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Book 2: Lines 322-326
Odysseus' cunning has hardly given out in you--
there's every hope that you will reach your goal.
Put them out of your mind, these suitors' schemes and plots.
They're madmen. Not a shred of sense or decency in the crowd.
Nor can they glimpse the death and black doom hovering
just at their heads to crush them all in one short day.
But you, the journey that stirs you now is not far off,
not with the likes of me, your father's friend and yours,
to rig you a swift ship and be your shipmate too.
Now home you go and mix with the suitors there.
But get your rations ready,Lots of ships in seagirt Ithaca, old and new.
pack them all in vessels, the wine in jars,
and barley-meal--the marrow of men's bones--
in durable skins, while I make rounds in town
and quickly enlist your crew of volunteers.
I'll look them over, choose the best in sight,
we'll fit her out and launch her into the sea at once!"
And so Athena, daughter of Zeus, assured him.
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