From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssey from someone who’s literally heard it
© A. P. David 2022:
Then honest Telemachus faced her and said:
‘Mentor, let’s no more recount these things, concerned about them as we are;
For that man, there is no more a true return home—no; for him already
The deathless ones have denoted death, appointed her black shade.
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