1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:08,880 Book twenty three Euroclean now went upstairs, laughing to tell her mistress that her 2 00:00:08,919 --> 00:00:14,839 dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again, and her 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,280 feet were nimble for joy as she went up to her mistress and bent over 4 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:24,960 her head to speak with her. Wake a, Penelope, my dear child, 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,239 she exclaimed, and see with your own eyes something that you have been 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:37,799 wanting this long time past. Ulysses has at last indeed come home again, 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,520 and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in his house, 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,159 eating up his estate, and ill treating his son. My good nurse answered, 9 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:56,399 Penelope, you must be mad. The gods sometimes send some very sensible 10 00:00:56,479 --> 00:01:02,399 people out of their minds and make foolish people become sensible. This is what 11 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:06,719 they must have been doing with you, for you always used to be a 12 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,120 reasonable person. Why should you thus mock me when I have trouble enough already, 13 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:18,000 talking such nonsense, and waking me up out of a sweet sleep that 14 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,719 had taken possession of my eyes and closed them. I have never slept so 15 00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:27,719 soundly from the day my poor husband went to that city with the ill omened 16 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:34,159 name. Go back again into the woman's room, if it had been anyone 17 00:01:34,239 --> 00:01:38,799 else who had woke me to bring such absurd news, I should have sent 18 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:45,640 her away with a severe scolding. As it is your age shall protect you, 19 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:51,879 my dear child, answered Eurycleia, I am not mocking you. It 20 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,239 is quite true as I tell you, that Ulysses has come home again. 21 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,799 He was the stranger whom they all kept on treating so badly. In the 22 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:07,640 cloister Telemachus knew all the time that he has come back, but kept his 23 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:15,280 father's secret that he might have his revenge on all these wicked people. Then 24 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:21,199 Penelope sprang up from her couch, threw her arms round Eurocleia, and wept 25 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,919 for joy. But my dear nurse said, she explain this to me. 26 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,439 If he has really come home as you say, how did he manage to 27 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:37,560 overcome the wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always 28 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:42,840 were. I was not here, answered Eurocleia, and do not know. 29 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,680 I only heard them groaning while they were being killed. We sat huddled and 30 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:53,800 crouching in a corner of the women's room with the doors closed, till your 31 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:00,000 son came to fetch me because his father sent him. Then I found Ulysses 32 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,560 standing over the corpses that were lying on the ground all round him, one 33 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:09,000 on top of the other. You would have enjoyed it if you could have 34 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:15,639 seen him standing there, all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just 35 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:20,520 like a lion. But the corpses are now all piled up in the gate 36 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,240 house, that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great 37 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:30,280 fire to purify the house with sulfur. He has sent me to call you, 38 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,199 so come with me, that you may both be happy together after all. 39 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,520 For now, at last the desire of your heart has been fulfilled. 40 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,879 Your husband has come home to find both wife and son alive and well, 41 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:53,560 and to take his revenge in his own house on the suitors who behave so 42 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,360 badly to him. My dear nurse, said Penelope, do not exult too 43 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:05,960 confidently over all this. You know how delighted every one would be to see 44 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:13,479 Ulysses come home, more particularly myself and the son who has been borne to 45 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:17,480 both of us. But what you tell me cannot be really true. It 46 00:04:17,639 --> 00:04:23,079 is some God who is angry with the suitors for their great wickedness, and 47 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:27,759 has made an end of them, for they respected no man in the world, 48 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,279 neither rich nor poor who came near them, who came near them, 49 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:40,480 and they have come to a bad end in consequence of their iniquity. Ulysses 50 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:46,120 is dead, far away from the Achaean land, and he will never return 51 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:54,040 home again. Then, Nurse Eurycleia said, my child, what are you 52 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,120 talking about? But you are all hard of belief and have made up your 53 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,480 mind that your husband is never coming, although he is in the house and 54 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:12,079 by his own fireside at this very moment. Besides, I can give you 55 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,879 another proof. When I was washing him, I perceived the scar which the 56 