Then Pallas said, O Jove, of kings the king,
Since the blest Gods have thought good, and decreed
Ulysses to his native soil to bring,
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Let’s Hermes send unto the nymph with speed,
In th’ isle Ogygia, to let her know
Our sentence, that she may the same obey.

[80] Then the goddess, flashing-eyed Athena, answered him:
“Father of us all, thou son of Cronos, high above all lords,
if indeed this is now well pleasing to the blessed gods,
that the wise Odysseus should return to his own home,
let us send forth Hermes, the messenger, Argeiphontes,
[85] to the isle Ogygia, that with all speed
he may declare to the fair-tressed nymph our fixed resolve,
even the return of Odysseus of the steadfast heart, that he may come home.