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Often appears with: sacrifice and delay · naval warfare and sea power · fate, destiny, and necessity · divine-mariner guidance · capture of proteus · captivity and escape · ambush tactics · aegean navigation route
Usually: narrative (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
Menelaus explains his twenty-day delay at Pharos near Aegyptus, describes how Eidothee tells him to capture Proteus, and relays her detailed ambush method involving three men and holding Proteus through shape-changing.
[10] The only name for the Nile in Homer. Cf. Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians (1878), vol. i., p. 7. “‘Art thou so very foolish, stranger, and feeble-witted, or art thou wilfully remiss, and hast pleasure in suffering? So long time art thou holden in the isle and canst find no issue therefrom, while the heart of thy company faileth within them?’ “Even so she spake, and I answered her saying: ‘I will speak forth, what …