COURTING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.
2 He went moodily home, and found the suitors flaying goats and singeing pigs in the outer court.
3 Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it.
4 When I had said this she went straight through the court with her wand in her hand and opened the pigstye doors.
5 When you have got past the gates and through the outer court, go right across the inner court till you come to my mother.
6 He is much the best man and the most persistent wooer, of all those who are paying court to my mother and trying to take Ulysses' place.
7 She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.
8 On this Eumaeus took his seat again, and when he had finished his dinner he left the courts and the cloister with the men at table, and went back to his pigs.
9 The outer court has a wall with battlements all round it; the doors are double folding, and of good workmanship; it would be a hard matter to take it by force of arms.
10 The suitors were surprised and angry at what had happened, so they went outside the great wall that ran round the outer court, and held a council near the main entrance.
11 A jury-man is not more glad to get home to supper, after having been long detained in court by troublesome cases, than I was to see my raft beginning to work its way out of the whirlpool again.
12 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.
13 When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council.
14 Two streams go through it, the one turned in ducts throughout the whole garden, while the other is carried under the ground of the outer court to the house itself, and the town's people draw water from it.
15 It was not long ere Penelope came to know what the suitors were plotting; for a man servant, Medon, overheard them from outside the outer court as they were laying their schemes within, and went to tell his mistress.
16 They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court, and Menelaus came after them with a golden goblet of wine in his right hand that they might make a drink-offering before they set out.
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