1 And now, my good fellow, I want to know about this stranger.
2 Meanwhile Menelaus and I were on our way home from Troy, on good terms with one another.
3 He stood in the middle of the assembly and the good herald Pisenor brought him his staff.
4 Telemachus took this speech as of good omen and rose at once, for he was bursting with what he had to say.
5 "Holy queen," he continued, "vouchsafe to send down thy grace upon myself, my good wife, and my children."
6 A good old woman, Euryclea, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches.
7 Telemachus answered boldly, for Minerva had given him courage to ask about his father and get himself a good name.
8 Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round.
9 On this Asphalion, one of the servants, poured water over their hands and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.
10 See what a good thing it is for a man to leave a son behind him to do as Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father.
11 An upper servant brought them bread, and offered them many good things of what there was in the house, while the carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set cups of gold by their side.
12 I shall never all my days be as good a man as he was, still I would indeed defend myself if I had power to do so, for I cannot stand such treatment any longer; my house is being disgraced and ruined.
13 This drug, of such sovereign power and virtue, had been given to Helen by Polydamna wife of Thon, a woman of Egypt, where there grow all sorts of herbs, some good to put into the mixing bowl and others poisonous.
14 Mother," answered Telemachus, "let the bard sing what he has a mind to; bards do not make the ills they sing of; it is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure.
15 An upper servant brought them bread, and offered them many good things of what there was in the house, the carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set cups of gold by their side, and a manservant brought them wine and poured it out for them.
16 Then Minerva answered, "Sir, you have spoken well, and it will be much better that Telemachus should do as you have said; he, therefore, shall return with you and sleep at your house, but I must go back to give orders to my crew, and keep them in good heart."
17 Sons are seldom as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better; still, as you are not going to be either fool or coward henceforward, and are not entirely without some share of your father's wise discernment, I look with hope upon your undertaking.
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