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boatmen who ferry people

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boatmen who ferry people
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Claims

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The boatmen ferry over people who come to them and transport Philoetius’s animals.

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“These were brought over by the boatmen who are there to take people over when any one comes to them”

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“These were brought over by the boatmen who are there to take people over when any one comes to them.”

Passage preview

Book 20 · Passage 16

Ulysses made no answer, but bowed his head and brooded. Then a third man, Philoetius, joined them, who was bringing in a barren heifer and some goats. These were brought over by the boatmen who are there to take people over when any one comes to them. So Philoetius made his heifer and his goats secure under the gatehouse, and then went up to the swineherd. ‘Who, Swineherd,’ said he, ‘is this stranger that is lately come here? Is he one of your men? What is his family? Where does he come from? Poor fellow, he looks as if he had been some great man, but the gods give sorrow to whom they will—even to kings if it so pleases them.’