Ὀδύσσεια, Odyssey · Book 1.1–62

1. 1ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰTell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide
2. 2πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν·after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy;
3. 3πολλῶν δ' ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω,he saw the cities of many peoples and came to know their minds,
4. 4πολλὰ δ' ὅ γ' ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν,and many were the pains he suffered at sea in his own heart,
5. 5ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων.struggling for his own life and his companions' homecoming.
6. 6ἀλλ' οὐδ' ὣς ἑτάρους ἐρρύσατο, ἱέμενός περ·But even so he did not save his companions, hard though he strove;
7. 7αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο,for they perished by their own recklessness —
8. 8νήπιοι, οἳ κατὰ βοῦς Ὑπερίονος Ἠελίοιοfools, who ate the cattle of Hyperion the Sun
9. 9ἤσθιον· αὐτὰρ ὁ τοῖσιν ἀφείλετο νόστιμον ἦμαρ.and he took from them the day of their return.
10. 10τῶν ἁμόθεν γε, θεά, θύγατερ Διός, εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν.Of these things, goddess, daughter of Zeus, begin where you will, and tell us too.
11. 11ἔνθ' ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες, ὅσοι φύγον αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον,By then all the others, all who had escaped sheer destruction,
12. 12οἴκοι ἔσαν, πόλεμόν τε πεφευγότες ἠδὲ θάλασσαν·were at home, escaped from war and the sea;
13. 13τὸν δ' οἶον νόστου κεχρημένον ἠδὲ γυναικὸςbut him alone, craving his homecoming and his wife,
14. 14νύμφη πότνι' ἔρυκε Καλυψὼ δῖα θεάωνthe queenly nymph Calypso was keeping back, bright among goddesses,
15. 15ἐν σπέσσι γλαφυροῖσι, λιλαιομένη πόσιν εἶναι.in her hollow caves, longing to make him her husband.
16. 16ἀλλ' ὅτε δὴ ἔτος ἦλθε περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν,But when at last the year came, as the seasons rolled round,
17. 17τῷ οἱ ἐπεκλώσαντο θεοὶ οἶκόνδε νέεσθαιin which the gods had ordained that he should return home
18. 18εἰς Ἰθάκην, οὐδ' ἔνθα πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλωνto Ithaca — yet not even there was he free of trials
19. 19καὶ μετὰ οἷσι φίλοισι. θεοὶ δ' ἐλέαιρον ἅπαντεςeven among his own people. All the gods pitied him
20. 20νόσφι Ποσειδάωνος· ὁ δ' ἀσπερχὲς μενέαινενexcept Poseidon; he raged relentlessly

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