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10 - The Odyssey - Homer
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See what fine prizes he is taking home from Troy while we who have traveled just as far as he have come back with hands as empty as we set out with and Now a Yolus has given him ever so much more quick Let us see what it all is and how much gold and silver there is in the sack he gave him Thus they talked and evil councils prevailed They loosed the sack Whereupon the wind flew howling forth and raised a storm that carried us weeping out to sea and away from our own country Then I awoke and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it But I bore it Covered myself up and lay down in the ship while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island When we reached it we went ashore to take in water and dined hard by the ships Immediately after dinner. I took a herald on one of my men and went straight to the house of Aeolus Where I found him feasting with his wife and family So we sat down as subplants on the threshold They were astounded when they saw us and said Ulysses what brings you here what God has been ill treating you? We took great pains to further you on your way home to Ithaca or wherever it was that you wanted to go to Thus did they speak But I answered sorrowfully My men have undone me They and cruel sleep have ruined me My friends made me this mischief for you can if you will I Spoke as movingly as I could but they said nothing till their father answered Wireless of mankind get you gone at once out of the islands Him whom heaven hates will I in no wise help? Be off for you came here as one a board of heaven and with these words he sent me sorrowing from his door Fence we sailed sadly on till the men were worn out with long and fruitless rowing For there was no longer any wind to help them six days night and day did we toil and On the seventh day we reached the rocky stronghold of lamus telephilus the city of less Virginians Where the shepherd who is driving in his sheep and goats to be milked? Salutes him who is driving out his flock to feed and this last answers the salute In that country a man who could do without sleep might earn double wages One as a herdsman of cattle and another as a shepherd For they work much the same by night as they do by day When we reached the harbor we found it landlocked under steep cliffs With a narrow entrance between two headlands My captains took all their ships inside and made them fast close to one another For there was never so much as a breath of wind inside, but it was always dead calm. I Kept my own ship outside and moored it to a rock at the very end of the point Then I climbed a high rock to reconnoiter But could see no sign neither of man nor cattle Only some smoke rising from the ground So I sent two of my company with an attendant to find out what sort of people the inhabitants were The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water and Who was daughter to a Lestrigonian named Antiphetes? She was going to the fountain Artesia from which the people bring in their water and When my men had come close up to her they asked her who the king of that country might be and over what kind of people he ruled So she directed them to her father's house But when they got there they found his wife to be a giant s as huge as a mountain and they were horrified at the sight of her She At once called her husband Antiphetes from the place of assembly and fourth with he said about killing my men He snatched up one of them and began to make his dinner of him then and there Where on the other two ran back to the ships as fast as ever they could But Antiphetes raised a hue and cry after them and thousands of sturdy Lestrigonians sprang up from every quarter Ogres not men They threw vast rocks at us from the cliffs as though they had been mere stones And I heard the horrid sound of the ships crunching up against one another and the death cries of my men as The Lestrigonian speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them While they were thus killing my men within the harbor. I drew my sword Cut the cable of my own ship and told my men to row with all their might if they too would not fare like the rest So they laid out for their lives and we were thankful enough when we got into open waters out of reach of the rocks They hurled at us as For the others there was not one of them left Fence we sailed sadly on glad to have escaped death though we had lost our comrades and Came to the Aenean island Where Cersei lives a great and cunning goddess who is own sister to the magician 80s For they are both children of the Sun by Percy who is daughter to ocean us We brought our ship into a safe harbor without a word for some God guided us thither and Having landed we lay there for two days and two nights worn out in body and mind When the morning of the third day came I took my spear and my sword and went away from the ship to Reconauter and see if I could discover signs of human handiwork or hear the sound of voices Climbing to the top of a high lookout. I aspied the smoke of Cersei's house rising upwards amid a dense forest of trees And when I saw this I doubted Whether having seen the smoke I would not go at once and find out more But in the end I deemed it best to go back to the ship Give the men their dinners and send some of them instead of going myself When I had nearly got back to the ship some God took pity upon my solitude and Sent a fine antled stag right into the middle of my path He was coming down his pasture in the forest to drink of the river for the heat of the Sun drove him and As he passed I struck him in the middle of the back The bronze point of the spear went clean through him and he lay groaning in the dust until the life went out of him then I set my foot upon him drew my spear from the wound and laid it down I Also gathered rough grass and rushes and twisted them into a fathom or so of good stout rope With which I bound the four feet of the noble creature together Having so done I hung him round my neck and walked back to the ship leaning upon my spear For the stag was much too big for me to be able to carry him on my shoulder steadying him with one hand as I threw him down in front of the ship. I called the men and spoke cheeringly man by mange each of them Look here my friends said I We are not going to die so much before our time after all and at any rate We will not starve so long as we have got something to eat and drink on board On this they uncovered their