<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Odyssey: Book 15</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell Ulysses' son<br>that he was to return at once. She found him and Pisistratus<br>sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaus's house; Pisistratus was fast<br>asleep, but Telemachus could get no rest all night for thinking of his<br>unhappy father, so Minerva went close up to him and said:<br>"Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from home any longer,<br>nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your house; they<br>will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been<br>on a fool's errand. Ask Menelaus to send you home at once if you<br>wish to find your excellent mother still there when you get back.<br>Her father and brothers are already urging her to marry Eurymachus,<br>who has given her more than any of the others, and has been greatly<br>increasing his wedding presents. I hope nothing valuable may have been<br>taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are-<br>they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them,<br>and never give another thought to the children of their first husband,<br>nor to their father either when he is dead and done with. Go home,<br>therefore, and put everything in charge of the most respectable<br>woman servant that you have, until it shall please heaven to send<br>you a wife of your own. Let me tell you also of another matter which<br>you had better attend to. The chief men among the suitors are lying in<br>wait for you in the Strait between Ithaca and Samos, and they mean<br>to kill you before you can reach home. I do not much think they will<br>succeed; it is more likely that some of those who are now eating up<br>your property will find a grave themselves. Sail night and day, and<br>keep your ship well away from the islands; the god who watches over<br>you and protects you will send you a fair wind. As soon as you get<br>to Ithaca send your ship and men on to the town, but yourself go<br>straight to the swineherd who has charge your pigs; he is well<br>disposed towards you, stay with him, therefore, for the night, and<br>then send him to Penelope to tell her that you have got back safe from<br>Pylos."<br>Then she went back to Olympus; but Telemachus stirred Pisistratus<br>with his heel to rouse him, and said, "Wake up Pisistratus, and yoke<br>the horses to the chariot, for we must set off home."<br>But Pisistratus said, "No matter what hurry we are in we cannot<br>drive in the dark. It will be morning soon; wait till Menelaus has<br>brought his presents and put them in the chariot for us; and let him<br>say good-bye to us in the usual way. So long as he lives a guest<br>should never forget a host who has shown him kindness."<br>As he spoke day began to break, and Menelaus, who had already risen,<br>leaving Helen in bed, came towards them. When Telemachus saw him he<br>put on his shirt as fast as he could, threw a great cloak over his<br>shoulders, and went out to meet him. "Menelaus," said he, "let me go<br>back now to my own country, for I want to get home."<br>And Menelaus answered, "Telemachus, if you insist on going I will<br>not detain you. not like to see a host either too fond of his guest or<br>too rude to him. Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a<br>man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he<br>would like to stay. One should treat a guest well as long as he is<br>in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it. Wait, then, till<br>I can get your beautiful presents into your chariot, and till you have<br>yourself seen them. I will tell the women to prepare a sufficient<br>dinner for you of what there may be in the house; it will be at once<br>more proper and cheaper for you to get your dinner before setting<br>out on such a long journey. If, moreover, you have a fancy for<br>making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my<br>horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal<br>cities. No one will send us away empty handed; every one will give<br>us something- a bronze tripod, a couple of mules, or a gold cup."<br>"Menelaus," replied Telemachus, "I want to go home at once, for when<br>I came away I left my property without protection, and fear that while<br>looking for my father I shall come to ruin myself, or find that<br>something valuable has been stolen during my absence."