Circe, how can you command me be gentle to you, who have turned my comrades into swine in your halls, and now keep me here, and with guileful purpose command me go to your chamber, and go up into your bed, that when you have me stripped you may render me a weakling and unmanned?
' ὦ Κίρκη , πῶς γάρ με κέλεαι σοὶ ἤπιον εἶναι , ἥ μοι σῦς μὲν ἔθηκας ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἑταίρους , αὐτὸν δ' ἐνθάδ' ἔχουσα δολοφρονέουσα κελεύεις ἐς θάλαμόν τ' ἰέναι καὶ σῆς ἐπιβήμεναι εὐνῆς , ὄφρα με γυμνωθέντα κακὸν καὶ ἀνήνορα θήῃς .
̓ ὦ Κίρκη , πῶς γάρ ἐγώ κέλομαι σύ ἤπιος εἰμί , ὅς ἐγώ ὗς μέν τίθημι ἐν μέγαρον ἑταῖρος , αὐτός δέ ἐνθάδε ἔχω δολοφρονέων κελεύω εἰς θάλαμος τε εἶμι καί σός ἐπιβαίνω εὐνή , ὄφρα ἐγώ γυμνόω κακός καί ἀνήνωρ τίθημι .