heads upon the seashore and admired the stag For he was indeed a splendid fellow Then when they had feasted their eyes upon him sufficiently They washed their hands and began to cook him for dinner Thus through the live long day to the going down of the Sun. We stayed there eating and drinking our fill But when the Sun went down and it came on dark we camped upon the seashore When the child of morning rosy fingered dawn appeared. I called a council and said My friends we are in very great difficulties Listen therefore to me We have no idea where the Sun either sets or rises so that we do not even know east from west. I Seek no way out of it Nevertheless, we must try and find one We are certainly on an island for I went as high as I could this morning and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon It lies low, but towards the middle. I saw smoke rising from out of a thick forest of trees Their hearts sank as they heard me for they remembered how they had been treated by the Lestrigonian Antipheties and by the savage ogre polyphemus They wept bitterly in their dismay But there was nothing to be got by crying So I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each. I Gave one company to Yuri locus while I took command of the other myself Then we cast lots in a helmet and the lot fell upon Louis locus So he set out with his 22 men and they wept as also did we who were left behind When they reached Cersei's house, they found it built of cut stones on a site that could be seen from far in the middle of the forest There were wild mountain wolves and lions prowling all around it Poor bewitched creatures whom she had famed by her enchantments and drugged into subjection They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tales formed upon them and rubbed their noses lovingly against them as Hounds crowd round their master when they see him coming from dinner For they know he will bring them something Even so did these wolves and lions with their great claws Fawn upon my men But the men were terribly frightened at seeing such strange creatures Presently they reached the gates of the goddess's house And as they stood there they could hear Cersei within Singing most beautifully as she worked at her loom Making a web so fine so soft and of such dazzling colors as no one but a goddess could weave On this polities whom I valued and trusted much more than any other of my men said There is someone inside working at a loom and singing most beautifully The whole place resounds with it Let us call her and see whether she is woman or goddess They called her and she came down Unfastened the door and bade them enter they Thinking no evil followed her All except leeure locus who suspected mischief and stayed outside When she had got them into her house She set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese honey meal and crumbly and wine But she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes and When they had had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand shut them up in her pig's eyes They were like pigs head hair and or and they grunted just as pigs do But their senses were the same as before and they remembered everything Thus then were they shut up squealing and says they threw them some acorns and beach masks such as pigs eat But Yuri locus hurried back to tell me about the sad fate of our comrades He was so overcome with dismay that though he tried to speak he could find no words to do so His eyes filled with tears and he could only sob and sigh Till at last we forced his story out of him and he told us what had happened to the others We went said he as you told us through the forest and in the middle of it There was a fine house built with cut stones in a place that could be seen from far There we found a woman or else she was a goddess Working at her loom and singing squeakly So the men shouted to her and called her where on shit ones came down opened the door and invited us in The others did not suspect any mischief so they followed her into the house But I stayed where I was for I thought there might be some treachery From that moment I saw them no more For not one of them ever came out though. I sat a long time watching for them Then I took my sword of bronze and slung it over my shoulders I also took my bow and told Yuri locust to come back with me and show me the way But he laid hold of me with both his hands and spoke piteously saying sir Do not force me to go with you, but let me stay here For I know you will not bring one of them back with you not even return alive yourself Let us rather see if we cannot escape at any rate with the few that are left us for me way we may still save our lives Stay where you are then I answered eating and drinking at the ship, but I must go for I am most urgently bound to do so With this I left the ship and went up in land When I got through the charmed grove and was near the great house of the Enchantress Cersei I met Mercury with his golden wand Disguised as a young man in the heyday of his youth and beauty with a down just coming upon his face He came up to me and took my hand within his own saying My poor unhappy man. Whither are you going over this mountaintop alone and without knowing the way? Your men are shut up in Cersei's pickstyes like so many wild boars in their layers you surely do not fancy that you can set them free I Can tell you that you will never get back and we'll have to stay there with the rest of them But never mind. I will protect you and get you out of your difficulty Take this herb, which is one of great virtue and keep it about you when you go to Cersei's house It will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief And I will tell you of all the wicked witchcraft that Cersei will try to practice upon you She will mix a mess for you to drink and she will drug the meal With which she makes it But she will not be able to charm you for the virtue of the herb that I shall give you will prevent her spells from working I Will tell you all about it When Cersei strikes you with her wand draw your sword and spring upon her as they you are going to kill her She will then be frightened and will desire you to go to bed with her On this you must not point a blank refuse her For you want her to set your companions free and to take good care also of yourself But you must make her swear solemnly by all the blessed gods that she will plot no further mischief against you Or else when she has got you naked she will unmanue and make you fit for nothing As he spoke he pulled the herb out