Telemachus denies the disloyal maids a clean death by hanging

Evidence

No clean death for the likes of them, by god! … Then, as doves or thrushes beating their spread wings against some snare rigged up in thickets —flying in for a cozy nest but a grisly bed receives them — so the women’s heads were trapped in a line, nooses yanking their necks up, one by one so all might die a pitiful, ghastly death … — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 4450

Categorization

• XREF: Mirror of the bird imagery used for the male suitors (4394) — but here the poet’s sympathy shifts to the trapped maidens, a markedly different tone.
• QUESTION: Is the poet critiquing the justice here? The sympathetic simile for the maids is strikingly out of step with the celebration of the men’s deaths.