Homer's Odyssey β 2.242-66
Syllables in bold are dynamically prominent according to the new theory of the ancient Greek pitch accent. Digammas occasionally obtrude:
Samuel Butler’s translation with certain names Hellenised:
Leiocritus, son of Evenor, answered him saying, “Mentor, what folly
is all this, that you should set the people to stay us? It is a hard
thing for one man to fight with many about his victuals. Even though
Odysseus himself were to set upon us while we are feasting in his house,
and do his best to oust us, his wife, who wants him back so very badly,
would have small cause for rejoicing, and his blood would be upon
his own head if he fought against such great odds. There is no sense
in what you have been saying. Now, therefore, do you people go about
your business, and let his father's old friends, Mentor and Halitherses,
speed this boy on his journey, if he goes at all—which I do not think
he will, for he is more likely to stay where he is till some one comes
and tells him something.”
On this he broke up the assembly, and every man went back to his own
abode, while the suitors returned to the house of Odysseus.
Then Telemachus went all alone by the sea side, washed his hands in
the grey waves, and prayed to Athena.
“Hear me,” he cried, “you god who visited me yesterday, and bade me
sail the seas in search of my father who has so long been missing.
I would obey you, but the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked
suitors, are hindering me that I cannot do so.”
Greek text hyperlinked to lexica via Perseus (perseus.tufts.edu):
τὸν δ᾽ Εὐηνορίδης Λειώκριτος ἀντίον ηὔδα:
‘Μέντορ ἀταρτηρέ, φρένας ἠλεέ, ποῖον ἔειπες
ἡμέας ὀτρύνων καταπαυέμεν. ἀργαλέον δὲ
ἀνδράσι καὶ πλεόνεσσι μαχήσασθαι περὶ δαιτί.
εἴ περ γάρ κ᾽ Ὀδυσεὺς Ἰθακήσιος αὐτὸς ἐπελθὼν
δαινυμένους κατὰ δῶμα ἑὸν μνηστῆρας ἀγαυοὺς
ἐξελάσαι μεγάροιο μενοινήσει᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ,
οὔ κέν οἱ κεχάροιτο γυνή, μάλα περ χατέουσα,
ἐλθόντ᾽, ἀλλά κεν αὐτοῦ ἀεικέα πότμον ἐπίσποι,
εἰ πλεόνεσσι μάχοιτο: σὺ δ᾽ οὐ κατὰ μοῖραν ἔειπες.
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, λαοὶ μὲν σκίδνασθ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα ἕκαστος,
τούτῳ δ᾽ ὀτρυνέει Μέντωρ ὁδὸν ἠδ᾽ Ἁλιθέρσης,
οἵ τέ οἱ ἐξ ἀρχῆς πατρώιοί εἰσιν ἑταῖροι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὀίω, καὶ δηθὰ καθήμενος ἀγγελιάων
πεύσεται εἰν Ἰθάκῃ, τελέει δ᾽ ὁδὸν οὔ ποτε ταύτην.’
ὣς ἄρ᾽ ἐφώνησεν, λῦσεν δ᾽ ἀγορὴν αἰψηρήν.
οἱ μὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐσκίδναντο ἑὰ πρὸς δώμαθ᾽ ἕκαστος,
μνηστῆρες δ᾽ ἐς δώματ᾽ ἴσαν θείου Ὀδυσῆος.
Τηλέμαχος δ᾽ ἀπάνευθε κιὼν ἐπὶ θῖνα θαλάσσης,
χεῖρας νιψάμενος πολιῆς ἁλὸς εὔχετ᾽ Ἀθήνῃ:
‘κλῦθί μευ, ὃ χθιζὸς θεὸς ἤλυθες ἡμέτερον δῶ
καὶ μ᾽ ἐν νηὶ κέλευσας ἐπ᾽ ἠεροειδέα πόντον
νόστον πευσόμενον πατρὸς δὴν οἰχομένοιο