HORN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Some one else will run and fetch Laerceus the goldsmith to gild the horns of the heifer.
2 There are two gates through which these unsubstantial fancies proceed; the one is of horn, and the other ivory.
3 Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty.
4 Those that come through the gate of ivory are fatuous, but those from the gate of horn mean something to those that see them.
5 I do not think, however, that my own dream came through the gate of horn, though I and my son should be most thankful if it proves to have done so.
6 Ulysses felt for her and was sorry for her, but he kept his eyes as hard as horn or iron without letting them so much as quiver, so cunningly did he restrain his tears.
7 I went to Cyprus, Phoenicia and the Egyptians; I went also to the Ethiopians, the Sidonians, and the Erembians, and to Libya where the lambs have horns as soon as they are born, and the sheep lamb down three times a year.
8 Then Stratius and Echephron brought her in by the horns; Aretus fetched water from the house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it, and in his other hand he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket.