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Odyssey

Book 16, Line 460 by Samuel Butler (English)

Telemakhos was the first to speak. "So you have got back, Eumaios," said he. "What is the news [ kleos ] of the town? Have the suitors returned, or are they still waiting over yonder, to take me on my way home?"

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