Book 18 - The beggar in the palace

• Odysseus struck Irus’

  Neck below the ear and smashed in the bones
• ‘I am not to face that 


  masculine company alone: modesty forbids‘ (Penelope)
• She was extorting gifts from her suitors 


  And bewitching them by her persuasive words while all the time her heart was set on something quite different [Penelope]
• The girl had no

  sympathy for Penelope’s woes’ [Melantho]
• “I hope that some 


  Power made guide you away” (Odysseus to Amphinomus)