However he avoided the great throng of these men, but where Mentor sat, and Antiphus, and Halitherses, who were friends of his father's house of old, there he went and sat down,
αὐτὰρ ὁ τῶν μὲν ἔπειτα ἀλεύατο πουλὺν ὅμιλον , ἀλλ' ἵνα Μέντωρ ἧστο καὶ Ἄντιφος ἠδ' Ἁλιθέρσης , οἵ τε οἱ ἐξ ἀρχῆς πατρώϊοι ἦσαν ἑταῖροι , ἔνθα καθέζετ' ἰών ·
ἀτάρ ὁ ὁ μέν ἔπειτα ἀλέομαι πολύς ὅμιλος , ἀλλά ἵνα Μέντωρ ἧμαι καί Ἄντιφος ἠδέ Ἁλιθέρσης , ὅς τε ἕ ἐκ ἀρχή πατρώιος εἰμί ἑταῖρος , ἔνθα καθέζομαι εἶμι ·