Seba.Health
Proteus to Menelaus · divine
The Odyssey 4.543–547
strive that thou mayest come to thy native land, for either thou wilt find Aegisthus alive, or haply Orestes may have forestalled thee and slain him, and thou mayest chance upon his funeral feast.’
“So he spoke, and my heart and spirit were again warmed with comfort in my breast despite my grief,
μηκέτι, Ἀτρέος υἱέ, πολὺν χρόνον ἀσκελὲς
οὕτω
κλαῖʼ, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄνυσίν τινα δήομεν· ἀλλὰ τάχιστα
πείρα ὅπως κεν δὴ σὴν πατρίδα γαῖαν ἵκηαι.
ἢ γάρ μιν ζωόν γε κιχήσεαι, ἤ κεν Ὀρέστης
κτεῖνεν ὑποφθάμενος, σὺ δέ κεν τάφου ἀντιβολήσαις.