Medon

In Homer, Medon is the household herald, the man who carries messages and announcements for whoever holds the hall. Under the suitors he served them, but he had once warned Telemachus that they were plotting his murder, and that single act of decency saves him. During the slaughter he hides under a chair wrapped in an ox-hide, gets discovered, throws himself at Telemachus’s knees, and is spared on the boy’s word. He carries the news of the slaughter out to the town in the next book. The retelling cuts him for the same reason it cuts Phemius: the slaughter chapter wants the moral lines hard. The loyal are loyal, the disloyal die, and there is no room for a herald who served the suitors but once tipped off the prince. The cleanup of the hall and the news reaching the town happen offscreen instead.