So saying, he went inside the bustling palace,
Going straight through the Hall to join the lordly Suitors.
And Argos? His fate—black death—took him in its grip
The moment he saw Odysseus, after twenty years had passed.
He swung out the gates and went in, straight through the yard
To the hall where the suitors were seated as lords of the feast.
Darkness and doom now descended on Argos—dead,
In his twentieth year, at the moment he sensed his old master.
Thus speaking, he entered the well-settled house and went straight towards
the hall, among the noble suitors. But Argos, the fate of black death took hold
of him, immediately upon seeing Odysseus in the twentieth year.
So he spoke and entered the house where they lived well
and went straight into the hall with the noble suitors.
But Árgos was seized by a fate of black death
when he had seen Odusseús in the twentieth year.
After he spoke, he entered the stately house and went straight to the great hall among the gathered suitors. And the finality of black death took hold of Argos, as soon as he had seen Odysseus after twenty years.
So saying, he went on into the pleasantly sited building
and made straight for the hall to join the noble suitors.
But Argos the fated lot of black death overwhelmed
once he’d seen Odysseus again, in the twentieth year.
So he spoke, and went into the pleasantly ordered palace,
and set off straight through the hall to join the lordly suitors.
But the doom of black death seized hold of Argus, at the
very moment he saw Odysseus again, after nineteen years.
So saying, he entered the well-appointed house
and went straight through the hall and to the suitors.
But black death and fate laid hold of Argos
after twenty years, just as he saw Odysseus.
With that, the swineherd went inside the palace,
to join the noble suitors. Twenty years
had passed since Argos saw Odysseus,
and now he saw him for the final time—
then suddenly, black death took hold of him.
Having said that, Eumaeus went inside,
straight to the central hall where suitors lounged.
Meanwhile the fate of dismal death took Argus
once he had seen his lord, gone twenty years.
With these words, he went on into the pleasantly situated palace, and went straight through the hall into the midst of the illustrious suitors. But as for Argos, the fate of black death took hold of him, as soon as he’d seen Odysseus once more in the twentieth year.
Then he went straight into
the house and among the proud suitors, but the fate of black death
took Argos when he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
And so saying, he went on into the house
And the great hall, and among the high-born suitors.
But the doom of dark death took Argos, after
He saw Odysseus again, after twenty years.
Having spoken, he entered the great house,
And went straight to the brash crowd of suitors.
Argos though was taken by the dark spirit of Death,
Having seen Odysseus one last time in the twentieth year.
With these words he entered the palace and went to the hall
where the suitors were assembled at one of their banquets.
And just then death came and darkened the eyes of Argos,
who had seen Odysseus again after twenty years.
With these words he entered the well-built house,
and went through the hall to find the high-born suitors.
But Argus yielded at last to death
when in the twentieth year he saw the return of Odysseus.
“So saying, Eumaios went into the well-perched palace
and came at once to the halls and the noble wooers.
But a fate of black death took Argos,
now that he’d seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
So saying, he entered the well-settled house,
then went straight through the hall, among the illustrious suitors.
Then in turn the doom of black death took hold of Argos,
as soon as he saw Odysseus, in the twentieth year.
This said, Eumaeus went inside the stately palace,
straight into the hall to join the noble suitors.
But once he’d seen Odysseus after nineteen years,
Argus died, seized by the fatal clutch of Death.
With this he entered the stately house and walking straight into the hall joined the crowd of noble suitors. As for Argus, seeing Odysseus again in this twentieth year, the hand of dark death seized him.
He stopped and entered the house where people had lived well,
going straight to the hall and the high-born suitors.
But Argos blackened in death, seized by a grim lot
now in the twentieth year when he spotted Odysseus.
So having said, he entered the house well-built as a dwelling.
He walked straight through the palace to find the illustrious suitors.
But as for Argos, the doom of his black death finally took him
straightway when in the twentieth year he had looked on Odysseus.
And Eumaeus left Odysseus standing there and entered the courtyard, crossing into the men’s hall⁶ where the suitors shouted and feasted. At that instant, death and darkness came on Argus, who had waited twenty long years to gain one last glimpse of his master before he died.
So speaking he entered the palace and went straight through the hall to join the proud suitors. And the fate of black death now took Argos, once he had seen Odysseus again in the twentieth year.