<br>When Menelaus heard this he immediately told his wife and servants<br>to prepare a sufficient dinner from what there might be in the<br>house. At this moment Eteoneus joined him, for he lived close by and<br>had just got up; so Menelaus told him to light the fire and cook<br>some meat, which he at once did. Then Menelaus went down into his<br>fragrant store room, not alone, but Helen went too, with<br>Megapenthes. When he reached the place where the treasures of his<br>house were kept, he selected a double cup, and told his son<br>Megapenthes to bring also a silver mixing-bowl. Meanwhile Helen went<br>to the chest where she kept the lovely dresses which she had made with<br>her own hands, and took out one that was largest and most<br>beautifully enriched with embroidery; it glittered like a star, and<br>lay at the very bottom of the chest. Then they all came back through<br>the house again till they got to Telemachus, and Menelaus said,<br>"Telemachus, may Jove, the mighty husband of Juno, bring you safely<br>home according to your desire. I will now present you with the<br>finest and most precious piece of plate in all my house. It is a<br>mixing-bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold,<br>and it is the work of Vulcan. Phaedimus king of the Sidonians made<br>me a present of it in the course of a visit that I paid him while I<br>was on my return home. I should like to give it to you."<br>With these words he placed the double cup in the hands of<br>Telemachus, while Megapenthes brought the beautiful mixing-bowl and<br>set it before him. Hard by stood lovely Helen with the robe ready in<br>her hand.<br>"I too, my son," said she, "have something for you as a keepsake<br>from the hand of Helen; it is for your bride to wear upon her<br>wedding day. Till then, get your dear mother to keep it for you;<br>thus may you go back rejoicing to your own country and to your home."<br>So saying she gave the robe over to him and he received it gladly.<br>Then Pisistratus put the presents into the chariot, and admired them<br>all as he did so. Presently Menelaus took Telemachus and Pisistratus<br>into the house, and they both of them sat down to table. A maid<br>servant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it<br>into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean<br>table beside them; an upper servant brought them bread and offered<br>them many good things of what there was in the house. Eteoneus<br>carved the meat and gave them each their portions, while Megapenthes<br>poured out the wine. Then they laid their hands upon the good things<br>that were before them, but as soon as they had had had enough to eat<br>and drink Telemachus and Pisistratus yoked the horses, and took<br>their places in the chariot. They drove out through the inner<br>gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court, and<br>Menelaus came after them with a golden goblet of wine in his right<br>hand that they might make a drink-offering before they set out. He<br>stood in front of the horses and pledged them, saying, "Farewell to<br>both of you; see that you tell Nestor how I have treated you, for he<br>was as kind to me as any father could be while we Achaeans were<br>fighting before Troy."<br>"We will be sure, sir," answered Telemachus, "to tell him everything<br>as soon as we see him. I wish I were as certain of finding Ulysses<br>returned when I get back to Ithaca, that I might tell him of the<br>very great kindness you have shown me and of the many beautiful<br>presents I am taking with me."<br>As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand- an eagle with<br>a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the<br>farm yard- and all the men and women were running after it and<br>shouting. It came quite close up to them and flew away on their<br>right hands in front of the horses. When they saw it they were glad,<br>and their hearts took comfort within them, whereon Pisistratus said,<br>"Tell me, Menelaus, has heaven sent this omen for us or for you?"<br>Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him<br>to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said, "I will read this<br>matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it<br>will come to pass. The eagle came from the mountain where it was<br>bred and has its nest, and in like manner Ulysses, after having<br>travelled far and suffered much, will return to take his revenge- if<br>indeed he is not back already and hatching mischief for the suitors."<br>"May Jove so grant it," replied Telemachus; "if it should prove to<br>be so, I will make vows to you as though you were a god, even when I<br>am at home."<br>As he spoke he lashed his horses and they started off at full<br>speed through the town towards the open country. They swayed the<br>yoke upon their necks and travelled the whole day long till the sun<br>set and darkness was over all the land. Then they reached Pherae,<br>where Diocles lived who was son of Ortilochus, the son of Alpheus.