Verse

Odyssey

Book 4, Line 59 by Samuel Butler (English)

Menelaos then greeted them saying, "Eat up, and welcome; when you have finished supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you cannot have been lost. You must be descended from a line of scepter-bearing kings, for poor people do not have such sons as you are."

OdysseyBook 4, Line 59Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 4

HomerProseID odyssey-odyssey-butler-en-prose-4-59

Reflect on this line

Back to Odyssey Read this line in context Source text

Samuel Butler's public-domain English prose Odyssey via Perseus canonical TEI; prose segments are assigned to their source line span.