. m thence hecame to Thrinacia, the island of Helios, whothere kept his sacred herds of oxen. Mind-ful of the advice of Tiresias and Circe,Odysseus wanted to sail past, but his com-panions urged him to land. He made themswear not to touch any of the cattle; butas they were detained in the island bystorms, and were hungry, they killedthe finest of the oxen while Odysseuswas asleep. After some days the stormabated, and they sailed away, but soonanother storm came on, and their shipwas destroyed by a thunderbolt. Allwere drowned with th
. m thence hecame to Thrinacia, the island of Helios, whothere kept his sacred herds of oxen. Mind-ful of the advice of Tiresias and Circe,Odysseus wanted to sail past, but his com-panions urged him to land. He made themswear not to touch any of the cattle; butas they were detained in the island bystorms, and were hungry, they killedthe finest of the oxen while Odysseuswas asleep. After some days the stormabated, and they sailed away, but soonanother storm came on, and their shipwas destroyed by a thunderbolt. Allwere drowned with the exception of Odys-cave. Odysseus contrived to make the monster scus, who saved himself by means of the mastdrunk with wine, and then with a burning pole and plunks, and after ten days reached thedeprived him of his one eye. He now succeeded island of Ogygia, inhabited by the nymphin making his escape with his friends, by con- Calypso. She received him with kindness, andceding himself and them under the bodies of i wished to marry him, promising immortality. Odywcus and Tire&laa. (From u. relief of the Uoinan period,now In the Louvre.) 618 ODYSSEUS and eternal youth, if he would consent, andforget Ithaca. But his love of home was toostrong. Athene, who had always protectedhim, induced Zeus to promise that her favouritehero, notwithstanding the anger of Poseidon,should one day return to his native island, andtake vengeance on the suitors of carried to Calypso the command ofZeus to dismiss Odysseus. The nymphobeyed, and taught him how to build a raft[Diet, of Ant. art. Batis], on which, after re-maining eight years with her, he left theisland. In eighteen days he came in sight ofScheria, the island of the Phaeacians, whenPoseidon sent a storm which cast him off theraft. By the assistance of Leucothea andAthene he reached Scheria by swimming. Herehe slept on the shore, until he was awoke bythe voices of maidens. He found Nausicaa,the daughter of king Alcinous, who
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