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BOOK XXIV
THE GHOSTS OF THE
SUITORS IN HADES—
ULYSSES AND HIS MEN
GO TO THE HOUSE
OF LAERTES—THE
PEOPLE OF ITHACA
COME OUT TO ATTACK
ULYSSES, BUT MINERVA
CONCLUDES A PEACE.
hen Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the
Tsuitors, and in his hand he held the fair golden wand
with which he seals men’s eyes in sleep or wakes them just
as he pleases; with this he roused the ghosts and led them,
while they followed whining and gibbering behind him. As
bats fly squealing in the hollow of some great cave, when
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