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fishes in the dead suitors’ simile

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fishes in the dead suitors’ simile
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Netted fishes thrown onto a beach gasp for water until the sun’s heat kills them in the dead-suitors simile.

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like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them

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They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water

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Book 22 · Passage 39

The pair went into the outer court as fast as they could, and sat down by Jove’s great altar, looking fearfully round, and still expecting that they would be killed. Then Ulysses searched the whole court carefully over, to see if anyone had managed to hide himself and was still living, but he found them all lying in the dust and weltering in their blood. They were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an end of them. Even so were the suitors lying all huddled up one against the other.