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Odyssey

Book 17, Line 488 by Samuel Butler (English)

Thus said the suitors, but Antinoos paid them no heed. Meanwhile Telemakhos was greatly distressed [ penthos ] about the blow that had been given to his father, and though no tear fell from him, he shook his head in silence and brooded on his revenge.

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