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,439 wild boar gave him, and I wanted to tell you about it, but 57 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:27,439 in his wisdom, he would not let me and clapped his hands over my 58 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,319 mouth. So come with me, and I will make this bargain with you. 59 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:38,319 If I am deceiving you, you may have me killed by the most 60 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:45,360 cruel death you can think of. My dear nurse, said Penelope, however 61 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,600 wise you may be, you can hardly fathom the counsels of the gods. 62 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,199 Nevertheless, we will go in search of my son, that I may see 63 00:05:55,199 --> 00:06:00,480 the corpses of the suitors and the man who has killed them. On this, 64 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,199 she came down from her upper room, and while doing so, she 65 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:10,600 considered whether she should keep at a distance from her husband and question him, 66 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,920 or whether she should at once go up to him and embrace him. When, 67 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:21,079 however, she had crossed the stone floor of the cloister, she sat 68 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:27,639 down opposite Ulysses by the fire, against the wall at right angles to that 69 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,279 by which she had entered, while Ulysses sat near one of the bearing posts, 70 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:36,519 looking upon the ground and waiting to see what his wife would say to 71 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:42,639 him. When she saw him, for a long time, she sat silent 72 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:48,560 and as one lost in amazement. At one moment she looked him full in 73 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:56,480 the face, but then again directly she was misled by his shabby clothes and 74 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:01,360 failed to recognize him till till Immachus began to reproach her, and said, 75 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,519 mother, but you are so hard that I cannot call you by such a 76 00:07:06,639 --> 00:07:12,639 name. Why do you keep away from my father in this way? Why 77 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:16,319 do you not sit by his side and begin talking to him and asking him 78 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:23,920 questions? No other women could bear to keep away from her husband when he 79 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,480 had come back to her after twenty years of absence, and after having gone 80 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:36,199 through so much but your heart was always as hard as a stone. Penelope 81 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:42,879 answered, my son, I am so lost in astonishment that I can find 82 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,959 no words in which either to ask questions or to answer them. I cannot 83 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,680 even look him straight in the face. Still, if he really is Ulysses, 84 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,680 come back to his own home again. We shall get to understand one 85 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:03,360 another better by and by, For there are tokens with which we two are 86 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:11,160 alone acquainted, and which are hidden from all others. Ulysses smiled at this 87 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:18,279 and said to Telemachus, let your mother put me to any proof she likes. 88 00:08:18,319 --> 00:08:22,439 She will make up her mind about it. Presently she rejects me for 89 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,639 the moment, and believes me to be somebody else, because I am covered 90 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:33,120 with dirt and have such bad clothes on. Let us, however, consider 91 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,399 what we had better do next. When one man has killed another, even 92 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,879 though he was not one who would leave many friends to take up his quarrel, 93 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,320 the man who has killed him must still say good bye to his friends 94 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,840 and fly the country, whereas we have been killing the stay of a whole 95 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:58,879 town and all the picked youth of Ithaca. I would have you consider this 96 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,720 matter, look to it yourself. Father answered Telemachus, For they say you 97 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:11,679 are the wisest counselor in the world, and that there is no other mortal 98 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,639 man who can compare with you. We will follow you with right good will, 99 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,919 nor shall you find us to fail you. In so far as our 100 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:26,000 strength holds out. I will say what I think will be best answered, 101 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,679 Ulysses. First, wash and put your shirts on. Tell the maids also 102 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:37,919 to go to their own room and dress. Phemius shall then strike up a 103 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,879 dance tune on his lyre, so that if people outside here, or any 104 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:48,480 of the neighbors, or someone going along the street happens to notice it, 105 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,840 they may think there is a wedding in the house, and no rumors about 106 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,600 the death of the suitors will get about in the town before we can escape 107 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:03,240 to the woods upon my own land. Once there we will settle which of 108 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:11,120 the courses Heaven vouchsafes us shall seem wisest. Thus did he speak, and 109 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:16,559 they did even as he had said. First they washed and put their shirts 110 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,519 on, while the women got ready. Then Phemius took his lyre and set 111 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,559 them all longing for