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Odyssey
Book 18, Line 214 by Samuel Butler (English)
"Telemakhos," said she, addressing her son, "I fear you are no longer so discreet and well conducted as you used to be. When you were younger you had a subtler thoughtfulness [ kerdos ]; now, however, that you are grown up, though a stranger to look at you would take you for the son of a well-to-do [ olbios ] father as far as size and good looks go, your conduct is by no means what it should be. What is all this disturbance that has been going on, and how came you to allow a stranger to be so disgracefully ill-treated? What would have happened if he had suffered serious injury while a suppliant in our house? Surely this would have been very discreditable to you."
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