Telemachus seats Odysseus

33“Sit here, and drink your wine among the rest,
And from the insults and assaults of these
It shall be mine to guard you. For this house
Is not the common property of all;
Odysseus first acquired it, and for me —
And you, you suitors, keep your tongues from taunts
And hands from force, lest there be wrath and strife.”

34He spoke; the suitors, as they heard him, bit
Their pressed lips, wondering at Telemachus,
Who uttered such bold words. Antinous then,
Eupeithes’ son, bespoke his fellows thus: —

35“Harsh as they are, let us, O Greeks, endure
These speeches of Telemachus. He makes
High threats, but had Cronian Zeus allowed,
We should, ere this, and in these very halls,
Have quieted our loud-tongued orator.”