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Leiocritus

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Leiocritus
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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place of assembly1 observation
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Leiocritus is present at the assembly when he breaks it up.

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“On this he broke up the assembly”

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Leiocritus, son of Evenor, derides Mentor’s appeal and insists that it is hard for one man to fight many suitors over their food.

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“Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying, ‘Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us? It is a hard thing for one man to fight with many about his victuals.”

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“Leiocritus, son of Evenor”

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Book 2 · Passage 15

Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying, ‘Mentor, what folly is all this, that you should set the people to stay us? It is a hard thing for one man to fight with many about his victuals. Even though Ulysses himself were to set upon us while we are feasting in his house, and do his best to oust us, his wife, who wants him back so very badly, would have small cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon his own head if he fought against such great odds. There is no sense in what you have been saying. Now, therefore, do you people go about your business, and let his father’s old friends, Mentor and Halitherses, speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all—which I do not think he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes and tells him something.’