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The Odyssey: Book 21
Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try
their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among
themselves, as a means of bringing about their destruction. She went
upstairs and got the store room key, which was made of bronze and
had a handle of ivory; she then went with her maidens into the store
room at the end of the house, where her husband's treasures of gold,
bronze, and wrought iron were kept, and where was also his bow, and
the quiver full of deadly arrows that had been given him by a friend
whom he had met in Lacedaemon- Iphitus the son of Eurytus. The two
fell in with one another in Messene at the house of Ortilochus,
where Ulysses was staying in order to recover a debt that was owing
from the whole people; for the Messenians had carried off three
hundred sheep from Ithaca, and had sailed away with them and with
their shepherds. In quest of these Ulysses took a long journey while
still quite young, for his father and the other chieftains sent him on
a mission to recover them. Iphitus had gone there also to try and
get back twelve brood mares that he had lost, and the mule foals
that were running with them. These mares were the death of him in
the end, for when he went to the house of Jove's son, mighty Hercules,
who performed such prodigies of valour, Hercules to his shame killed
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poem by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
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The Odyssey: Book 8
Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
Alcinous and Ulysses both rose, and Alcinous led the way to the
Phaecian place of assembly, which was near the ships. When they got
there they sat down side by side on a seat of polished stone, while
Minerva took the form of one of Alcinous' servants, and went round the
town in order to help Ulysses to get home. She went up to the
citizens, man by man, and said, "Aldermen and town councillors of
the Phaeacians, come to the assembly all of you and listen to the
stranger who has just come off a long voyage to the house of King
Alcinous; he looks like an immortal god."
With these words she made them all want to come, and they flocked to
the assembly till seats and standing room were alike crowded. Every
one was struck with the appearance of Ulysses, for Minerva had
beautified him about the head and shoulders, making him look taller
and stouter than he really was, that he might impress the Phaecians
favourably as being a very remarkable man, and might come off well
in the many trials of skill to which they would challenge him. Then,
when they were got together, Alcinous spoke:
"Hear me," said he, "aldermen and town councillors of the
Phaeacians, that I may speak even as I am minded. This stranger,
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poem by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
quote by Anthony Trollope
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Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
quote by Sly Stone
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That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
quote by Mick Ralphs
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
quote by Katey Sagal
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Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
quote by Peg Bracken
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This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
quote by Paul Giamatti
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
quote by Brenda Ueland
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Pegged
Pegged, egg, peg, deep!
And it was deep inside you;
Because you pegged your love like the price of gold.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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