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Book xviii
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The fighting at fists of Odysseus with Irus. His admonitions to Amphinomus. Penelope appears before the wooers, and draws presents from them.
Then up came a common beggar, who was wont1 to beg through the town of Ithaca, one that was known among all men for ravening2 greed, for his endless eating and drinking, yet he had no force or might, though he was bulky enough to look on. Arnaeus was his name, for so had his good mother given it him at his birth, but all the young men called him Irus, because he ran on errands, whensoever any might bid him. So now he came, and would have driven Odysseus from his own house, and began reviling3 him, and spake winged words:
‘Get thee hence, old man, from the doorway4, lest thou be even haled out soon by the foot. Seest thou not that all are now giving me the wink5, and bidding me drag thee forth6? Nevertheless, I feel shame of the task. Nay7 get thee up, lest our quarrel soon pass even to blows.’
Then Odysseus of many counsels looked fiercely on him, and spake saying: ‘Sir, neither in deed nor word do I harm thee, nor do I grudge8 that any should give to thee, yea though it were a good handful. But this threshold will hold us both, and thou hast no need to be jealous for the sake of other men’s goods. Thou seemest to me to be a wanderer, even as I am, and the gods it is that are like to give us gain. Only provoke me not overmuch to buffeting9, lest thou anger me, and old though I be I defile10 thy breast and lips with blood.
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marvel
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wretch
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longing
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