sweet song and stately dance. The house re echoed with 112 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:31,799 the sound of men and women dancing, and the people outside said, I 113 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:37,759 suppose the queen has been getting married at last. She ought to be ashamed 114 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:43,240 of herself for not continuing to protect her husband's property until he comes home. 115 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,240 This was what they said, but they did not know what it was that 116 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:56,360 had been happening. The upper servant Eurynomi washed and anointed Ulysses in his own 117 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,559 house and gave him a shirt and cloak, while Minerva made him look taller 118 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,559 and stronger than before. She also made the hair grow thick on the top 119 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,200 of his head and flow down in curls like hyacinth blossoms. She glorified him 120 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:18,639 about the head and shoulders, just as a skillful workman who has studied art 121 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:26,720 of all kinds under Vulcan or Minerva, and his work is full of beauty, 122 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:31,519 enriches a piece of silver plate by gilding it. He came from the 123 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:37,519 bath, looking like one of the immortals, and sat down opposite his wife 124 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:43,559 on the seat he had left. My dear said, he Heaven has endowed 125 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:50,759 you with a heart more unyielding than woman ever yet had no other woman could 126 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,360 bear to keep away from her husband. When he had come back to her 127 00:11:54,399 --> 00:12:00,919 after twenty years of absence, and after having gone through so much. But 128 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,960 come, nurse, get a bed ready for me. I will sleep alone, 129 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:11,720 for this woman has a heart as hard as iron. My dear, 130 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:18,080 said Penelope. I have no wish to set myself up, nor to depreciate 131 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,840 you, but I am not struck by your appearance, for I very well 132 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:28,159 remember what kind of a man you were when you set sail from Ithaca. 133 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:35,320 Nevertheless, Eurycleia take his bed outside the bed chamber that he himself built. 134 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,360 Bring the bed outside this room, and put bedding upon it, with fleeces, 135 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:48,200 good coverlets and blankets. She said this to try him, But Ulysses 136 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:54,879 was very angry and said, wife, I am much displeased at what you 137 00:12:54,919 --> 00:12:58,519 have just been saying. Who has been taking my bed from the place in 138 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:03,960 which I left it? He must have found it a hard task, no 139 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:09,080 matter how skilled a workman he was, unless some god came and helped him 140 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,360 to shift it. There is no man living, however strong and in his 141 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,679 prime, who could move it from its place. For it is a marvelous 142 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:24,120 curiosity which I made with my very own hands. There was a young olive 143 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:30,519 growing within the precincts of the house in full vigor, and about as thick 144 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:35,840 as a bearing post. I built my room round this with strong walls of 145 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,720 stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and 146 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:46,159 well fitting. Then I cut off the top boughs of the olive tree and 147 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,000 left the stump standing. This I dressed roughly from the root upwards, and 148 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:58,399 then worked with carpenter's tools well and skillfully, straightening my work by drawing a 149 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,559 line in the wood and making it into a bed prop. I then bored 150 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,799 a hole down the middle and made it the sector post of my bed, 151 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,440 at which I worked till I had finished it in laying it with gold and 152 00:14:13,639 --> 00:14:18,399 silver. After this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of 153 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:22,960 it to the other. So you shall see I know all about it, 154 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:28,600 and I desire to learn whether it is still there, or whether anyone has 155 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:35,039 been removing it by cutting down the olive tree at its roots. When she 156 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:41,559 heard the sure proofs Ulysses now gave her, she fairly broke down. She 157 00:14:41,679 --> 00:14:48,039 flew weeping to his side, flung her arms about his neck, and kissed 158 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,840 him. Do not be angry with me, Ulysses, she cried, you, 159 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,720 who are the wisest of mankind. We have suffered both of us. 160 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:05,080 Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth and of growing old together. 