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main wall of Eumaeus’s yards

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main wall of Eumaeus’s yards
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Editorial note
The registry’s collective fences around Eumaeus’s yards remain separate because the current source does not equate them with this singular main wall.

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pig yards beside Eumaeus’s hut1 observation
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The main wall enclosed Eumaeus’s yards.

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“Thus did he urge the swineherd; Eumaeus, therefore, took his sandals, bound them to his feet, and started for the town. Minerva watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman—fair, stately, and wise. She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody. Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards. She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards. Then she said to him: ”

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The main wall of Eumaeus’s yards is where Ulysses stands outside to confer with Minerva.

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“stood before her outside the main wall of the yards. Then she said”

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“outside the main wall of the yards”

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Book 16 · Passage 15

Thus did he urge the swineherd; Eumaeus, therefore, took his sandals, bound them to his feet, and started for the town. Minerva watched him well off the station, and then came up to it in the form of a woman—fair, stately, and wise. She stood against the side of the entry, and revealed herself to Ulysses, but Telemachus could not see her, and knew not that she was there, for the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody. Ulysses saw her, and so did the dogs, for they did not bark, but went scared and whining off to the other side of the yards. She nodded her head and motioned to Ulysses with her eyebrows; whereon he left the hut and stood before her outside the main wall of the yards. Then she said to him: