Odyssey 6.47 · Book 6, lines 47–51
Dawn wakes Nausicaa, who runs to her parents
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ἔνθʼ ἀπέβη γλαυκῶπις, ἐπεὶ διεπέφραδε κούρῃ. αὐτίκα δʼ Ἠὼς ἦλθεν ἐύθρονος, ἥ μιν ἔγειρε Ναυσικάαν ἐύπεπλον· ἄφαρ δʼ ἀπεθαύμασʼ ὄνειρον, βῆ δʼ ἰέναι διὰ δώμαθʼ, ἵνʼ ἀγγείλειε τοκεῦσιν, πατρὶ φίλῳ καὶ μητρί· κιχήσατο δʼ ἔνδον ἐόντας·
There the grey-eyed one departed, once she had told the girl plainly. At once fair-throned Dawn came, who woke her, Nausicaa of the fair robes; and at once she marveled at the dream, and set out to go through the house, to tell her parents, her dear father and mother; and she found them within.
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Athena is gone and morning comes. Nausicaa, startled awake by the dream, goes looking through the palace for her mother and father to ask about the wagon.
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The scene shifts from heaven to a waking house. Dawn arrives on schedule under her fixed 'fair-throned' epithet and rouses the princess; still struck by the vivid dream, Nausicaa hurries through the halls to find her father and mother, and comes on them indoors.
The formula does real work here: a divine visit ends and the ordinary day begins exactly on time. And note what moves her — not the dream's message but its strangeness. She 'marvels' at it, stirred by wonder rather than by any grasp of what the goddess actually wants of her.
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