ille haec, deposita tandem formidine, fatur: Sum patria ex Ithaca, comes infelicis Ulixi, nomine Achaemenides, Troiam genitore Adamasto paupere (mansissetque utinam fortuna!) profectus.
At last he lays aside his fear and speaks thus: I come from the land of Ithaca, a companion of luckless Ulysses, Achaemenides by name, and, since my father Adamastus was poor'and would to heaven my luck had continued thus!'I set out for Troy.