<br>There they passed the night and were treated hospitably. When the<br>child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their<br>horses and their places in the chariot. They drove out through the<br>inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court. Then<br>Pisistratus lashed his horses on and they flew forward nothing<br>loath; ere long they came to Pylos, and then Telemachus said:<br>"Pisistratus, I hope you will promise to do what I am going to ask<br>you. You know our fathers were old friends before us; moreover, we are<br>both of an age, and this journey has brought us together still more<br>closely; do not, therefore, take me past my ship, but leave me<br>there, for if I go to your father's house he will try to keep me in<br>the warmth of his good will towards me, and I must go home at once."<br>Pisistratus thought how he should do as he was asked, and in the end<br>he deemed it best to turn his horses towards the ship, and put<br>Menelaus's beautiful presents of gold and raiment in the stern of<br>the vessel. Then he said, "Go on board at once and tell your men to do<br>so also before I can reach home to tell my father. I know how<br>obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down<br>here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you. But he will be<br>very angry."<br>With this he drove his goodly steeds back to the city of the Pylians<br>and soon reached his home, but Telemachus called the men together<br>and gave his orders. "Now, my men," said he, "get everything in<br>order on board the ship, and let us set out home."<br>Thus did he speak, and they went on board even as he had said. But<br>as Telemachus was thus busied, praying also and sacrificing to Minerva<br>in the ship's stern, there came to him a man from a distant country, a<br>seer, who was flying from Argos because he had killed a man. He was<br>descended from Melampus, who used to live in Pylos, the land of sheep;<br>he was rich and owned a great house, but he was driven into exile by<br>the great and powerful king Neleus. Neleus seized his goods and held<br>them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the<br>house of king Phylacus, and in much distress of mind both on account<br>of the daughter of Neleus and because he was haunted by a great sorrow<br>that dread Erinyes had laid upon him. In the end, however, he<br>escaped with his life, drove the cattle from Phylace to Pylos, avenged<br>the wrong that had been done him, and gave the daughter of Neleus to<br>his brother. Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it<br>was ordained that he should reign over much people. There he<br>married, established himself, and had two famous sons Antiphates and<br>Mantius. Antiphates became father of Oicleus, and Oicleus of<br>Amphiaraus, who was dearly loved both by Jove and by Apollo, but he<br>did not live to old age, for he was killed in Thebes by reason of a<br>woman's gifts. His sons were Alcmaeon and Amphilochus. Mantius, the<br>other son of Melampus, was father to Polypheides and Cleitus.<br>Aurora, throned in gold, carried off Cleitus for his beauty's sake,<br>that he might dwell among the immortals, but Apollo made Polypheides<br>the greatest seer in the whole world now that Amphiaraus was dead.<br>He quarrelled with his father and went to live in Hyperesia, where<br>he remained and prophesied for all men.<br>His son, Theoclymenus, it was who now came up to Telemachus as he<br>was making drink-offerings and praying in his ship. "Friend'" said he,<br>"now that I find you sacrificing in this place, I beseech you by<br>your sacrifices themselves, and by the god to whom you make them, I<br>pray you also by your own head and by those of your followers, tell me<br>the truth and nothing but the truth. Who and whence are you? Tell me<br>also of your town and parents."<br>Telemachus said, "I will answer you quite truly. I am from Ithaca,<br>and my father is 'Ulysses, as surely as that he ever lived. But he has<br>come to some miserable end. Therefore I have taken this ship and got<br>my crew together to see if I can hear any news of him, for he has been<br>away a long time."<br>"I too," answered Theoclymenus, am an exile, for I have killed a man<br>of my own race. He has many brothers and kinsmen in Argos, and they<br>have great power among the Argives. I am flying to escape death at<br>their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the<br>earth. I am your suppliant; take me, therefore, on board your ship<br>that they may not kill me, for I know they are in pursuit."<br>"I will not refuse you," replied Telemachus, "if you wish to join<br>us. Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably<br>according to what we have."<br>On this he received Theoclymenus' spear and laid it down on the deck<br>of the ship. He went on board and sat in the stern, bidding<br>Theoclymenus sit beside him; then the men let go the hawsers.<br>Telemachus told them to catch hold of the ropes, and they made all<br>haste to do so. They set the mast in its socket in the cross plank,<br>raised it and made it fast with the forestays, and they hoisted<br>their white sails with sheets of twisted ox hide. Minerva sent them<br>a fair wind that blew fresh and strong to take the ship on her<br>course as fast as possible. Thus then they passed by Crouni and<br>Chalcis.