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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any
place--and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day without
distressing themselves, and came back again afterwards. You will
thus see how much my ships excel all others, and what
magnificent oarsmen my sailors are."
Then was Ulysses glad and prayed aloud saying, "Father Jove,
grant that Alcinous may do all as he has said, for so he will
win an imperishable name among mankind, and at the same time I
shall return to my country."
Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed
in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red
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