From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssey in linear prose
© A. P. David 2022:
But once they prayed and threw forward the barley groats,
Right away Nestor’s son, his High-Heart Thrasymedes
Stood near and lunged: the axe cut out the sinews
Of the neck, and undid the strength of the heifer. And the women alleluia-ed!
The daughters and the in-laws, and the rev…