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The Odyssey 20.172–177
to make a feast for the wooers, and two herdsmen followed with him. The goats he tethered beneath the echoing portico, and himself spoke to Odysseus with taunting words:
“Stranger, wilt thou even now still be a plague to us here in the hall, asking alms of men, and wilt thou not begone?
ὣς οἱ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον,
ἀγχίμολον δέ σφʼ ἦλθε Μελάνθιος, αἰπόλος αἰγῶν.
αἶγας ἄγων αἳ πᾶσι μετέρεπον αἰπολίοισι,
δεῖπνον μνηστήρεσσι. δύω δʼ ἅμʼ ἕποντο νομῆες.
καὶ τὰς μὲν κατέδησεν ὑπʼ αἰθούσῃ ἐριδούπῳ,
αὐτὸς δʼ αὖτʼ Ὀδυσῆα προσηύδα κερτομίοισι·