§10.356ἡ δὲ τρίτη κρητῆρι μελίφρονα οἶνον ἐκίρνα §10.357ἡδὺν ἐν ἀργυρέῳ, νέμε δὲ χρύσεια κύπελλα· §10.358ἡ δὲ τετάρτη ὕδωρ ἐφόρει καὶ πῦρ ἀνέκαιε §10.359πολλὸν ὑπὸ τρίποδι μεγάλῳ· ἰαίνετο δʼ ὕδωρ. §10.360αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ ζέσσεν ὕδωρ ἐνὶ ἤνοπι χαλκῷ, §10.361ἔς ῥʼ ἀσάμινθον ἕσασα λόʼ ἐκ τρίποδος μεγάλοιο, §10.362θυμῆρες κεράσασα, κατὰ κρατός τε καὶ ὤμων, §10.363ὄφρα μοι ἐκ κάματον θυμοφθόρον εἵλετο γυίων. §10.364αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ λοῦσέν τε καὶ ἔχρισεν λίπʼ ἐλαίῳ, §10.365ἀμφὶ δέ με χλαῖναν καλὴν βάλεν ἠδὲ χιτῶνα, §10.366εἷσε δέ μʼ εἰσαγαγοῦσα ἐπὶ θρόνου ἀργυροήλου §10.367καλοῦ δαιδαλέου, ὑπὸ δὲ θρῆνυς ποσὶν ἦεν· §10.368χέρνιβα δʼ ἀμφίπολος προχόῳ ἐπέχευε φέρουσα §10.369καλῇ χρυσείῃ, ὑπὲρ ἀργυρέοιο λέβητος, §10.370νίψασθαι· παρὰ δὲ ξεστὴν ἐτάνυσσε τράπεζαν. §10.371σῖτον δʼ αἰδοίη ταμίη παρέθηκε φέρουσα, §10.372εἴδατα πόλλʼ ἐπιθεῖσα, χαριζομένη παρεόντων. §10.373ἐσθέμεναι δʼ ἐκέλευεν· ἐμῷ δʼ οὐχ ἥνδανε θυμῷ, §10.374ἀλλʼ ἥμην ἀλλοφρονέων, κακὰ δʼ ὄσσετο θυμός. §10.375Κίρκη δʼ ὡς ἐνόησεν ἔμʼ ἥμενον οὐδʼ ἐπὶ σίτῳ §10.376χεῖρας ἰάλλοντα, κρατερὸν δέ με πένθος ἔχοντα, §10.377ἄγχι παρισταμένη ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα· §10.378τίφθʼ οὕτως, Ὀδυσεῦ, κατʼ ἄρʼ ἕζεαι ἶσος ἀναύδῳ, §10.379θυμὸν ἔδων, βρώμης δʼ οὐχ ἅπτεαι οὐδὲ ποτῆτος; §10.380ἦ τινά που δόλον ἄλλον ὀίεαι·
And the third mixed the sweet-minded wine in a silver bowl, sweet wine, and distributed the golden cups. And the fourth carried water and kindled a great fire beneath the large tripod; and the water grew warm. But when the water boiled in the shining bronze, she seated me in a bath and washed me from the large tripod, mixing it to a pleasant warmth, over my head and shoulders, so that she took the soul-destroying weariness from my limbs. But when she had washed me and anointed me with olive oil, and had cast a beautiful cloak and a tunic about me, she led me in and seated me on a silver-studded throne, beautiful and elaborately wrought, and beneath was a footstool for my feet. And a handmaid poured water for washing from a beautiful golden pitcher over a silver basin, to wash, and drew up a polished table beside me. And the grave housekeeper brought and set bread before me, putting on many dainties, giving freely of what was at hand. And she bade me eat, but it pleased not my heart, but I sat thinking of other things, and my mind boded ill. And Circe, when she noticed me sitting and not stretching forth my hands to the food, but holding strong grief, came near and spoke to me winged words: "Why, Odysseus, do you sit thus like one who is dumb, eating your heart, and touch not food or drink? Do you surely suspect some other guile?
