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www-perseus-tufts-edu-6502		Homer, Odyssey, Book 1, line 1			.html	text/html	1985	257	96	But when, as the seasons revolved, the year came in which the gods had ordained that he should return home to Ithaca, not even there was he free from toils, even among his own folk. Among them the father of gods and men was first to speak, for in his heart he thought of noble Aegisthus, Even as now Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained, took to himself the wedded wife of the son of Atreus, and slew him on his return, though well he knew of sheer destruction, seeing that we spake to him before, sending Hermes, the keen-sighted Argeiphontes,1 that he should neither slay the man nor woo his wife; Click on a place to search for it in this document. Commentary references to this page Cross-references in notes to this page Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page Cross-references in text-specific dictionaries to this page Work URI: http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002	./cache/www-perseus-tufts-edu-6502.html	./txt/www-perseus-tufts-edu-6502.txt