161 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:11,879 Do not then be aggrieved or take it amiss that I did not embrace 162 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:16,480 you. Thus as soon as I saw you, I have been shuddering all 163 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:22,200 the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying 164 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:28,159 story. For there are many very wicked people going about. Jove's daughter Helen 165 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:35,080 would never have yielded herself to a man from a foreign country if she had 166 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:39,320 known that the sons of a Chayans would come after her and bring her back. 167 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:45,679 Heaven put it in her heart to do wrong, and she gave no 168 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:52,279 thought to that sin which has been the source of all our sorrows. Now, 169 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,960 however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about 170 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,480 our bed, which no human being has ever seen but you and I and 171 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:06,600 this single maid servant, the daughter of Actor, who was given me by 172 00:16:06,679 --> 00:16:11,519 my father on my marriage, and who keeps the doors of our room. 173 00:16:11,559 --> 00:16:18,399 Hard of belief though I have been, I can mistrust no longer. Then 174 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:25,480 Ulysses, in his turn, melted and wept as he clasped his dear and 175 00:16:25,639 --> 00:16:30,799 faithful wife to his bosom. As the sight of land is welcome to men 176 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:37,039 who are swimming towards the shore. When Neptune has wrecked their ship with the 177 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,080 fury of his winds and waves. A few alone reach the land, and 178 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:48,120 these covered with brine are thankful when they find themselves on firm ground and out 179 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:56,320 of danger. Even so was her husband welcome to her as she looked upon 180 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,960 him, and she could not tear her too fair arms from about his neck. 181 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:08,440 Indeed, they would have gone on indulging their sorrow till rosy fingered morn 182 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:15,640 appeared, had not Minerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far 183 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:21,680 west, while she would not suffer dawn to leave Osianus, nor to yoke 184 00:17:21,759 --> 00:17:26,440 the two steeds, Lampus and Phaeton, that bear her onward, to break 185 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:33,920 the day upon mankind. At last, However, Ulysses said, wife, 186 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:38,200 we have not yet reached the end of our troubles. I have an unknown 187 00:17:38,279 --> 00:17:45,359 amount of toil still to undergo. It is long and difficult, but I 188 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:51,359 must go through with it. For thus the shade of Tyrasaus prophesied concerning me 189 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:56,359 on the day when I went down into hades to ask about my return and 190 00:17:56,519 --> 00:18:00,680 that of my companions. But now let us go to bed, that we 191 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:07,240 may lie down and enjoy the blessed boon of sleep. You shall go to 192 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:11,720 bed as soon as you please, replied Penelope, now that the gods have 193 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:17,960 sent you home to your own good house and to your country. But as 194 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,880 Heaven has put it in your mind to speak of it, tell me about 195 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,200 the task that lies before you. I shall have to hear about it later, 196 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,559 So it is better I should be told at once, my dear, 197 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,599 answered Ulysses. Why should you press me to tell you? Still, I 198 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,000 will not conceal it from you. Though you will not like it, I 199 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:47,279 do not like it myself. For tire say us bade me travel far and 200 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:52,640 wide, carrying and or till I came to a country where the people have 201 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,200 never heard of the sea, and do not even mix salt with their food. 202 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:03,279 They know nothing about ships, nor oars that are as the wings of 203 00:19:03,319 --> 00:19:07,240 a ship. He gave me this certain token, which I will not hide 204 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:12,400 from you. He said that a wayfarer should meet me and ask me whether 205 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,200 it was a winnowing shovel that I had on my shoulder. On this I 206 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:23,519 was to fix my oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, 207 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,440 and a boar to Neptune, after which I was to go home and 208 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:36,240 offer hecatombs to all the gods in heaven, one after the other. As 209 00:19:36,319 --> 00:19:41,440 for myself, he said that death should come to me from the sea, 210 00:19:41,519 --> 00:19:45,720 and that my life should eb away very gently when I was full of years 211 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:52,839 and peace of mind, and my people should bless me. All this, 212 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:59,240 he said, should surely come to pass. And Penelope said, if the 213 00:19:59,279 --> 00:20:04,200 gods are going to vouchsafe you a happier time in your old age, you 214 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:11,400 may hope then to have some respite from misfortune. Thus did they converse. 215 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:18,559 Meanwhile, Urenome and the nurse took torches and made the bed ready with soft 216 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,799 coverlets. As soon as they had laid them, the nurse went back into 217 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:27,799 the house to go to her rest, leaving the bedchamber woman Urenome to show 218 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:34,319 Ulysses and Penelope to bed by torchlight. When she had conducted them to their 219 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:40,119 room, she went back, and they then came joyfully to the rights of 220 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:48,160 their own old bed. Telemachus Philotius and the swineherd now left off dancing, 221 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:53,319 and made the women leave off also. They then laid themselves down to sleep 222 00:20:53,440 --> 00:21:02,240 in the cloisters. When Ulysses and Penelope had their fill of love, they 223 