. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. isproper share. But the ram for me alone my goodly-greavedcompany chose out, in the dividing of the sheep, and onthe shore I offered him up to Zeus, even to the son ofCronos, who dwells in the dark clouds, and is lord of all,and I burnt the slices of the thighs. But he heeded not thesacrifice, but was devising how my decked ships and mydear company might perish utterly. Thus for that time we i5« ODYSSEY IX, S5^-S^^ sat the livelong day, until the going down of the sun, feast-ing on abundant flesh and sweet wine. And w
. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. isproper share. But the ram for me alone my goodly-greavedcompany chose out, in the dividing of the sheep, and onthe shore I offered him up to Zeus, even to the son ofCronos, who dwells in the dark clouds, and is lord of all,and I burnt the slices of the thighs. But he heeded not thesacrifice, but was devising how my decked ships and mydear company might perish utterly. Thus for that time we i5« ODYSSEY IX, S5^-S^^ sat the livelong day, until the going down of the sun, feast-ing on abundant flesh and sweet wine. And when the sunhad sunk and darkness had come on, then we laid us to restupon the sea beach. So soon as early Dawn shone forth, therosy-fingered, I called to my company, and commanded themthat they should themselves climb the ship and loose thehawsers. So they soon embarked and sat upon the benches,and sitting orderly smote the grey sea water with their oars.* Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad asmen saved from death, albeit we had lost our dear BOOK X. Odysseus, his entertainment by Aeolus, of whom he received a fair windfor the present, and all the rest of the winds tied up in a bag; which hismen untying, flew out, and carried him back to Aeolus, who refused toreceive him. His adventure at Lestrygonia with Antiphates, where oftwelve ships he lost eleven, men and all. How he went thence to theIsle of Aea, where half of his men were turned by Circe into swine,and how he went himself, and by the help of Hermes recovered them andstayed with Circe a year. * Then we came to the isle Aeolian, where dwelt Aeolus,son of Hippotas, dear to the deathless gods, in a floatingisland, and all about it is a wall of bronze unbroken, andthe cliff runs up sheer from the sea. His twelve childrentoo abide there in his halls, six daughters and six lustysons; and, behold, he gave his daughters to his sons to they feast evermore by their dear father and their kind
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