Seba.Health
The Odyssey 17.593–597
Thine own self do thou keep safe first of all, and let thy mind beware lest some ill befall thee, for many of the Achaeans are devising evil, whom may Zeus utterly destroy before harm fall on us.”
Then wise Telemachus answered him: “So shall it be, father; go thy way when thou hast supped.
ὦ φίλʼ, ἐγὼ μὲν ἄπειμι, σύας καὶ κεῖνα
φυλάξων,
σὸν καὶ ἐμὸν βίοτον· σοὶ δʼ ἐνθάδε πάντα μελόντων.
αὐτὸν μέν σε πρῶτα σάω, καὶ φράζεο θυμῷ
μή τι πάθῃς· πολλοὶ δὲ κακὰ φρονέουσιν Ἀχαιῶν,
τοὺς Ζεὺς ἐξολέσειε πρὶν ἡμῖν πῆμα γενέσθαι.