In book 22 explain the argument Euymachus presents in an attempt to save his won life and the lives of the other suitors. Does this argument works

Eurymakhos says that the dead Antinoos was their leader and coerced them into following him; if Odysseus spares the suitors, they will repay what they took from him. Odysseus angrily refuses, and Eurymakhos calls on the suitors to draw their swords and fight.