"My dear nurse," answered Penelope, "however wise you 80 may be, you can hardly fathom the counsels of the gods. Penelope said that it could not be Ulysses, but must be 58 some god who had resolved to punish the suitors for their great wickedness. But the corpses are now piled up in the gatehouse, and he has sent me to bring you to him." "When I came down," she said, "I found Ulysses standing over the corpses you would have enjoyed it, if you had seen him all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion. Go back into the women's room if it had been any one but you, I should have given her a severe scolding."Ģ5 Euryclea still maintained that what she had said was true, and in answer to Penelope's further questions told her as much as she knew about the killing of the suitors. Moreover, you have waked me from the soundest sleep that I have enjoyed since my husband left me. This is what they must have been doing to you. The gods sometimes send very sensible people out of their minds, and make foolish people sensible. "Wake up, my dear child," said she, "Ulysses is come home at last and has killed the suitors who were giving so much trouble in the house, eating up his estate and ill-treating his son."ġ0 "My good nurse," answered Penelope, "you must be mad. The Authoress of the Odyssey, by Samuel Butler,, at īook XXIII PENELOPE COMES DOWN TO SEE ULYSSES, AND BEING AT LAST CONVINCED THAT HE IS HER HUSBAND, RETIRES WITH HIM TO THEIR OWN OLD ROOM-IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, PHILŒTIUS, AND EUMÆUS GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES.Įuryclea now went upstairs and told Penelope what had happened. Sacred Texts Classics Homer Index Previous Next The Authoress of the Odyssey: Chapter II: The Story of the Odyssey: Book XXIII.
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