1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,440 Puck twenty two. Then Ulysses tore off his rags and sprang on to the 2 00:00:07,519 --> 00:00:12,480 broad payment with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,960 arrows on to the ground at his feet, and said, the mighty contest 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,839 is at an end. I will now see whether Apollo will vouchsafe it to 5 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:27,760 me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit. On this he 6 00:00:27,839 --> 00:00:32,640 aimed a deadly arrow at Antinous, who was about to take up a two 7 00:00:32,679 --> 00:00:37,159 handed gold cup to drink his wine, and already had it in his hands. 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,439 He had no thought of death. Who amongst all the revelers would think 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,600 that one man, however brave, would stand alone among so many and kill 10 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:53,079 him. The arrow struck Antinuous in a throat, and the point went clean 11 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,920 through his neck, so that he fell over, and a cup dropped from 12 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,880 his hand, while a thick stream of blood gushed from his nostrils. He 13 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,959 kicked the table from him and upset the things on it, so that the 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,879 bread and roasted meats were all soiled. As they fell over on to the 15 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,879 ground. The suitors were in an uproar when they saw that a man had 16 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,879 been hit. They sprang in dismay one and all of them from their septs 17 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,560 and looked everywhere towards the walls. But there was neither shield nor spear, 18 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:32,200 and they rebuked Ulysses very angrily. Stranger said they, you shall pay for 19 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:37,480 shooting people in this way. You shall see no other contest. You are 20 00:01:37,519 --> 00:01:44,359 a doomed man. He whom you have slain was the foremost youth in Ithaca, 21 00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:49,760 and the vultures shall devour you for having killed him. Thus they spoke, 22 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,159 for they thought that he had killed Antinous by mistake, and did not 23 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:57,599 perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them. But 24 00:01:57,799 --> 00:02:02,879 Ulysses cleared at and said, dogs, did you think that I should not 25 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:08,159 come back from Troy. You have wasted my substance, have forced my women's 26 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:14,639 servants to lie with you, and have wooed my wife while I was still 27 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:20,199 living. You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die. 28 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,800 They turned pale with fear as he spoke, and every man looked round 29 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,400 to see whither he might fly for safety. But your Ymachus alone spoke. 30 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,960 If you are Ulysses, said he, then what you have said is just. 31 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:39,000 We have done much wrong. On your lands and in your house. 32 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:45,240 But Antinuous, who was the head and front of the offending, lies low 33 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:50,000 already it was all his doing. It was not that he wanted to marry 34 00:02:50,039 --> 00:02:54,080 Penelope. It did not so much care about that. What he wanted was 35 00:02:54,159 --> 00:03:00,719 something quite different, and Jove has not vouchsafed it to him. He wanted 36 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:06,199 to kill your son and to be chief man in Ithaca. Now therefore, 37 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,120 that he has met the death which was his due, spare the lives of 38 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:16,000 your people. We will make everything good among ourselves and pay you in full 39 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,439 for all that we have eaten and drunk. Each one of us shall pay 40 00:03:21,479 --> 00:03:25,159 you a fine worth twenty oxen, and we will keep on giving you gold 41 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,479 and bronze till your heart is softened. Until we have done this, no 42 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:37,879 one can complain of your being enraged against us. Ulysses again glared at him 43 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,120 and said, though you should give me all that you have in the world, 44 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,479 both now and all that you ever shall have, I will not stay 45 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,120 my hand till I have paid all of you in full. You must fight 46 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,199 or fly for your lives, and fly not a man of you shall. 47 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:01,039 Their hearts sank as they heard him, but Eurymachus again spoke, saying, 48 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:06,919 my friends, this man will give us no quarter. He will stand where 49 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,840 he is and shoot us down till he has killed every man among us. 50 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:16,600 Let us then show fight, draw your swords, and hold up the tables 51 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:20,800 to shield you from his arrows. Let us have at him with a rush 52 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:26,240 to drive him from the pavement and doorway. We can then get through into 53 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,199 the town and raise such an alarm as shall soon stay his shooting. As 54 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:36,000 he spoke, he drew his keen blade of bronze, sharpened on both sides, 55 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:42,399 and with a loud cry, sprang towards Ulysses. But Ulysses instantly shot 56 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:46,839 an arrow into his breast that caught him by the nipple and fixed itself in 57 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,920 his liver. He dropped his sword and fell doubled over his table. The 58 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:57,319 cup and all the meats went over on to the ground as he smote the 59 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:01,199 earth with his forehead in the agonies of death, and he kicked the stool 60 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:09,199 with his feet until his eyes were closed in darkness. Then Amphinomus drew his 61 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,480 sword and made straight at Ulysses to try to get him away from the door, 62 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,839 but Telemachus was too quick for him and struck him from behind. The 63 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:23,519 spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that 64 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,879 he fell heavily to the ground and struck the earth with his forehead. Then 65 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,040 Telemachus sprang away from him, leaving his spear still in the body, for 66 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,120 he feared that if he stayed to draw it out, some of the Achaeans 67 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:41,959 might come up and hag at him with a sword or knock him down. 68 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:46,120 So he set up at a run and immediately was at his father's side. 69 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,720 Then he said, father, let me bring you a shield, two spears, 70 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,000 and a brass helmet for your temples. I will arm myself as well, 71 00:05:57,439 --> 00:06:00,680 and bring other armor for the swineherd and a stockman, for we had 72 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,680 better be armed. Run and fetch them, answered, Ulysses, while my 73 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:11,439 arrows hold out, or when I am alone, they may get me away 74 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:15,160 from the door. Telemachus did as his father said, and went off to 75 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:19,959 the store room where the armor was kept. He chose four shields, eight 76 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:26,519 spears, and four brass helmets with horse hair plumes. He brought them with 77 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,600 all speed to his father and armed himself first, while a stockman and a 78 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:36,839 swineherd also put on their armor and took their places near Ulysses. Meanwhile, 79 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:43,240 Ulysses, as long as his arrows lasted, had been shooting the suitors one 80 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,920 by one, and they fell thick on one another. When his arrows gave 81 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,079 out, he set the bow to stand against the end wall of the house 82 00:06:51,399 --> 00:06:58,199 by the doorpost, and hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders on 83 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,920 his comely head. He said at his helmet, well wrought with a crest 84 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,040 of horse hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped two redoubtable bronze 85 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:14,800 shod spears. Now there was a trap door on the wall, while at 86 00:07:14,839 --> 00:07:18,480 one end of the pavement there was an exit leading to a narrow passage, 87 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:26,439 and this exit was closed by a well made door. Ulysses told Philotius to 88 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,680 stand by this door and guard it, for only one person could attack it 89 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,879 at a time. But Aguilos shouted out, cannot some one go up to 90 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,519 the trap door and tell the people what is going on? Help would come 91 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,120 at once, and we should soon make an end of this man and his 92 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,360 shooting. This may not be, Agilos, answered Melanthius. The mouth of 93 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:56,040 the narrow passage is dangerously near the entrance to the outer court. One brave 94 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,600 man could prevent any number from getting in. But I know what I will 95 00:08:00,639 --> 00:08:03,920 do. I will bring your arms from the storeroom, for I am sure 96 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,879 it is near that Ulysses and his son have put them on this the goatherd 97 00:08:09,959 --> 00:08:16,480 Melanthius went by back passages to the storeroom of ulysses house. There he chose 98 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:22,879 twelve shields with as many helmets and spears, and brought them back as fast 99 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,920 as he could give them to the suitors. Ulysses heart began to fail him 100 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,039 when he saw the suitors putting on their armor and brandishing their spears. He 101 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,240 saw the greatness of the danger and said to Telemachus, some one of the 102 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:43,159 women inside is helping the suitors against us, or it may be Melanthius. 103 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,720 Telemachus answered, the fault father is mine and mine only. I left the 104 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:52,519 storeroom door open, and they have kept a sharper look out than I have. 105 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:58,519 Go Eumaeus to put the door too, and see whether it is one 106 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,279 of the women who is doing this, or whether, as I suspect, 107 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:07,320 it is Melanthius, the son of Dulius. Thus did they converse Meanwhile, 108 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:13,039 Melanthius was again going to the storeroom to fetch more armor. But the swineherd 109 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,200 saw him and said to Ulysses, who was beside him, Ulysses, noble 110 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:24,679 son of Loertes, it is that scoundrel Melanthius, just as we suspected, 111 00:09:24,919 --> 00:09:28,440 who is going to the storeroom. Say shall I kill him if I can 112 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:33,320 get the better of him, or shall I bring him here that you may 113 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,840 take your own revenge for all the many wrongs that he has done in your 114 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:43,840 house? Ulysses answered Telemachus, and I will hold these suitors in check no 115 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:48,799 matter what they do. Go back, both of you and bind Melanthius hands 116 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:54,360 and feet behind him, throw him into the storeroom, and make the door 117 00:09:54,399 --> 00:10:00,279 fast behind you. Then fastna