Which in-text citation is formatted correctly in MLA style?

Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples.(Homer 68).”
Odysseus and his men, “slept again above the wash of ripples.(Homer 68)”
Odysseus and his men, “slept again above the wash of ripples.” Homer (68)
Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples” (Homer 68).

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The correctly formatted in-text citation in MLA style is:

Odysseus and his men “slept again above the wash of ripples” (Homer 68).

In MLA format, the quotation should be followed by the parenthetical citation, which includes the author's name and the page number, all within parentheses and placed outside of the quotation marks.