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*Far and near friends
knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the
world.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. I : A Goddess Intervenes, 215-217
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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*You now, for instance,
with your fine physique--a god's, indeed--you have an empty noodle.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Book VII : Gardens and Firelight, 185-186
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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*Who quarrels with his host?
Only a madman--or no man at all--would challenge his protector among
strangers, cutting the ground away under his feet.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. VIII : Gardens and Firelight, 220-222
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*Do we know any least thing
to serve us now?
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. X : The Grace of the Witch, 211-212
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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*Where shall a man find
sweetness to surpass his own home and his parents? In far lands he shall
not, though he find a house of gold.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. IX : New Coasts and Poseidon's Son, 38-40
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*[D]reamlike, the soul
flies, insubstantial.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XI : A Gathering of Shades, 252
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*I hate as I hate Hell's
own gate that weakness that makes a poor man into a flatterer.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XIV : Hospitality in the Forest, 187-188
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*Men's lives are short. The
hard man and his cruelties will be cursed behind his back, and mocked in death.
But one whose heart and ways are kind--of him strangers will hear report to the
wide world, and distant men will praise him.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XIX, "Recognitions and a Dream", 386-391
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*You thick-skinned menace
to all courtesy!
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XVIII : Blows and a Queen's Beauty, 470
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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It is always the latest song that an
audience applauds the most.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800BC
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(This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This
will not be the final version of the text I use.)
Greek poet, to whom are attributed the great epics, the Iliad, the
story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings. The place
of his birth is doubtful, probably a Greek colony on the coast of Asia Minor, and his
date, once put as far back as 1200 BC, from the style of the poems attributed to him is
now thought to be much later. Arguments have long raged over whether his works are in
fact by the same hand, or have their origins in the lays of Homer and his followers
(Homeridae), and there seems little doubt that the works were originally based on current
ballads which were much modified and extended. Of the true Homer, nothing is positively
known. The so-called Homeric hymns are certainly of a later age.
