She was touched with pity for Odysseus, as he wandered and was in sore travail, and she rose up from the deep like a sea-mew on the wing, and sat on the stoutly-bound raft, and spoke, saying:
ἥ ῥ' Ὀδυσῆ' ἐλέησεν ἀλώμενον , ἄλγε' ἔχοντα , αἰθυίῃ δ' ἐικυῖα ποτῇ ἀνεδύσετο λίμνης , ἷζε δ' ἐπὶ σχεδίης πολυδέσμου εἶπέ τε μῦθον ·
ὁ ἄρα Ὀδυσσεύς ἐλεέω ἀλάομαι , ἄλγος ἔχω , αἴθυια δέ εἰκός ποτή ἀναδύνω λίμνη , ἵζω δέ ἐπί σχεδία πολύδεσμος εἶπον τε μῦθος ·