lose about his body, and string him close 118 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:05,120 up to the rafters from a high bearing post, that he may linger on 119 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,200 in an agony. Thus did he speak, and they did even as he 120 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:15,200 had said. They went to the storeroom, which they entered before Melanthius saw 121 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,080 them, for he was busy searching for arms in the innermost part of the 122 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:22,159 room. So the two took their stand on either side of the door and 123 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,240 waited by and by Melanthius came out with a helmet in one hand and an 124 00:10:28,279 --> 00:10:33,000 old, dry rotted shield in the other, which had been borne by Loathis 125 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:39,080 when he was young, but which had been long since thrown aside, and 126 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:43,200 the straps had become Unsoon on this the two seized him, dragged him back 127 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:48,759 by the hair, and threw him struggling to the ground. They bent his 128 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,759 hands and feet well behind his back, and bound them tied together with a 129 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:58,320 painful bunt, as Ulysses had told them. Then they fastened a noose about 130 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:03,399 his body and strung him up from a high pillar, till he was close 131 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,320 up to the rafters and over him. Did you, then, warnt o 132 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:13,720 swineherd Eumaeus, saying, Melanthius, you will pass the night on a soft 133 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:20,080 bed, as you deserve. You will know very well when morning comes from 134 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,279 the streams of Oceanus, and it is time for you to be driving in 135 00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:30,480 your goats for the suitors to feast on there. Then they left him in 136 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:33,840 a very cruel bondage, and having put on their armor, they closed the 137 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:39,360 door behind them and went back to take their places by the side of Ulysses, 138 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:45,039 whereon the four men stood in a cloister, fierce and full of fury. 139 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,120 Nevertheless, those who were in the body of the court were still both 140 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,720 brave and many. Then Jove's daughter, Minerva came up to them, having 141 00:11:54,720 --> 00:12:00,720 assumed the voice and form of Mentor. Ulysses was glad when he saw her 142 00:12:00,799 --> 00:12:05,480 and said, Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old 143 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:09,639 comrade nor the many good turns he has done you. Besides, you are 144 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,919 my age mate. But all the time he felt sure it was Minerva, 145 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,200 and the suitors from the other side raised an uproar when they saw her. 146 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:26,919 Aguillos was the first to reproach her Mentor. He cried, do not let 147 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:33,200 Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors. This is what 148 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,320 we will do. When we have killed these people, father and son, 149 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,720 we will kill you too. You shall pay for it with your head. 150 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,320 And when we have killed you, we will take all you have indoors or 151 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:52,200 out, and bring it into hotch pot with Ulysses property. We will not 152 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:58,600 let your sons live in your house, nor your daughters, nor shall your 153 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:03,240 widow continued to live in the city of Ithaca. This made me, Nerva 154 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:11,919 still more furious, so she scolded Ulysses very angrily. Ulysses said she, 155 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,639 your strength and prowess are no longer what they were when you fought for nine 156 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,320 long years among the Trojans about the noble lady Helen. You killed many a 157 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:28,799 man in those days, and it was through your stratagem that Prime's city was 158 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:33,799 taken. How comes it that you are so lamentably less valiant now that you 159 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:39,879 are on your own ground, face to face with the suitors in your own 160 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,000 house. Come on, my good fellow, stand by my side and see 161 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,240 how Mentor, son of Alcineus, shall fight your foes and requite your kindnesses 162 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:56,519 conferred upon him. But she would not give him full victory as yet, 163 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,840 for she wished still further to prove his own own prowess and that of his 164 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,080 brave son. So she flew up to one of the rafters in the roof 165 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:11,720 of the cloister and set upon it in the form of a swallow. Meanwhile, 166 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:20,440 Aguilos, son of Damaster, Eurynomus, Amphimidon, Demoptolemus Pisander, and 167 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:24,759 Polybus, son of Polyctor, bore the brunt of the fight upon the suitor's 168 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:30,600 side. Of all those who were still fighting for their lives. They were 169 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:35,080 by far the most valiant, for the others had already fallen under the arrows 170 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:41,080 of Ulysses. Aguilos shouted to them and said, my friends, he will 171 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:46,919 soon have to leave off, for Mentor has gone away after having done nothing 172 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:52,320 for him. But bragg they are standing at the doors unsupported. Do not 173 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,240 aim at him all at once, but six of you throw your spears first, 174 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,879 and see if you cannot covey yourself with glory by killing him. When 175 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:07,080 he has fallen. We need not be uneasy about the others. They threw 176 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,799 their spears as he bade them, but Minerva made them all of no effect. 