Odyssey γ 3.1-24

From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssea from someone who’s literally heard it

© A. P. David 2022:

And Helius leaped upward, abandoned his gorgeous breakwater

Toward the coppery sky, so he might shine on the deathless ones,

And also the death-bound yokels upon the grain-bearing ploughland;

But our men aimed for Pylos, Neleus’ well-settled city—

They were …