August 14, 2025 • 33 mins
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Book fourteen. Ulysses in the hut with Eumaeus. Eulysses now
left the haven and took the rough track up through
the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain
till he reached the place where Minerva had said that
he would find the swineherd, who was the most thrifty
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servant he had. He found him sitting in front of
his hut, which was by the yards that he had
built on a site which could be seen from afar.
He had made them spacious and fair to see, with
a free run for the pigs all round them. He
had built them during his master's absence of stones which
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he had gathered out of the ground without saying anything
to Penelope or Laertes, and he'd fenced them on top
with thorn bushes. Outside the yard he'd run a strong
fence of oaken posts, split and set pretty close together,
while inside he'd built twelves styes near one another for
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the sows to lie in. There were fifty pigs wallowing
in each stye, all of them breeding sows, but the
boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for
the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had
to send them the best he had Continually. There were
three hundred and sixty bore pigs, and the herdsman's four hounds,
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which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.
The swineherd was at that moment cutting out a pair
of sandals from a good stout ox hide. Three of
his men were out herding the pigs in one place
or another, and he had sent the fourth to town
with a boar that he had been forced to send
the suitors, that they might sacrifice it and have their
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fill of meat. When the hounds saw Ulysses, they set
up a furious barking and flew at him. But Ulysses
was cunning enough to sit down and loose his hole
the stick that he had in his hand. Still, he
would have been torn by them in his own homestead
had not the swineherd dropped his ox hide, rushed full
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speed through the gate of the yard, and driven the
dogs off by shouting and throwing stones at them. Then
he said to Ulysses, old man, the dogs were likely
to have made short work of you, and then you
would have got me into trouble. The gods have given
me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost
the best of masters, and I am in continual grief
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on his account. I have to attend swine for other
people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to
see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.
But come inside, and when you've had your fill of
bread and wine, tell me where you come from and
all about your misfortunes. On this the swineherd led the
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way into the hut and bade him sit down. He
strewed a good thick bed of rushes upon the floor,
and on the top of this he threw the shaggy
shamois skin, a great thick one on which he used
to sleep by night. Ulysses was pleased at being made
thus welcome, and said, may Jove, sir and the rest
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of the gods grant you your heart's desire in return
for the kind way in which you have received me.
To this you answered, O swine heard Eumaeus stranger. Though
a still poorer man should come here, it would not
be right for me to insult him, For all strangers
and beggars are from Jove. You must take what you
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can get and be thankful for servants live in fear
when they have young lords for their masters. And this
is my misfortune now, for Heaven has hindered the return
of him who would have been always good to me
and given me something of my own, a house, a
piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else
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that all liberal master allows a servant who has worked
hard for him, and whose labor the gods have prospered,
as they have mine in the situation which I hold,
if my master had grown old here, he would have
done great things by me. But he is gone, and
I wish that Helen's whole race were utterly destroyed, for
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she has been the death of many a good man.
It was this matter that took my master to Ilias,
the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans in
the cause of King Agamemnon. As he spoke, he bound
his girdle round him and went to the styes where
the young socking pigs were penned. He picked out two,
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which he brought back with him and sacrificed. He singed them,
cut them up, and spitted them. When the meat was cooked,
he brought it all in and set it before Ulysses.
Hot and still on the spit, whereon Ulysses sprinkled it
over with white barley meal. The swineherd then mixed wine
in a bowl of ivy wood, and taking a seat
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opposite Ulysses, told him to begin fall too. Stranger, said
he on a dish of servants pork. The fat pigs
have to go to the suitors, who eat them up
without shame or scruple. But the blessed gods love not
such shameful doings, and respect those who do what is
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lawful and right. Even the fierce free booters who go
raiding on other people's land, and Jove gives them their spoil.
Even they, when they have filled their ships and got
home again, live conscience stricken and look fearfully for judgment.
But some god seems to have told these people that
Ulysses is dead and gone. They will not therefore go
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back to their own homes and make their offers of
marriage in the usual way, but waste his estate by
force without fear or stint. Not a day or night
comes out of heaven. But they sacrifice not one victim,
nor two only, and they take the run of his wine.
For he was exceedingly rich. No other great man either
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in Ithaca or on the mainland, is as rich as
he was. He had as much as twenty men put together.
I will tell you what he had. There are twelve
herds of cattle upon the mainland, and as many flocks
of sheep. There are also twelve droves of pigs, while
his own men and hired strangers feed him twelve wildly
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spreading herds of goat. Here in Ithaca. He runs even
large flocks of goats on the far end of the island,
and they are in the charge of excellent goat herds.
Each one of these sends the suit as the best
goat in the flock every day. As for myself, I'm
in charge of the pigs that you see here, and
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I have to keep picking out the best I have
and sending it to them. This was his story. But
Ulysses went on eating and drinking ravenously without a word,
brooding his revenge. When he had eaten enough and was satisfied,
the swineherd took the bowl from which he usually drank,
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filled it with wine, and gave it to Ulysses, who
was pleased, and said, as he took it in his hands,
my friend, who was this master of yours that bought
you and paid for you, so rich and so powerful
as you tell me, you say he perished in the
course of King Agamemnon. Tell me who he was. In
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case I may have met with such a person, Jove
and the other gods know, But I may be able
to give you news of him, for I have traveled much,
Eumaeus answered, old man. No traveler who comes here with
news will get Ulysses wife and son to believe his story. Nevertheless,
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tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their
mouths full of lies and not a word of truth.
