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torches carried by Arete’s maids

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torches carried by Arete’s maids
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room over the gateway in Alcinous’s house1 observation
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Arete’s maids carried their torches into the gatehouse room while making the bed.

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“Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.”

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Arete’s maids carry torches as they go to prepare Ulysses’s bed.

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“The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed”

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“The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands”

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Book 7 · Passage 28

Thus did they converse. Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear. The maids thereon went out with torches in their hands, and when they had made the bed they came up to Ulysses and said, ‘Rise, sir stranger, and come with us for your bed is ready,’ and glad indeed was he to go to his rest.