i n H o m e r ' s O d y s s e y ( 3 ) Then again the Goddess, bright-eyed Athena, took other counsel. She went her way to the house of divine Ulysses, [395] and there began to shed sweet sleep upon the suitors and made them to wander in their drinking, and from their hands she cast the cups. But they rose to go to their rest throughout the city, and remained no long time seated, for sleep was falling upon their eyelids.
22) Homer Odyssey 2.396 But to Telemachus spoke bright-eyed
Athena,
[400] calling him forward before the imposing living room, having likened
herself to Mentor both in form and in voice:
23) Homer Odyssey 2.405 [405] So saying, Pallas Athena led the way quickly, and he followed in the footsteps of the Goddess. Now when they had come down to the ship and to the sea, they found on the shore their long-haired comrades,
24) Homer Odyssey 2.416 Then on board the ship stepped Telemachus, and Athena went before him and sat down in the stern of the ship, and near her sat Telemachus, while the men loosed the stern cables and themselves stepped on board, and sat down upon the benches.
25) Homer Odyssey 2.420 [420] And bright-eyed Athena
sent them a favorable wind, a strong-blowing West wind that sang over the
wine-dark sea.
26) Homer Odyssey 3.10 And now the sun, leaving the beautiful
mere, sprang up into the brazen heaven to give light to the immortals and
to mortal men on the earth, the giver of grain; and they came to Pylos,
the well-built citadel of Neleus.
27) Homer Odyssey 3.14 And the Goddess, bright-eyed Athena,
spoke first to him, and said:
Then wise Telemachus answered her:
28) Homer Odyssey 3.25 [25] Then the Goddess, bright-eyed
Athena,
answered him:
29) Homer Odyssey 3.29 So spoke Pallas Athena, and led the way [30] quickly; but he followed in the footsteps of the Goddess; and they came to the assembly and the companies of the men of Pylos.
30) Homer Odyssey 3.42 [40] Immediately after he gave them
portions of the inner meat and poured wine in a golden cup, and, pledging
her, he spoke to Pallas Athena, daughter of
Zeus who bears the aegis:
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