Odyssey 6.68 · Book 6, lines 68–70
Alcinous grants the wagon
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Alcinous — οὔτε τοι ἡμιόνων φθονέω, τέκος, οὔτε τευ ἄλλου. ἔρχευ· ἀτάρ τοι δμῶες ἐφοπλίσσουσιν ἀπήνην ὑψηλὴν ἐύκυκλον, ὑπερτερίῃ ἀραρυῖαν.
I begrudge you neither the mules, child, nor anything else. Go; and the servants will make ready for you a high, well-wheeled wagon, fitted with an upper rack.
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Alcinous replies to his daughter, granting the mules and ordering a wagon prepared.
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Alcinous answers with easy generosity: he begrudges her neither the mules nor anything else, and orders the servants to fit out a tall, well-wheeled wagon with its upper rack in place. The practical grant of transport, given at once.
What the reply withholds is any mention of the marriage she would not name. He gives her exactly what she asked for and not a word about the reason, matching her tact with his own. The wagon carries more than she said aloud; both of them know it, and neither says so.
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