In Homer he is the suitors’ political mind, the one who flatters Penelope and lies to her face about wanting peace, the one who tries to talk his way out of the slaughter when Antinous falls. He blames everything on the dead man and offers reparations. Odysseus answers with an arrow to the chest. [SPOILER: He goes down trying to bargain.] Teilo cuts him because two faces of the suitors muddies the blade. The retelling collapses the arrogance and the cunning into one figure: Antinous. One man to mock the beggar. One man to die first. Cleaner narrative geometry, less competition for the camera. The suitors became a mass with a single representative voice instead of a political faction with a leadership debate.
Eurymachus
Homer's second-ranking suitor, smooth-tongued and false. Cut from the retelling. The threat collapses into Antinous's single face.