Εὐρύκλει’, Ὦπος θυγάτηρ Πεισηνορίδαο.[[181]]
and to her Telemachus applies for provisions for his journey.[[182]] It is characteristic of her to keep the best wine against the homecoming of Odysseus.[[183]]
Demeter enumerates the duties incumbent on a nurse in addition to her nursing cares:
οἷαί τε τροφοί εἰσι θεμιστοπόλων βασιλήων
παίδων καὶ ταμίαι κατὰ δώματα ἠχήεντα.
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... καὶ δώματα τηρήσαιμι,
καί κε λέχος στορέσαιμι μυχῷ θαλάμων εὐπήκτων
δεσπόσυνον, καὶ κ’ ἔργα διδασκήσαιμι γυναῖκας.[[184]]
They are substantially the same as those of Eurycleia.