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ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε , μοῦσα , πολύτροπον , ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη , ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν : πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω , πολλὰ δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν , ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων . ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς ἑτάρους ἐρρύσατο , ἱέμενός περ : αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο , νήπιοι , οἳ κατὰ βοῦς Ὑπερίονος Ἠελίοιο ἤσθιον : αὐτὰρ ὁ τοῖσιν ἀφείλετο νόστιμον ἦμαρ . τῶν ἁμόθεν γε , θεά , θύγατερ Διός , εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν . ἔνθ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες , ὅσοι φύγον αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον , οἴκοι ἔσαν , πόλεμόν τε πεφευγότες ἠδὲ θάλασσαν :
τὸν δ᾽ οἶον νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικὸς νύμφη πότνι᾽ ἔρυκε Καλυψὼ δῖα θεάων ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι , ιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι . ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ ἔτος ἦλθε περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν , τῷ οἱ ἐπεκλώσαντο θεοὶ οἶκόνδε νέεσθαι εἰς Ἰθάκην , οὐδ᾽ ἔνθα πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλων καὶ μετὰ οἷσι φίλοισι . θεοὶ δ᾽ ἐλέαιρον ἅπαντες νόσφι Ποσειδάωνος : ὁ δ᾽ ἀσπερχὲς μενέαινεν ἀντιθέῳ Ὀδυσῆι πάρος ἣν γαῖαν ἱκέσθαι .
τὸν δ᾽ οἶον νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικὸς νύμφη πότνι᾽ ἔρυκε Καλυψὼ δῖα θεάων ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι , ιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι . ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ ἔτος ἦλθε περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν , τῷ οἱ ἐπεκλώσαντο θεοὶ οἶκόνδε νέεσθαι εἰς Ἰθάκην , οὐδ᾽ ἔνθα πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλων καὶ μετὰ οἷσι φίλοισι . θεοὶ δ᾽ ἐλέαιρον ἅπαντες νόσφι Ποσειδάωνος : ὁ δ᾽ ἀσπερχὲς μενέαινεν ἀντιθέῳ Ὀδυσῆι πάρος ἣν γαῖαν ἱκέσθαι .
Tell
for
me
,
Muse
,
the
much-turned
man
,
who
wandered
very
many
ways
after
he
had
sacked
Troy
'
s
sacred
citadel
.
He
saw
and
learned
many
men
'
s
cities
and
minds
,
and
suffered
many
woes
in
his
heart
upon
the
sea
,
seeking
to
win
his
own
life
and
the
return
of
his
comrades
.
Yet
thus
he
did
not
save
his
comrades
,
he
put
in
motion
himself
however
,
for
by
their
own
sin
they
perished
,
fools
,
who
ate
Helios
Hyperion
'
s
bull
;
nevertheless
he
took
that
day
of
return
.
That
from
some
place
or
other
,
daughter
of
Zeus
,
said
herself
and
for
my
part
.
Now
all
the
rest
,
as
many
as
had
escaped
high
and
steep
destruction
,
were
at
home
,
had
fled
from
both
war
and
sea
,
but
he
alone
,
had
proclaimed
himself
his
return
and
his
wife
'
s
,
did
restrain
in
her
hollow
caves
the
nymph
bride
Calypso
,
the
heavenly
goddess
,
who
yearns
herself
for
him
to
be
her
husband
.
But
when
,
as
the
seasons
turned
,
came
the
year
when
the
gods
had
ordered
him
to
go
home
to
Ithaca
,
not
even
there
had
he
fled
contest
,
and
among
that
beloved
.
And
all
the
gods
pitied
him
except
Poseidon
;
but
he
envied
unceasingly
godlike
Odysseus
until
he
reached
his
land
.