Suitors Of Penelope

Mortal · 2 speeches

Psychological Vocabulary

All Speeches (2)

Lines 112–116

in the land. For soon shall we take him to the mainland to King Echetus, the maimer of all men.” So they spoke, and goodly Odysseus was glad at the word of omen. And Antinous set before him the great paunch, filled with fat and blood, and Amphinomus

Ζεύς τοι δοίη, ξεῖνε, καὶ ἀθάνατοι θεοὶ ἄλλοι, ὅττι μάλιστʼ ἐθέλεις καί τοι φίλον ἔπλετο θυμῷ, ὃς τοῦτον τὸν ἄναλτον ἀλητεύειν ἀπέπαυσας ἐν δήμῳ· τάχα γάρ μιν ἀνάξομεν ἤπειρόνδε εἰς Ἔχετον βασιλῆα, βροτῶν δηλήμονα πάντων.

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thumos

Suitors Of Penelope to Odysseus-beggar

Lines 27–30

of the youths in Ithaca; therefore shall vultures devour thee here.” So spoke1 each man, for verily they thought that he had not slain the man willfully; and in their folly they knew not this, that over themselves one and all the cords of destruction had been made fast. Then with an angry glance from beneath his brows Odysseus of many wiles answered them:

ξεῖνε, κακῶς ἀνδρῶν τοξάζεαι· οὐκέτʼ ἀέθλων ἄλλων ἀντιάσεις· νῦν τοι σῶς αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος. καὶ γὰρ δὴ νῦν φῶτα κατέκτανες ὃς μέγʼ ἄριστος κούρων εἰν Ἰθάκῃ· τῷ σʼ ἐνθάδε γῦπες ἔδονται.

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