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nymphs honoured by Eumaeus’s sacrifice

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nymphs honoured by Eumaeus’s sacrifice
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The source calls these figures nymphs but does not explicitly identify them as deities or with another registered nymph collective.

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The nymphs share a dedicated sacrificial portion with Mercury and receive Eumaeus’s prayer.

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“Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so”

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“Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs”

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Book 14 · Passage 24

On this he began chopping firewood, while the others brought in a fine fat five year old boar pig, and set it at the altar. Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig’s face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again. Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it. Then they cut it up, and Eumaeus began by putting raw pieces from each joint on to some of the fat; these he sprinkled with barley meal, and laid upon the embers; they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces upon the spits and roasted them till they were done; when they had taken them off the spits they threw them on to the dresser in a heap. The swineherd, who was a most equitable man, then stood up to give every one his share. He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man. He gave Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a mark of especial honour, and Ulysses was much pleased. ‘I hope, Eumaeus,’ said he, ‘that Jove will be as well disposed towards you as I am, for the respect you are showing to an outcast like myself.’