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1 When they had done so, they opened the gates and sallied forth, Ulysses leading the way.
2 When they had all put on their armour, they opened the gate and sallied forth, Ulysses leading the way.
3 As he spoke he lashed his horses and they started off at full speed through the town towards the open country.
4 When I had said this she went straight through the court with her wand in her hand and opened the pigstye doors.
5 You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony.
6 He lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth into the open country, leaving the high citadel of Pylos behind them.
7 As for my ship it is lying over yonder, off the open country outside the town, and this is the fifth year since Ulysses left my country.
8 It was so huge that we could only compare it to the mast of a twenty-oared merchant vessel of large burden, and able to venture out into open sea.
9 Telemachus answered, "The fault, father, is mine, and mine only; I left the store room door open, and they have kept a sharper look out than I have."
10 So we asked heaven for a sign, and were shown one to the effect that we should be soonest out of danger if we headed our ships across the open sea to Euboea.
11 Then he gathered up the cloak and the fleeces on which he had lain, and set them on a seat in the cloister, but he took the bullock's hide out into the open.
12 After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there is dawn and sun-rise as in other places.
13 There we found a woman, or else she was a goddess, working at her loom and singing sweetly; so the men shouted to her and called her, whereon she at once came down, opened the door, and invited us in.
14 But Telemachus went down into the lofty and spacious store-room where his father's treasure of gold and bronze lay heaped up upon the floor, and where the linen and spare clothes were kept in open chests.
15 Over these the host of the Argives built a noble tomb, on a point jutting out over the open Hellespont, that it might be seen from far out upon the sea by those now living and by them that shall be born hereafter.
16 Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men, 'My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.'
17 While they were thus killing my men within the harbour I drew my sword, cut the cable of my own ship, and told my men to row with all their might if they too would not fare like the rest; so they laid out for their lives, and we were thankful enough when we got into open water out of reach of the rocks they hurled at us.
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