Character · Individual
source-unnamed speaker of the remembered warning
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my old father
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Alcinous remembers his father warning that Neptune would wreck a returning escort ship and bury the Phaeacian city under a mountain.
“I do remember hearing my father say that Neptune was angry with us for being too easy-going in the matter of giving people escorts. He said that one of these days he should wreck a ship of ours as it was returning from having escorted some one, {74} and bury our city under a high mountain. This is what my father used to say,”
Alcinous’s father foretold that Neptune would wreck a returning escort ship and bury the city under a high mountain.
“old prophecy of my father. He said that Neptune would be angry with us for taking every one so safely over the sea, and would one day wreck a Phaeacian ship as it was returning from an escort, and bury our city under a high mountain. This was what my old father used to say”
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“I do remember hearing my father say that Neptune was angry with us”
“the old prophecy of my father”
“my old father used to say”