And tell me this also truly, that I may know full well, whether this is indeed Ithaca, to which we are now come, as a man yonder told me, who met me but now on my way here. In no way over sound of wit was he, for he did not deign to tell me of each thing, nor to listen to my word, when I questioned him about a friend of mine, whether by chance he still lives, or is now dead and in the house of Hades.
καὶ μοι τοῦτ' ἀγόρευσον ἐτήτυμον , ὄφρ' ἐῢ εἰδῶ , εἰ ἐτεόν γ' Ἰθάκην τήνδ' ἱκόμεθ' , ὥς μοι ἔειπεν οὗτος ἀνὴρ νῦν δὴ ξυμβλήμενος ἐνθάδ' ἰόντι , οὔ τι μάλ' ἀρτίφρων , ἐπεὶ οὐ τόλμησεν ἕκαστα εἰπεῖν ἠδ' ἐπακοῦσαι ἐμὸν ἔπος , ὡς ἐρέεινον ἀμφὶ ξείνῳ ἐμῷ , ἤ που ζώει τε καὶ ἔστιν ἦ ἤδη τέθνηκε καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισιν . [0] [1]
καί ἐγώ οὗτος ἀγορεύω ἐτήτυμος , ὄφρα εὖ οἶδα , εἰ ἐτεός γε Ἰθάκη ὅδε ἱκνέομαι , ὡς ἐγώ εἶπον οὗτος ἀνήρ νῦν δή συμβάλλω ἐνθάδε εἶμι , οὐ τις μάλα ἀρτίφρων , ἐπεί οὐ τολμάω ἕκαστος εἶπον ἠδέ ἐπακούω ἐμός ἔπος , ὡς ἐρεείνω ἀμφί ξένος ἐμός , ἤ πού ζώω τε καί εἰμί ἤ ἤδη θνήσκω καί ἐν ᾍδης δόμος .