177 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,679 One hit the doorpost, another went against the door, the pointed shaft 178 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:22,159 of another struck the wall. And as soon as they had avoided all the 179 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:28,559 spears of the suitors, Ulysses said to his own men, my friends, 180 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:33,440 I should say, we two had better let drive into the middle of them, 181 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,039 or they will crown all the harm they have done us by killing us 182 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:43,399 outright. They therefore aimed straight in front of them and threw their spears. 183 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:52,559 Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus, Euryadus, Eumaeus Elatus, while the stockman killed 184 00:15:52,679 --> 00:15:58,559 Passander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into 185 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:04,840 a Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from 186 00:16:04,879 --> 00:16:11,759 the bodies of the dead. The suitors now aimed a second time, but 187 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:17,399 again Minerva made their weapons for the most part without effect. One hit a 188 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:22,399 bearing post of the cloister, another went against the door, while the pointed 189 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:27,000 shaft of another struck the wall. Still, Amphimedon just took a piece of 190 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,919 the top skin from of Telemachus's wrist, and Stasippus managed to graze Eumanus's shoulder 191 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:38,159 above his shield, but the spear went on and fell to the ground. 192 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:45,279 Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors. Ulysses hit 193 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:52,679 Eurydemus, Telemachus, Amphimedon, and Eumaeus Polybus. After this, the stockman 194 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:59,600 hit Stasippus in the breast and taunted him, saying, foul mouthed son of 195 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:03,599 poly theories, do not be so foolish as to talk wickedly another time, 196 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,920 But let Heaven direct your speech, for the gods are far stronger than men. 197 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,079 I make you a present of this advice, to repay you for the 198 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,480 foot which you gave Ulysses when he was begging about in his own house. 199 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:25,880 Thus spoke the stockman, and Ulysses struck the son of Damaster with a spear 200 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,240 in close fight, while Telemachus hit Leocritus, son of Evanor, in the 201 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,519 belly, and the dart went clean through him, so that he fell forward, 202 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:40,559 full on his face upon the ground. Then Minerva, from her seat 203 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,839 on the rafter, held up her deadly aegis, and the hearts of the 204 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,799 suitors quailed. They fled to the other end of the court like a herd 205 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:52,880 of cattle, maddened by the gad fly. In early summer, when the 206 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:59,680 days are at their longest, as eagle beaked krook, taloned vultures from the 207 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,039 mount swoop down on the smaller birds that cower in flocks upon the ground and 208 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:10,359 kill them, for they cannot either fight or fly, and lookers on enjoy 209 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:15,880 the sport. Even so did Ulysses and his men fall upon the suitors and 210 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,160 smite them on every side. They made a horrible groaning as their brains were 211 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:27,720 being battered in, and the ground seethed with their blood. Laodes then caught 212 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:33,640 the knees of Ulysses and said, Ulysses, I beseech you have mercy upon 213 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,279 me and spare me. I never wronged any of the women in your house, 214 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:44,440 either in word or deed, and I tried to stop the others I 215 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,000 saw them, but they would not listen. And now they are paying for 216 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:55,200 their folly. I was their sacrificing priest. If you kill me, I 217 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,759 shall die without having done anything to deserve it, and shall have got no 218 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:04,480 thanks for all the good that I did. Ulysses looked sternly at him and 219 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:10,920 answered, if you were there, sacrificing priest, you must have prayed many 220 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,200 a time that it did be long before I got home again, and that 221 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:21,039 you might marry my wife and have children by her. Therefore you shall die. 222 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:26,880 With these words, he picked up the sword that Aguilaus had dropped when 223 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,200 he was being killed, and which was lying upon the ground. Then he 224 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,920 struck Layodes on the back of his neck, so that his head fell rolling 225 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:41,759 in the dust. While he was yet speaking. The minstrel Phemius, son 226 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:45,440 of Terpis, He, who had been forced by the suitors to sing by 227 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,240 them, now tried to save his life. He was standing near towards the 228 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,440 trap door, and held his lyre in his hand. He did not know 229 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,480 whether to fly out of the cloister and sit down by the altar of Jove 230 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:03,240 that was in the outer court, and on which both Liarties and Ulysses had 231 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:08,839 offered up the thigh bones of many an Ox, or whether to go straight 232 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:15,200 up to Ulysses and embrace his knees. But in the end he deemed it 233 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:19,599 best to embrace ulysses knees. So he laid his lyre on the ground between 234 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:25,759 a mixing bowl and a silver studded seat. Then, going up to Ulysses, 235 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,880 he caught hold of his knees and said, Ulysses, I beseech you 236 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,279 have mercy on me and spare me. You will be sorry for it afterwards. 