Then they were about to set hands to their food, when the old man Dolius drew near, and with him the old man's sons, wearied from their work in the fields, for their mother, the old Sicilian woman, had gone forth and called them, she who saw to their food, and tended the old man with kindly care, now that old age had laid hold of him.
ἔνθ' οἱ μὲν δείπνῳ ἐπεχείρεον , ἀγχίμολον δὲ ἦλθ' ὁ γέρων Δολίος , σὺν δ' υἱεῖς τοῖο γέροντος , ἐξ ἔργων μογέοντες , ἐπεὶ προμολοῦσα κάλεσσεν μήτηρ γρηῦς Σικελή , ἥ σφεας τρέφε καί ῥα γέροντα ἐνδυκέως κομέεσκεν , ἐπεὶ κατὰ γῆρας ἔμαρψεν . [0] [1] [2]
ἔνθα ὁ μέν δεῖπνος ἐπιχειρέω , ἀγχίμολον δέ ἔρχομαι ὁ γέρων Δολίος , σύν δέ υἱός ὁ γέρων , ἐκ ἔργον μογέω , ἐπεί προβλώσκω καλέω μήτηρ γραῦς Σικελός , ὅς σφεῖς τρέφω καί ἄρα γέρων ἐνδυκέως κομέω , ἐπεί κατά γῆρας μάρπτω .