"By god, what a fine piece of work he’s carried off!
Telemachus – what insolence – and we thought his little jaunt
would come to grief. But in spite of us all, look,
the young cub slips away, just like that –
picks the best crew in the land and off he sails.
And this is just the start of the trouble he can make."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 746-751. Antinous, ablaze with anger, says this on learning that Telemachus has caught them unawares by going on a secret voyage to Pylos. Up to now the suitors were not fearful of Telemachus. But now they are nervous, on hearing that Telemachus sailed with a top crew to the land ruled by King Nestor, who fought with Odysseus in the Trojan War. It is rather ironic that one of the suitors should accuse Telemachus of insolence, when they have shown brazen disrespect and insolence towards Odysseus’ family.