Philoitios

'Poor fellow, he seems to me in appearance like a king! But the gods bring misery to men who wander far, when gods spin a fate of sorrow, even for chieftains.' Then Philoitios greeted Odysseus by extending his right hand, standing beside him.

Philoitios also tied-up his animals under the portico. Philiotios asks Eumaios about who the stranger is and where hij is coming from.

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Philiotios greets Odysseus and says to Eumaios:

I broke out in sweat when I saw this man, and my eyes were filled with tears as I think about Odysseus, because I think that that man too is clothed in such rags and that he wanders lost among men -that is, if he still is alive and sees the light of the sun.

Philoitios is recognizing a king and is aware that his king can be in similar circumstances and tells Eumaios how he became a cow herder.

Odysseus, who set me over his cattlle when I was still little, in the land of the Kephallenians.

Philoitios is still a young man and the land of the Kephallenians must be Plagia. The herds are owned by Odysseus as Eumaios told earlier.