So Odysseus was left alone in the hall,
Planning death for the suitors with Athena's aid.
He spoke winged words to Telemachus:
"Telemachus, get all the weapons out of the hall.
| When the suitors miss them and ask you | 5 |
'Oh, I have stored them out of the smoke.
They're nothing like they were when Odysseus
Went off to Troy, but are all grimed with soot.
| Also, a god put this thought into my head, | 10 |
Start quarreling and someone could get hurt,
Which would ruin your feasting and courting.
Steel has a way of drawing a man to it."'
| Thus Odysseus. Telemachus nodded, | 15 |
"Nurse, shut the women inside their rooms
While I put my father's weapons away,
The beautiful weapons left out in the hall
| And dulled by the smoke since he went off to war. | 20 |
To store them away, safe from the smoke."
And Eurycleia, his old nurse, said:
"Yes, child, you are right
| To care for the house and guard its wealth. | 25 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Odyssey.
Contributors: Homer - Author, Stanley Lombardo - Translator.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing.
Place of publication: Indianapolis.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 290.
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