Telemachus keeps his word and calls an assembly the next morning. He is praised by Aegyptius, an elder, who states that he is stepping into his father's shoes. This is the first assembly called since Odysseus left for Troy. Telemachus then pleads with the men to forbid the suitors from returning to his house because they are destroying his home. He rebukes the suitors for eating the best livestock and drinking all their wine and tells them that they are crude and indecent. He believes them to be cowards or else they would have already gone to Penelope's father, Icarius, to ask for Penelope's hand in marriage.
However, the suitors disagree with Telemachus and put the blame for their behavior on Penelope. Antinous states that she has seduced them into believing that she will.....
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