From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssey in linear prose
© A. P. David 2022:
Him then honest Telemachus faced and said:
‘Atreides Menelaus, Zeus-Fed, Captain of men,
I came in case you might tell me some omen about my father.
My home is being eaten up, my fatting farms are in ruin,
And I’ve a house full of enemy men, who keep on and on
Slaughtering my thro…