of the ground and showed me what it was like The root was black while the flower was as white as milk The gods call it moly and mortal men cannot uproot it, but the gods can do whatever they like Then Mercury went back to High Olympus passing over the wooded island But I fared onward to the house of Cersei and my heart was clouded with care as I walked along When I got to the gates I stood there and called the goddess and as soon as she heard me she came down Opened the door and asked me to come in So I followed her much troubled in my mind She set me on a richly decorated seat in laid with silver There was a foot still also under my feet and She mixed the mess in a golden goblet for me to drink But she drugged it before she meant me mischief When she had given it me and I had drunk it without its charming me. She struck me with her wand There now she cried be off to the pigsty and make your lair with the rest of them But I rushed at her with my sword drawn as I would kill her Whereupon she fell with a loud scream clasped my knees and spoke pitiously saying Who and whence are you? From what place and people have you come? How can it be that my drugs have no power to charm you? Never yet was a man able to stand so much as a taste of the herb I gave you You must be spellproof. Surely you can be none other than the bold hero Ulysses Who Mercury always said would come here someday with his ship while on his way home from Troy? so be it then sheath your sword and let us go to bed that we may make friends and learn to trust each other and I answered sir say How can you expect me to be friendly with you when you have just been turning all my men into pigs and Now that you've got me here myself You mean me mischief when you ask me to go to bed with you and will I man me and make me unfit for nothing I Shall certainly not consent to go to bed with you and let you will first take your solemn oath to plot no further harm against me So she swore at once as I had told her and when she had completed her oath, then I went to bed with her Meanwhile her four servants who are her housemaids set about their work They are the children of the groves and fountains and of the holy waters that run down into the sea One of them spread a fair purple cloth over a seat and laid a carpet underneath it Another brought tables of silver up to the seats and set them with baskets of gold a Third mixed some sweet wine with water in a silver bowl and put golden cups upon the tables While the fourth brought in water and set it to boil in a large cauldron over a good fire which she had lighted When the water in the cauldron was boiling she poured cold into it till it was just as I liked it and Then she set me in a bath and began washing me from the cauldron about the head and shoulders To take the tire and stiffness out of my limbs As soon as she had done washing me and anointed me with oil She had rayed me in a good cloak and shirt and led me to a richly decorated seat in laid with silver There was a footstool also underneath my feet A maid servant then bought me water in a beautiful golden yua and poured it into a silver basin for me to wash my hands and She drew a clean table beside me and Upper servant bought me bread and offered me many things of what there was in the house and Then sir say bade me eat But I would not and sat without heating what was before me still moody and suspicious When sir say saw me sitting there without eating and in great grief. She came to me and said Ulysses, why do you sit like that as though you were dumb knowing at your own heart and refusing both meat and drink? Is it that you are still suspicious? You ought not to be for I have already sworn solemnly that I will not hurt you and I said Sir say no matter any sense of what is right can think of either eating or drinking in your house Until you have set his friends free and let him see them If you want me to eat and drink you must free my men and bring them to me that I may see them with my own eyes When I had said this she went straight through the court with her wand in her hand and opened the pigsty doors My men came out like so many prime hogs and stood looking at her But she went among them and anointed each with a second drug Whereupon the bristles that the bad drug had given them fell off and they became men again? Younger than they were before and much taller and better looking They knew me at once Seized me each of them by the hand and wept for joy till the whole house itself was filled with the sound of their hello our bellowing and Sir say herself was so sorry for them that she came up to me and said Ulysses noble son of Laertes Go back at once the sea where you have left your ship and first draw it on to the land Then hide all your ships gear and property in some cave and come back here with your men I Agreed to this so I went back to the sea shore and found the men at the ship weeping and wailing most pitiously When they saw me the silly blubbering fellows began frisking round me as cards break out and gamble round their mothers When they see them coming home to be milked after have been feeding all day and the homestead resounds with their lowing They seemed as glad to see me as though they had got back to their own rugged Ithaca where they had been born and bred Sir said the affectionate creatures We are as glad to see you back as they would got safe home to Ithaca But tell us all about the fate of our comrades I Spoke comforting to them to them and said We must draw our ship on to the land and hide the ship's gear with all our property in some cave Then come with me all of you as fast as you can to sir say's house Where you will find your comrades eating and drinking in the midst of great abundance On this the men would have come with me at once But Yuri locust tried to hold them back and said Alas poor wretches that we are what will become of us? Rush not on your ruin by going to the house of sir say who will turn us all into pigs or wolves or lions And we shall have to keep guard over her house Remember how the cyclops treated us when our comrades went inside his cave and Ulysses with them it was all through his sheer folly that those men lost their lives When I heard him I was in two minds whether or no to draw the keen blade that hung by my sturdy thigh and Cut his head off in spite of his being a near relation of my own But the men interceded for him and said Sir if it may so be let this fellow stay here and mind the ship But take the rest of us with you to sir say's house On this we all went in land and Yuri