ODYSSEY 15
Pallas Athena now went to wide Lacedaemon
To tell Odysseus' son it was time to return.
She found Telemachus and Nestor's noble son
On the porch of Menelaus' palace.
| Nestor's son was sleeping, but Telemachus | 5 |
Thinking about his father. Athena,
Her eyes flashing in the dark, said to him:
"Telemachus, you've been away too long.
| Think of the wealth you left behind at home | 10 |
Your journey will have been for nothing.
Hurry, now, and rouse Menelaus
To send you on your way, so you can find
| Your blameless mother still at home. | 15 |
To marry Eurymachus, because of all the suitors
He gives the best presents, and now has
Stepped up his wooing. You have to watch out
| She doesn't carry off all your treasure. | 20 |
She wants to enrich the house of the one who weds her,
Never mind about her former children
And the husband she once loved. Once he's dead,
| She doesn't give any of them a thought. | 25 |
In the keeping of the best maidservant in the house,
Until the gods show you your honored bride.
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Publication information:
Book title: Odyssey.
Contributors: Homer - Author, Stanley Lombardo - Translator.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing.
Place of publication: Indianapolis.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 222.
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