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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: I do remember hearing my father say that Neptune was angry with
us for being too easy-going in the matter of giving people
escorts. He said that one of these days he should wreck a ship
of ours as it was returning from having escorted some one, {74}
and bury our city under a high mountain. This is what my used to
say, but whether the god will carry out his threat or no is a
matter which he will decide for himself.
"And now, tell me and tell me true. Where have you been
wandering, and in what countries have you travelled? Tell us of
the peoples themselves, and of their cities--who were hostile,
savage and uncivilised, and who, on the other hand, hospitable
The Odyssey |
