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The Odyssey 17.166–173

The Odyssey 17.166–173
But when it was the hour for dinner, and the flocks came in from all sides from the fields, and the men led them who were wont to lead, then Medon, who of all the heralds was most to their liking and was ever present at their feasts, spoke to them, saying: “Youths, now that you have all made glad your hearts with sport,
ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον, μνηστῆρες δὲ πάροιθεν Ὀδυσσῆος μεγάροιο δίσκοισιν τέρποντο καὶ αἰγανέῃσιν ἱέντες, ἐν τυκτῷ δαπέδῳ, ὅθι περ πάρος ὕβριν ἔχοντες. ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ δείπνηστος ἔην καὶ ἐπήλυθε μῆλα πάντοθεν ἐξ ἀγρῶν, οἱ δʼ ἤγαγον οἳ τὸ πάρος περ, καὶ τότε δή σφιν ἔειπε Μέδων· ὃς γάρ ῥα μάλιστα ἥνδανε κηρύκων, καὶ σφιν παρεγίγνετο δαιτί·
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