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    Homer, Odyssey

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    enth' aut' all' enoês' Helenê Dios ekgegauia:
    220
    autik' ar' eis oinon bale pharmakon, enthen epinon,
    nêpenthes t' acholon te, kakôn epilêthon hapantôn.
    hos to katabroxeien, epên krêtêri migeiê,
    ou ken ephêmerios ge baloi kata dakru pareiôn,
    oud' ei hoi katatethnaiê mêtêr te patêr te,
    225
    oud' ei hoi proparoithen adelpheon ê philon huion
    chalkôi dêioôien, ho d' ophthalmoisin horôito.
    toia Dios thugatêr eche pharmaka mêtioenta,
    esthla, ta hoi Poludamna poren, Thônos parakoitis
    Aiguptiê, têi pleista pherei zeidôros aroura
    230
    pharmaka, polla men esthla memigmena polla de lugra:
    iêtros de hekastos epistamenos peri pantôn
    anthrôpôn: ê gar Paiêonos eisi genethlês.
    autar epei rh' eneêke keleuse te oinochoêsai,
    exautis muthoisin ameibomenê proseeipen:
    235

    “Atreïdê Menelae diotrephes êde kai hoide
    andrôn esthlôn paides: atar theos allote allôi
    Zeus agathon te kakon te didoi: dunatai gar hapanta:
    ê toi nun dainusthe kathêmenoi en megaroisi
    kai muthois terpesthe: eoikota gar katalexô.
    240
    panta men ouk an egô muthêsomai oud' onomênô,
    hossoi Odussêos talasiphronos eisin aethloi:
    all' hoion tod' erexe kai etlê karteros anêr
    dêmôi eni Trôôn, hothi paschete pêmat' Achaioi.
    auton min plêgêisin aeikeliêisi damassas,
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    speira kak' amph' ômoisi balôn, oikêi eoikôs,
    andrôn dusmeneôn katedu polin euruaguian:
    allôi d' auton phôti katakruptôn êiske,
    dektêi, hos ouden toios eên epi nêusin Achaiôn.
    tôi ikelos katedu Trôôn polin, hoi d' abakêsan
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    pantes: egô de min oiê anegnôn toion eonta,
    kai min anêrôtôn: ho de kerdosunêi aleeinen.
    all' hote dê min egô loeon kai chrion elaiôi,
    amphi de heimata hessa kai ômosa karteron horkon
    mê men prin Odusêa meta Trôess' anaphênai,
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    prin ge ton es nêas te thoas klisias t' aphikesthai,
    kai tote dê moi panta noon katelexen Achaiôn.
    pollous de Trôôn kteinas tanaêkeï chalkôi
    êlthe met' Argeious, kata de phronin êgage pollên.
    enth' allai Trôiai lig' ekôkuon: autar emon kêr
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    chair', epei êdê moi kradiê tetrapto neesthai
    aps oikond', atên de metestenon, hên Aphroditê
    dôch', hote m' êgage keise philês apo patridos aiês,
    paida t' emên nosphissamenên thalamon te posin te
    ou teu deuomenon, out' ar phrenas oute ti eidos.”

    There are a total of 4 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    book 4 (general note)

    Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    9, 73

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    10, 81 [Book 10 (k)]
    2, 383 [Book 2 (b)]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
    OCLC: 22584673
    ISBN: 0674995619, 0674995627

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