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BOOK XXII

THE KILLING OF

THE SUITORS—THE

MAIDS WHO HAVE

MISCONDUCTED

THEMSELVES ARE

MADE TO CLEANSE

THE CLOISTERS AND

ARE THEN HANGED.

hen Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad
Tpavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows.
He shed the arrows on to the ground at his feet and said,
‘The mighty contest is at an end. I will now see whether
Apollo will vouchsafe it to me to hit another mark which
no man has yet hit.’
On this he aimed a deadly arrow at Antinous, who
was about to take up a two-handled gold cup to drink his