ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν: πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω, πολλὰ δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν, ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων.

—Ὀδύσσεια

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices,

who wandered full many ways

after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy.

Many were the men whose cities he saw

and whose mind he learned, aye,

and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea,

seeking to win his own life and

the return of his comrades.

—The Odyssey