This bow brilliant Odysseus, when going forth to war, would never take with him on the black ships, but it lay in his halls at home as a memorial of a dear friend, and he carried it in his own land.
τὸ δ' οὔ ποτε δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς ἐρχόμενος πόλεμόνδε μελαινάων ἐπὶ νηῶν ᾑρεῖτ' , ἀλλ' αὐτοῦ μνῆμα ξείνοιο φίλοιο κέσκετ' ἐνὶ μεγάροισι , φόρει δέ μιν ἧς ἐπὶ γαίης .
ὁ δέ οὐ ποτέ δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς ἔρχομαι πόλεμόνδε μέλας ἐπί ναῦς αἱρέω , ἀλλά αὐτοῦ μνῆμα ξένος φίλος κεῖμαι ἐν μέγαρον , φορέω δέ μιν ἑός ἐπί γαῖα .