Part 6

Question 1

ἔνθ᾽ ἄλλοι μὲν πάντες ἀπέφθιθεν ἐσθλοὶ ἑταῖροι,

Answer 1

251. There all the rest of my fine comrades perished,

Question 2

αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ τρόπιν ἀγκὰς ἑλὼν νεὸς ἀμφιελίσσης

Answer 2

252. but I, having clasped in my arms the keel of my curved ship

Question 3

ἐννῆμαρ φερόμην: δεκάτῃ δέ με νυκτὶ μελαίνῃ

Answer 3

253. was borne for nine days: and on the tenth black night

Question 4

νῆσον ἐς Ὠγυγίην πέλασαν θεοί, ἔνθα Καλυψὼ

Answer 4

254. the gods brought me near to the island, Ogygia, where Calypso

Question 5

ναίει ἐυπλόκαμος, δεινὴ θεός, ἥ με λαβοῦσα

Answer 5

255. the fair-tressed one dwells, a dread goddess. She, having taken me,

Question 6

ἐνδυκέως ἐφίλει τε καὶ ἔτρεφεν ἠδὲ ἔφασκε

Answer 6

256. was kept welcoming [me] in a kindly way and kept feeding [me] and kept saying that

Question 7

θήσειν ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀγήραον ἤματα πάντα:

Answer 7

257. she would make me immortal and ageless all my days:

Question 8

ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν οὔ ποτε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἔπειθεν.

Answer 8

258. but she did not ever persuade my heart in my breast.