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Odyssey

Book 13, Line 250 by Samuel Butler (English)

Odysseus was glad at finding himself, as Athena told him, in his own country, and he began to answer, but he did not speak the truth [ alêthês ], and made up a lying story in the instinctive wiliness of his noos .

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