Book 22 (χ)

me/gan ou)do/n, the threshold at the entrance of the μέγαρον. The object of Ulysses was to prevent the escape of the Suitors (l. 171 μνηστῆρας ἀγαυοὺς σχήσομεν ἔντοσθεν μεγάρων): their only chance was to force him from the doorway, and pass out into the town (l. 76 εἴ κέ μιν οὐδοῦ ἀπώσομεν ἠδὲ θυράων, ἔλθωμεν δ' ἀνὰ ἄστυ, κτλ.).