[162] Eumaeus, having been put on his guard, is now a ‘better watch,’ and sees Melanthius going to the “θάλαμος”. Probably the “λαύρη” was so straight that Eumaeus could do this by posting himself at or opposite the “στόμα λαύρης”. In this position he would be only a few paces—half the breadth of the “μέλαθρον”—from Ulysses and Telemachus.
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