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Translation: Now all the others, as many as had escaped sheer destruction, were at home, safe from both war and sea; he alone, pining for his return and for his wife, had been detained, by the divine nymph Calypso, bright goddess, in hollow caves, where she longed to have him as husband. But when the year came around, in the revolving of seasons, which the gods had marked out for his going home to Ithaca - even then he wasn't safe from trials and among his own - all the gods pitied him, save Poseidon, who raged in his wrath at godlike Odysseus before he reached his native land.