So saying,
Eumaeus entered the great house
And the hall filled with the insolent suitors.
But the shadow of death descended upon Argus,
Once he had seen Odysseus after twenty years.
With that he entered the well-constructed palace,
strode through the halls and joined the proud suitors.
But the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos’ eyes
the instant he saw Odysseus, twenty years away.
So saying, he entered the stately house and went straight to the hall to join the company of the lordly suitors. But as for Argus, the fate of black death seized him once he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
So saying he went into the well-built house, and made straight for the hall to find the proud suitors. As for Argos, the doom of black death took him straight after seeing Odysseus, in the twentieth year.
Thus having spoken he entered the pleasantly sited dwellings
And in the hall went straight to where the suitors were sitting.
Argus was stricken then by death’s black doom as he lay there,
Once having seen in the twentieth year his master Odysseus.
With this Eumaeus left him, and, entering the stately palace, passed straight into the hall where the haughty Suitors were assembled. As for Argus, the black hand of Death descended on him the moment he caught sight of Odysseus – after twenty years.
That said, he went into the handsome house;
he joined the noble suitors in the hall.
But Argos, just as soon as he had seen
his master after nineteen years, fell prey
to death’s dark fate.
So saying, he went through the palace entrance and down the hall to the haughty suitors. As for Argos, the fate of dark death fell on him suddenly when in this twentieth year he had once again set eyes upon Odysseus.
So he spoke, and entered the well-placed house,
striding straight to the suitors in the great hall.
But Argos’ lot, dark death, took him the moment
he’d seen Odysseus after nineteen years.
So he spoke, and went into the strongly-settled palace,
and strode straight on, to the great hall and the haughty suitors,
But the doom of dark death now closed over the dog, Argos,
when, after nineteen years had gone by, he had seen Odysseus.
When he had said this he entered the well-situated halls,
And he went straight through the hall to the noble suitors.
But the fortune of black death took Argos away
Once he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
When he had said this, he entered the well-situated home and went directly into the hall among the lordly suitors. Meantime, the fate of darksome death fell on Argus, in his twentieth year, after seeing Odysseus once more.
Eumaios crossed the court and went straight forward
into the mégaron among the suitors;
but death and darkness in that instant closed
the eyes of Argos, who had seen his master,
Odysseus, after twenty years.
Then Eumaeus entered the stately palace
And went straight to the hall where the lordly wooers
were feasting.
But Argus now, after nineteen long years, no sooner
Saw Odysseus again, than he gave in to fate
And lay still in the grip of black death.
So saying, he enter’d at once the well-builded house
And mix’d with the throng of the lordly suitors within;
But on Argus descended the fate of black-hooded death
In the hour when Odysseus he saw in the twentieth year.
With this Eumaeus left him, entered the great house, and passed straight into the hall where the young gallants were assembled. As for Argus, he had no sooner set eyes on Odysseus after those nineteen years than he succumbed to the black hand of Death.
So saying he entered the well-built mansion, and made straight for the riotous pretenders in hall. But Argos passed into the darkness of death, now that he had seen his master once more after twenty years.
With this word he plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment he saw Odysseus again after twenty years.
So saying, Eumæus entered the stately palace and went straight down the hall among the lordly suitors. But upon Argos the doom of dark death came, at sight of Odysseus after twenty years.
With that he walked into the well-set house,
And straight into the hall he went to join
The lordly suitors. But on Argos fell
Black death for portion, in that hour when he
Had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
Then did he enter the building so pleasant and fair to inhabit,
And he made straight for the hall, to join the swaggering suitors.
But, upon Argus, fell forthwith the hour of darkness,
When, in the twentieth year, he had seen his master Odysseus.
So saying, he entered the stately house and went straight to the hall to join the company of the lordly wooers. But as for Argos, the fate of black death seized him straightway when he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
These words spoken, he entered the pleasant abodes of the palace.
Straight to the hall he betook him and came to the arrogant suitors,
While that the doom and the darkness of death descended on Argus,
Just as again, in the twentieth year, he had welcomed his master.
So saying, to the fair-built house anon
Among the haughty suitors he passed on.
But black death fell on Argus, having seen
Odysseus after twenty years were gone.
As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the cloister where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master.
He spoke, and enter’d the wide-chambered house,
Straight passing toward the Suitors in the hall.
