"How
on earth could two men fight so many and so strong?These suitors are not just ten or twenty, they're far more--
you count them up for yourself now, take a moment. . .
From Dulichion, fifty-two of them, picked young men,
six servants in their troop; from Same, twenty-four,
from Zacynthus, twenty Achaeans, nobles all,
and the twelve best lords from Ithaca itself."
Homer, Odyssey, Book 16, lines 276-81 (trans. Fagles), page 346
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The poem's figures for the suitors are:
52 (Dulichion), 24 (Same), 20 (Zacynthus), 12 (Ithaca; same as Apollodorus); total = 108