The Odyssey 10.419–421
as though we had returned to Ithaca, our native land. But come, tell the fate of the others, our comrades.’
“So they spoke, and I answered them with gentle words: ‘First of all let us draw the ship up on the land, and store our goods and all the tackling in caves.
σοὶ μὲν νοστήσαντι, διοτρεφές, ὣς
ἐχάρημεν,
ὡς εἴ τʼ εἰς Ἰθάκην ἀφικοίμεθα πατρίδα γαῖαν·
ἀλλʼ ἄγε, τῶν ἄλλων ἑτάρων κατάλεξον ὄλεθρον.