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the day of his marriage, a pregnant sow gave birth to a bastard brood of marine creatures. A seer was asked and he foretold a succession of dumb children to come, like the voiceless generation of the sea. After the war
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115:Thrasymedes
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954:Demodocus
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591:Autolycus
551:House of
444:The Iliad
232:Argonauts
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139:Echephron
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587:(father)
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553:Odysseus
252:Scholion
213:Odysseus
209:Echemmon
187:Melaneus
183:Periphas
158:Dionysus
156:against
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119:Pisidice
111:Anaxibia
107:Eurydice
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856:Suitors
841:Oceanus
801:Calypso
760:Mycenae
715:Perseus
696:Echetus
615:Eumaeus
609:Phemius
573:Ctimene
543:Odyssey
453:Homer,
369:Homer,
317:Odyssey
228:Clytius
179:Glaucus
169:, were
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1024:Scylla
959:Dolius
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796:Athena
791:Aeolus
770:Mentes
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701:Nestor
680:Aretus
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603:Mentor
563:(wife)
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175:Myrsus
167:Laobie
103:Nestor
92:Iolcus
88:Pelias
60:Árētos
20:Aretus
806:Circe
739:Helen
705:Pylos
685:Arete
645:Argos
639:Medon
569:(son)
465:Homer
439:Homer
372:Iliad
320:3.414
312:Homer
301:1.9.9
239:Notes
201:Priam
171:Lycus
154:India
99:Pylos
994:Irus
927:Ajax
836:Zeus
784:Gods
278:ISBN
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