One hundred eight suitors besiege Odysseus’ household

Evidence

From Dulichion, fifty-two of them, picked young men, six servants in their troop; from Same, twenty-four, 280 from Zacynthus, twenty Achaeans, nobles all, and the twelve best lords from Ithaca itself. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 3237

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier count of suitors in earlier books of the Odyssey; here Telemachus and Odysseus enumerate their opposition precisely.