Raise him up and seat the stranger now, in a silver-studded chair, and tell the heralds to mix more wine for all so we can pour out cups to Zeus

"This is no way, Alcinous. How indecent, look,
our guest on the ground, in the ashes by the fire!
Your people are holding back, waiting for your signal.
Come, raise him up and seat the stranger now,
in a silver-studded chair,
and tell the heralds to mix more wine for all
so we can pour out cups to Zeus who loves the lightning."

– Homer

The Odyssey, Book 7, lines 189-195. An elder of the Phaeacians, Echeneus, calls on Alcinous to treat their guest Odysseus well. He asks that he be seated on one of their best chairs and for more wine to be poured out to honor the god of hospitality Zeus.

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