TWO MEN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 They have with them a servant Medon, a bard, and two men who can carve at table.
2 Another must go to Telemachus' ship, and invite all the crew, leaving two men only in charge of the vessel.
3 He went close up to him and said, "Menelaus, there are some strangers come here, two men, who look like sons of Jove."
4 This frightened Irus still more, but they brought him into the middle of the court, and the two men raised their hands to fight.
5 Then we cast lots in a helmet, and the lot fell upon Eurylochus; so he set out with his twenty-two men, and they wept, as also did we who were left behind.
6 To this Telemachus answered, "Father, I have always heard of your renown both in the field and in council, but the task you talk of is a very great one: I am awed at the mere thought of it; two men cannot stand against many and brave ones."
7 Eurydamas's two men returned with some earrings fashioned into three brilliant pendants which glistened most beautifully; while king Pisander son of Polyctor gave her a necklace of the rarest workmanship, and every one else brought her a beautiful present of some kind.
8 We drove the sharp end of the beam into the monster's eye, and bearing upon it with all my weight I kept turning it round and round as though I were boring a hole in a ship's plank with an auger, which two men with a wheel and strap can keep on turning as long as they choose.