

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these slots here have been gibing at
you. I do not wonder that you

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are not choosing to let them wash
you, after the manner into which they

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have insulted you. I will wash
your feet myself gladly enough, as Penelope

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has said that I am to do
so. I will wash them both for

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Penelope's sake and for your own.
For you have raised the most lively feelings

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of compassion in my mind. And
let me say this moreover, which pray

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attend to. We have had all
kinds of strangers in distress come here before

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now. But I make bold to
say that no one ever yet came who

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was so like Ulysses in figure,
voice and feet as you are. Those

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who have seen us both answered,
Ulysses have always said we were wonderfully like

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each other, and now you have
noticed it too. Then the old woman

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took the cauldron in which she was
going to wash his feet, and poured

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plenty of cold water into it,
adding hot till the bath was warm enough.

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Ulysses sat by the fire, but
ere long he turned away from the

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light, for it occurred to him
that when the old woman had hold of

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his leg, she would recognize a
certain scar which it bore, whereon the

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whole truth would come out. And
indeed, as soon as she began washing

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her master, she at once knew
the scar as one that had been given

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him by a wild boar when he
was hunting on Mount Parnassus with his excellent

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grandfather Autolycus, who was the most
accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world,

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and with the sons of Autolycus.
Mercury himself had endowed him with this

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gift, for he used to burn
the thigh bones of goats and kids to

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him, so he took pleasure in
his companionship. It happened once that Autolycus

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had gone to Ithaca and had found
the child of his daughter just born.

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As soon as he had done supper, Euryclius set the infant upon his knees

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and said, Autolycus, you must
find a name for your grandson. You

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greatly wished that you might have one
son in law, and daughter. Replied

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Autolycus called the child. Thus,
I am highly displeased with a large number

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of people in one place and another, both men and women. So named

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the child Ulysses, or the child
of Anger. When he grows up and

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comes to visit his mother's family on
Mount Parnassus, where my possessions lie,

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I will make him a present and
will send him on his way. Rejoicing,

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Ulysses therefore went to Parnassus to get
the presents from Autolycus, who with

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his sons, shook hands with him
and gave him welcome. His grandmother Amphathea

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threw her arms about him and kissed
his head and both his beautiful eyes.

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While Autolycus desired his sons to get
dinner ready, and they did as he

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told them. They brought in a
five year old bull, flayed it,

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made it ready, and divided it
into joints. These they then cut carefully

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up into smaller pieces and spitted them. They roasted them sufficiently and served the

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portions round. Thus, through the
livelong day to the going down of the

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sun they feasted, and every man
had his full share, so that all

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were satisfied. But when the sun
set and it came on dark, they

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went to bed and enjoyed the boon
of sleep. When the child of morning,

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rosy finger dawn appeared, the sons
of Autolycus went out with their hounds

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hunting, and Ulysses went to They
climbed the wooded slopes of Parnassus and soon

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reached its breezy upland valleys. But
as the sun was beginning to beat upon

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the fields, fresh risen from the
slow still currents of Oceanus, they came

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to a mountain dell. The dogs
were in front, searching for the tracks

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of the beasts they were chasing,
and after them came the sons of Autolycus,

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among whom was Ulysses, close behind
the dogs, and he had a

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long spear in his hand. Here
was the lair of a huge boar among

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some thick brushwood, so dense that
the wind and rain could not get through

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it, nor could the sun's rays
pierce it, and the ground underneath lay

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thick with fallen leaves. The boar
heard the noise of the men's feet and

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the hounds baying on every side as
the huntsman came up to him, so

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he rushed from his lair, raised
the bristles on his neck, and stood

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at bay with fire flashing from his
eyes. Ulysses was the first to raise

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his spear and tried to drive it
into the brute, but the boar was

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too quick for him and charged him
sideways, ripping him above the knee with

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a gash that tore deep, though
it did not reach the bone. As

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for the boar, Ulysses hid him
on the right shoulder, and the point

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of the spear went right through him, so that he fell groaning in the

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dust until the life went out of
him. The sons of Autolycus busied themselves

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with the carcass of the boar and
bound Ulysses wound. Then, after saying

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a spell to stop the bleeding,
they went home as fast as they could.

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But when Autolycus and his sons had
thoroughly healed Ulysses, they made him

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some splendid presents and sent him back
to Ithaca with much mutual goodwill. When

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he got back, his father and
mother were rejoiced to see him and asked

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him all about it and how he
had hurt himself to get the scar So

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he told them how the boar had
ripped him when he was out hunting with

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Autolycus and his sons on Mount Parnassus. As soon as Euuclia had got the

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scarred limb in her hands and had
well hold of it, she recognized it

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and dropped the foot at once.
The lake fell into the bath, which

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rang out and was overturned, so
that all the water was spilt on the

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ground. Eurycleia's eyes, between her
joy and her grief, filled with tears,

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and she could not speak. But
she caught Ulysses by the beard and

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said, my dear child, I
am sure you must be Ulysses himself.

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Only I did not know you till
I had actually touched and handled you.

