’There we stepped ashore and drew water, and my company presently took their midday meal by the swift ships.  Now when we had tasted bread and wine, I took with me a herald and one of my company, and went to the famous dwelling of Aeolus:  and I found him feasting with his wife and children.  So we went in and sat by the pillars of the door on the threshold, and they all marvelled and asked us: 

’"How hast thou come hither, Odysseus?  What evil god assailed thee?  Surely we sent thee on thy way with all diligence, that thou mightest get thee to thine own country and thy home, and whithersoever thou wouldest.”

’Even so they said, but I spake among them heavy at heart:  “My evil company hath been my bane, and sleep thereto remorseless.  Come, my friends, do ye heal the harm, for yours is the power.”

’So I spake, beseeching them in soft words, but they held their peace.  And the father answered, saying:  “Get thee forth from the island straightway, thou that art the most reprobate of living men.  Far be it from me to help or to further that man whom the blessed gods abhor!  Get thee forth, for lo, thy coming marks thee hated by the deathless gods.”

’Therewith he sent me forth from the house making heavy moan.  Thence we sailed onwards stricken at heart.  And the spirit of the men was spent beneath the grievous rowing by reason of our vain endeavour, for there was no more any sign of a wafting wind.  So for the space of six days we sailed by night and day continually, and on the seventh we came to the steep stronghold of Lamos, Telepylos of the Laestrygons, where herdsman hails herdsman as he drives in his flock, and the other who drives forth answers the call.  There might a sleepless man have earned a double wage, the one as neat-herd, the other shepherding white flocks:  so near are the outgoings of the night and of the day.  Thither when he had come to the fair haven, whereabout on both sides goes one steep cliff unbroken and jutting headlands over against each other stretch forth at the mouth of the harbour, and strait is the entrance; thereinto all the others steered their curved ships.  Now the vessels were bound within the hollow harbour each hard by other, for no wave ever swelled within it, great or small, but there was a bright calm all around.  But I alone moored my dark ship without the harbour, at the uttermost point thereof, and made fast the hawser to a rock.  And I went up a craggy hill, a place of out-look, and stood thereon:  thence there was no sign of the labour of men or oxen, only we saw the smoke curling upward from the land.  Then I sent forth certain of my company to go and search out what manner of men they were who here live upon the earth by bread, choosing out two of my company and sending a third with them as herald.  Now when they had gone ashore, they went along a level road whereby wains were wont to draw down wood from the high hills to the town.  And without the town