"Ctesippus, you can thank your lucky stars you missed our guest-he ducked your blow, by god! Else I would have planted my sharp spear in your bowels... Enough. Don't let me see more offenses in my house, not from anyone! I'm alive to it all, now, the good and the bad- the boy you knew is gone... but no more of your crimes against me please!... guests treated to blows, men dragging the serving-women through our noble house, exploiting them all, no shame!"
Telemachus is no longer afraid to stand up to his guest, realizing it shows badly upon him to allow the suitors to commit such barbarous acts against his guests in his own home. He has completed his rite of passage and left his home and shelter of his mother and servants, learning and growing becoming the great man he was meant to be. He knows that he cannot justify attacking the suitors as they are guests in his house despite there brazen, disrespectful actions but he certainly cannot allow them to attack his guests. If Telemachus had done this before his voyage he would have been struck down by the suitors, but coming back with a beard on his face, stories to tell and gifts from kings of far away states the suitors know he is no longer a boy and is not be trifled with and his surly being watched by the gods.
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