Every One who finds his way to Ithaca goes to
my mistress and tells her falsehoods. Whereon she takes them in,
makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions,
crying all the time, as women will when they have
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lost their husbands. And you, too, old man, for a
shirt and a cloak would doubtless make up a very
pretty story. But the wolves and birds of prey have
long since torn Ulysses to pieces, or the fishes of
the sea have eaten him, and his bones are lying
buried deep in sand upon some foreign shore. He is
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dead and gone and a bad business. It is for
all his friends. For me especially go where I may,
I shall never find so good a master, not even
if I were to go home to my mother and father,
where I was bred and born. I do not so
much care, however, about my parents now, though I should
dearly like to see them again in my own country.
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It is the loss of Ulysses that grieve me most.
I cannot speak of him without reverence, though he is
no longer here, for he was very fond of me
and took much care of me. That wherever he may be,
I shall always honor his memory. My friend replied, Ulysses,
you are very positive and very hard of belief about
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your master's coming home again. Nevertheless, I will not merely say,
but will swear that he is coming. Do not give
me anything for my news till he has actually come.
You may then give me a shirt and cloak of
good wear, if you will. I am in great want.
But I will not take anything at all till then,
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for I hate a man even as I hate hell Fire,
who lets his poverty tempt him into lying. I swear
by King Jove, by the rights of hospitality, and by
that hearth of Ulysses, to which I have now come,
that all will surely happen as I have said it will.
Ulysses will return in this self same year, with the
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end of this moon and the beginning of the next,
he will be here to do vengeance on all those
who are ill treating his wife and son. To this,
you answered, o swine, heard Eumaeus, old man, you will
neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses
ever come home. Drink your wine in peace, and let
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us talk about something else. Do not keep on reminding
me of all this. It always pains me when anyone
speaks about my honored master. As for your oath, we
will let it alone. But I only wish he may come,
as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus.
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I am terribly unhappy too about this same boy of his.
He was running up fast into manhood and bade fair
to be no worse a man face and figure than
his father. But someone, either God or man, has been
unsettling his mind. So he's gone off to Pylos to
try and get news of his father, and the suitors
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are lying in wait for him as he's coming home
in the hope of leaving the house of Arcasius without
a name in Ithaca. But let us say no more
about him and leave him to be taken or else
to escape. If the son of Saturn holds his hand
over him to protect him. And now, old man, tell
me your own story. Tell me also, for I want
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to know who you are and where you come from.
Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of
ship you came in, how crew brought you to Ithaca,
and from what country they profess to come, for you
cannot have come by land, And Ulysses answered, I will
tell you all about it. If there were meat and
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wine enough, and we could stay here in the hut
with nothing to do but to eat and drink while
the others go to their work, I could easily talk
on for a whole twelve months without ever finishing the
story of the sorrows with which it has pleased Heaven
to visit me. I am by birth a Cretan. My
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father was a well to do man who had many
sons born in marriage, whereas I was the son of
a slave whom he'd purchased for a concubine. Nevertheless, my father,
castor son of Hylax, whose lineage I claim, and who
was held in the highest honor among the Cretans, for
his wealth, prosperity, and the valor of his sons put
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me on the same level with my brothers, who had
been born in wedlock. When, however, death took him to
the House of Hades, his sons divided his estate and
cast lots for their shares. But to me they gave
holding and little else less. My valor enabled me to
marry into a rich family, for I was not given
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to bragging or shirking on the field of battle. It
is all over now still if you look at the straw,
you can see what the ear was. For I have
had trouble enough, and to spare Mars and Minerva made
me doughty in war. When I had picked my men
to surprise the enemy with an ambuscade, I never gave
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death so much as a thought, but was the first
to leap forward and spear all whom I could overtake.
Such was I in battle. But I did not care
about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those
who would bring up children. My delight was in ships, fighting,
javelins and arrows, things that most men shudder to think of.
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But one man likes one thing and another another, and
this is what I was most naturally inclined to. Before
the Achaeans went to Troy. Nine times was I in
command of men and ships on foreign service, and I
amassed much wealth. I had my pick of the spoil
in the first instance, and much more was allotted to me.
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Later on. My house grew apace, and I became a
great man among the Cretans. But when Jove counseled that
terrible expedition in which so many perished, the people required
me and I Dominius to lead their ships to Troy,
and there was no way out of it, for they
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insisted on our doing. So. There we fought for nine
whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city
of Priam and sailed home again, as Heaven dispersed us.
Then it was that Jove devised evil against me. I
spent but one month happily with my children, wife and property,
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and then I conceived the idea of making a descent
on it Egypt. So I fitted out a fine fleet
and manned it. I had nine ships, and the people
flocked to fill them. For six days, I and my
men made feast, and I found them many victims, both
for sacrifice to the gods and for themselves. But on
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the seventh day we went on board and set sail
from Crete, with a fair north wind behind us. Though
we were going down a river. Nothing went ill with
any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board,
but sat where we were and let the ships go
as the wind and steersmen took them. On the fifth
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day we reached the river Egyptus. There I stationed my
ships in the river, bidding my men stay by them
and keep guard over them, while I sent out scouts
to reconnoiter from every point of advantage. But the men
disobeyed my orders took to their own devices and ravage
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the land of the Egyptians, killing the men and taking
their wives and children captive. The alarm was soon carried
to the city, and when they heard the war cry,
the people came out at daybreak, till the plain was
filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam
of armor. Then Jove spread panic among my men, and
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they would no longer face the enemy, for they found
themselves surrounded. The Egyptians killed many of us and took
the rest alive to do force labor for them. Jove, however,
put it in my mind to do thus, and I
wish I had died then and there in Egypt instead,
for there was much sorrow in store for me. I
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took off my helmet and shield, and dropped my spear
from my hand. Then I went straight up to the
king's chariot, clasped his knees, and kissed them, whereon he
spared my life, bade me get into his chariot, and
took me weeping to his own home. Many made at
me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me
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in their fury, but the king protected me, for he
feared the wrath of Jove, the protector of strangers, who
punishes those who do evil. I stayed there for seven
years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for
they all gave me something. But when it was now
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going on for eight years, there came a certain Phoenician,
a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villany.
