Odyssey

"Antinoos, insolent [ hubris ] and wicked schemer, they say you are the best speaker and counselor of any man your own age in the dêmos of Ithaca , but you are nothing of the kind. Madman, why should you try to compass the death of Telemakhos, and take no heed of suppliants, whose witness is Zeus himself? It is not right for you to plot thus against one another. Do you not remember how your father fled to this house in fear of the people [ dêmos ], who were enraged against him for having gone with some Taphian pirates and plundered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us? They wanted to tear him in pieces and eat up everything he had, but Odysseus stayed their hands although they were infuriated, and now you devour his property without paying for it, and break my heart by wooing his wife and trying to kill his son. Leave off doing so, and stop the others also."

OdysseyBook 16, Line 417Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 16

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