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The commanded binding would suspend Melanthius from the high bearing-post in the store-room.
“Ulysses answered, ‘Telemachus and I will hold these suitors in check, no matter what they do; go back both of you and bind Melanthius’ hands and feet behind him. Throw him into the store room and make the door fast behind you; then fasten a noose about his body, and string him close up to the rafters from a high bearing-post, {172} that he may linger on in an agony.’ ”
The high pillar used to suspend Melanthius stood in the store-room.
“Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said; they went to the store room, which they entered before Melanthius saw them, for he was busy searching for arms in the innermost part of the room, so the two took their stand on either side of the door and waited. By and by Melanthius came out with a helmet in one hand, and an old dry-rotted shield in the other, which had been borne by Laertes when he was young, but which had been long since thrown aside, and the straps had become unsewn; on this the two seized him, dragged him back by the hair, and threw him struggling to the ground. They bent his hands and feet well behind his back, and bound them tight with a painful bond as Ulysses had told them; then they fastened a noose about his body and strung him up from a high pillar till he was close up to the rafters, and over him did you then vaunt, O swineherd Eumaeus saying, ‘Melanthius, you will pass the night on a soft bed as you deserve. You will know very well when morning comes from the streams of Oceanus, and it is time for you to be driving in your goats for the suitors to feast on.’ ”
Ulysses orders a noose fastened to Melanthius and strung from the high bearing-post close to the rafters.
“fasten a noose about his body, and string him close up to the rafters from a high bearing-post, {172} that he may linger on in an agony”
After Melanthius is tightly bound, a noose suspends him from the high pillar until close to the rafters.
“bound them tight with a painful bond as Ulysses had told them; then they fastened a noose about his body and strung him up from a high pillar till he was close up to the rafters”
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“string him close up to the rafters from a high bearing-post”
“they fastened a noose about his body and strung him up from a high pillar till he was close up to the rafters”