And this man taught me over into going with him
to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay. I
stayed there for a whole twelve months. But at the
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end of that time, when months and days had gone
by till the same season had come round again, he
set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on
a pretense that I was to take a cargo along
with him to that place, but really that he might
sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched.
I suspected his intention, but went on board with him,
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for I could not help it. The ship ran before
a fresh north wind till we had reached the sea
that lies between Crete and Libya. There, however, Jove counseled
the destruction, for as soon as we were well out
from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky,
he raised a black cloud over our ship, and the
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sea grew dark beneath it. Then Jove let fly with
his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and
was filled with fire and brimstone. As the lightning struck it,
the men fell all into the sea. They were carried
about in the water round the ship, looking like so
many sea gulls, but the God presently deprived them of
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all chance of getting home again. I was all dismayed. Jove, however,
sent the ship's mast within my reach, which saved my life,
for I clung to it and drifted before the fury
of the gale. Nine days did I drift, But in
the darkness of the tenth night, a great wave bore
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me on to the Thesperotian coast. There fied On, King
of the Thesperotians, entertained me hospitably, without charging me anything
at all. For his son found me when I was
nearly dead with cold and fatigue, whereupon he raised me
by the hand, took me to his father's house, and
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gave me clothes to wear. There it was that I
heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he
had entertained him and shown him much hospitality while he
was on his homeward journey. He showed me also the
treasure of gold and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together.
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There was enough to keep his family for ten jennies vs.
So much had he left in the house of King Phidon.
But the King said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that
he might learn Jove's mind from the god's high oak
tree and know whether, after so long an absence he
should return to Ithaca openly or in secret. Moreover, the
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king swore in my presence, making drink offerings in his
own house. As he did so, that the ship was
by the water side, and the crew found that should
take him to his own country. He sent me off. However,
before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian
ship sailing for the wheat growing island of Dolichium, and
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he told those in charge of her to be sure
and take me safely to King Acastus. These men hatched
a plot against me that would have reduced me to
the very extreme of misery, for when the ship had
got some way out from land, they resolved on selling
me as a slave. They stripped me of the shirt
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and cloak that I was wearing, and gave me instead
the tattered old clouts in which you now see me. Then,
towards nightfall they reached the tilled lands of Ithaca, and
there they bound me with a strong rope fast in
the ship while they went on shore to get supper
by the sea side. But the gods soon undid my
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bonds for me, and having drawn my rags over my head,
I slid down the rudder into the sea, where I
struck out and swam till I was well clear of them,
and came ashore near a thick wood in which I
lay concealed. They were very angry at my having escaped,
and went searching about for me, till at last they
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thought it was no further use and went back to
their ship. The gods, having hidden me thus easily, then
took me to a good man's door. For it seems
that I am not to die yet. Awhile to this,
you answered, O swine heard Eumaeus, poor unhappy stranger. I
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have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting. But
that part about Ulysses is not right, and you will
never get me to believe it. Why should a man
like you go about telling lies in this way? I
know all about the return of my master. The gods
one and all of them detest him, or they would
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have taken him before Troy, or let him die with
friends around him when the days of his fighting were done.
For then the Achaeans would have built a mound over
his ashes, and his son would have been heir to
his renown. But now the storm winds have spirited him away.
We know not whither. As for me, I live out
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of the way here with the pigs, and never go
to the town, unless when Penelope sends for me on
the arrival of some news about Ulysses. Then they all
sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over
the king's absence and those who rejoice at it because
they can eat up his property without paying for it.
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For my own part, I have never cared about asking
any one else since the time when I was taken
in by an Aetolian who had killed a man, and
come a long way till at last he reached my station,
and I was very kind to him. He said he
had seen Ulysses with I Dominius among the Cretans, refitting
his ships, which had been damaged in a gale. He
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said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn
with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth.
And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has
brought you to my door, do not try to flatter
me in this way with vain hopes. It is not
for any such reason that I shall treat you kindly,
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but only out of respect for Jove, the god of hospitality,
as fearing him and pitying you, Ulysses answered, I see
that you are of an unbelieving mind. I have given
you my oath, and yet you will not credit me.
Let Us then make a bargain and call all the
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gods in heaven to witness it. If your master comes home,
give me a cloak and shirt of good wear, and
send me to Dullchium, where I want to go. But
if he does not come as I say, he will
set your men on to me and tell them to
throw me from yonder precipice as a warning to tramps
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not to go about the country telling lies and a
pretty figure. I should cut, then, said Eumaeus, both now
and hereafter. If I were to kill you, after receiving
you into my hut and showing you hospitality, I should
have to say my prayers in good earnest if I did.
But it is just supper time, and I hope my
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men will come in directly that we may cook some
thing savory for supper. Thus did they converse, and presently
the swine herds came up with the pigs, which were
then shut up for the night in their thighs, and
a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven
into them. But Eumaeus called to his men and said,
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bring in the best pig you have, that I may
sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll
of him ourselves. We have had trouble enough this long
time feeding pigs, while others reap the fruit of our labour.
