e had made. Here the chief persons of the Phaecians used to sit and eat and drink, for there was abundance at all seasons; and there Menn Diogo Jota Fotballdrakter were golden figures of young men with lighted torches in their hands, raised on pedestals, to give light by night to those who were at table. There are fifty maid servants in the house, some of whom are always grinding rich yellow grain at the mill, while others work at the loom, or sit and spin, and their shuttles go, backwards and forwards like the fluttering of aspen leaves, while the linen is so closely woven that Menn Hector Bellerin Fotballdrakter it will turn oil. As the Phaecians Menn Jose Antonio Reyes Fotballdrakter are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught Menn Karl-Johan Johnsson Fotballdrakter them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.
Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it. It is full of beautiful trees — pears, pomegranates, and the most delicious apples. There are luscious Menn Ryan Meara Fotballdrakter figs also, and olives in full growth. The fruits never rot nor fail all the year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the Menn Nacho Fernandez Fotballdrakter old has dropped. Pear grows on pear, apple on apple, and fig on fig, and so also with the grapes, for there is an excellent vineyard: on the level ground of a part of this, the grapes are being made into raisins; in another part they are being gathered; some are being trodden in the wine tubs, others further on have shed their blossom and are beginning to show Menn Jesus Molina Fotballdrakter fruit, others again are just changing colour. In the furthest part of the ground there are beautifully arranged beds of flowers that are in bloom all the year round. Two streams go through it, the one turned in ducts throughout the whole garden, while the other is carried under the ground of the outer court to the house itself, and the town’s people draw water from it. Such, then, were the splendours with which the gods had endowed the house of king Alcinous.
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