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A Nearly Literal Translation of Homer's Odyssey Into Accentuated Dramatic Verse
A Nearly Literal Translation of Homer's Odyssey Into Accentuated Dramatic Verse Author:Homer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: J. Parker and Co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Book VI. Thus there he lay -- Odysseus much-enduring -- By sleep and toil stark-stilled: but bright Athene Went to the state and town of the Phseacians. They lived of old in wide-spread Hypereia A'nigh the Cyclops -- wild and lawless men, -- 5 Who harried them with overpowering force. Thence roused and led them forth Nausithous-fair, And settled-in-Scheria -- far from restless men: And walls drew round the town; and builded houses; And temples raised, and portioned-out the plough-lands. 10 But he erenow death-tamed had gone to Hades: Then ruled Alcinous, wisdom-taught of God. And to his mansion went bright-eyed Athene A home-return for Odysseus brave devising. She speeded-on to-the-chamber fair, in which 15 A damsel sleeping lay, alike in form And feature to th' immortal goddesses, -- Nansicaa -- child of noble-Alcinous: By her two handmaids beauteous as the Graces -- On either side the close-shut glittering doors. She, like a breath of air, to the damsel's bed 20 Danced-on and stood o'er-her-head, and straight addressed her -- In form of that famed seaman Dymas' daughter -- Of equal age with her and-her-bosom-friend. In guise of her bright-eyed Athene spake: " NausicSa I-thoughtless sure is-thy-mother's daughter! 25 Thy dresses rich lie by thee all uncared-for! Thy wedding-day is nigh! when it befits thee Thyself to deck thee in the fairest of them, And give the rest to those, who may conduct thee! For from such things a good report is spread 'Mid folk, to-the-joy of father-and-lady mother! 3 So on to-t...« less