Speech Of Odysseus To The Phaeacians

Alkinoos, let something else be in your mind. I am not
in any way like the immortals who hold wide heaven,
neither in build nor in stature, but only to men who are mortal.
Whoever it is of people you know who wear the greatest
burden of misery, such are the ones I would equal
for pain endured, and I could tell of still more troubles
that are all mine and by the will of the gods I suffered.
But leave me now to eat my dinner, for all my sorrow,
for there is no other thing so shameless as to be set over
the belly, but she rather uses constraint and makes me think of her,
even when sadly worn, when in my heart I have sorrow
as now I have sorrow in my heart, yet still forever
she tells me to eat and drink and forces me to forgetfulness
of all I have suffered, and still she is urgent that I must fill her.
But you, when dawn tomorrow shows, see that you make speed
to set unhappy me once more on my own land, even
when I have much suffered; and let life leave me when I have once more
seen my property, my serving people, and my great high-roofed house.