How to route when used pagination?

[eluser]kr1pt[/eluser]
How to route lets say homepage/index/{offset} to page/{offset} when you use pagination?

I put:

$route['page/(:num)'] = 'homepage/index/$1', but nothing happens... Loads homepage/index, but not anything else

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
The offset is retived within your pagination function using $this->uri->segement(n);