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I never saw two people so alike
as this boy and Telemachus, the son
of spirited Odysseus, the child
he left behind, a little newborn baby,
the day the Greeks marched off to Troy, their minds
fixated on the war and violence.
They made my face the cause that hounded them.

— Emily Wilson The Odyssey (2017)

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There never were such bullies as these men,
and they intend us harm.

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They did great wrong,
through their impulsiveness; they skimmed the wealth
of an important man, and disrespected
his wife, believing he would never come.

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She went up
to her own room. Her muscular, firm hand
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a hook of bronze.

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