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[48] δαΐδων ὕπο ‘by the light of torches.’ The poet does not explain who held these torches. Apparently the maidservants came back with or after Penelope (60).

The “θάλαμος” of Telemachus was probably a building that opened on the “αὐλή”: cp. Il.9. 475-476 “καὶ τοτ᾽ ἐγὼ θαλάμοιο θύρας πυκινῶς ἀραρυίας ῥήξας ἐξῆλθον, καὶ ὑπέρθορον ἑρκίον αὐλῆς” (of the escape of Phoenix).

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