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:07,440 fell talking with one another. She told him how much she had had to 224 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:12,279 bear in seeing the house filled with a crowd of wicked suitors who had killed 225 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:18,960 so many sheep and oxen on her account, and had drunk so many casts 226 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,880 of wine. Ulysses, in his turn, told her what he had suffered 227 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:30,720 and how much trouble he had given to other people. He told her everything, 228 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,359 and she was so delighted to listen that she never went to sleep till 229 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:41,480 he had ended his whole story. He began with the victory over psycons, 230 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:48,359 and how he thence reached the fertile land of the lotus eaters. He told 231 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,319 her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly 232 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:59,559 eaten his brave comrades. How he then went on to Aeolus, who received 233 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:06,000 him inspitably and furthered him on his way, And even so he was not 234 00:22:06,079 --> 00:22:10,599 to reach home, for to his grief, a hurricane carried him out to 235 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,240 sea again. How he went to the Lastragonian city, Telepylos, where the 236 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:22,440 people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship. 237 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:27,799 Only then he told of cunning Circe and her craft, and how he 238 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:33,119 sailed to the chill house of Hades to consult the ghost of the theban prophet 239 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:40,039 Terassaus, And how he saw his old comrade in arms, and his mother, 240 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:44,759 who bore him and brought him up when he was a child. How 241 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:49,240 he then heard the wondrous singing of the sirens, and went on to the 242 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:56,400 wandering rocks and terrible Charybdus, and to Scylla, whom no man had ever 243 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:02,640 yet passed in safety. How his men then ate the cattle of the sun 244 00:23:02,759 --> 00:23:08,119 god, and how Jove therefore struck the ship with his thunderbolts, so that 245 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:15,319 all his men perished together, himself alone being left alive. How at last 246 00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:22,440 he reached the Ogygeon Island and the nymph Calypso, who kept him there in 247 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,319 a cave and fed him, and wanted him to marry her, in which 248 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:32,680 case she had tended making him immortal, so that he should never grow old. 249 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,039 But she could not persuade him to let her do so and how, 250 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:42,400 after much suffering, he had found his way to the Facians, who had 251 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,920 treated him as though he had been a god, and sent him back in 252 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,240 a ship to his own country, after having given him gold, bronze, 253 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:57,920 and raiment in great abundance. This was the last thing about which he told 254 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:04,680 her, we're here. A deep sleep took hold upon him and eased the 255 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:12,119 burden of his sorrows. Then Minerva bethought her of another matter. When she 256 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:18,079 deemed that Ulysses had had both of his wife and of repose, she bade 257 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:26,440 gold enthrone dawn rise out of Oceanus, that she might shed light upon mankind. 258 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:33,960 On this. Ulysses rose from his comfortable bed and said to Penelope wife, 259 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,839 we have both of us had our full share of troubles, you here 260 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:45,920 in lamenting my absence, and I in being prevented from getting home, though 261 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:52,400 I was longing all the time to do so. Now, however, that 262 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,200 we have at last come together, take care of the property that is in 263 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:02,480 this house. As for the sheep and goats which the wicked suitors have eaten, 264 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,880 I will take many myself by force from other people, and will compel 265 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,720 the a chains to make good the rest till they shall have filled all my 266 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,519 yards. I am now going to the wooded lands out in the country, 267 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,000 to see my father, who has so long been grieved on my account. 268 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:27,319 And to yourself. I will give these instructions, though you have little need 269 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:33,839 of them. At sunrise it will at once get abroad that I have been 270 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,240 killing the suitors. Go upstairs, therefore, and stay there with your women. 271 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,720 See nobody, and ask no questions. As he spoke, he girded 272 00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:52,279 on his armor. Then he roused Telemachus, Philotius, and Eumaeus, and 273 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,400 told them all to put on their armor as well. This they did, 274 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:03,680 and armed themselves. When they had done so, they opened the gates and 275 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:11,119 sallied forth, Ulysses leading the way. It was now daylight, but Minerva 276 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:19,319 nevertheless concealed them in darkness and led them quickly out of the town. End 277 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,920 of Book twenty three.