Eurymachus
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Search complete. 35 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Eurymachus".
Sep 12, 2026
speaker_0NARRATOR
A dissipated set of wooers from Dulichium, Same, and lofty Zacynthus, tease me without intermission: they reign uncontrolled in your palace, and devour your wealth, our very life and support.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Why should I mention Pisander, Polybus, Aglaomedon, and covetous Eurymachus and Antinous, beside many others, who all, in your absence, live upon the means gained at the hazard of your life? Indigent Irus and your goatherd Melanthius serve to finish your disgrace.
speaker_0NARRATOR
We are only three in number unable to defend ourselves: your wife weak and helpless, Laertes an old man, and Telemachus a child.
speaker_0NARRATOR
That beloved boy we were lately in danger of losing, as against all our wills he prepared to go in quest of you to Pylos.
Ian KennyHOST
Nevertheless, I will be chief in my own house and will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me.
Ian KennyHOST
Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us.
Ian KennyHOST
But you shall be master in your own house, and over your own possessions.
Ian KennyHOST
No one, while there is a man in Ithaca, shall do you violence nor rob you.
speaker_12NARRATOR
Ask Menelaus to send you home at once if you wish to find your excellent mother still there when you get back.
speaker_12NARRATOR
Her father and brothers are already urging her to marry Eurymachus, who has given more than any of the others, and has been greatly increasing his wedding presents.
speaker_12NARRATOR
I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are.
speaker_12NARRATOR
They always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with.
27 MINS LATER
speaker_12NARRATOR
She does not often show herself even to the suitors, but sits at her loom weaving in an upper chamber out of their way.
speaker_12NARRATOR
But I can tell you a man whose house you can go to.
speaker_12NARRATOR
I mean Eurymachus, the son of Polybus, who is held in the highest estimation by everyone in Ithaca.
speaker_12NARRATOR
He is much the best man and the most persistent wooer of all those who are paying court to my mother and trying to take Ulysses' place.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Nevertheless, I will be chief in my own house, and I will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us.
speaker_1NARRATOR
But you shall be master in your own house, and under your own possessions.
speaker_1NARRATOR
No one, while there is a man in Ithaca, shall do you violence and rob you.
13 MINS LATER
speaker_1NARRATOR
You may preach as much as you please, but we shall only hate you the more.
speaker_1NARRATOR
We shall go back and continue to eat up Telemachus's estate without paying him, till such time as his mother leaves off tormenting us by keeping us, day after day, on the tiptoe of expectation, each vying with the other in his suit for a prize of such rare perfection.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Besides, we cannot go after the other women whom we should marry in due course, but for the way in which she treats us." Then Telemachus said, Eurymachus, and you other suitors, I shall say no more, and entreat you no further, for the gods and the people of Ithaca now know my story.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Give me then a ship and a crew of twenty men to take me hither and thither, and I will go to Sparta and to Pylos in quest of my father, who has so long been missing.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
Then he went back to the hall.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
Eurymachus had the bow in his hand, and was warming it at the fire.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
Then he tried to draw it, but could not.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
And he groaned aloud, saying, Woe is me! I am grieved not for the loss of this marriage, for there are other women in Greece who may be wooed.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
When they heard these words, the suitors trembled for fear.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
There was only one man among them who could so much as speak.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
This was Eurymachus.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
He said, If you are indeed Ulysses of Ithaca, you speak the truth.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Nevertheless, I will be chief in my own house, and I will rule those whom Ulysses has won for me.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Then Eurymachus, son of Polybus, answered, It rests with heaven to decide who shall be chief among us, but you shall be master in your own house and under your own possessions.
speaker_4NARRATOR
No one, while there is a man in Ithaca, shall do you violence and rob you.
speaker_4NARRATOR
And now, my good fellow, I want to know about this stranger.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_4NARRATOR
Everything has happened to Ulysses as I foretold when the Argives set out for Troy, and he with them.
speaker_4NARRATOR
I said that after going through much hardship and losing all his men, he should come home again in the twentieth year, and that no one would know him, and now all this is coming true.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Eurymachus, son of Polybus, then said, Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them.
speaker_4NARRATOR
I can read these omens myself much better than you can.
speaker_0NARRATOR
They reign uncontrolled in your palace, and devour your wealth, our very life, and support.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Why should I mention Pisander, Polybus, Aglomedon, and covetous Eurymachus and Antinous, beside many others who all in your absence live upon the means gained at the hazard of your life? Indigent Iris, and your ghost-herd Melantius serve to finish your disgrace.
speaker_0NARRATOR
We are only three in number, unable to defend ourselves.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Your wife, weak and helpless.