From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssey in linear prose
© A. P. David 2022:
‘Still in Egypt, eager to return here, the gods
Were restraining me, since I did not sacrifice them complete hecatombs.
They always prefer, those gods, attention to their edicts …
(To go on) there’s an island there in the surging deep
In front of Egypt, Pharos they call it,
As far…
