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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Then she took the form and voice of Mentor, and called Telemachus to come outside.
2 Then, when I had got as far out as my voice would reach, I began to jeer at the Cyclops.
3 Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor.
4 Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the form and voice of Mentor.
5 As he thus prayed, Minerva came close up to him in the likeness and with the voice of Mentor.
6 '"'Come here,' they sang, 'renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to our two voices.'
7 Here my father has a field of rich garden ground, about as far from the town as a man's voice will carry.
8 And Ulysses answered, "King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a bard with such a divine voice as this man has."
9 Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.
10 Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.
11 At the same time within the house, a miller-woman from hard by in the mill room lifted up her voice and gave him another sign.
12 When the morning of the third day came I took my spear and my sword, and went away from the ship to reconnoitre, and see if I could discover signs of human handiwork, or hear the sound of voices.
13 We could almost fancy we heard their voices and the bleating of their sheep and goats, but when the sun went down and it came on dark, we camped down upon the beach, and next morning I called a council.
14 On this pale fear seized every one; they were so frightened that their arms dropped from their hands and fell upon the ground at the sound of the goddess' voice, and they fled back to the city for their lives.
15 We were frightened out of our senses by his loud voice and monstrous form, but I managed to say, 'We are Achaeans on our way home from Troy, but by the will of Jove, and stress of weather, we have been driven far out of our course.'
16 Meantime Ulysses and his son fell upon the front line of the foe and smote them with their swords and spears; indeed, they would have killed every one of them, and prevented them from ever getting home again, only Minerva raised her voice aloud, and made every one pause.
17 They sang these words most musically, and as I longed to hear them further I made signs by frowning to my men that they should set me free; but they quickened their stroke, and Eurylochus and Perimedes bound me with still stronger bonds till we had got out of hearing of the Sirens' voices.
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