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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: land, that thou mayst have wherewithal to feed thine
insatiate belly.'
Then Odysseus of many counsels answered him and said:
'Eurymachus, would that there might be a trial of labour
between us twain, in the season of spring, when the long
days begin! In the deep grass might it be, and I should
have a crooked scythe, and thou another like it, that we
might try each the other in the matter of labour, fasting
till late eventide, and grass there should be in plenty. Or
would again, that there were oxen to drive, the best there
may be, large and tawny, both well filled with fodder, of
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