Seba.Health
The Odyssey 22.307–311
But Leiodes rushed forward and clasped the knees of Odysseus, and made entreaty to him, and spoke winged words:
“By thy knees I beseech thee, Odysseus, and do thou respect me and have pity. For I declare to thee that never yet have I wronged one of the women in thy halls by wanton word or deed; nay,
ὣς ἄρα τοὶ μνηστῆρας ἐπεσσύμενοι κατὰ δῶμα
τύπτον ἐπιστροφάδην· τῶν δὲ στόνος ὤρνυτʼ ἀεικὴς
κράτων τυπτομένων, δάπεδον δʼ ἅπαν αἵματι θῦε.
Λειώδης δʼ Ὀδυσῆος ἐπεσσύμενος λάβε γούνων,
καί μιν λισσόμενος ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα·