Penelope gets Odysseus’s bow out of the storeroom and into the main hall. She announces that she will marry the suitor who can string the bow and shoot an arrow through a line of twelve axes. Telemachus tries his own hand at the bow, but fails in his attempt to string it. The suitors one by try and fail meanwhile, Odysseus follows Eumaeus outside and reveals his identity to them by showing the scar on his leg. He promises to treat them as Telemachus’s brothers if they fight by his side against the suitors. Eurymachus took a turn to take the bow he couldn't string it, he knew that the failure proved his inferiority to Odysseus and is ashamed. Odysseus, still disguised, asks for the bow and all of the suitors complain, fearing that he will succeed. Antinous threatens Odysseus, but Penelope insists the beggar be allowed the opportunity. Telemachus takes control and orders Eumaeus to give Odysseus the bow. Of course, Odysseus easily strings it and sends the first arrow he grabs whistling through all twelve axes.