Saturday, February 16, 2019
Return to Ithaca
Homer, Odyssey 13.353-354 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. George E. Dimock):
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Glad then was the much-enduring, noble Odysseus,
rejoicing in his own land, and he kissed the earth, the giver of grain.
γήθησέν τ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔπειτα πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς,
χαίρων ᾗ γαίῃ, κύσε δὲ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.