Book V · Voyage and Shipwreck · Scene 2 of 3
Poseidon spots Odysseus, rages at gods
25But mighty Poseidon, coming from among
The Ethiopians, saw him. Far away
He saw, from mountain-heights of Solyma,
The voyager, and burned with fiercer wrath,
And shook his head, and said within himself: —
26“Strange! now I see the gods have new designs
For this Odysseus, formed while I was yet
In Ethiopia. He draws near the land
Of the Phaeacians, where it is decreed
He shall overpass the boundary of his woes;
But first, I think, he will have much to bear.”
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by William Cullen Bryant, 1871. Public domain.