His fate his person and his wealth should sever. First then, a sharp-edg’d sword he girt about His well-spread shoulders, and (to shelter out The sharp West wind that blew) he put him on A thick-lin’d jacket, and yet cast upon All that the large hide of a goat well-fed. A lance then took he, with a keen steel head, To be his keep-off both ’gainst men and dogs. And thus went he to rest with his male hogs, That still abroad lay underneath a rock, Shield to the North wind’s ever-eager shock. THE END OF THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS. [1] _Πρόσυλος, materiæ adhærens: item, qui rebus mundanis deditus est._ [2] _‘ϒλακόμωρος, ad latrandum fato quodam natus._ [3] _Ανὴρ ἀπατήλια εἰδὼς, τρώκτης._ [4] _‘Ελελίχθη qui terram rapido motu concutit._ [5] _‘Απριάτην sine emptionis seu redemptionis pretio._ [6] At sunset. [7] _Περίϕρων._ THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE ARGUMENT Minerva to his native seat. Exhorts Ulysses’ son’s retreat, In bed, and waking. He receives Gifts of Atrides, and so leaves The Spartan court. And, going aboard, Doth favourable way afford To Theoclymenus, that was The Argive augur, and sought pass, Fled for a slaughter he had done. Eumæus tells Laertes’ son, How he became his father’s man, Being sold by the Phœnician For some agreed-on faculties, From forth the Syrian isle made prise. Telemachus, arrived at home, Doth to Eumæus’ cottage come. ANOTHER ARGUMENT O. From Sparta’s strand Makes safe access To his own land Ulyssides.