"Zeus kill that brazen boy before he hits his prime!
Quick, fetch me a swift ship and twenty men –
I’ll waylay him from ambush, board him coming back
in the straits between Ithaca and rocky Same.
This gallant voyage of his to find his father
will find him wrecked at last."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 752-757. When Penelope’s suitors learn that Telemachus has gone in search of his father, they hatch a plot to kill him. In this passage the chief conspirator Antinous comes up with the idea to send a ship to ambush Telemachus on his voyage home. He urges king of the gods Zeus to kill the boy before he gets to his prime.