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Odysseus strips off his rags, leaps onto the threshold, and shoots Antinous through the throat. He announces that the contest is over and that a second contest is about to begin.
The suitors panic. Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius kill them one by one. Melanthius, who has helped the suitors, is mutilated. The women who served the suitors are made to clean the hall and then hanged. The house is reclaimed in blood.
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But Odysseus of many wiles stripped off his rags and sprang to the great threshold with the bow and the quiver full of arrows, and poured forth the swift arrows right there before his feet, and spoke among the wooers: [5] “Lo, now at last is this decisive contest ended; and now as for another mark, which till now no ma — Homer, Odyssey XXII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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