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    Homer, Odyssey

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    ton d' apameibomenos prosephês, Eumaie subôta:
    “Antino', ou men kala kai esthlos eôn agoreueis:
    tis gar dê xeinon kalei allothen autos epelthôn
    allon g', ei mê tôn hoi dêmioergoi easi,
    mantin ê iêtêra kakôn ê tektona dourôn,
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    ê kai thespin aoidon, ho ken terpêisin aeidôn;
    houtoi gar klêtoi ge brotôn ep' apeirona gaian:
    ptôchon d' ouk an tis kaleoi truxonta he auton.
    all' aiei chalepos peri pantôn eis mnêstêrôn
    dmôsin Odussêos, peri d' aut' emoi: autar egô ge
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    ouk alegô, hêos moi echephrôn Pênelopeia
    zôei eni megarois kai Têlemachos theoeidês.”

    ton d' au Têlemachos pepnumenos antion êuda:
    “siga, mê moi touton ameibeo polla epessin:
    Antinoos d' eiôthe kakôs erethizemen aiei
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    muthoisin chalepoisin, epotrunei de kai allous.”

    ê rha kai Antinoon epea pteroenta prosêuda:
    “Antino', ê meu kala patêr hôs kêdeai huios,
    hos ton xeinon anôgas apo megaroio diesthai
    muthôi anankaiôi: mê touto theos teleseie.
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    dos hoi helôn: ou toi phthoneô: kelomai gar egô ge:
    mêt' oun mêter' emên hazeu to ge mête tin' allon
    dmôôn, hoi kata dômat' Odussêos theioio.
    all' ou toi toiouton eni stêthessi noêma:
    autos gar phagemen polu bouleai ê domen allôi.”
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    ton d' aut' Antinoos apameibomenos proseeipe:
    “Têlemach' hupsagorê, menos aschete, poion eeipes.
    ei hoi tosson hapantes orexeian mnêstêres,
    kai ken min treis mênas apoprothen oikos erukoi.”

    hôs ar' ephê, kai thrênun helôn hupephêne trapezês
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    keimenon, hôi rh' epechen liparous podas eilapinazôn:
    hoi d' alloi pantes didosan, plêsan d' ara pêrên
    sitou kai kreiôn: tacha dê kai emellen Odusseus
    autis ep' oudon iôn proikos geusesthai Achaiôn:
    stê de par' Antinoon, kai min pros muthon eeipe:
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    “dos, philos: ou men moi dokeeis ho kakistos Achaiôn
    emmenai, all' ôristos, epei basilêï eoikas.
    tôi se chrê domenai kai lôïon êe per alloi
    sitou: egô de ke se kleiô kat' apeirona gaian.
    kai gar egô pote oikon en anthrôpoisin enaion
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    olbios aphneion kai pollaki doskon alêtêi,
    toiôi hopoios eoi kai hoteu kechrêmenos elthoi:
    êsan de dmôes mala murioi alla te polla
    hoisin t' eu zôousi kai aphneioi kaleontai.

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    Further comments from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    book 17 (general note)

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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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