Seba.Health

Suitor Of Penelope.5

Mortal · 1 speeches

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Lines 332–336
for we should have to divide all his possessions, and his house we should give to his mother to possess, and to him who should wed her.” So they spoke, but Telemachus went down to the high-roofed treasure-chamber of his father, a wide room where gold and bronze lay piled, and raiment in chests, and stores of fragrant oil.
τίς δʼ οἶδʼ, εἴ κε καὶ αὐτὸς ἰὼν κοίλης ἐπὶ νηὸς τῆλε φίλων ἀπόληται ἀλώμενος ὥς περ Ὀδυσσεύς; οὕτω κεν καὶ μᾶλλον ὀφέλλειεν πόνον ἄμμιν· κτήματα γάρ κεν πάντα δασαίμεθα, οἰκία δʼ αὖτε τούτου μητέρι δοῖμεν ἔχειν ἠδʼ ὅς τις ὀπυίοι.