In addition, "From storeroom to the court, they brought Melanthios, chopped with swords to cut his nose and ears off, pulled off his genitals to feed the dogs and raging hacked his hands and feet away." This excerpt tells of the gruesome death given to the disloyal goatherd Melanthios. While Odysseus was disguised as a beggar, Melanthios verbally assaulted him and even kicked his hip. ...

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This stoic feeling for the death of others can be seen again less than a hundred lines later, when he deals with the treacherous maids and Melanthios in a ghastly manner... ... From storeroom to the court they brough Melanthios, chopped with swords to cut his nose and ears off, pulled off his genitals to feed the dogs and raging hacked his hands and feet away (XXII, 517-530). ...

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