gre I, 106-108εὗρε δ᾽ ἄρα μνηστῆρας ἀγήνορας. οἱ μὲν ἔπειτα
πεσσοῖσι προπάροιθε θυράων θυμὸν ἔτερπον
ἥμενοι ἐν ῥινοῖσι βοῶν, οὓς ἔκτανον αὐτοί:
Tr. Thomas Hobbes, 1677 (1844)125
And thence beheld the suitors in the court,
Sitting upon the hides of beeves, which they
Themselves had kill’d, and, wanting other sport,
Playing at chess they pass’d their time away.
Tr. Samuel Butler,1900There she found the proud wooers. They were
taking their pleasure at draughts in front of the doors,
sitting on the hides of oxen which they themselves had slain;
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Setting the scene, the suffering of Odysseus, l.1-15
