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Odyssey
Book 21, Line 311 by Samuel Butler (English)
Penelope then spoke to him. "Antinoos," said she, "it is not right [ dikaios ] that you should ill-treat any guest of Telemakhos who comes to this house. If the stranger should prove strong [ biê ] enough to string the mighty bow of Odysseus, can you suppose that he would take me home with him and make me his wife? Even the man himself can have no such idea in his mind: none of you need let that disturb his feasting; it would be out of all reason."
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