Protect what thou beholdest here and me;
I make my suit to thee as to a god,
And come to thy dear knees.’”
After a little talk with Odysseus
“the blue-eyed goddess, Pallas, smiled
And touched the chief caressingly. She seemed
A beautiful and stately woman now,
Such as are skilled in works of rare device.”
She advises Odysseus and says to him:
“Hither am I come to frame for thee