From A literal impression of Homer’s Odyssey in linear prose
© A. P. David 2022:
Once the slave women bathed them and anointed them with oil,
They threw wool cloaks around them, and underwear,
And seated them on chairs alongside Atreides Menelaus.
Pure water a handmaid brings and was pouring with a pitcher—
Beautiful, golden—over a silver basin
For them to was…
