"Good god almighty!" Antinous cut the beggar short.
"What spirit brought this pest to plague our feast?
Back off! Into the open, clear of my table, or you,
you’ll soon land in an Egypt, Cyprus, to break your heart!
What a brazen, shameless beggar! Scrounging food
from each man in turn, and look at their handouts,
reckless, never a qualm, no holding back, not
when making free with the next man’s goods
each one’s got plenty here."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 17, lines 492-500. This passage is an example of dramatic irony, since Antinous has no idea that he is addressing Odysseus in the guise of a beggar, but the reader knows. There is further irony in the fact that Antinous criticizes Odysseus for begging for food, while he is one of the parasitic suitors leeching off Odysseus’ palace food.