Book 20 Quotes

• "A welcome to you, old friend! You are in deep trouble now; but here's to your future happiness!"


  Philoetius
• "I swear by Zeus before all other gods and by the hospitable table and hearth of the good Odysseus which I have reached, that before you leave Ithaca, Odysseus will be back, and if you wish, you shall see with your own eyes the killing of these Suitors, who play the part of master here"


  Odysseus
• "Let nobody maltreat this stranger or any of the noble Odysseus's household"

  Agelaus
• "I see advancing on you all a catastrophe which you cannot hope to survive or shun"

  Theoclymenus
• "It was their (the Suitors') villainy that started it all"

  Homer