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bearing-posts in Alcinous’s cloister

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bearing-posts in Alcinous’s cloister
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Claims

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·Direct

Demodocus’s seat is leaned against a bearing-post among the guests.

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“Pontonous set a seat for him among the guests, leaning it up against a bearing-post”
·Direct

A bearing-post supports the cloister and gives Demodocus a place to lean.

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“near one of the bearing-posts supporting the cloister, that he might lean against it”

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·Direct
“leaning it up against a bearing-post”
·Direct
“one of the bearing-posts supporting the roof of the cloister”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 5

A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodocus, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight. Pontonous set a seat for him among the guests, leaning it up against a bearing-post. He hung the lyre for him on a peg over his head, and showed him where he was to feel for it with his hands. He also set a fair table with a basket of victuals by his side, and a cup of wine from which he might drink whenever he was so disposed.