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13.159When earth-encircling Poseidon
heard this he went to Scheria where the Phaeacians live, and stayed
there till the ship, which was making rapid way, had got close-in.
Then he went up to it, turned it into stone, and drove it down with
the flat of his hand so as to root it in the ground. After this he
went away.
krinô ] bulls to Poseidon that he may
have mercy upon us, and not envelop our city with the high mountain."
When the people heard this they were afraid and got ready the
bulls.
dêmos of the Phaeacians to king Poseidon, standing
round his altar; and at the same time Odysseus woke up once more upon
his own soil. He had been so long away that he did not know it again;
moreover, Zeus’ daughter Athena had made it a foggy day, so that
people might not know of his having come, and that she might tell him
everything without either his wife or his fellow citizens and friends
recognizing him until he had taken his revenge upon the wicked
suitors. Everything, therefore, seemed quite different to him - the
long straight tracks, the harbors, the precipices, and the goodly
trees, appeared all changed as he started up and looked upon his
native land. So he smote his thighs with the flat of his hands and
cried aloud despairingly.
dikaios ] or hospitable and endowed with
god-fearing noos ? Where shall I put all this treasure, and
which way shall I go? I wish I had stayed over there with the
Phaeacians; or I could have gone to some other great chief who would
have been good to me and given me an escort. As it is I do not know
where to put my treasure, and I cannot leave it here for fear
somebody else should get hold of it. In good truth the chiefs and
rulers of the Phaeacians have not been dealing fairly
[dikaios ] by me, and have left me in the wrong
country; they said they would take me back to Ithaca and they have
not done so: may Zeus the protector of suppliants chastise them, for
he watches over everybody and punishes those who do wrong. Still, I
suppose I must count my goods and see if the crew have gone off with
any of them."
noos towards me.
Protect these my goods, and myself too, for I embrace your knees and
pray to you as though you were a god. Tell me, then, and tell me
truly, what land and country [dêmos ] is this?
Who are its inhabitants? Am I on an island, or is this the sea board
of some continent?"
Ithaca is known even as far as Troy , which
I understand to be a long way off from this Achaean
country."
alêthês ], and made up a lying story in
the instinctive wiliness of his noos .
Ithaca ," said he,
"when I was in Crete beyond the seas, and now it seems I have reached
it with all these treasures. I have left as much more behind me for
my children, but am fleeing because I killed Orsilokhos son of
Idomeneus, the fleetest runner in Crete . I killed him because he
wanted to rob me of the spoils I had got from Troy with so much
trouble and danger both on the field of battle and by the waves of
the weary sea; he said I had not served his father loyally in the
Trojan dêmos as vassal, but had set myself up as an
independent ruler, so I lay in wait for him and with one of my
followers by the road side, and speared him as he was coming into
town from the country. It was a very dark night and nobody saw us; it
was not known, therefore, that I had killed him, but as soon as I had
done so I went to a ship and besought the owners, who were
Phoenicians, to take me on board and set me in Pylos or in Elis where
the Epeans rule, giving them as much spoil as satisfied them. They
meant no guile, but the wind drove them off their course, and we
sailed on till we came hither by night. It was all we could do to get
inside the harbor, and none of us said a word about supper though we
wanted it badly, but we all went on shore and lay down just as we
were. I was very tired and fell asleep directly, so they took my
goods out of the ship, and placed them beside me where I was lying
upon the sand. Then they sailed away to Sidonia, and I was left here
in great distress of mind."
13.165The Phaeacians then began talking among themselves, and one would turn towards his neighbor, saying, "Who is it that can have rooted the ship in the sea just as she was getting into port? We could see the whole of her only a moment ago."
13.170This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alkinoos said, "I remember now the old prophecy of my father. He said that Poseidon would be angry with us for taking every one so safely over the sea, and would one day wreck a Phaeacian ship as it was returning from an escort, and envelop our city with a high mountain. This was what my old father used to say, and now it is all coming true. Now therefore let us all do as I say; in the first place we must leave off giving people escorts when they come here, and in the next let us sacrifice twelve picked [
13.185Thus did the chiefs and rulers of the
13.200"Alas," he exclaimed, "among what manner of people am I fallen? Are they savage and uncivilized [not
13.217He counted his goodly coppers and cauldrons, his gold and all his clothes, but there was nothing missing; still he kept grieving about not being in his own country, and wandered up and down by the shore of the sounding sea bewailing his hard fate. Then Athena came up to him disguised as a young shepherd of delicate and princely mien, with a good cloak folded double about her shoulders; she had sandals on her comely feet and held a javelin in her hand. Odysseus was glad when he saw her, and went straight up to her.
13.228"My friend," said he, "you are the first person whom I have met with in this country; I salute you, therefore, and beg you to be well disposed in
13.236Athena answered, "Stranger, you must be very simple, or must have come from somewhere a long way off, not to know what country this is. It is a very celebrated place, and everybody knows it East and West. It is rugged and not a good driving country, but it is by no means a bad island for what there is of it. It grows any quantity of grain and also wine, for it is watered both by rain and dew; it breeds cattle also and goats; all kinds of timber grow here, and there are watering places where the water never runs dry; so, sir, the name of
13.250Odysseus was glad at finding himself, as Athena told him, in his own country, and he began to answer, but he did not speak the truth [
13.256"I heard of
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