237 00:20:34,279 --> 00:20:38,160 If you kill a bard who can sing both for gods and men as 238 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:44,839 I can, I make all my lace myself, and Heaven visits me with 239 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,440 every kind of inspiration. I would sing to you as though you were a 240 00:20:48,519 --> 00:20:52,720 god. Do not therefore, be in such a hurry to cut my head 241 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:57,960 off Your own son, Telemachus will tell you that I did not want to 242 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:03,599 frequent your house and sing to the suitors after their meals. But they were 243 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,880 too many and too strong for me, so they made me. Telemachus hurt 244 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,960 him, and at once went up to his father. Hold He cried, 245 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:18,359 the man is guiltless. Do him no hurt, and we will spare Madon 246 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,200 too, who was always good to me when I was a boy, Unless 247 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:29,240 Philoctetes or Eumaeus has already killed him, or he has fallen in your way 248 00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:34,079 when you were raging about the court. Madon caught these words of Telemachus, 249 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:40,720 for he was crouching under a seat beneath which he had hidden by covering himself 250 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:45,200 up with a freshly flayed heifer's hide. So he threw off the hide, 251 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,680 went up to Telemachus and laid hold of his knees. Here I am, 252 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:55,759 my dear sir, said he stay your hand therefore and tell your father, 253 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,640 or he will kill me in his rage against the suitors, for wasted his 254 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:07,799 substance and been so foolishly disrespectful to yourself. Ulysses smiled at him and answered, 255 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:12,720 fear not, Telemachus has saved your life, that you may know in 256 00:22:12,759 --> 00:22:19,559 the future and tell other people how greatly better good DEAs prosper than evil ones. 257 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:26,160 Go therefore outside the cloisters into the outer court, and be out of 258 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,440 the way of the slaughterer. You and a bard, while I finish my 259 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:36,119 work here inside. The peer went into the outer court as fast as they 260 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:41,119 could, and sat down by Jove's great altar, looking fearfully round and still 261 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:48,799 expecting that they would be killed. Then Ulysses searched the whole court carefully over 262 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:53,240 to see if anyone had managed to hide himself and was still living. But 263 00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:59,559 he found them all lying in the dust and weltering in their blood. They 264 00:22:59,559 --> 00:23:03,920 were like fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea and thrown upon the 265 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,599 beach, to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun makes an 266 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:14,200 end of them. Even so were the suitors lying, all huddled up, 267 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:21,759 one against the other. Then Ulysses said to Telemachus, cool nurse Euryclea, 268 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,640 I have something to say to her. Telemachus went and knocked at the door 269 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:30,440 of the women's room. Make haste, said he, you, old woman, 270 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:34,640 who have been set over all the other women in the house. Come 271 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:41,119 outside. My father wishes to speak to you. When Euryclea heard this, 272 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,279 she unfastened the door of the women's room and came out, following Telemachus. 273 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:52,400 She found Ulysses among the corpses, bespattered with blood and filth, like a 274 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,279 lion that has just been devouring an ox. And his breast and both his 275 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:02,440 cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight. Even so 276 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:07,440 was Ulysses besmerged from head to foot with gore. When she saw all the 277 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,160 corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for 278 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:18,279 joy, for she saw that a great deed had been done. But Ulysses 279 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:25,000 checked her. Old woman said he rejoice in silence. Restrain yourself, and 280 00:24:25,079 --> 00:24:29,680 do not make any noise about it. It is an unholy thing to want 281 00:24:29,839 --> 00:24:34,839 over dead men. Heaven's doom and their own evil deeds have brought these men 282 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:41,160 to destruction, for they respected no man in the whole world, neither rich 283 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,079 nor poor, who came near them, and they have come to a bad 284 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,799 end as a punishment for their wickedness and folly. Now, however, tell 285 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:55,599 me which of the women in a house have misconducted themselves, and who are 286 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:02,319 innocent? I will tell you the truth, my son answered Eurycleia. There 287 00:25:02,319 --> 00:25:07,400 are fifty women in a house whom we teach to do things such as carding, 288 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,440 wool, and all kinds of household work. Of these, twelve in 289 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:18,079 all have misbehaved and have been wanting in respect to me and also to Penelope. 