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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 24, line 10 (search)
Now when Laertes and the others
had done dinner, Odysseus began by saying, "Some of you go out and
see if they are not getting close up to us." So one of Dolios’
sons went as he was bid. Standing on the threshold he could see them
all quite near, and said to Odysseus, "Here they are, let us put on
our armor at once."
They put on their armor as fast
as they could - that is to say Odysseus, his three men, and the six
sons of Dolios. Laertes also and Dolios did the same - warriors by
necessity iLaertes also and Dolios did the same - warriors by
necessity in spite of their gray hair. When they had all put on their
armor, they opened the gate and sallied forth, Odysseus leading the
way.
Then Zeus’ daughter Athena
came up to them, having assumed the form and voice of Mentor.
Odysseus was glad when he saw her, and said to his son Telemakhos,
"Telemakhos, now that you are about to fight in an engagement, which
will show every man's mettle, be sure not to disgrace your
ancestors, who were eminent for their strength and courage all the
world over."
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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 24, line 11 (search)
Laertes was delighted when he
heard this. "Good heavens, he exclaimed, "what a day I am enjoying: I
do indeed rejoice at it. My son and grandson are vying with one
another in the matter of valor
[aretê]."
On this Athena came close up to
him and said, "Son of Arceisius - best friend I have in the world -
pray to the gray-eyed damsel, and to Zeus her father; then poise your
spear and hurl it."
As she spoke she infused fresh
vigor into him, and when he had prayed to her he poised his spear and
hurled it. He hit Eupeithes’ helmet, and the spear went right
through it, for the helmet stayed it not, and his armor rang rattling
round him as he fell heavily to the ground. Meantime Odysseus and his
son fell the front line of the foe and smote them with their swords
and spears; indeed, they would have killed every one of them, and
prevented them from ever getting home again, only Athena raised her
voice aloud, and made every one pause. "Men of Ithaca," she cried,
"cease this dreadful war, and