"A bad day for adultery! Slow outstrips the Swift."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 8, line 372. This comment is made by one of the gods in Demodocus’ bawdy story about adultery and divine retribution on Olympus. The gods laugh as crippled god Hephaestus catches disloyal wife Aphrodite and her lover Ares in his marriage bed and cunningly traps them in unbreakable chains. This foreshadows the trap Odysseus springs on his wife’s suitors in a later part of The Odyssey.