Seba.Health
The Odyssey 24.438–442
from the halls of Odysseus, for sleep had released them; and they took their stand in the midst, and wonder seized every man. Then Medon, wise of heart, spoke among them:
“Hearken now to me, men of Ithaca, for verily not without the will of the immortal gods has Odysseus devised these deeds.
ὣς φάτο δάκρυ χέων, οἶκτος δʼ ἕλε πάντας
Ἀχαιούς.
ἀγχίμολον δέ σφʼ ἦλθε Μέδων καὶ θεῖος ἀοιδὸς
ἐκ μεγάρων Ὀδυσῆος, ἐπεί σφεας ὕπνος ἀνῆκεν,
ἔσταν δʼ ἐν μέσσοισι· τάφος δʼ ἕλεν ἄνδρα ἕκαστον.
τοῖσι δὲ καὶ μετέειπε Μέδων πεπνυμένα εἰδώς·