- Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked - the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs - he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely - home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating - the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all - these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. -
-- So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, - and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who - had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods - settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles - were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted - him without ceasing and would not let him get home. -
- -- Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked - the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs - he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely - home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating - the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all - these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. -
-- So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, - and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who - had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods - settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles - were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted - him without ceasing and would not let him get home. -
- -- Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked - the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs - he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely - home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating - the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all - these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. -
-- So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, - and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who - had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods - settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles - were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted - him without ceasing and would not let him get home. -