Verse
Odyssey
Book 14, Line 360 by Samuel Butler (English)
To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaios, "Poor unhappy stranger, I have found the story of your misfortunes extremely interesting, but that part about Odysseus is not right [ kosmos ]; and you will never get me to believe it. Why should a man like you go about telling lies in this way? I know all about the return [ nostos ] of my master. The gods one and all of them detest him, or they would have taken him before Troy , or let him die with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes and his son would have been heir to his kleos , but now the storm winds have spirited him away we know not where.
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