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twelve picked bulls prepared for sacrifice to Neptune

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twelve picked bulls prepared for sacrifice to Neptune
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Collective
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Twelve picked bulls are prepared for sacrifice to Neptune after the people hear Alcinous’s command.

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“sacrifice twelve picked bulls to Neptune that he may have mercy upon us, and not bury our city under the high mountain.’ When the people heard this they were afraid and got ready the bulls”

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“sacrifice twelve picked bulls to Neptune”
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“got ready the bulls”

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Book 13 · Passage 18

This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alcinous said, ‘I remember now the old prophecy of my father. He said that Neptune would be angry with us for taking every one so safely over the sea, and would one day wreck a Phaeacian ship as it was returning from an escort, and bury our city under a high mountain. This was what my old father used to say, and now it is all coming true. {117} Now therefore let us all do as I say; in the first place we must leave off giving people escorts when they come here, and in the next let us sacrifice twelve picked bulls to Neptune that he may have mercy upon us, and not bury our city under the high mountain.’ When the people heard this they were afraid and got ready the bulls.