Deity · Collective
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immortal gods
Descriptive reference · Reported
ever-living gods
Descriptive reference · Disguised
gods that are from everlasting
Descriptive reference · Direct
blessed gods
Descriptive reference · Reported
the immortals
Descriptive reference · Disguised
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The blessed gods were illumined in Olympus.
“When she had said this Minerva went away to Olympus, which they say is the everlasting home of the gods. Here no wind beats roughly, and neither rain nor snow can fall; but it abides in everlasting sunshine and in a great peacefulness of light, wherein the blessed gods are illumined for ever and ever. This was the place to which the goddess went when she had given instructions to the girl.”
Laertes declared that the gods were still in Olympus.
“Laertes’ strength failed him when he heard the convincing proofs which his son had given him. He threw his arms about him, and Ulysses had to support him, or he would have gone off into a swoon; but as soon as he came to, and was beginning to recover his senses, he said, ‘O father Jove, then you gods are still in Olympus after all, if the suitors have really been punished for their insolence and folly. Nevertheless, I am much afraid that I shall have all the townspeople of Ithaca up here directly, and they will be sending messengers everywhere throughout the cities of the Cephallenians.’ ”
The gods decree Ulysses’ return to Ithaca and have begun to pity him, though his troubles will continue.
“the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him”
The other gods assemble in Olympian Jove’s house while Neptune is away.
“the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove”
If the gods are united, Neptune can hardly resist them.
“if we are all of a mind he can hardly stand out against us”
The crew makes drink offerings to the immortal and everlasting gods.
“made drink offerings to the immortal gods that are from everlasting”
Minerva says the gods have been with Telemachus from birth to the present.
“the gods have been with you from the time of your birth until now”
The gods meet in council.
“the gods met in council and with them”
The gods recognize one another regardless of how far apart they live.
“the gods all know each other, no matter how far they live from one another”
Calypso accuses the gods of jealousy when a goddess openly takes a mortal man as her mate.
“You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony”
The blessed gods are said to be illuminated forever in Olympus.
“Olympus, which they say is the everlasting home of the gods. Here no wind beats roughly, and neither rain nor snow can fall; but it abides in everlasting sunshine and in a great peacefulness of light, wherein the blessed gods are illumined for ever and ever”
The gods endowed Alcinous’s house with its splendours.
“the splendours with which the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous”
The gods are said to attend Phaeacian feasts openly and reveal themselves without concealment to solitary wayfarers.
“the gods are departing from their usual practice, for hitherto they have made themselves perfectly clear to us when we have been offering them hecatombs. They come and sit at our feasts just like one of our selves, and if any solitary wayfarer happens to stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment”
Unlike mortal men, the gods can uproot Moly and do whatever they like.
“mortal men cannot uproot it, but the gods can do whatever they like”
The gods produce signs and wonders in the slaughtered cattle: crawling hides, lowing joints, and noisily animate meat.
“the gods began at once to show signs and wonders among us, for the hides of the cattle crawled about, and the joints upon the spits began to low like cows, and the meat, whether cooked or raw, kept on making a noise just as cows do”
The blessed gods live in heaven and receive drink-offerings from the seated company.
“drink-offering to the blessed gods that live in heaven”
The gods receive the boar’s facial bristles while Eumaeus prays for Ulysses’s return.
“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”
The immortal gods receive the first piece as a burnt sacrifice and a drink-offering.
“he cut off the first piece and offered it as a burnt sacrifice to the immortal gods; then he made them a drink-offering”
The gods are said to be able to make any man look rich or poor with ease.
“it is an easy matter for the gods who live in heaven to make any man look either rich or poor”
A suitor says gods travel the world disguised as foreigners to judge wrongdoing and righteousness.
“the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries, and travel about the world to see who do amiss and who righteously”
The gods killed the parents of Pandareus’s daughters, leaving them orphaned.
“The daughters of Pandareus lost their father and mother, for the gods killed them, so they were left orphans”
Eumaeus prays to all the gods for Ulysses’s return.
“Eumaeus prayed to all the gods that Ulysses might return”
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“the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca”
“the immortal gods that are from everlasting”
“the gods have been with you from the time of your birth”
“the gods detained me in Egypt”
“the gods met in council”
“the blessed gods are illumined for ever and ever”
“the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous”
“made a drink-offering to the gods”
“your blessed gods”
“the immortal gods”
“all the blessed gods”
“all the gods in heaven”
“the blessed gods”
“the immortal gods”
“the blessed gods that live in heaven”
“as cunning as the gods”
“the way taken by the gods”
“The gods are by no means wanting in respect for you”
“among the gods”
“the gods delivered me from evil”
“the rest of the gods”
“the immortal gods”
“that he might dwell among the immortals”
“the gods do not let themselves be seen by everybody”
“all the gods”
“if the poor have gods and avenging deities at all”
“the gods go about disguised in all sorts of ways as people from foreign countries”
“they made their drink-offerings to the blessed gods”
“this is the manner of the gods”
“The daughters of Pandareus lost their father and mother, for the gods killed them”
“Eumaeus prayed to all the gods that Ulysses might return”
“the gods are far stronger than men.”
“you can hardly fathom the counsels of the gods”