From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssea from someone who’s literally heard it
©2022 by A. P. David:
And with him she was carrying flaming torches, a trusty, knowing woman:
Eurycleia, daughter of Ops the son of Peisenor,
A woman whom Laertes once bought with his own possessions,
When she was still in the first bloom of youth—he gave twenty oxen!—
And he h…