On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought
in a fine, fat, five year old boar pig and
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set it at the altar. Eumaeus did not forget the gods,
for he was a man of good principles. So the
first thing he did was to cut bristles from the
pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to
all the gods as he did, so that Ulysses might
return home again. Then he clubbed the pig with a
billet of oak which he had kept back when he
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was chopping the firewood, and stunned it while the others
slaughtered and singed it. Then they cut it up, and
Eumaeus began by putting raw pieces from each joint on
to some of the fat. These he sprinkled with barley
meal and laid upon the embers. They cut the rest
of the meat up small put the pieces upon the
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spits and roasted them till they were done. When they
had taken them off the spits, they threw them onto
the dresser in a heap. The swineherd, who was a
most equitable man, then stood up to give every one
his share. He made seven portions. One of these he
set apart for Mercury, the son of Maya, and the nymphs,
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praying to them as he did so. The others he
dealt out to the men man by man. He gave
Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a
mark of a special and Ulysses was much pleased. I
hope Eumaeus. He said that Jove will be as well
disposed towards you as I am, for the respect you
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are showing to an outcast like myself. To this, you answered,
O Swineherd, Eumaeus, eat my good fellow, and enjoy your supper,
such as it is. God grants this and withholds that
just as he thinks right, for he can do whatever
he chooses. As he spoke, he cut off the first
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piece and offered it as a burnt sacrifice to the
immortal gods. Then he made them a drink offering, put
the cup in the hands of Ulysses, and sat down
to his own portion. Mesaulius brought them their bread. The
swineherd had brought this man on his own account from
among the Tathians during his master's absence, and had paid
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for him with his own money, without saying anything either
to his mistress or Laertes. They then laid their hands
upon the good things that were before them, and when
they had had enough to eat and drink, Messauleas took
away what was left of the bread, and they all
went to bed after having made a hearty supper. Now
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the night came on, stormy and very dark, for there
was no moon. It poured without ceasing, and the wind
blew strong from the west, which is a wet quarter.
So Ulysses thought he would see whether Eumaeus, in the
excellent care he took of him, would take off his
own cloak and give it to him, or make one
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of his men give him one. Listen to me, he said,
Eumaeus and the rest of you, when I have said
a prayer, I will tell you something. It is the
wine that makes me talk. In this way, wine will
make even a wise man fall to singing. It will
make him chockle and dance and say many a word
that he had better leave on spa spoken still. As
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I have begun, I will go on. Would that I
was still young and strong as when we had got
up an ambuscade before Troy Menelaeus and Ulysses were the leaders,
but I was in command also for the other two
would have it. So, when we had come up to
the wall of the city, we crouched down beneath our
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armor and lay there under cover of the reeds and
thick brushwood that grew about the swamp. It came on
to freeze with a north wind blowing. The snow fell
small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were
coated thick with rime. The others had all got cloaks
and shirts and slept comfortably enough with their shields about
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their shoulders. But I had carelessly left my cloak behind me,
not thinking that I should be too cold, and had
gone off in nothing but my shirt and shield. When
the night was two thirds through and the stars had
shifted their place, I nudged Ulysses, who was close to me,
with my elbow, and he at once gave me his ear,
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Ulysses said, I this cold will be the death of me,
for I have no cloak. Some god fooled me into
setting off with nothing on but my shirt, and I
do not know what to do. Ulysses, who was as
crafty as he was valiant, hit upon the following plan.
Keep still, said he in a low voice, or the
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others will hear you. Then he raised his head on
his elbow. My friends said he, I've had a dream
from heaven in my sleep. We are a long way
from the ships. I wish some one would go down
and tell Agamemnon to send us up more men at once.
On this thoas son of Andreamon, threw off his cloak
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and set out running for the ships. Whereon I took
the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning.
Would that I was still young and strong as I
was in those days, For then some one of you
swineherds would give me a cloak, both out of good
will and for the respect due to a brave soldier.
But now people look down on me because my clothes
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are shabby. And Eumaeus answered, old man, you have told
us an excellent story and have said nothing so far,
but what is quite satisfactory for the present. Therefore you
shall want neither clothing nor anything else that a stranger
in distress me reasonably expect. But tomorrow morning you have
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to shake your own old rags about your body again,
for we have not many spare cloaks nor shirts up here,
but every man has only one. When Ulysses son comes
home again, he will give you both cloak and shirt,
and send you wherever you may want to go. With this,
he got up and made a bed for Ulysses by
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throwing some goat skins and sheepskins on the ground in
front of the fire. Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus
covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he
kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather.
Thus did Ulysses sleep, and the young men slept beside him.
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But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs.
So he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was
glad to see that he looked after his property during
his master's absence. First, he slung his sword over his
brawny shoulders and put on a thick cloak to keep
out the wind. He also took the skin of a
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large and well fed goat and a javelin in case
of attack from men or dogs. Thus equipped, he went
to his rest, where the pigs were camping under an
overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the north wind.
End of book Fourtyan
Book fourteen. Ulysses in the hut with Eumaeus. Eulysses now
left the haven and took the rough track up through
the wooded country and over the crest of the mountain
till he reached the place where Minerva had said that
he would find the swineherd, who was the most thrifty
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servant he had. He found him sitting in front of
his hut, which was by the yards that he had
built on a site which could be seen from afar.
