《奥德赛·卷20》第9节
Then godlike Theoclymenus answered him: “Eurymachus, in nowise do I seek guides of thee to send me on my way. Eyes have I, and ears, and both my feet, and a stable mind in my breast of no mean fashioning. With these I will go forth, for I see evil coming on you, which not one man of the wooers may avoid or shun, of all you who in the house of divine Odysseus deal insolently with men and devise infatuate deeds.” Therewith he went forth from out the fair-lying halls, and came to Peiraeus who received him gladly. Then all the wooers, looking one at the other, provoked Telemachus to anger, laughing at his guests. And thus some one of the haughty youths would speak: “Telemachus, no man is more luckless than thou in his guests, seeing thou keepest such a filthy wanderer, whosoever he be, always longing for bread and wine, and skilled in no peaceful work nor any deed of war, but a mere burden of the earth. And this other fellow again must stand up to play the seer! Nay, but if thou wouldest listen to me, much better it were. Let us cast these strangers on board a benched ship, and send them to the Sicilians, whence they would fetch thee their price.” So spake the wooers, but he heeded not their words, in silence he looked towards his father, expecting evermore the hour when he should stretch forth his hands upon the shameless wooers. Now the daughter of Icarius, wise Penelope, had set her fair chair over against them, and heard the words of each one of the men in the halls. For in the midst of laughter they had got ready the midday meal, a sweet meal and abundant, for they had sacrificed many cattle. But never could there be a banquet less gracious than that supper, such an one as the goddess and the brave man were soon to spread for them; for that they had begun the devices of shame.
注释摘要
忒俄克吕墨诺斯此刻直接起身回绝欧律马科斯的驱逐。他先以一连简短的宣告维护自己的尊严：我不需要你派人领路，我的眼睛、耳朵、双脚都在，我胸中还有一副健全的心智。这话听上去是在说身体的完整，其实也在说他的感知能力依然可靠——换言之，他作为预言者看到的东西比在场的任何人都更真实。紧接着他便把那份真实的看见吐露出来：我看见灾难正朝你们袭来，你们这些在神样的奥德修斯家…