“Grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.”

— Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

II. 420–421 (tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Original

Τοῖσιν δ' ἴκμενον οὖρον ἵει γλαυκῶπις Ἀθήνη, ἀκραῆ ζέφυρον, κελάδοντ' ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον.

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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