The Odyssey - pg. 221

The troubles of his heart, his wife, who had a sense of devotion,

Woke up and wept while sitting up in her soft bed.

And when she was sated in her own heart with weeping,

The divine women prayed to Artemis first of all:

"Artemis, queenly goddess, daughter of Zeus, would that now

You might strike my chest with an arrow and take my life away

At this very time, or that a storm would now snatch me up

And depart carrying me forth upon the murky ways,

And throw me in the streams of backward-flowing Oceanos;