Thursday, August 15, 2024
A Heart-Warming Sight
Homer, Odyssey 23.45-47 (Eurycleia to Penelope; tr. A.T. Murray):
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Then I found Odysseus standing among the bodies of the slain,
and they, stretched all around him on the hard floor,
lay one upon the other; the sight would have warmed thy heart with cheer.
εὗρον ἔπειτ᾽ Ὀδυσῆα μετὰ κταμένοισι νέκυσσιν
ἑσταόθ᾽· οἱ δέ μιν ἀμφί, κραταίπεδον οὖδας ἔχοντες,
κείατ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισιν· ἰδοῦσά κε θυμὸν ἰάνθης.
