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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: forth from the hall, despite her will, by a word of
compulsion; God forbid that ever this should be.'
So spake Telemachus, but among the wooers Pallas Athene
roused laughter unquenchable, and drave their wits
wandering. And now they were laughing with alien lips, and
blood-bedabbled was the flesh they ate, and their eyes were
filled with tears and their soul was fain of lamentation.
Then the godlike Theoclymenus spake among them:
'Ah, wretched men, what woe is this ye suffer? Shrouded in
night are your heads and your faces and your knees, and
kindled is the voice of wailing, and all cheeks are wet
The Odyssey |
