The Odyssey · Samuel Butler translation

Note 119
BOOK XIII

[ And may we not add “and also to prevent his recognising that he was only in the place where he had met Nausicaa two days earlier.”]

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…y day, so that people might not know of his having come, and that she might tell him everything without either his wife or his fellow citizens and friends recognising him[119] until he had taken his revenge upon the wicked suitors. Everything, therefore, seemed quite different to him—the long straight tracks, the harbours, the precipices, and the goodly trees, appeared all changed as he started up and looked upon his native la…

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