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peasants in the mourning-parent simile

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peasants in the mourning-parent simile
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Peasants in the simile rob the parent birds of their half-fledged young.

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robbed of their half fledged young by peasants. Thus piteously

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robbed of their half fledged young by peasants

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Book 16 · Passage 23

As he spoke he sat down, and Telemachus threw his arms about his father and wept. They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants. Thus piteously did they weep, and the sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Telemachus had not suddenly said, ‘In what ship, my dear father, did your crew bring you to Ithaca? Of what nation did they declare themselves to be—for you cannot have come by land?’