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The Odyssey 17.454–457

The Odyssey 17.454–457
Thou wouldest not out of thine own substance give even a grain of salt to thy suppliant, thou who now, when sitting at another's table, hadst not the heart to take of the bread and give me aught. Yet here lies plenty at thy hand.” So he spoke, and Antinous waxed the more wroth at heart, and with an angry glance from beneath his brows spoke to him winged words:
πόποι, οὐκ ἄρα σοί γʼ ἐπὶ εἴδεϊ καὶ φρένες ἦσαν· οὐ σύ γʼ ἂν ἐξ οἴκου σῷ ἐπιστάτῃ οὐδʼ ἅλα δοίης, ὃς νῦν ἀλλοτρίοισι παρήμενος οὔ τί μοι ἔτλης σίτου ἀποπροελὼν δόμεναι· τὰ δὲ πολλὰ πάρεστιν.
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