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and I am your host live here with book 22 of the Odyssey things are about to get violent

now this episode jumps right back into where we were so a quick recap

Odysius is prepping those suitors to be I mean who knows what I wonder what he's going to do to them

you'll see

this is Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler book 22

then Odysseus tore off his rags and sprang onto the broad pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows

he shed the arrows onto the ground at his feet and said the mighty contest is at an end

I will now see whether Apollo will vouch safe it to me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit

On this he aimed a deadly arrow at Antonyus who was about to take up a two-handled gold cup to drink his wine

and already had it in his hands he had no thought of death who amongst all the revelers would think that one man, however brave,

would stand alone among so many and kill him

the arrow struck Antonyus in the throat and the point went clean through his neck

so he fell over and the cup dropped from his hand while a thick stream of blood gushed from his nostrils

he kicked the table from him and upset the things on it so that the bread and roasted meats were all soiled as they fell over onto the ground

the suitors were in an uproar when they saw that a man had been hit

they sprang in dismay one and all of them from their seats and looked everywhere towards the walls

but there was neither shield nor spear and they rebuked Odysseus very angrily

Stranger said they, you shall pay for shooting people in this way, you shall see no other contest you are a doomed man

he whom you have slain was the foremost youth in Ithaca and the vultures shall devour you for having killed him

thus they spoke for they thought he had killed Antonyus by mistake and did not perceive that death was hanging over the head of every one of them

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