<br>Presently the sun set and darkness was over all the land. The vessel<br>made a quick pass sage to Pheae and thence on to Elis, where the<br>Epeans rule. Telemachus then headed her for the flying islands,<br>wondering within himself whether he should escape death or should be<br>taken prisoner.<br>Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd were eating their supper in<br>the hut, and the men supped with them. As soon as they had had to<br>eat and drink, Ulysses began trying to prove the swineherd and see<br>whether he would continue to treat him kindly, and ask him to stay<br>on at the station or pack him off to the city; so he said:<br>"Eumaeus, and all of you, to-morrow I want to go away and begin<br>begging about the town, so as to be no more trouble to you or to<br>your men. Give me your advice therefore, and let me have a good<br>guide to go with me and show me the way. I will go the round of the<br>city begging as I needs must, to see if any one will give me a drink<br>and a piece of bread. I should like also to go to the house of Ulysses<br>and bring news of her husband to queen Penelope. I could then go about<br>among the suitors and see if out of all their abundance they will give<br>me a dinner. I should soon make them an excellent servant in all sorts<br>of ways. Listen and believe when I tell you that by the blessing of<br>Mercury who gives grace and good name to the works of all men, there<br>is no one living who would make a more handy servant than I should- to<br>put fresh wood on the fire, chop fuel, carve, cook, pour out wine, and<br>do all those services that poor men have to do for their betters."<br>The swineherd was very much disturbed when he heard this. "Heaven<br>help me," he exclaimed, "what ever can have put such a notion as<br>that into your head? If you go near the suitors you will be undone<br>to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very<br>heavens. They would never think of taking a man like you for a<br>servant. Their servants are all young men, well dressed, wearing<br>good cloaks and shirts, with well looking faces and their hair<br>always tidy, the tables are kept quite clean and are loaded with<br>bread, meat, and wine. Stay where you are, then; you are not in<br>anybody's way; I do not mind your being here, no more do any of the<br>others, and when Telemachus comes home he will give you a shirt and<br>cloak and will send you wherever you want to go."<br>Ulysses answered, "I hope you may be as dear to the gods as you<br>are to me, for having saved me from going about and getting into<br>trouble; there is nothing worse than being always ways on the tramp;<br>still, when men have once got low down in the world they will go<br>through a great deal on behalf of their miserable bellies. Since<br>however you press me to stay here and await the return of<br>Telemachus, tell about Ulysses' mother, and his father whom he left on<br>the threshold of old age when he set out for Troy. Are they still<br>living or are they already dead and in the house of Hades?"<br>"I will tell you all about them," replied Eumaeus, "Laertes is still<br>living and prays heaven to let him depart peacefully his own house,<br>for he is terribly distressed about the absence of his son, and also<br>about the death of his wife, which grieved him greatly and aged him<br>more than anything else did. She came to an unhappy end through sorrow<br>for her son: may no friend or neighbour who has dealt kindly by me<br>come to such an end as she did. As long as she was still living,<br>though she was always grieving, I used to like seeing her and asking<br>her how she did, for she brought me up along with her daughter<br>Ctimene, the youngest of her children; we were boy and girl<br>together, and she made little difference between us. When, however, we<br>both grew up, they sent Ctimene to Same and received a splendid<br>dowry for her. As for me, my mistress gave me a good shirt and cloak<br>with a pair of sandals for my feet, and sent me off into the<br>country, but she was just as fond of me as ever. This is all over now.<br>Still it has pleased heaven to prosper my work in the situation<br>which I now hold. I have enough to eat and drink, and can find<br>something for any respectable stranger who comes here; but there is no<br>getting a kind word or deed out of my mistress, for the house has<br>fallen into the hands of wicked people. Servants want sometimes to see<br>their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something<br>to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with<br>them into the country. This is what will keep servants in a good<br>humour."<br>Ulysses answered, "Then you must have been a very little fellow,<br>Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents.<br>Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and<br>mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off<br>when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and<br>sell you for whatever your master gave them?"