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Answer to
Cryptogram 3
Tell me, O muse, of
that ingenious hero who travelled far and wid,e after he had
sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and
many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was
acquainted. Moreover, he suffered much by sea while
trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home But
do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished
through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the sun
god hyperion, so the god prevented them from ever reaching
home.
Tell me too, about all these
things O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may
know them, so now all who escaped death in battle or by
shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses. And he though he
was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by
the goddess Calypso who had got him into a large cave and
wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time
when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca. Even
then however, when he was among his own people his troubles
were not yet over. Nevertheless all the gods had now begun to
pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without
ceasing and would not let him ge
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