These, journeying to the palace, consumed the herds
 of Ulysses at their feasts. As to the reckless waste of the suitors, see Hom. Od. 14.80-109 . 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. As to
 Penelope's web, see Hom. Od.
 19.136-158 ; Hyginus, Fab. 126 . 
 And Ulysses, being apprized of the state of things at home, came to his
 servant Eumaeus in the guise of a beggar, As to the meeting of Ulysses and Eumaeus, see Hom. Od. 14.1-492 ; Hyginus, Fab.
 126 . and made himself known to Telemachus, As to the meeting and
 recognition of Ulysses and Telemachus, see Hom.
 Od. 16.1-234 . and arrived in the city. And Melanthius,
 the goatherd, a servant man, met them, and scorned them. See Hom. Od.
 17.184-253 . On coming to the palace Ulysses begged
 food of the suitors, See
 Hom. Od. 17.360-457 . and finding a beggar called Irus he wrestled with him. See Hom. Od. 18.1-107 ; Hyginus, Fab. 126 . In Homer
 it is in a boxing-match, not in a wrestling-bout, that Ulysses
 vanquishes the braggart beggar Irus. Hyginus, like Apollodorus,
 substitutes wrestling for boxing. But he revealed himself to
 Eumaeus and Philoetius, and along with them and Telemachus he laid a plot
 for the suitors. See Hom. Od. 21.188-244 .