Hermes, meanwhile, was calling forth
The ghosts of the suitors. He held the wand
He uses to charm mortal eyes to sleep
And make sleepers awake; and with this beautiful,
| Golden wand he marshaled the ghosts, | 5 |
Bats deep inside an eerie cave
Flit and gibber when one of them falls
From the cluster clinging to the rock overhead.
| So too these ghosts, as Hermes led them | 10 |
The streams of Ocean, past the White Rock,
Past the Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams,
Until they came to the Meadow of Asphodel,
| Where the spirits of the dead dwell, phantoms | 15 |
Here was the ghost of Achilles,
And those of Patroclus, of flawless Antilochus,
And of Ajax, the best of the Achaeans
After Achilles, Peleus' incomparable son.
| These ghosts gathered around Achilles | 20 |
Son of Atreus, grieving, he himself surrounded
By the ghosts of those who had died with him
And met their fate in the house of Aegisthus.
| The son of Peleus was the first to greet him: | 25 |
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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: 365.
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