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mothers in the simile for the crew’s reunion with Ulysses

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mothers in the simile for the crew’s reunion with Ulysses
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·Simile

The crew’s reunion with Ulysses is likened to calves greeting mothers returning home to be milked.

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“as calves break out and gambol round their mothers, when they see them coming home to be milked after they have been feeding all day”

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·Simile
“their mothers, when they see them coming home to be milked”

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Book 10 · Passage 33

‘I agreed to this, so I went back to the sea shore, and found the men at the ship weeping and wailing most piteously. When they saw me the silly blubbering fellows began frisking round me as calves break out and gambol round their mothers, when they see them coming home to be milked after they have been feeding all day, and the homestead resounds with their lowing. They seemed as glad to see me as though they had got back to their own rugged Ithaca, where they had been born and bred. ‘Sir,’ said the affectionate creatures, ‘we are as glad to see you back as though we had got safe home to Ithaca; but tell us all about the fate of our comrades.’