§24.143μηνῶν φθινόντων, περὶ δʼ ἤματα πόλλʼ ἐτελέσθη, §24.144καὶ τότε δή τις ἔειπε γυναικῶν, ἣ σάφα ᾔδη, §24.145καὶ τήν γʼ ἀλλύουσαν ἐφεύρομεν ἀγλαὸν ἱστόν.
as the months waned, and many days were fulfilled, and then indeed one of the women who knew clearly spoke, and we caught her unravelling the splendid web.
§24.146ὣς τὸ μὲν ἐξετέλεσσε καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσʼ, ὑπʼ ἀνάγκης.
Thus she finished it, even against her will, under necessity.
§24.147εὖθʼ ἡ φᾶρος ἔδειξεν, ὑφήνασα μέγαν ἱστόν, §24.148πλύνασʼ, ἠελίῳ ἐναλίγκιον ἠὲ σελήνῃ, §24.149καὶ τότε δή ῥʼ Ὀδυσῆα κακός ποθεν ἤγαγε δαίμων §24.150ἀγροῦ ἐπʼ ἐσχατιήν, ὅθι δώματα ναῖε συβώτης.
When she showed the robe, having woven the great web, and washed it, and it was like the sun or the moon, and then indeed some evil spirit brought Odysseus from somewhere to the border of the estate, where the swineherd dwelt.
§24.151ἔνθʼ ἦλθεν φίλος υἱὸς Ὀδυσσῆος θείοιο, §24.152ἐκ Πύλου ἠμαθόεντος ἰὼν σὺν νηῒ μελαίνῃ· §24.153τὼ δὲ μνηστῆρσιν θάνατον κακὸν ἀρτύναντε §24.154ἵκοντο προτὶ ἄστυ περικλυτόν, ἦ τοι Ὀδυσσεὺς §24.155ὕστερος, αὐτὰρ Τηλέμαχος πρόσθʼ ἡγεμόνευε.
There came the dear son of divine Odysseus, returning from sandy Pylos with his black ship; and the two, having plotted evil death for the suitors, came to the famous city; indeed, Odysseus was behind, while Telemachus led the way before him.
§24.156τὸν δὲ συβώτης ἦγε κακὰ χροῒ εἵματʼ ἔχοντα, §24.157πτωχῷ λευγαλέῳ ἐναλίγκιον ἠδὲ γέροντι §24.158σκηπτόμενον· τὰ δὲ λυγρὰ περὶ χροῒ εἵματα ἕστο·
The swineherd led him, wearing wretched clothes upon his body, resembling a miserable beggar and an old man, leaning on a staff; and he was clad in wretched garments about his body.
§24.159οὐδέ τις ἡμείων δύνατο γνῶναι τὸν ἐόντα §24.160ἐξαπίνης προφανέντʼ, οὐδʼ οἳ προγενέστεροι ἦσαν, §24.161ἀλλʼ ἔπεσίν τε κακοῖσιν ἐνίσσομεν ἠδὲ βολῇσιν.
And none of us could recognize him as being who he was, when he suddenly appeared, not even those who were older, but we assailed him with evil words and with peltings.
§24.162αὐτὰρ ὁ τῆος ἐτόλμα ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἑοῖσι §24.163βαλλόμενος καὶ ἐνισσόμενος τετληότι θυμῷ· §24.164ἀλλʼ ὅτε δή μιν ἔγειρε Διὸς νοός αἰγιόχοιο, §24.165σὺν μὲν Τηλεμάχῳ περικαλλέα τεύχεʼ ἀείρας §24.166ἐς θάλαμον κατέθηκε καὶ ἐκλήϊσεν ὀχῆας, §24.167αὐτὰρ ὁ ἣν ἄλοχον πολυκερδείῃσιν ἄνωγε §24.168τόξον μνηστήρεσσι θέμεν πολιόν τε σίδηρον, §24.169ἡμῖν αἰνομόροισιν ἀέθλια καὶ φόνου ἀρχήν.
But he for a time endured in his own halls, being pelted and assailed, with a patient heart; but when indeed the mind of Aegis-bearing Zeus aroused him, in company with Telemachus he took up the beautiful armor and laid them away in the chamber, and shot the bolts, but he with great cunning urged his wife to set before the suitors the bow and the grey iron, as prizes for us ill-fated ones, and the beginning of slaughter.
And not one of us was able of the strong bow to string the cord; for we were far lacking in strength.
§24.172ἀλλʼ ὅτε χεῖρας ἵκανεν Ὀδυσσῆος μέγα τόξον, §24.173ἔνθʼ ἡμεῖς μὲν πάντες ὁμοκλέομεν ἐπέεσσι §24.174τόξον μὴ δόμεναι, μηδʼ εἰ μάλα πολλʼ ἀγορεύοι· §24.175Τηλέμαχος δέ μιν οἶος ἐποτρύνων ἐκέλευσεν.
But when the great bow came to the hands of Odysseus, then we all cried out with words not to give him the bow, not even if he should speak ever so much; but Telemachus alone urged and commanded him.
§24.176αὐτὰρ ὁ δέξατο χειρὶ πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς, §24.177ῥηϊδίως δʼ ἐτάνυσσε βιόν, διὰ δʼ ἧκε σιδήρου, §24.178στῆ δʼ ἄρʼ ἐπʼ οὐδὸν ἰών, ταχέας δʼ ἐκχεύατʼ ὀϊστοὺς §24.179δεινὸν παπταίνων, βάλε δʼ Ἀντίνοον βασιλῆα.
