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bond fastening Ulysses’s gift chest

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bond fastening Ulysses’s gift chest
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“made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him”

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Book 8 · Passage 42

When Ulysses heard this he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him. He had done so before an upper servant told him to come to the bath and wash himself. He was very glad of a warm bath, for he had had no one to wait upon him ever since he left the house of Calypso, who as long as he remained with her had taken as good care of him as though he had been a god. When the servants had done washing and anointing him with oil, and had given him a clean cloak and shirt, he left the bath room and joined the guests who were sitting over their wine. Lovely Nausicaa stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, and admired him as she saw him pass. ‘Farewell stranger,’ said she, ‘do not forget me when you are safe at home again, for it is to me first that you owe a ransom for having saved your life.’