遠くのトロイアを前に、目を伏せて語るオデュッセウス

When Odysseus rose to speak, he stood looking downwards, and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground. One might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like the winter snowflakes, no man could then vie with Odysseus. With the walls of Troy in the background.