1 But be sure and do as I bid you, for you seem to be a sensible person.
2 To this Nausicaa answered, "Stranger, you appear to be a sensible, well-disposed person."
3 This is what they must have been doing to you; for you always used to be a reasonable person.
4 My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.
5 Ulysses told Philoetius to stand by this door and guard it, for only one person could attack it at a time.
6 Stockman," answered Ulysses, "you seem to be a very well-disposed person, and I can see that you are a man of sense.
7 And now, O queen, have pity upon me, for you are the first person I have met, and I know no one else in this country.
8 Sir, my father Nestor, when we used to talk about you at home, told me you were a person of rare and excellent understanding.
9 They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.
10 I am full of heaviness, but I ought not to sit weeping and wailing in another person's house, nor is it well to be thus grieving continually.
11 My friend," said he, "you are the first person whom I have met with in this country; I salute you, therefore, and beg you to be well disposed towards me.
12 You seem to be a sensible person, do then as I bid you; strip, leave your raft to drive before the wind, and swim to the Phaeacian coast where better luck awaits you.
13 I am the only older person among them; the rest are all young men of Telemachus' own age, who have taken this voyage out of friendship; so I must return to the ship and sleep there.
14 The king was delighted at this, and exclaimed to the Phaeacians, "Aldermen and town councillors, our guest seems to be a person of singular judgement; let us give him such proof of our hospitality as he may reasonably expect."
15 We should have run clean out of provisions and my men would have starved, if a goddess had not taken pity upon me and saved me in the person of Idothea, daughter to Proteus, the old man of the sea, for she had taken a great fancy to me.
16 If anyone wants to have a bout with me let him come on, for I am exceedingly angry; I will box, wrestle, or run, I do not care what it is, with any man of you all except Laodamas, but not with him because I am his guest, and one cannot compete with one's own personal friend.
17 Stranger," replied Alcinous, "I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son-in-law.
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