As she spoke Athena touched him
with her wand and covered him with wrinkles, took away all his yellow
hair, and withered the flesh over his whole body; she bleared his
eyes, which were naturally very fine ones; she changed his clothes
and threw an old rag of a wrap about him, and a tunic, tattered,
filthy, and begrimed with smoke; she also gave him an undressed deer
skin as an outer garment, and furnished him with a staff and a wallet
all in holes, with a twisted thong for him to sling it over his
shoulder.
When the pair had thus laid their
plans they parted, and the goddess went straight to Lacedaemon to
fetch Telemakhos.
Homer. The Odyssey. Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy. A. C. Fifield, London. 1900 (?).
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