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1.) "…all the sea was like a cauldron/ seething over intense fire, when the mixture/ suddenly heaves and rises."

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2.) "A distant field, no hearth fires near Will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself."

(above was in my schools Jeopardy game for The Odyssey)

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