We read that the nurse accompanied the young maiden out of doors, guarded her well, looking askance at admirers who were attracted by the girl’s beauty: “Thou old nurse of a loved one, why do you bark at me while approaching you, and harshly throw me into twice as many pains? For you are leading a very beautiful virgin in whose steps I am treading. See, how I am going along my own path. It is sweet merely to look upon her form. What grudging of eyes is there, thou wretched one! We look upon the forms of even the immortals....”[161] Still, she is sometimes the go-between in the maiden’s love affairs, as in the tale of Acontius and Cydippe.[162] So, too, the old nurse of Hero dries the tears of her love-sick charge and receives her confidence.[163] The power and influence of Polyxo, the aged nurse of Hypsiple, are evidenced by the fact of her being consulted in an affair of state.[164] That these old nurses were wont to comfort and console their charges when grown up, we learn from the following: ἠύτε κούρη οἰόθεν ἀσπασίως πολιὴν τροφὸν ἀμφιπεσοῦσα μύρεται.[165] _The Nurse and the Grown Son_ Outside of Homer, we do not find the nurse as actively engaged in duties towards the grown son as towards the daughter. Eurycleia continued her care of Telemachus until he came to man’s estate. She accompanied him to his chamber, folded and smoothed his clothes, and having hung them up, carefully closed the door after her.[166] She welcomed him as a son on his return from Pylos,[167] and is sought by him as his faithful friend.[168] She gently reproved him for having blamed his mother where there was no blame,[169] yet she was anxious to see him established in his rights.[170] She is the first to recognize her old master and former nursling, Odysseus.[171] On the recognition, he addresses her by the old name of his childhood, μαῖα, which Telemachus also uses.[172] The grief of Cilissa for Orestes shows that her love for him had endured beyond the nursery days.[173] The unfortunate woodcutter in Callimachus’ Demeter, who had offended the goddess, was bewailed by the nurse by whom he had been suckled.[174] Moschio’s nurse still retained loving thoughts of her dear child, Moschio, and was much interested in the son for the sake of the father.[175] The old nurse in Demosthenes’ In Evergum was welcomed by her former nursling as a safe companion for his wife during his absence, and his care of her after the robbery is an evidence of the esteem in which she was held.[176] A further indication of the love and gratitude evinced by young men for the nurses of their childhood is shown in the relatively large number of monuments and epigrams dedicated to them.[177] _The Nurse in the Household_