| A | B |
|---|
| Eumaeus | swineherd, which is one who cares for swine (pigs), as a shepherd cares for sheep |
| Eumaeus's hospitality | treats the old beggar (Odysseus in disguise) kindly and covers him in his own bed |
| commandment by Zeus | to treat guests kindly |
| boar | killed by Eumaeus to serve the old beggar (that he does not realize is Odysseus) |
| story | Odysseus makes one up about his origins to entertain his host Eumaeus |
| rain | Eumaeus sleeps outside in this while his guest is warm inside |
| Athena | calls Telemachus home and shows him how to avoid the ambushers |
| Eumaeus tells | his own story as the child of a prosperous king |
| Eumaeus' nursemaid | had been a Phoenician who had been kidnapped as a girl by pirates and sold into slavery |
| Phoenicians | take Eumaeus and his nursemaid and sells him to Odysseus' father in Ithaca |
| Odysseus' father | raises Eumaeus as a son |
