Verse
Odyssey
Book 4, Line 471 by Samuel Butler (English)
"Then,’ he said, ‘if you would finish your voyage and get home quickly, you must offer sacrifices to Zeus and to the rest of the gods before embarking; for it is decreed that you shall not get back to your friends, and to your own house, till you have returned to the heaven-fed stream of Egypt , and offered holy hecatombs to the immortal gods that reign in heaven. When you have done this they will let you finish your voyage.’
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