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\nIV <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


\nFROM GREEK AND LATIN<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Odyssey*<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nBOOK ONE<\/span> 
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Sing to me, Muse, of the man many-counselled<\/span>
\nwho far through the world’s ways <\/span><\/p>\n

Wandering, was tossed after Troya<\/span> he
\nsacked, the divine stronghold, <\/span><\/p>\n

Many cities of men he beheld, learned the minds of their dwellers, <\/span><\/p>\n

Many the woes in his soul he suffered driven on the waters, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fending from fate his life and the homeward course of his comrades. <\/span><\/p>\n

Them even so he saved not for all his desire and his striving;<\/span><\/p>\n

Who by their own infatuate madness piteously perished, <\/span><\/p>\n

Fools in their hearts! for they slew the herds the deity pastured,<\/span><\/p>\n

Helios high-climbing; but he from them reft<\/span>
\ntheir return and the daylight. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sing to us also of these things, goddess, daughter of heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now all the rest who had fled from death
\nand sudden destruction <\/span><\/p>\n

Safe dwell at home, from the war escaped and the swallowing ocean:<\/span><\/p>\n

He alone far was kept from his fatherland, far from his consort, <\/span><\/p>\n

Long by the nymph divine, the sea-born goddess Calypso, <\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Stayed in her hollow caves, for she yearned to keep him her husband.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet when the year came at last in the rolling gyre of the seasons <\/span><\/p>\n

When in the web of their wills the gods spun out his returning <\/span><\/p>\n

Homeward to Ithaca, \u2014 there too he found not release from his labour<\/span>, <\/span><\/p>\n

In his own land with his loved ones \u2014 all the immortals had pity<\/span><\/p>\n

Save Poseidon alone; but he with implacable anger<\/span><\/p>\n

Moved against godlike Odysseus before his return to his country. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now was he gone to the land of the Aethiopes<\/span>,
\nnations far-distant, \u2014 <\/span><\/p>\n

They who to either hand divided, remotest of mortals, <\/span><\/p>\n

Dwell where the high-climbing Helios sets and where he arises;<\/span><\/p>\n

There of bulls and of rams the slaughtered hecatomb tasting <\/span><\/p>\n

He by the banquet seated rejoiced; but the other immortals <\/span><\/p>\n

Sat in the halls of Zeus Olympian, the throng of them gathered, <\/span><\/p>\n

First led the word the father divine of men and immortals;<\/span><\/p>\n

For in his heart had the memory risen of noble Aegisthus<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whom in his halls Orestes, the famed Agamemnonid<\/span>,
\nslaughtered;<\/span><\/p>\n

Him in his heart recalling he spoke mid the assembled immortals:<\/span><\/p>\n

"Out on it! how are the gods ever vainly accused by earth’s
\ncreatures! <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

*Homer<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 409<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still they say that from us they have miseries; they rather always <\/span><\/p>\n

By their own folly and madness draw on them woes we have willed not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as now Aegisthus<\/span>, violating Fate from
\nAtndes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Took his wedded wife and slew her husband returning,<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing their1<\/sup> violent end; for we warned him before, we
\nsent him<\/span><\/p>\n

Hefees<\/span><\/span> charged
\nwith our message, the far-scanning slayer of Arias,.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither the hero to smite nor wed the wife of Atrides<\/span>,<\/span><\/p>\n

Since from Orestes a vengeance shall be, the Atreid<\/span>
\noffspring,<\/span><\/p>\n

When to his youth he shall come and desire the soil2<\/sup> of
\nhis country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet not for all his voice, would the infatuate heart of Aegisthus<\/span>..<\/span><\/p>\n

Heed that friendly counsellor<\/span>; now all in
\na mass has been paid for."<\/span><\/p>\n

Answered then to Zeus the goddess grey-eyed Athene<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Father of ours, thou son of Cronus<\/span>,
\nhighest of the regnant,<\/span><\/p>\n

He indeed and utterly fell by a fitting destruction:<\/span><\/p>\n

So too perish all who dare like deeds among mortals.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for a far better man my heart burns, clear-eyed Odysseus <\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Who, ill-fated, far from his loved ones suffers and sorrows <\/span><\/p>\n

Hemmed in the island girt by the waves, in the navel of ocean, <\/span><\/p>\n

Where mid the woods her home a goddess has made and inhabits, <\/span><\/p>\n

Daughter of Atlas whose baleful heart knows all the abysses <\/span><\/p>\n

Fathomless, vast of the sea and the pillars high on his shoulders <\/span><\/p>\n

In his huge strength he upbears<\/span>, that
\ndivide the earth and the heavens;<\/span><\/p>\n

Atlas’ daughter keeps in that island the unhappy Odysseus …. <\/span><\/p>\n

1<\/span><\/sup>
\nthe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>2<\/sup> soul <\/span><\/p>\n

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