Seba.Health
The Odyssey 24.389–391
saw to their food, and tended the old man with kindly care, now that old age had laid hold of him. And they, when they saw Odysseus, and marked him in their minds, stood in the halls lost in wonder. But Odysseus addressed them with gentle words, and said:
“Old man, sit down to dinner, and do ye wholly forget your wonder,
μήτηρ γρηῦς Σικελή, ἥ σφεας τρέφε καί ῥα γέροντα
ἐνδυκέως κομέεσκεν, ἐπεὶ κατὰ γῆρας ἔμαρψεν.
οἱ δʼ ὡς οὖν Ὀδυσῆα ἴδον φράσσαντό τε θυμῷ,