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Chapman, George, trans. (1559?–1634). The Odysseys of Homer, vol. 1. 1857.



THE ARGUMENT.
THE Gods in council sit, to call Ulysses from Calypso's thrall, And order their high pleasures thus: Grey Pallas to Telemachus (In Ithaca) her way addrest; And did her heavenly limbs invest In Mentas' likeness, that did reign King of the Taphians, in the main Whose rough waves near Leucadia run, Advising wise Ulysses' son To seek his father, and address His course to young Tantalides That govern'd Sparta. Thus much said, She shew'd she was Heaven's martial Maid, And vanish'd from him. Next to this, The Banquet of the Wooers is.