Odyssey

"My mother," answered Telemakhos, "tells me I am son to Odysseus, but it is a wise child that knows his own father. Would that I were son to one who had grown old upon his own estates, for, since you ask me, there is no more ill-starred man under heaven than he who they tell me is my father."

OdysseyBook 1, Line 214Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 1

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