locust was not left behind after all But came on to for he was frightened by the severe reprimand that I had given him Meanwhile sir say had been seeing that the men who had been left behind were washed and anointed with olive oil She had also given them woolen cloaks and shirts and when we came we found them all comfortably at dinner in her house As soon as the men saw each other face to face and knew one another They wept for joy and cried aloud till the whole palace rang again There on sir say came up to me and said Ulysses noble son of Laertes Tell your men to leave off crying. I know much how much you have all of you suffered at sea and How ill you have fared among cruel savages on the mainland? But that is over now, so stay here and eat and drink till you are once more as strong and hearty as you were when you left Ithaca For at present you are weakened both in body and mind You keep all the time thinking of the hardships you have suffered during your travels So that you have no more cheerfulness left in you Thus did she speak and we are scented We stayed with Cersei for a whole 12 month feasting upon an untold quantity both of meat and wine But when the year had passed in the waning of moons and the long days had come round my men called me apart and said Sir, it is time you began to think about going home If so be art you are to be spared to see your house and native country at all Thus did they speak and I assented They're on through the live-long day to the going down of the Sun. We feasted our fill on meat and wine But when the Sun went down and it came on dark the men laid themselves down to sleep in the covered cloisters I However Arthur had got into bed with Cersei this haught her by her knees and the goddess listened to what I had got to say Cersei said I please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage. I Want to get back and so do my men They are always pestering me with their complaints as soon as ever your back is turned And the goddess answered Ulysses noble son of Laertes You shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to But there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards You must go to the house of Hades and of dead Prossopene to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Terezius whose reason is still unshaken To him alone has prossopene left his understanding even in death But the other ghost flit about aimlessly I Was dismayed when I heard this I Sat up in bed and wept and would gladly have lived no longer to see the light of the Sun But presently when I was tired of weeping and tossing myself about I said Who shall guide me upon this voyage for the house of Hades is a port that no ship can reach? You will want no guide she answered Raise your mast set your white sails Sit quite still and the North wind will blow you there of itself When your ship has traversed the waters of Oceanas you will reach the fertile shore of Prossopene's country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that shed their fruit untimely Here beats your ship upon the shore of Oceanas and go straight on to the darker boat of Hades You will find it near the place where the rivers pirate flagathon and cockitus Which is a branch of the river sticks flow into achiron and you will see a rock near it Just where the two roaring rivers run into one another When you have reached this spot as I now tell you Dig a trench a cubit or so in length breath and depth and pour into it as a drink offering to all the dead first honey mixed with milk then wine and in the third place water Sprinkling white barley meal over the hole Moreover, you must offer many prayers to the poor feeble ghosts and Promise them that when you get back to Ithaca you will sacrifice a barren heifer to them the best you have and Will load the pile with good things? More particularly you must promise that Tyreasius shall have a black sheep all to himself and The finest in all your flocks When you shall have thus besought the ghosts with your prayers offer them a ram and the black you bending their heads Towards Eribus but yourself turn away from them as they you would make towards the river on this many dead men's ghosts will come to you and you must tell your men to skin the two sheep that you have just killed and Offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Propene Then draw your sword and sit there so as to prevent any other poor ghost from coming near this built blood before Tyreasius Shall have answered your questions The seer will presently come to you and will tell you about your voyage What stages you are to make and how you are to sail the sea so as to reach your home? It was daybreak by the time she had done speaking so she dressed me in my shirt and cloak as For herself she threw a beautiful light gossamer fabric over her shoulders Fastening it with a golden girdle around her waist and she covered her head with a mantle Then I went about among the men everywhere all over the house and spoke kindly to each of them man by man You must not lie sleeping here any longer said I to them We must be going for Cersei has told me all about it and on this they did as I bade them Even so however, I did not get them away without misadventure We had with us a certain youth named Elpenor Not very remarkable for sense or courage Who had got drunk and was lying on the house top away from the rest of the men to sleep off his liquor in the cool When he heard the noise of the men bustling about He jumped up on a sudden and forgot all about coming down by the main staircase So he tumbled right off the roof and broke his neck and his soul went down to the house of Hades When I had got the men together I said to them You think you are about to start home again But Cersei has explained to me that instead of this we have got to go to the house of Hades and Prossopene to consult the ghost of the Teben prophet Tyresius The men were broken-hearted as they heard me and threw themselves on the ground groaning and tearing their hair But they did not men matters by crying When we reached the seashore weeping and lamenting our fate Cersei bought the ram and the you and we made them fast hard by the ship She passed through the myths of us without our knowing it For who can see the comings and goings of a god if the god does not wish to be seen End of book 10 Hello, it is Ryan and we could all use an extra bright spot in our day Couldn't we just to make up for things like sitting in traffic doing the dishes counting your steps? 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