Assertion: homer | /r/CapableOf | express a sort of salutary reverence
Facets:
value: in appealing to her
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In appealing to her in the way he does at the beginning of this poem, then, Homer is expressing a sort of salutary reverence to her and praying, as it were, for her assistance in embodying her eloquence and grace in the story of Odysseus which is to follow.