PLOTTING in Classic Quotes

1  Meanwhile Aegisthus here at home plotted his evil deed.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III

2  He said this to quiet her, but in reality he was plotting against Telemachus.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVI

3  Thither presently came also his son, returning from a voyage to Pylos, and the two came to the town when they had hatched their plot for our destruction.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV

4  These men hatched a plot against me that would have reduced me to the very extreme of misery, for when the ship had got some way out from land they resolved on selling me as a slave.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIV

5  It was not long ere Penelope came to know what the suitors were plotting; for a man servant, Medon, overheard them from outside the outer court as they were laying their schemes within, and went to tell his mistress.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

6  This man had been looking out for a whole year to make sure that Agamemnon did not give him the slip and prepare war; when, therefore, this man saw Agamemnon go by, he went and told Aegisthus, who at once began to lay a plot for him.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV