§3.74ψυχὰς παρθέμενοι κακὸν ἀλλοδαποῖσι φέροντες; §3.75τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα §3.76θαρσήσας· αὐτὴ γὰρ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θάρσος Ἀθήνη §3.77θῆχʼ, ἵνα μιν περὶ πατρὸς ἀποιχομένοιο ἔροιτο §3.78ἠδʼ ἵνα μιν κλέος ἐσθλὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἔχῃσιν·
jeopardizing their own lives, bringing evil to strangers?" To him in turn wise Telemachus answered, taking courage; for Athena herself placed courage in his heart, that he might ask him about his absent father, and that he might have good fame among men.
"O Nestor, son of Neleus, great glory of the Achaeans, you ask from where we are; and I will tell you fully.
We have come from Ithaca which is under Mount Neion; and this business of which I speak is private, not public.
§3.83πατρὸς ἐμοῦ κλέος εὐρὺ μετέρχομαι, ἤν που ἀκούσω, §3.84δίου Ὀδυσσῆος ταλασίφρονος, ὅν ποτέ φασι §3.85σὺν σοὶ μαρνάμενον Τρώων πόλιν ἐξαλαπάξαι.
I go after the wide fame of my father, if anywhere I might hear of it, of noble Odysseus of the enduring heart, who they say once fought by your side and sacked the city of the Trojans.
§3.86ἄλλους μὲν γὰρ πάντας, ὅσοι Τρωσὶν πολέμιζον, §3.87πευθόμεθʼ, ἧχι ἕκαστος ἀπώλετο λυγρῷ ὀλέθρῳ, §3.88κείνου δʼ αὖ καὶ ὄλεθρον ἀπευθέα θῆκε Κρονίων.
For of all the others, as many as warred against the Trojans, we hear where each perished by a grievous death, but of him even the destruction the son of Cronos has made unknown.
§3.89οὐ γάρ τις δύναται σάφα εἰπέμεν ὁππόθʼ ὄλωλεν, §3.90εἴθʼ ὅ γʼ ἐπʼ ἠπείρου δάμη ἀνδράσι δυσμενέεσσιν, §3.91εἴτε καὶ ἐν πελάγει μετὰ κύμασιν Ἀμφιτρίτης.
For no one is able to say clearly when he perished, whether he was overcome on the mainland by hostile men, or also on the open sea among the waves of Amphitrite.
§3.92τοὔνεκα νῦν τὰ σὰ γούναθʼ ἱκάνομαι, αἴ κʼ ἐθέλῃσθα §3.93κείνου λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον ἐνισπεῖν, εἴ που ὄπωπας §3.94ὀφθαλμοῖσι τεοῖσιν ἢ ἄλλου μῦθον ἄκουσας §3.95πλαζομένου· πέρι γάρ μιν ὀιζυρὸν τέκε μήτηρ.
Therefore now I come to your knees, if you might be willing to tell of his grievous destruction, if anywhere you have seen it with your own eyes, or have heard the story from another wanderer; for beyond measure did his mother bear him to be unhappy.
And do not in any way speak soft words to me out of respect or pity, but tell me plainly how you met with the sight.
§3.98λίσσομαι, εἴ ποτέ τοί τι πατὴρ ἐμός, ἐσθλὸς Ὀδυσσεύς, §3.99ἢ ἔπος ἠέ τι ἔργον ὑποστὰς ἐξετέλεσσε §3.100δήμῳ ἔνι Τρώων, ὅθι πάσχετε πήματʼ Ἀχαιοί, §3.101τῶν νῦν μοι μνῆσαι, καί μοι νημερτὲς ἐνίσπες. §3.102τὸν δʼ ἠμείβετʼ ἔπειτα Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ· §3.103ὦ φίλʼ, ἐπεί μʼ ἔμνησας ὀιζύος, ἣν ἐν ἐκείνῳ §3.104δήμῳ ἀνέτλημεν μένος ἄσχετοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν, §3.105ἠμὲν ὅσα ξὺν νηυσὶν ἐπʼ ἠεροειδέα πόντον §3.106πλαζόμενοι κατὰ ληίδʼ, ὅπῃ ἄρξειεν Ἀχιλλεύς, §3.107ἠδʼ ὅσα καὶ περὶ ἄστυ μέγα Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος §3.108μαρνάμεθʼ·
I entreat you, if ever at any time my father, noble Odysseus, promised and accomplished any word or deed for you in the land of the Trojans, where you Achaeans suffered woes, remember these things now for me, and tell me the truth." To him then answered Gerenian horseman Nestor: "O friend, since you have reminded me of the sorrow which in that land we endured, we sons of the Achaeans, unbroken in our strength, both all that we endured wandering with our ships over the misty deep after spoil, wherever Achilles led, and all that we fought about the great city of king Priam; there indeed then all our best were slain.
ἔνθα δʼ ἔπειτα κατέκταθεν ὅσσοι ἄριστοι. §3.109ἔνθα μὲν Αἴας κεῖται ἀρήιος, ἔνθα δʼ Ἀχιλλεύς, §3.110ἔνθα δὲ Πάτροκλος, θεόφιν μήστωρ ἀτάλαντος, §3.111ἔνθα δʼ ἐμὸς φίλος υἱός, ἅμα κρατερὸς καὶ ἀμύμων, §3.112Ἀντίλοχος, πέρι μὲν θείειν ταχὺς ἠδὲ μαχητής· §3.113ἄλλα τε πόλλʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς πάθομεν κακά·
There lies warlike Ajax, and there Achilles, and there Patroclus, a counselor equal to the gods, and there my own dear son, alike strong and noble, Antilochus, pre-eminent in running and a warrior; and many other evils besides these we suffered; who of mortal men could tell them all?
