Nausicaä Reaches Home

1So prayed Odysseus the great sufferer.
The strong mules bore the damsel toward the town,
And when she reached her father’s stately halls
She stopped beneath the porch. Her brothers came
Around her, like in aspect to the gods,
And loosed the mules, and bore the garments in.
She sought her chamber, where an aged dame
Attendant there, an Epirote, and named
Eurymedusa, lighted her a fire.
She by the well-oared galleys had been brought
Beforetime from Epirus, and was given
To king Alcinous, ruler over all
Phaeacia’s sons, who hearkened to his voice
As if he were a god. It was she who reared
White-armed Nausicaa in the royal halls,
Tended her hearth, and dressed her evening meal.