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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: alive and well, and to take his revenge in his own house on the
suitors who behaved so badly to him."
"My dear nurse," said Penelope, "do not exult too confidently
over all this. You know how delighted every one would be to see
Ulysses come home--more particularly myself, and the son who has
been born to both of us; but what you tell me cannot be really
true. It is some god who is angry with the suitors for their
great wickedness, and has made an end of them; for they
respected no man in the whole world, neither rich nor poor, who
came near them, who came near them, and they have come to a bad
end in consequence of their iniquity; Ulysses is dead far away
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