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Odyssey

Book 16, Line 342 by Samuel Butler (English)

The suitors were surprised and angry at what had happened, so they went outside the great wall that ran round the outer court, and held a council near the main entrance. Eurymakhos, son of Polybos, was the first to speak.

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