change my gifts, As well I may. Of all that in my house Are treasured up, the choicest I will give, And the most precious. I will give a cup Wrought all of silver save its brim of gold. It is the work of Vulcan. Phaedimus The hero, King of Sidon, gave it me, When I was coming home, and underneath His roof was sheltered. Now it shall be thine.”
So talked they with each other. Meantime came Those who prepared the banquet to the halls Of the great monarch. Bringing sheep they came And strengthening wine. Their wives, who on their brows Wore showy fillets, brought the bread, and thus Within the house of Menelaus all Was bustle, setting forth the evening meal.
But in the well-paved court which lay before The palace of Ulysses, where of late Their insolence was shown, the suitor train Amused themselves with casting quoits and spears, While by themselves Antinoüs, and the youth Of godlike mien, Eurymachus, who both Were eminent above the others, sat. To them Noëmon, son of Phronius, went, Drew near, bespake Antinoüs and inquired:—