Verse
Odyssey
Book 16, Line 213 by Samuel Butler (English)
As he spoke he sat down, and Telemakhos threw his arms about his father and wept. They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants. Thus piteously did they weep, and the sun would have gone down upon their mourning if Telemakhos had not suddenly said, "In what ship, my dear father, did your crew bring you to Ithaca ? Of what nation did they declare themselves to be - for you cannot have come by land?"
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