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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.

— 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.

Alexander the Great (1970)

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.

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.

The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)

I’ve been harshly battered by countless waves,
and aboard my ship I had no long-term care for my body,
which is why my limbs are now very badly out of trim.

The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)

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