"The rising sun is healing the blindness of Orion, and Hephaestus views the incident from Lemnos.

“Odysseus is next, feigning madness because he does not want to make the campaign with the sons of Atreus. The ambassadors are there to summon him, All the details of his pretence are true to life—the wagon, the ill-matched team, He yoked an ass and an ox together. the folly of his actions. He is shown up, however, by means of his child. Palamedes, son of Nauplius, comprehending the situation, seizes Telemachus and threatens, sword in hand, to kill him, meeting Odysseus’ pretence of madness with a pretence of anger. In the face of this fright Odysseus grows sane, becomes a father and abandons his pretence.