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1 She held a veil, moreover, before her face, and was weeping bitterly.
2 As he spoke he reeled, and fell sprawling face upwards on the ground.
3 Penelope washed her face, changed her dress, and went upstairs with her maids.
4 I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.
5 Tears fell from his eyes as he heard him thus mentioned, so that he held his cloak before his face with both hands.
6 Then Jove spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded.
7 When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels.
8 As soon as the men saw each other face to face and knew one another, they wept for joy and cried aloud till the whole palace rang again.
9 Thus sang the bard, but Ulysses drew his purple mantle over his head and covered his face, for he was ashamed to let the Phaeacians see that he was weeping.
10 And now, Madam, wash your face, change your dress, and go upstairs with your maids to offer prayers to Minerva, daughter of Aegis-bearing Jove, for she can save him even though he be in the jaws of death.
11 When I got through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the enchantress Circe, I met Mercury with his golden wand, disguised as a young man in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.
12 As for myself there was a ram finer than any of the others, so I caught hold of him by the back, esconced myself in the thick wool under his belly, and hung on patiently to his fleece, face upwards, keeping a firm hold on it all the time.
13 Eumaeus did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Ulysses might return home again.
14 Thereon he floated about for two nights and two days in the water, with a heavy swell on the sea and death staring him in the face; but when the third day broke, the wind fell and there was a dead calm without so much as a breath of air stirring.
15 For a long time Ulysses was under water, and it was all he could do to rise to the surface again, for the clothes Calypso had given him weighed him down; but at last he got his head above water and spat out the bitter brine that was running down his face in streams.
16 When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drink-offering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodocus to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.
17 This is the kind of disparaging remark that would be made about me, and I could not complain, for I should myself be scandalised at seeing any other girl do the like, and go about with men in spite of everybody, while her father and mother were still alive, and without having been married in the face of all the world.
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