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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: Hesiod, but surely this passage suggests acquaintance with the
Works and Ways, though it by no means compels it.
{147} It would seem as though Eurynome and Euryclea were the
same person. See note {156}
{148} It is plain, therefore, that Iris was commonly accepted as
the messenger of the gods, though our authoress will never
permit her to fetch or carry for any one.
{149} i.e. the doorway leading from the inner to the outer court.
{150} Surely in this scene, again, Eurynome is in reality
Euryclea. See note {156}
{151} These, I imagine, must have been in the open part of the
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