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The Odyssey of Homer in English · Aug 13, 2025 · 18 min

BOOK 9

BOOK IX Then resourceful Odysseus spoke in turn and answered him: ‘O great Alkinoös, pre-eminent among all people, surely indeed it is a good thing to listen to a singer such as this one before us, who is like the gods in his singing; 5 for I think there is no occasion accomplished that is more pleasant than when festivity holds sway among all the populace,

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BOOK IX

Then resourceful Odysseus spoke in turn and answered him: ‘O great

Alkinoös, pre-eminent among all people,

surely indeed it is a good thing to listen to a singer

such as this one before us, who is like the gods in his singing; 5 for I think

there is no occasion accomplished that is more pleasant than when festivity

holds sway among all the populace,

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