οὐδέ τί σε χρὴ §10.381δειδίμεν· ἤδη γάρ τοι ἀπώμοσα καρτερὸν ὅρκον. §10.382ὣς ἔφατʼ, αὐτὰρ ἐγώ μιν ἀμειβόμενος προσέειπον· §10.383ὦ Κίρκη, τίς γάρ κεν ἀνήρ, ὃς ἐναίσιμος εἴη, §10.384πρὶν τλαίη πάσσασθαι ἐδητύος ἠδὲ ποτῆτος, §10.385πρὶν λύσασθʼ ἑτάρους καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδέσθαι; §10.386ἀλλʼ εἰ δὴ πρόφρασσα πιεῖν φαγέμεν τε κελεύεις, §10.387λῦσον, ἵνʼ ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἴδω ἐρίηρας ἑταίρους. §10.388ὣς ἐφάμην, Κίρκη δὲ διὲκ μεγάροιο βεβήκει §10.389ῥάβδον ἔχουσʼ ἐν χειρί, θύρας δʼ ἀνέῳξε συφειοῦ, §10.390ἐκ δʼ ἔλασεν σιάλοισιν ἐοικότας ἐννεώροισιν. §10.391οἱ μὲν ἔπειτʼ ἔστησαν ἐναντίοι, ἡ δὲ διʼ αὐτῶν §10.392ἐρχομένη προσάλειφεν ἑκάστῳ φάρμακον ἄλλο. §10.393τῶν δʼ ἐκ μὲν μελέων τρίχες ἔρρεον, ἃς πρὶν ἔφυσε §10.394φάρμακον οὐλόμενον, τό σφιν πόρε πότνια Κίρκη· §10.395ἄνδρες δʼ ἂψ ἐγένοντο νεώτεροι ἢ πάρος ἦσαν, §10.396καὶ πολὺ καλλίονες καὶ μείζονες εἰσοράασθαι. §10.397ἔγνωσαν δέ μʼ ἐκεῖνοι ἔφυν τʼ ἐν χερσὶν ἕκαστος. §10.398πᾶσιν δʼ ἱμερόεις ὑπέδυ γόος, ἀμφὶ δὲ δῶμα §10.399σμερδαλέον κονάβιζε· θεὰ δʼ ἐλέαιρε καὶ αὐτή. §10.400ἡ δέ μευ ἄγχι στᾶσα προσηύδα δῖα θεάων· §10.401διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη, πολυμήχανʼ Ὀδυσσεῦ, §10.402ἔρχεο νῦν ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν καὶ θῖνα θαλάσσης. §10.403νῆα μὲν ἂρ πάμπρωτον ἐρύσσατε ἤπειρόνδε, §10.404κτήματα δʼ ἐν σπήεσσι πελάσσατε ὅπλα τε πάντα· §10.405αὐτὸς δʼ ἂψ ἰέναι καὶ ἄγειν ἐρίηρας ἑταίρους. §10.406ὣς ἔφατʼ, αὐτὰρ ἐμοί γʼ ἐπεπείθετο θυμὸς ἀγήνωρ, §10.407βῆν δʼ ἰέναι ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν καὶ θῖνα θαλάσσης. §10.408εὗρον ἔπειτʼ ἐπὶ νηὶ θοῇ ἐρίηρας ἑταίρους §10.409οἴκτρʼ ὀλοφυρομένους, θαλερὸν κατὰ δάκρυ χέοντας. §10.410ὡς δʼ ὅτʼ ἂν ἄγραυλοι πόριες περὶ βοῦς ἀγελαίας, §10.411ἐλθούσας ἐς κόπρον, ἐπὴν βοτάνης κορέσωνται, §10.412πᾶσαι ἅμα σκαίρουσιν ἐναντίαι· οὐδʼ ἔτι σηκοὶ §10.413ἴσχουσʼ, ἀλλʼ ἁδινὸν μυκώμεναι ἀμφιθέουσι· §10.414μητέρας· ὣς ἔμʼ ἐκεῖνοι ἐπεὶ ἴδον ὀφθαλμοῖσι, §10.415δακρυόεντες ἔχυντο· δόκησε δʼ ἄρα σφίσι θυμὸς §10.416ὣς ἔμεν, ὡς εἰ πατρίδʼ ἱκοίατο καὶ πόλιν αὐτὴν §10.417τρηχείης Ἰθάκης, ἵνα τʼ ἔτραφεν ἠδʼ ἐγένοντο. §10.418καί μʼ ὀλοφυρόμενοι ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδων· §10.419σοὶ μὲν νοστήσαντι, διοτρεφές, ὣς ἐχάρημεν, §10.420ὡς εἴ τʼ εἰς Ἰθάκην ἀφικοίμεθα πατρίδα γαῖαν· §10.421ἀλλʼ ἄγε, τῶν ἄλλων ἑτάρων κατάλεξον ὄλεθρον. §10.422ὣς ἔφαν, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ προσέφην μαλακοῖς ἐπέεσσι· §10.423νῆα μὲν ἂρ πάμπρωτον ἐρύσσομεν ἤπειρόνδε, §10.424κτήματα δʼ ἐν σπήεσσι πελάσσομεν ὅπλα τε πάντα· §10.425αὐτοὶ δʼ ὀτρύνεσθε ἐμοὶ ἅμα πάντες ἕπεσθαι, §10.426ὄφρα ἴδηθʼ ἑτάρους ἱεροῖς ἐν δώμασι Κίρκης §10.427πίνοντας καὶ ἔδοντας· ἐπηετανὸν γὰρ ἔχουσιν.
