The Odyssey - translated by: Fitzgerald

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Homage to Nestor, the benevolent king; in my time he was fatherly to me,

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Now Zeus who drives the stormcloud said benignly:  "Here is how I should do it, little brother..."

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Blasphemous lies in earnest tones he told-the one who planned the lad's destruction!

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Yet the girl felt nothing for her mistress, no compunction, but slept and made love with Eurymakhos.

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But Zeus disdained my offering; destruction for my ships he had in store and death for those who sailed them, my companions.

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But Athena poured a sea fog around him as he went- her love's expedient, that no jeering sailor should halt the man or challenge him for luck.

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Before them a great boar lay hid in undergrowth, in a green thicket proof against the wind or sun's blaze, fine soever the needling sunlight, impervious too to any rain, so dense that cover was, heaped up with fallen leaves.

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You'll come by no indulgence in our house; kicked down into a ship's bilge, out to sea you go, and nothing saves you.

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Now on the shore Eurylokhos made his insidious plea:

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as long as hope remained in you to see Odysseus ... you could not be reproached for obstinacy,

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A prodigious man slept in this cave alone ... knowing none but savage ways, a brute so huge, he seemed no man at all

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But these men spend their days around our house killing our beeves, our fat goats and our sheep, carousing, drinking up our good dark wine; sparing nothing, squandering everything.

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Not even birds can pass them by, not even the timorous doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus; caught by downdrafts, they die on rockwall smooth as ice.

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-all wantonly raiding a great man's flocks, dishonoring his queen, because they thought he'd come no more.