But death closed Argus’ eyes, with faithful look
Fixed on Odysseus in the twentieth year.
So saying into the homestead of the happy place he passed,
And straight to the hall he wended ‘mid the Wooers overbold
But the murky doom of the death-day of Argus now took hold
When he had looked on Odysseus in this the twentieth year.
So saying, he entered the stately house and went straight down the hall among the lordly suitors. But upon Argos fell the doom of darksome death when he beheld Odysseus, twenty years away.
He hath passed the threshold-stone of the palace stately and proud;
To the feast-hall straight is he gone and the arrogant suitor-crowd.
But on Argus the doom of black death suddenly came down there,
As he looked on Odysseus come back to his own in the twentieth year.
Therewith he passed within the fair-lying house, and went straight to the hall, to the company of the proud wooers. But upon Argos came the fate of black death even in the hour that he beheld Odysseus again, in the twentieth year.
Thus, then, having spoken, he entered the well-built mansion; and he went straight through the palace to the haughty suitors. And, on the other hand, the fate of black death laid hold of Argus immediately, when he saw Ulysses in the twentieth year.
He spake, and sought the palace gay with life,
And went among the suitors in the hall:
And the dark doom of death on Argus fell,
When he again upon Ulysses gazed,
As in the twentieth year he home returned.
He spoke, and passed the well-built house within,
And straightway to the noble suitors went;
But black death’s fate seized Argus suddenly,
Seeing Ulysses in the twentieth year.
He spake, and, entering that fair dwelling-place,
Passed through to where the illustrious suitors sat,
While over Argus the black night of death
Came suddenly as soon as he had seen
Ulysses, absent now for twenty years.
Thus saying-he-entered-the-well-appointed mansion:
Went straight thro’-the-hall amid the high-born suitors.
On Argus seized the fate of darksome death—
Just seeing-Odysseus in the twentieth year!
Thus speaking, he the palace entered now,
And went straight to the suitors through the halls;
But death’s dark fate took hold of Argos when
He saw his master after twenty years:
With those words
The noble house he enter’d, and his steps
To where the suitor train were thronging bent.
But, in the selfsame hour in which his eyes
Upon Ulysses, after twenty years,
One moment rested, the dark gloom of death
On Argus fell.
Into the pleasant dwelling-house he stepped,
And straight along the hall to the gallant suitors.—
But upon Argus—black Death’s instant Doom
Laid hold, as soon as in the twentieth year
He saw Odusseus home.
He, having spoken, to the doors came near,
And to the hall of banquet bent his way.
And upon Argus came the death-fate drear,
Just having seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
Ὡς thus ειπων having said, εισηλθεν he entered δομους ευναιεταοντας the well-built house μοιρα δε but the lot μελανος θανατοιο of black death αν on the other hand κατα ελαβε seized on Αργον Argus, αυτικα immediately ιδοντα when he saw Οδυσσηα Ulysses εικοστω ενιαυτω in the twentieth year.
Thus having spoken, he entered the well-built house: and he went straight through the palace to the illustrious suitors. But the fate of black death laid hold of Argus immediately when he saw Ulysses in the twentieth year.
He spake, and passing thro’ the palace gate
Went where the suitors at the banquet sate:
Then, in his twentieth year, as Argus eyed
His much loved lord, he gazing on him, died.
Having thus spoke, he entered the well-built house: and he went straight through the palace to the illustrious suitors. And the fate of black death laid hold of Argus immediately when he saw Ulysses in the twentieth year.
He said, and, ent’ring at the portal, join’d
The suitors. Then his destiny released
Old Argus, soon as he had lived to see
Ulysses in the twentieth year restored.
This said, the honest herdsman strode before;
The musing monarch pauses at the door:
The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold
His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll’d,
Takes a last look, and having seen him, dies;
So closed for ever faithful Argus’ eyes!
This said, into the house he went his way;
And Argus, having seen his master, died.
This said, he ventur’d through the arched Gate,
And went directly where the Suitors sate.
But Argus Eys the sullen Parcae seal’d,
Having’s Lord after twenty years beheld.
This said, he enter’d the well-builded towers,
Up bearing right upon the glorious wooers,
And left poor Argus dead; his lord’s first sight
Since that time twenty years bereft his light.