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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: going in turn from house to house. But if ye deem this a
likelier and a better thing, that one man's goods should
perish without atonement, then waste ye as ye will; and I
will call upon the everlasting gods, if haply Zeus may
grant that acts of recompense be made: so should ye
hereafter perish within the halls without atonement.'
So spake he, and all that heard him bit their lips and
marvelled at Telemachus, in that he spake boldly.
Then Antinous, son of Eupeithes, answered him: 'Telemachus,
in very truth the gods themselves instruct thee to be proud
of speech and boldly to harangue. Never may Cronion make
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