Ulysses and his son remove the weapons out of the armoury. Ulysses, in
conversation with Penelope, gives a fictitious account of his
adventures; then assures her he had formerly entertained her husband in
Crete; and describes exactly his person and dress; affirms to have
heard of him in Phaeacia and Thesprotia, and that his return is
certain, and within a month. He then goes to bathe, and is attended by
Euryclea, who discovers him to be Ulysses by the scar upon his leg,
which he formerly received in hunting the wild boar on Parnassus. The
poet inserts a digression relating that accident, with all its
particulars.