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Telemachus goes to the palace and tells Penelope what he learned in Sparta. Odysseus, guided by Eumaeus, enters the hall as a beggar.
Antinous insults the beggar and throws a stool at him. Odysseus endures it. Penelope asks Eumaeus to bring the stranger to her later. The household is now divided between those who recognize the beggar’s worth and those who treat him as rubbish.
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As soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, Telemachus, the dear son of divine Odysseus, bound beneath his feet his fair sandals and took his mighty spear, that fitted his grasp, [5] hasting to the city; and he spoke to his swineherd, saying: — Homer, Odyssey XVII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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