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84 In the same hearty manner the shepherd Eumæus received Odysseus' son on the latter's return from his journey, and lucky escape from the treacherous plot of the suitors:

He gets the same reception from his old nurse and his mother:

But the nurse, e'en Euryclea, beheld him first of all As the fleecy fells she was spreading o'er the painted seats of the hall, And, weeping, went straight toward him; and the other maids thereto Of Odysseus hardy-hearted, all round-about him drew, And they kissed him and caressed him, his shoulders and his head.