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The Odyssey 7.334–341

The Odyssey 7.334–341
and white-armed Arete bade her maidens place a bedstead under cover of the portico, and to lay on it fair blankets of purple, and to spread there over coverlets, and on these to put fleecy cloaks for clothing. So they went forth from the hall with torches in their hands. But when they had busily spread the stout-built bedstead, they came to Odysseus, and called to him, and said: “Rouse thee now, stranger, to go to thy rest; thy bed is made.” Thus they spoke, and welcome did it seem to him to lay him down to sleep. So there he slept, the much-enduring goodly Odysseus,
ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον· κέκλετο δʼ Ἀρήτη λευκώλενος ἀμφιπόλοισιν δέμνιʼ ὑπʼ αἰθούσῃ θέμεναι καὶ ῥήγεα καλὰ πορφύρεʼ ἐμβαλέειν, στορέσαι τʼ ἐφύπερθε τάπητας χλαίνας τʼ ἐνθέμεναι οὔλας καθύπερθεν ἕσασθαι. αἱ δʼ ἴσαν ἐκ μεγάροιο δάος μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχουσαι· αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ στόρεσαν πυκινὸν λέχος ἐγκονέουσαι, ὤτρυνον δʼ Ὀδυσῆα παριστάμεναι ἐπέεσσιν·
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