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arrow Ulysses shot through the twelve axes

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Canonical name: arrow Ulysses shot through the twelve axes
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outer court1 observation

·Direct

Ulysses’s arrow passed through the axes and entered the outer courtyard.

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“He took an arrow that was lying upon the table {165}—for those which the Achaeans were so shortly about to taste were all inside the quiver—he laid it on the centre-piece of the bow, and drew the notch of the arrow and the string toward him, still seated on his seat. When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handle-holes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard. Then he said to Telemachus: ”

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·Direct

Ulysses takes the table arrow and shoots it through every axe handle-hole into the outer courtyard.

See evidence text

“an arrow that was lying upon the table {165}—for those which the Achaeans were so shortly about to taste were all inside the quiver—he laid it on the centre-piece of the bow, and drew the notch of the arrow and the string toward him, still seated on his seat. When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handle-holes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard”

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·Direct

“When he had taken aim he let fly, and his arrow pierced every one of the handle-holes of the axes from the first onwards till it had gone right through them, and into the outer courtyard”

·Remembered

“sent his arrow through the iron”