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[301] 301-495. The scene changes to the hut of Eumaeus. This digression serves a double purpose in the narrative: (1) it carries on the idyl of Ulysses in the swine-herd's hut, and gives it artistic continuity; and (2) it fills up the otherwise blank space of the night voyage of Telemachus.

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