‘In Ithaca there are neither broad runs nor any meadowland at all; it is grazed by goats and more lovely than a land where horses are pastured. For none of the isles that lie upon the sea is suited to horse driving or even rich in meadows; and of Ithaca this is true above all.’“ἐν δ᾽ Ἰθάκῃ οὔτ᾽ ἂρ δρόμοι εὺρέες οὔτε τι λειμών:
αἰγίβοτος, καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπήρατος ἱπποβότοιο.
οὐ γάρ τις νήσων ἱππήλατος οὐδ᾽ ἐυλείμων,
αἵ θ᾽ ἁλὶ κεκλίαται. Ἰθάκη δέ τε καὶ περὶ πασέων.
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Selections from Homer's Iliad, with an introduction, notes, a short Homeric grammar, and a vocabulary. Allen Rogers Benner. New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc. 1903.
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