Book 15 notes and quotes

Quotes
The son of Nestor responds: "It is still night, and no moon. Can we drive now? We can not, itch as we may for the road home. Dawn is near; allow the captain of the spearmen, Menelaos, time to pack our car with gifts and time to speak a gracious word, sending us off. A guest remembers all of his days that host who makes provisions for him kindly."-
That night Eumaius and Odysseus eat again and Odysseus tests Eumaius to see if he is still hospitable by saying this: "At daybreak I must go and try my luck around the port. I burden you too long. Direct me, put me on the road with someone. Nothing else for it but to play the beggar."

Notes:
Athena goes to T, who is staying with Menelaus, and tells him to go back home to Ithaca to look after his estate. She also warns him about the suitors' plans to kill him on his way home. T wants to leave right away, but his friend who is traveling with him, Peisistratus tells him to wait until the next day, so they are not mean to there host(Menelaus). In the morning, T talks to Menelaus about his departure and he allows him to go right away he has been given really good expensive gifts and given his meal. Just before T and Peisistratus leave, an eagle carries a goose off from the farmy ard, and Helen thinks this as an omen of O's long-awaited return.

When they reach Pylos, T apologizes to Peisistratus for not having time to visit his father Nestor and asks him to help him get ready for his departure. At the docks, they meet Theoclymenus, a soothsayer, who asks T to help him by giving him place on his ship. T says yes, and Theoclymenus sails with T and his men back home.

At this point, the story changes back to the swineherd's hut at Ithaca (where O is pretenting to be a begger, who the begger talks of O) O tells Eumaeus that he wishes to go to the city to beg and perhaps visit O's house to become a servant. Eumaeus advises against this, saying that the suitors are violent and inhospitable. After further conversation, in which Eumaeus talks of O's parents and of his own origins, they go to bed for the night.
Meanwhile, T's' company reaches the Ithacan shore. T, obeying Athena's instructions, asks the men to go to the city while he plans to go to the herdsmen. As for Theoclymenus, T asks him to go to the suitor Eurymachus' house. At this point a hawk with a dove in its mouth flies by on T's right hand. Theoclymenus thinks this as an auspicious omen, and T now tells his friend Piraeus, who is part of his crew, to take Theoclymenus home and look after him. As the ship sails toward the city, T walks to the swineherd's dwelling.