τίς κεν ἐκεῖνα §3.114πάντα γε μυθήσαιτο καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων; §3.115οὐδʼ εἰ πεντάετές γε καὶ ἑξάετες παραμίμνων §3.116ἐξερέοις ὅσα κεῖθι πάθον κακὰ δῖοι Ἀχαιοί· §3.117πρίν κεν ἀνιηθεὶς σὴν πατρίδα γαῖαν ἵκοιο.
Not even if for five or six years you were to remain here and ask of all the evils which the noble Achaeans there suffered; before that you would return weary to your native land.
§3.118εἰνάετες γάρ σφιν κακὰ ῥάπτομεν ἀμφιέποντες §3.119παντοίοισι δόλοισι, μόγις δʼ ἐτέλεσσε Κρονίων.
For nine years we were plotting evils against them, surrounding them with all manner of wiles, and hardly did the son of Cronos bring them to an end.
§3.120ἔνθʼ οὔ τίς ποτε μῆτιν ὁμοιωθήμεναι ἄντην §3.121ἤθελʼ, ἐπεὶ μάλα πολλὸν ἐνίκα δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς §3.122παντοίοισι δόλοισι, πατὴρ τεός, εἰ ἐτεόν γε §3.123κείνου ἔκγονός ἐσσι· σέβας μʼ ἔχει εἰσορόωντα.
There no one ever wished to match himself in counsel openly with him, since far pre-eminent was noble Odysseus in all manner of wiles—your father, if indeed you are truly his offspring; wonder holds me as I look upon you.
For indeed your speeches are like his, nor would you say that a younger man could speak so like him.
§3.126ἔνθʼ ἦ τοι ἧος μὲν ἐγὼ καὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς §3.127οὔτε ποτʼ εἰν ἀγορῇ δίχʼ ἐβάζομεν οὔτʼ ἐνὶ βουλῇ, §3.128ἀλλʼ ἕνα θυμὸν ἔχοντε νόῳ καὶ ἐπίφρονι βουλῇ §3.129φραζόμεθʼ Ἀργείοισιν ὅπως ὄχʼ ἄριστα γένοιτο.
There indeed, as long as we were there, I and noble Odysseus never spoke divisively either in assembly or in council, but having one heart, with mind and prudent counsel, we advised the Argives how all things might be best for them.
§3.130αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ Πριάμοιο πόλιν διεπέρσαμεν αἰπήν, §3.131βῆμεν δʼ ἐν νήεσσι, θεὸς δʼ ἐκέδασσεν Ἀχαιούς, §3.132καὶ τότε δὴ Ζεὺς λυγρὸν ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μήδετο νόστον §3.133Ἀργείοις, ἐπεὶ οὔ τι νοήμονες οὐδὲ δίκαιοι §3.134πάντες ἔσαν· τῶ σφεων πολέες κακὸν οἶτον ἐπέσπον §3.135μήνιος ἐξ ὀλοῆς γλαυκώπιδος ὀβριμοπάτρης.
But when we had sacked the steep city of Priam, and went in our ships, and a god scattered the Achaeans, even then Zeus devised in his mind a grievous return for the Argives, since they were not all prudent or just; therefore many of them met with an evil fate because of the destructive wrath of the flashing-eyed daughter of the mighty father.
§3.136ἥ τʼ ἔριν Ἀτρεΐδῃσι μετʼ ἀμφοτέροισιν ἔθηκε.
She set strife between the two sons of Atreus.
§3.137τὼ δὲ καλεσσαμένω ἀγορὴν ἐς πάντας Ἀχαιούς, §3.138μάψ, ἀτὰρ οὐ κατὰ κόσμον, ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα, §3.139οἱ ἦλθον οἴνῳ βεβαρηότες υἷες Ἀχαιῶν, §3.140μῦθον μυθείσθην, τοῦ εἵνεκα λαὸν ἄγειραν.
And they, having called an assembly of all the Achaeans, recklessly, and not in order, at the going down of the sun, and the sons of the Achaeans came heavy with wine, and they spoke their speech, for which reason they gathered the host.
§3.141ἔνθʼ ἤ τοι Μενέλαος ἀνώγει πάντας Ἀχαιοὺς §3.142νόστου μιμνήσκεσθαι ἐπʼ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης, §3.143οὐδʼ Ἀγαμέμνονι πάμπαν ἑήνδανε· βούλετο γάρ ῥα §3.144λαὸν ἐρυκακέειν ῥέξαι θʼ ἱερὰς ἑκατόμβας, §3.145ὡς τὸν Ἀθηναίης δεινὸν χόλον ἐξακέσαιτο,
There indeed Menelaus bade all the Achaeans to remember their return over the broad back of the sea, but it did not at all please Agamemnon; for he wished to hold back the host and to offer sacred hecatombs, that he might appease the dreadful wrath of Athena,