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Nestor’s children

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Canonical name
Nestor’s children
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Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
This prayer collective includes all of Nestor’s children and is not distributed only to sons or only to daughters.

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Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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·Reported
“upon myself, my good wife, and my children”
·Reported
“heaven has blessed both as regards wife and offspring”

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Book 3 · Passage 30

When she had thus spoken, she flew away in the form of an eagle, and all marvelled as they beheld it. Nestor was astonished, and took Telemachus by the hand. ‘My friend,’ said he, ‘I see that you are going to be a great hero some day, since the gods wait upon you thus while you are still so young. This can have been none other of those who dwell in heaven than Jove’s redoubtable daughter, the Trito-born, who shewed such favour towards your brave father among the Argives. Holy queen,’ he continued, ‘vouchsafe to send down thy grace upon myself, my good wife, and my children. In return, I will offer you in sacrifice a broad-browed heifer of a year old, unbroken, and never yet brought by man under the yoke. I will gild her horns, and will offer her up to you in sacrifice.’