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[494] οὕτως ‘in like manner,’ ‘as you have done to him.’

499-504. It is difficult to see how Penelope is supposed to have gained the knowledge which she here shows of what has been passing in the “μέγαρον”. She appears to assume that Eurynome and the maids know nothing: see Seeck, Quellen, p. 29. Possibly the ‘lady's bower’ in the Homeric palace was furnished with some window or opening by which she could see the company in the hall. So she hears Telemachus sneeze (l. 542), and the song of Phemius (1. 328); and Ulysses hears her voice (20. 92).

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