Odyssey

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Odysseus, and he, though he was longing for his return [ nostos ] to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca ; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his trials [ athloi ] were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Poseidon, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.

OdysseyBook 1, Line 11Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 1

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