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"He will carve thee into collops and fling them to his dogs," said the ferocious prince. Little encouraged, as may be supposed, this prospect, Irus in his despair aimed a blow at Odysseus, and struck him on the right shoulder. Then Odysseus, who had resolved to put forth but half his force, lest he should betray himself to the wooers, struck the wretched man under the ear.
Howbeit, I have a man's wit, and am not, as thou sayest, more foolish than a child. But what can one do against so many? And as to this stranger, thou wouldst know that thy fears are idle, if thou couldst see Irus as he now sits at the gate, rolling his head like a drunkard, with no strength to stand on his feet or stir from his place. Would that all the wooers were in the same plight!"
How important is the species difference in this connection, I have no means to judge, but if we may not consider these different modes of behavior characteristic of P. rhesus as contrasted with P. irus, we must conclude that remarkable individual differences exist among monkeys, for whereas Skirrl is by nature a mechanical genius, Sobke has apparently no such disposition.
But there was something within on fire. Was he not satisfied even yet? Did he arrogate yet further prerogatives of kings? prerogatives which even kings claim no longer. One day, while in drink, his heavy fist descended he forgot his might; he did not check it, like Ulysses in the battle with Irus and Dolly fell. When they lifted her up, one eye was gone.
Art thou beside thyself for joy, because thou hast beaten the beggar Irus? Therewith he caught up a footstool, but Odysseus sat him down at the knees of Amphinomus of Dulichium, in dread of Eurymachus. And Eurymachus cast and smote the cup-bearer on the right hand, and the ladle cup dropped to the ground with a clang, while the young man groaned and fell backwards in the dust.
Then the beggar Irus spake unto him in anger: 'Lo now, how trippingly and like an old cinder-wife this glutton speaks, on whom I will work my evil will, and smite him right and left, and drive all the teeth from his jaws to the ground, like the tusks of a swine that spoils the corn. Gird thyself now, that even these men all may know our mettle in fight.
By some strange magic his limbs seemed to have filled out; and when the wooers saw his mighty chest and broad shoulders they cried out in amazement "Methinks Irus will pay dearly for his ire," said one. "Look what a brawny thigh the old carle shows under his rags!"
Get thee gone, lest a stronger than Irus lay his hand upon thee and break thy bones." "Now will I go straightway to Telemachus," answered Odysseus fiercely, "yonder where he sits, and tell him what thou sayest, thou vixen, that he may hew thee in pieces on the spot." So menacing were his looks and his tones that the women fled quaking from the hall and left him to tend the fires.
Frequently twenty and rarely thirty trials were given on the same day. In such cases the series of settings was simply repeated. The only pause between trials was that necessary for resetting the entrance doors and replenishing the food which served as a reward for success. Skirrl, Pithecus irus Problem 1. First at the Left End
Then the wooers were exceedingly amazed, and thus would one speak looking to his neighbour: 'Right soon will Irus, un-Irused, have a bane of his own bringing, such a thigh as that old man shows from out his rags! So they spake, and the mind of Irus was pitifully stirred; but even so the servants girded him and led him out perforce in great fear, his flesh trembling on his limbs.
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