The souls of the suitors are conducted by Mercury to the infernal
shades. Ulysses in the country goes to the retirement of his father,
Laertes; he finds him busied in his garden all alone; the manner of his
discovery to him is beautifully described. They return together to his
lodge, and the king is acknowledged by Dolius and the servants. The
Ithacensians, led by Eupithes, the father of Antinous, rise against
Ulysses, who gives them battle in which Eupithes is killed by Laertes:
and the goddess Pallas makes a lasting peace between Ulysses and his
subjects, which concludes the Odyssey.