Seba.Health
The Odyssey 4.758–761
and went up to her upper chamber with her handmaids, and placing barley grains in a basket prayed to Athena:
“Hear me, child of Zeus who bears the aegis, unwearied one. If ever Odysseus, of many wiles, burnt to thee in his halls fat thigh-pieces of heifer or ewe,
ὣς φάτο, τῆς δʼ εὔνησε γόον, σχέθε δʼ ὄσσε
γόοιο.
ἡ δʼ ὑδρηναμένη, καθαρὰ χροῒ εἵμαθʼ ἑλοῦσα
εἰς ὑπερῷʼ ἀνέβαινε σὺν ἀμφιπόλοισι γυναιξίν,
ἐν δʼ ἔθετʼ οὐλοχύτας κανέῳ, ἠρᾶτο δʼ Ἀθήνῃ·