He had made them spacious and fair to see, with
a free run for the pigs all round them. He
had built them during his master's absence of stones which
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he had gathered out of the ground without saying anything
to Penelope or Laertes, and he'd fenced them on top
with thorn bushes. Outside the yard he'd run a strong
fence of oaken posts, split and set pretty close together,
while inside he'd built twelves styes near one another for
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the sows to lie in. There were fifty pigs wallowing
in each stye, all of them breeding sows, but the
boars slept outside and were much fewer in number, for
the suitors kept on eating them, and the swineherd had
to send them the best he had Continually. There were
three hundred and sixty bore pigs, and the herdsman's four hounds,
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which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.
The swineherd was at that moment cutting out a pair
of sandals from a good stout ox hide. Three of
his men were out herding the pigs in one place
or another, and he had sent the fourth to town
with a boar that he had been forced to send
the suitors, that they might sacrifice it and have their
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fill of meat. When the hounds saw Ulysses, they set
up a furious barking and flew at him. But Ulysses
was cunning enough to sit down and loose his hole
the stick that he had in his hand. Still, he
would have been torn by them in his own homestead
had not the swineherd dropped his ox hide, rushed full
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speed through the gate of the yard, and driven the
dogs off by shouting and throwing stones at them. Then
he said to Ulysses, old man, the dogs were likely
to have made short work of you, and then you
would have got me into trouble. The gods have given
me quite enough worries without that, for I have lost
the best of masters, and I am in continual grief
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on his account. I have to attend swine for other
people to eat, while he, if he yet lives to
see the light of day, is starving in some distant land.
But come inside, and when you've had your fill of
bread and wine, tell me where you come from and
all about your misfortunes. On this the swineherd led the
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way into the hut and bade him sit down. He
strewed a good thick bed of rushes upon the floor,
and on the top of this he threw the shaggy
shamois skin, a great thick one on which he used
to sleep by night. Ulysses was pleased at being made
thus welcome, and said, may Jove, sir and the rest
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of the gods grant you your heart's desire in return
for the kind way in which you have received me.
To this you answered, O swine heard Eumaeus stranger. Though
a still poorer man should come here, it would not
be right for me to insult him, For all strangers
and beggars are from Jove. You must take what you
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can get and be thankful for servants live in fear
when they have young lords for their masters. And this
is my misfortune now, for Heaven has hindered the return
of him who would have been always good to me
and given me something of my own, a house, a
piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else
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that all liberal master allows a servant who has worked
hard for him, and whose labor the gods have prospered,
as they have mine in the situation which I hold,
if my master had grown old here, he would have
done great things by me. But he is gone, and
I wish that Helen's whole race were utterly destroyed, for
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she has been the death of many a good man.
It was this matter that took my master to Ilias,
the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans in
the cause of King Agamemnon. As he spoke, he bound
his girdle round him and went to the styes where
the young socking pigs were penned. He picked out two,
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which he brought back with him and sacrificed. He singed them,
cut them up, and spitted them. When the meat was cooked,
he brought it all in and set it before Ulysses.
Hot and still on the spit, whereon Ulysses sprinkled it
over with white barley meal. The swineherd then mixed wine
in a bowl of ivy wood, and taking a seat
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opposite Ulysses, told him to begin fall too. Stranger, said
he on a dish of servants pork. The fat pigs
have to go to the suitors, who eat them up
without shame or scruple. But the blessed gods love not
such shameful doings, and respect those who do what is
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lawful and right. Even the fierce free booters who go
raiding on other people's land, and Jove gives them their spoil.
Even they, when they have filled their ships and got
home again, live conscience stricken and look fearfully for judgment.
But some god seems to have told these people that
Ulysses is dead and gone. They will not therefore go
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back to their own homes and make their offers of
marriage in the usual way, but waste his estate by
force without fear or stint. Not a day or night
comes out of heaven. But they sacrifice not one victim,
nor two only, and they take the run of his wine.
For he was exceedingly rich. No other great man either
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in Ithaca or on the mainland, is as rich as
he was. He had as much as twenty men put together.
I will tell you what he had. There are twelve
herds of cattle upon the mainland, and as many flocks
of sheep. There are also twelve droves of pigs, while
his own men and hired strangers feed him twelve wildly
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spreading herds of goat. Here in Ithaca. He runs even
large flocks of goats on the far end of the island,
and they are in the charge of excellent goat herds.
Each one of these sends the suit as the best
goat in the flock every day. As for myself, I'm
in charge of the pigs that you see here, and
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I have to keep picking out the best I have
and sending it to them. This was his story. But
Ulysses went on eating and drinking ravenously without a word,
brooding his revenge. When he had eaten enough and was satisfied,
the swineherd took the bowl from which he usually drank,
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filled it with wine, and gave it to Ulysses, who
was pleased, and said, as he took it in his hands,
my friend, who was this master of yours that bought
you and paid for you, so rich and so powerful
as you tell me, you say he perished in the
course of King Agamemnon. Tell me who he was. In
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case I may have met with such a person, Jove
and the other gods know, But I may be able
to give you news of him, for I have traveled much,
Eumaeus answered, old man. No traveler who comes here with
news will get Ulysses wife and son to believe his story. Nevertheless,
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tramps in want of a lodging keep coming with their
mouths full of lies and not a word of truth.
