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BOOK XV
MINERVA SUMMONS
TELEMACHUS FROM
LACEDAEMON—HE MEETS
WITH THEOCLYMENUS
AT PYLOS AND BRINGS
HIM TO ITHACA—ON
LANDING HE GOES TO
THE HUT OF EUMAEUS.
ut Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell
BUlysses’ son that he was to return at once. She found
him and Pisistratus sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaus’s
house; Pisistratus was fast asleep, but Telemachus could get
no rest all night for thinking of his unhappy father, so Mi-
nerva went close up to him and said:
‘Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from
home any longer, nor leave your property with such dan-
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