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Book 1, Lines 106–109

Athena Arrives to Find the Suitors Lounging on Hides and Playing Games

A

She found the noble suitors ; they their minds,

Before the doors, were solacing with dice,

Sitting on hides of beeves which they had slain.

B

There she met the suitors,

those arrogant men, who were enjoying themselves

playing checkers right outside the door, sitting down

on hides of cattle they themselves had butchered.

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