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Odyssey
Book 4, Line 715 by Samuel Butler (English)
Then he went downstairs again, leaving Penelope in an agony of grief [ akhos ]. There were plenty of seats in the house, but she had no heart for sitting on any one of them; she could only fling herself on the floor of her own room and cry; whereon all the maids in the house, both old and young, gathered round her and began to cry too, till at last in a transport of sorrow she exclaimed,
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