Read both versions of the passage and choose the one you prefer.
Translator names will be revealed after you vote.
Book 1, Lines 47–50
Athena’s Sorrow for Odysseus & Description of Calypso’s Enchanted Prison-Isle
A
But my heart
aches for Odysseus, that ill-fated man, who for so long
has been pining away, far from his friends and family,
upon a remote island, imprisoned there
by Calypso
B
But for the wise Ulysses aches my heart ;
Ill-fated, far from friends, and suffering woes
On th' island, where 's the centre of the sea ;
A woody island, where a goddess dwells,