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The Odyssey 17.488–493

The Odyssey 17.488–493
for the smiting, though he let no tear fall from his eyelids to the ground; but he shook his head in silence, pondering evil in the deep of his heart. Howbeit when wise Penelope heard of the man's being smitten in the hall, she spoke among her handmaids, and said: “Even so may thine own self be smitten by the famed archer Apollo.”
ὣς ἄρʼ ἔφαν μνηστῆρες, δʼ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο μύθων. Τηλέμαχος δʼ ἐν μὲν κραδίῃ μέγα πένθος ἄεξε βλημένου, οὐδʼ ἄρα δάκρυ χαμαὶ βάλεν ἐκ βλεφάροιϊν, ἀλλʼ ἀκέων κίνησε κάρη, κακὰ βυσσοδομεύων. τοῦ δʼ ὡς οὖν ἤκουσε περίφρων Πηνελόπεια βλημένου ἐν μεγάρῳ, μετʼ ἄρα δμῳῇσιν ἔειπεν·
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