“     Odysseus, man of many wiles,lifted up the great bow, examining it from every side,and then, just as a man skilled in lyre-playing and songwithout difficulty stretches a string around a new peg,tying the well-twisted gut of a sheep at both its ends,so, without any effort, did Odysseus string the great bow.Taking it up in his right hand he tested the string,and it sang out sweetly, like the song of a swallow.At this great distress fell upon the suitors, and the colourleft their faces.”