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old Sicel woman
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their mother
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Minerva reports that an old woman looks after Laertes at his country place.
“They say, however, that he never comes to town now, and lives by himself in the country, faring hardly, with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him, when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard.”
The old Sicel woman was inside Laertes’ house.
“Thus did they converse in the house of Hades deep down within the bowels of the earth. Meanwhile Ulysses and the others passed out of the town and soon reached the fair and well-tilled farm of Laertes, which he had reclaimed with infinite labour. Here was his house, with a lean-to running all round it, where the slaves who worked for him slept and sat and ate, while inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his country-farm. When Ulysses got there, he said to his son and to the other two: ”
the old Sicel woman was physically present in Laertes’ house during Laertes’ washing and transformation.
“Thus conversing the two made their way towards the house. When they got there they found Telemachus with the stockman and the swineherd cutting up meat and mixing wine with water. Then the old Sicel woman took Laertes inside and washed him and anointed him with oil. She put him on a good cloak, and Minerva came up to him and gave him a more imposing presence, making him taller and stouter than before. When he came back his son was surprised to see him looking so like an immortal, and said to him, ‘My dear father, some one of the gods has been making you much taller and better-looking.’ ”
In Minerva’s Mentes cover story, an old woman looks after Laertes and prepares his dinner when he returns tired from his vineyard.
“with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him, when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard”
The old Sicel woman lives inside Laertes’s house and looks after him at his country farm.
“inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his country-farm”
The old Sicel woman takes Laertes inside, washes and oils him, and dresses him in a good cloak.
“the old Sicel woman took Laertes inside and washed him and anointed him with oil. She put him on a good cloak”
The Sicel woman, mother of Dolius’s sons, fetches them from work and looks after the aging Laertes.
“their mother, the Sicel woman who looked after Laertes now that he was growing old, had been to fetch them”
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“with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him”
“an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his country-farm”
“their mother, the Sicel woman who looked after Laertes”