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The booby never perceived
that under his rich-fleeced sheep there were men tied on!
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
In their criminal folly they perpetrated a monstrous wrong,
squandering the possessions and insulting the bedfellow
of a most noble man, saying he would never return.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
First, while she was washing clothes near the hollow ship,
one of them made love to her, a thing that fuddles the senses
of truly feminine women, even one that’s well-behaved.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
I’ve been harshly battered by countless waves,
and aboard my ship I had no long-term care for my body,
which is why my limbs are now very badly out of trim.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Him she found on the seashore, sitting; nor were his eyes
ever wiped dry of tears; sweet life was draining from him
as he yearned to be home, since the nymph no longer pleased him.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
She climbed the high ladder that led to her own chamber,
and with her strong hand picked up the neatly hooked key—
bronze, finely wrought, with a fitted ivory handle
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
for not bloodless, I think,
will be the final reckoning between that man and the suitors,
once he’s made it home and is under his own roof.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Then limb from limb he tore them to prepare his supper,
and devoured them like a mountain-bred lion, leaving nothing—
innards and flesh, bones with the marrow in them,
while we, lamenting, reached out our hands to Zeus
at the sight of such bestial deeds.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
the well-built altar
of Zeus of Enclosures, on which Laërtēs and Odysseus
had burnt in his honor so many thighs of oxen.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Now prudent Penelopē made a fresh decision: to show
herself to her suitors, so outrageous and arrogant;
for she’d learnt in her halls of the plan to murder her son
from Medōn the herald, who’d overheard their discussion.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)