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Odyssey
Book 3, Line 240 by Samuel Butler (English)
"Mentor," answered Telemakhos, "do not let us talk about it any more. There is no chance of my father's ever coming back [ nostos ]; the gods have long since counseled his destruction. There is something else, however, about which I should like to ask Nestor, for he knows much more than any one else does. They say he has reigned for three generations so that it is like talking to an immortal. Tell me, therefore, Nestor, and tell me true [ alêthês ]; how did Agamemnon come to die in that way? What was Menelaos doing? And how came false Aigisthos to kill so far better a man than himself? Was Menelaos away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhere among humankind, that Aigisthos took heart and killed Agamemnon?"
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