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| "Son of Laertes and the gods of old,/Odysseus, master mariner and soldier..." | Kirke in Book X |
| "All men owe honor to the poets - honor/ and awe, for they are dearest to the Muse/ who puts upon their lips the ways of life." | Odysseus to the Phaiakians in Book VIII |
| "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story/of that man skilled in all ways of contending..." | in medius res |
| "No soldier/ took on so much, went through so much, as Odysseus." | Menelaos in Book IV |
| "I drew it (the pike) from the coals and my four fellows/ gave me a hand, lugging it near the Kyklops/...and rammed it/deep in his crater eye, and I leaned on it/ turning it as a shipwright turns a drill/ in planking, having men below to swing..." | Homeric simile in Book IX |
| "The great tactician carefully replied..." | epithet for Odysseus in Book VII |
| "A prodigious man/slept in this cave alone,...knowing none but savage ways, a brute so huge.../he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude." | Homeric metaphor |
| "...and with shining ringlets in the East,/the dawn confirmed the third day..." | Repetition |
| "...mind turning at bay, like a cornered lion/in whom fear comes as hunters close the ring." | Penelope fearing for Telemakhos in Book IV |
| "And the grey-eyed goddess..." | epithet for Athena in Book XX (and others) |
| "Hope of soldiers..." | epithet for Athena in Book XVI |
| Argos | Odysseus' dog |
| "Think of a catch that fishermen haul...all poured out on the sand...so lay the suitors heaped on one another" | Homeric simile in Book XXII |
| "hanged like birds caught in a net when they come to roost in the trees..." | Homeric simile describing the outcome of the treacherous women |
