...d is no longer over them, for Zeus takes half the goodness [aretê] out of a man when he makes a slave of him." As he spoke he went inside the buildings to the room where the suitors were, but Argos died as soon as he had recognized his master. Telemakhos saw Eumaios long before any one else did, and beckoned him to come and sit beside him; so he looked about and saw a seat lying near where th...