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BOOK XVIII

THE FIGHT WITH

IRUS—ULYSSES WARNS

AMPHINOMUS—PENELOPE

GETS PRESENTS FROM

THE SUITORS—THE

BRAZIERS—ULYSSES

REBUKES EURYMACHUS.

ow there came a certain common tramp who used to
Ngo begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was noto-
rious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard. This man
had no strength nor stay in him, but he was a great hulk-
ing fellow to look at; his real name, the one his mother gave
him, was Arnaeus, but the young men of the place called
him Irus, {148} because he used to run errands for any one
who would send him. As soon as he came he began to insult
Ulysses, and to try and drive him out of his own house.
‘Be off, old man,’ he cried, ‘from the doorway, or you