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foreign country in Eumaeus’s father-and-son simile

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foreign country in Eumaeus’s father-and-son simile
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·Simile

The only son in the simile had spent ten years absent in a foreign country.

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The words were hardly out of his mouth before his son stood at the door. Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master. He kissed his head and both his beautiful eyes, and wept for joy. A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years’ absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship. He embraced him, kissed him all over as though he had come back from the dead, and spoke fondly to him saying:

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·Simile

The foreign country in the simile is the place of the only son’s ten-year absence and hardship.

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after ten years’ absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship

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ten years’ absence in a foreign country

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Book 16 · Passage 3

The words were hardly out of his mouth before his son stood at the door. Eumaeus sprang to his feet, and the bowls in which he was mixing wine fell from his hands, as he made towards his master. He kissed his head and both his beautiful eyes, and wept for joy. A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years’ absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship. He embraced him, kissed him all over as though he had come back from the dead, and spoke fondly to him saying: