Eurymachus mocks, seer departs

47He spoke, and loud they laughed. Eurymachus,
The son of Polybus, in answer said: —

48“The stranger prattles idly; he is come
From some far land. Conduct him through the door,
Young men, and send him to the marketplace,
Since all things here are darkened to his eyes.”

49Then spoke the godlike Theoclymenus:
“Eurymachus, from you I ask no guide,
For I have eyes and ears, and two good feet,
And in my breast a mind as sound as they,
And by the aid of these I mean to make
My way without; for clearly I perceive
A coming evil, which no suitor here
Will yet escape —no one who, in these halls
Of the great chief, Odysseus, treats with scorn
His fellow-man, and broods over guilty plans.”

50He spoke, and, hastening from that noble pile,
Came to Piraeus, in whose house he found
A welcome. All the suitors, as he went,
Looked at each other, and, the more to vex
Telemachus, kept laughing at his guests.
And thus an insolent youth among them said: —