Book XXI · The Suitors Fail · Scene 1 of 3
Antinoüs directs suitors’ attempts
10He spoke, and setting down the bow to lean
Against the firm smooth panels of the wall,
And the swift shaft against the bow’s fair curve,
He took again his seat upon the throne
From which he rose. And then Eupeithes’ son,
Antinous, to the crowd of suitors said: —
11“Rise one by one, my friends, from right to left.
Begin where he begins who pours the wine.”
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by William Cullen Bryant, 1871. Public domain.