Seba.Health
The Odyssey 16.358–363
and proud squires bore forth their armour. Themselves meanwhile went all together to the place of assembly, and none other would they suffer to sit with them, either of the young men or the old. Then among them spoke Antinous, son of Eupeithes:
“Lo, now, see how the gods have delivered this man from destruction.
ὣς ἔφαθʼ, οἱ δʼ ἀνστάντες ἔβαν ἐπὶ θῖνα
θαλάσσης,
αἶψα δὲ νῆα μέλαιναν ἐπʼ ἠπείροιο ἔρυσσαν,
τεύχεα δέ σφʼ ἀπένεικαν ὑπέρθυμοι θεράποντες.
αὐτοὶ δʼ εἰς ἀγορὴν κίον ἀθρόοι, οὐδέ τινʼ ἄλλον
εἴων οὔτε νέων μεταΐζειν οὔτε γερόντων.
τοῖσιν δʼ Ἀντίνοος μετέφη, Εὐπείθεος υἱός·