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1  I make all my lays myself, and heaven visits me with every kind of inspiration.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXII
2  See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
3  Never mind him, but go up to my mother, and lay your hands upon her knees if you would get home quickly.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI
4  Neptune, however, lay with his daughter, and she had a son by him, the great Nausithous, who reigned over the Phaeacians.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
5  Indeed, were I to tell you all that heaven has seen fit to lay upon me, you would say that I was still worse off than they are.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
6  Thus, then, did Telemachus and Pisistratus sleep there in the forecourt, while the son of Atreus lay in an inner room with lovely Helen by his side.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
7  So Ulysses slept in a bed placed in a room over the echoing gateway; but Alcinous lay in the inner part of the house, with the queen his wife by his side.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
8  But Penelope lay in her own room upstairs unable to eat or drink, and wondering whether her brave son would escape, or be overpowered by the wicked suitors.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
9  I am in great trouble, yet it insists that I shall eat and drink, bids me lay aside all memory of my sorrows and dwell only on the due replenishing of itself.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
10  Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
11  But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store-room where his father's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II
12  There we lay two days and two nights suffering much alike from toil and distress of mind, but on the morning of the third day we again raised our masts, set sail, and took our places, letting the wind and steersmen direct our ship.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX
13  This man had been looking out for a whole year to make sure that Agamemnon did not give him the slip and prepare war; when, therefore, this man saw Agamemnon go by, he went and told Aegisthus, who at once began to lay a plot for him.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
14  Give him his helmet, shield, and a couple of lances, and if he is the man he was when I first knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he would soon lay his hands about these rascally suitors, were he to stand once more upon his own threshold.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I
15  Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK X
16  But Minerva resolved to help Ulysses, so she bound the ways of all the winds except one, and made them lie quite still; but she roused a good stiff breeze from the North that should lay the waters till Ulysses reached the land of the Phaeacians where he would be safe.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V
17  When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drink-offering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodocus to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
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