Seba.Health
The Odyssey 19.22–25
since thou wouldest not suffer the maids, who might have given light, to go before thee?”
Then wise Telemachus answered her; “This stranger here; for I will suffer no man to be idle who touches my portion of meal,1 even though he has come from afar.”
So he spoke, but her word remained unwinged, and she locked the doors of the stately hall.
αἲ γὰρ δή ποτε, τέκνον, ἐπιφροσύνας ἀνέλοιο
οἴκου κήδεσθαι καὶ κτήματα πάντα φυλάσσειν.
ἀλλʼ ἄγε, τίς τοι ἔπειτα μετοιχομένη φάος οἴσει;
δμῳὰς δʼ οὐκ εἴας προβλωσκέμεν, αἵ κεν ἔφαινον.