id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt homer-odyssey_14 homer-odyssey_14 .txt text/plain 5412 180 79 Even the fierce freebooters who go raiding on other people 's land, and Jove gives them their spoil— even they, when they have filled their ships and got home again live consciencestricken, and look fearfully for judgement; but some god seems to have told these people that Ulysses is dead and gone; they will not, therefore, go back to their own homes and make their offers of marriage in the usual way, but waste his estate by force, without fear or stint. Eumaeus answered," Old man, no traveller who comes here with news will get Ulysses ' wife and son to believe his story. To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus," Old man, you will neither get paid for bringing good news, nor will Ulysses ever come home; drink your wine in peace, and let us talk about something else. ./cache/homer-odyssey_14.txt ./txt/homer-odyssey_14.txt