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The Odyssey 20.135–143

The Odyssey 20.135–143
“In this matter, child, thou shouldest not blame her, who is without blame. He sat here and drank wine as long as he would, but for food he said he had no more hunger, for she asked him. But when he bethought him of rest and sleep, she bade the maidens strew his bed. But he, as one wholly wretched and hapless, would not sleep on a bed and under blankets, but on an undressed ox-hide and fleeces of sheep he slept in the fore-hall, and we flung over him a cloak.” So she spoke, and Telemachus went forth through the hall
οὐκ ἄν μιν νῦν, τέκνον, ἀναίτιον αἰτιόῳο. οἶνον μὲν γὰρ πῖνε καθήμενος, ὄφρʼ ἔθελʼ αὐτός, σίτου δʼ οὐκέτʼ ἔφη πεινήμεναι· εἴρετο γάρ μιν. ἀλλʼ ὅτε δὴ κοίτοιο καὶ ὕπνου μιμνήσκοιτο, μὲν δέμνιʼ ἄνωγεν ὑποστορέσαι δμῳῇσιν, αὐτὰρ γʼ, ὥς τις πάμπαν ὀϊζυρὸς καὶ ἄποτμος, οὐκ ἔθελʼ ἐν λέκτροισι καὶ ἐν ῥήγεσσι καθεύδειν, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἀδεψήτῳ βοέῃ καὶ κώεσιν οἰῶν ἔδραθʼ ἐνὶ προδόμῳ· χλαῖναν δʼ ἐπιέσσαμεν ἡμεῖς.
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