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    Homer, Odyssey

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    tên d' au Têlemachos pepnumenos antion êuda:
    “xein', epei ar dê tauta m' aneireai êde metallais,
    mellen men pote oikos hod' aphneios kai amumôn
    emmenai, ophr' eti keinos anêr epidêmios êen:
    nun d' heterôs ebolonto theoi kaka mêtioôntes,
    235
    hoi keinon men aiston epoiêsan peri pantôn
    anthrôpôn, epei ou ke thanonti per hôd' akachoimên,
    ei meta hois hetaroisi damê Trôôn eni dêmôi,
    êe philôn en chersin, epei polemon tolupeusen.
    tôi ken hoi tumbon men epoiêsan Panachaioi,
    240
    êde ke kai hôi paidi mega kleos êrat' opissô.
    nun de min akleiôs harpuiai anêreipsanto:
    oichet' aistos apustos, emoi d' odunas te goous te
    kallipen. oude ti keinon oduromenos stenachizô
    oion, epei nu moi alla theoi kaka kêde' eteuxan.
    245
    hossoi gar nêsoisin epikrateousin aristoi,
    Doulichiôi te Samêi te kai hulêenti Zakunthôi,
    êd' hossoi kranaên Ithakên kata koiraneousin,
    tossoi mêter' emên mnôntai, truchousi de oikon.
    hê d' out' arneitai stugeron gamon oute teleutên
    250
    poiêsai dunatai: toi de phthinuthousin edontes
    oikon emon: tacha dê me diarraisousi kai auton.”

    ton d' epalastêsasa prosêuda Pallas Athênê:
    “ô popoi, ê dê pollon apoichomenou Odusêos
    deuêi, ho ke mnêstêrsin anaidesi cheiras epheiê.
    255
    ei gar nun elthôn domou en prôtêisi thurêisi
    staiê, echôn pêlêka kai aspida kai duo doure,
    toios eôn hoion min egô ta prôt' enoêsa
    oikôi en hêmeterôi pinonta te terpomenon te,
    260
    ex Ephurês anionta par' Ilou Mermeridao--
    ôicheto gar kai keise thoês epi nêos Odusseus
    pharmakon androphonon dizêmenos, ophra hoi eiê
    ious chriesthai chalkêreas: all' ho men ou hoi
    dôken, epei rha theous nemesizeto aien eontas,
    265
    alla patêr hoi dôken emos: phileeske gar ainôs--
    toios eôn mnêstêrsin homilêseien Odusseus:
    pantes k' ôkumoroi te genoiato pikrogamoi te.
    all' ê toi men tauta theôn en gounasi keitai,
    ê ken nostêsas apotisetai, êe kai ouki,
    hoisin eni megaroisi: se de phrazesthai anôga,
    270
    hoppôs ke mnêstêras apôseai ek megaroio.
    ei d' age nun xuniei kai emôn empazeo muthôn:
    aurion eis agorên kalesas hêrôas Achaious
    muthon pephrade pasi, theoi d' epi marturoi estôn.
    mnêstêras men epi sphetera skidnasthai anôchthi,
    275
    mêtera d', ei hoi thumos ephormatai gameesthai,
    aps itô es megaron patros mega dunamenoio:
    hoi de gamon teuxousi kai artuneousin eedna
    polla mal', hossa eoike philês epi paidos hepesthai.
    soi d' autôi pukinôs hupothêsomai, ai ke pithêai:

    There are a total of 10 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 1 (general note)

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    18 [Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der digammierten Wörter bei Homer.]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    7, 205 [Book 7 (ê)]
    7, 314 [Book 7 (ê)]
    9, 1 [Book 9 (i)]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    488 [Apodosis contained in the Protasis.]
    488 [Apodosis contained in the Protasis.]
    615 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]
    615 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]
    709 [hopôs, ho, houneka, and hothouneka, in Indirect Quotations.]

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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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