Telemachus, I truly will go to my upper chamber and lay me on my bed, which has become for me a bed of wailing, ever wet with my tears, since the day when Odysseus set forth with the sons of Atreus for Ilios.
&quot; Τηλέμαχ' , ἦ τοι ἐγὼν ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα λέξομαι εἰς εὐνήν , ἥ μοι στονόεσσα τέτυκται , αἰεὶ δάκρυσ' ἐμοῖσι πεφυρμένη , ἐξ οὗ Ὀδυσσεὺς ᾤχεθ' ἅμ' Ἀτρεΐδῃσιν ἐς Ἴλιον ·
&quot; Τηλέμαχος , ἦ τοι ἐγώ ὑπερῷον εἰσαναβαίνω λέγω εἰς εὐνή , ὅς ἐγώ στονόεις τεύχω , ἀεί δάκρυον ἐμός φύρω , ἐκ ὅς Ὀδυσσεύς οἴχομαι ἅμα Ἀτρείδης εἰς Ἴλιος ·