Answer:
Patience has its rewards
Explanation:
The above answer is the correct answer.
From the passage, we discover that Odyssey exhibited patience. An evidence from the states that "And ah! how long, with what desire, I waited! till, at the twilight hour..." This depicts that Odyssey was actually patient.
Then it was revealed what reward he got from being patient, "when one who hears and judges pleas in the marketplace all day between contentious men, goes home to supper, the long poles at last reared from the sea."
So, we discover that despite the tossing from the billow and what he experienced under a bough, he still exhibited patience. The theme best shown by the conflict is that patience has its rewards.
