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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.

— 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.

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)

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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