Leiodes (also Leodes or Liodes; Ancient Greek: Λειώδης), son of Oenops, is the soothsayer among Penelope's suitors in Homer's Odyssey. Alone among the wooers he hates their wanton folly; he is first to try the bow, fails, and is the last person Odysseus kills in the hall — beheaded while pleading that he had tried to restrain the rest.
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I.Diviner of the suitors
Leiodes serves as sacrificial priest and diviner to the company. He sits in the innermost part of the hall by the mixing-bowl and is indignant at the others' evil deeds. Apollodorus lists him (as Liodes) among the twelve suitors from Ithaca itself.
When Antinous proposes that each wooer try Penelope's bow in order, Leiodes rises first. He fails to string it and sits down again; Antinous rebukes him with cruel words about a mother who reared a coward. Leiodes had darkly predicted that the bow would break hearts and be the death of many.
II.Plea and death
In the slaughter he clasps Odysseus' knees and begs for mercy, swearing he never wronged any woman in the house and always tried to stop the other suitors. Odysseus answers that a soothsayer who prayed among such company — asking that the homecoming be far off and that Penelope go with him — cannot escape his fate.
Catching up a sword that had fallen from Agelaus, Odysseus cuts through Leiodes' neck while he is still speaking; the head drops in the dust. He is the last of the wooers to die in the hall.