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Irus, the town beggar, orders Odysseus out of the hall. Antinous sets up a boxing match between the two beggars.
Odysseus breaks Irus’s jaw with one blow and drags him out. Penelope comes down to speak to the suitors, and they are enchanted by her. Odysseus watches her and is strengthened in his resolve. The suitors continue to consume the house.
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Now there came up a public beggar who was wont to beg through the town of Ithaca, and was known for his greedy belly, eating and drinking without end. — Homer, Odyssey XVIII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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