id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt homer-odyssey_18 homer-odyssey_18 .txt text/plain 4190 149 80 But Minerva would not let the suitors for one moment cease their insolence, for she wanted Ulysses to become even more bitter against them; she therefore set Eurymachus son of Polybus on to gibe at him, which made the others laugh. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day. cache/homer-odyssey_18.txt txt/homer-odyssey_18.txt