THE ODYSSEY, I. 20-43

...pitied him save Poseidon The god of the sea, who is angry with Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus.; but he continued to rage unceasingly 20 against godlike Odysseus until at length he reached his own land.

Howbeit Poseidon had gone among the far-off Ethiopians—the Ethiopians who dwell divided in two, 22 the most distant of men, some where the sun original: "Hyperion," a Titan whose name is often used as an epithet for the sun-god. sets and some where he rises. He went there to receive a hecatomb hecatomb: a grand public sacrifice, historically consisting of a hundred oxen. of bulls and rams, and there he was taking his joy, sitting at the feast; but the other gods were gathered together in the halls of Olympian Zeus. 26 Among them the father of gods and men was first to speak, for in his heart he thought of noble Aegisthus, whom far-famed Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, had slain. 30 Thinking on him he spoke among the immortals, and said:

“Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods! 32 It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves, through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained by fate. 35 Even as now Aegisthus, beyond that which was ordained, took to himself the wedded wife of the son of Atreus This refers to Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek forces at Troy., and slew him on his return, though well he knew of his own utter destruction. We spoke to him before, sending Hermes, the keen-sighted Slayer of Argus original: "Argeïphontes." While traditionally translated as "Slayer of Argus" (from the root meaning to kill), scholars also suggest it may mean "the swift appearer" (from the root meaning to show), as the story of Hermes killing the giant Argus does not appear in Homer's poems., 38 that he should neither slay the man nor woo his wife; for from Orestes shall come vengeance for the son of Atreus when once he has come to manhood and longs for his own land. 41 So Hermes spoke, but for all his good intent he prevailed not upon the heart of Aegisthus; and now he has paid the full price for all.”