one can compare with him. Pheidon king of the Thesprotians told me all this, and he swore to me — making drink-offerings in his house as he did so — that the ship was by the water side and the crew found who would take Ulysses to his own country. He sent me off first, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, but he showed me all the treasure Ulysses had got together, and he had enough lying in the house of king Pheidon to keep his family for ten generations; but the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret.

So you may know he is safe and will be here shortly; he is close at hand and cannot remain away from home