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Odysseus sleeps in the fore-hall, troubled by the suitors and by the possibility that Penelope may choose one of them.
Athena reassures him in a dream. Penelope prays for death or for Odysseus’ return. The suitors arrive for their last feast. They abuse the beggar again, and an omen of blood and doom appears, but they laugh it off.
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But the goodly Odysseus lay down to sleep in the fore-hall of the house. On the ground he spread an undressed ox-hide and above it many fleeces of sheep, which the Achaeans were wont to slay, and Eurynome threw over him a cloak, when he had laid him down. — Homer, Odyssey XX.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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