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The Odyssey 20.238–244

The Odyssey 20.238–244
Thus they spoke to one another, but the wooers meanwhile were plotting death and fate for Telemachus; howbeit there came to them a bird on their left, an eagle of lofty flight, clutching a timid dove. Then Amphinomus spoke in their assembly, and said:
ὣς δʼ αὔτως Εὔμαιος ἐπεύξατο πᾶσι θεοῖσι νοστῆσαι Ὀδυσῆα πολύφρονα ὅνδε δόμονδε. ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον, μνηστῆρες δʼ ἄρα Τηλεμάχῳ θάνατόν τε μόρον τε ἤρτυον· αὐτὰρ τοῖσιν ἀριστερὸς ἤλυθεν ὄρνις, αἰετὸς ὑψιπέτης, ἔχε δὲ τρήρωνα πέλειαν. τοῖσιν δʼ Ἀμφίνομος ἀγορήσατο καὶ μετέειπεν·
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