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Telemachus arrives at Eumaeus’ hut, and the beggar gives him his seat. Eumaeus is sent to tell Penelope that her son is safe.
Athena restores Odysseus’ true appearance. Father and son embrace and weep. Odysseus explains that he has returned and that they must plan. They agree that Odysseus will enter the palace as a beggar, hide the weapons, and wait for the right moment. The book turns the return into a conspiracy.
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Meanwhile the two in the hut, Odysseus and the goodly swineherd, had kindled a fire, and were making ready their breakfast at dawn, and had sent forth the herdsmen with the droves of swine; but around Telemachus the baying hounds fawned, [5] and barked not as he drew near. — Homer, Odyssey XVI.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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