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fleeces, coverlets, and blankets for Ulysses and Penelope’s marriage bed

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fleeces, coverlets, and blankets for Ulysses and Penelope’s marriage bed
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·Direct

The fleeces, coverlets, and blankets were laid on the bed in Ulysses and Penelope’s bed chamber.

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Thus did they converse. Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft coverlets; as soon as they had laid them, the nurse went back into the house to go to her rest, leaving the bed chamber woman Eurynome {183} to show Ulysses and Penelope to bed by torch light. When she had conducted them to their room she went back, and they then came joyfully to the rites of their own old bed. Telemachus, Philoetius, and the swine herd now left off dancing, and made the women leave off also. They then laid themselves down to sleep in the cloisters.

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·Hypothetical

Fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets are ordered as bedding for Ulysses’s bed during Penelope’s test.

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put bedding upon it with fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets
·Direct

Soft coverlets are laid as the bed is made ready for Ulysses and Penelope.

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Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft coverlets; as soon as they had laid them

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·Reported
put bedding upon it with fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets
·Direct
made the bed ready with soft coverlets

Passage preview

Book 23 · Passage 17

‘My dear,’ answered Penelope, ‘I have no wish to set myself up, nor to depreciate you; but I am not struck by your appearance, for I very well remember what kind of a man you were when you set sail from Ithaca. Nevertheless, Euryclea, take his bed outside the bed chamber that he himself built. Bring the bed outside this room, and put bedding upon it with fleeces, good coverlets, and blankets.’