1 But never mind, I will protect you and get you out of your difficulty.
2 No estate can stand such recklessness, for we have now no Ulysses to protect us.
3 Protect these my goods, and myself too, for I embrace your knees and pray to you as though you were a god.
4 He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood.
5 With this he caught hold of a footstool, but Ulysses sought protection at the knees of Amphinomus of Dulichium, for he was afraid.
6 But let us say no more about him, and leave him to be taken, or else to escape if the son of Saturn holds his hand over him to protect him.
7 Sail night and day, and keep your ship well away from the islands; the god who watches over you and protects you will send you a fair wind.
8 Many made at me with their ashen spears and tried to kill me in their fury, but the king protected me, for he feared the wrath of Jove the protector of strangers, who punishes those who do evil.
9 There is a high headland hereabouts stretching out into the sea from a place called Gortyn, and all along this part of the coast as far as Phaestus the sea runs high when there is a south wind blowing, but after Phaestus the coast is more protected, for a small headland can make a great shelter.
10 'Your brother and his ships escaped, for Juno protected him, but when he was just about to reach the high promontory of Malea, he was caught by a heavy gale which carried him out to sea again sorely against his will, and drove him to the foreland where Thyestes used to dwell, but where Aegisthus was then living.