Odyssey 10.59 · Book 10, lines 59–60
Back to the wind-king's hall
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δὴ τότʼ ἐγὼ κήρυκά τʼ ὀπασσάμενος καὶ ἑταῖρον βῆν εἰς Αἰόλου κλυτὰ δώματα· τὸν δʼ ἐκίχανον
Then I took along a herald and one comrade, and went to the famous halls of Aeolus. And I found him
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Ashore again on Aeolia after the winds drove them back, Odysseus goes up to the palace of Aeolus to plead for help a second time.
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Odysseus goes back up to the palace, this time with only a herald and a single companion, to beg Aeolus once more. The line breaks off as he reaches the hall and finds the king inside, mid-feast, as the next lines reveal.
Coming with a small, quiet retinue is the posture of a suppliant, not a guest. He returns not to be hosted but to ask again for what he has already been given once, and the asking, this time, will fail.
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