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1 Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove.
2 They say he has reigned for three generations so that it is like talking to an immortal.
3 I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself.
4 Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea.
5 His hands and feet are just like Ulysses; so is his hair, with the shape of his head and the expression of his eyes.
6 Another said, "Perhaps if Telemachus goes on board ship, he will be like his father and perish far from his friends."
7 He went close up to him and said, "Menelaus, there are some strangers come here, two men, who look like sons of Jove."
8 There is something else, however, about which I should like to ask Nestor, for he knows much more than any one else does.
9 Menelaus was very angry and said, "Eteoneus, son of Boethous, you never used to be a fool, but now you talk like a simpleton."
10 He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
11 He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
12 Seeing in what great distress Ulysses now was, she had compassion upon him, and, rising like a sea-gull from the waves, took her seat upon the raft.
13 With these words she flew away like a bird into the air, but she had given Telemachus courage, and had made him think more than ever about his father.
14 Days seven and ten did he sail over the sea, and on the eighteenth the dim outlines of the mountains on the nearest part of the Phaeacian coast appeared, rising like a shield on the horizon.
15 He covered himself with wounds and bruises, dressed himself all in rags, and entered the enemy's city looking like a menial or a beggar, and quite different from what he did when he was among his own people.
16 The first of these is the loss of my excellent father, who was chief among all you here present, and was like a father to every one of you; the second is much more serious, and ere long will be the utter ruin of my estate.
17 He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray.
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