"So I spoke to them, plying them with words of endearment"
""no man before has been more blessed than you, nor ever will be. Before, when you were alive, we Argives honored you as we did the gods, and now in this place you have great authority over the dead. Do not grieve, even in death, Achilleus." So I spoke, and he in turn said to me in answer: "O shining"
"So I spoke to him now in words of conciliation: “Aias, son of stately Telamon, could you then never even in death forget your anger against me, because of that cursed armor? The gods made it to pain the Achaians, so great a bulwark were you, who were lost to them. We Achaians grieved for your death "
"“Elpenor, how did you come here beneath the fog and the darkness? You have come faster on foot than I could in my black ship.” So I spoke, and he groaned aloud and spoke and answered: “Son of Laertes and seed of Zeus, resourceful Odysseus, the evil will of the spirit and the wild wine bewildered me."
"Then Nausikaa, with the gods' loveliness on her, stood beside the pillar that supported the roof with its joinery, and gazed upon Odysseus with all her eyes and admired him, and spoke to him aloud and addressed him in winged words, saying: “Goodbye, stranger, and think of me sometimes when you are b"