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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: down on the ashen threshold within the doorway, leaning
against a pillar of cypress wood, which the carpenter on a
time had deftly planed, and thereon made straight the line.
And Telemachus called the swineherd to him, and took a
whole loaf out of the fair basket, and of flesh so much as
his hands could hold in their grasp, saying:
'Take and give this to the stranger, and bid him go about
and beg himself of all the wooers in their turn, for shame
is an ill mate of a needy man.'
So he spake, and the swineherd went when he heard that
saying, and stood by and spake to him winged words:
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