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Browsing named entities in Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.). You can also browse the collection for Laertes or search for Laertes in all documents.
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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 16, line 7 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 19, line 4 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 22, line 5 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 22, line 6 (search)
Thus did he speak, and they did
even as he had said; they went to the store room, which they entered
before Melanthios saw them, for he was busy searching for arms in the
innermost part of the room, so the two took their stand on either
side of the door and waited. By and by Melanthios came out with a
helmet in one hand, and an old dry-rotted shield in the other, which
had been borne by Laertes when he was young, but which had been long
since thrown aside, and the straps had become unsewn; on this the two
seized him, dragged him back by the hair, and threw him struggling to
the ground. They bent his hands and feet well behind his back, and
bound them tight with a painful bond as Odysseus had told them; then
they fastened a noose about his body and strung him up from a high
pillar till he was close up to the rafters, and over him did you then
vaunt, O swineherd Eumaios, saying, "Melanthios, you will pass the
night on a soft bed as you deserve. You will know very well when
morning come
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 22, line 9 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 3 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 4 (search)
Thus did they converse in the
house of Hades deep down within the bowels of the earth. Meanwhile
Odysseus and the others passed out of the town and soon reached the
fair and well-tilled farm of Laertes, which he had reclaimed with
infinite labor. Here was his house, with a lean-to running all round
it, where the slaves who worked for him slept and sat and ate, while
inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him
in this his country-farm. When Odysseus got there, he said to nd in the house of
Hades. Believe me when I tell you that this man came to my house once
when I was in my own country and never yet did any stranger come to
me whom I liked better. He said that his family came from Ithaca and
that his father was Laertes, son of Arceisius. I received him
hospitably, making him welcome to all the abundance of my house, and
when he went away I gave him all customary presents. I gave him seven
talents of fine gold, and a cup of solid silver with flowers chased
upon
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 5 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 6 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 7 (search)
Laertes answered, "Would, by
Father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, that I were the man I was when I
ruled among the Cephallênians, and took Nericum, that strong
fortress on the foreland. If I were still what I then was and had
been in our house yesterday with my armor on, I should have been able
to stand by you and help you against the suitors. I should have
killed a great many of them, and you would have rejoiced to see
it."
Thus did they converse; but the
others, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready,
left off working [ponos], and took each his proper
place on the benches and seats. Then they began eating; by and by old
Dolios and his sons left their work and came up, for their mother,
the Sicel woman who looked after Laertes now that he was growing old,
had been to fetch them. When they saw Odysseus and were certain it
was he, they stood there lost in astonishment; but Odysseus scolded
them good-naturedly and said, "Sit down to your dinner, old man, and
never mind