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lyre in Ulysses’s bow-stringing simile

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lyre in Ulysses’s bow-stringing simile
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The bard’s lyre receives a new peg strung with twisted gut in the simile for Ulysses’s bow.

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“a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends”

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“a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre”

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Book 21 · Passage 39

But Ulysses, when he had taken it up and examined it all over, strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends. Then he took it in his right hand to prove the string, and it sang sweetly under his touch like the twittering of a swallow. The suitors were dismayed, and turned colour as they heard it; at that moment, moreover, Jove thundered loudly as a sign, and the heart of Ulysses rejoiced as he heard the omen that the son of scheming Saturn had sent him.