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Now prudent Penelopē made a fresh decision: to show
herself to her suitors, so outrageous and arrogant;
for she’d learnt in her halls of the plan to murder her son
from Medōn the herald, who’d overheard their discussion.

— Peter Green The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)

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The booby never perceived
that under his rich-fleeced sheep there were men tied on!

The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece.

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In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.

In their criminal folly they perpetrated a monstrous wrong,
squandering the possessions and insulting the bedfellow
of a most noble man, saying he would never return.

The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)

First, while she was washing clothes near the hollow ship,
one of them made love to her, a thing that fuddles the senses
of truly feminine women, even one that’s well-behaved.

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