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Odysseus and Telemachus remove the weapons from the hall. Penelope comes to question the beggar about her husband.
Odysseus tells another false story but describes a cloak and brooch that Penelope recognizes. Eurycleia washes his feet and finds the scar left by a boar’s tusk. She cries out, and Odysseus silences her. Penelope, unaware, tells him about her dream and announces that she will set the suitors the contest of the bow.
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So goodly Odysseus was left behind in the hall, planning with Athena's aid the slaying of the wooers, and he straightway spoke winged words to Telemachus: — Homer, Odyssey XIX.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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