Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.

For some reason or other he declined to answer the question.

'Behold!' and she took his hand and placed it upon her shapely head, and then bent herself slowly down till one knee for an instant touched the ground - 'Behold! in token of submission do I bow me to my lord! Behold!' and she kissed him on the lips, 'in token of my wifely love do I kiss my lord.'

What the Romans didn't have was anything like the ergonomic vegetable peeler.