But you have no need to fear, for I have already sworn a strong oath to you." So she spoke, but I answered her and said: "O Circe, what man who is right-minded could bear to taste food and drink before he has set free his companions and seen them with his eyes? But if you in truth bid me drink and eat with a willing heart, set them free, that I may see with my eyes my trusty companions." So I spoke, and Circe went out through the hall holding her wand in her hand, and opened the doors of the stye, and drove them out, looking like swine of nine years old. They then stood before her, and she, going through their midst, anointed each one with another drug. And from their limbs the hair fell away, which before the baneful drug had made to grow, which lady Circe had given them. And they became men again, younger than they were before, and far more beautiful and taller to look upon. And they knew me, and each clung to my hands. And into all of them fell a desirable lamentation, and around the house it echoed wondrously; and even the goddess herself pitied them. And she, standing near me, spoke, the divine among goddesses: "Son of Laertes, sprung from Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, go now to your swift ship and the shore of the sea. First of all draw your ship onto the land, and store your goods and all your gear in the caves; and do you yourself return and bring your trusty companions." So she spoke, and my proud heart complied, and I went to the swift ship and the shore of the sea. I found then at the swift ship my trusty companions lamenting piteously, shedding big tears. And as when calves of the homestead around the herd of cows that have come back to the yard when they have had their fill of pasture, all leap together to meet them, and the pens no longer hold them, but with constant lowing they run around their mothers; so they, when they saw me with their eyes, thronged weeping around me; and it seemed to their hearts to be just as if they had reached their homeland and the very city of rugged Ithaca, where they were nurtured and born. And with lamentation they spoke to me winged words: "At your return, O nursling of Zeus, we rejoiced as much as if we had reached our fatherland, Ithaca; but come, tell us of the destruction of our other companions." So they spoke, but I addressed them with gentle words: "First of all let us draw our ship onto the land, and store our goods and all our gear in the caves; and do you all make haste to follow together with me, so that you may see your companions in the sacred house of Circe drinking and eating; for they have abundant store."