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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Then they got their dinner by the side of the stream, and waited for the sun to finish drying the clothes.
2 Then they made the ship fast a little way out, came on shore again, got their suppers, and waited till night should fall.
3 We then drew our ship on to the sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleep and waited till day should break.
4 When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.
5 We waited the whole morning and made the best of it, watching the seals come up in hundreds to bask upon the sea shore, till at noon the old man of the sea came up too, and when he had found his fat seals he went over them and counted them.
6 We kept a succession of scouts upon the headlands all day long, and when the sun was down we never went on shore to sleep, but waited in the ship all night till morning in the hope of capturing and killing him; but some god has conveyed him home in spite of us.
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