《奥德赛·卷13》第10节
Then the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, answered him: “Nay, let him not be heavy on thy heart. I myself was his guide, that by going thither he might win a good report. Lo, he knows no toil, but he sits in peace in the palace of the son of Atreus, and has boundless store about him. Truly the young men with their black ship they lie in wait, and are eager to slay him ere he come to his own country. But this, methinks, shall never be. Yea, sooner shall the earth close over certain of the wooers that devour thy livelihood.” Therewith Athene touched him with her wand. His fair flesh she withered on his supple limbs, and made waste his yellow hair from off his head, and over all his limbs she cast the skin of an old man, and dimmed his two eyes, erewhile so fair. And she changed his raiment to a vile wrap and a doublet, torn garments and filthy, stained with foul smoke. And over all she clad him with the great bald hide of a swift stag, and she gave him a staff and a mean tattered scrip, and a cord therewith to hang it. And after they twain had taken this counsel together, they parted; and she now went to goodly Lacedaemon to fetch the son of Odysseus.
注释摘要
奥德修斯刚刚还在为女神此前长久的沉默而不安，甚至怀疑自己真的踏上了伊萨卡的土地。雅典娜回应了他的疑虑，既说出了自己始终暗中守护的事实，也直面了他心头最柔软的牵挂——儿子的下落。她告诉奥德修斯，不用担心特勒马科斯。她亲自做他的向导，让他前往斯巴达。这趟远行本身不是苦难，而是挣得声名的机会。此刻他正安稳地坐在阿特柔斯之子墨涅拉奥斯的宫殿里，身边有取用不尽的物事…