Book 16 - Odysseus meets his son

• ‘Like a fond

  Father’ [Eumaeus]
• ‘Telemachus, light

  of my eyes’ (Eumaeus)
• Eager

  hospitality
• ‘It is difficult for a man

  to do anything single-handed against a crowd, however strong he may be’ (Telemachus)
• ‘Wine running 


  like water’ (Telemachus)
• ‘Villains gorging

  themselves’ (Telemachus)
• They cried aloud piercingly and

  more convulsively than birds of prey
• ‘Their day of judgement

  is at hand’ (Odysseus)
• “You must still your

  Heart to my maltreatment“ (Odysseus)