Odyssey
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Kuvaus
Odyssey project for English class.
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- In the evening, Penelope interrogates the old beggar.
- Friend, let me ask you first of all: who are you, where do you come from, of what nation and parents were you born?
- My lady, I have heard a lot about you this being so, let it suffice to ask me of other matters. Do not enforce me to recall my pain. One of the maids might say I had got maudlin over cups of wine.
- Stranger, looks, my face, my carriage were soon lost and faded when the achaeans crossed the sea to Troy, Odysseus my lord among the rest. If he returned I might be happily renowned! But grief instead heaven sent me .
- Sons of the noblest families on the islands, Dulichium, Same, wooded Zacynthus, with Native Ithacans here to court me, against my wish; and they consume this house. Can I give proper heed to guest or suppliant or herald on the realm's affairs?
- How could I? wasted with longing for Odysseus, while here they press for marriage. Ruses served my turn to draw the time out first a close-grained web I had the happy thought to set up weaving on my big loom in hall. I said that day,
- Young men-my suitors, now my lord is dead, let me finish my weaving before I marry, or else my thread will have been spun in vain. It is a shroud I weave for lord Laertes when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier.
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