Seba.Health
The Odyssey 22.361–366
and then rushed forward and clasped Telemachus by the knees, and made entreaty to him, and spoke winged words:
“Friend, here I am; stay thou thy hand and bid thy father stay his, lest in the greatness of his might he harm me with the sharp bronze in his wrath against the wooers, who wasted his
ὣς φάτο, τοῦ δʼ ἤκουσε Μέδων πεπνυμένα εἰδώς·
πεπτηὼς γὰρ ἔκειτο ὑπὸ θρόνον, ἀμφὶ δὲ δέρμα
ἕστο βοὸς νεόδαρτον, ἀλύσκων κῆρα μέλαιναν.
αἶψα δʼ ἀπὸ θρόνου ὦρτο, θοῶς δʼ ἀπέδυνε βοείην.
Τηλέμαχον δʼ ἄρʼ ἔπειτα προσαΐξας λάβε γούνων,
καί μιν λισσόμενος ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα·