They led Telemachus, the godlike youth,


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And placed him near them. The Gerenian knight


Nestor began, and thus bespake his sons :—
“Do quickly what I ask, dear sons, and aid

To render Pallas, first of all the gods,

Propitious, — Pallas, who has deigned to come,

And at a solemn feast to manifest

Herself to me. Let one of you go forth

Among the fields, and bring a heifer thence,

Led by the herdsman. To the dark-hulled ship

Of the large-souled Telemachus I bid

Another son repair, and bring the crew

Save only two ; and let another call

Laérceus hither, skilled to work in gold,

That he may plate with gold the heifer’s horns.
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Book III.
