Odyssey 5.221–224

Odysseus to Calypso before leaving her island

εἰ δʼ αὖ τις ῥαίῃσι θεῶν ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ,

τλήσομαι ἐν στήθεσσιν ἔχων ταλαπενθέα θυμόν·

ἤδη γὰρ μάλα πολλὰ πάθον καὶ πολλὰ μόγησα

κύμασι καὶ πολέμῳ· μετὰ καὶ τόδε τοῖσι γενέσθω.

If some god strikes me down on the wine-dark sea,

I will endure it, with a spirit steeled to suffering.

I have already suffered much and labored much

in waves and war. Let this be added to it all.

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