He is a beauty, but I can’t tell if his looks were matched by his speed or if he was one of those pampered table dogs, which are kept around just for show.” Odysseus wiped a tear away, turning aside to keep the swineherd from seeing it, and he said, “Eumaeus, it is surprising that such a dog, of such quality, should be lying here on a dunghill. As soon as he was aware of Odysseus, he wagged his tail and flattened his ears, but he lacked the strength to get up and go to his master. And so the dog Argos lay there, covered with ticks. In earlier times the young men had taken him out with them to hunt for wild goats and deer and hares, but he had grown old in his master’s absence, and now he lay abandoned on one of the heaps of mule and cattle dung that piled up outside the front gates until the farmhands could come by and cart it off to manure the fields. It was Argos, Odysseus’ dog he had trained him and brought him up as a puppy, but never hunted with him before he sailed off to Troy. But a man can’t hide the belly’s accursèd craving, which causes so many evils and makes us sail ships across the vast sea to bring war upon distant people.”Īs they spoke, a dog who was lying there lifted his head and pricked up his ears. Before now I have suffered great hardships, both on the sea and in war and if I must suffer another hardship so be it. I am accustomed to being beaten and having things thrown at me. You go in first, and I will remain behind. But don’t be too long someone may see you waiting and throw a stone or a spear at you. Either you enter the palace first and approach the suitors, and I will stay here, or you stay here if you wish, and I will go first. But now we need to consider what we should do. Then, in response to his words, Eumaeus, you said, “It is easy for someone as clever as you to notice that kind of thing. I can smell the roast meat, and I hear the lyre, which the gods have made the crown of a banquet.” One building leads into the next, and the courtyard is very well built, with its corniced wall, and the double doors are so solid that no enemy could break through. How splendid it is, and how easy to pick it out at a glance from a hundred others. Odysseus took hold of the swineherd’s hand, and he said, “This house right here must be Odysseus’ palace. They stopped in front of the palace, and all around them echoed the sound of the lyre it was Phemius striking the chords of the prelude as he began his song. Meanwhile Odysseus arrived along with the swineherd. Here, he approaches his palace for the first time, led by the faithful swineherd, Eumaeus.
Odysseus fought in the Trojan Wars and after twenty years of fighting in various places against various monsters, he eventually returns home to Ithaca.
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