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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: Then the messenger, the slayer of Argos, answered him: 'I
would that this might be, Apollo, my prince of archery! So
might thrice as many bonds innumerable encompass me about,
and all ye gods be looking on and all the goddesses, yet
would I lie by golden Aphrodite.'
So spake he, and laughter rose among the deathless gods.
Howbeit, Poseidon laughed not, but was instant with
Hephaestus, the renowed artificer, to loose the bonds of
Ares: and he uttered his voice, and spake to him winged
words:
'Loose him, I pray thee, and I promise even as thou biddest
The Odyssey |
