Bibliotheca Polyglotta

[425] But Telemachus, where his chamber was built in the beautiful court,
high, in a place of wide outlook,
thither went to his bed, pondering many things in mind;

τῷ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἅμ᾽ αἰθομένας δαΐδας φέρε κεδνὰ ἰδυῖα
Εὐρύκλει᾽, Ὦπος θυγάτηρ Πεισηνορίδαο,
430 τήν ποτε Λαέρτης πρίατο κτεάτεσσιν ἑοῖσιν
πρωθήβην ἔτ᾽ ἐοῦσαν, ἐεικοσάβοια δ᾽ ἔδωκεν,
ἶσα δέ μιν κεδνῇ ἀλόχῳ τίεν ἐν μεγάροισιν,
εὐνῇ δ᾽ οὔ ποτ᾽ ἔμικτο, χόλον δ᾽ ἀλέεινε γυναικός:

Isti autem simul accensas lampadas tulit scientifica sciens
Euriclia opos filia pisenoridao
Quam quondam laertes emeverat possessionibus propriis
Adolescentem adhuc existentem XX boum autem dedit pretium ·s·
Similiter autem ipsam venerabile uxori honorabat in atriis
cubile autem nusquam miscuit iram (MS: aram) autem euitauit uxoris

Euryclea a torch before him bore,
460  Daughter of Ops, now old, but at the time
Laertes did her purchase, herotofore,
For twenty oxen, she was in her prime.
He honour’d her as if she’d been his wife,
But from her bed perpetually forbore,
465  T’ avoid suspicion, and domestic strife.

and with him, bearing blazing torches, went true-hearted
Eurycleia, daughter of Ops, son of Peisenor.
[430] Her long ago Laertes had bought with his wealth,
when she was in her first youth, and gave for her the price of twenty oxen;
and he honored her even as he honored his faithful wife in his halls,
but he never lay with her in love, for he shunned the wrath of his wife.

ἥ οἱ ἅμ᾽ αἰθομένας δαΐδας φέρε, καί ἑ μάλιστα
435 δμῳάων φιλέεσκε, καὶ ἔτρεφε τυτθὸν ἐόντα.

Hae sibi stanti accensas lampades tulit · et ipsa (MS: ipsas) maxime
In famulabus diligebat : et nutriebat paruum existentem

She’d nurs’d Telemachus, and lov’d him more
Than did the other maids, and now she stands
To light him.+

She it was who bore for Telemachus the blazing torches;
[435] for she of all the handmaids loved him most, and had nursed him when he was a child.

ὤιξεν δὲ θύρας θαλάμου πύκα ποιητοῖο,
ἕζετο δ᾽ ἐν λέκτρῳ, μαλακὸν δ᾽ ἔκδυνε χιτῶνα:
καὶ τὸν μὲν γραίης πυκιμηδέος ἔμβαλε χερσίν.

Aperuit autem ianuas thalami studiose facti
Sedit autem in tecto : mollemque exuit vestem ·
Et hanc certe vetule studiosa consilia scientis posuit in manibus

He unlocks the door, goes in,
Takes off his coat, puts it into her hands,

He opened the doors of the well-built chamber,
sat down on the bed, and took off his soft tunic
and laid it in the wise old woman's hands.

ἡ μὲν τὸν πτύξασα καὶ ἀσκήσασα χιτῶνα,
440 πασσάλῳ ἀγκρεμάσασα παρὰ τρητοῖσι λέχεσσι
βῆ ῥ᾽ ἴμεν ἐκ θαλάμοιο, θύρην δ᾽ ἐπέρυσσε κορώνῃ
ἀργυρέῃ, ἐπὶ δὲ κληῖδ᾽ ἐτάνυσσεν ἱμάντι.

Haec certe hanc studiose duplicans · et cum cura aptans uestem
In portica appendens penes perforatos lectos ·
Commmota ire athalamo : persalum?? subdit
argenteum atque sera extendit in clausuam corio fio?m?

470  She foldeth, brusheth, hangs it on a pin.
Then forth she went, and by a silver ring
Pulls to the door.+

And she folded and smoothed the tunic
[440] and hung it on a peg beside the corded bedstead,
and then went forth from the chamber, drawing the door to by its silver handle,
and driving the bolt home with the thong.

ἔνθ᾽ ὅ γε παννύχιος, κεκαλυμμένος οἰὸς ἀώτῳ,
βούλευε φρεσὶν ᾗσιν ὁδὸν τὴν πέφραδ᾽ Ἀθήνη.

Vbi hic nocturnus velatus cuis flore
consulebat sensibus propriis de uia quam dixit athena

And there all night he lay
Rememb’ring Pallas’ words, and pondering
Upon the business of the following day.

So there, the night through, wrapped in a fleece of wool,
he pondered in his mind upon the journey which Athena had shewn him.

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