"Nor can they glimpse the death and black doom hovering
just at their heads to crush them all in one short day."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 2, lines 316-317. Athena tells Telemachus to put the suitors’ schemes and plots against him and his family out of his mind. In an example of prophecy and foreshadowing, she says that they cannot see death hovering over their own heads. Death is personified in this passage.