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The Odyssey Flashcards

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Bright eyed

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Athene

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white

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bones

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not alone but with

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two waiting women

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drew a fold

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of her bright head dress over her cheeks

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bursting into

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tears she broke in on the worthy minstrel

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pass my days in

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mourning for the best of husbands

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she was impressed by the good

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sense that her son had shown

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the elders made way for him as he took

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his fathers seat

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AS he spoke his passion rose; and at the end he

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burst into tears and flung his staff on the ground

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for three years she

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fooled us with this trick

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a big fire was blazing on the

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hearth and the scent from burning logs… wafted

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Calypso was singing in a

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beautiful voice as she wove at the loom

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horned owls

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and falcons

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four crystal rivulets where

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trained to run this way and that

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even an immortal visitor must pause

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to gaze in wonder and delight

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The divine Calypso listened in

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fear and trembling

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his eyes where wet

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with weeping as they always where

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I too know well enough that my

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wise Penelope’s looks and stature are insignificant compared with yours

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Odysseus’ knees

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shoot and his spirit quailed

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They are the lucky ones,

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those country men of mine that fell long ago on the broad plains of troy

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For two nights

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and two days he was lost in the heavy seas

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Pieces of skin

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stripped from his study hands were left sticking to the crag

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23
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Athene filled Odysseus’ eyes

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with sleep and sealed their lids

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24
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the noble and

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much enduring Odysseus

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25
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Nausicca, tall and

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beautiful as a goddess

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he advanced on them like a

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mountain lion

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only one to stand firm… Athene,

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who stopped her limbs from trembling

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28
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no lovelier

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sapling ever sprang from the ground

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29
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That is the kind of man whom

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I could fancy for a husband

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30
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people here have little

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affection for strangers

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31
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golden

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doors

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32
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For the Phaeacians’ extraudinary skill in handling

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ships at sea is rivalled by the dexterity of their women folk at the loom

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33
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Threw his arms

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Around aretes knees

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34
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Never for a moment did she

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Win my heart

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35
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Laodamas why

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Vex me with your challenges

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36
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One can see you are no

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Sportsman

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37
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With this he leapt to his feet and…

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Picked up the biggest disk of all

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38
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His theme was the love of

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Ares and Aphrodite

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39
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The tortoise catches up

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The hare

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40
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you have made up your mind to probe into my

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troubles and so to intensify my grief

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I said we ought to be off

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but my fools of men refused

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42
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I had to use force to bring them back to the ships and…

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left them in ions

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43
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formidable

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monster

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44
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for I had an instant

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foreboding

45
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dashed their heads against

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the floor as though they had been puppies

46
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limb by limb he tore them to pieces to make his meal, which he

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devoured like a mountain lion

47
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we handled our pole with its red hot point and

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twisted it in his eye till the blood boiled up

48
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he gave it willingly and presented me with a leather bag… in which he had

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imprisoned the boisterous energies of all the winds

49
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I am not one to entertain and equip a man

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detested by the blessed gods

50
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Antiphates wife

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a creature of mountainous proportions

51
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One by one they harpooned their

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prey like fish

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ruddy

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smoke

53
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unbridled

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savagery

54
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They burst into sobs and tears

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streamed down their cheeks

55
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Prowling about the place were

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mountain lions and wolves, actually the drugged victims of Circe’s magic

56
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(Circe) singing in her

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beautiful voice as she went to and fro at her great and everlasting loom

57
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polished

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doors

58
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In their ________ innocence the whole party except Eurylochus followed them in.

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innocence

59
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they shed tears in their

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sties

60
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But I shall go. It is my

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plain and bounden duty

61
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-Hemes gave Odysseus what?-

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a herb he had plucked from the ground (moly)

62
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I am sure you are Odysseus, the man whom

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nothing defeats

63
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Its high time you thought of

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Ithaca again

64
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I’m not going to keep you in my house against

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your wishes

65
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Panic drained

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the blood from my cheeks

66
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my dead mother, Anticleia… my eyes

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filled with tears when I saw her

67
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I would not allow her to approach…

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before I had had speech with Teiresias

68
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Thrice, in my eagerness…. Thrice, like a shadow or a

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dream, she slipped through my arms and left me harrowed by an even sharper pain

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Cunningnever be too

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Trustful of your wife

70
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My concionce wouldn’t let me

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Turn away a stranger

71
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I am eager

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Too fight

72
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Flung his arms

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Around his noble fathers neck

73
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You must steel your heart to my

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Maltreatment

74
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It’s a dreadful thing to spill the

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Blood of princes

75
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I denounce you for the

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Double dealing ruffian that you are (Antinous)

76
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Whilst all of the tome he had the

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Murder for her son in his heart (eurymachus)

77
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Telemachus my

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Darling boy

78
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He wagged his

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Tail and dropped his ears

79
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He succumbed to the black

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Hand of death

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Ah I was wrong in thinking your brains

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Might match your looks (o to Antinous)

81
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He just shook his head in silence,

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Filled with revengeful thoughts

82
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Nearly died of

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Laughing

83
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Amphinomus you seem to me

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A thoroughly decent fellow

84
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Not that it saved him from his fate for Athene

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Had already marked the man out to fall victim

85
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He liked to see her extorting

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Tribute from her lovers

86
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I simply wear my heart out in longing

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For odysseus

87
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He mad all these lying yarns

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Of his so convincing

88
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Unless there is some old

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And respectable dame

89
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I’d right hand sought and

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Gripped the old woman’s neck

90
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Delight and anguish

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Swept through her heart (eurycleia)

91
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The forth time he put such

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A pressure on the bow he might have well have strung it, if o hadn’t put an end to his attempts with a shake of his head

92
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Eumaeus gave way

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To tears

93
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Kissed him

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Fondly

94
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He strung the bow as easily as a

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Musician who knows his lure strings

95
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Panic drained

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The blood from their cheeks

96
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You wooed my wife

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On the sly

97
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Skulls cracked and the hideous

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Groans of dying men were heard, and the whole floor ran with blood

98
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Leodes clasped os knees and burst into anguished appeal…

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O looked at him with disgust

99
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That sea of blood her instinct was to raise a yell

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Of triumph

100
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Gloat in

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Silence

101
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You strange

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Hard hearted mother of mine

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Patient Odysseus

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Smiled

103
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Your words are a

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Knife to my heart

104
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All at once her heart

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Melted

105
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Sweet as the sight of land

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To sailors struggling in the sea

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Their feet twitched

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But not for long

107
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Melanthius… ripped away his

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Privy parts

108
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There was not one

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He failed to recognise

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