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    Homer, Odyssey

    Editions and translations: Greek | English | English (ed. Samuel Butler)
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    hoi d' hixon koilên+ Lakedaimona+ kêtôessan,
    pros d' ara dômat' elôn Menelaou kudalimoio.
    ton d' heuron dainunta gamon polloisin etêisin
    huieos êde thugatros amumonos hôi eni oikôi.
    5
    tên men Achillêos rhêxênoros huiei pempen:
    en Troiêi gar prôton hupescheto kai kateneuse
    dôsemenai, toisin de theoi gamon exeteleion.
    tên ar' ho g' enth' hippoisi kai harmasi pempe neesthai
    Murmidonôn proti astu perikluton, hoisin anassen.
    10
    huiei de Spartêthen Alektoros êgeto kourên,
    hos hoi têlugetos geneto krateros Megapenthês
    ek doulês: Helenêi de theoi gonon ouket' ephainon,
    epei dê to prôton egeinato paid' erateinên,
    Hermionên, hê eidos eche chruseês Aphroditês.
    15
    hôs hoi men dainunto kath' hupserephes mega dôma
    geitones êde etai Menelaou kudalimoio,
    terpomenoi: meta de sphin emelpeto theios aoidos
    phormizôn, doiô de kubistêtêre kat' autous,
    molpês exarchontos, edineuon kata messous.
    20

    tô d' aut' en prothuroisi domôn autô te kai hippô,
    Têlemachos th' hêrôs kai Nestoros aglaos huios,
    stêsan: ho de promolôn ideto kreiôn Eteôneus,
    otrêros therapôn Menelaou kudalimoio,
    bê d' imen angeleôn dia dômata poimeni laôn,
    25
    anchou d' histamenos epea pteroenta prosêuda:

    “xeinô dê tine tôde, diotrephes ô Menelae,
    andre duô, geneêi de Dios megaloio eikton.
    all' eip', ê sphôin katalusomen ôkeas hippous,
    ê allon pempômen hikanemen, hos ke philêsêi.”
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    ton de meg' ochthêsas prosephê xanthos Menelaos:
    “ou men nêpios êstha, Boêthoïdê Eteôneu,
    to prin: atar men nun ge païs hôs nêpia bazeis.
    ê men dê nôi xeinêia polla phagonte
    allôn anthrôpôn deur' hikometh', ai ke pothi Zeus
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    exopisô per pausêi oizuos. alla lu' hippous
    xeinôn, es d' autous proterô age thoinêthênai.”

    hôs phath', ho de megaroio diessuto, kekleto d' allous
    otrêrous therapontas hama spesthai heoi autôi.
    hoi d' hippous men lusan hupo zugou hidrôontas,
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    kai tous men katedêsan eph' hippeiêisi kapêisi,
    par d' ebalon zeias, ana de kri leukon emixan,
    harmata d' eklinan pros enôpia pamphanoônta,
    autous d' eisêgon theion domon. hoi de idontes
    thaumazon kata dôma diotrepheos basilêos:
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    hôs te gar êeliou aiglê pelen êe selênês
    dôma kath' hupserephes Menelaou kudalimoio.
    autar epei tarpêsan horômenoi ophthalmoisin,
    es rh' asaminthous bantes euxestas lousanto.

    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 4 (general note)

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    42 [Ab- und Ausfall der Vokale. — Apokope.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    455 [Von dem Reflexivpronomen insbesondere).]

    Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
    10, 81 [Book 10 (k)]
    3, 4 [Book 3 (g)]
    3, 158 [Book 3 (g)]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    2, 581 [Book 2 (B)]
    2, 581 [Book 2 (B)]
    2, 591 [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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