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Nestor’s company at the Pylian feast

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Nestor’s company at the Pylian feast
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Collective
Editorial note
The source does not equate this immediate company with all Pylian people or all nine guilds.

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Nestor’s company prepares dinner around him, placing meat on spits while other pieces cook.

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“his company round him were busy getting dinner ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits {26} while other pieces were cooking”

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“his company round him were busy getting dinner ready”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 5

She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were assembled. There they found Nestor sitting with his sons, while his company round him were busy getting dinner ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits {26} while other pieces were cooking. When they saw the strangers they crowded round them, took them by the hand and bade them take their places. Nestor’s son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes. Then he gave them their portions of the inward meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup, handing it to Minerva first, and saluting her at the same time.