HOMER'S ODYSSEY COMPLETE

Rhapsody 22

Translated by S. Butcher and A. Lang

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Page 19

 And Odysseus of many counsels answered her saying: 'First let a fire now be made me in the hall.'

 So he spake, and the good nurse Eurycleia was not slow to obey, but brought fire and brimstone; and Odysseus thoroughly purged the women's chamber and the great hall and the court.

 Then the old wife went through the fair halls of Odysseus to tell the women, and to hasten their coming. So they came forth from their chamber with torches in their hands, and fell about Odysseus, and embraced him and kissed and clasped his head and shoulders and his hands lovingly, and a sweet longing came on him to weep and moan, for he remembered them every one.

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