Odyssey

Then Euryalos reviled him outright and said, "I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports athloi that men generally delight in. I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes. There does not seem to be much of the athlete [ athlêtês ] about you."

OdysseyBook 8, Line 158Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 8

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