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The Odyssey of Homer

Note 19 — BOOK IV

William Cowper translation · Edition 2

This transition from the third to the second person belongs to the original, and is considered as a fine stroke of art in the poet, who represents Penelope in the warmth of her resentment, forgetting where she is, and addressing the suitors as if present.

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