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"Odysseus, who was as crafty as
he was valiant, hit upon the following plan
[noos]:
"‘Keep still,’ said he
in a low voice, ‘or the others will hear you.’ Then he
raised his head on his elbow.
"‘My friends,’ said he,
‘I have had a dream from heaven in my sleep. We are a long way
from the ships; I wish some one would go down and tell Agamemnon to
send us up more men at once.’
"On this Thoas son of Andraimon
threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took
the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning. Would that I
were still young and strong [biê] as I was in
those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak
both out of good will and for the respect
[aidôs] due to a brave warrior; but now people
look down upon me because my clothes are shabby."
Homer. The Odyssey. Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy. A. C. Fifield, London. 1900 (?).
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