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Suddenly the lying dogs caught sight of Odysseus.
They ran at him with a great outcry, and Odysseus prudently
sat down on the ground, and the staff fell out of his hand. But there,
beside his own steading, he might have endured a shameful mauling,
but the swineherd, quick and light on his feet, came hurrying to him
across the porch, and let fall from his hand the shoe he was holding.
He shouted at the dogs and scared them in every direction
with volleyed showers of stones, and spoke then to his own master:
"Old sir, the dogs were suddenly on you and would have savaged you
badly; so you would have covered me with shame, but already
there are other pains and sorrows the gods have bestowed upon me." |
