"Circe, now make good a promise you gave me once –
it’s time to help me home. My heart longs to be home,
my comrades’ hearts as well. They wear me down,
pleading with me whenever you’re away."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 10, lines 532-535. After his homesick comrades plead with him to quit Circe’s island for Ithaca, Odysseus asks for the nymph’s help to make it back home.