Every One who finds his way to Ithaca goes to
my mistress and tells her falsehoods. Whereon she takes them in,
makes much of them, and asks them all manner of questions,
crying all the time, as women will when they have
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lost their husbands. And you, too, old man, for a
shirt and a cloak would doubtless make up a very
pretty story. But the wolves and birds of prey have
long since torn Ulysses to pieces, or the fishes of
the sea have eaten him, and his bones are lying
buried deep in sand upon some foreign shore. He is
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dead and gone and a bad business. It is for
all his friends. For me especially go where I may,
I shall never find so good a master, not even
if I were to go home to my mother and father,
where I was bred and born. I do not so
much care, however, about my parents now, though I should
dearly like to see them again in my own country.
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It is the loss of Ulysses that grieve me most.
I cannot speak of him without reverence, though he is
no longer here, for he was very fond of me
and took much care of me. That wherever he may be,
I shall always honor his memory. My friend replied, Ulysses,
you are very positive and very hard of belief about
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your master's coming home again. Nevertheless, I will not merely say,
but will swear that he is coming. Do not give
me anything for my news till he has actually come.
You may then give me a shirt and cloak of
good wear, if you will. I am in great want.
But I will not take anything at all till then,
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for I hate a man even as I hate hell Fire,
who lets his poverty tempt him into lying. I swear
by King Jove, by the rights of hospitality, and by
that hearth of Ulysses, to which I have now come,
that all will surely happen as I have said it will.
Ulysses will return in this self same year, with the
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end of this moon and the beginning of the next,
he will be here to do vengeance on all those
who are ill treating his wife and son. To this,
you answered, o swine, heard Eumaeus, old man, you will
neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses
ever come home. Drink your wine in peace, and let
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us talk about something else. Do not keep on reminding
me of all this. It always pains me when anyone
speaks about my honored master. As for your oath, we
will let it alone. But I only wish he may come,
as do Penelope, his old father Laertes, and his son Telemachus.
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I am terribly unhappy too about this same boy of his.
He was running up fast into manhood and bade fair
to be no worse a man face and figure than
his father. But someone, either God or man, has been
unsettling his mind. So he's gone off to Pylos to
try and get news of his father, and the suitors
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are lying in wait for him as he's coming home
in the hope of leaving the house of Arcasius without
a name in Ithaca. But let us say no more
about him and leave him to be taken or else
to escape. If the son of Saturn holds his hand
over him to protect him. And now, old man, tell
me your own story. Tell me also, for I want
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to know who you are and where you come from.
Tell me of your town and parents, what manner of
ship you came in, how crew brought you to Ithaca,
and from what country they profess to come, for you
cannot have come by land, And Ulysses answered, I will
tell you all about it. If there were meat and
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wine enough, and we could stay here in the hut
with nothing to do but to eat and drink while
the others go to their work, I could easily talk
on for a whole twelve months without ever finishing the
story of the sorrows with which it has pleased Heaven
to visit me. I am by birth a Cretan. My
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father was a well to do man who had many
sons born in marriage, whereas I was the son of
a slave whom he'd purchased for a concubine. Nevertheless, my father,
castor son of Hylax, whose lineage I claim, and who
was held in the highest honor among the Cretans, for
his wealth, prosperity, and the valor of his sons put
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me on the same level with my brothers, who had
been born in wedlock. When, however, death took him to
the House of Hades, his sons divided his estate and
cast lots for their shares. But to me they gave
holding and little else less. My valor enabled me to
marry into a rich family, for I was not given
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to bragging or shirking on the field of battle. It
is all over now still if you look at the straw,
you can see what the ear was. For I have
had trouble enough, and to spare Mars and Minerva made
me doughty in war. When I had picked my men
to surprise the enemy with an ambuscade, I never gave
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death so much as a thought, but was the first
to leap forward and spear all whom I could overtake.
Such was I in battle. But I did not care
about farm work, nor the frugal home life of those
who would bring up children. My delight was in ships, fighting,
javelins and arrows, things that most men shudder to think of.
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But one man likes one thing and another another, and
this is what I was most naturally inclined to. Before
the Achaeans went to Troy. Nine times was I in
command of men and ships on foreign service, and I
amassed much wealth. I had my pick of the spoil
in the first instance, and much more was allotted to me.
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Later on. My house grew apace, and I became a
great man among the Cretans. But when Jove counseled that
terrible expedition in which so many perished, the people required
me and I Dominius to lead their ships to Troy,
and there was no way out of it, for they
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insisted on our doing. So. There we fought for nine
whole years, but in the tenth we sacked the city
of Priam and sailed home again, as Heaven dispersed us.
Then it was that Jove devised evil against me. I
spent but one month happily with my children, wife and property,
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and then I conceived the idea of making a descent
on it Egypt. So I fitted out a fine fleet
and manned it. I had nine ships, and the people
flocked to fill them. For six days, I and my
men made feast, and I found them many victims, both
for sacrifice to the gods and for themselves. But on
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the seventh day we went on board and set sail
from Crete, with a fair north wind behind us. Though
we were going down a river. Nothing went ill with
any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board,
but sat where we were and let the ships go
as the wind and steersmen took them. On the fifth
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day we reached the river Egyptus. There I stationed my
ships in the river, bidding my men stay by them
and keep guard over them, while I sent out scouts
to reconnoiter from every point of advantage. But the men
disobeyed my orders took to their own devices and ravage
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the land of the Egyptians, killing the men and taking
their wives and children captive. The alarm was soon carried
to the city, and when they heard the war cry,
the people came out at daybreak, till the plain was
filled with horsemen and foot soldiers and with the gleam
of armor. Then Jove spread panic among my men, and
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they would no longer face the enemy, for they found
themselves surrounded. The Egyptians killed many of us and took
the rest alive to do force labor for them. Jove, however,
put it in my mind to do thus, and I
wish I had died then and there in Egypt instead,
for there was much sorrow in store for me. I
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took off my helmet and shield, and dropped my spear
from my hand. Then I went straight up to the
king's chariot, clasped his knees, and kissed them, whereon he
spared my life, bade me get into his chariot, and
took me weeping to his own home. Many made at
me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me
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in their fury, but the king protected me, for he
feared the wrath of Jove, the protector of strangers, who
punishes those who do evil. I stayed there for seven
years and got together much money among the Egyptians, for
they all gave me something. But when it was now
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going on for eight years, there came a certain Phoenician,
a cunning rascal, who had already committed all sorts of villany.
