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should be delivered up to them, Alcinous declared that if she was still a virgin she should be restored to them, but if she was already the wife of Jason, he would protect her and her husband against the
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is received, the entertainments given to him, and the stories he related to the king about his own wanderings, occupy a considerable portion of
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466:Argonautica
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178:'s lover
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149:Mythology
133:, son of
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41:Demodocus
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99:Alkínoös
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436:Hyginus
423:Odyssey
421:Homer,
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263:of the
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187:Odyssey
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