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ghosts of famous men’s wives and daughters seen by Ulysses

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ghosts of famous men’s wives and daughters seen by Ulysses
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wives and daughters of heroes

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The ghosts of famous men’s wives and daughters gather around the blood and recount their race and lineage one by one.

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“the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men. They gathered in crowds about the blood, and I considered how I might question them severally. In the end I deemed that it would be best to draw the keen blade that hung by my sturdy thigh, and keep them from all drinking the blood at once. So they came up one after the other, and each one as I questioned her told me her race and lineage”

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“the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men”

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Book 11 · Passage 17

‘Thus did we converse, and anon Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men. They gathered in crowds about the blood, and I considered how I might question them severally. In the end I deemed that it would be best to draw the keen blade that hung by my sturdy thigh, and keep them from all drinking the blood at once. So they came up one after the other, and each one as I questioned her told me her race and lineage.