BOOK VIII

Then when the young Dawn showed again with her rosy fingers,

Alkinoös, the hallowed prince, rose up from his sleeping,

and the descendant of Zeus, Odysseus sacker of cities,

rose up, and Alkinoös, the hallowed prince, guided them

5 to the Phaiakians' place of assembly, which was built for them by the ships.

They went and took their seats on the polished stones together, but Pallas

Athene went through the city,