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Aided by Athene, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaus and Philoitios kill all the suitors:
And now Athene waved the aegis, that blights humanity,
from high aloft on the roof, and all their wits were bewildered;
and they stampeded about the hall, like a herd of cattle
set upon and driven wild by the darting horse fly
in the spring season, at the time when the days grow longer;
but the other men, who were like hook-clawed, beak-bent vultures,
descending from the mountains to pounce upon the lesser birds;
and these on the plain, shrinking away from the clouds, speed off,
but the vultures plunge on them and destroy them, nor is there any
defence, nor any escape, and men are glad for the hunting;
so these men, sweeping about the palace, struck down
the suitors, one man after another; the floor was smoking
with blood, and the horrible cries rose up as their heads were broken. |
