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marked dance space at the Phaeacian games

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marked dance space at the Phaeacian games
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Phaeacian games ground
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Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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best young dancers of the Phaeacian townCharacter1 observation
·Direct

The town’s best young dancers danced in the marked space.

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“On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king’s house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers. Presently the servant came back with Demodocus’s lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.”
DemodocusCharacter1 observation
·Direct

Demodocus took his place amid the stewards in the marked dance space.

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“On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king’s house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers. Presently the servant came back with Demodocus’s lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.”
Demodocus’s lyreItem1 observation
·Direct

Demodocus’s lyre was brought to him in the marked dance space.

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“On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king’s house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers. Presently the servant came back with Demodocus’s lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.”
nine stewards of the Phaeacian sportsCharacter1 observation
·Direct

The nine sports stewards smoothed and marked the dance space.

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“On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king’s house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers. Presently the servant came back with Demodocus’s lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.”

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·Direct

The sports stewards smooth and mark a wide dance space.

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“It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.”

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“they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers”

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Book 8 · Passage 18

On this a servant hurried off to bring the lyre from the king’s house, and the nine men who had been chosen as stewards stood forward. It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers. Presently the servant came back with Demodocus’s lyre, and he took his place in the midst of them, whereon the best young dancers in the town began to foot and trip it so nimbly that Ulysses was delighted with the merry twinkling of their feet.