Eur.Silence, the music sounds.

(Eumæus bears food to Ulysses, who eats and drinks during Phemius’ ode.)

PHEMIUS.

1.

Happy are the earth’s heirs:

Who, that his toilsome lot

And hard-won gain compares,

Admires and envies not?

At one time one, at another another best,

Come mortal pleasures, troubling sweet content;