Odyssey Books 1-3
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nj_cosentino15 on March 8, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Harried | Sing in me, Muse and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, _______ for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy. |
| Patrimony | Don't kill the man, don't touch his wife, or face reckoning with Orestês the day he comes of age and wants his __________. |
| Suitors | He must warn off that wolf pack of his _____________ who prey upon his flocks and dusky cattle. Before her eyes she found the lusty _____________ casting dice inside the gate, at ease on hides of oxen-oxen they had killed. |
| Irked | Straight to the door he came, __________ with himself to think a visitor that had been kept there waiting, and took her right hand, grasping with his left her tall bronze-bladed spear. |
| Insolent | You suitors of my mother!___________ men, now we have dined, let us have entertainment and no more shouting. |
| Muster | He found the criers with clarion voices and told them to ______________ the unshorn Akhaians in full assembly. |
| Plundered | My house is being ____________ : is this courtesy? |
| Indignation | Where is your _________? Where is your shame? |
| Shroud | It is a _________ I weave for Lord Laërtês when cold death comes to lay him on his bier. |
| Bier | It is a shroud I weave for Lord Laërtês when cold death comes to lay him on his __________. |
| Broach | Go to old Nestor, master charioteer, so we may ___________ the storehouse of his mind. |
| Stratagems | And as to _______________, no man would claim Odysseus' gift for those. |
| Harangued | Meneláos ________________ them to get organized- time to ride home on the sea's broad back, he said; but Agamémnon wouldn't hear of it. |
| Hekatomb | He wanted to hold the troops, make a sacrifice, a ____________, something to pacify Athena's rage. |
| Oracle | Now tell me how you take this. Do the people side against you, hearkening to some _____________? |
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