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The Odyssey 16.23–29

The Odyssey 16.23–29
But come, enter in, dear child, that I may delight my heart with looking at thee here in my house, who art newly come from other lands. For thou dost not often visit the farm and the herdsmen, but abidest in the town; so, I ween, has it seemed good to thy heart, to look upon the destructive throng of the wooers.”
ἦλθες, Τηλέμαχε, γλυκερὸν φάος. οὔ σʼ ἔτʼ ἐγώ γε ὄψεσθαι ἐφάμην, ἐπεὶ ᾤχεο νηῒ Πύλονδε. ἀλλʼ ἄγε νῦν εἴσελθε, φίλον τέκος, ὄφρα σε θυμῷ τέρψομαι εἰσορόων νέον ἄλλοθεν ἔνδον ἐόντα. οὐ μὲν γάρ τι θάμʼ ἀγρὸν ἐπέρχεαι οὐδὲ νομῆας, ἀλλʼ ἐπιδημεύεις· ὣς γάρ νύ τοι εὔαδε θυμῷ, ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων ἐσορᾶν ἀΐδηλον ὅμιλον.
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