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Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 3, line 7 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 3, line 8 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 4, line 1 (search)
They reached the low lying city of
Lacedaemon, where they drove straight to the halls of Menelaos. They
found him in his own house, feasting with his many clansmen in honor
of the wedding of his son, and also of his daughter, whom he was
marrying to the son of that valiant warrior Achilles. He had given
his consent and promised her to him while he was still at Troy, and
now the gods were bringing the marriage about; so he was sending her
with chariots and horses to the city of the Myrmidons over whom
Achilles’ son was reigning. For his only son he had found a
bride from Sparta, daughter of Alektor. This son, Megapenthes, was
born to him of a bondwoman, for heaven granted Helen no more children
after she had borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Aphrodite
herself.
So the neighbors and kinsmen of
Menelaos were feasting and making merry in his house. There was a
singer also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers
went about performing in the midst of them when the man str
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 4, line 7 (search)
When the child of morning,
rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Menelaos rose and dressed himself. He
bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his
shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god. Then,
taking a seat near Telemakhos he said:
"And what, Telemakhos, has led
you to take this long sea voyage to Lacedaemon? Are you on public or
private business? Tell me all about it."
"I have come, sir replied
Telemakhos, "to see if you can tell me anything about my father. I am
being eaten out of house and home; my fair estate is being wasted,
and my house is full of miscreants who in overweening hubris
keep killing great numbers of my sheep and oxen, on the pretense of
wooing my mother. Therefore, I am suppliant at your knees if haply
you may tell me about my father's melancholy end, whether you
saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveler; for
he was a man born to trouble. Do not soften things out of any pity
for myself, but tell me in all p
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 4, line 16 (search)
Then Medon said, "I wish, my
lady, that this were all; but they are plotting something much more
dreadful now - may heaven frustrate their design. They are going to
try and murder Telemakhos as he is coming home from Pylos and
Lacedaemon, where he has been to get news of his father."
Then Penelope's heart sank
within her, and for a long time she was speechless; her eyes filled
with tears, and she could find no utterance. At last, however, she
said, "Why did my son leave me? What business had he to go sailing
off in ships that make long voyages over the ocean like sea-horses?
Does he want to die without leaving any one behind him to keep up his
name?"
"I do not know," answered Medon,
"whether some god set him on to it, or whether he went on his own
impulse to see if he could find out if his father was dead, or alive
and on his way home [nostos]."
Then he went downstairs again,
leaving Penelope in an agony of grief [akhos]. There
were plenty of seats in the house, but she had no hear
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 5, line 1 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 13, line 9 (search)
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 13, line 10 (search)
As she spoke Athena touched him
with her wand and covered him with wrinkles, took away all his yellow
hair, and withered the flesh over his whole body; she bleared his
eyes, which were naturally very fine ones; she changed his clothes
and threw an old rag of a wrap about him, and a tunic, tattered,
filthy, and begrimed with smoke; she also gave him an undressed deer
skin as an outer garment, and furnished him with a staff and a wallet
all in holes, with a twisted thong for him to sling it over his
shoulder.
When the pair had thus laid their
plans they parted, and the goddess went straight to Lacedaemon to
fetch Telemakhos.
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 15, line 1 (search)
But Athena went to the fair city of
Lacedaemon to tell Odysseus’ son that he was to return
[nostos] at once. She found him and Peisistratos
sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaos’ house; Peisistratos was
fast asleep, but Telemakhos could get no rest all night for thinking
of his unhappy father, so Athena went close up to him and
said:
"Telemakhos, you should not remain
so far away from home any longer, nor leave your property with such
dangerous people in your house; they will eat up everything you have
among them, and you will have been on a fool's errand. Ask
Menelaos to send you home at once if you wish to find your excellent
mother still there when you get back. Her father and brothers are
already urging her to marry Eurymakhos, who has given her more than
any of the others, and has been greatly increasing his wedding
presents. I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house
in spite of you, but you know what women are - they always want to do
the best they can for the
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.), Scroll 17, line 3 (search)