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BOOK XIX

TELEMACHUS AND

ULYSSES REMOVE THE

ARMOUR—ULYSSES

INTERVIEWS PENELOPE—

EURYCLEA WASHES HIS

FEET AND RECOGNISES

THE SCAR ON HIS LEG—

PENELOPE TELLS HER

DREAM TO ULYSSES.

lysses was left in the cloister, pondering on the means
Uwhereby with Minerva’s help he might be able to kill
the suitors. Presently he said to Telemachus, ‘Telemachus,
we must get the armour together and take it down inside.
Make some excuse when the suitors ask you why you have
removed it. Say that you have taken it to be out of the way

1 The Odyssey