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Σοὶ πρῶτον σπένδω ἡ μοί ποτε δῶκας ἰδέσθαι
Ναυσικάαν Ἑλένης τε χάριν καὶ Πηνελόπειαν.
The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)
Now all the others who were saved from utter ruin were at home, safe both from war and sea. Him only, longing for his home and wife, a potent nymph, Kalypso, a heavenly goddess, held in her hollow grotto, desiring him to be her husband.
The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)
Then gathered there spirits from out of Erebos of those now dead and gone, — brides, and unwedded youths, and worn old men, delicate maids with hearts but new to sorrow, and many pierced with brazen spears, men slain in fight, wearing their blood-stained armor. In crowds around the pit they flocked from every side, with awful wail.
The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)
Straightway she cast into the wine of which they drank a drug which quenches pain and strife, and brings forgetfulness of every ill. He who should taste it, mingled in the bowl, would not that day let tears fall down his cheeks although his mother and his father died, although before his door a brother or dear son were cut off by the sword, and his own eyes beheld.
The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)