... when his dog was young, and when he returned he saw that "Here lay the dog, this Argos, full of fleas. Yet even now, seeing Odysseus near, he wagged his tail and dropped both ears, but toward him he had not strength to move. Odysseus turned aside and wiped away a tear, swiftly concealing from Eumaeus what he did" (167). Odysseus sorrowed ... ...

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... embraced each other and planned a way on how to exterminate the pests in the castle. When Odysseus returned to his castle, his dog Argos, now old and frail wagged its tail because it recognized Odysseus. Odysseus dared not to approach Argos so as not to reveal his presence and when Odysseus turned his back, the dog died. The suitors, thinking that ... ...

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