Penelope’s heart burst in joy, she leapt from bed,
her eyes streaming tears, she hugged the old nurse
and cried out with an eager, winging word,
"Please, dear one, give me the whole story.
If he’s really home again, just as you tell me,
how did he get those shameless suitors in his clutches? –
single-handed, braving an army always camped inside."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 23, lines 34-40. Eurycleia has assured Penelope that Odysseus has truly come home and is the old beggar and stranger that the suitors manhandled. Crying with joy, Penelope hugs her maidservant and asks her for the whole story of how Odysseus bravely and single-handedly killed an entire army of suitors.