MASTERS in Classic Quotes

1  Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

2  The gods have given me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost the best of masters, and am in continual grief on his account.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

3  They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbours.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IX

4  If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen's whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

5  Ulysses will not return, neither will you get your escort hence, for so surely as that Ulysses ever was, there are now no longer any such masters in the house as he was, to receive honourable strangers or to further them on their way home.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX

6  Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, "It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and over your own possessions; no one while there is a man in Ithaca shall do you violence nor rob you."

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I