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What was Penelope's second attempt to put off her marriage suitors after Odysseus was away?

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At last her stratagem was discovered, and the suitors were enraged. She promised to marry the man who could bend her husband's great bow. None of the suitors could do this but Odysseus, who had returned disguised as a beggar ...

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