And he received it in his hand, much-enduring noble Odysseus, and easily he strung the bow, and sent an arrow through the iron, and then he went and stood upon the threshold, and poured out the swift arrows, glaring terribly around, and shot Antinous the king.
§24.180αὐτὰρ ἔπειτʼ ἄλλοις ἐφίει βέλεα στονόεντα, §24.181ἄντα τιτυσκόμενος· τοὶ δʼ ἀγχιστῖνοι ἔπιπτον.
Then thereafter against the others he let fly his tearful shafts, aiming straight; and they fell thick and fast.
§24.182γνωτὸν δʼ ἦν ὅ ῥά τίς σφι θεῶν ἐπιτάρροθος ἦεν· §24.183αὐτίκα γὰρ κατὰ δώματʼ ἐπισπόμενοι μένεϊ σφῷ §24.184κτεῖνον ἐπιστροφάδην, τῶν δὲ στόνος ὤρνυτʼ ἀεικὴς §24.185κράτων τυπτομένων, δάπεδον δʼ ἅπαν αἵματι θῦεν.
And it was plain that some god was their helper; for straightway throughout the halls, following their own fury, they slew right and left, and there arose a dreadful moaning as heads were smitten, and all the floor reeked with blood.
§24.186ὣς ἡμεῖς, Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀπωλόμεθʼ, ὧν ἔτι καὶ νῦν §24.187σώματʼ ἀκηδέα κεῖται ἐνὶ μεγάροις Ὀδυσῆος· §24.188οὐ γάρ πω ἴσασι φίλοι κατὰ δώμαθʼ ἑκάστου, §24.189οἵ κʼ ἀπονίψαντες μέλανα βρότον ἐξ ὠτειλέων §24.190κατθέμενοι γοάοιεν· ὃ γὰρ γέρας ἐστὶ θανόντων.
Thus we perished, Agamemnon, and still even now our bodies lie uncared for in the halls of Odysseus; for our friends in the house of each do not yet know, who might wash the dark blood from our wounds, and lay us out and wail for us; for this is the due of the dead.
§24.191τὸν δʼ αὖτε ψυχὴ προσεφώνεεν Ἀτρεΐδαο· §24.192ὄλβιε Λαέρταο πάϊ, πολυμήχανʼ Ὀδυσσεῦ, §24.193ἦ ἄρα σὺν μεγάλῃ ἀρετῇ ἐκτήσω ἄκοιτιν.
And to him the soul of the son of Atreus spoke in turn: “Happy son of Laertes, Odysseus of many devices, surely with great virtue didst thou win thy wife.
How noble were the thoughts of blameless Penelope, daughter of Icarius; how well she remembered Odysseus, her wedded husband!
§24.196ἀνδρὸς κουριδίου· τῷ οἱ κλέος οὔ ποτʼ ὀλεῖται §24.197ἧς ἀρετῆς, τεύξουσι δʼ ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἀοιδὴν §24.198ἀθάνατοι χαρίεσσαν ἐχέφρονι Πηνελοπείῃ,
Therefore the fame of her virtue shall never perish, and the immortals shall make for men on earth a lovely song for wise Penelope.
§24.199οὐχ ὡς Τυνδαρέου κούρη κακὰ μήσατο ἔργα, §24.200κουρίδιον κτείνασα πόσιν, στυγερὴ δέ τʼ ἀοιδὴ §24.201ἔσσετʼ ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπους, χαλεπὴν δέ τε φῆμιν ὀπάσσει §24.202θηλυτέρῃσι γυναιξί, καὶ ἥ κʼ εὐεργὸς ἔῃσιν. §24.203ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον, §24.204ἑσταότʼ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοις, ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης·
Not so did the daughter of Tyndareus devise evil deeds, slaying her wedded husband; and a hateful song shall be among men, and she will bring evil repute upon all womankind, even upon her who does well.” Thus they spoke to one another, standing in the halls of Hades, beneath the secret places of the earth.
§24.205οἱ δʼ ἐπεὶ ἐκ πόλιος κατέβαν, τάχα δʼ ἀγρὸν ἵκοντο §24.206καλὸν Λαέρταο τετυγμένον, ὅν ῥά ποτʼ αὐτὸς §24.207Λαέρτης κτεάτισσεν, ἐπεὶ μάλα πόλλʼ ἐμόγησεν.
But when the others had gone down from the city, quickly they came to the field beautiful and well-tilled of Laertes, which he himself Laertes had acquired, after he had toiled very much.
§24.208ἔνθα οἱ οἶκος ἔην, περὶ δὲ κλίσιον θέε πάντη, §24.209ἐν τῷ σιτέσκοντο καὶ ἵζανον ἠδὲ ἴαυον §24.210δμῶες ἀναγκαῖοι, τοί οἱ φίλα ἐργάζοντο.
There was his house, and a shed ran all around it, in which ate and sat and slept the thralls who of necessity worked to do his pleasure.
§24.211ἐν δὲ γυνὴ Σικελὴ γρηῢς πέλεν, ἥ ῥα γέροντα §24.212ἐνδυκέως κομέεσκεν ἐπʼ ἀγροῦ, νόσφι πόληος.
And in it was an old Sicilian woman, who carefully tended the old man on the estate, far from the city.
§24.213ἔνθʼ Ὀδυσεὺς δμώεσσι καὶ υἱέϊ μῦθον ἔειπεν·
There Odysseus spoke to the thralls and to his son: