But if he is already dead and in the house of Hades, then woe is me for blameless Odysseus, who set me over his cattle, when I was yet a boy, in the land of the Cephallenians.
εἰ δ' ἤδη τέθνηκε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισιν , ὤ μοι ἔπειτ' Ὀδυσῆος ἀμύμονος , ὅς μ' ἐπὶ βουσὶν εἷσ' ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα Κεφαλλήνων ἐνὶ δήμῳ . [1]
εἰ δέ ἤδη θνήσκω καί ἐν ᾍδης δόμος , ὦ ἐγώ ἔπειτα Ὀδυσσεύς ἀμύμων , ὅς ἐγώ ἐπί βοῦς ἵζω ἔτι τυτθός εἰμί Κεφαλλήν ἐν δῆμος .