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Book XIX: Summary: Odysseus and Telemachus have a plan, and once the suitors have left, they put the arms away. Later, Penelope comes down and talks to Odysseus. Penelope, though, doesn’t know that the beggar that she is talking to is Odysseus. She asks him to describe her husband, and then Odysseus describes himself perfectly to Penelope. Afterwards, Penelope offers him a room and asks Eurycleia to wash his feet. Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus, since he had a scar on his foot that he got while hunting whith his grandfather. She promises to keep his secret from Penelope, while Athena distracts Penelope, so his identity will not be revealed. Penelope talks to him after his feet are washed, and she tells him about a dream she had. She tells him that she dreamed that he was an eagle and that he came and swooped all her geese and killed her suitors. In the end, Penelope agrees to marry the first man to shoot an arrow through twenty axes in the air.