And this man taught me over into going with him
to Phoenicia, where his house and his possessions lay. I
stayed there for a whole twelve months. But at the
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end of that time, when months and days had gone
by till the same season had come round again, he
set me on board a ship bound for Libya, on
a pretense that I was to take a cargo along
with him to that place, but really that he might
sell me as a slave and take the money I fetched.
I suspected his intention, but went on board with him,
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for I could not help it. The ship ran before
a fresh north wind till we had reached the sea
that lies between Crete and Libya. There, however, Jove counseled
the destruction, for as soon as we were well out
from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky,
he raised a black cloud over our ship, and the
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sea grew dark beneath it. Then Jove let fly with
his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and
was filled with fire and brimstone. As the lightning struck it,
the men fell all into the sea. They were carried
about in the water round the ship, looking like so
many sea gulls, but the God presently deprived them of
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all chance of getting home again. I was all dismayed. Jove, however,
sent the ship's mast within my reach, which saved my life,
for I clung to it and drifted before the fury
of the gale. Nine days did I drift, But in
the darkness of the tenth night, a great wave bore
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me on to the Thesperotian coast. There fied On, King
of the Thesperotians, entertained me hospitably, without charging me anything
at all. For his son found me when I was
nearly dead with cold and fatigue, whereupon he raised me
by the hand, took me to his father's house, and
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gave me clothes to wear. There it was that I
heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he
had entertained him and shown him much hospitality while he
was on his homeward journey. He showed me also the
treasure of gold and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together.
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There was enough to keep his family for ten jennies vs.
So much had he left in the house of King Phidon.
But the King said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that
he might learn Jove's mind from the god's high oak
tree and know whether, after so long an absence he
should return to Ithaca openly or in secret. Moreover, the
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king swore in my presence, making drink offerings in his
own house. As he did so, that the ship was
by the water side, and the crew found that should
take him to his own country. He sent me off. However,
before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian
ship sailing for the wheat growing island of Dolichium, and
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he told those in charge of her to be sure
and take me safely to King Acastus. These men hatched
a plot against me that would have reduced me to
the very extreme of misery, for when the ship had
got some way out from land, they resolved on selling
me as a slave. They stripped me of the shirt
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and cloak that I was wearing, and gave me instead
the tattered old clouts in which you now see me. Then,
towards nightfall they reached the tilled lands of Ithaca, and
there they bound me with a strong rope fast in
the ship while they went on shore to get supper
by the sea side. But the gods soon undid my
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bonds for me, and having drawn my rags over my head,
I slid down the rudder into the sea, where I
struck out and swam till I was well clear of them,
and came ashore near a thick wood in which I
lay concealed. They were very angry at my having escaped,
and went searching about for me, till at last they
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thought it was no further use and went back to
their ship. The gods, having hidden me thus easily, then
took me to a good man's door. For it seems
that I am not to die yet. Awhile to this,
you answered, O swine heard Eumaeus, poor unhappy stranger. I
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have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting. But
that part about Ulysses is not right, and you will
never get me to believe it. Why should a man
like you go about telling lies in this way? I
know all about the return of my master. The gods
one and all of them detest him, or they would
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have taken him before Troy, or let him die with
friends around him when the days of his fighting were done.
For then the Achaeans would have built a mound over
his ashes, and his son would have been heir to
his renown. But now the storm winds have spirited him away.
We know not whither. As for me, I live out
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of the way here with the pigs, and never go
to the town, unless when Penelope sends for me on
the arrival of some news about Ulysses. Then they all
sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over
the king's absence and those who rejoice at it because
they can eat up his property without paying for it.
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For my own part, I have never cared about asking
any one else since the time when I was taken
in by an Aetolian who had killed a man, and
come a long way till at last he reached my station,
and I was very kind to him. He said he
had seen Ulysses with I Dominius among the Cretans, refitting
his ships, which had been damaged in a gale. He
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said Ulysses would return in the following summer or autumn
with his men, and that he would bring back much wealth.
And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has
brought you to my door, do not try to flatter
me in this way with vain hopes. It is not
for any such reason that I shall treat you kindly,
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but only out of respect for Jove, the god of hospitality,
as fearing him and pitying you, Ulysses answered, I see
that you are of an unbelieving mind. I have given
you my oath, and yet you will not credit me.
Let Us then make a bargain and call all the
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gods in heaven to witness it. If your master comes home,
give me a cloak and shirt of good wear, and
send me to Dullchium, where I want to go. But
if he does not come as I say, he will
set your men on to me and tell them to
throw me from yonder precipice as a warning to tramps
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not to go about the country telling lies and a
pretty figure. I should cut, then, said Eumaeus, both now
and hereafter. If I were to kill you, after receiving
you into my hut and showing you hospitality, I should
have to say my prayers in good earnest if I did.
