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The Odyssey 19.62–65

The Odyssey 19.62–65
But Melantho began again a second time to rate Odysseus, saying: “Stranger, wilt thou even now still be a plague to us through the night, roaming through the house, and wilt thou spy upon the women? Nay, get thee forth, thou wretch, and be content with thy supper, or straightway shalt thou even be smitten with a torch, and so go forth.”
καὶ δέπα, ἔνθεν ἄρʼ ἄνδρες ὑπερμενέοντες ἔπινον· πῦρ δʼ ἀπὸ λαμπτήρων χαμάδις βάλον, ἄλλα δʼ ἐπʼ αὐτῶν νήησαν ξύλα πολλά, φόως ἔμεν ἠδὲ θέρεσθαι. δʼ Ὀδυσῆʼ ἐνένιπε Μελανθὼ δεύτερον αὖτις·
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