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As she spoke, she looked towards
Penelope, as though wanting to tell her

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that her dear husband was in the
house. But Penelope was unable to look

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in that direction and observe what was
going on, for Minerva had diverted her

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attention. So Ulysses caught Eurycleia by
the throat with his right hand, and

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with his left drew her close to
him, and said, nurse, do

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you wish to be the ruin of
me? You who nursed me at your

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own breast? Now that after twenty
years of wandering, I am at last

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come to my own home again,
since it has been borne in upon you

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by Heaven to recognize me. Hold
your tongue and do not say a word

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about it to any one else in
the house, For if you do,

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I tell you, and it shall
surely be that, if Heaven grants me

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to take the lives of these suitors, I will not spare you, though

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you are my own nurse, when
I am killing the other women. My

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child answered, Eyclia, what are
you talking about? You know very well

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that nothing can either bend or break
me. I will hold my tongue like

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a stone or a piece of iron. Furthermore, let me say and lay

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my saying to your heart. When
Heaven has delivered the suitors into your hand,

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I will give you a list of
all the women in the house who

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have been ill behaved, and of
those who are guilt, and Ulysses answered,

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nurse, you want not to speak
in that way. I am well

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able to form my own opinion about
one and all of them. Hold your

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tongue and leave everything to Heaven.
As he said this, Eurycleia left the

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cloister to fetch some more water,
for the first had been all spilt.

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And when she had washed him and
anointed him with oil, Ulysses drew his

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seat nearer to the fire to warm
himself, and hid the scar under his

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rags. Then Penelope began talking to
him and said, stranger, I should

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like to speak with you briefly about
another matter. It is indeed nearly bedtime

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for those at least who can sleep
in spite of sorrow. As for myself,

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Heaven has given me a life of
such unmeasurable woe that even by day,

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when I am attending to my duties
and looking after the servants, I

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am still weeping and lamenting during the
whole time. Then when night come and

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we all of us go to bed, I lie awake thinking, and my

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heart becomes a prey to the most
incessant and cruel tortures. As the dun

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Nightingale, daughter of pandareus sings in
the early spring from her seat and shadiest

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covert hid, and with many a
plaintive trill pours out the tail. How

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by mishap she killed her own child, Itolus, son of King Zethus.

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Even so does my mind toss and
turn in its uncertainty, whether I ought

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to stay with my son here and
safeguard my substance, my bondsman, and

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the greatness of my house out of
regard to public opinion and the memory of

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my late husband, or whether it
is not now time for me to go

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with the best of these suitors who
are wooing me and make me some magnificent

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presence. As long as my son
was still young and unable to understand,

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he would not hear of my leaving
my husband's house. But now that he

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is full grown, he begs and
prays me to do so, being incensed

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at the way in which the suitors
are eating up his property. Listen then

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to a dream that I have had, and interpret it for me, if

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you can. I have twenty geese
about the house that eat mash out of

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a trough, and of which I
am exceedingly fond. I dreamed that a

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great eagle came swooping down from a
mountain and dug his curved beak into the

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neck of each of them, till
he had killed them all. Presently,

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he soared off into the sky and
left them lying dead about the yard,

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whereon I wept in my dream till
all my maids gathered round me. So

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piteously was I grieving because the eagle
had killed my geese. Then he came

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back again, and, perching on
a projecting rafter, spoke to me with

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human voice and told me to leave
off crying. Be of good courage,

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He said, Daughter of Vicarious,
this is no dream, but a vision

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of good omen that shall surely come
to pass. The geese are the suitors,

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and I am no longer an eagle, but your own husband, who

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am come back to you, and
who will bring these suitors to a disgraceful

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end. On this I woke,
and when I looked out, I saw

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my geese at the trough eating their
mash as usual this dream, Madam replied,

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Ulysses can admit but of one interpretation, For had not Ulysses himself told

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you how it shall be fulfilled.
The death of the suitors is portended,

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and not one single one of them
will escape, And Penelope answered, stranger.

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Dreams are very curious and unaccountable things, and they do not, by

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any means invariably come true. There
are two gates through which these unsubstantial fancies

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proceed. The one is of Horn, and the other Ivory. Those that

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come through the gate of Ivory are
fatuous, but those from the gate of

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Horn means something to those that see
them. I do not think, however,

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that my own own dream came through
the gate of Horn, though I

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and my son should be most thankful
if it proves to have done so.

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Furthermore, I say, and lay
my saying to your heart, the coming

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dawn will usher in the ill omened
day, that is to sever me from

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the house of Ulysses. For I
am about to hold a tournament of axes.

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My husband used to set up twelve
axes in the court, one in

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front of the other, like the
stays upon which a ship is built.

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He would then go back from them
and shoot an arrow through the whole twelve.

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I shall make the suitors try to
do the same thing, and whichever

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of them can string the bow most
easily and send his arrow through all the

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twelve axes him, will I follow
and quit this house of my lawful husband,

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so goodly and so abounding in wealth. But even so I doubt not

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that I shall remember it in my
dreams. Then, Ulysses answered, Madam,

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wife of Ulysses, you need not
defer your tournament, for Ulysses will

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turn erever they can string the bow, handle it how they will, and

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send their arrows through the iron.
To this, Penelope said, as long

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sir, as you will sit here
and talk to me, I can have

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no desire to go to bed.
Still, people cannot do permanently without sleep,

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and Heaven has appointed us dwellers on
earth the time for all things.

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I will therefore go upstairs and recline
upon that couch which I have never ceased

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to flood with my tears from the
day Ulyssi set out for the city with

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a hateful name. She then went
upstairs to her own room, not alone,

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but attended by her maidens, And
when there she lamented her dear husband

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till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her
eyelids. End of book nineteen