The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Part 24

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THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS.

[1] _Γερούσιος οι͒νος, quod pro honorario senibus datur._ And because the word so Englished hath no other to express it, sounding well, and helping our language, it is here used.

[2] Intending in chief the senators, with every man’s addition of gift.

[3] _Εὐήνορα χαλκὸν, bene honestos faciens æs._

[4] The Phæacians were descended originally from Neptune.

[5] _Αμϕικαλύπτω, superinjicio aliquid tanquam tegmen seu operimentum._

[6] Minerva like a shepherd (such as kings’ sons used at those times to be) appears to Ulysses.

[7] _Λυπρὸς, velut tristis, jejunaque naturâ._

[8] _Επίκλοπος, furandi avidus._

[9] _Σχέτλιε, ποικλομη̑τα, varia et multiplicia habens consilia._

THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS

THE ARGUMENT

Ulysses meets amids the field His swain Eumæus: who doth yield Kind guest-rites to him, and relate Occurrents of his wrong’d estate.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

_Ξι̑._ Ulysses fains For his true good: His pious swain’s Faith understood.