Suitors
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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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1 expressionThe Suitors8 mentions
Odyssey (Greek)
"Good heavens, this voyage of Telemakhos is a very serious matter;
in the texts
Odyssey
The many young noblemen from Ithaca and neighboring islands who occupy Odysseus's house, court Penelope, and consume his estate.
Then the suitors came in and took their places on the benches and seats.
The suitors bit their lips as they heard him, and marveled at the boldness of his speech.
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.
The Genius of the Common Law
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 .
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.
— 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.
Orations
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.