1 And Ulysses answered, "I understand and heed."
2 Thus spoke Antinous, but Telemachus heeded him not.
3 Thus said the suitors, but Antinous paid them no heed.
4 But he heeded not my sacrifice, and only thought how he might destroy both my ships and my comrades.
5 My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.
6 They tell me you are his son, and you appear to be a considerable person; listen, therefore, and take heed to what I am saying.
7 Telemachus gave him no heed, but sate silently watching his father, expecting every moment that he would begin his attack upon the suitors.
8 Hear me," he cried, "daughter of Aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, hear me now, for you gave no heed to my prayers when Neptune was wrecking me.
9 She heeded her son's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors.
10 I understand and heed you," replied Eumaeus; "you need instruct me no further, only as I am going that way say whether I had not better let poor Laertes know that you are returned.
11 If these men were to see my father come back to Ithaca they would pray for longer legs rather than a longer purse, for money would not serve them; but he, alas, has fallen on an ill fate, and even when people do sometimes say that he is coming, we no longer heed them; we shall never see him again.