Andrew Fribush
fig. 2.3.1 · every meal in Homer: the three feast formulas across both poems.
THE ODYSSEY REACHES FOR THE FOOD FIVE TIMES AS OFTEN AS THE ILIADHANDS TO THE FOOD ONCE PER 1,009 LINES AGAINST ONCE PER 5,229; SATED ONCE PER 865AGAINST ONCE PER 2,241; DAIS ON ONE LINE IN 161 AGAINST ONE IN 448.HANDS TO THE FOOD 12 · 3SATED 14 · 7DAIS 75 · 35ODYSSEY · 12,107 LINES · HANDS TO THE FOOD ONCE PER 1,009TELEMACHUS 1.123NESTOR 3.69MENELAUS 4.60EUMAEUS 14.45213579111315171921231.149ILIAD · 15,687 LINES · HANDS TO THE FOOD ONCE PER 5,229PHOENIX AND THE EMBASSY 9.91PRIAM 24.62721357911131517192123DRAG A STRIP TO READ THE NEAREST LINE · CLICK A BOOK NUMBER TO OPEN IT

ODYSSEY 1.149 · HANDS TO THE FOOD · 1 OF 12

οἱ δʼ ἐπʼ ὀνείαθʼ ἑτοῖμα προκείμενα χεῖρας ἴαλλον.

they put their hands to the good things lying ready before them

source: content/homer/odyssey-grc.txt + iliad-grc.txt (Perseus, CC BY-SA 4.0) · scripts/homer-feast-build.py · homerFeast.data.ts

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