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Athena visits Nausicaa in a dream and tells her to wash the family’s clothes. At the river, the girls play ball, and Odysseus wakes from sleep.
Odysseus emerges from the bushes, covered in brine and leaves, and supplicates Nausicaa. She receives him with courage and tact, gives him clothes, and tells him how to approach her parents. She is careful about appearances and advises him to enter the city separately.
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So he lay there asleep, the much-enduring goodly Odysseus, overcome with sleep and weariness; but Athena went to the land and city of the Phaeacians. — Homer, Odyssey VI.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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