Euryclea
Americannoun
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"Come here," said she, "Euryclea, and wash your master's age-mate; I suppose Ulysses' hands and feet are very much the same now as his are, for trouble ages all of us dreadfully fast."
From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler
Then by the aid of Euryclea, his faithful old nurse, he robed himself in garments fit for the shoulders of a king, and prepared to meet the queen.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Autolycus arriving in the isle Of pleasant Ithaca, the new-born son Of his own daughter found, whom on his knees 500 At close of supper Euryclea placed, And thus the royal visitant address’d.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
He then goes to bathe, and is attended by Euryclea, who discovers him to be Ulysses by the scar upon his leg, which he formerly received in hunting the wild boar on Parnassus.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
She said, then Euryclea with both hands Cov’ring her face, in tepid tears profuse 450 Dissolved, and thus in mournful strains began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
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