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animals sacrificed for the suitors’ meal

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Canonical name
animals sacrificed for the suitors’ meal
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Kind
Animal
Scope
Collective
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Ulysses’ house1 observation
·Direct

The sheep, goats, pigs, and heifer were sacrificed within Ulysses’ house.

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“They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown. {141} Thus they made ready for their meal. In the meantime Ulysses and the swineherd were about starting for the town, and the swineherd said, ‘Stranger, I suppose you still want to go to town to-day, as my master said you were to do; for my own part I should have liked you to stay here as a station hand, but I must do as my master tells me, or he will scold me later on, and a scolding from one’s master is a very serious thing. Let us then be off, for it is now broad day; it will be night again directly and then you will find it colder.’ {142} ”

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·Direct

Fat, well-grown sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer are sacrificed for the suitors’ meal.

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“ seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown. {141} Thus they made r”
·Direct

Sheep, goats, pigs, and the heifer are sacrificed for the suitors’ meal.

See evidence text
“They sacrificed the sheep, goats, pigs, and the heifer”

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·Direct
“sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown”

Passage preview

Book 17 · Passage 16

They left their sports as he told them, and when they were within the house, they laid their cloaks on the benches and seats inside, and then sacrificed some sheep, goats, pigs, and a heifer, all of them fat and well grown. {141} Thus they made ready for their meal. In the meantime Ulysses and the swineherd were about starting for the town, and the swineherd said, ‘Stranger, I suppose you still want to go to town to-day, as my master said you were to do; for my own part I should have liked you to stay here as a station hand, but I must do as my master tells me, or he will scold me later on, and a scolding from one’s master is a very serious thing. Let us then be off, for it is now broad day; it will be night again directly and then you will find it colder.’ {142}