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1 And now, sir, tell me and tell me true, who you are and where you come from.
2 Then they reached Pherae where Diocles lived, who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus.
3 Moreover to-morrow I must go to the Cauconians where I have a large sum of money long owing to me.
4 He was then coming from Ephyra, where he had been to beg poison for his arrows from Ilus, son of Mermerus.
5 He felt the change, wondered at it, and knew that the stranger had been a god, so he went straight to where the suitors were sitting.
6 Here he divided his fleet and took the one half towards Crete where the Cydonians dwell round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
7 She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian people were assembled.
8 As for the other five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaus gathered much gold and substance among people of an alien speech.
9 The rest, stay all of you where you are; tell the maids in the house to prepare an excellent dinner, and to fetch seats, and logs of wood for a burnt offering.
10 Having so said she dived under the waves, whereon I turned back to the place where my ships were ranged upon the shore; and my heart was clouded with care as I went along.
11 Telemachus," said one youngster, "means to be the death of us; I suppose he thinks he can bring friends to help him from Pylos, or again from Sparta, where he seems bent on going.
12 When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.
13 But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store-room where his father's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.
14 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.
15 Go to him, therefore, by sea, and take your own men with you; or if you would rather travel by land you can have a chariot, you can have horses, and here are my sons who can escort you to Lacedaemon where Menelaus lives.
16 I went to Cyprus, Phoenicia and the Egyptians; I went also to the Ethiopians, the Sidonians, and the Erembians, and to Libya where the lambs have horns as soon as they are born, and the sheep lamb down three times a year.
17 Presently she said, "Telemachus, you must not be in the least shy or nervous; you have taken this voyage to try and find out where your father is buried and how he came by his end; so go straight up to Nestor that we may see what he has got to tell us."
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