gre I, 166-168νῦν δ᾽ ὁ μὲν ὣς ἀπόλωλε κακὸν μόρον, οὐδέ τις ἡμῖν
θαλπωρή, εἴ πέρ τις ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων
φῇσιν ἐλεύσεσθαι: τοῦ δ᾽ ὤλετο νόστιμον ἦμαρ.
Tr. Thomas Hobbes, 1677 (1844)But, oh! he’s dead, and of some cruel death;
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And though some tell us he is coming home,
’Tis comfortless, for he’s bereav’d of breath.
To Ithaca I ne’er shall see him come.
Tr. Samuel Butler,1900But now he has thus perished by an evil doom, nor for us
is there any comfort, no, not though any one of men upon the earth
should say that he will come; gone is the day of his returning.
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Setting the scene, the suffering of Odysseus, l.1-15
