Now that brilliant Odysseus has taken vengeance on the suitors, let them swear a solemn oath, and let him be king all his days, and let us on our part bring about a forgetting of the slaying of their sons and brothers;
ἐπεὶ δὴ μνηστῆρας ἐτίσατο δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς , ὅρκια πιστὰ ταμόντες ὁ μὲν βασιλευέτω αἰεί , ἡμεῖς δ' αὖ παίδων τε κασιγνήτων τε φόνοιο ἔκλησιν θέωμεν ·
ἐπεί δή μνηστήρ τίνω δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς , ὅρκιον πιστός τέμνω ὁ μέν βασιλεύω ἀεί , ἐγώ δέ αὖ παῖς τε κασίγνητος τε φόνος ἔκλησις τίθημι ·