<br>"Stranger," replied Eumaeus, "as regards your question: sit still,<br>make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me. The<br>nights are now at their longest; there is plenty of time both for<br>sleeping and sitting up talking together; you ought not to go to bed<br>till bed time, too much sleep is as bad as too little; if any one of<br>the others wishes to go to bed let him leave us and do so; he can then<br>take my master's pigs out when he has done breakfast in the morning.<br>We two will sit here eating and drinking in the hut, and telling one<br>another stories about our misfortunes; for when a man has suffered<br>much, and been buffeted about in the world, he takes pleasure in<br>recalling the memory of sorrows that have long gone by. As regards<br>your question, then, my tale is as follows:<br>"You may have heard of an island called Syra that lies over above<br>Ortygia, where the land begins to turn round and look in another<br>direction. It is not very thickly peopled, but the soil is good,<br>with much pasture fit for cattle and sheep, and it abounds with wine<br>and wheat. Dearth never comes there, nor are the people plagued by any<br>sickness, but when they grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills<br>them with his painless shafts. It contains two communities, and the<br>whole country is divided between these two. My father Ctesius son of<br>Ormenus, a man comparable to the gods, reigned over both.<br>"Now to this place there came some cunning traders from Phoenicia<br>(for the Phoenicians are great mariners) in a ship which they had<br>freighted with gewgaws of all kinds. There happened to be a Phoenician<br>woman in my father's house, very tall and comely, and an excellent<br>servant; these scoundrels got hold of her one day when she was washing<br>near their ship, seduced her, and cajoled her in ways that no woman<br>can resist, no matter how good she may be by nature. The man who had<br>seduced her asked her who she was and where she came from, and on<br>this she told him her father's name. 'I come from Sidon,' said she,<br>'and am daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth. One day as I<br>was coming into the town from the country some Taphian pirates<br>seized me and took me here over the sea, where they sold me to the man<br>who owns this house, and he gave them their price for me.'<br>"The man who had seduced her then said, 'Would you like to come<br>along with us to see the house of your parents and your parents<br>themselves? They are both alive and are said to be well off.'<br>"'I will do so gladly,' answered she, 'if you men will first swear<br>me a solemn oath that you will do me no harm by the way.'<br>"They all swore as she told them, and when they had completed<br>their oath the woman said, 'Hush; and if any of your men meets me in<br>the street or at the well, do not let him speak to me, for fear some<br>one should go and tell my master, in which case he would suspect<br>something. He would put me in prison, and would have all of you<br>murdered; keep your own counsel therefore; buy your merchandise as<br>fast as you can, and send me word when you have done loading. I will<br>bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something<br>else also that I can do towards paying my fare. I am nurse to the<br>son of the good man of the house, a funny little fellow just able to<br>run about. I will carry him off in your ship, and you will get a great<br>deal of money for him if you take him and sell him in foreign parts.'<br>"On this she went back to the house. The Phoenicians stayed a<br>whole year till they had loaded their ship with much precious<br>merchandise, and then, when they had got freight enough, they sent<br>to tell the woman. Their messenger, a very cunning fellow, came to<br>my father's house bringing a necklace of gold with amber beads<br>strung among it; and while my mother and the servants had it in<br>their hands admiring it and bargaining about it, he made a sign<br>quietly to the woman and then went back to the ship, whereon she<br>took me by the hand and led me out of the house. In the fore part of<br>the house she saw the tables set with the cups of guests who had<br>been feasting with my father, as being in attendance on him; these<br>were now all gone to a meeting of the public assembly, so she snatched<br>up three cups and carried them off in the bosom of her dress, while<br>I followed her, for I knew no better. The sun was now set, and<br>darkness was over all the land, so we hurried on as fast as we could<br>till we reached the harbour, where the Phoenician ship was lying. When<br>they had got on board they sailed their ways over the sea, taking us<br>with them, and Jove sent then a fair wind; six days did we sail both<br>night and day, but on the seventh day Diana struck the woman and she<br>fell heavily down into the ship's hold as though she were a sea gull<br>alighting on the water; so they threw her overboard to the seals and<br>fishes, and I was left all sorrowful and alone. Presently the winds<br>and waves took the ship to Ithaca, where Laertes gave sundry of his<br>chattels for me, and thus it was that ever I came to set eyes upon<br>this country."