Seba.Health
The Odyssey 20.299–303
taking it up from the basket where it lay. But Odysseus avoided it with a quick turn of his head, and in his heart he smiled a right grim and bitter smile; and the ox's hoof struck the well-built wall. Then Telemachus rebuked Ctesippus, and said:
“Ctesippus, verily this thing fell out more to thy soul's profit.
ὣς εἰπὼν ἔρριψε βοὸς πόδα χειρὶ παχείῃ.
κείμενον ἐκ κανέοιο λαβών· ὁ δʼ ἀλεύατʼ Ὀδυσσεὺς
ἦκα παρακλίνας κεφαλήν, μείδησε δὲ θυμῷ
σαρδάνιον μάλα τοῖον· ὁ δʼ εὔδμητον βάλε τοῖχον.
Κτήσιππον δʼ ἄρα Τηλέμαχος ἠνίπαπε μύθῳ·