《奥德赛·卷7》第6节
So spake he, and they all assented thereto, and bade send the stranger on his way, for that he had spoken aright. Now when they had poured forth and had drunken to their hearts’ content, they went each one to his house to lay them to rest. But goodly Odysseus was left behind in the hall, and by him sat Arete and godlike Alcinous; and the maids cleared away the furniture of the feast; and white-armed Arete first spake among them. For she knew the mantle and the doublet, when she saw the goodly raiment that she herself had wrought with the women her handmaids. So she uttered her voice and spake to him winged words: “Sir, I am bold to ask thee first of this. Who art thou of the sons of men, and whence? Who gave thee this raiment? Didst thou not say indeed that thou camest hither wandering over the deep?”
注释摘要
众人皆表赞同，各归其家就寝，只留下奥德修斯与国王阿尔基诺奥斯、王后阿瑞塔三人同在大厅。阿瑞塔是宴席散后第一个开口的人，她的视线落在那件外氅与衬袍上，旋即认出了这身衣袍——因为那是她亲手与侍女们一同织就的。于是她向奥德修斯发出了一串问题：你是谁，从何而来，谁给了你这些衣裳？既然你自称是渡海漂流到此。 这一节的场景已从喧闹的公宴过渡到了私密的夜谈。奥德修斯一言…