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cup of rare workmanship

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cup of rare workmanship
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Distinctive individually described and handled cup.

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tent of Achilles2 observations
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The cup is in its chest inside Achilles’s tent.

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Then Achilles went inside his tent and opened the lid of the strong chest which silver-footed Thetis had given him to take on board ship, and which she had filled with shirts, cloaks to keep out the cold, and good thick rugs. In this chest he had a cup of rare workmanship
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Achilles returns the cup to its chest inside his tent.

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Achilles went inside his tent and put back the cup into his chest

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Nestor’s cup has gold bosses, four handles with paired feeding gold doves, and two feet; full, it is hard for others but easy for Nestor to lift.

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a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on. Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily
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Achilles’ cup is of rare workmanship, reserved for his own drinking and offerings to Jove alone.

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a cup of rare workmanship, from which no man but himself might drink, nor would he make offering from it to any other god save only to father Jove.

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a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home
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cup of rare workmanship
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put back the cup into his chest

Passage preview

Book 11 · Passage 51

When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire, Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot. The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats. Fair Hecamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess; she was daughter of wise Arsinous, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in counsel. First she set for them a fair and wellmade table that had feet of cyanus; on it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and cakes of barley-meal. There was also a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold; it had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on. Any one else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do so quite easily. In this the woman, as fair as a goddess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat’s milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley-meal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it. When they had done so and had thus quenched their thirst, they fell talking with one another, and at this moment Patroclus appeared at the door.