Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Suitors

    group · 3 works · 20 mentions · 75 anchored passages

    the suitors · suitors · the wooers · wicked suitors · wooers · chief men among the suitors · choice young men · ill-fated suitors · lordly suitors · picked youth of Ithaca

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    The Suitors8 mentions

    Odyssey (Greek)

    Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark on the leveled ground in front of Odysseus’ house, and were behaving with all their old hubris.
    book 4

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The many young noblemen from Ithaca and neighboring islands who occupy Odysseus's house, court Penelope, and consume his estate.

    There she found the lordly suitors seated on hides of the oxen which they had killed and eaten, and playing draughts in front of the house.
    book 1
    The suitors bit their lips as they heard him, and marveled at the boldness of his speech.
    book 1
    for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying their court to my mother, who will neither point blank say that she will not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end;
    book 1

    The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

    Litigants described as so well satisfied with the new county courts that they sought to bring even larger cases there.

    In fact, suitors were so well satisfied with these new-fangled courts that they were anxious to go to them in cases which ought to have come to us .
    iii.: surrebutter castle
    Many were the suitors who invoked the aid of the king’s Exchequer against persons alleged to be in their debt, and by default in payment to hinder them from paying their own dues to the king.
    v.: rescue and ransom
    — My dear man, answers our lady the Common Law, I have to tell you that it was just you lay people, as often as not, who hindered my servants from improving things in the simplest way when they were eager to do it, and drove them into making their improvements by crooked devices, to the great disparagement of my honour and worship, and useless charges and vexation of my suitors.
    v.: rescue and ransom

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The suitors in Odysseus's household at Ithaca, described as wanton and luxurious.

    Nor does he feast the suitors on fish, exceedingly wanton and luxurious as they were, and that though they were feasting in Ithaca.
    oration 2