"Alcinous, majesty, shining among your island people,
if you would urge me now to stay here one whole year
then speed me home weighed down with lordly gifts,
I’d gladly have it so. Better by far, that way.
The fuller my arms on landing there at home,
the more respected, well received I’d be
by all who saw me sailing back to Ithaca."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 11, lines 404-410. Odysseus says that it is preferable to land in Ithaca laden down with wealthy gifts, so that he is better received and respected when he returns home. For that reason he tells Alcinous that he would wait a year in Phaeacia if the king wished it.