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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: and am on earth and see the light. For thus will I declare
to thee, and it shall surely come to pass. Right quickly
shall the black blood of such an one flow about our spear;
for Odysseus, waster of cities, of a truth did many a time
set me too upon his knees, and gave me roasted flesh into
my hand, and held the red wine to my lips. Wherefore
Telemachus is far the dearest of all men to me, and I bid
him have no fear of death, not from the wooers' hands; but
from the gods none may avoid it.'
Thus he spake comforting her, but was himself the while
framing death for her son.
The Odyssey |