<br>Ulysses answered, "Eumaeus, I have heard the story of your<br>misfortunes with the most lively interest and pity, but Jove has given<br>you good as well as evil, for in spite of everything you have a good<br>master, who sees that you always have enough to eat and drink; and you<br>lead a good life, whereas I am still going about begging my way from<br>city to city."<br>Thus did they converse, and they had only a very little time left<br>for sleep, for it was soon daybreak. In the meantime Telemachus and<br>his crew were nearing land, so they loosed the sails, took down the<br>mast, and rowed the ship into the harbour. They cast out their mooring<br>stones and made fast the hawsers; they then got out upon the sea<br>shore, mixed their wine, and got dinner ready. As soon as they had had<br>enough to eat and drink Telemachus said, "Take the ship on to the<br>town, but leave me here, for I want to look after the herdsmen on<br>one of my farms. In the evening, when I have seen all I want, I will<br>come down to the city, and to-morrow morning in return for your<br>trouble I will give you all a good dinner with meat and wine."<br>Then Theoclymenus said, 'And what, my dear young friend, is to<br>become of me? To whose house, among all your chief men, am I to<br>repair? or shall I go straight to your own house and to your mother?"<br>"At any other time," replied Telemachus, "I should have bidden you<br>go to my own house, for you would find no want of hospitality; at<br>the present moment, however, you would not be comfortable there, for I<br>shall be away, and my mother will not see you; she does not often show<br>herself even to the suitors, but sits at her loom weaving in an<br>upper chamber, out of their way; but I can tell you a man whose<br>house you can go to- I mean Eurymachus the son of Polybus, who is held<br>in the highest estimation by every one in Ithaca. He is much the<br>best man and the most persistent wooer, of all those who are paying<br>court to my mother and trying to take Ulysses' place. Jove, however,<br>in heaven alone knows whether or no they will come to a bad end before<br>the marriage takes place."<br>As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand- a hawk,<br>Apollo's messenger. It held a dove in its talons, and the feathers, as<br>it tore them off, fell to the ground midway between Telemachus and the<br>ship. On this Theoclymenus called him apart and caught him by the<br>hand. "Telemachus," said he, "that bird did not fly on your right hand<br>without having been sent there by some god. As soon as I saw it I knew<br>it was an omen; it means that you will remain powerful and that<br>there will be no house in Ithaca more royal than your own."<br>"I wish it may prove so," answered Telemachus. "If it does, I will<br>show you so much good will and give you so many presents that all<br>who meet you will congratulate you."<br>Then he said to his friend Piraeus, "Piraeus, son of Clytius, you<br>have throughout shown yourself the most willing to serve me of all<br>those who have accompanied me to Pylos; I wish you would take this<br>stranger to your own house and entertain him hospitably till I can<br>come for him."<br>And Piraeus answered, "Telemachus, you may stay away as long as<br>you please, but I will look after him for you, and he shall find no<br>lack of hospitality."<br>As he spoke he went on board, and bade the others do so also and<br>loose the hawsers, so they took their places in the ship. But<br>Telemachus bound on his sandals, and took a long and doughty spear<br>with a head of sharpened bronze from the deck of the ship. Then they<br>loosed the hawsers, thrust the ship off from land, and made on towards<br>the city as they had been told to do, while Telemachus strode on as<br>fast as he could, till he reached the homestead where his countless<br>herds of swine were feeding, and where dwelt the excellent<br>swineherd, who was so devoted a servant to his master.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Homer">Homer</a>, translated by Samuel Butler<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410320" data-title="The Odyssey: Book 15 de Homer" data-description="But Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell Ulysses' son/that he was to return at once. She found him and Pisistratus/sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaus's house; Pisistratus was fast/asleep, but Telemachus could get no rest all nigh..."></div> </div> </div>

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