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golden ewer and silver basin used for Ulysses

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golden ewer and silver basin used for Ulysses
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A beautiful golden ewer and silver basin are used for Ulysses to wash his hands.

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“water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for him to wash his hands”

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“a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin”

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Book 7 · Passage 16

When Alcinous heard this he took Ulysses by the hand, raised him from the hearth, and bade him take the seat of Laodamas, who had been sitting beside him, and was his favourite son. A maid servant then brought him water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for him to wash his hands, and she drew a clean table beside him; an upper servant brought him bread and offered him many good things of what there was in the house, and Ulysses ate and drank. Then Alcinous said to one of the servants, ‘Pontonous, mix a cup of wine and hand it round that we may make drink-offerings to Jove the lord of thunder, who is the protector of all well-disposed suppliants.’