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Nausicaa tells her maidens not to run away:
She spoke, and they stopped their flight, encouraging each other,
and led Odysseus down to the sheltered place, as Nausikaa
daughter of great-hearted Alkinöos had told them
to do, and laid out for him to wear a mantle and a tunic,
and gave him limpid olive oil in a golden oil flask,
and told him he could bathe himself in the stream of the river.
Then the glorious Odysseus spoke to these serving maids:
"Stand as you are, girls, a little away from me, so that
I can wash the salt off my shoulders and use the olive oil
on them. It is long since my skin has known any ointment.
But I will not bathe in front of you, for I feel embarrassed
in the presence of lovely-haired girls to appear all naked." |
