1권 원문 필사 · 신들의 회의

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Then Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it served Aegisthus right,

So saying she bound on her glittering golden sandals, imperishable, with which she can fly like the wind over land or sea;

As soon as he touched his lyre and began to sing Telemachus spoke low to Minerva, with his head close to hers that no man might hear.

But tell me, and tell me true, what is the meaning of all this feasting, and who are these people?

"Is that so?" exclaimed Minerva, "then you do indeed want Ulysses home again.

Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans.

Then Telemachus spoke, "Shameless," he cried, "and insolent suitors, let us feast at our pleasure now,

The suitors then returned to their singing and dancing until the evening; but when night fell upon their pleasuring they went home to bed each in his own abode.