urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng4:2.224 (card)

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REF: 2.224

With these words he sat down, and Mentor who had been a friend of Odysseus, and had been left in charge of everything with full authority over the servants, rose to speak. He, then, plainly and in all honesty addressed them thus: "Hear me, men of Ithaca, I hope that you may never have a kind and well-disposed ruler any more, nor one who will govern you equitably; I hope that all your chiefs henceforward may be cruel and unjust, for there is not one of you but has forgotten Odysseus, who ruled you as though he were your father. I am not half so angry with the suitors, for if they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their minds [noos], and wager their heads that Odysseus will not return, they can take the high hand and eat up his estate, but as for you others I am shocked at the way in which you the rest of the population [dêmos] all sit still without even trying to stop such scandalous goings on - which you could do if you chose, for you are many and they are few." Leiokritos, son of Euenor, answered him saying, "Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us? It is a hard thing for one man to fight with many about his victuals. Even though Odysseus himself were to set upon us while we are feasting in his house, and do his best to oust us, his wife, who wants him back so very badly, would have small cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon his own head if he fought against such great odds. There is no sense in what you have been saying. Now, therefore, do you people go about your business, and let his father's old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all - which I do not think he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes and tells him something." On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own abode, while the suitors returned to the house of Odysseus.

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old	old	old[1]	306	6715	2.224.t306	True
friends,	friends	friends[1]	307	6716	2.224.t307	True
Mentor	Mentor	Mentor[3]	308	6717	2.224.t308	True
and	and	and[14]	309	6718	2.224.t309	True
Halitherses,	Halitherses	Halitherses[1]	310	6719	2.224.t310	True
speed	speed	speed[1]	311	6720	2.224.t311	True
this	this	this[2]	312	6721	2.224.t312	True
boy	boy	boy[1]	313	6722	2.224.t313	True
on	on	on[10]	314	6723	2.224.t314	True
his	his	his[11]	315	6724	2.224.t315	True
journey,	journey	journey[1]	316	6725	2.224.t316	True
if	if	if[5]	317	6726	2.224.t317	True
he	he	he[30]	318	6727	2.224.t318	True
goes	goes	goes[1]	319	6728	2.224.t319	True
at	at	at[15]	320	6729	2.224.t320	True
all	all	all[6]	321	6730	2.224.t321	True
-		[0]	322	6731	2.224.t322	True
which	which	which[3]	323	6732	2.224.t323	True
I	I	I[7]	324	6733	2.224.t324	True
do	do	do[6]	325	6734	2.224.t325	True
not	not	not[4]	326	6735	2.224.t326	True
think	think	think[1]	327	6736	2.224.t327	True
he	he	he[31]	328	6737	2.224.t328	True
will,	will	will[3]	329	6738	2.224.t329	True
for	for	for[10]	330	6739	2.224.t330	True
he	he	he[32]	331	6740	2.224.t331	True
is	is	is[17]	332	6741	2.224.t332	True
more	more	more[2]	333	6742	2.224.t333	True
likely	likely	likely[1]	334	6743	2.224.t334	True
to	to	to[14]	335	6744	2.224.t335	True
stay	stay	stay[2]	336	6745	2.224.t336	True
where	where	where[1]	337	6746	2.224.t337	True
he	he	he[34]	338	6747	2.224.t338	True
is	is	is[18]	339	6748	2.224.t339	True
till	till	till[2]	340	6749	2.224.t340	True
some	some	some[1]	341	6750	2.224.t341	True
one	one	one[5]	342	6751	2.224.t342	True
comes	comes	comes[1]	343	6752	2.224.t343	True
and	and	and[15]	344	6753	2.224.t344	True
tells	tells	tells[1]	345	6754	2.224.t345	True
him	him	him[4]	346	6755	2.224.t346	True
something."	something	something[1]	347	6756	2.224.t347	True
On	On	On[1]	348	6757	2.224.t348	True
this	this	this[3]	349	6758	2.224.t349	True
he	he	he[35]	350	6759	2.224.t350	True
broke	broke	broke[1]	351	6760	2.224.t351	True
up	up	up[4]	352	6761	2.224.t352	True
the	the	the[23]	353	6762	2.224.t353	True
assembly,	assembly	assembly[1]	354	6763	2.224.t354	True
and	and	and[16]	355	6764	2.224.t355	True
every	every	every[2]	356	6765	2.224.t356	True
man	man	man[4]	357	6766	2.224.t357	True
went	went	went[1]	358	6767	2.224.t358	True
back	back	back[2]	359	6768	2.224.t359	True
to	to	to[15]	360	6769	2.224.t360	True
his	his	his[13]	361	6770	2.224.t361	True
own	own	own[3]	362	6771	2.224.t362	True
abode,	abode	abode[1]	363	6772	2.224.t363	True
while	while	while[2]	364	6773	2.224.t364	True
the	the	the[24]	365	6774	2.224.t365	True
suitors	suitors	suitors[2]	366	6775	2.224.t366	True
returned	returned	returned[1]	367	6776	2.224.t367	True
to	to	to[17]	368	6777	2.224.t368	True
the	the	the[25]	369	6778	2.224.t369	True
house	house	house[2]	370	6779	2.224.t370	True
of	of	of[8]	371	6780	2.224.t371	True
Odysseus.	Odysseus	Odysseus[5]	372	6781	2.224.t372	True