Verse
Odyssey
Book 6, Line 186 by Samuel Butler (English)
To this Nausicaa answered, "Stranger, you appear to be a sensible, well-disposed person. There is no accounting for luck; Zeus gives prosperity [ olbos ] to rich and poor just as he chooses, so you must take what he has seen fit to send you, and make the best of it. Now, however, that you have come to this our country, you shall not want for clothes nor for anything else that a foreigner in distress may reasonably look for. I will show you the way to the town, and will tell you the name of our people: we are called Phaeacians, and I am daughter to Alkinoos, in whom the whole strength and power [ biê ] of the state is vested."
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