from.

"Stranger," replied Nausicaa, as soon as the speech was ended, "you
seem to be a very sensible well-disposed person. There is no
accounting for luck; Jove gives good or ill to every man, just as he
chooses, so you must take your lot, and make the best of it." She
then tells him she will give him clothes and everything else that a
foreigner in distress can reasonably expect. She calls back her
maids, scolds them for running away, and tells them to take Ulysses
and wash him in the river after giving him something to eat and
drink. So the maids give him the little gold cruse of oil and tell
him to go and wash himself, and as they seem to have completely
recovered from their alarm, Ulysses is compelled to say, "Young
ladies, please stand a little on one side, that I may wash the brine
from off my shoulders and anoint myself with oil; for it is long
enough since my skin has had a drop of oil upon it. I cannot wash
as long as you keep standing there. I have no clothes on, and it
makes me very uncomfortable."

So they stood aside and went and told Nausicaa. Meanwhile (I am
translating closely), "Minerva made him look taller and stronger
than before; she gave him some more hair on the top of his head, and
made it flow down in curls most beautifully; in fact she glorified
him about the head and shoulders as a cunning workman who has
studied under Vulcan or Minerva enriches a fine piece of plate by
gilding it."

Again I argue that I am reading a description of as it were a
prehistoric Mr. Knightley by a not less prehistoric Jane Austen--
with this difference that I believe Nausicaa is quietly laughing at
her hero and sees through him, whereas Jane Austen takes Mr.
Knightley seriously.

"Hush, my pretty maids," exclaimed Nausicaa as soon as she saw
Ulysses coming back with his hair curled, "hush, for I want to say
something. I believe the gods in heaven have sent this man here.
There is something very remarkable about him. When I first saw him
I thought him quite plain and commonplace, and now I consider him
one of the handsomest men I ever saw in my life. I should like my
future husband [who, it is plain, then, is not yet decided upon] to
be just such another as he is, if he would only stay here, and not
want to go away. However, give him something to eat and drink."

Nausicaa now says they must be starting homeward; so she tells
Ulysses that she will drive on first herself, but that he is to
follow afte