Seba.Health
The Odyssey 19.16–20
But now I am minded to lay them away, where the breath of the fire will not come upon them.”
Then the dear nurse Eurycleia answered him: “Aye, child, I would thou mightest ever take thought to care for the house and guard all its wealth. But come, who then shall fetch a light and bear it for thee,
μαῖʼ, ἄγε δή μοι ἔρυξον ἐνὶ μεγάροισι
γυναῖκας,
ὄφρα κεν ἐς θάλαμον καταθείομαι ἔντεα πατρὸς
καλά, τά μοι κατὰ οἶκον ἀκηδέα καπνὸς ἀμέρδει
πατρὸς ἀποιχομένοιο· ἐγὼ δʼ ἔτι νήπιος ἦα.
νῦν δʼ ἐθέλω καταθέσθαι, ἵνʼ οὐ πυρὸς ἵξετʼ ἀϋτμή.