290 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:25,000 They showed no disrespect to Telemachus, for he has only lately grown, 291 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:30,640 and his mother never permitted him to give orders to the female servants. But 292 00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:34,680 let me go upstairs and tell your wife all that has happened. For some 293 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:40,680 God has been sending her to sleep. Do not wake her yet, answered 294 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:45,680 Ulysses, but tell the women who have misconducted themselves to come to me. 295 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:52,319 Eurycleia left the cloister to tell the women and make them come to Ulysses. 296 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:57,480 In the meanwhile, he called Telemachus, the stockman and the swineherd, begin 297 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:03,319 said he to remove the dead and make the women help. You. Then 298 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,880 get sponges and clean water to swill down the tables and seat. When you 299 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,480 have thoroughly cleansed the whole cloisters, take the women into the space between the 300 00:26:12,519 --> 00:26:18,160 domed room and the wall of the outer court, and run them through with 301 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,640 your swords till they are quite dead and have forgotten all about the love and 302 00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:29,279 the way in which they used to lie in secret with the suitors. On 303 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:33,880 this the women came down in a body, weeping and wailing pitily. First 304 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:38,559 they carried the dead bodies out and propped them up against one another in a 305 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:45,680 gatehouse. Ulysses ordered them about and made them do their work quickly, so 306 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,240 they had to carry the bodies out. When they had done this, they 307 00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:56,039 cleaned all the tables and seats with sponges and water, while Telemachus and the 308 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,000 two others shoveled up the blood and dirt from the ground, and the women 309 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:06,079 carried it all away and put it out of doors. Then, when they 310 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:10,400 had made the whole place quite clean and orderly, they took the women and 311 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:15,000 hammed them in the narrow space between the wall of the domed room and that 312 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,039 of the yard, so that they could not get away. And Telemachus said 313 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,720 to the other two, I shall not let these women die a clean death, 314 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,079 for they were insolent to me and my mother, and used to sleep 315 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,559 with the suitors. So saying, he made a ship's cable fast to one 316 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:38,720 of the bearing posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured 317 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:44,799 it all around the building at a good height, lest any of the women's 318 00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:49,480 feet should touch the ground. And as trushes or doves beat against a net 319 00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:53,559 that had been set for them in a thicket, just as they were getting 320 00:27:53,559 --> 00:28:00,039 to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them. Even so did the 321 00:27:59,839 --> 00:28:03,039 women have to put their heads in nooses, one after the other, and 322 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:10,319 die most miserably. Their feet moved convulsively for a while, but not for 323 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:15,920 very long. As for Melanthius, they took him through the cloister into the 324 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:21,279 inner court. There they cut off his nose and his ears. They drew 325 00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:26,240 out his vitals and gave them to the dog's roar, and then, in 326 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,119 their fury, they cut off his hands and his feet. When they had 327 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:36,160 done this, they washed their hands and feet and went back into the house. 328 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,400 For all was now over, and Ulysses said to the dear old nurse 329 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:47,920 Eurycleia, bring me sulfur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire, 330 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:53,359 also that I may burn it and purify the cloisters. Go moreover, and 331 00:28:53,480 --> 00:29:00,279 tell Penelope to come here with her attendants, and also all the maid servants 332 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:03,960 that are in a house. All that you have said is true, answered 333 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:10,119 Eurycleia. But let me bring you some clean clothes, a shirt and cloak. 334 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,279 Do not keep these rags on your back any longer. It is not 335 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,359 right. First, light me a fire, replied Ulysses. She brought the 336 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:26,119 fire and sulfur as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters 337 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,200 and both the inner and outer courts. Then she went inside to call the 338 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:36,640 women and tell them what had happened. Whereon they came from their apartment with 339 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:41,119 torches in their hands, and pressed round Ulysses to embrace him, kissing his 340 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:48,240 head and shoulders and taking hold of his hands. It made him feel as 341 00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:52,799 if he should like to weep, for he remembered every one of them, 342 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:55,920 and of Book twenty two.