The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Padraic Colum

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Padraic Colum

Author:Padraic Colum [Colum, Padraic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2005-10-13T16:00:00+00:00


He crept out from under the thicket, covering his nakedness with leafy boughs that he broke off the trees. And when he saw the girls in the meadow he wanted to go to them to beg for their help. But when they looked on him they were terribly frightened and they ran this way and that way and hid themselves. Only Nausicaa stood still, for Pallas Athene had taken fear from her mind.

Odysseus stood a little way from her and spoke to her in a beseeching voice. 'I supplicate thee, lady, to help me in my bitter need. I would kneel to thee and clasp thy knees only I fear thine anger. Have pity upon me. Yesterday was the twentieth day that I was upon the sea, driven hither and thither by the waves and the winds.'



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