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This translation . . . does not claim to be ‘poetic’; my aim has been to use a straightforward English register and to keep closely to the Greek, allowing Homeric directness and power to speak for itself.

— Anthony Verity The Odyssey (2018)

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a man clothed in huge strength,
a savage with no understanding of either justice or laws.

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never yet among mortal mankind have there been men
who plot such arrogant and reckless violence as these do.

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She climbed a tall staircase in the house, taking
in her sturdy hand a cunningly forged key, finely
made of bronze; and the handle on it was of ivory.

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Sun-god, of course you must continue to shine on the immortals,
and on mortal men who live on the grain-giving ploughland.
As for these men, I shall at once hurl a shining thunderbolt at
their swift ship, and smash it in pieces out on the wine-dark sea.

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The first to rise to his feet was Leodes, son of Oenops,
who interpreted their sacrifices, and always sat furthest away,
next to the fine mixing-bowl; he was the only one who hated
the suitors' reckless deeds, and was indignant with them all.

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