The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems
Part 24
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.