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roof of the cloister in Ulysses’s house

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roof of the cloister in Ulysses’s house
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covered cloisters3 observations
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The cloister roof was supported by the bearing-post.

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one of the bearing posts that supported the roof of the cloisters {8}
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The roof was supported over the covered cloister.

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Then Penelope resolved that she would show herself to the suitors. She knew of the plot against Telemachus, for the servant Medon had overheard their counsels and had told her; she went down therefore to the court attended by her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister holding a veil before her face, and rebuked Antinous saying:
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The roof supported by the bearing-post was over the cloister.

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With these words she came down from her upper room, not alone but attended by two of her maidens, and when she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister, holding a veil before her face, and with a staid maid servant on either side of her. As they beheld her the suitors were so overpowered and became so desperately enamoured of her, that each one prayed he might win her for his own bed fellow.

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·Direct

The cloister roof is supported by the bearing-post beside which Penelope stands.

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bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister holding a veil
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The cloister roof is supported by the bearing-post beside which Penelope stands.

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bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister

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the roof of the cloister
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the roof of the cloister
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the rafters in the roof of the cloister

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Book 1 · Passage 23

Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans. Penelope, daughter of Icarius, heard his song from her room upstairs, and came down by the great staircase, not alone, but attended by two of her handmaids. When she reached the suitors she stood by one of the bearing posts that supported the roof of the cloisters {8} with a staid maiden on either side of her. She held a veil, moreover, before her face, and was weeping bitterly.