The Odyssey by Homer Book 20 Page 1

ULYSSES CANNOT SLEEP — PENELOPE’S PRAYER TO DIANA — THE TWO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN — EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS ARRIVE — THE SUITORS DINE — CTESIPPUS THROWS AN OX’S FOOT AT ULYSSES — THEOCLYMENUS FORETELLS DISASTER AND LEAVES THE HOUSE.

Ulysses slept in the cloister upon an undressed bullock’s hide, on the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had eaten, and Eurynome threw a cloak over him after he had laid himself down. There, then, Ulysses lay wakefully brooding upon the way in which he should kill the suitors; and by and by, the women who had been in the habit of misconducting themselves with them, left the house giggling and laughing with one another.

This made Ulysses very angry, and he doubted whether to get