Epitome (7.31-7.32)

These, journeying to the palace, consumed the herds of Ulysses at their feasts.[*] And Penelope was compelled to promise that she would wed when the shroud of Laertes was finished, and she wove it for three years, weaving it by day and undoing it by night. In this way the suitors were deceived by Penelope, till she was detected.[*]

And Ulysses, being apprized of the state of things at home, came to his servant Eumaeus in the guise of a beggar,[*] and made himself known to Telemachus,[*] and arrived in the city. And Melanthius, the goatherd, a servant man, met them, and scorned them.[*] On coming to the palace Ulysses begged food of the suitors,[*] and

finding a beggar called Irus he wrestled with him.[*] But he revealed himself to Eumaeus and Philoetius, and along with them and Telemachus he laid a plot for the suitors.[*]