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Odyssey

Book 22, Line 320 by Samuel Butler (English)

Odysseus looked sternly at him and answered, "If you were their sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many a time that it might be long before I got home again [ nostos ], and that you might marry my wife and have children by her. Therefore you shall die."

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