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BOOK XXI
But now the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, put it in the mind of the daughter
of Ikarios, circumspect Penelope,
to set the bow before the suitors, and the gray iron, in the house of
Odysseus: the contest, the beginning of the slaughter.
5 So she ascended the high staircase of her own house,
and in her solid hand took up the beautiful, brazen
and artfully curved key, with an ivory handle upon it.
