Telemachus, sacred in force, spoke among them: “Fools — you are mad. You no longer hide how much you have eaten and drunk. Some god is goading you. Now that you have feasted well, go home and sleep, whenever the spirit moves you. I drive no man away.”
So he spoke. They all bit their lips and wondered that Telemachus had spoken so boldly. Then Amphinomus, famous son of Nisus son of Aretias, spoke among them: “Friends, no man should be angry at what is justly said or answer with hard words. Do not strike this stranger, or any of the servants in godlike Odysseus’s house.”
So he spoke, and his word pleased them. Mulius, a herald from Dulichium and Amphinomus’s man, mixed a bowl for them and served them all, going from left to right. They poured offerings to the blessed gods and drank the honey-sweet wine as they wished.