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This is the final episode of the Odyssey.

Oh, Odysseus, it's been so much fun.

I mean, it's just been so much fun reading Homer and just reading to you all.

So we're gonna find more, it's a little trickier when it comes to public domain translations

of other works that aren't really impossible to understand.

Like I've been looking for Avid and it's all pretty messy.

Like we're talking translated in the 1600s and there's a lot of English there that's

just, it's just not approachable, it's not, it's not useful to us in this situation,

but we will find something fun to keep going.

For now though, it's time.

This is Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, book 24.

Then Mercury of Chilini summoned the ghosts of the suitors and in his hand he held the

fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases.

With this he roused the ghosts and led them while they followed whining and jibbering

behind him as bats fly squealing in the hollow of some great cave when one of them is fallen

out of the cluster in which they hang.

Even so did the ghosts whine and squeal as Mercury the healer of sorrow led them down

into the dark abode of death.

When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock-lucus, they came to the gates

of the sun and the land of dreams whereon they reached the meadow of Asphodel, where

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