Surely you did not listen at all in olden days, when you were children, when your fathers told what manner of man Odysseus was among them that fathered you, in that he wrought no wrong in deed or word to any man in the land, as the accustomed is of divine kings—
οὐ δέ τι πατρῶν ὑμετέρων τὸ πρόσθεν ἀκούετε , παῖδες ἐόντες , οἷος Ὀδυσσεὺς ἔσκε μεθ' ὑμετέροισι τοκεῦσιν , οὔ τε τινὰ ῥέξας ἐξαίσιον οὔ τε τι εἰπὼν ἐν δήμῳ , ἥ τ' ἐστὶ δίκη θείων βασιλήων ·
οὐ δέ τις πατήρ ὑμέτερος ὁ πρόσθεν ἀκούω , παῖς εἰμί , οἷος Ὀδυσσεύς εἰμί μετά ὑμέτερος τοκεύς , οὐ τε τις ῥέζω ἐξαίσιος οὐ τε τις εἶπον ἐν δῆμος , ὅς τε εἰμί δίκη θεῖος βασιλεύς ·