In the Odyssey, when Odysseus finds Argus, is he a beggar?

By beggar I mean is he still in hiding from Ithica? Since Athena turned him into the beggar for disguise.In the Odyssey, when Odysseus finds Argus, is he a beggar?
Telemachus returns to the city, and relates to his mother the principal passages of his voyage; Oddyeseus as a begger, conducted by Eumaeus, arrives there also,and enters among the suitors, having been known only by his old dog Argus, who dies at his feet.In the Odyssey, when Odysseus finds Argus, is he a beggar?
Yes. His dog recognizes him despite this amazingly.In the Odyssey, when Odysseus finds Argus, is he a beggar?
no, i think that that was before he was turned into a beggar. but im not absolutely sure.

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