But it is just supper time, and I hope my
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men will come in directly that we may cook some
thing savory for supper. Thus did they converse, and presently
the swine herds came up with the pigs, which were
then shut up for the night in their thighs, and
a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven
into them. But Eumaeus called to his men and said,
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bring in the best pig you have, that I may
sacrifice him for this stranger, and we will take toll
of him ourselves. We have had trouble enough this long
time feeding pigs, while others reap the fruit of our labour.
On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought
in a fine, fat, five year old boar pig and
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set it at the altar. Eumaeus did not forget the gods,
for he was a man of good principles. So the
first thing he did was to cut bristles from the
pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to
all the gods as he did, so that Ulysses might
return home again. Then he clubbed the pig with a
billet of oak which he had kept back when he
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was chopping the firewood, and stunned it while the others
slaughtered and singed it. Then they cut it up, and
Eumaeus began by putting raw pieces from each joint on
to some of the fat. These he sprinkled with barley
meal and laid upon the embers. They cut the rest
of the meat up small put the pieces upon the
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spits and roasted them till they were done. When they
had taken them off the spits, they threw them onto
the dresser in a heap. The swineherd, who was a
most equitable man, then stood up to give every one
his share. He made seven portions. One of these he
set apart for Mercury, the son of Maya, and the nymphs,
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praying to them as he did so. The others he
dealt out to the men man by man. He gave
Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a
mark of a special and Ulysses was much pleased. I
hope Eumaeus. He said that Jove will be as well
disposed towards you as I am, for the respect you
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are showing to an outcast like myself. To this, you answered,
O Swineherd, Eumaeus, eat my good fellow, and enjoy your supper,
such as it is. God grants this and withholds that
just as he thinks right, for he can do whatever
he chooses. As he spoke, he cut off the first
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piece and offered it as a burnt sacrifice to the
immortal gods. Then he made them a drink offering, put
the cup in the hands of Ulysses, and sat down
to his own portion. Mesaulius brought them their bread. The
swineherd had brought this man on his own account from
among the Tathians during his master's absence, and had paid
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for him with his own money, without saying anything either
to his mistress or Laertes. They then laid their hands
upon the good things that were before them, and when
they had had enough to eat and drink, Messauleas took
away what was left of the bread, and they all
went to bed after having made a hearty supper. Now
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the night came on, stormy and very dark, for there
was no moon. It poured without ceasing, and the wind
blew strong from the west, which is a wet quarter.
So Ulysses thought he would see whether Eumaeus, in the
excellent care he took of him, would take off his
own cloak and give it to him, or make one
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of his men give him one. Listen to me, he said,
Eumaeus and the rest of you, when I have said
a prayer, I will tell you something. It is the
wine that makes me talk. In this way, wine will
make even a wise man fall to singing. It will
make him chockle and dance and say many a word
that he had better leave on spa spoken still. As
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I have begun, I will go on. Would that I
was still young and strong as when we had got
up an ambuscade before Troy Menelaeus and Ulysses were the leaders,
but I was in command also for the other two
would have it. So, when we had come up to
the wall of the city, we crouched down beneath our
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armor and lay there under cover of the reeds and
thick brushwood that grew about the swamp. It came on
to freeze with a north wind blowing. The snow fell
small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were
coated thick with rime. The others had all got cloaks
and shirts and slept comfortably enough with their shields about
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their shoulders. But I had carelessly left my cloak behind me,
not thinking that I should be too cold, and had
gone off in nothing but my shirt and shield. When
the night was two thirds through and the stars had
shifted their place, I nudged Ulysses, who was close to me,
with my elbow, and he at once gave me his ear,
(30:07):
Ulysses said, I this cold will be the death of me,
for I have no cloak. Some god fooled me into
setting off with nothing on but my shirt, and I
do not know what to do. Ulysses, who was as
crafty as he was valiant, hit upon the following plan.
Keep still, said he in a low voice, or the
(30:28):
others will hear you. Then he raised his head on
his elbow. My friends said he, I've had a dream
from heaven in my sleep. We are a long way
from the ships. I wish some one would go down
and tell Agamemnon to send us up more men at once.
On this thoas son of Andreamon, threw off his cloak
(30:50):
and set out running for the ships. Whereon I took
the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning.
Would that I was still young and strong as I
was in those days, For then some one of you
swineherds would give me a cloak, both out of good
will and for the respect due to a brave soldier.
But now people look down on me because my clothes
(31:13):
are shabby. And Eumaeus answered, old man, you have told
us an excellent story and have said nothing so far,
but what is quite satisfactory for the present. Therefore you
shall want neither clothing nor anything else that a stranger
in distress me reasonably expect. But tomorrow morning you have
(31:34):
to shake your own old rags about your body again,
for we have not many spare cloaks nor shirts up here,
but every man has only one. When Ulysses son comes
home again, he will give you both cloak and shirt,
and send you wherever you may want to go. With this,
he got up and made a bed for Ulysses by
(31:57):
throwing some goat skins and sheepskins on the ground in
front of the fire. Here Ulysses lay down, and Eumaeus
covered him over with a great heavy cloak that he
kept for a change in case of extraordinarily bad weather.
Thus did Ulysses sleep, and the young men slept beside him.
(32:18):
But the swineherd did not like sleeping away from his pigs.
So he got ready to go outside, and Ulysses was
glad to see that he looked after his property during
his master's absence. First, he slung his sword over his
brawny shoulders and put on a thick cloak to keep
out the wind. He also took the skin of a
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large and well fed goat and a javelin in case
of attack from men or dogs. Thus equipped, he went
to his rest, where the pigs were camping under an
overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the north wind.
End of book Fourtyan
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